Booklog 2009: Book 2 of 50

2. Title: Ultimate Prizes
Author: Susan Howatch
Series: Starbridge Series Book 3 of 6
Pages: 434
Date Finished: 15.I.2009
Thoughts: After I finished my African Religions paper, I just had to pick this up as a reward and read it while commuting to work and then stealing time to read when I should have been working on my next paper. What can I say? I love reading about people's spiritual torment? (It makes me feel better about my own?) I really enjoyed this one because of the juxtaposition of violence and reserve in Neville's character and how it shows that sometimes you know very little about people you're close too. Howatch has a system, certainly, and the storylines fall into the same pattern, but it's like the current season of House - you know that it's not lupus, you know if there's a young girl, there might be a pregnancy, and there's bound to be some romantic schmoopiness somewhere - yet you don't know how exactly it'll play out. Same with Howatch. Even when the same spiritual director reappears to deal with the broken down cleric, you don't know what method he'll take.

I am being good and saving the next book for after I turn in my final paper of the fall 2008 semester. (due at some point today)

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• 03:25 i suppose i'm rather odd in that i can wake up at 3am to do work and call it 'morning'. #
• 03:55 bundled up with quilts, blankets, and layers of warm clothes - and my nose is still cold while typing my paper. no rest for the wicked. #
• 11:38 camping out in the library until the paper gets done. #
• 12:34 listening to "See Me" from Bare is probably *not* a good idea right now. oh well. #
• 15:34 is it naptime yet? #
• 17:16 @ladyguenivere that's a lot of frosting! #
• 17:18 qotd: Butler: You found God, sir?
  Wilberforce: I think He found me. You have any idea how inconvenient that is?
  -"Amazing Grace" #
• 20:17 why do i always end up doing MORE research when i already have enough of a paper and it's due in a few hours? >.< #
• 20:27 how did i forget to mention tillich in a paper on theology & culture? #
• 23:36 paper done and submitted. 25 full pages and actually good. #

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