Well, more than just end of the year! I can't believe how little I've updated and worse how little I've read. I just didn't have the time at all with school in session. I didn't even try with all the reading I had for classes. I will likely have even less time this coming term, which means I will probably be missing out on a lot of sleep.
So I feel like I read The Ruins of Gorlan by John Flanagan in June but forgot to post about it? It wasn't that memorable, it was just another basic story about a kid who turns out to have secret powers and trains until he is a very good sneak or something. I enjoyed it as a light summer read but considering how much I've forgotten about it I'm gonna say it wasn't that good.
I started Water Wars by Vandana Shiva after taking a globalization class in the spring, and even though it was short I got distracted and never finished it. Amazingly when I signed up for Environmental Sociology in the fall, it was actually required reading so I finally got to finish it. It was pretty good, very informative and straight to the point. It was very effective and easy to read. I feel like it was a basic introduction to a bunch of really complex issues. I would love to read more by Shiva, she seems to be an expert in just about everything.
Then at the very beginning of winter break I read another book that I had started several times in the past and never got past the first few chapters, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. I really enjoyed it this time around, I was always saving it to read when the weather was just as moody and dark as the book felt, so it was really cool to read. It was terribly depressing and everything went wrong for everyone and everyone was terrible, that was the only problem I had. Other than that it was fun to read because it was just so over the top dreary. I didn't even find it romantic, which I think I was supposed to, because I just couldn't tolerate how dumb everyone was.
Then I read A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid on the plane to California because I'd read an essay from the book in the Env. Soc. class. It was good, just sad and thought provoking. It makes one consider privilege and position and transparency as a traveler. It is specifically about the island of Antigua but the corruption and mess that was left behind after British Imperialism is probably applicable to the rest of the world. Like Water Wars, it was a short book that left me wanting to read other books on the topic!
But yeah that was all the books I read last year I guess. It's a bummer I got sick and lazy for the rest of break because I could have gotten a lot more reading done, and I'm scared I won't be able to finish the book I started recently before the term starts in a few days. I have like 3 other books that I started in summer and never finished because school started, so I did a lot more reading than is apparent in my final count [not to mention textbooks and scientific papers!]
So TOTAL BOOKS READ THIS YEAR IS 12
That is soo sad ugh! But whatever, this year I buckled down and was in school full time every term and was working too. This has probably been the busiest most stressful year of my life, and as far as art, reading, movies, music, spirituality, hiking, sewing, and everything else I love goes: I really didn't accomplish a lot. My mind has been so occupied with keeping sane under all the pressure that I just haven't had time for anything. I'm so excited, after this term I will be in school part time, and after that I graduate. After that, who the fuck knows: I don't really care I just want to chillll!!! I want to travel and make art and contemplate the mysteries of the universe!!! So this year I hope my book count will be wayyyy more. Unless I get tied down with work which I am going to try to avoid. But anyways, I will probably not post again for more than three months and that is acceptable with the amount of classes I am taking. Hasta la pasta for now.
