30 Day Meme; Day 4

[samatethecookie]

So, I guess we had an earthquake in Chicago last night? It lasted three seconds, at least in my perspective. It came and went. I thought it was in my head, but the more I think about it, my cats were running to sit with me before it happened, and one of our dumb dogs kept pacing around the house. But eh, it only lasted a few seconds, and nothing serious occurred out of it, so I'm sure it's nothing to worry about. It just shocked me that the jolt I felt wasn't in my imagination!

In life, nothing interesting's been going on. We got snowed in, so we spent the past few days doing nothing and ordering food out. Oh and I figured out how to download games onto the PS3! So, Final Fantasy VII is on there now, and I'm debating on which game to buy next. I'd like to get FFVIII now, but I haven't even beat FFX yet. (I'm like, one step away from defeating Sin, but I'm trying to complete the side quests and get everyone moving up in their sphere grids before I run into the battle against Sin.)

Oh yeah, there was this meme I was supposed to do, wasn't there?


Day 01 | Your favorite song
Day 02 | Your favorite movie
Day 03 | Your favorite television program
Day 04 | Your favorite book
Day 05 | Your favorite quote
Day 06 | Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 07 | A photo that makes you happy
Day 08 | A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 09 | A photo you took
Day 10 | A photo of you taken over ten years ago
Day 11 | A photo of you taken recently
Day 12 | Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 13 | A fictional book
Day 14 | A non-fictional book
Day 15 | A fanfic
Day 16 | A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 17 | An art piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.)
Day 18 | Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 19 | A talent of yours
Day 20 | A hobby of yours
Day 21 | A recipe
Day 22 | A website
Day 23 | A YouTube video
Day 24 | Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 25 | Your day, in great detail
Day 26 | Your week, in great detail
Day 27 | This month, in great detail
Day 28 | This year, in great detail
Day 29 | Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30 | Whatever tickles your fancy


I have a lot of favorite books, but so far, I've been adoring Jeanette Winterson's books. "Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit" is about her personal live being raised by a religious mother, who planned to make her a missionary, and about her coming to terms with her sexuality. It's a good book, but the other book I've read, "Written on the Body" has to be one of my favorite books ever. It's about a love affair, but it's an attempt to write a love story without the cliches. Also, the narrator doesn't have a name or a gender, which is interesting because you can imagine the narrator's a man or a woman and it just makes sense either way. Here, have a few of my favorite quotes.

"In bereavement books they tell you to sleep with a pillow pulled down beside you. Not quite a Dutch wife, that is a bolster held between the legs in the tropics to soak up the sweat, not quite a Dutch wife. 'The pillow will comfort you in the long unbroken hours. If you sleep you will unconsciously benefit from its presence. If you wake the bed will seem less large and lonely.' Who writes these books? Do they really think, those quite concerned counsellors, that two feet of linen-bound stuffing will assuage a broken heart? I don't want a pillow, I want your moving breathing flesh. I want you to hold my hand in the dark, I want to roll on to you and push myself into you. When I turn in the night the bed is continent-broad. There is endless white space where you won't be. I travel it inch by inch but you're not there. It's not a game, you're not going to leap out and surprise me. The bed is empty. I'm in it but the bed is empty."

"You’ll get over it..." It's the cliches that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because "it" is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never loses. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?

So, yeah, I recommend this book to anyone, no matter what your taste in books are or how they vary from mine. This is a beautifully written novel.

Other honorable mentions are "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky, anything by Amy Tan, "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" by Lisa See, and "The Book of Lost Things" by John Conolly.

Edit: Oh and HOW IS THIS A POPULAR DEVIANTART AT THE MOMENT? haw haw sexual assault is so funny. :|