Books books books

A recent trip to the library cheered me up immensely on an otherwise awful day. I looked ghastly, felt terrible, even the weather was miserable (pathetic fallacy anyone?)

Books I got from the library:
* The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
* Submarine by Joe Dunthorne
* Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
* Sula by Tony Morrison
* The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
* Room by Emma Donoghue
*Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Some are recommendations, some I have wanted to read for ages (I.e. the Bell Jar). I wanted to give pride and prejudice another go as the Lizzie Bennet Diaries on YouTube has made me really interested! Plus my friends are reding Jane Eyre so the general buzz is pro classics at the moment. I was drawn to some of the books that have been made into films, as I like to have read the book and not watch the film. It just seems better somehow!

So far I've only started Submarine, which is excellent. Reminiscent of The Perks of Being a Wallflower/The Catcher In The Rye, which are two of my person favourites. I like weird narrators. Possibly because I narrate my own life, and I possibly find some comfort in the weirdness of others'. Oliver Tate (the strange boy in question) also has a fantastic vocabulary, which I will undoubtably steal from.

*Note to self. Books due back on the 20th of February*

I no doubt will post reviews/thoughts if anything interesting is found. I'm just glad to be reading again. I think I've missed it.