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10/10/2012 Wednesday
So today I finished reading Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. It turned out to be a really great book. In a certain sense it is prophetic in how we in today's culture try to eliminate all Unpleas...
9/10/2012 Tuesday
So today I continued reading Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Tomorrow I will finish it. I'm really starting to like that story. After a somewhat difficult period it has awakened my love of read...
8/10/2012 Monday
I feel really burned out. Reading is not going so good, I find myself to be unable to concentrate. I feel so very tired at times. I finally settled on Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Seemed eng...
7/10/2012 Sunday
So today I didn't feel any better. They are back, with lots of "loot" =). I think I should try and waste my time less and immerse myself with religion before it sleeps away like so many other t...
6/10/2012 Sunday
So today was... I woke up at like 5am or 4am then I went to bed again at around 7 or 8 and my head hurt all morning and I think I might be sick again because all I ate today was chips and a banan...
5/10/2012 Friday
So pretty much the first thing I did today was start making the cake. At times it did not go as smoothly as I had expected but then it never does when you are trying something new. So they left. ...
4/10/2012 Thursday
So today I finished reading The Last Innocent Man by Phillip Margolin. My previous suspicions about the real killers identity were true. Somewhat off putting because I kinda thought there would b...
3/10/2012 Wednesday
So today I continued reading The Last Innocent Man by Phillip Margolin. Now we are finally getting somewhere. What happened in the Part 2 was that we finally meet our innocent man. A lawyer name...
2/10/2012 Tuesday
So today I tried to continue reading American Gods but chapter 4 was extremely boring. The story was going nowhere so I checked some goodreads.com reviews. One said that the beginning was okay bu...
1/10/2012 Monday
So today I began reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman. So far it's interesting and somewhat good. Today I read the first three chapters. Right now we are in that early boring stage where characte...
30/9/2012 Sunday
So yesterday I went to bed at 9pm. Had really troubled sleep and eventually got up from the bed at 3am. I wasn't the only one who couldn't sleep. So Iveta left at 6am and got back at 7-ish with t...
29/9/2012 Saturday
So tomorrow we have a big day. Oma, Anya and Vilya will come to Riga to visit Peter. They will take the 3am bus and arrive at 6am-ish. I'm not joking they are really leaving that early. They will...
28/9/2012 Friday
So today I finished reading Macbeth after taking an embarrassingly long time to do it. This just sucks and things are just getting worse. How am I going to keep up my reading like this. Played M...
27/9/2012 Thursday
Felt very tired today. Still read, a bit, but not enough. I have no idea what is going on. Hopefully next month will be better for my reading. Feel so very physically tired but I have no idea why...
26/9/2012 Wednesday
So I began reading Macbeth today. I just really have to finish something before the spiral keeps going down. This month has not exactly been a success. I fear I may eventually come to fail at my ...
25/9/2012 Tuesday
Well today was another failure. Yet again I woke up too early and was too tired and then I tried to read Heart of Darkness and it was ugh... Now I just don't know what to do. It's all a mess and ...
24/9/2012 Monday
Yesterday I had plans, today they were all crushed. So they stayed up for so long and didn't let me sleep then woke really early and it was all just ugh... so I couldn't start reading Heart of Da...
23/9/2012 Sunday
Today I decided to quit reading The Portrait of a Lady. I know I said I kinda liked it but it's just too hard. Today I kinda wanted to read a bit but just the idea brought pain to me. So tomorrow...
22/9/2012 Saturday
So today I didn't read anything. I woke up rather early and decided to just play Sims 2 today so hopefully I can get it out of my system. Anyway hopefully tomorrow I'll be able to go back to read...
21/9/2012 Friday
So my reading of The Portrait of a Lady is not going so well. I'm really starting to grow against late 19th century and early 20th century English literature. A lot of books of this period are re...
20/9/2012 Thursday
Continued reading The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James. I just don't know what to say. On some level I really like it, it makes you want to read it. But there is also that heaviness and I keep r...
19/9/2012 Wednesday
So today I continued reading The Portrait of a Lady. Good book, though slow. But I wasn't really able to concentrate on my reading. Too preoccupied. Time seems to fly by. I should really try to d...
18/9/2012 Tuesday
Continued reading The Portrait of a Lady. But mostly just played SIms 2. Raising a child is hard but raising twins is hell on earth.
17/9/2012 Monday
So today I began reading The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James. The beginnings are always hard for me but so far I liked. It's a lot tell and little show so far but hopefully that will soon chang...
16/9/2012 Sunday
So today I, finally, finished re-reading The Lord of the Rings. The ending made me emotional. The book does have a lot of those moments where it's just people walking around and it's kind of bori...