Thank. You. Jesus.
Finally done with the project as of this post! So now I just gotta do recap...stuff.
So first, experiences with the project:
It was boring pretty much all the way through. Only two of the books I read were good, the others failed to pique my interest really. It was easy for the most part with the posts; I just lacked enthusiasm since the start.
Second, my future with books:
I really doubt I'm gonna read any more than I did before starting the project, as this didn't spark any far-forgotten love I had for cracking a book open. If anything, it draws me more to writing, since then I won't have to make a strive to find something I actually want on paper.
Third, my accomplishments:
I really wouldn't call them accomplishments, moreover as....uh, feats of a low scale. Over the last weeks, I have read:
- The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
- Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
- Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins (the most disappointing book of the project)
- Skinny - Ibi Kaslik
- Magyk - Angie Sage
My time for this week: 1 hour (roughly, wasn't really counting. probably more than that)
Total Time For Project: 41hrs, 22min
Fin
Okay so this week (almost done! YAY!) we're supposed to say how we stood with reading before the project.
I never liked to read. My taste for opening a book diminished around fifth grade or so when I took up writing. At that point, it became my English-based pasttime of which I still prefer to this day.
So...yeah. I didn't like reading before....don't like it much now. I think that explains it pretty well.
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Time Read This Week: 1hr 30min
Total Time Read: 40hrs, 22min
Total Books Read: 4
Words of the great Sheldon Cooper. ...
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Bazinga.
Aaanyway, this week I'm supposed to make two inferences about the plot/characters. Since I've read this book once before, this'll be simple.
1- Boy 412 is really Silas's lost son, Septimus.
2- Simon, the oldest of the Heap children, who has seemingly gone missing, has actually turned to the dark side.
...bazinga.
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Time Read This Week: 3hrs
Total Time: 38hrs, 52min
Books completed: 4
...Good, because I'm throwing you into this post, you poor excuse for actors.
As you may assume, this week's post is to come up with an original cast for the book I'm reading. My book, Magyk, is very, very difficult, since lots of the characters look very similar.
But despite this, I'll try. Shouldn't be that hard to find a bunch of suitable blond actors.
Silas Heap - (Owen Wilson)
The father of seven boys and a Wizard.
Note: Owen deserves to be in movies. He's amazing on the silver screen.
Jenna Heap - (Mackenzie Foy)
The Heap's adopted daughter. She has black hair in the book, but I chose her for her face.
Septimus Heap - (Dakota Goyo)
The protagonist, the youngest son. Goyo pretty much is how I picture Septimus to look like. I like his hair. :)
Marcia Overstrand - (Jamie Lee Curtis)
One of the main characters. Curtis's personality seems like a good choice to play Marcia, personality-wise. I see her being able to fit the role really well.
Simon Heap - (William Moseley)
The oldest of the Heap children. I picked Moseley, 1) because his appearance is fitting, and 2) he needs an awesome role like Simon's.
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And just for kicks, as I hate the Hunger Games' actor casting, instead Liam Hemsworth playing Gale Hawthorne (the biggest sin to ever come upon that movie), I have a deep belief that he should have been played by Skandar Keynes:
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Time Read This Week: 30min
Total Time Read: 35hrs, 52min
Total Books Read: 4
That is the question.
Suprise to most, I did indeed read. Originally, I figured I was probably gonna read a chapter in Magyk and pretty much call it good enough, as it was pretty hard to stick my head into a book on the DC trip, since there was enough going on just being on the coach, but apparently that didn't happen.
The reason why:
There was a Barnes And Noble in Baltimore.
I BOUGHT a book.
I READ the book.
...That is a feat in itself right there.
Anyway, the book I read is a NYT bestseller called Skinny by Ibi Kaslik. It was a very intense book about this college girl, Giselle, and her teenage track star sister, Holly, and their perspectives that alternate with each chapter.
Pretty much Giselle, despite being in medical school to be a doctor and is, like...super smart and knowledgable in the medical field, she's anorexic. She always has mental battles with herself that are highly self-destructing that were caused by her dead father, who pretty much hated her when she was a child because he didn't accept her for who she was, and the anorexia is her way of trying to seek acceptance.
Holly, on the other hand, despite being really close with their father, is going through mental turmoil as well. She's a very rebellious child that believes she can see their father's ghost as ways to cope wih her sister's mental and physical deterioration.
Simply put, after a ton of events, Giselle eventually goes to the hospital, getting to a point where she weighs seventy-eight pounds, she escapes from the hospital, Holly finds her and takes her back to the hospital, and Giselle dies anyway.
...Great story.
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Time Read over Break: 4hrs, 52min
Total Time Read: 35 hrs, 22min
Total Books Read: 4
Allllrighty! Thank you Jesus that we're almost done with this project! Soon I'll be able to go back to my ways of pretending I'm well-educated in creative writing. Woot!
Sooo this week the topic is to explain whether or not your current story lived up to original expectation before beginning it.
And actually I'd have to say, "Si, si!" I read Magyk several years ago, but I didn't remember much about it, so it's fair game from my perspective, and honestly, I remember it sucking more than it does this time around.
I think it's because I've gained an appreciation for the type of writing that Angie Sage uses. She has a real talent of getting into the characters' perspectives, sometimes in ways that are kinda humorous, but when the times occur, can still present seriousness that is necessary.
The characters are very well-balanced and they complete each other very nicely. Sage is very good with animating the characters, and their personalities and dialogue are highly believeable in the presented situations.
And plus, it's obviously gotta be good because apparently movies are gonna be made for the series. Those should be interesting. :3
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Time Read This Week: 2hrs, 30min
Total Time Read: 30hrs, 20min
Total Books Read: 3 (still)
Okay, this week is to describe your antagonist in your story. I'm at a point in Magyk that I'm sorta in between antagonists, where there's kinda a flat part for the next bit. So I'll describe The Hunter, who isn't dead yet, but just temporary out of the picture. Not much can really be said about him, however, so this post, too, will be short.
He seems like a very intimidating dude, not someone you'd wanna meet in a dark alleyway. No background or anything is given about him, but he's obviously insanely unmerciful and willing to kill anyone without hesitation.
...And he probably doesn't have too many friends.
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Time Read This Week: 1hr, 15min
Total Time Read: 27hrs, 50min
Total Books Read: 3
