Reading

♥ I have been reading The Elephant Keeper by Christopher Nicholson

This has been an excellent book so far, set in 18th England it's about, well, an elephant keeper, and his life since he was 13 years old with a female elephant called Jenny(!)

(Picture from Amazon)

I rarely read, not because I don't like to but because I just don't. It takes a while for me to just settle down with a book because I get easily distracted and find other things to do, so in some way reading ends up being a chore. My mind works in a strange way.

(Photo of my little Meg Cabot shrine book collection :])

Anyway, one of the other reasons why I don't read very often is because I just don't know what books to pick. I have long grown past the teenage girlie chic lit, which was always easy to pick up and read casually, but it got rather boring after a while. However, I have all Meg Cabot's The Princess Diaries books, and if she had continued to write them then I would buy every one, simply because, well, I love them. I love how Mia matured through the books, the films are nothing in comparison, I could rant for ages about how wrong the films were. The films are good in their own right but if only they had been called something else. I wish they (i.e. Disney) could have created a TV series based on the books. I know when books are adapted to film or TV they have to change some things but, they just changed too much. Perhaps, I'll do a blog post/rant later...

For now here's a review on the series which I pretty much agree with.

Oops, I've gone completely off topic... which is why I chose The Elephant Keeper. Basically the reasons were:

1) now and again I get fixated on an animal, at the time obviously it was elephants

2) the elephant's called Jenny!

Yes, two brilliant reasons to choose a book I think!

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♥ I have also just read my friend Jorden's new(ish) blog post

Which is a brilliant summary of her second year at uni. It greatly overlaps with my first year at uni, so it was really nice to be reminded of all the amazing things I did, and people I met.

Thank you Jorden!