23 January 2015 (II)

Oh boy. Am I on a roll or what.

Mistakes

While I can't stand how so many entries are riddled with grammatical and typographical errors, I simply am not doing much about them.

As with diary writing, everything that I write is unplanned. Well, there is some kind of vague planning that goes on in my head but from one idea, the writing goes everywhere.

I cringe when I eventually re-read my entries and see the mistakes but after 2 seconds, I decide against doing anything about it.

One day. One day, I will do something about it. But when will that day ever come? Ha. Ha. Ha.


One Day

Talking about One Day. I read this book by David Nicholls with the same title. I think it was Starter for Ten that started me on my David Nicholls binge. (What binge. Only 2 books.) I loved the twist in Starter for Ten and I thought he was a brilliant author. But, oh... After investing the whole night and half the morning (the very wee hours of the morning) in One Day, I realised that the protagonist died. How I also died at that point after investing so much emotion in Emma. Anyway. He has a new book "Us" and since I don't have the luxury of spending uninterrupted hours reading away, I (who happened to see the book at Popular bookstore) read the first 2 chapters and the last 2 chapters. So now I know the gist of the story and more importantly, the twist in the story and I can go along my merry way without remembering even the name of the main characters. Hooray!

Okay. That's all. Trying to make myself feel less annoyed after the failed nursing wear online shopping trip (see previous post).


Reading

Eh wait. That is not all.

Talking about books made me wonder when was the last time I read a good book. In the name of work (which I won't be engaged in 'til 2017), I had to read quite a lot of novels pitched for bigger children in the 11-12 age group. I needed material for setting exam papers. And now that my own girls are reading quite a lot of books, I have to read what they are reading. For a variety of reasons. Primary reason - as a censorship board. Secondary reason - so I know what they are reading and to know their wavelength. So I've been reading Rainbow Magic (Help me. There are 100+ Rainbow Magic books and the kids are quite adamant that they would read everything and then reread them), Charlie and Lola (Lola was cute the first 2 times I read about her but is now absolutely supremely annoying), Horrid Henry (if I could only reach through the pages of the books and throttle that #%&*!$#% boy), Ivy and Bean and God-knows-what-else. Thankfully, Huda is going through a recipe book phase now and so, out of the maximum of 20 library books that we allow them to borrow each visit, at least 3 will be some kind of cookbook.

Wait. What I wanted to say was - when was the last time I read a real good book not meant for children? Must check out Amazon's Kindle Books. (Averse to physical storybooks for now because I'm going through a minimalist phase brought on by the horrifying piles and piles of stuff I threw/gave away recently.)

Okay. That is all. Really.