Don't Let Soap in Your Eye

Can you tell that titles aren't my forte?  Sometimes I feel like titling as Emily Dickinson's poetry is, with the first line of the poem.  When it comes to my poetry and fiction writing, I often ask other people for help or ideas because I'm not sure what to do.

This title actually pertains to something that happened today.  While scrubbing my head in the shower, a glop of shampoo fell on my closed eyeball.  It was closed, so Huzzah! we will simply wipe it off with the towel.  But me being me, I wound up somehow grinding it further into my eyeball resulting in panicked pained me.

Two other exciting events of the day: I finished cleaning! and Momma and I went to the movies.  We saw Zookeeper, which was hilarious.  I think we literally laughed through the entirety of it.

Something that I thought of that I have yet to do here is babble about books, so I'm going to make a
listy:

J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter

Anne Bishop's Black Jewels Series

Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, anything by him really

Jane Austen, anything she has written

You must read these.  Harry Potter, and thus, Rowling, has been a huge part of the lives of many people around the world.  There are many people, such as those in my generation, who literally grew up with these books and latter the movies.  Rowling has finished writing this particular series (I hope she never stops writing) and at midnight, the movies will be done.  This fact marks the end of something grand, yes, above greatness.  I hope that someday I will be able to write with even an iota of her brilliance.

The first book in this series of Anne Bishop's (Daughter of the Blood) was found at the Book Rack, a store of second hand books here in BG.  When I finally got around to reading it (I possess a frighteningly large collection of books, but that's for another entry I think) I instantly fell in love.  If I remember correctly, I started reading these books last year, and last month finished the series.  I think that there wound up being at least ten books, I'll have to look and let you know in future entries.  I've bought the first book in one of her Tir Alainn series as well, Pillars of the World because I'm so mystified by her writing.

Tolkien and Austen are both literary geniuses as well, though they aren't contemporary and might be something different for you to read because of this.  They are both fabulous and favorites of mine.  I think that it's important as readers and/or writers to experience both the new and the old that is offered to us in the vast world of literature.

Reading: "Seaborn" by Chris Howard and "Interview with the Vampire" by Anne Rice

Happy Anniversary Kevin <3