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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."
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."
