Why Librivox Kind-of-Sort-of PWNS

I was in the hospital all of last week because I hurt my leg parkouring about 45weeks ago, didn't go to the doctor for 3 weeks because I was busy studying for AP tests, and ened up having to spend 5 days in El Hospital with an IV! Yippee! (Note: Sarcasm)

So, aside from being incredibly stressed because I have SAT IIs next saturday, I also am finishing catching up on a busy week of school work. Gah.

But, while in the hospital, I did manage to listen to 2 plays in audio form (thus, the thank-you to Librivox, my favorite free audio website). I "read" Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde and Countess Julie by August Strindberg. And I also reread BNW to study for my English test.
Plus, I am currently in the middle of another play, Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen (which isn't quite as good as the other Ibsen plays I've read), The World According to Garp by John Irving (I have about 50 pages left), and The Lovely Bonesby Alice Sebold (for English lit circles). So I have quite a pile. Plus I'm reading a lovely book called Barron's Guide to the SAT II in Chemistry. Meh.

Lady Windermere's Fan was EXCELLENT. It is, I am pretty sure , my new favorite Oscar Wilde play. It certainly had a few really great quotes. "We're all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars" and "A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing."
Basically, a woman thinks her man is having an affair and confronts him. He invites the other woman to a party. There is drama. His wife leaves him for her lover. The other woman feels bad and seeks out wife-y. Then there's drama over a gifted fan left in another man's house and scandal. It's like a late turn of the century soap opera.
I love the deliciously interesting (interesting adjective combination...) female characters in this play. They are so much more striking that the male characters. The feminist part of me appreciated that.

Coutess Julie, unfortunately, was not as good. I disliked 3 of the characters. And there were only 3 characters, so there were few interesting things to distract me. The plot was okay (actually, somewhat similar to LWF in terms of the whole love triangle/affair thing). But it bored me, really.

Total Book Count: 44
NonFic: 17 (38.6%)