What have I been reading?

Or rather, what have I NOT been reading?

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski

Maybe it's an Oprah recommended book, but I just can't seem to get past page 72. I'm usually the kind of reader who can't get a book down. I won't sleep for a book. Thick or thin, I'll finish it in three days--max! This one though bores the helluva out of me. I'd like to say I'd give it another chance, but no thank you. I'll get going with Jeffrey Archer's Prisoner of Birth.

An excerpt

When you are a kid, you have your own language, and unlike French or Spanish or whatever you start learning in fourth grade, this one you're born with, and eventually lose. Everyone under the age of seven is fluent in Ifspeak; go hang with someone under three feet tall and you'll see. What if a giant funnelweb spider crawl out of that hole over your head and bit you in the neck? What if the only antedote for venom was locked up in a vault on the top of the mountain? What if you lived through the bite , but could only move your eyelids and blink out an alphabet? It doesn't really matter how far you go; the point is that it's a world of possibility. Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

-Anna Fitzgerald, 13

My Sister's Keeper

What am I listening to?

I don't think I've said this enough, but I'm a big fan of country music. Not just of the recent artist, but I grew up listening to country music because of my dad. He claims that the only REAL music are country songs. He eventually rubbed it on me. And I'm trying to rub it to my friends. With that, I'd like to share my recently discovered band, Lady Antebellum. They're definitely going to the list of my faves. Watch the video of their song, I Run to You.



And check out their album as well, they have a lot of great songs! :-)

The Lovely Bones

Oh yes, oh yes! I can't wait for the movie. I loved the book. One can easily assume by reading the back panel of the book that it's depressing, but it isn't because the voice of the narrator is not melancholy at all. Reading the book is like having a rural 1970's neighborhood and heaven come alive in your head. Sebold could take you to heaven and back with how she coined each word. And there are a lot of good lines from the book, here are some of my fave:


"When the dead are done with the living, the living can do on to other things, "Franny said. "Whay about the dead", I asked, "Where do we go?"

"I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it."

"How to commit the perfect murder was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away."

"These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections - sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent - that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life.”

Read the plot of the book here!

Trivia: Alice Sebold draws personal experience from when she was raped in college.

I tried Andy Warhol-ing my photo...

...and I know, I failed. Lol

I so want one badly, and I want to do it myself. Supposedly, it's easy to do but for a newbie in photoshop like me... IT ISN'T!! I blame my lack of sleep for this sloppy work! Lol

I'll try another tonight. And hope I do it right! I'm humiliating Andy Warhol. Hehe

The Cory Magic

I was never a fan of Corazon Aquino's administration.

But I am a fan of the "Cory Magic" and the status she upholds. When the nation was looking for a change, she was at the forefront. She could have just stayed at home and be the wife of a (dead) hero, but she decided make a name for herself and alter the history as we now know it. And at her death, the younger generation, mine included, saw and felt what our parents and history books only speak of. Salamat, Tita Cory.

I don't think we'll again see something as amazing as what we've witnessed in the past few days.