Night Baseball Day
2005-05-24 @ 9:36 p.m.

Chernise says that Mr Rollason just wants our essays in before the holidays, which gives me until the end of the week. I was going to finish it yesterday, but Frost is a lot easier to wax lyrical about compared to Hitler, so I ended up with a lengthy essay on his poetic concerns, and nothing on poor old Hitler. Have been reading Sunstorm, the second part of A Time Odyssey, which is a collaboration between Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter. It's impressive, but the duology doesn't hang together the way Clarke's four-part A Space Odyssey does. My biggest gripe is the fact that Mir completely disappears from the picture in Sunstorm, despite the promising final chapter of Time's Eye. What the hell happens in the alternative timeline? You can't spend an entire book building up an alternate reality, and then ignore it completely in the sequel. Altogether quite a poor sequel for what was a promising work of science fiction.

Have decided that I'm going to study The Hours instead A Home At The End Of The World, because I find the former lends itself better to literary analysis. (Plus it gives me an excuse to get the nice big Picador edition, because the copy I have now is too hard to annotate for study.) Am thinking of pairing the book with Possession, because it's another book that traces a parallel between literary characters of the past and people in the present. Still want to read a classic though, probably one of Hardy's minor novels, or maybe Far From The Madding Crowd. Quite perplexed as to what to read for English 'S' Common Test...