In case you were wondering what kind of litterature a stressed graduate school girl read .... check out the Nora Roberts books.
Trashlit. For The Win.
Like totally.
I'm currently reading L'île des 3 soeurs
It's so bad it's good dude.
PrologueSalem, Massachusetts, 22 juin 1692Ce fut dans la penombre verte d'une forêt profond qu'elles se retrouvérent, une heure avant le lever de lune. Bientôt, la nuit la plus courte de l'année aller succeder au jour le plus long.
En ce jour de sabbat de Litha, il n'y aurait aucune fête ni grâces pour célébrer la lumiére et la chaleur. Ce solstice d'été tombait dans une ére d'ignorance et de mort.
La peur étraignait les trois sorcières.
- Avons nous tout ce qu'il nous faut?
Celle qui portait le nom d'Air tira sur sa capuche afin qu'on ne puisse distinguer une seule de ses boucles blondes.
- Ce qui nous avons fera l'affaire.
Terre posa le baluchon sur le sol. elle avai refoulé au plus profond de son âme son envie de pleurer et de fulminer contre ce qui avait été commis et ce qui devait être accompli. Elle inclina la tête, laissant retomber librement son epaisse chevelure brune.
- N'y a t-il pas d'autres façon de nous en sortir? demanda Air en posant la main sur l'épaule de Terre.
Toutes deux regardèrent la troisième sorcière, celle qui portait le nom de Feu.
Et c'est juste la premiére page. J'ai hate de lire les 2 autres bouquins. (ai lu le second, en anglais. Je prefere de loin la version française. Elle est encore plus awful que l'anglaise)
Et le fait que le dernier cas fait en Consumer Behaviour soit sur les editions Harlequin n'a en aucun cas influencé mon envie de lire ces trucs là.
Anyway, Wednesday we went out for dinner and them we hooked up with José at the pub to watch the football game on big screen.
I was so happy
Chelsea won =D
Drogba FTW :)
Sorry
mira_miracle but well, Chelsea was just better.
As we are talking about football, does any of you guys now what happened to
Sytchev ? (as in Sytchev, Sytchev, la la la la la !!!!!! *jumps all around*)
Now I'm waiting for Chloé to pick me up and take me to the airport to go to
England :D
(Chloe picked me up and I arrived safely in England where
I had a decadent weekend full of joy and friends)
Except for the previous sentence, I won't talk about how my weekend was, 'cos it'll be too long and I reviewed it for the most part anyway.
On Sunday, I left
Hannah and Oxford to take the bus and go to London.
During the trip I finished the second book of the Nora Roberts trilogy I'm currently reading, and started
Snakehead, the last Alex Rider adventure.
Arrived in London, went to Liverpool Street, ended up taking the coach to Tottenham Hale 'cos the Stansted Express wasn't starting from Liverpool Streeet for some obscure reason I haven't check out.
Arrived at the airport, checked in, bought a sandwich and some tea at the Starbucks, failed and forgot my tea at some point;
Bought the last
Tiesto album (
Element of Life remixed) and three highly non-intellectual books (
The Greek Tyccon's Baby Bargain,
The Cattle Baron's Virgin Wife and
The Billionaire's Virgin Mistress) then boarded the plane.
I arrived in Poitiers one hour later and as I didn't have enough euros to pay a cab and that none of my friends with a car were in Poitiers,
I came back by myself under a hot sun.
My backpack started to wear on my shoulders and my arms started to bloat (at which point
I could be seen fisting the air to make the blood circulate a bit better); Arrived home 1 hour and fourty minutes after departure from the airport.
First thing I did before unpacking was taking a
long cold heavenly shower.
Then I unpacked, went to school to check on my mail and dl different documents I needed for tomorrow's class.
Read some part of my weekend seen by my host, laughed because "dear god. it's me we are talking about." and felt somehow bad for said person because I had no idea and it was kinda mean.
Bought a kebab supreme (roughly, it's two kebab in one) and headed back home where I'm currently finishing Snakehead before working on my paper.
My feets are still awfully sore and probably won't support any heels for a week. And hopefully the weather will be nice and i'll be able to live with only flipflops 'cos I don't know how my feets will like the Converses or Kickers in their state. It's the "
TG and walk under the sun with totally unappropriated shoes" effect.
Having finished
Snakehead, I gotta say it's
the best Alex Rider so far.
Need to talk about
Yassen with someone now.
Azh', have you read it? It's out in paperback.
My groupmates never read trashlit or they wouldn't have given such a recommendation to Harlequin.
We recommend to diversify: Include new series (i.e. horror, suspense, drama)1st because Harlequin novels are all about the drama so there is no need to add some more.
2nd because you can't write some Harlequin based on a horror story. That is just not the point.
3rd because there can't be any suspense on those novel. You know they end up married for life in the end even before you buy the book. The only suspense is when.
I will need to discuss it with Richard (it's his slide) tomorrow. And hopefully Richard will listen (which is not always the case).
And I may pop The Greek Tycoon Baby Bargain in his hands so he'll discover the genre for himself.
It makes me think of a discussion we had in last week class and which was very interesting. We were working on a case and at some point the question rose.
Can you consider an artist or a group (weither it's classical music, pop or whatever else)
as a brand?
If yes, when does it becomes a brand?
Or is a brand only for objects and not for human being?
I claimed that it could be considered as a brand when you could sell only on their name and when the name of the group or artist as deposed as such.
I feel that there is a need of a law biding agreement to accept the fact that a group is a brand.
And a classical music band from Russia which is only known in the region and by classical music fans can not be a brand in my terms.
Poll #1182710
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AllCan a music band or artist can be seen as a brand?
If yes, when and why do you think so ?
If no, why so?
What should I read first?
Pour vous Boris c'est