Symbolism

I just started the book but on the first page of the first chapter they mention a tree called a laburnum which is in the artist, Basil Hallward's garden. All parts of the plant are poisonous and can be lethal if too much is consumed. i think that Oscar Wilde chose a firery and poisonous yet beautiful plant to symbolize how something can be so beautiful and mesmerising on the outside, almost unbearable, but on the inside its poisonous and can cause harm. Its also actually very common for people to put in gardens and this shows how people use things just for their outer beauty and put aside and ignore the actualy danger ans uselessness.

the Picture of Dorian Gray

Now i have started to read the book The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. I am only up to page 7 and think it is amazing. My mom bought me this book because she read it when she was my age and told me it was one of the best books shes ever read and believe me she has read TONS of books. This is part of the preface:

The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography.
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.
They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.
there is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

JINX

Today i started and finished the book Jinx by Margaret Wild. I actually borrowed this book from Tiffany and wasnt expecting that much from it but i really really like it. Its told through very short and simple but kind of poetic narratives and i absolutly love the story but i think the reason i liked it so much is because of the form and way it was written. The story is mainly about a girl named Jen who later renames herself Jinx because she believes that she is bad luck. The ending was not happy go lucky but it wasnt exactly sad and i think it was perfect. :)

hehe....

This book is simply amazing. Its very sarcastic and random but very smart and funny. Ive owned it for a while but never got around to reading it, im so glad that i am even though its very long i recommend it to everyone. think about it if you read it then you will understand all the very strangeposts il be making....xD IM FINISHED hehehe......

FoRtY tWo

42 IS
THE ANSWER TO LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING.

YOU CANNOT ARGUE WITH THIS LOGIC.

continuation....

"...Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now..."

one of my favorite parts....

"...Another thing that was forgotten was that against all probability a sperm whale had suddenly been called into existence several miles above the surface of an alien planet. And since this is not a anturally tenabble position for a whale, this poor innocent creature had very little time to come into terms with its identity as a whale before it then had to come to terms with it not being a whale anymore. This is a complete record of its thoughts from the moment it began its life till the moment it ended it.
Ah.....! What's happening? it thought.
Er, excuse me, who am I?
Hello?
Why am i here? Whats my purpose in life?
What do I mean by who am I?
Calm down get a grip now....oh! this is an interesting sensation, what is it? sort of...yawning, tingling sensation in my...my...well, I suppose I'd better start finding names for things if I want to make any Headway in what for the sake of what I shall call an argument I shall call the world, so lets call it my stomach. Good. Ooooh, it's getting quite strong. And hey, what about this whistling roaring sound going past what I'm suddenly going to call my head? Perhaps i can call that....wind! Is that a good name? It'll do...perhaps I can find a better name for it later when I've found out what it's for. it must be something very important beacause there certainly seems to be a hell of a lot of it. Hey! What's this thing? This...let's call it a tail--yeah, tail. Hey! I can really thrash it around pretty good, can't I? Wow! Wow! that feels great! Doesnn't seem to achieve much but I'll probably find out what it's for later on. Now, have I built up any coherent picture of things yet? No. never mind, hey, this is really exciting, so much to find out about, so much to look forward to, Im quite dizzy with anticipation... Or is it the wind? There really is a lot of that now, isn't there? And wow! Hey! What's that thing suddenly coming toward me very fast? Very, very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like...ow...uond....round.....ground! That's it! That's a good name--ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me?
And the rest, after a sudden wet thud, was silence...."

DONT PANIC

"...it has the words DON"T PANIC wrriten in big friendly letters on its cover..."

"...more popular than the Celestial Home Care Omnibus, better selling than Fifty-three More Things to Do in Zero Gravity, and more controversial than Oolon Coluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters, Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes and Who Is This God Person Anyway?...."

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

For the independant reading project I chose to read the Hitchhiker's Guild to the Galaxy. I chose to read this book because i know parts of the story and it really interests me. Also I love science fiction and ive been planning to read this book anyway. The author is Douglas Adams, he claimed that the title came from a 1971 incident while he was hitch-hiking around Europe as a young man with a copy of the Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe book, and while lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck with a copy of the book and looking up at the stars, thought it would be a good idea for someone to write a hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy as well. The Hitchiker's Guid to the Glaxy is only one book but i plan on reading the entire series which in total is 815 pages. If i read 100 pages a week, it will take me 8 weeks.