I honestly feel like I should be five years old at the moment, waiting for Christmas morning or my birthday. I can't wait for the movie tonight! (A small part of this is probably because I can't wait to sit in an air-conditioned room and be COLD!) In any case, this has a whole lot to do with me lacking most forms of entertainment in my life, but oh well.
In other news, I've been reading a LOT lately. And not just for class--imagine that! But I must, must blog about the book I finished the other night that I just adored: A CERTAIN SLANT OF LIGHT by Laura Whitcomb. Honestly, I can't think about it without getting chills. It was just plain Awesome! (How's that for descriptive??) Anyhow, if you haven't read it, go check it out! (Okay, I should add the little point in here that this book is YA, but the characters are adults--old ghosts really--so there's some adult content, which I kinda, um, loved, but some people might not...)
One of my favorite things in this book is how Whitcomb makes the characters sound "old," as in from another era. I've played with this a lot with my characters in particular, however mine have been living in the world trying to blend in, so they try to loose the older-era feeling. Not all the characters though, so I've been really trying to nail down what she does to make this part of the story perfect. Ahhh, I just bask in its glory! (That sounds strange. But I do. :)
Her next book THE FETCH is waiting for me at the library and I know what I'll be doing this weekend :-)
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