BitterEpiphany

Happy Easter, guys! Hope everyone has a fun time stuffing their faces with chocolate, just as I will right now.

I tend to gravitate towards rock and soft rock when I write; partly because my stuff is intentionally evocative (co-inciding with the song lyrics), and partly because that kind of music seems to get me into a creative mood. Shadow of the Day by Linkin Park, The Reason by Hoobastank and Breakaway by Kelly Clarkson do it for me... And then there's also the rest of my iTunes library, heh...

Ahah thanks, Rose. Will do, will definitely do...

Linkin Park - Shadow of the Day Rihanna - Don't Stop the Music

Love The Handmaid's Tale! Atwood's style is abundantly quirky, which isn't something you find every day - run-on sentences and truncated ones, verbless ones, etc. etc. It is a dense story, though... But that whole totalitarianistic dystopia thing is so up my alley it isn't funny. As for Garner's novella... centres around two characters named Athena and Dexter. They live a sheltered life, which is disrupted when Elizabeth, a woman from Dexter's past, enters the pictures - Elizabeth brings with her Vicki (her lonely teenager sister), Philip (Elizabeth's husband), and Poppy (Elizabeth and Philip's daughter). The disruption causes chaos, and amongst it all, Athena searches for a way out of the sheltered lifestyle and into the real world without having any idea of its consequences. And the concept of music is central to the story - it signifies something different for each of the characters, and brings someone else into the story that none of them had previously expected. Yeah, okay, that was more than a bit, but eh. I just finished it last night - it was a nice story. Typical with the whole classic contemporary Australian literature image. But it's a nice read.

I'm at uni three days a week, and on those days I drink coffee (I'm talking two, three coffees through the day, just to keep my head from banging on the desk if I fall asleep). At home, I drink tea, but I don't drink it that often. So I guess I'm more a coffee person. Large mocha's for the win!

Thanks for the welcome, guys! Much appreciated.

At the moment, re-reading The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, and also reading The Children's Bach by Helen Garner. Latter being read for an English class, but it's still nice. Into it more for the prose and style than the story itself, though that's not bad too. And gotta love Margaret Atwood.

Sooo ... hi. My name's Xuan. I'm that quiet, extremely skinny kid standing reclusively in the corner holding a cup of tea and looking thrilled to be alive. At first glance, I bet you three McDonalds Big Macs that you'd never pick me out as an Irish dancer, web designer, uni student, amateur photographer, and writer. Right? Right. I had an account on here not too long ago as ambientstorm/nightcollision... but decided a fresh start was in order. GA's a perpetually interesting place, so although I apparently suck at being active on forums, I'm back. So, you know... hi. Again. Nice to meet you all!