Seriously. It's rainy and theres a constant chilly wind that's making a day that should be warm and sunny and mid sixties (I'm sure it is above the clouds) dull, dreary, and chilly. Don't get me wrong, I like the rain, I don't mind clouds, and none of the factors necessarily are bad. It's just that today the total is more miserable than the sum of all parts. So bleh.
And my dad almost burned the house down. He put on a pot of water for tea (as he often does), and then proceeded to forget about it (which he does just as often). He then went to pick my brother up and drop me off at Starbucks. As we're pulling into the parking lot of the coffee shop, he suddenly remembers the pot of water; it's now been an hour. Luckily, our stove seems to be rather smart (and certainly more careful than certain people), and upon realizing that the pan was much too hot to be safe, it shut the burner off.
So. I'm going to post the pictures of my notes, like I hinted at previously. They're pretty scrambled and disorganized, but I just wanted you all to see them, to get a feel for what I had to decipher (and for how feverishly they were written).
First, Here's my cover of Gerald's Game. I know I described it earlier, but here it is:
Here's chapter 1. It took up most of the page. The marked out parts were the notes I'd already talked about. It was an attempt to make sure I mentioned everything; a habit which I quickly stopped.
Ignore the '25' and '28' at the top of the page (the right side); those are on the page under this one. This one has chapter 2 (top right), 3 & 4 (bottom right), 5 & 6 (top left), and 7 & 8 (bottom left). Remember how I said that I folded the pages into fourths?
- The directions are NOT in reference to the orientation of the page, but to the orientation of the picture. The top of the page is always to the right in the pictures.
Chapter 9 covers both the bottom right and the bottom left. Notice how my notes begin to reference back to themselves. 10 finishes up the bottom left. 11 & 12 are on the top left, and 13 has the top right quadrant.
14 & 15 on top right, 16 & 17 on bottom right, 18 gets all of bottom left and 19, 20, & 21 are top left.
22 covers all of bottom right, and 23 shares top right with 24. 25, 26, & 27 are on bottom left, and 28 & 29 are on top left.
30 & 31 share the top right (if you look close in 31 you can see 'CRINGE' and all the arrows pointing back to it). 32 & 33 share bottom right, and 33 continues on bottom left. 34 starts on bottom left and finished with 35 on top left.
Last one. 36 & 37 top right, 38 & 39 bottom right, and 40 on bottom left.
Crazy, right? So. Stephen King. Having finished Gerald's Game, it's time for another book, and as I mentioned previously, it's going to be Skeleton Crew, a collection of short stories by him. I believe it's his his second collection published (aside from Different Seasons, which is novellas, not short stories); Wikipedia confirms this. In fact, it was first published by Putnam in 1985, and my copy is indeed from Putnam, copyrighted in '85. Cool.
Because of this, I have no dust jacket, so you are all spared the long, in depth detail of it that my introduction to Gerald's Game had. There's also not too much to introduce; it's a collection of short stories, a novella, and two poems, so it's not like can give you a synopsis this early. I very well might give a brief synopsis at the beginning of each story itself (I most likely will). There's also really no point in linking to the Wikipedia page, because it doesn't say much either (but if you'd like to see it, and see what my dust jacket would look like if I had one, go here).
So that's that for now. Time to read! I'll add more shortly.
-I'd also like to note that I apologize for any confusion the sideways pictures cause. I simply never got them into iPhoto to edit. I will in the future (I'd do it now but the photo uploading on Blogger is rather awkward and really don't want to have to do it all again).
I took them with my phone, and while they're pretty good (great) for a phone, they're not as good as they'd be if I took them with my camera. But they're legible (if they're comprehensible it's because of my writing), and that's enough.
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