The Reading Challenge Part Uno.

So I've been reading The Master by Colm Toibin. It's quite good! I really like the writing style; it's oddly formal, but at the same time strangely addicting. It's technically pop-fiction, but there are some passages that are really quite beautiful.

Here's a passage I enjoyed:
"He loved walking up and down the room, beginning a new sentence, letting it snake ahead, stopping it for a moment, adding a phrase, a brief pause, and then allowing the sentence to gallop to an elegant and fitting conclusion. He felt now that all of his working life had been leading up to this loud freedom, and after a few months he knew that he would not be able to return to pen and paper, to unmechanical solitude." ~pg 120

I'm renting The Master from Mr. Hill's library. If you're interested in reading the book, that's where to find it! (Once I'm done, of course.) :D
~xE_Ax

My Reading Challenge!

So I've decided to challenge myself in the next few weeks. My goal is to find 5 ordinary, teenage-directed, pop-fic books that have surprisingly spectacular diction in them. This whole idea started when I was reading The City of Bones by Cassandra Clay last year. I was simply blown away by the imagery that book had!

I mean really: the furniture emerges out of the murky depths of the spacious rooms “like icebergs through fog.” The greenhouse, with “glossy green shrubs” and plants with “petals medallioned with golden pollen”, gives off a “soapy” scent that hits Clary “soft as the padded blow of a cat’s paw.” The Manhattan skyline glimmers and “burns like cold jewels.”

That's amazing! And to think those quotes came from a simple "storybook" (as my mom calls popular fiction).
So over the next few weeks, I'm determined to find 5 ordinary books with not-so-ordinary diction. I'll keep you posted. Wish me luck! (:

~xE_Ax