I recently finished reading The View from the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman (book review to come, stay tuned). But a few moments in the book really stood out, so I pulled them from the pages to share with you now. “Life is sometimes hard. Things go wrong, in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all the other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is…
When to give up on a book (or if giving up on a book should even be considered an option) has been a topic that I have gone back and forth about quite a bit. When you go to college to study Literature, you don’t get much of a choice about what you read. Sure, you pick the classes, but the piles of books that come with each class are, for the most part, up to the professor to select.…
I started this blog for many reasons, one of which was the fact that I am an avid reader, but I don’t have many friends who are as into reading as I am. I often turn to the internet and blogging communities (like Goodreads) to learn what others think of certain books or whether people react to endings or plot developments the way that I do. There is a pain of sorts that comes with reading a great book (or…
I usually dislike movie adaptations of books. When books are changed into screenplays, much of the detail and experience is cut out in the name of movie magic. For beloved books that I can recite, I cringe when I notice important lines of dialogue have been reconfigured. Most recently, I was disappointed by the film adaptation of Atlas Shrugged. I couldn’t sit through the film, while the novel is one of my favorite all-time books. On the other hand, one…