This Week's Reading

Taking center stage today would be...wait for it...wait for it...THE ODYSSEY!! Hey, that's what, five weeks in a row now? This week (books 13-17) started off being the funniest thing I've ever read yet. First, the Phaeacians were "enthralled by the charm of his [Odysseus's] story". What a great joke. And then Poseidon was talking to Zeus about what he could do to show the Phaeacians (the guys that gave Odysseus a lift home) who their boss is. So, he decided to turn the ship that took Odysseus home into rock just off the shore and then crush the city under a mountain. What fun! I think I like Zeus for encouraging Posiedon to do this... IT sounds even funnier when it's in the old style English that it is. Lord of the Rings English, that is. That stuff cracks me up every time, sometimes just listening to it.

This week, I discovered that Odysseus is....blond. *GASP* (crowd gasps)
That was a BIG shocker.....

Anyways, I think the only guy that I really like is the swineherd. He already has a little nickname thing- "O swineherd Eumaeus". Speaking of little nickname things, the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, is about to lose some fingers if it doesn't let go soon. It's rather unfortunate that Telemachus has to reenter the story, but somehow he's aged and seems less annoying. I think it's so weird when Odysseus and Telemachus reunite because Telemachus never really knew his dad and Odysseus never really knew Telemachus.

I really want to see the dress that Helen gave to Telemachus (don't worry, it was for a future wife of his).

Yay for Athena. She's smart and strategic (unlike some people...*AHEM*) and knows what to do and who to trust....I have to admire her.

This week (I'm saying that a lot, aren't I,) I read a short story called "The Lottery". It was similar to "A Good Man is Hard To Find" because at least one person gets killed nad the reader doesn't know exactly why. It also starts off sounding like an ok story.
The lottery just doesn't make sense; why would you choose one villager every year to be stoned, probably to death? IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE AT ALL.
ANd that's all I have to say about The Lottery.

Lucky for you, this week is a bonus post! I've decided to introduce a new part of my blog called  "This Week's Entertainment" where I get to tell you some of my current favorite quotes from entertainment that kinda goes along with my post. This exerpt is part of something that was supposed to be written to each one's parent(s). It's rather funny because Galinda (or Glinda [the Good] later on) adresses her parents as "Dearest darlingest Momsie and Popsicle," while Elphaba (later known as The Wicked [Witch of the West]) adresses her father as "My dear father". I can'thelp laughing at the name of the academy; "Dear Old Shiz" ^^,
"BOTH: There's been some confusion for, you see, my roommate is:
GALINDA: Unususally and exceedingly pecular and alltogether quite impossible to describe;
ELPHABA: Blond."
-Jenni