You know it's bad when...

I don't feel like reading!

Really, I don't. Oh dear what is wrong. But I read an abundance of katherines over the weekend, so I'm kind of sick of YA at the moment. Katherines was good, and it made me think about purpose and mattering. [note to self: talk about this more] And also that I am happy to be a Dumper. (as opposed to a Dumpee) yay! oh I also have to post something very interesting that I remember but you have no reference to.

Back to reading. So today I walked into the library, and didn't feel up to anything except looking at the pictures in Crafts and Things, and this pie-making book. [this reminds me of a nerdfighter- kavithaispadfoot-- finding paper towns in her school library, though I don't think I can take another john green right now. It's like too much... david levithan or barry lyga-- you get tired and a little guilty about reading so much fluff] Sigh. What is wrong with me?! John Green and aforementioned YA people are good, really. And I really recommend you go read them. But it's something about the language or tone that gets to me. As in they are good if you, say, read ray bradbury before, but not philip k dick. Because I read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? right before katherines... haha they are totally different things.

Anyway, to make sure I get done with Silent Spring, I'm not allowing myself to read The General in His Labyrinth (by the Garcia guy who wrote the very old man with enormous wings) until I'm done with it. Pffft. Silent Spring is taking forever! I swear it gives a whole new spin on the idea of a bio essay. oh gods screw the spelling /grammar right now it's 3am for pete's sake. I'm reading it at the same time as Lady Chatterley's, because... I can't read it in one sitting. Mostly because after the good smutty bits you can't think of anything else, so you have to put it down. When you pick it up again, you're more focused on the bigger thematic picture--which everyone seems to be missing, by the way. Granted, having a passionate affair with the gamekeeper is more sensational than gender/ class distinctions in the 1920s.

Ah this is getting to be longer than I expected. I need to learn how to swear properly! OK in catcher in the rye, holden knows how to swear, even though he just says "goddam" or "damn". And then in katherines, they go "fug", "fugging" and so forth. In Paul Zindel's The Pigman, lorraine makes john go @#$! which is used to great effect. I don't know what my point is. Oh yes my point is. that. writers should use swear words properly, when needed, and not just unrealistically restrict all the swearing to one character. Like the people who write those thriller novels that basically have the same plots.

I'm being arrogant today, aren't I? and making mean and sweeping assumptions. I'm becoming anti-nick, just like anti-helena in the Mirrormask, the complete opposite of my past self. Rawr. Next thing you know, I'll have Other Mothers and inherit a whole alternate universe, and a savior named Valentine who works in a circus.