Too lazy to come up with a title. So, starting a new job on Monday after forevers of being unemployed. Hope hope hope it goes well and hope hope hope school goes well too. I'm scared that they'll both be beyond what I can handle. I guess we'll see- it's scary to begin two big things at the same time. Plus, November is Nanowrimo, and, as much as I joke about it, I'm very serious about being successful. It's good to expunge creativity in one go- force your mind open with a crowbar and spill out all the pretties.
This year, I have two story ideas I'd like to develop into novels, though I think that planning beyond just the one might be a little idealistic. The first is a road trip/coming-of-age thing, three jr high students voyaging to the San Diego Comic Con. Yes, nerds. There aren't enough nerds in children's/young adult novels. The other is a sci fi story I've been working on forever internally, but have little to show for. I'll put up better summaries in November. Must do some planning.
A new chronic pain support group opened up in my area on Meetup.com- I joined it but no actual meetups are planned yet. Might be able to make some of the Fibromyalgia support group's meetings when school starts. Ugh- pain.
Need to find some interesting books- after reading Let Me In, I'm in the mood to some more unique books than usual. Another really interesting book was The Exquisite by Laird Hunt. Anyway, let's do some searching online.
Oh, at the library I found The Gargoyle on the paperback picks shelf:
he narrator of The Gargoyle is a very contemporary cynic, physically beautiful and sexually adept, who dwells in the moral vacuum that is modern life. As the book opens, he is driving along a dark road when he is distracted by what seems to be a flight of arrows. He crashes into a ravine and suffers horrible burns over much of his body. As he recovers in a burn ward, undergoing the tortures of the damned, he awaits the day when he can leave the hospital and commit carefully planned suicide—for he is now a monster in appearance as well as in soul.
A beautiful and compelling, but clearly unhinged, sculptress of gargoyles by the name of Marianne Engel appears at the foot of his bed and insists that they were once lovers in medieval Germany. In her telling, he was a badly injured mercenary and she was a nun and scribe in the famed monastery of Engelthal who nursed him back to health. As she spins their tale in Scheherazade fashion and relates equally mesmerizing stories of deathless love in Japan, Iceland, Italy, and England, he finds himself drawn back to life—and, finally, in love. He is released into Marianne's care and takes up residence in her huge stone house. But all is not well. For one thing, the pull of his past sins becomes ever more powerful as the morphine he is prescribed becomes ever more addictive. For another, Marianne receives word from God that she has only twenty-seven sculptures left to complete—and her time on earth will be finished.
-- what else? Let's search- weee!
Beastly by Alex Flinn sounds good, and will be a movie soon:
A beast. Not quite wolf or bear, gorilla or dog but a horrible new creature who walks upright—a creature with fangs and claws and hair springing from every pore. I am a monster.
You think I'm talking fairy tales? No way. The place is New York City. The time is now. It's no deformity, no disease. And I'll stay this way forever—ruined—unless I can break the spell.
Yes, the spell, the one the witch in my English class cast on me. Why did she turn me into a beast who hides by day and prowls by night? I'll tell you. I'll tell you how I used to be Kyle Kingsbury, the guy you wished you were, with money, perfect looks, and the perfect life. And then, I'll tell you how I became perfectly . . . beastly.
-- sounds interesting and I already like the voice. Dude, Neil Patrick Harris is going to be in the movie, which means I have to see it, which means I should read the book.
Max Brooks' World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War sounds AMAZING! SOOO interesting! I love it- like a mock version of something I'd read for class:
Brooks, the author of the determinedly straight-faced parody The Zombie Survival Guide (2003), returns in all seriousness to the zombie theme for his second outing, a future history in the style of Theodore Judson's Fitzpatrick's War. Brooks tells the story of the world's desperate battle against the zombie threat with a series of first-person accounts "as told to the author" by various characters around the world. A Chinese doctor encounters one of the earliest zombie cases at a time when the Chinese government is ruthlessly suppressing any information about the outbreak that will soon spread across the globe. The tale then follows the outbreak via testimony of smugglers, intelligence officials, military personnel and many others who struggle to defeat the zombie menace. Despite its implausible premise and choppy delivery, the novel is surprisingly hard to put down. The subtle, and not so subtle, jabs at various contemporary politicians and policies are an added bonus.
-- they also think this'll be a movie- it says "in development" hrm.
Been meaning to read The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova for a long while:
If your pulse flutters at the thought of castle ruins and descents into crypts by moonlight, you will savor every creepy page of Elizabeth Kostova's long but beautifully structured thriller The Historian. The story opens in Amsterdam in 1972, when a teenage girl discovers a medieval book and a cache of yellowed letters in her diplomat father's library. The pages of the book are empty except for a woodcut of a dragon. The letters are addressed to: "My dear and unfortunate successor." When the girl confronts her father, he reluctantly confesses an unsettling story: his involvement, twenty years earlier, in a search for his graduate school mentor, who disappeared from his office only moments after confiding to Paul his certainty that Dracula--Vlad the Impaler, an inventively cruel ruler of Wallachia in the mid-15th century--was still alive. The story turns out to concern our narrator directly because Paul's collaborator in the search was a fellow student named Helen Rossi (the unacknowledged daughter of his mentor) and our narrator's long-dead mother, about whom she knows almost nothing. And then her father, leaving just a note, disappears also.
--also will be a movie- because I went from a "soon to be movies" list on Amazon....
Choose your own adventure for adults! Exciting! You are a Miserable Excuse for a Hero
sounds hilarious and DEFINITELY unique. Checking that on my list ^__^
Why Do All the Nice Girls End Up Getting Kidnapped and Held for Ransom?
In this book, YOU, the reader, are a thirtysomething part-time actor/full-time waiter suddenly caught up in a kidnapping. Julia, the girl you went out with last night, has been TAKEN HOSTAGE. What will you do? Will you go to the police and ask for help? Will you burst into the hideout, killing everyone in sight, then tell Julia that she shouldn't misinterpret this as some sort of big commitment? Or will you unplug your phone and just get really, really drunk? The choice is yours!
You awake to the sound of the phone ringing.
"Hello?"
You hear a man's voice. It is muffled. "We've got Julia."
"Wait, what do you mean?"
"We have kidnapped your girlfriend. If you ever want to see her again---"
"Whoa, she's not my girlfriend," you say. "I just met her. I mean, I had a good time with her and all, but I wanna take it slow with this one, I think."
"We understand," the voice says. "But she's new to the city, and presently, you're all she has. Give us fifty thousand dollars by tomorrow or we'll blow her head off."
If you want to go and ask your parents if you can borrow fifty thousand dollars, go to page 173.
If you want to have sex with your ex-girlfriend, consider getting back together with her, then think better of it, go to page 183.
BE VERY CAREFUL! You're directing the story and the CHOICES you make can result in MURDER, GRADUATE SCHOOL ENROLLMENT, TORTURE, MARRIAGE, POST-APOCALYPTIC SLAVERY, UNWANTED PREGNANCY, even TEMPING! It's YOUR STORY and YOUR LIFE. All you've got to do is decide which page you want to turn to.
--Anyway, I'm putting the rest in a list without much info, because I need to shower and go to bed O.O Lazy me
Ida B: . . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World -Katherine Hannigan
The Shadow Thieves- Anne Ursu (who wrote The Disapparation of James)
The Raw Shark Texts-Steven Hall
In the Lake of the Woods- Tim O'Brien
Winter's Tale- Mark Helprin
Kiss Me, Judas- Will Christopher Baer
Good night! <3
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