Mare’s Soul

I recently finished reading Playing for Pizza by John Grisham and am in love with Italy. The food sounds amazing, the driving sounds difficult. I have never in my life driven a manual car, so I think if I ever visited Italy, I’ll be leasing a scooter. The book is about a third-string quarterback (which I’ve learned means the back-up’s back-up quarterback) who played the worst performance in NFL history. The only football team who wants him is in Parma, Italy and he doesn’t even know where that is. Though I got a little lost during descriptions of the football games (I am not a football americano fan) I still found it quite humorous and fun to read.

For those of you who don’t know, I am obsessed with the drama, Lost. I missed last season because of school and work, but thankfully my dad rented the season last weekish! Not thankfully, he made sure that I had every single episode from last season and this season watched by last Sunday. I don’t think I’ve ever felt so lazy in my entire existence. It was just way too much television, but I’m absolutely pumped up about the next episode! I somehow missed all the hubbub on last season’s season finale (how, I’m not sure) so it came as a total shocker to me. Those writers are on a roll and I’d like to give each of them a high-five or a hug. Then I would demand to know what is going on and where in the world are they taking the series. With all the character deaths and plot twists, it’s a wonder how I survive each week.

Errgh! I finished Twilight a couple hours ago and I’m quite happy. That book is just so amazing. The trials that a relationship between a human and vampire have are just astounding. I don’t think my emotions (or my heart rate) have been so affected by a novel. Edward and Bella’s relationship is just so beautiful to watch that I begin to involuntarily smile. This usually happens when I’m reading an uber cute manga (e.g. Fruits Basket, Lovely Complex), but it just so happens that Twilight is the very first novel (I think) to have accomplished that very feat.

However, I’m now feeling frustrated and anxious and I don’t think I can start writing the next chapter of Zincian Legend: The Chosen if I don’t vent. So be warned, about 95% or more of the rest of this post will be venting.

So, I was at the mall today hoping to buy New Moon knowing that I was going to finish reading Twilight by tonight. I was not expecting that both of the bookstores in town were, le gasp, OUT OF STOCK! I know for a fact that two weeks ago they had New Moon in stock. So why now? So I found that to be quite frustrating. I did, however, order it at B. Dalton (even though I hate that store) and was told it would take a week to come in. However, my father happily reminded (probably to get me out of my shocked, depressed state) that we could go to the nearby city to check if their bigger and better bookstores had it in stock. The problem: we’re going in the morning tomorrow. And that would be the reason of my anxiety. Can’t tomorrow come sooner? I could sleep, but even though I’m tired, I don’t think I’m capable of sleep. It’s almost like the same anxiety one gets the night before the first day of school that makes sleep impossible to find. I did, however, buy Eclipse, the third installment to the series today because my friend was joking to me that when I went to get New Moon today (like me, she thought I was definitely getting the book… ) that they would magically be out of stock of the last book tomorrow (which was probably when I’d finish the second book anyway… So out of precaution, I went ahead and bought it.

*sigh* My friend is coming over tomorrow, which is exciting. We share a lot interests (could she be my sister from another mother?) and we haven’t seen each other in a while because she attends college now. I believe we’ll be playing Disney Scene It? and I’ve already recruited my brother because it’s soooo much more fun to play it in a group rather than two people. She’s quite educated in Disney just like me, so she won’t be sitting there like my poor dad was when me and my brother recruited him. I felt so bad because he didn’t know any of the answers except one or two!!

Now that I’m calm again, I think I’ll run off and start on that new chapter. My novel-in-the-making is still quite rough, but I think the first quarter of it or so is actually…dare I say it? Publishable. Time will tell how the rest of it looks…

It took awhile (roughly 4 years) but I have finally done it. I have spent about (and the keyword is about) $1,000 on manga as of today. That’s right, I have finally bought the coveted 100th manga in my collection. What better manga to earn that right than Fruits Basket volume 19? If it weren’t for Fruits Basket, I may never have found manga to be so addicting in the first place.

I think the picture quality is good enough to tell what most of the series I have are, but for those of you who can’t make it out I’ll list the series! (That and the fact I have no life )

1. Ragnarok 1-10
2. Fruits Basket 1-19
3. The Legend of Chun Hyang (one shot)
4. The Wallflower 1-12
5. Angel Diary 1-5
6. Fullmetal Alchemist 1-15
7. Princess Ai 1-3
8. Mar 1-10
9. Nana 1-9
10. Vampire Knight 1-3
11. Death Note 1-4
12. Lovely Complex 1-5
13. Line (one shot)
14. Welcome to the N.H.K. 1-3

Most of them are exceptional titles. Mar is a bit too kiddish for my tastes, and The Wallflower has deteriorated into a gag manga. But everything else is fair game for anyone looking for a brand new title to read. Thought I must warn you that parental advisory notices are on Nana and Welcome to the N.H.K. due to the nature of their stories and some scenes may not be suitable for younger audiences.

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