Opium

I forgot to mention, a couple weeks ago I settled down to Confessions of an English Opium Eater. It was uneccessarily formal and confusing to me, as many 19th century books seem to be (Think Jules Verne and Charles Dickens) but I found it very interesting because I could relate a lot of things in the book to concepts I'm studying in my psychology class, like drug usage obviously, dreams, personality, etc. I kind of expected it to be way cooler though because I went through a phase were I was really interested in opium usage in that time period. Actually I still am. It was cool that it was a true story though, and autobiographical at that. So yeah, I just did a count, and I pretty much need to read 14 books in the next month to meet my goal. That's a book every other day. At least school finishes next week. Otherwise I would say impossible. And actually, I'm probably going to end up saying better luck next year.

Sorry,

It's been a long time. I haven't posted since school started, because I have been very busy. No excuse. Um..At the end of summer, I read Memoirs of a Geisha. I loved it a lot. In comparison the movie was not amazing. It just didn't explain a lot of things. I feel like I learned a lot about the culture, and it was just. yeah. really good. I can't really remember...I guess I never wrote about the Book of Lost Things. I started that at the beginning of the term. It was like, messed up fairy tales and such. A good fantasy read. Again, I enjoyed it. I also read this big kids book about the Ancient World. It was so good, I just need more! I guess I should take an anthropologie class or something. Who knows. But one of the things I really liked about the book were the illustrations of the buildings that were cut in half so you could see the insides. It was just really amazing. So yeah, some good September/October reads. November I mainly read textbooks and worked, but every night I've been going back to a mythology textbook from last year and reading up on folktales from around the world. And I'm working on White Fang. When I'm done I'll let you know how much I love it.