Why do I do these things? Okay, so the second paragraph is completely NOT me. I'm as far away to a type A personality as you can get, and I most certainly NOT best at everything! Have you heard me play the piano? Seen me draw a picture? I wish I could be best at something, but the sad truth is that I shall always remain mediocre at everything I do. Except for commas. I misuse them, but I have an uncanny knack for knowing where they should go and why. Whether I choose to ignore this gift in my own writing remains all my business. :)

And I'm a seeker! Woohoo! I get to catch the Golden Snitch! I am uber excited. I'd like to randomly visit Pretoria.

What Janet Means

You are fair, honest, and logical. You are a natural leader, and people respect you. You never give up, and you will succeed... even if it takes you a hundred tries. You are rational enough to see every part of a problem. You are great at giving other people advice. You are usually the best at everything ... you strive for perfection. You are confident, authoritative, and aggressive. You have the classic "Type A" personality. You are very intuitive and wise. You understand the world better than most people. You also have a very active imagination. You often get carried away with your thoughts. You are prone to a little paranoia and jealousy. You sometimes go overboard in interpreting signals. You are friendly, charming, and warm. You get along with almost everyone. You work hard not to rock the boat. Your easy going attitude brings people together. At times, you can be a little flaky and irresponsible. But for the important things, you pull it together. You are a seeker. You often find yourself restless - and you have a lot of questions about life. You tend to travel often, to fairly random locations. You're most comfortable when you're far away from home. You are quite passionate and easily tempted. Your impulses sometimes get you into trouble.

Contrary to quiz results, I'm not sure if I could write a movie. Of course, it has its appeal. Maybe I should give up on my other ambitions and devote myself fully to a script! HAHAHAHA

You Should Be a Film Writer

You don't just create compelling stories, you see them as clearly as a movie in your mind. You have a knack for details and dialogue. You can really make a character come to life. Chances are, you enjoy creating all types of stories. The joy is in the storytelling. And nothing would please you more than millions of people seeing your story on the big screen!

This is just fun.  To do. 

These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today, 30 September 2007). As usual, bold what you have read, italicise what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. Add an asterisk to those you've read more than once. Underline those on your to-read list.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov (I think I have this somewhere.)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault's Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver's Travels
Les Misérables (It's less painful with singing.)
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela's Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People's History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an Inquiry into Values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity's Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood : A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
Bastard out of Carolina

Yeah, what's that?  Should I count them? 44 give or take a few.  Meh.  I'm good with that!

Self esteem is an evil beast.  I started out tired today, and that's never a good sign.  As I kept going, my spirits kind of got lower and lower.  Thing affected me that really shouldn't.  Things that have absolutely no impact in life at all make me depressed and question myself.  Blah!  Why does that just work that way?

Self-esteem is a stupid thing.  Some people have it in spades, and I really think they should share!  I've never had that much. 

And now I'm listening to Wicked.  And that might not be a good idea because I think Glinda gets a raw deal!  So what if Fiyero never loved her. . .her freaking best friend should never have slept with him!  Grrr.  I'd have been a bit ticked.

Ah well.  Signing off.

Before the DH came out, I was in need of some quick reading material.  I picked up "The Princess Bride" because, though I love the movie, I had never read the book.  If you haven't read it; go get it!  Read it!  Read it now!  It is completely hilarious!

Here's where I will tell you to no longer read this entry if you don't like spoilers.  Though, I don't think it qualifies.

I have the 30th anniversary edition.  There was a 25th anniversary edition.  The original was released as "The Good Parts Version: Abridged by William Goldman."  It is said to be a classic by S. Morgenstern, who supposedly wrote the thing as an anthology on European Royals.  Kind of.  At any rate, Goldman inserts his own acerbic wit and detail as he "abridges" the original.  He's wicked funny and very personable throughout the whole thing.

The reader, though, is left to wonder who exactly is S. Morgenstern.  Where exactly is Florin.  Or Guilder for that matter.  And do we believe that this is a dashing story of romance and adventure that actually stemmed from the pages of history?

Well. . .no.  We don't.  Or at least, we shouldn't!  Though, as Goldman spins his tale, I fall into it hook line and sinker!  I mean, he seemed so genuine, filling the pages with bits from his personal life and his past experience:  All of which are false.  He doesn't have a son.  Heck, at this point, I'm not even sure he knows Stephen King, who appears in the notes!  

You know what I think the best part of this novel is?  I love how Goldman interrupts his Morgenstern narrative with lines like "wonderful thing Morgenstern did here!" and the like.  A few "I'm not sure what he was going for at this moment."  He's suckered people into writing into the publisher to request "the reunion scene" that Goldman says Morgernstern omitted.  He's forever praising his own writing, and we, the reader, don't realize what we're being suckered into!  Even if you go into this knowing that both Florin and Guilder are a unit of currency . . . the same unit of currency for that matter. . .Even then, you can't help but wonder if, just maybe, this is real! 

The entire book is worth Chapter Four: The Preparations.  Yes, I'd buy it again just for that.

So thank you, Mr. Goldman, for writing this witty and satiric little book of wonder.  I applaud your unique writing style.

And did you know that gullible isn't in the dictionary??

I have no idea how to do that "hide" thingy. . .And it is greatly annoying me.  Why can't they make these things simple?   Oh, I think I see it! 



Anyways, here's my chapter by chapter feelings on the book "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows."   Be warned.  Spoilers.  And such.