Delirious…

So, finally I’m participating in another blogchain from Absolute Write. No theme this time, just always picking something from the previous poster, so far there has been talking about climate change, wether or not global warming is really happening and then there was lots about wasting paper. I could probably also spend an entire post talking about my company wasting paper, it seems that this is a common problem. Sometimes I’m wondering if I could get rich if I were the paper provider for my company, I really think I could. At other times I wonder how many trees have passed through my hands while working there.

The last author in the chain was Benjamin Solah and he mentioned wasting water and also the financial crisis.

In Switzerland the financial crisis didn’t have that much of an impact. Of course the banks are having some troubles, lots of money was lost but the common people are not (yet) the ones that are suffering.

Still as an author I’m always trying to imagine the worst case scenarios, I love worst case scenarios.

So, if our banks crash then Switzerland being rich will be in the past. How to deal with the unemployment rate? It has been very low for years, the government isn’t prepared to deal with the crisis. The country’s economy crashes along with the banks. Desperate they will end up using all holdings of gold we have left. Europe won’t want to help us as suddenly we’re not an attractive business partner anymore.

And in the end, poverty always leads to desperation. Desperation leads to religion. Desperation and religion mixed together leads to fanaticism and fanaticism usually leads to war.

Yes, I love imagining worst case scenarios. I just hope it’s also a very unlikely scenario.

The next author in the chain is: Rosemerry

The rest of the chain:

• Razib Ahmed: Hobby Economist
• Fokker Aeroplanbau: I’m Always Right, Far Right
• Bettielee: Far Seeing Fairy Tales
• Bsolah: Benjamin Solah, Marxist Horror Writer
• Forbidden Snowflake: Delirious
• Rosemerry: Beyond Tourism: Florida’s Yesteryear
• Dnic: Four-Lettered Words
• Lady Cat: Random Writerly Thoughts
• Truelyana: Expressive World
• Tika: Tika Newman
• Bill Ward: BillWardWriter.com
• dancingandflying: Made of Carbon

I noticed that I’m only on my sixth book this year. Considering it’s also the sixth month this is pretty bad. The fourth book was The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

It is a stunning piece full of heartbreaking beauty. It is set in the post-apocalyptic world of an unending nuclear winter. The story is about a nameless man and his young son, wandering through a cold and dark world, where the snow is gray. They’re moving south toward the coast. Nothing grows in this world and people have to turn into cannibals to survive. We don’t know what happened, if it was a nuclear war or an asteroid or some other major event. The author never tells us but it does not matter anyway. The world is dead. The mother committed suicide, unable to deal with this life and the boy grows up seeing things a child should have never seen.

McCarthy tells this in a raw, unemotional, cold and most of all minimalistic way and it’s this simple storytelling that gets your heart to freeze.

Despite everything the son is open, friendly, trying to understand while his father is bitter and only cares about his son. In the end there’s a ray of hope which makes this book one of the best I’ve ever read.

Already the first sentence showed me that I would totally adore this book: The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit. I simply could not resist this sentence, it made me laugh and with that Westerfeld already had me.

It’s a book where everybody wants to turn pretty. And they all can do so when they’re sixteen. All the uglies wait for that one birthday and all the pretties spend their lives partying. Tally can’t wait for that moment, only a few weeks away. But then she meets a new friend, Shay, this one girl is not too sure about becoming pretty. She rather risks her life on the outside. When Shay runs away Tally has to make a few decisions that could alter her life forever, especially when she may never get the chance to turn pretty unless she betrays her friend. Also, is the prettiness really so pretty?

Westerfeld’s writing is simply intriguing and his imagination is brilliant. Again this is not a typical young adult book, it criticizes modern society and gets you to think about many things that seem pretty simple to us. He shows that looking and being like everybody else isn’t necessarily a good thing and that it’s the imperfections that make people special.

It’s a very easy read, which is good as my attention span seems to be pretty short at the moment. The plot moves forward at a good pace and the characters are skillfully developped.

Need to get my hands onto the second book, right about now.

www.scriptfrenzy.org

It starts in a few days. Meaning April the first and it will last until the last day of April and the goal is to write a 100 page movie script.

It’s fun!

This is my second book that I’ve read in 2009, I’m so behind with wanting to read at least a book per week, because I read a book a month right now. How bad. We need to get better with that.

Now about Peeps.

Well-written, creepy, great plot. Vampirism was adressed in a new and original way. Every symptom, from photosensitivity to cruciphobia, was discussed in terms that were not only internally consistent, but perfectly plausible.

My doctor friends are not allowed to talk about parasites to me. Well, that’s over now, after this book I’ve met the worst parasites you could possibly learn about.

This isn’t only for the young ones, it’s a book for adults too. Full of humor, full of brilliant writing. And everyone who is sick of the romantic vampires that are walking around the publishing world will love this.

Happy writing!

Don’t forget to sign up!

Write a novel in a month. During november. And feel good about yourself!

www.nanowrimo.org

Tags: Nanowrimo

Colbymarshall really made it easy for me in this blogchain blogging about Twilight, as I’ve just finished reading the book.
I love Vampire Novels.
I’ve read tons of Christine Feehan books about Vampires falling in love with their true mate and overcoming all obstacles and the manly machos and the strength and the darkness and the brooding that already Angel displayed so well on screen.
So, it was a logic thing for me to do, when I finally picked up Twilight a week ago.
Now, let’s first talk about the writing, shall we?
Someone explain me how this got published. How this got looked at by an editor and how this got such a bloody advance and a three book deal?
How?
Her writing is full of telling. Showing’s not her favourite thing to do.
And then there’s adverbs. And adverbs and adverbs and then there’s some more adverbs.
And still I loved it.
The story was awesome.
Bella a girl written in a way that every woman can relate (younger ones of course).
And Edward so beautiful and dark and brooding.
I’ve got me the rest of the books. Probably her writing will have improved and I will hopefully have a blost with those too.

Now putting this aside, I also want to answer the question of colbymarshall, what book, tv or movie success suprised me.

Well, Married with Children. What the hell is funny about THAT?

Next up is mada.

Check out the others:
Spittin’ (out words) Like a Llama
Delirious
For the First Time
Life in Scribbletown
A Blog, I Has One
Peregrinas
SouthAsiaFair
the mommy writer
Return Engagement
Neither Here nor There
Polenth’s Quill
Emily Veinglory
Blog in a Suitcase

Tags: Blogchain, Absolute Write

Motivate me to start writing again.
I need to.
I want to.
And I should.
I shall overcome my summer lazyness.

Tags: Writing

There are new pictures of my Miniature Australian Shepherd here.