the thirty day meme, day thirteen

[ishyface]

Day 01 → Your favorite song
Day 02 → Your favorite movie
Day 03 → Your favorite television programme
Day 04 → Your favorite book
Day 05 → Your favorite quote
Day 06 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 07 → A photo that makes you happy
Day 08 → A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 09 → A photo you took
Day 10 → A photo of you taken over ten years ago
Day 11 → A photo of you taken recently
Day 12 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 13 → A fictional book
Day 14 → A non-fictional book
Day 15 → A fanfic
Day 16 → A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 17 → An art piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.)
Day 18 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 19 → A talent of yours
Day 20 → A hobby of yours
Day 21 → A recipe
Day 22 → A website
Day 23 → A YouTube video
Day 24 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 25 → Your day, in great detail
Day 26 → Your week, in great detail
Day 27 → This month, in great detail
Day 28 → This year, in great detail
Day 29 → Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30 → Whatever tickles your fancy

The last fictional book I read was The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz. It is about a fat virgin named Dawn Schweizer Oscar who loves Lord of the Rings and is sad and Dominican. It is also full of bits of Spanish, which I painstakingly puzzled out with the aid of a French-English dictionary. It was pretty fantastic and ended exactly where it needed to end. That's rare in a book, I find.

The fictional books I am currently reading are Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood, On Beauty by Zadie Smith, and By the Light of My Father's Smile by Alice Walker. (Yes, all at once. I read a lot. It's a thing.)

Comments

[cat-empress.livejournal.com]

(Yes, all at once. I read a lot. It's a thing.)

Im my opinion, that's the only way to read. If I don't have at least three on the go at the same time, there's something wrong.

[ishyface.livejournal.com]

How people manage just one book at a time is really beyond me.

[jadedsquirrel.livejournal.com]

I just read that too! I picked it up when I was in Puerto Rico on a whim. Dead on with the ending, too :)

[ishyface.livejournal.com]

Did you pick it up on a whim or were you in Puerto Rico on a whim? Either way, I'm jealous 'cause you were in Puerto Rico.

[jadedsquirrel.livejournal.com]

Ha, picked it up on a whim. My whims are nearly not so far-reaching as to get me to PR anytime soon.

[affably.livejournal.com]

I've heard such great things about The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao! It's on my to-read list.

[ishyface.livejournal.com]

Read it! It is def. worth the time.

[flukycoda.livejournal.com]

i just don't get the big deal about juno diaz. i have tried and tried and i failed! but this is based on his short stories. maybe i should read oscar wao...

[ishyface.livejournal.com]

I've never read his short stories so idk. Oscar Wao is definitely good though.

[eustaciavye25.livejournal.com]

How are you enjoying Lady Oracle? It is the first Atwood novel I ever read to completion. I also love Alice Walker. Is By the light of my father's smile good?