I am currently avoiding doing uni work. It's pretty easy to tell periods of high stress for me, because I take to blogging regularly as a means of control (or something like that).
Anyway, today's avoidance included a bit of retail therapy, during which I purchased 3 books:
Clarice Lispector's The Hour of the Star - it's a book for my final Modern World Literature essay, but it looks good, so I will count it.
Melina Marchetta's new book Finnikin of the Rock - she is a good writer, and this is a fantasy novel, so I live in hope
John Marsden's Hamlet - a novel, set in present day (I think, based on the first couple of chapters) which is a retelling of Shakespeare's classic play. I am excited about it for 3 rather simplistic reasons - 1, I love the play, and I think that it's one of the best Shakespeares (alongside Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth); 2, I love John Marsden; 3, it has an awesome cover.
So there are some more books to read, simply adding to the pile of things not-uni-work that I would rather be doing.
I also got a copy of Neil Gaiman's new book The Graveyard Book, put aside when it eventually gets released over here in Oz.
Blake.
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