Summer Reading

I would normally change the color into a more festive one but "summer reading" isn't a subject that I'm particularly happy about. It's a subject gives me dread and quite a bit of unhappiness. I, myself, LOVE to read. :) It's probably one of the things that gets me out of my bed during the summer - unless it comes to the dreaded REQUIRED SUMMER READING. I'm supposed to read "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky and "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë. It seems pointless to me when the summaries of the books are just a page long and the books are at around and over 500 pages. I mean Raskolnikov keeps on repeating himself and it annoys the heck out of me! :) I have to admit I like reading it aloud because it's so funny and it makes me feel like an idiot (which isn't funny when other people make me feel like one, just to let you know).

*ahem* Well... I'm on page 155 in "Crime and Punishment" out of 721 pages. :\ Five hundred sixty-six pages to go! Guess what? I haven't started "Wuthering Heights" yet. So I technically have eight hundred sixty-six pages to go. Another time to give me MORE great news! School starts in about five days. A mere five days and 866 pages to go. I've done such a swell job haven't I? Normally, 866 pages wouldn't bother me any but when it comes to school books, it just might take me more than a year. :) A nice and refreshing thought, don't you think? I don't understand how people can actually READ these books, have a good grasp of their meanings, and finish them! OK, even though I've read 155 pages of the book, I don't grasp many things. More like it just comes out of my mouth and that's all it does: come out of my mouth and let the AIR listen to the book and understand it. And I'm not nearly finished with it. Oh darn it. OK, I grasp a bit of the main idea but still! It's like my mind barely skims it to form a rudimentary picture in my head. Normally, I read and it forms a highly detailed movie in my head. Not just a PAINTING of it. A stationary image.

So frustrating. I suppose that's why I just don't like these books (other than the fact that it's from school :D). They just don't tempt me in any way possible. As for my sister who refrains from reading most of the time. She had to read "A Separate Peace" and "Their Eyes Were Watching God". She finished "Their Eyes Were Watching God" in a day. A DAY! (OK, now I'M repeating myself like Raskolnikov. Hopefully I'm not deranged and murderous.) I read that book that my sister read in a day. It took me about a week at the least. That book made me sleep. It was more interesting than these that I'm supposed to be reading now but it was completely pointless to me. So this girl (Janie was it?) wants to find love and she marries 3 dudes who are all different and the last one she does pick, she ends up shooting him in self defense after he catches a case of the rabies. I also find this comical in a sense, but that's not the point. The point is that it's a book with minimal action (it had a bit but I need more than "a bit") with a whole bunch of hokey. (Don't ask me where I got that from. lol...)

I'm terribly sorry if I've busted anyone's bubbles but these books have busted mines. I honestly don't MIND reading them as long as I don't have to retain the information about them. It's fun reading the dialogue outloud. It's entertaining and it's fun trying to figure out how to pronounce some of the names. The point is that I also have 35 new books I just checked out today (and in all, perhaps close to 250 during the summer) that I would much rather peruse than the "highly enjoyable Classics". *humph* Classic my butt. It's a classic case of a student having an aversion to something school-related. The only book I liked that I had to read for school was "Witch of Blackbird Pond" and that was in 8th grade. :) I finished it when the class was on Chapter 8. *sigh* Those were the days...

Well, enough of my complaining! I'm sure those are fine books for people who enjoy boring themselves (Just kidding! I know some people that for some reason that I just cannot fathom actually LIKE reading those types of book) are quite tired of my rambling on about my less-than-happy feelings on this topic. Onto more happier things...

I've found a song I like a whole lot - which is a major understatement. :D I've listened to it for the past three days or so continuously. I replay it on the computer and I replay it on my CD in my car. I albsolutely LOVE it! It's by Ticket and it's called "Les Monte-en-L'air". Obviously, it's French and the song is from 1985. It has a nice beat and after I figure out what the full meaning is, I'm sure I'll like it even more. :P I can follow some of the words and sing some phrases along with the song but I don't know much of what they're talking about, unfortunately. I picked up some words like "maison" and "tu sais" the former meaning "house" and the latter meaning "you know". A word sounds like "frais" and another like "couleur" and "ici" meaning "fresh", "color", and "here". I swear I even heard the word "aujourd'hui" meaning "today". All those words/phrases could make the song mean anything from food to family to... climbing in the air? lol... That's a translation of the title of the song.

I've also taken a liking to green tea and milk. :) I drink at least a full glass a day and as much as 3. Hmm... I really should start with water again. Though tea is good for you. lol... Besides all that, nothing much has been happening except Nady (one of my old friends - and one of my best friends - from Middle School) has forgiven my sister and I for not going to her birthday party. It was bugging me and constantly at the back of my mind and I couldn't take it anymore. If you want to torture me, just have a friend mad and/or disappointed in me. That'll do the trick. :) Sooo, I wrote her a letter that was three pages and a half long to her and as did my sister after I told her about my ingenious plan. :P It worked! Nady got the letters on Wednesday and called me directly afterwards and she said she was still tearing. :) I may not be all touchy-touchy and sympathetic most of the time but I can be when I want to. We spoke for several hours and didn't end the conversation until 1 AM.

Well! Now my summer's almost at an end to my dismay (as well as surprise - and happiness). OK, dismay to the "gone are the days where you lounge around" and surprise to the "time that has flown by" and happiness to "the heat that will be no more". :D Well, anyways, I shall go now and post this! lol.. I want to listen to my song again and play Spider Solitaire.