Jim Gaffigan vs Mike Birbiglia vs Paul Feig

Since I published this post after reading comedic books written by Chelsea Handler, Tina Fey and Mindy Kaling, I thought it would be fun to read comedic books by Jim Gaffigan, Mike Birbiglia and Paul Feig. 

It was.

Reading List!: October 2013

With only three months left to complete my goal of reading fifty books by the end of 2013, crunch time is now.

Here are the six books I'm reading during October, plus The Bomb by Frank Harris (required reading for class).

Dead until Dark by Charlaine Harris

Naked by David Sedaris

Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris

Sleepwalk with Me and Other Painfully True Stories by Mike Birbiglia

Club Dead by Charlaine Harris

Kick Me: Adventures in Adolescence by Paul Feig

Apparently October is comedy month for me, but I'm keeping it spooky with Charlaine Harris.

I've also decided to not read the last book on my September reading list, Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov. It's more creepy than interesting to me and at this point I don't want to give it a chance. I made it to chapter twelve, so I think that's a pretty good feat. Again, like with The Picture of Dorian Gray, I'll read it in a couple years.

Update #11: I Could Use a Break

Hey Y'all! 

How y'all doing, y'all? 

I hope whatever book you're reading is bringing an immense amount of joy to you life, day, hour, whatever. 

Since I last updated, I had a couple weeks to myself before I started my third year at college. I'm five weeks in and I want O-U-T, immediately. I have been going nonstop. I feel like half of me is an unstoppable force and the other half is an immoveable object. Every day that passes reminds me of my first year of college and how much I hated everyone and everything. But I keep reminding myself that I've made it this far, I can't give up now. No retreat, no surrender! 

However, I'm barely making it through. I'm taking five classes this semester; I hate all of them except one. Seriously ALL of them except one. Can you tell I'm excited to graduate? 

Well, as this is a blog about books and not a blog in which I complain about college, let's talk books. Because of school I'm behind on my reading list. I sadly, sadly only read three books in September. Not including The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde which I had to read for class, but only read half. I hate reading books for class. I wanted to read The Picture of Dorian Gray too, but I found it incredibly boring. Maybe I'll read it, for real, in ten years. 

I'm slowly catching up on my reading now. I'm reading two books that were on my September reading list now as I wait for my October reading list books to be ready for me to check out at the library. At first I was reading two books at the same time, but I think reading one wholly and completely is better than reading two at the same time and not getting a real feel for the books. One of the books is a quick read and I hope to finish it by the end of the week. However, there just aren't enough hours in the day. Every day I feel like my subway ride gets shorter and shorter. And when I get home I can't lie down on my bed, read and listen to music because I'm busy writing. I'm currently writing for two classes and a separate project for myself. Not to mention I have over two page essays due by the end of the semester, December, in two classes and I want to get a head start on those. So I'm up all hours of the night writing and planning when I can read next. It's not ideal, but it's real and I have to deal. (The cheesy rhyme is because I'm extremely tired while I write this. Please excuse.)

The good news is that I am finally starting Charlaine Harris's Southern Vampire series aka The Sookie Stackhouse series! (Isn't it hilarious that the series is really called Southern Vampire series? With that name, I hope they're not romance novels. What have I gotten myself into?) I figured since it's October, it was fitting to start the series now. I'm so excited to read them. I hope I can finish them before the new season on True Blood next summer. Hey, I guess that's my first goal for 2014! I can't wait. 

I'm counting down the days until Thanksgiving vacation when I'll have a whole TWO days to read. That's a luxury considering my days now. 

I will not falter with posting on this blog though. I made a promise to myself that I'd have four posts every month until the end of the year. It's a bit of a burden considering everything I just rambled about, but if I accomplish nothing else this year, at this I'll have that. 

And thus concludes my update! I'll be back next week! 

Until then: 

Just Keep Reading! 

This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper

"The death of Judd Foxman's father marks the first time that the entire Foxman family-- including Judd's mother, brothers and sister-- has been together in year. Conspicuously absent: Judd's wife, Jen, whose fourteen-month affair with Judd's radio-shock-jock boss has recently become painfully public.

Simultaneously mourning the death of his father and the demise of his marriage, Judd joins the rest of the Foxmans as they reluctantly submit to their patriarch's dying request: to spend the seven days following the funeral together. In the same house. Like a family. 

As the week quickly spins out of control, longstanding grudges resurface, secrets are revealed, and old passions reawakened. For Judd, it's a weeklong attempt to make sense of the mess his life has become while trying in vain not to get sucked into the regressive battles of his madly dysfunctional family. All of which would be hard enough without the bomb Jen dropped the day Judd's father died: She's pregnant.

This Is Where I Leave You is Jonathan Tropper's most accomplished work to date, a riotously funny, emotionally raw novel about love, marriage, divorce, family, and the ties that bind-- whether we like it or not."

This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper is amazing. I'm so impressed by Tropper and going to try and coherently express it in this post.

Novel Adaptation: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

I didn't think that The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky could get any better and then it got turned into a film! 

Back 2 School Reading 2013

Hey everybody! It's currently the weekend between my second and third weeks at school so I thought I'd do a little bloggin' and readin' while I enjoy it.

Last year around the end of August I made this post.

This year I've decided to read one of my favorite Meg Cabot YA books, How To Be Popular. I remember how I felt after reading this book for the first time and I hope the feeling comes back. How To Be Popular is so appropriate to me for back to school because even though I'm going into my third year at college, I can still relate to Steph Landry.

I'm also reading The Perks Of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky again because it's a beautifully written book and on most days I feel like Charlie, but extra especially when school starts.

Happy Reading, good luck this school year and just keep reading!!!

Reading List!: September 2013

As I enter my third year of film school, I enter my third year of finding any distraction obtainable to procrastinate during the school year. Reading seems like the most productive distraction. I mean come on! It's so unusual to use reading as a distraction because reading has a positive connotation. I'm starting the trend of using reading as a procrastination tactic. You should too. 

Here's my reading list for September!

This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper

How To Be Popular by Meg Cabot

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides (pictured)

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (pictured)

One Last Thing Before I Go by Jonathan Tropper