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-Is an English Language major undergraduate who likes to Take It Easy.

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so on Thursday I had my club duties as usual and I...
those darn black & white trees

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Every Singaporean's library membership borrowing right is doubled every school holidays. So for me, being the geek that I am, excitedly maxed out mine and my mum's cards a week ago.



I got started with Angela Carter's Several Perceptions, seeing it was the thinnest of the lot. That anorexic-looking book deceived me so! the plot development is slow, while the language is kooky. It makes a frustrating though amusing read, and I'm determined to get through it.



Concurrently, I read the Christian thriller (to me) series, Soon. I had bought the first book at a sale, and it consisted of 3 parts, so I borrowed the last 2 from our local beloved library. I love the author. He writes extremely well, without being too complicated and made me inspire for a moment to be like him, to write books about the end of days with a Christian background. It's a bit like The Da Vinci Code, only less presumptuous, less controversial and more accessible. It felt like a shortened version of his other widely popular series, Left Behind. I would read through the whole series of left behind again, if I had time. The scenarios painted in these books could very well be real, that's why the immense popularity of this author's (Jerry Jenkins) works. In short, Soon and Left Behind are about how in the future, there will only in effect be one world government and how religion is banned, 'in the name of peace'. And how the majority of undergrounders are Christian believers, who eventually win the war, with a miracle and two from God. I believe in tribulation and such, and I wanna stress again, I believe that it will happen in my generation. Reading these books, I could only imagine, profoundly imagine what those days would be like. And I teared up gladly so many times while getting through the books.



On to a lighter note, I speed-read the two Soon books, and am now starting on Jane Austen's Mansfield Park and Lewis Carroll's Through the looking glass. I had watched the movie version of Mansfield Park starring Alessandro Nivola & Jonny Lee Miller (le sigh) a few years back and loved the story and the angsty hunks, not the movie (though I generally love period movies). So I borrowed the book. I didn't know it was written by Pride and Prejudice's author! I couldn't find Sense and Sensibility off the shelves, but gladly spotted Mansfield. I'm only into a few pages and lovelove it. How classic authors can write so well is beyond me. Thank God for authors of the past.



Lewis Carroll, another crazy bugger. A fantastic story-teller and master of wordplay. I just hope I don't have to rush through these books too much, considering I have to return them in about two weeks' time and that I'm off to Korea next week. Do you know, Lewis created Humpty Dumpty, Twiddle Dee and Dum, and a coupla poems such as these:

This is the opening verse of the prologue-ic poem of through the looking-glass:

Child of the pure unclouded brow
And dreaming eyes of wonder
Though time be fleet, and I and thou
Are half a life asunder,
Thy loving smile will surely hail
The love-gift of a fairy-tale. :D

I leave you to slowly enjoy what the words mean.

PS: The last verse is on the right column. Don't you just love poets??
PPS: The Echoing Green poem I gave you a glimpse of a few blog posts back and featured in Angela Carter's book, I found out was written by William Blake!! Ah! He is my new hero.