The BFG, Laura Day and OZ

I haven't been postign a lot, but I have been reading. Rather than do a bunch of seperate posts I'll just summarize.

I finally read the BFG by Roald Dahl. So many people ohh and ahh over this book and somehow I missed this book when I was growing up. I had bought it for my 9 year old to read and thought this would be the perfect time for me to read it too. Two hours later and I don't see what the big deal is. It's a cute story, but I think I missed the magic by reading it at age 34 instead of 8. Reading it as an adult I loved the way Dahl makes the BFG talk. It was ingenious. Only a linguist could have come up with his perfect giant dialect. The only onther thing I want to point out that is a bit nitpicky is if the giant is so opposed to giants eating people and even touches on Sophie eating pigs and calls her out on it, then why does he eat eggs and bacon at the end? I would have figured him for a vegetarian.

I read a book on intuition by Laura Day. I didn't figure this book was really worth a review. This is a book I would classify as 'common sense'. We all have intuition and some of us listen to the hints we are given and some of us don't. What  I didn't buy was looking for signs and symbols in everything we do. I don't think we should seek out those signs. If they aren't obvious then they aren't real signs as far as I'm concerned.

Best book these past few weeks has been Finding OZ. It's a biography of sorts of Frank Baum. It is absolutely fascinating. It combines history, political and social, and just a really great biography with an everyman story. I haven't quite finished it yet. I'm really into it and he hasn't even started to write the book yet. I'll keep you posted.

Writing has been slow going. I just about decided that I was going to give up on trying to write since all it seems to do is make me feel guilty for not producing more. I was going to try and focus all of my attention on one of my other businesses. That was until I got the NaNoWriMo e-mail appeared in my box and then a friend mentioned it again on FB. I am tempted. It officially starts on Sunday so I have until then to decide. It would be fun and I know I would finally get a chunk down on paper, but we'll see. My other business really needs some desperate attention and if I start writing furiously next month that business will get set on the back burner until probably January. Not necessarily a good idea. I guess I'll just see how I feel on Sunday and roll with it.