But it's Twelfth Night instead.

Finished a book in one day (minus the first 3ish pages) for the first time in years. I feel so... nice. Also this book fuckin slaps highly recommend to anyone interested in existential horror-adjacent science fiction.

I was assigned to read this book for a class in college and never finished it, so over the past year or so I've been trying to finish it. It's an interesting perspective on Hugo Chávez's impact on the nation of Venezuela.

I haven't actually read more than a sentence of it, but I just had to post this because the bibliophile within me is sooo happy. The precursor to this book, that I had to read parts of before, is slightly older, and the copy I have is well used and has many infuriating notes and highlights in pen. This book however, is fresh, and crisp and just wonderful. The cover has that wonderful soft texture that a good new softcover will have, it has that wonderful new book smell that floats out as you open it to a new page, and the typeface is definitely one if my favorites. I don't know enough about typefaces to tell you what it's called, I just know I love it and that it makes me want to read it, despite being a textbook that's probably kinda dry.

Also, I feel bad for Mary, as weird or random as that may sound. Like, there’s times when the whole family is hanging out---except for Mary; and everytime she is portrayed, it’s as a vague embarrassment to the family. Like, she’s just a teenager, and at that, a middle child of five. That’s gotta be rough. I imagine her as kinda goth. She’d probably get on well with the Addams family. 

I’m currently reading The Wicked Day by Mary Stewart, which is the fourth book in her Arthurian saga. While the other three primarily focus on Merlin’s perspective, this one focuses on Mordred’s. In fact the only mention of Merlin is “HE’s DEAD!” “Psych, no he’s not.” “MERliN is DEAd NOW!” “HA, nope.” “OK, this time he’s really dead, for real, we buried him.” “HAHAHA, NO HE’S STILL ALIIIIIVVVEEEE!!!!” Whether he will actually die as they say he will/has is a mystery to me, but it’s a very good book. I highly recommend this series. Although I do recommend having a Welsh pronunciation guide on hand if you don’t speak the language. It drives me nuts not knowing how to pronounce things, and also it’s easier to recognize characters like Sir Bedwyr when you know it’s pronounced (roughly) bed-OO-ur or bed-OO-EER. But it’s a great series, although kinda long and slow moving. I’ve been burning through this one though. 

It kind of always is, but I always should read more. Reading is badass.

I'm reading various stories from this for my Creative Writing class. There's a lot of variety in the stories, but most of them I've found to be quite good (so far). Also Short Short Stories really means short; most of them are two or three pages tops. They are really nice little tidbits, and great if you wan to read, but only have very short spurts to do so at a time. 

The Words in the Book: It's a good play. I recommend trying to see it if you can. It explores theatre, as well as human nature. It's very sweet. The production I'm in is doing it very simply, and with a very matter of fact feel. What I mean by that is that we're not trying to hide the fact that the play isn't real life, which is usually what you do with theatre to some degree. It's very upfront. I like this play. It's very nice. It's about a small town in New Hampshire, set in the early 1900s. It's nice. I like it. 

I found this water-warped business card in my copy of the Communist Manifseto...

Not bad though. Worth a read, though I would recommend a copy with an introduction (other than the author's), especially if you are unfamiliar with the genre or the historical context in which it was written.