a pioneer woman without a frontier ([info]barbed_whispers) wrote,
@ 2008-10-10 20:43:00
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Current mood: exhausted
Current music:say anything - alive with the glory of love
Entry tags:books: general, books: john green, life: dreams

three things about books and one thing about how i am losing my mind.
1. looking for alaska made me cry at work today. one of my electricians semi-caught me (he came in before the waterworks really started, but i was sniffling and misty-eyed) and i definitely blamed my soup. UGH you guys! i love this book so much!

2. oh god twilight: whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?

3. THERE IS A SEQUEL TO THE CHEESE MONKEYS!!!! i was already thinking longingly of this book because of alaska, but now i must reread it! nfuurbfv CHIP KIDD ILU.

4. the other night i dreamt in indian. my brain helpfully provided subtitles. !!! I AM GOING INSANE, YOU GUYS.

4a. i am so tired i cannot see straight. i am so tired the bags under my eyes make it look like i have not slept in a month. i am so tired that the thought of walking the two feet to my bed exhausts me. and yet i cannot fall asleep. DELIGHTFUL.


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[info]not_as_pretty
2008-10-13 10:05 pm UTC (link)
i wish my brain provided me with subtitles when i dream in foreign languages.

i WISH.

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[info]barbed_whispers
2008-10-14 11:13 am UTC (link)
well at least now i feel less weird for dreaming in a foreign language in the first place :D

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[info]not_as_pretty
2008-10-16 04:18 am UTC (link)
here's the question: do you dream in foreign languages you actually speak?
cuz i dream in foreign languages i don't speak. i just know i'm speaking it.

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[info]barbed_whispers
2008-10-16 11:11 am UTC (link)
this is the first time i've dreamt in a foreign language! i definitely don't speak indian though, haha.

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[info]simplykatie
2008-10-14 07:05 pm UTC (link)
From Booklist
Kidd is a pioneer in book cover art, but this novel marks his first attempt to write the words between his magnificent covers. It tells the story of one boy's discovery of graphic design in college and his talented and cruel professor. The "novel in two semesters" follows our narrator through his first year at the ubiquitous "State U." In the first semester, he meets Himillsy Dodd, a precociously brilliant fellow art major with a great disdain for art, and takes "Introduction to Drawing," which includes such inane exercises as drawing a still life of a large, brown, and dead bird named Renaldo. Then they take graphic design with the enigmatic William Sorbeck, and life changes forever. Sorbeck shines in three dimensions on the page, a living representation of the larger-than-life professor that luckier college students have a chance to know. This is a fascinating, funny, and wonderfully written novel of graphic design that manages to deepen the reader's appreciation for the artistry and wonder of design without a single drawing. John Green
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

HOLY MOTHER OF LOVE, JOHN GREEN REVIEWED THE CHEESE MONKEYS WHEN IT FIRST CAME OUT.

i have such love.

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[info]barbed_whispers
2008-10-14 07:13 pm UTC (link)
!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[info]simplykatie
2008-10-15 12:58 am UTC (link)
isn't that EXCITING?!

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[info]barbed_whispers
2008-10-15 01:04 am UTC (link)
OBVIOUSLY YES.

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