Archive | January, 2008

it’s a gamble

27 Jan

I find that my attention span suffered greatly after the holidays. Aside from school stuff, I’ve been jumping from one book to another, so I’ve yet to finish any of the selections that I’ve started. However, Barnes and Noble made a killing during my “ooh! Books on sale. I’ll read them eventually. Buy buy buy” spree.

Aside from that, I’ve just read a whole lot of Jung. I can now enter into an intelligent, yet outdated discussion about archetypes and Soul-images in literature. Of course, I then start to apply these theories to my own life (I can’t help it, I am too involved with what I read) and then I start seeing archetypes and soul quests everywhere.

on the bedside table

2 Jan

I’m reading. I’m reading. Slowly. And it will only get slower come the 7th.

Right now, I’m on The Namesake and The Amber Spyglass.

Initial reactions…

The Namesake has really caught my interest… I’m only two chapters in, but it seems to be a displacement/bildungsroman sort of novel. Looking forward to more.

The Amber Spyglass… as always, it takes me some time to get into a Pullman novel. I started this series when I was 17, and I’m just now getting to the last book. In this one, Pullman added some evolutionary theory to the already complicated plot of Lyra and Will’s story. After so many years, I have a general idea of how the story ends, but I’d like to finally read it for myself.

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