So I went ahead and tortured myself with Twilight, and I think it may have helped, but I’m not done yet.
I’ve got about an hour before the NASA Live Stream I’m waiting on, so I’m going to read that draft of Twilight from Edward’s POV (Midnight Sun, I think it’s called) just for a laugh.
I feel like it’s going to be really, really emo. Wish me luck!
My rating: 1 of 5 stars
Oooooh man it was soooo bad. But I had some beers and managed to find it Funny Bad instead of Painful Bad.
Lee is 60% done
OOOOOOH MYYYYY GOOOOOOD! This bitch literally just swooned!
And then she’s like “you…made…me…faint” UM OK I JUST CRINGED SO HARD I HURT MY FACE
Lee is 25% done
Of all the annoying things in this book, I am unreasonably bugged by the fact that Bella apparently doesn’t know how to download some sort of ad blocker…
Sometimes I’ll be at work or a party and get that same feeling. I am not like these people. I don’t know what I’m doing here.
– Anna Kendrick, Scrappy Little Nobody, page xx
Version:
Hardcover, 275 pages
Published November 15th 2016 by Touchstone Books
I can do this, I lied to myself feebly. No on was going to bite me.
– Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
I’ve been stuck in the middle (not even the middle, like 20%) of Empire of Storms for weeks now. I’ve actually read like 4 other books since I got stuck… Which is good, because if I stop reading entirely while I’m stuck I’ll wind up in a full-on slump, but I’m getting really frustrated since I’ve been trying to finish the Throne of Glass series for literal years…
So basically I’ve been thinking about torturing myself.
Sometimes when I’m stuck for things to watch I will watch something really comically bad to sort of reset my brain. And I thought maybe I should try applying the same technique here.
Which brings me to the method of torture: Twilight
I’m not sure I’d even be able to get through one of them because of the cringe factor, but if it works like tv/movies then it might reset my brain and let me get back into Empire of Storms. (Mostly because I would appreciate that it wasn’t Twilight…)
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?
First Lines:
The Austrian horses glinted in the moonlight, their riders standing tall in the saddle, swords raised. Behind them two ranks of diesel-powered walking machines stood ready to fire, cannon aimed over the heads of the cavalry.
Interested? Scroll down for the cover and summary!
Prince Aleksander, would-be heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, is on the run. His own people have turned on him. His title is worthless. All he has is a battletorn war machine and a loyal crew of men.
Deryn Sharp is a commoner, disguised as a boy in the British Air Service. She’s a brilliant airman. But her secret is in constant danger of being discovered.
With World War I brewing, Alek and Deryn’s paths cross in the most unexpected way…taking them on a fantastical, around-the-world adventure that will change both their lives forever.
Except when I was born. My god, I was so fat. I almost killed my mother. And while that’s gross, it’s completely true. If we lived in a time before cesarean sections, she wouldn’t have survived. (I would also like to thank cesarean sections for sparing me the mental anguish of knowing I once passed through my mother’s vaginal canal.)
– Anna Kendrick, Scrappy Little Nobody, page xvii
Version:
Hardcover, 275 pages
Published November 15th 2016 by Touchstone Books
That night, I resolved to keep the crazy inside my head where it belonged. Forever. But here’s the thing about crazy: It. Wants. Out.
– Anna Kendrick, Scrappy Little Nobody, page xii
Version:
Hardcover, 275 pages
Published November 15th 2016 by Touchstone Books
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