My Latest Find

I find myself blogging about books a lot, lately. I think that comes with wanting to be an editor.

I've been hearing about Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians series for a while now, and because everyone was comparing it to Harry Potter, I've been dutifully ignoring the excited voices. And then I saw the preview for the movie of the first book in the five-book series, The Lightning Thief. And I haven't been the same since.


I sat down and researched the book, and the series as a whole, and decided to give Rick Riordan and Percy Jackson a chance.

I haven't regretted it! I can't get over how imaginative the books are, even though it's dealing with one of the oldest tales of all time: Greek mythology. I won't spoil the series for anyone out there, but I find Percy's wit hilarious considering he's only 12.

Percy, Grover, Annabeth, Chiron, Ares (he's definitely my favorite God now...), Zeus, Hades, Poseidon, Cerberus...all of them are GREAT. And the best part is, I found myself recognizing a lot of the mythology that Percy relates from classes eons ago.

I've only read the first book in the series and I'm trying INCREDIBLY hard to pace myself with the second since I have no book money because I'm jobless. But so far, I love it.

My favorite quote: "And play with Cerberus once in a while. He likes red rubber balls."

Things that induce laughter/smiles/happy feelings in me today:
1. All of this rain. Believe it or not, a tornado actually touched down like half an hour from my house today.
2. Running errands with Bryce today. It's great to be reminded how much you have in common with such a good friend, and why he's one of your favorite people. And somehow we managed to be running through the rain whenever it was the worst. Needless to say, we got pretty wet.
3. I have a pinched something somewhere that's making my left arm practically unusable, and my mom rubbed my back tonight. It felt AMAZING. My arm's still sore, but a little better.
4. I have a book drawer in my room because I don't have bookshelves. It's packed, and my book box is also still rather full. This could be a problem.