Erg, this is nerve-wracking. Writing for an audience. Without, currently, anything to say. Only a small idea:
Writing about books. New books.
I was going to say literature, but the definitions of what is and what isn't literature have been debated enough elsewhere (English professors, book burners, 4chan's /lit/ board) that I feel like one can make his own decision on what is or what isn't good (I guess that's the implication of the word "literature", eh? That it's somehow worthwhile to read and not utter shit). I tend towards the view that anything that has multiple chapters is, for better or worse, literature. But I may eat those words.
This blog is inspired by an upcoming event: An Evening with Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer. Well, slightly. One of my good friends is quite the fan of the duo, and I've always been keen on Gaiman as a short story master, but I got to thinking that, well, other than Mr. Gaiman and Ms. Rowling, "modern" literature is something that goes a bit over my head. I know nothing of it.
(You'll find out, quite quickly, I really know nothing about a great deal).
And so I ask you to come along this journey with me. Now that I'm out of the bubble of school, I've found I can't get my hands on enough novels. I've actually read a substantial amount in only a couple of weeks. I don't think I've ever read any more in the same period of time. But for every "modern" book (I'm thinking within the last decade or so*) I read, I'll hope to post a little bit of information regarding what it was about, whether or not I found it a good read (and the dreaded why), and various other tidbits that possessed my brain in connection with it.
The first "real" post might not be up for a spell. I'm currently at the other end of the spectrum of the novel, reading Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Modern? It was one of the first novels ever published.
(And it shows. God, Defoe can't stop using commas.)
Until then, adieu.
*I'll probably be very relaxed in keeping up with this. Perhaps I should only require that the author of the title still be alive.
