A twenty-something thirty-year-old Hawaii transplant living it up on the East Coast for the past 10 years (Boston and Stamford, CT). This blog is to document my daily adventures and things that I find cool, uncool, hilarious, awe-inspiring, and annoying. Please feel free to email me at hawaiigurlinct@gmail.com.
July 21, 2010
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July 16th -
I picked up Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Read: downloaded free copy with my iBooks App) to read since I recently started to follow (and therefore joined?) The Lost Book Club blog. It’s an awesome idea for the Lost-fanatic book lovers out there as we are reading through the books that came up in Lost. I had to give an oral presentation on this book in elementary school. Since I never actually read the book (this seems to have been a trend) I ended up standing in front of the class and giving my book report based on the Walt Disney cartoon version. Now I can finally see just how bad my book report was.
July 17th -
Things are looking good in terms of my book report - there was a white rabbit. And a Cheshire cat. And a smoking caterpillar. And a queen of hearts. Phew.
Meanwhile, I’ve had three 45 minute train rides so far and I’m not even halfway done with this 66 page book. Can you say b-o-r-i-n-g! I guess it’s not fair to compare a children’s book to the last book I read but still.
July 18th (Morning) -
Oh hallelujah! I’m done. Turns out it was only 52 pages long. And yet that took me all weekend. So sad. I really hate Alice by the way. She is so very annoying.
July 18th (Evening) -
Dammit dammit dammit. There’s two?! I also have to read Through the Looking Glass. (Ryan isn’t understanding the “have to” part of my problem and keeps pointing out that it’s just “some blog” I found last week. Not the point Ryan. Not the point.) At least that book is free too. Thank you iBook.
July 19th –
Done and done. Review? Looking Glass wasn’t as bad as Alice’s Adventures as there was almost sort of a story line. Still, I don’t get why it’s such a wonderfully acclaimed book. Sure the imagination of Lewis Carroll was amazing, but it was so disjointed I couldn’t stay engaged for more than a minute.
Oh, and I am pretty sure that my book report was on Through the Looking Glass, which sucks as there was no white rabbit. No queen of hearts. And no smoking caterpillar. I knew my teacher gave me an I-know-you-didn’t-read-the-book kind of look after I was done. Darn.
