Christmas Day...

Today was a strange one, yet very boring too...

I didn't go to sleep til 8am this morning, got up at 2pm, read random wiki pages for a bit then decided I wanted Denny's breakfast. I asked Angela if she'd like to go and she said yes... so off we went to Denny's only to find that it closed at 3:30pm :( So we drove around looking at all the closed restaurants before settling on a pub. The pub didn't have food though :( so we went two stores down to a pizza place... Then I came home and didn't know WHAT to do. I was going to read some more Sherlock Holmes, but then I saw the copy of Grendel by John Gardner on my bookshelf and remembered it was Christopher's Christmas Recommendation that it be read... So I sat down with it and read the whole thing start to finish.

It was wonderful! When I first started I wasn't overly impressed because I found it a little bit whiney, but then once I got to Chapter Two and he encountered humans I couldn't stop reading. OH! I guess I should let you know what that is...

Grendel is a book by John Gardner and it's a retelling of Beowulf from Grendel's point of view. Grendel is an emo-monster who ponders the meaning of existence as he kills off the humans who think he's a bad guy when he's only trying to communicate with them... Umm, it may sound weird (and it is!) but I'd definately recommend giving it a read, it's short and full of many quotes you can ponder about...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grendel_(novel) for more info!