Little Dorrit

   I find that I have a very short attention span. It's comes out quite strongly in my blog which has no guidelines. Maybe that's why I have such a hard time writing papers for school. I find that I often have to write a paper that is a certain length about something that I don't actually have any thoughts about. That's a hard thing o do.
  
   Charles Dickens amazes me in the way that he has so much to say about things, but I don't find it all boring. I enjoy all of Dickens's  descriptive writing, where as I found Tolkien's extensive description dull in the Lord of the Rings. Maybe it was because I  have watched the LotR movies so many more times than I have watched Little Dorrit. Both movies depicted the the scenery  from the books very well, but the LotR movie is more imprinted on my my mind because I have watched it so often.

   Back to Little Dorrit, I love it! There are so many different characters which you get to know better all the time. So many characters with character if you understand me. In this book you meet so many different people from all different classes and different countries. I know the main outcome from watching the movie, but there is some mystery that was unsolved for me even by watching the 8 hour mini series twice. I'm hoping I can figure it out by reading the book.

I finished it, and started something new

I finished Wuthering Heights. It's like but very unlike anything I've ever read. I mostly read old British books. This is an old British book, but I've never read anything with such an ending! I really thought Mr. Lockwood would marry Cathy, his landlords widowed daughter-in-law, but it ends with Mr. Lockwood telling how she is going to marry her cousin, who has had no education. Apparently Cathy, who before had despised Hareton, her cousin, because of his vulgarity and awkwardness, suddenly decided to make him her friend and teach him to read and well, marry him. Thats just weird. This book is very different from other books in the way the story is told. Only a small portion is Mr. Lockwood actually talking about him self or saying what he has done. Most of it is him writing the story that his house keeper is telling him. I don't think give anymore of the story away. Now I'm going to read Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens. It's gonna take awhile I'm afraid. My dad read the first 2 chapters to me last night. He took like tons of pages just to say "Marseilles was bright and hot." !! I get really tired of excessive description. Part of the reason it took me so long to get through Lord of the Rings. And Dicken goes into more detail than Tolkein. Maybe I'll read something of Jane Austen's along with it to even things out. She hardly describes anything.

Wuthering Heights

In case you were wondering, Wuthering Heights was unlike what I expected. I expected it to be some sort of romance, and it is, but I thought it would have satisfying romance, not frustrating romance. It's quite unlike any book I've ever read. The biggest surprise was finding that it was written first person by a man, even though the real author is a women. So far though, most of the book has been taken up by the man, Mr. Lockwood, retelling a story told him by the housekeeper of his new residence. I'm only half way through though mind. I keep expecting for the story to turn it's direction to what the man is gonna do about his new landlord and and the landlord's pretty, widowed daugter-in-law. It just keeps going on about the widowed daughter in laws mother and Heathcliff, the landlord. This is where the frustration comes in. They were in love, but both to proud until it was to late. I keep reading hoping for some satisfying romance to happen with Mr. Lockwood.

My blog

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Books

I'm in the middle of reading Wuthering Heights. I'm going through it so much quicker than I thought I would. I keep expecting another story to start taking place, but I'm half way through and it hasn't started yet, so this way it has kept my attention. Rather sneaky of Emily Bronte, I must say. There are so many books I want to read, I've been feeling frantic to get them all read. I need to take a step back and realize how many I've already read; Austen's 6 main novels, Jane Eyre, Lord of the Rings, Anne of Green Gables (all 8 books), Little Women. Just a few of the books crossed off of my imaginary list. I want to read all of Charles Dickens books, Tom Sayer, Peter Pan, and pretty much everything ever written by L. M. Montgomery. Oh, and I need to finish reading the bible; I've read straight through to 1 Kings 7. Other authors whose books I want to read are by George Elliot  (I found out is actually a lady) and George McDonald. Other than all these classic books, I would like to be able to play some classic piano pieces .

Purple eye shadow

In case you were wondering, I love purple eyeshadow. That's all for today.