finished with The Turn of the Screw!

Okay, I'm officially finished with The Turn Of The Screw, and consequently started a new book: The Portrait of a Lady. [you go Henry James!]
I couldn't decide between that; Tale Of Two Cities by Dickens and Wuthering Heighs by Emily Bronte; but eventually opted for that one.
Note to make: I asked my dad for advice. And he was obviously trying to sound clever, and he was like: "Well, dear, Dickens is a classic." And I was like "Well, dead, they're ALL classics. Duh!" -__-'' seriously.


So, about The Turn of the Screw.
It was not what I expected.
I mean, when I was first introduced to it, I thought it would be a total gothic novel, with the ghosts hanging aroung the house and, truthfully, being scarier.
Instead, I found myself caught up in a psicological book-- James knew Freud through his brother, who was a philosopher. 
With this book he wanted to give us an example of how our mind can sometimes play tricks on her.
In fact, despite the fact that the kids seem to be hiding something from the governess, and that the ghosts she's seeing appear to be two people who worked in the mansion in the past and died later on, no one can see the wraiths but her.
That leads us to the natural question: Is she REALLY seeing ghosts? Or is it just her allucinating or something?
Plus, James leaves an 'open' ending.
I mean, some were left disappointed by it--others, like me, confused.
I guess the author wanted to leave us hanging; trying to understand if this was a real ghost story or a big, fat allucination of a governess.


What did I think of the book. Well, all in all I liked it.
Sure, I took me a while to get used to James' writing, but I guess that was just cause it was meant to be a governess speaking, so of course it wouldn't be that high writing-level some might expect.
However, the purpose of the book was interesting and I liked that.




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Going on softer grounds.
I hate Chimics. 
I really, really do.
True, I've only had one lesson of it so far, but TRUST ME, I hate it. :/
As for other subjects, I feel this year's going better.
I don't feel like studying, actually, but it's not too bad to do that, either.
Particularly, I'm loving Philosophy. It's just SO interesting. *-*
As for my German lessons, don't tell me.
My German teacher, sorry dude but it's true, is oh-so-disappointing.
We're doing NOTHING in class.
True, I've already attended a course when I was in middle school, so I already know the things we're doing, but truly, we're doing almost nothing. And if a student says that, that must be true.
It's frustrating.




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Did YOU guys know I'd like to do a year of study abroad?
Well, I do.
And I probably won't.
Problem? moooooooooooooooooooney. Who said they don't rule the world? Because that was a total moron.
Years abroad cost thousands and thousands of dollars, and I'm not sure I can afford that.
We'll see.
I'd SO love to go in the USA for a year, I absolutely love it. I love it, love it, love it.
But I can't put too much hope on that, so I'll just think as if I wasn't going, so it'll be easier if I actually don't. ;D


Well, I wanted to say something else but apparently forgot it, so I guess it was nothing important.


xdarkwriter

Story of a girl.

Okay, so the other day I was on one of my usual wandering on youtube, and found this AWESOME song.
No, awesome doesn't quite describe it.
You ever heard Absolutely [Story of a Girl] by Nine Days? I love it!
It's not exactly sad, not even really about love.
I think it's a little of both, and I love the result.
Here's the link, in case you want to check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO9QA3E7Udc&feature=player_embedded.

I also found some other cool songs:
Tonight Tonight by Hot Chelle Rae. --->  KNOW. It's just A song, but I like it! It cheers me up. haha (:
Wish You Well by Thousand Foot Krutch. --> Awesome, isn't it? I got lucky in this wandering. ;D
Why Does It Always Rain on Me by Travis. --> :'D
Smile by Uncle Kracker. --> Awwh.
AND!
I ended up on a Keane video, and how many memories!
I used to listen to their songs when I was little, and it felt so good to listen to them again.
This Is The Last Time, but more than anything: SOMEWHERE ONLY WE KNOW!
How could I have forgotten this amazing songs for so long?
It's like going back in time. We shouldn't be stuck in the past, but sometimes stopping for a minute and remembering is good.

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I'm continuing Anna Karenina!
But first.
Yesterday I was googling up the question 'How old is Anna Karenina?', because so far Leo Tolstoj hasn't mentioned it, and I was curious.
So. If you haven't read the book and want to, don't read the following lines.
I was scrolling down the results, and what do I see?! A link reading: "Anna's death in Anna Karenina. Anna commits suicide."
And while my face was a lot between this: http://www.google.it/imgres?q=noooooooooo!&um=1&hl=it&biw=1366&bih=677&tbm=isch&tbnid=uN9jz3Cd1vt8dM:&imgrefurl=http://kakuzu123.webs.com/apps/photos/photo%3Fphotoid%3D55558288&docid=Um6gTNSfIm0F0M&w=857&h=638&ei=Z-V9ToDpEcrLswbSqsUP&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=489&vpy=371&dur=130&hovh=194&hovw=260&tx=105&ty=188&page=10&tbnh=137&tbnw=175&start=174&ndsp=19&ved=1t:429,r:8,s:174

And this: http://www.google.it/imgres?q=noooooooooo!&um=1&hl=it&biw=1366&bih=677&tbm=isch&tbnid=Y_5YKUJK4MSYWM:&imgrefurl=http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/image/noooooooooojpg%3Fsize%3Dblock&docid=j9bvXWUuDPUIUM&w=250&h=244&ei=Z-V9ToDpEcrLswbSqsUP&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=941&vpy=237&dur=3884&hovh=195&hovw=200&tx=113&ty=178&page=1&tbnh=154&tbnw=170&start=0&ndsp=19&ved=1t:429,r:17,s:0

For spoiling the ending, I couldn't help a soft: WHAT THE FUCK???!??!?!?!?!??
Google just frreaking ruined the book!!!!!!
If it weren't that I can't live without it, I'd hate it.
Ugh.
Whatever.
I'm still reading.
At least google didn't "accidentally" tell me everything that happens in-between, so at least that's still a surprise.
I'm currently on chapter 16-or-something of the third part.
And as I said, I'm totally loving it.
Seriously, if the ending doesn't suck, it will probably become one of my favorite books.
And I'm STILL on The Turn of The Screw by Henry James, ha-ha.
I've been there for nearly a month now. >.<
And in the meantime I read something like ten or fifteen books.
I picked it up again after I finished Frankenstein, and right now I've read half of it, so hopefully I'll be finished in a few days, if I really put myself into it and limit my breaks. ha.

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What else?
Ah, school's boring.


See ya!
xx

School's started, and I'm reading.

School's started, and with that, studying, waking up early, and stress--generally speaking.


I've decided this year will be different.
I'm in eleventh grade on, which means things are getting pretty serious here, and either I get a move on, or things will turn out nasty.
And I don't want to repeat the year. Not even a second of my life will be wasted of school. u.u


So.
Now that I've made my "promise", I can go on talking about something more interesting.
I'm currently reading Frankenstein [Guess what? For school] and I'm really enjoying it. I already wanted to read it, and when my English teacher told me to, I was like whatever, I'm more than okay with that.
It's a really sad book.
I haven't finished it yet--I've got fifty pages left or something.
I hate how Frankenstein Junior is all alone in the world, with no one caring for him. I hope if someone like him will ever knock on my door, I'll recognize the same loneliness and need of love I now see in Frankenstein Junior and welcome him, because it's really awful to read things like that happening to a person. Being utterly alone in the world.




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Last night internet connection sucked, so I'm continuing this entry now.
It's 7.35 a.m. ATM and I--
NEVERMIND.
I'm back from school now.
So this entry takes place in three different times. Cool.
So, now that I'm almost finished with Frankenstein guess what else I've started reading? Anna Karenina.
Yeah. I'm still reading YA as in-betweens, but basically this is my current-reading.
And I'm so loving it.
Although the lenght of the whole book scares me a little, what with the whole eight parts, each divided in more than thirty chapters, and what with the pdf document telling me it's more thatn 1700 pages. But still.
I'm almost done with part one.
I've just been introduced to Anna in the story, and I already love her so far.
Sure, being she's a married woman and a mother and all, she shouldn't show interest for another man, who's even younger than her from what I perceive.
And it's a little sad for Kitty. But still, I love how she and Vronsky are somehow.. I wouldn't say "attracted", more.. "inexplicably linked"? No. What I mean is, they shouldn't feel what they feel, and they should look at each other how they do-- and they know it. But still, they can't help it.
How would you call that?
Plus, and I think it's my generation's fault, when I first read of Stepan betraying his wife I was TOTALLY sure he had had sex with the governess. And instead, later, I hear Dolly say he kissed the woman.
And I was like, what the hell, and you're mad for that?
But later I pondered the situation and guessed, for their epoque and anyway generally speaking--she was right at being angry and feeling like she felt.
On the other hand I was feeling said for poor Levin, who loves Kitty so much and yet found himself refused.
Although I understand Kitty's reasons, I felt a bit of sane revenge when Vronsky started staring at Anna instead of her.
So what, I can be a bitch sometimes.


So, these were my general opinions about the book so far-- Can't wait to go on with it, and I hope it doens't get boring or whatever.




Oh, and lately I've also read Blood Magic by Tessa Gratton, which was really cool, Touch of Frost from the Mythos Academy series by Jennifer Estep, which I loved [err, loved Logan Quinn is more like it] and can't wait to read the next one of the series, Spell Bound by some poor writer whose name's too complicated for me to remember, and a few other books you can look up on my goodreads account if you care.
[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/5153099-elena, in case you don't know it]




So, I guess I'll see you at my next entry.
Which, I promise--No, I'm not promising anything, I rather hope--will be more interesting than this.


xx darkwriter