Booklist - August 27, 2007 -
“Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.”
I finished Mr. Ernest Hemingway’s ‘The Old Man and The Sea’. At first I was ready to tear my hair out because of the slow pace, but in the end it was all worth it.
I’m currently sending my complete manuscript out to literary agents (printing the whole thing manually is.very.tiring). I’ve a bunch of books to finish reading, and a whole lot more should be arriving this week from Amazon or Half.com. I’ve gotten both very good books and not so very good books, so that I can learn from both sides.
On the list are George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ and ‘1984′, along with William Faulkner’s ‘The Sound and The Fury’, which I suspect I’m going to enjoy very much. I think I also ordered ‘Catcher in the Rye’. Those would belong in the very good books cateogory :).
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Methinks - August 21, 2007 -
Ms. Neal doth protest too much. Not.
You’re English Majors?!
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Mannnnn. - August 7, 2007 -
Decided to add some colour to this version, hehe.
To modify a Wordpress theme is very troublesome. I really wonder what it must be like building one from scratch. At least I’ve improved with reading the style.css sheet (HAHA). Pardon the little glitches here and there, I tried to make sure 95%+ was in order.
I finally got to Act 1, Scene V of King Lear.
I can’t remember my flickr password. Another day, lol.
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I finished De Profundis by Mr. Oscar Wilde last night.
Remember also that I have yet to know you. Perhaps we have yet to know each other.
Damn, those lines really broke my heart.
I also finished Hamlet, then realised that my (1922 - it’s an OLD university library book!) edition actually has censored portions. AAAACK. I hope that when I do eventually get a collection of Shakespeare’s works, I won’t meet with this offensiveness again.
I’ve always been a little annoyed that I’ve never studied Shakespeare within an academic context. The first Shakespeare play I read was A Midsummer Night’s Dream when I was 16; then Romeo and Juliet (nice!!…it got better from here); Antony and Cleopatra (history’s a splendid thing); most recently, Hamlet (WOW). Next up is King Lear (where I believe somebody’s eyes are gouged out).
Oh, the struggle [I’ve never denied that I do find Shakespeare, on the whole, difficult (I didn’t say unenjoyable, I said difficult)].
I think a good way to do it would be to read the play first, then research and read up on all the (little and great) things missed out, then later read it again, copy out favourite passages…maybe I’ll keep a whole notebook of favourite passages from my favourite authors’ various writings, lol. And of course it’d be great to watch a live performance…man, I still remember the 1978 BBC production of Romeo & Juliet I saw on tape at Temasek Poly…that was awesome.
All in all, the past couple of weeks have been a much needed and well-spent break from completing my book, haha. I think I’ve read and appreciated more books in the past month than in all four years of secondary school: something I’m always proud to say to myself.
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