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Merry Christmas :)
This is where I rant, report, and exist. Who needs a social life?
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Check out my friend Carleigh's blog http://the-sweet-disposition.blogspot.com
She's doing a countdown to Christmas where she gives one Christmas gift recommendation per day! Annnd she's a fellow bookworm & j-schooler.
go go go
She's doing a countdown to Christmas where she gives one Christmas gift recommendation per day! Annnd she's a fellow bookworm & j-schooler.
go go go
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
book list
Feel free to share your own favourites as a comment, or make your own book list and tag/link me in it!
I’m a little tired of giving the same exact answer to the question ‘What’s your favourite book?” all the time, so I wanted to list more favourite books off the top my head. This list is entirely for myself to keep (because I’m obsessed with making lists, pointless or otherwise) but I also thought I would share because these are all (in my opinion) life-changing, amazing books.
All time favourite book that I worship:
It’s a toss between:
Catcher in the Rye- JD Salinger (speaking of Salinger, Franny and Zooey is also wonderful)
and
The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath (she’s my soul mate)
Other favourites:
Lullabies for Little Criminals- Heather O’Neill
A Million Little Pieces- James Frey
Everything Matters! -Ron Currie Jr
The Elegance of the Hedhehog- Muriel Barbery
Brave New World- Aldous Huxley
Prozac Nation- Elizabeth Wurtzel (I love the film version as well)
Girl, Interrupted- Susanna Kaysen (I love the film version as well)
All Chuck Palakniuk books and especially Fight Club, of course (love the film version as well)
Blindness- José Saramago (His books are amazing) (I love the film version as well)
Breakfast on Pluto- Patrick McCabe (I love the film version as well)
The Virgin Suicides- Jeffrey Eugenides (I love the film version as well)
Atonement- Ian McEwan (I love the film version as well)
Angela’s Ashes- Frank McCourt (I love the film version as well)
Perks of Being a Wallflower- Stephen Chbosky
All Paulo Coelho books but especially Veronika Decides to Die (Veronika Decide Morrer)
Story of My Life- Jay McInerney
Series off the top of my head:
Are things like the Harry Potter series and Lord of the Rings too obvious? In that case, The Hunger Games series (which is going mainstream, and I don’t wanna sound like a hipster but…it’s going mainstream FAST) and A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin, for Game of Thrones fans and fantasy lovers!
I usually seem togo for deep, depressing and dark books as I’m not usually a sap nor religious so I’m embarrassed to admit I love Nicholas Sparks novels but I loved
Dear John by Nicolas Sparks….but who am I kidding, his books are good (yet cheesy).
Books that made my childhood and shaped my entire life, and that I think of as adult books, and still think of to this day:
My Sweet-Orange Tree (O Meu Pé de Laranja Lima) by José Mauro de Vasconcelos, all his books are AMAZING.
and
The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) by Antoine de Saint Exupéry
…Also, who could forget classics like Lolita and
Anna Karenina and
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (all her books are amazing) and
Jane Eyre and
Lord of Flies?
….And much, MUCH more but these were off the top of my head. Sorry it went on longer than I expected. Sigh, I LOVE books.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
quarter life crisis happenin' up in hurr.
Sometimes I'm in a club with my friends and I'm like, why am I even here? And I feel utterly out of place, which is strange because I LOVE drinking and dancing. Sometimes I don't even know where I'm headed. Which, again, is STRANGE because I've always been the kind of person who knows exactly what they want.
Wah wah, pity party of one.
True story though.
Wah wah, pity party of one.
True story though.
Friday, July 8, 2011
friendship.
Lately I've been thinking about friendship in the light of my own experiences and what I've come to realize about friendship dynamics:
Not always, but there's usually a dominant one and a passive one in a friendship, the passive one letting the dominant friend have bigger control over their relationship and everything else.
It can get frustrating if you're the one who has, whether on purpose or not, have agreed to fill the role of the non-dominant, 'passive' friend.
The thing is though, someone shouldn't be friends with you because you cater to their description of what they need out of a friend. They shouldn't be friends with you because you're the friend they need and want you to be.
They should be friends with you because they simply want/enjoy being friends with you for who you are. All of you. ALL sides of you. And if you're in a certain mood but they're in a mood where they need you to be something else, who should be the one adapting to the other? Should there BE any adapting at all? If not, how will these two friends come to be on the same page?
Confusing much? I know I am.
It's interesting when you know your dominant friend enough to understand exactly what she wants and expects out of a friend, yet maybe she shouldn't EXPECT anything at all. Maybe it shouldn't be about the passive friend struggling to fit that role all time, because that's not real friendship at all.
All I know is, I'm the kind of person that gets hurt easily by the ones she loves, I guess. And sometimes when I'm hurt and don't want to be hurt anymore, I tend to apologize to end the argument just to get it over with, even when I'm not the one in the wrong.
I should start taking charge and turn some of my friendship dynamics around.
Funny thing is, I'm not always the passive friend. In some of my friendships, albeit only a few, I'm the dominant one. I literally have the smallest ego I know and very low self-esteem, so I tend to conveniently fill the passive friend role a lot. People with no egos find it easy to apologize when they're wrong and people with low self-esteem will easily apologize even when they're right.
This is exactly what I do.
Maybe it's time to stop apologizing, being the one to take the blame just for the sake of ending the argument, and teach some people around me how to apologize when they're in the wrong.
Might be harsh and out-of-character but I encourage everyone in my situation to do the same. You might lose a couple friends, but then maybe they weren't your real friends in the first place.
You might win some, impressing people with your new self-confidence. I know I suffered (and still do) with low self confidence my whole life, but it's pretty easy to hide it now.
It's alllll about how you present yourself to others. Do it long enough to get good at it and no one will truly know the real you unless YOU decide it's time to reveal it to them.
Not always, but there's usually a dominant one and a passive one in a friendship, the passive one letting the dominant friend have bigger control over their relationship and everything else.
It can get frustrating if you're the one who has, whether on purpose or not, have agreed to fill the role of the non-dominant, 'passive' friend.
The thing is though, someone shouldn't be friends with you because you cater to their description of what they need out of a friend. They shouldn't be friends with you because you're the friend they need and want you to be.
They should be friends with you because they simply want/enjoy being friends with you for who you are. All of you. ALL sides of you. And if you're in a certain mood but they're in a mood where they need you to be something else, who should be the one adapting to the other? Should there BE any adapting at all? If not, how will these two friends come to be on the same page?
Confusing much? I know I am.
It's interesting when you know your dominant friend enough to understand exactly what she wants and expects out of a friend, yet maybe she shouldn't EXPECT anything at all. Maybe it shouldn't be about the passive friend struggling to fit that role all time, because that's not real friendship at all.
All I know is, I'm the kind of person that gets hurt easily by the ones she loves, I guess. And sometimes when I'm hurt and don't want to be hurt anymore, I tend to apologize to end the argument just to get it over with, even when I'm not the one in the wrong.
I should start taking charge and turn some of my friendship dynamics around.
Funny thing is, I'm not always the passive friend. In some of my friendships, albeit only a few, I'm the dominant one. I literally have the smallest ego I know and very low self-esteem, so I tend to conveniently fill the passive friend role a lot. People with no egos find it easy to apologize when they're wrong and people with low self-esteem will easily apologize even when they're right.
This is exactly what I do.
Maybe it's time to stop apologizing, being the one to take the blame just for the sake of ending the argument, and teach some people around me how to apologize when they're in the wrong.
Might be harsh and out-of-character but I encourage everyone in my situation to do the same. You might lose a couple friends, but then maybe they weren't your real friends in the first place.
You might win some, impressing people with your new self-confidence. I know I suffered (and still do) with low self confidence my whole life, but it's pretty easy to hide it now.
It's alllll about how you present yourself to others. Do it long enough to get good at it and no one will truly know the real you unless YOU decide it's time to reveal it to them.
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