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Book the Thirteenth

Friday, October 13th, is a very important day in literary circles...the last Series of Unfortunate Events book is being released. This day has been on my calendar for a year and my sister is buying the book and then shipping it to me asap. I have to admit that I am gettng a little worried about the ending though since Lemony Snicket has repeatedly warned his readers that this is a horrible story and should be avoided at all costs. But, being a optimist at heart, I have continued reading hoping that in the end the children will be reunited with their parents and Count Olaf will experience some sort of unfortunate event...

~A (as if L would ever write a post like this!)

Book Update

Since being here I have realized that there are two types of English books that are extremely easy to find...Harry Potter and the classics (Dickens, Bronte, Austen, etc). Since I'm not a Harry Potter fan, I have been reading the classics. Yesterday I bought an English copy of Jane Eyre from a man who was selling books off of a cart that was on the back of his bicycle!

Last week I stayed up until 3:15am so that I could finish Great Expectations and discovered two important things:

1. Unless there is some sort of serious reason, I should never attempt to stay up until 3:15 in the morning. My college days are definitely over.

2. Finishing a Charles Dickens book is reason enough to stay up that late. What a wonderful book! I have read other Dickens' books before but I think that this was my favorite. In the beginning I absolutely hated the main character, Pip, but he undergoes such a dramatic change throughout the course of the novel, it is definitely worth the read.

~A