This is a little corner of the world for exchanging ideas, painting a picturescape,
and spreading the love for good books and reading.
The Exchange is managed by Hanna and Kubi.
Hanna's reading list: 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013
Kubi's reading list: 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013
30-Day Book and Literature Challenge
30-Day Book and Literature Challenge Part Deux
Year-End Lists of Favorite Reads
Library Catalogue:
Stories of Exploration and of Staying at Home
Stories of Cabbages and Kings
Tales of Wallflowers and Monsters Under the Bed
Stories of Mystery, Fury, and Dismay
Tales of Furniture and Geometry
Tales of the Fantastic, and the Equally Mad
Leave us a line to the moon?
NOTE: Please click the photos for captions.
I am re-reading The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks because it has been a rather tumultuous week and I just want something light and funny and awesome. Also, Frankie is a superhero.
I am re-reading Twelfth Night because we have to do our own abridged version of the play for Shakespeare class next week.
This was a post by Hanna, who is multitasking. She is currently alternating between these two books while listening to music and the light tapping of the rain on the roof.
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This was a post by Hanna. If this was posted a few days ago, particularly on the tenth of January, she would have said that this was the book she’s currently reading. Alas, it is the thirteenth.
E. Lockhart knows right where the funny is.
I have never read any Lockhart before but when I saw the bright pink cover among other dusty gems in a secondhand book shop and I read John Green’s comment about the book right at the top, I knew I had to get it. So I did. And I devoured it in minutes.
Fly on the Wall tells the story of a young girl named Gretchen Yee, who studies art, reads comic books, has a crush on a boy named Titus, and struggles to stand out in a place where weird is the norm and everybody wants to be different and unique. One day, she randomly spews out that she wishes to become a fly on the wall of the boys’ locker room and ends up regretting it the next day. (Of course, this only lasts until she realizes that being stuck in a boys’ locker room means that she gets to see naked boys all day.)
This is a slim volume that is filled with Gretchen’s word vomit, daydreams, cynical thoughts about boys and school and her parents, happy thoughts about boys’ anatomy and Titus, and details about what’s actually going on inside a boys’ locker room.
The author does not dwell on the science of how one becomes a fly. Instead, she puts the focus on more important issues such as divorce, sexism, discrimination, bullying, and realizing one’s own sense of identity and individuality. She delivers her sentences with a punch and writes a beautiful and satisfying end to the story.
This was a post by Hanna, who has bangs, a grumbling tummy, and a toothache.
Today I’ve decided to do some light reading because:
E. Lockhart’s Fly on the Wall was the perfect happy potion and I know I’m supposed to be studying at the moment but damn it, this book is too good to put down.
This was a post by Hanna, who has been thinking about steamed dumplings all day.
