Hair Cut Day! YES

I'm pretty sure I've mentioned that my favorite book is Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. Currently I'm reading his other novel, Everything Is Illuminated, which I started almost four years ago when I was a freshman in college. I still haven't finished it. I keep reading it in bits and pieces, then something happens and I start reading something else. Then, when I go to pick this book back up, I have to restart it because I've forgotten what happened in the parts I did read. But this time I'm determined to finish the whole thing. I'm almost halfway through.

Yesterday when I should've been reading Emily Dickinson poems for my American Romanticism class, I came across a passage in Everything is Illuminated that reminded me of why Jonathan Safran Foer is my favorite author: "...her journal--which she must have kept and kept with her at all times, not fearing that it would be lost, or discovered and read, but that she would one day stumble upon that thing which was finally worth writing about and remembering, only to find that she had no place to write it--". 

Another good one: "Brod's life was a slow realization that the world was not for her, and that for whatever reason, she would never be happy and honest at the same time."  Foer has a way of saying things that are so poignant, and they're things that maybe I've felt too, but could never formulate them into words or didn't realize I felt that way in the first place. I want people to feel that way about the things I write. Maybe one day.

"Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)" by The Arcade Fire