"Don't sit down in the middle of the woods. If you're lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong. Then take the other road. And/or change the person. Change the tense. Change the opening page." - Margaret Atwood
I need to remember this.
And here's more. Reading this honestly brought my stress level down about ten notches.
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"Northanger Abbey" by Jane Austen
"The Magicians" by Lev Grossman
"The Narnia Series" by CS Lewis ("The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" is my favorite)
The Harry Potter Series by JK Rowling
"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time" by Mark Haddon
"The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
"Middlemarch" by George Eliot
"Blue Like Jazz" and "A Million Miles in a Thousand Years" by Donald Miller
"The Reason for God" by Tim Keller
"The Screwtape Letters" by CS Lewis
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and "The Hobbit" by JRR Tolkein
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This blog is a place to put my thoughts about life and literature, not only to give myself a space to debrief and "think on paper", but also in the hopes that there is some truth here that resonates with you as well.
A quick note: Any reviews I have on here are are not necessarily "literary" in the strictest sense. I'll probably just discuss whether or not I liked the book, more or less.
Current Reading List
Currently reading: "The Hobbit" by JRR Tolkein
Previously reading: "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
Adventures in Reading: Books discussed on this blog
"The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas
"The Last Dickens" by Matthew Pearl
"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Lewis Stevenson
"Ethan Frome" by Edith Wharton
"The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz
"The Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton
"The Girl with Glass Feet" by Ali Shaw
"Stones into Schools" by Greg Mortenson
"The Catcher in the Rye" by JD Salinger
"Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
"Leaf Storm and other stories" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"Franny and Zooey" by JD Salinger
"Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy
"Leaf Storm and other stories" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"Franny and Zooey" by JD Salinger
"Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy
"The Magicians" by Lev Grossman
"A Million Miles in a Thousand Years" by Donald Miller
"Interview with the Vampire" by Anne Rice
"About a Boy" by Nick Hornby
"The Wild Things" by Dave Eggers
"Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
"Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
"Three Cups of Tea" by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
"A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" by Dave Eggers
"American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
"Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
"The Dante Club" by Matthew Pearl
Other works are discussed to varying degrees throughout, as well.
Books I would read again...and again...
The Harry Potter Series by JK Rowling
"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time" by Mark Haddon
"The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
"Middlemarch" by George Eliot
"Blue Like Jazz" and "A Million Miles in a Thousand Years" by Donald Miller
"The Reason for God" by Tim Keller
"The Screwtape Letters" by CS Lewis
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and "The Hobbit" by JRR Tolkein
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