What book is on your nightstand now?

"Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov.

It's an adult fiction novel about a man who obsessively desires his step-daughter.
I'm half-way though and am, at this point, pushing myself to finish it. I think I'm having trouble not only because the novel is so disturbing (I usually like some degree of disturbance), but because it's so far removed from any experience I've ever had.
Did you ever have to read something you couldn't really relate to at all?? That's how I feel about "Lolita."
I'm going to force myself to finish, though! If it's the last thing i do....

I just read King Dork and had the same problem. I enjoyed the book, but it just took me forever to get trough, around two weeks. (which is a long time for me.)
Hmm, I've heard of Lolita, but I've never personally read it. But all I've heard about it has been good. So I guess I encourage you to keep going?

I've never read King Dork, but i've heard a lot about it as well.

I have this "problem" with finishing books; I'll be really interested and read the 1st half in a very short period, then my interest just switches off and I have to force myself through the rest of it.
One of the librarians @ Sunset reccommend that I not continue reading these books because there are too many other good books to waste time on the not-so-good ones.
To some degree I agree, but I also feel invested half-way through and hate to give up.
And so I toil...

oooo!
I love books with pictures!
I'm a definately a big fan of the fifty page rule....

Where you read a book for at least fifty pages and then you decide on wether to continue reading it or not.

Where you read a book for at least fifty pages and then you decide on wether to continue reading it or not.

Where you read a book for at least fifty pages and then you decide on wether to continue reading it or not.

oooo...i've never heard of this 50 page rule!
i think i might try it out!

duhhh, why else would I attempt it unless it was a published theory??

ha!
bree, tell me where i can find a published article on how smart it is to try to pierce your own lip!

i did it before and it turned out perfectly!
i just got distracted and did it wrong!

i am reading twenty years later. I'm not too far in but so far it has the feel of three musketeer but only a little more slow paced. i'm looking forward to this one.

i've never read any Dumas.
i'm more of an artsy person than a history person.
but i do sometimes enjoy this genre in film -- historical fiction movies like "man in the iron mask," can hold my attention longer than text.

#19 if you ever get around to reading the scarlet pimpernel tell me how it goes, seems interesting to me.

urrrgh, historical fiction...
:/

i accidentally posted the same message twice, that's all.

i'm still obsessed with billy collins poetry. check him out.

Courtney, you're just a very obsessive person....

Courtney, you're just a very obsessive person....

Emily, you're just a very repetitive person...

:-P

WE
ARE TWO PEOPLE!!!!
EVERYONE!!
STOP THINKING WE ARE ONE!!!

HAHAHA!
i'm sorry! that's the 1st and last time i'll do it! EVER!

you're both just so amazing, it's nearly impossible to believe that there are 2 seperate people who are so amazing...

hahha
OOOOO
IM AMAZING!!!

don't push it, bree.
:-P

so, i just finished "interpreter of maladies," by jhumpa lahiri. she won the 2000 pulitzer prize for it.
it's a collection of short stories about people from india living in america.
it's pretty amazing, but very sad.

it's the kind of book that forces me to acknowledge that reality makes me feel melancholy.

yeah, i'm not into the whole comedy sci-fi thing.
a lot of people like that author, though.

did you finish prince caspian?
i'm starting it soon. i haven't read it since i was a wee little girl.

Me toooo!
I read it in fourth grade!
It was such a big deal back then...

haha
i read alot all the time
:

yeah, you do bree.

(a lot :-P)

i've been a reader since i can remember.
my mom reads a lot.
it's in my blood.
in my marrow.
:)

hmm, my grandparents (the non-mexican ones) are big readers, and so is my uncle (son of the non-mexican one...)
but other then that, no one else really reads...

haha
duuuuuh
because youre harry potter!

shame on marty for his crappy spelling!

can you fix it?

who is marty???

prince caspian tonight! yay! i finished the book last night, and can't wait to see the moooovie!

:D

omfg.
you dont know who marty is!?

i don't think so?

:
your life is not worth living then

heeeeey!
those are the adjectives only used to describe Mr. Forbes!!

haha.
you guys are Ka-Ray-Zee!
CRAZY!

ummm....
No.
I believe I am perfectly sane...

DFTBA FOREVER!

haha, that email was from like two million years ago, and my livejournal is deleted, so it really shouldnt even show up...
Hey! At least I don't google him!
Woaaah!
That sounds kinda dirty...

ah, my yoga blog!
truth be told, i'd forgotten about that.
what did i write, 1 entry?
(how do i get rid of that?)

i've just begun "tenderness" by robert cormier.
as recommended by janice (the most knowledgeable youth librarian ever).
i'll let you know what i think.

we need to get ray on librarything!!!!

em, we need to borrow season 1 of gg!

:)

"i am the cheese"
"the chocolate war"
"we all fall down"

though i've never read any of these, i think they are pretty well known...

we need to borrow all of season 1 :)

I am the Cheese was good. While I thought The Chocolate War and We all Fall Down were just kind of mediocre...

I'm reading The Sky Inside, which may possibly be the name of my new band very soon....

lol.
ok, just bring it when you get the chance.
i promise to take very special care of it!
:)

are you reading anything while on vacation??

Bree, you're in a band? do you play an instrument? or sing? or clang the cowbell? or what?

urrrgh. the 'band' situation, it's... intersting.
we have a total of two members, like sixty songs, but we haven't actually had any practices? haha.
But I sing and do like keyboards and crap like that and we have a guitarist who's pretty good at writing music.
we're just on the search for a bassist, drummer, and possibly a second guitarist....

hmm.... maybe i should clang the cowbell too?

that's so awesome!

we should have a talent show!!!
(do you think anyone would come to that, though?)

ray likes to sing. you should ask him to be in your band.
(and don't listen to him if he tells you that he plays the guitar. he doesn't.)

it's hard to find time to read while on vacay, i know. have a blast, take lots of photos, try everything!!!
(you can read when you get back :-P)

and, btw, i love how this website has turned into the bree, emily, courtney correspondence page :).

Haha. I'm on vacation and I have already read three books today. I'm currently reading Big Fat Manifesto, it's decent, but I'm trying to get through it quickly so I can get on to The Bell Jar. (Obviously, I have been to the library within the last couple of days, due to the fact that I am no longer reading the same two John Green books over and over again)

Wasn't this page just always a Bree, Emily, and Courtney corespondence page??

Wow, I miss the library a little too much... NERDFIGHTERS! (Courtney, you will not understand this, only Emily will, it's far too complicated, so I attempt not even trying to.)

Hmm... Today, I started putting the Entire Written Collection of Bree on LiveJournal. I'm about a fifth of the way through. What can I say? It's a very long and draining proces...

I. Want. John. Green. at. the. Sunset. Library.

End of story.

Emily says:
Do you actually enjoy books or just absorb them?

Well, to answer your question, I do both. I remember the majority of books, I can basically tell you a plot summary of every book I have ever read. (From sixth grade and up) I also remember the oddest details from books. For example, I can tell you that in Looking for Alaska (Which is another possible name for the upcoming band), Miles Halter calls four 'Male Entertainment Agencies' (also known as Guy Strippers), before he reaches one who is willing to participate in the prank that they are going to do in memory of Alaska Young.

Also, I'm really good at remembering names of characters...
.
Hey, get me some cherries from New Orleans! Thanks!
:D

Uhhh.... I don't know. I was just saying because you're using a Cherry Picker...

hey, i saw the nerdfighters youtube video. i'm in the know. i know what's up. lol.

"the bell jar" is depressing! i couldn't finish it...(surprise, surprise)

what is new orleans like? did you see "ruins"? do the people seem sad?

i.want.john.green.at.my.library.too.lol.

i'm so sleepy! i need a vacation!

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz................

Well, Emily is currently on a plane flying to New Orleans right now, so I don't think she would know.

Haha, Courtney. You can't finish anything... And of course The Bell Jar is depressing, that's kind of the point...

How could you not want John Green at your library??

Haha... Wow, I haven't slept for over 72 hours and I'm not tired! (Okay, fine, I did sleep for like two hours this morning...)

why have you not slept for 72 hours (besides those 2 hours)?!?!

I just don't really sleep that often. Lke, I won't sleep for around five days, but then I'll sleep for a day straight. It's just how I work.

that's insane, but i love it.

:)

oh, i spoke with john green's publicist and he'll come to our library for free.

HA! gotchya!
;-)

Courtney! Don't do that! I can't tell if you're kidding or not!

Yesh. I like it too. (somedays) But my mommy definately doesn't...

COURRRRRRRRTNEY!
Your message made me laugh.
Hehehe.
I'm going to treasure it forever and use it against you one day!
:

lol! don't do that!

i'm excited for the murder mystery tomorrow!!!
(sorry em :-P)

im excited too!
i want to see what they do to my hair...
hehhe

wow, that's really crazy em.
i hope that i get the chance to visit there sometime...

the murder mystery was fun.
lots of work, but fun.

i'm stressing over the pizza taste-off right now...
ahhh!

:-P

yay! i think it was a success!

did you guys have fun?

yeah it was fun!

Back on topic . . . I'm reading Pepperland

too....much....pizza....

too much pizza is right! but it was so stinkin' good!

pepperland sounds very cool.
are you liking it?

Yeah the whole 6 pages I've read!

haha. I actually read that book in like fifth grade.... I always recommend all the books I read when I was younger to you... haha

yay! I have the reading level of a 5th grade Bree! Don't tell me you read A Tale of Two Summers when you were in 5th grade . . .

Hehe.... Sixth...
:

That might expain a whole lot, wouldn't it?
haha

yeah! You really didn't have a normal childhood at all . . . except fr your horses phase

ooo!
and the harry potter phase! (and no, not your grandpa...)

haha.
you're weird...

i think your potter family reunion shirt will be insanely cool. i'm jealous. (and a dork.)
keep me updated on pepperland em.
i'm reading "better than running at night" by hillary frank.
i think i may have gotten it off of the teen table, so thanks bree.
:-P

haha, yeah, that was on the teen table...
hmm.....I read Better than Running at Night when I went to Iowa a while ago...
So I think that was 6th grade?
Haha, I always find the books I read when I was younger funny. I'm always like: "Well, I definately should NOT have been reading that!"
:o

In 7th grade you read Al Capone Does My Shirts. You were all proud of it, because it was on the Arizona reading thiny, and I would just laugh at you, because I though you were pathetic for reading it.
Hehe.
Sorry.....

you....lie....about.....reading!?

HAHA! you guys are totoally cracking me up!

No one's supposed to lie about reading. It's like the sixth commandment! (I actually think the sixth one is about adultery, but screw that, everyone cheats anyways, so we don;t need it anymore....)
All the little kid for the Reading thing who lie just to get the duckie (*cough* my sister *cough*) are going to get smited!
:)

are you kidding me?
I have read over 250 pages of Suck It Up today alone...

I read when I eat...

i eat what i read...

um.... i dont enjoy paper clips in my mouth...

rebecca by daphne du maurier?!?!?!?!
that book is in my top 5!!!!!!!!!

oh! it's SO GOOD!

watch the alfred hitchcock movie afterward!
it's SO GOOD too!

ahhh! I meant papercuts!
I'm definately not looking forward to Rebecca

it is! and it's so amazing!
it's my 2nd favorite hitchcock movie (after rear window).
but don't cheat; read the book 1st!

Cheating is bad!
Well, it has to be better then how The Picture of Dorian Gray is going...

wow man i havent read any of those books (or at least the books yall talked about in the bit i read... did you really think i was gonna read the whole thing??) except al capone does my shirts

alfred *hitchcock* lol (sorry!)

cheating is only bad when you get caught. xD

a friend of mine from high school got alfred hitchcock's signature tattooed on her back.
crazy, right?

haha, that sounds even more crazy then things I would do...

Wow Courtney your friend is pretty hardcore

haha
she's, like, hxc!

haha. You all? As in the one person who slightly cares?

yay! did you like it? do you recommend it?

yeah, it's hard for me to recommend books, too.
but usually it's because i don't like books that others normally like, and my favorites are books that people will hate if i recommend them.
same with movies. i have yet to meet someone who likes and dislikes the same movies as me.
and i think i am an awesome critic!
(people just don't know...)
lol.
:)

TAG TONIGHT! yeeeeeee-haaawwwww!
(guess what i just drank.... :-P)

wow courtney, you totally just reminded us about TAG twice. Did you think we would forget or something???

emily, i have thought of you as a freak since I was born. Which is odd, because we hadn't met and you were not yet born...

On topic...
I have my two summer reading books sitting on my nightstand.
They are "The Jungle" and "Fast Food Nation".

ahaha. Yeah.... Don't go and watch the movie Fast Food Nation in substitue of reading the book. My friend did that, not....smart...

Now I'm reading Love and Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain. (stupid fucking touchstones)
I recently just got back into him and I was absolutely amazed by how many people actually believe the conspiracy theory that Courtney hired someone to kill him (or killed him herself). There's so little evidence! They're making a big deal out of nothing.
For example:
After Kurts suicide attempt in Rome, Courtney is pictured riding with him in the ambulance. The book states that a major clue that she tried to kill Kurt is because her makeup is immaculate.
HELLO PEOPLE! SHE'S COURTNEY FUCKING LOVE! WHEN WAS HER MAKEUP NEVER NOT PERFECT WHEN SHE WAS WITH KURT!? SERIOUSLY! IN EVERY PICTURE OF HER FROM THAT TIME PERIOD SHE HAS GREAT MAKEUP!

and nobody cares about the content of this post.... (except Emily will flip about the explictives...)

i actually dont have a nightstand... just a comment xD i need to read bless me ultima (traumatic just thinking about it) and do the study guide... the questions on there are ridiculous:"why did the curse involve a hairball"... maybe some deeper meaning im missing here? some help maybe? *hint hint* XD

how are you liking rebecca, emily?

who is photonraver??

oh, good call on the profile thing. lol. sometimes i'm a little technologically challenged.

sweet! this is where "rebecca" starts to get good!

my stepmom is a big reader. as is my little sister.

and my mother has started picking it up.

and my father has read the newspaper everyday since I can remember. Usually cover-to-cover.

but I didn't really start to use the library until I was 12/13, when Phyllis was my librarian.

See, for me, not reading is an oddity. It's as if I had always been reading and it's hard to imagine not to be. There's no clear line from when I was not, to where I began. I just remember that I started reading abnormally early.

that's awesome, though!

what do you want to be when you grow up, bree?? lol.
(besides a professional reader. bc i don't think those exist. bc i would definitely be one if they did.)

Weeeell, what I really want to do is major in Journalisim and minor in Library Sciences at Columbia University.
From there, hopefully, I will be a staff Reporter at AP Magizine (Alternative Press) and eventually get my Graduate's in World Cultural Studies?
But this is me dreaming big....

Dream away!!!
That sounds amazing!
And you can do it. That's even more amazing!

Bree, minor in something that you want to write about/cover when you are working in the 'real world,' as a journalist.

As a journalism major, assuming you mean print journalism, any newspaper you work for will put you on the general 'reporting' beat unless you have are a specailist (sp?) in something, thus some reporters minor in education b/c they want to write about education, while others minor in political science, etc., etc.

And if you want to be a columnist, don't minor in journalism, pick something you are confortable writing about, and run from there.

And you should dream big...always dream big, b/c as Courtney said, you can do it. But not only that, you WILL do it, and that's amazing.

-ray

Weeeell, my goal is to write for AP Magazine. Which is an alternative music magazine (and also doubles as my Bible.) I've talked to people who work there and they say as long as you have some general College Journalisim education, I should be good.

But today, I'm going to apply as a Staff Writer for AZTeen Magazine.

:)

SIDE NOTE OF SUCK: I failed algebra 2 again, which means I now how to take it for the THIRD time. And it's not because I didn't try, I was it there getting help from my teacher four hours a week.
and yet I still failed....

i feel your pain! i'd rather get a root canal than take a math class. i feel like i'm just so horrible at it!
but if you persevere, dear one, you will make it to the light. oh yes, you will make it to the light.

ahaha. Wow Courtney.
Speaking of teeth, I have to get my wisdom teeth sliced out pretty soon.
:(

I AM TOTALLY PSYCHED FOR THE XFILES!
Im obsessed with the seasons as of now.

uhhh....I told you that, like, six months ago....
The movie was disappointing....
BUT IM FINALLY HOME NOW!
So I can finish watching season two and see Scully come back from being abducted!

weeeeell, i knew you had....

have you not read it before?

Which was horrible, might I add.

Did you finish The Book Thief?
I had a hard time finishing that one.
(Just like every other book I begin!)

First one to reply to this message wins a prize!
:op

How was Paper Towns?