Chasing Sheep

Hello, I'm Angela. I shoot, I read, I write, I list things.
Nov 18 ’09
I spent a lot on books today. Just getting ready before this school term ends.

I spent a lot on books today. Just getting ready before this school term ends.

Oct 23 ’09
I attended the Winnipeg Arts Council’s 25th Anniversary Lecture featuring 3-time Booker Prize winning author, Salman Rushdie. His talk carried the theme “Public Events, Private Lives: Literature and Politics in the Modern World.”Pantages was packed. Wow. It feels so nice to be surrounded by people who love the Arts and Humanities like I do. The lecture started with a performance by the Prairie Voice, singing a classical version of the song “If We Were Worthy of the World” from his book, “The Ground Beneath Her Feet.”He’s a very interesting and smart man. His lecture was insightful, timely and at the same time funny. I took notes, because I am an epic geek. I was able to have my copies of “The Satanic Verses” and “Midnight’s Children” signed, and a guy ahead of me was nice enough to take a picture of me with Salman.

I attended the Winnipeg Arts Council’s 25th Anniversary Lecture featuring 3-time Booker Prize winning author, Salman Rushdie. His talk carried the theme “Public Events, Private Lives: Literature and Politics in the Modern World.”

Pantages was packed. Wow. It feels so nice to be surrounded by people who love the Arts and Humanities like I do. The lecture started with a performance by the Prairie Voice, singing a classical version of the song “If We Were Worthy of the World” from his book, “The Ground Beneath Her Feet.”

He’s a very interesting and smart man. His lecture was insightful, timely and at the same time funny. I took notes, because I am an epic geek. I was able to have my copies of “The Satanic Verses” and “Midnight’s Children” signed, and a guy ahead of me was nice enough to take a picture of me with Salman.

Sep 26 ’09
Oh yeah. Rushdie in Winnipeg! I have a midterm and a class that night, but WTF. I AM GOING. Better start leafing through my copy of Midnight’s Children.

Oh yeah. Rushdie in Winnipeg! I have a midterm and a class that night, but WTF. I AM GOING.

Better start leafing through my copy of Midnight’s Children.

Aug 21 ’09
“In a world we now lived in, the good times were a hundred times better. If we couldn’t catch a sparkle, only the agony would remain. Each new day was a struggle, in both the positive and the negative senses.”
— Yoshimoto Banana, “Hardboiled and Hard Luck,” p. 134

Aug 21 ’09
In an attempt to catch up with my growing pile of unread books, I have finished reading Yoshimoto Banana’s Hardboiled and Hard Luck. There are only two stories in this book, the Hardboiled and the Hard Luck chapters, but both deal with the topics of death, lost, sadness, love, and coming into terms with one’s issues. I like the Hard Luck story more than the other, mostly because it is more realistic, so for me, the story’s treatment to the topics I mentioned aboved seemed more real and easier to relate to. In general Hardboiled and Hard Luck didn’t leave a very strong impression on me compared to her other books that I’ve read (particularly Goodbye Tsugumi) but this book still has that easy-to-read flair yet the texts still dealt with emotions and dilemma that most young people face.

In an attempt to catch up with my growing pile of unread books, I have finished reading Yoshimoto Banana’s Hardboiled and Hard Luck. There are only two stories in this book, the Hardboiled and the Hard Luck chapters, but both deal with the topics of death, lost, sadness, love, and coming into terms with one’s issues.

I like the Hard Luck story more than the other, mostly because it is more realistic, so for me, the story’s treatment to the topics I mentioned aboved seemed more real and easier to relate to. In general Hardboiled and Hard Luck didn’t leave a very strong impression on me compared to her other books that I’ve read (particularly Goodbye Tsugumi) but this book still has that easy-to-read flair yet the texts still dealt with emotions and dilemma that most young people face.