speak

[spankerella]

Has anyone else ever read "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson? I think that book just ate my brain. They made a movie about it recently that showed simultaneously on Lifetime and Showtime. I watched it by accident. I liked it. A lot. But the movie... while I liked it and it *DID* get me interested enough to read the book... the movie is NOTHING to the book. Which is usually the case, but FOR REAL here, yo. I can't even... so many things. It's funny, true, dark, twisted, and has echoes of "Catcher in the Rye" to it in a way.

The irony here... The book is called "Speak". It definitely just talked to me. I love when I find new books to cherish, but it always messes me up a little. Especially when I get so heavy in that I don't stop until I'm done. I just bought the damned thing today. My head's too full now.

I have a plastic ziplock tub of sugar cookies that I'm slowly eating my way through, and I'm realizing suddenly that maybe I'm not who I thought I was. And I'm ok with that. Might be it's time for another one of those spiritual journeys I take every so often. Cool.

And maybe, just maybe, I'm going to the heart of my darkness for NaNoWriMo. Because maybe it's time I did.

"They weren't cows inside. They were waiting to be, but they forgot. Now they see the sky, and they remember what they are."

Comments

[spankerella.livejournal.com]

And I just screened your post in case people don't want to be spoiled.

[applecede.livejournal.com]

My bad. It was unintentional :P

[dream-mancer.livejournal.com]

I'm looking forward to your NaNo novel. I remember last year's and I can't wait (well, yes, I can) for November to start. I'm still trying to decide between writing chick lit or a dark fantasy. My inner me is dying to get the dark fantasy out, but the chick lit would be easier to write in the time span.

[chocolatemuse.livejournal.com]

Yes, actually I just read it this past summer at the behest of one of my best friends. I know what you mean by its compelling-ingness. ANd the great irony of it. ANd now that you've mentioned it, it does have a very Catcher in the Rye feel to it.

[phaerye.livejournal.com]

There's a movie?

Because I must say, I definitely loved that book. A lot.

[bookworn80.livejournal.com]

well i just saw the movie on showtime two nights ago and didn't really know who the author of the book was and after i read your meme it made me really want to read the book because i thought the movie was great. so since i work at a bookstore i checked to see if we had it and we did so i am buying it today w/employee discount. so yeah