Sooooo
Starting at the beginning of September 2014 I read A Clash of Kings, Storm of Swords, Feast for Crows, and Dance with Dragons. These being a THOUSAND PAGES EACH, I didn't finish until mid March. Which is cool. They were fun. I really don't know what to say. I really didn't know what to do with my life upon finishing, like, GRRM won't write any faster now that I'm done so all I can do is wait patiently for the next books.
There was like 2 weeks where I really just did not know what to do, I played Skyrim and watched fantasy movies to fill the void. I was really feeling historical fiction so I finally picked up The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier. Honestly this was my least favorite of her books. I guess I just couldn't vibe with the main character enough, I didn't understand her attraction to a totally racist douche and I didn't understand her moral compass. Like sometimes she was a hecka boring Quaker who babbled on about quilts and was devout to her faith, and then she randomly loses her virginity prior to marriage with this guy she has talked to like 2 times? I don't know.
I just reread The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky for the first time in a WHOLE DECADE?! Ew I am getting old. I feel like I probably enjoyed it more this time around, after having been through high school and all of those experiences. I feel like a lot of Charlies experiences mirrored mine and his friends reminded me of all those dumb people I thought were the bomb. I can't remember if I read that in 8th or 9th grade but I feel like it heavily influenced my openness to new things (like drinking rum and coke at my first football game and getting my belly button pierced by my friends' hippie older brother in one fucking night jesus) and finding sanctity in those moments where you feel infinite, when you drive your car over big hills with the windows open, where you stay up till sunrise talking and eating doughnuts in the park, where you sneak out the window and run through sprinklers. It was nice to read this book and relive these things and YEAH I cried at parts but so what. It was very touching, the characters were very real. I liked it again.
