Day 02 – A book that you’ve read more than 3 times

cat_hellisen November 4, 2011
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I have so many of these. Mainly because when I find something I like I tend to wear it out.

I’ll go with Tender is the Night – Fitzgerald.

I actually haven’t read it in quite a few years, so my memory of it may be slightly tainted. Also possibly because it just makes me too damned depressed with life and growing older. I’m vain, the varnish is coming off and this book reminds me of my own human expiry date.

 

The interplay of characters, how they use each other – when I first read this I loved how vicious it was about people. Now…it just makes me kinda down that the truth is such an ugly thing.

 

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Day 01 – The best book you’ve read in the last year

cat_hellisen November 3, 2011
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Ouch this is hard. I haven’t read that many books so far. (I start so many, finish so few)

Possibly my favourite, in a very meta-fiction kinda way, was Black Boy by Richard Wright.

Firstly because I love what it said about reading, and secondly because Jim Crow and Apartheid are kissing cousins, and it’s fascinating to see my country’s worst parts reflected in the gleam of another. It also helps that it’s beautifully and economically written.

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A long list of stuff about books.

cat_hellisen November 2, 2011
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I am stealing this book meme from Tillane because he can’t stop me and it looks like fun.

This post is just the masterlist. EXCITING.

Day 01 – The best book you’ve read in the last year

Day 02 – A book that you’ve read more than 3 times

Day 03 – Your favourite series

Day 04 – Your favourite book of your favourite series

Day 05 – A book that makes you happy

Day 06 – A book that makes you sad

Day 07 – Most underrated book

Day 08 – Most overrated book

Day 09 – A book you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving

Day 10 – Your favourite classic book

Day 11 – A book you hated

Day 12 – A book you used to love but don’t anymore

Day 13 – Your favourite writer

Day 14 – Your favourite book of your favourite writer

Day 15 – Favourite male character

Day 16 – Favourite female character

Day 17 – Favourite quote from your favourite book

Day 18 – A book that disappointed you

Day 19 – Favourite book turned into a movie

Day 20 – Favourite romance book

Day 21 – Favourite book from your childhood

Day 22 – Favourite book you own

Day 23 – A book you’ve wanted to read for a long time but still haven’t

Day 24 – A book that you wish more people would’ve read

Day 25 – A character who you can relate to the most

Day 26 – A book that changed your opinion about something

Day 27 – The most surprising plot twist or ending

Day 28 – Favourite title

Day 29 – A book everyone hated but you liked

Day 30 – Your favourite book of all time

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Writing is…

cat_hellisen June 20, 2011
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Nerine Dorman has tagged me with a Writing is…? meme.

And my answer is going to be the most boring ever, so let’s keep it shortish, yeah?

Writing is…

a job.

It’s one I’m kinda okay at, and it’s certainly more fun than working in an office.

Like all jobs it has ups (moments of flow, reading is ‘work’) and downs (subbing, subbing, subbing). The highs are fucking fantastic – that moment when you just hit a sweet spot in a story and everything is shooting out like literary jism (that metaphor, it is bad. It is SO BAD, that I have to leave it there, because omg yeah. Wow. Bad.)

And the lows are pretty sucktastic. No-one likes being told their work is crap. So yeah, that blows. And rewrites can be a bitch. But they can also be more fun than actually getting the first draft down.

But despite the lows, it’s not a job I’m giving up any time soon, because hey, I can play my music as loud as I want and no one can complain (dude, I have Patrick Wolf on repeat, someone would have killed me in an office by now), I can work in my pyjamas, I can spend a whole day reading and not feel guilty, I get to call my holidays and excursions “research” and yeah, I make shit up and get to play a glorified kind of Barbie and Ken with the imaginary people on my computer (oh wait, no, that’s Sims, carry on.)

Basically, writing is my job, and my job rocks.

So if you want to do a “Writing is…?” post, link me to it in the comments so I can see what writing means to you.

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