In love with Neil Gaiman's writing, that is. I mean AAAAH!! It's so beautifully elegant, mystical, entrancing, insightful and exhilarating. The Ocean at the End of the Lane was sublimely superb.
Take, say, "Nobody actually looks like what they really are on the inside. You don't. I don't. People are much more complicated than that. It's true of everybody."
Or, "I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I found joy in the things that made me happy."
Or (I promise this is the last), "Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside,
they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing.
Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they
were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the
whole wide world.”
I mean come on... I can't really use more of my favorite quotes anyway without giving away elements of the story. So suffice it to say, if you haven't done so already, get out there and read it!
I have been waiting for one of Gaiman's others, The Graveyard Book, to become available from the digital library for quite some time now. I'm hoping that will become available soon, and also American Gods, as I feel I will be needing another hit of Gaiman goodness very soon.
I don't know the number of pages we read today, because I accidentally updated our progress before doing the page count, and once the progress is updated I no longer know what pages we were on yesterday. Mine was around 150 and Ilya's was 20ish (he fell asleep reading, my poor over-worked and exhausted husband!).
Next I am going to read Labor Day. I have been waiting for this one to become available to borrow from the digital library pretty much since the beginning of this challenge and am very pleased that it is finally in my possession.
Terms of the Duel
New-Year's resolutions have a pronounced and infamous tendency to fall by the wayside by, say, the 1st of February. Perhaps, however, that is because they are resolved upon, adhered to, and discarded, by solitary individuals. Perhaps what's needed is some good old-fashioned competitive spirit.
The participants:
- Ilya Gandelman - desk jockey from 9-5:30, Monday thru Friday. Free time activities include, but are not limited to, writing, reading, watching tv/movies (very selective in this area!), eating Meredith's delicious food, playing with Gizmo, spending time with family and friends.
- Meredith Gandelman - also a desk jockey, from 9-6, Monday thru Friday. Free time activities include, but are not limited to, reading, watching tv/movies, cooking/baking for Ilya (and others), snuggling/playing with Gizmo and spending time with family and friends.
The resolutions:
- To read more books
- To watch less television
- To spend less money (by reading library books, and by making our way through unread volumes gathering dust on the shelves)
- To spend more quality time together with a shared interest
Therefore, the challenge proposed: who can read the most books in a year? On one side the wife, on the other the husband: who'll get the most volumes under her or his belt before 2015?
The rules:
- Books will be chosen independently. Any genre or subject is eligible.
- No second thoughts once starting a book. An uncompleted book is not counted, except of course as time lost. We shall have to choose carefully; and if a book seems to be disappointing, best to soldier on through to the end!
- A 300-page minimum. However, books briefer than 300 pages may be combined with others to count as one entry in the Duel.
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