In love with the Civil Wars right now. “You can sink to the bottom of the sea,
Just don’t go without me”
I think I’m probably the kid on the far right.
These are your kids on books.
True.
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I keep wanting to grow my hair out but everytime I go to get a trim I always end up getting more taken off than I originally intended. One day I’ll get my curls back…
Jane Austen’s comical clergy
I just want to take a minute to brag about how my undergraduate thesis “Jane Austen’s Clergy: Morality, Virtue, and the Public Persona” is featured on the English department’s website at EIU. Click here to view. Since it’s from 2009 it probably won’t be featured up there much longer. Ironically, I don’t know if I even still have a copy of that thesis. It’s probably hidden somewhere in the deep dark recesses of my hard drive.
The Hunger Games
I just finished reading all three of The Hunger Games novels. wow. Pretty much blown away with Collins’ work, and find myself aligning with her in alot of her views (Or Katniss’ as the case may be). It took me three days to read these books. I lost sleep because I can’t read during the day due to way too much school work. Which makes me really grateful for coffee. I also read them so fast that I think I may have skipped entire sections, which is okay because as a former English major I never read things just once. The first time through is for fun. The second and third times are for analysis.
If there’s one thing I felt was missing at the end, I would say it was hope. I think to some extent she’s supposed to be the way she is at the end to make a point about war and what it does to people, but I personally always like my novels to end in some sort of hope. I always feel there’s hope for a better tomorrow.
(Source: abc-revenge)
Iain Glen is one fantastic actor. I don’t know why people don’t give him more roles.
pretty much obsessed with this song right now
Hope
Usually I keep my writings and everything going on with them private because I have yet to be published and I hate writers who “toot their own horns” before they’ve even published anything. But since this blog is attached to my authonomy account I thought it’d be nice to say that I’ve FINALLY completed my first novel. Finished meaning it has been put on paper and edited, and edited, and edited, and edited. It’s been a three year process and it’s finally complete.
So the next exciting step is writing the query letters and figuring out which chapters to mail to literary agents. And then I’ll send it out into the world with lots of prayers. and hope.
