Name Change

   Hello everyone, I know it has been a bit since I last got on here but I am about to change the amount of times I come here. I will try to start posting on here more frequently to tell you all about my writing and reading adventures, because who doesn't want to know about my life?
   If you dear reader have not noticed, I have changed the name of my blog from Crazy Musician Also Writes Literature to Crazy Musician Does Literature. I do not want to be known as someone who only writes and I do not want to be known as someone who does not read good literature. Not only do I want to tell you all about my writing feats, but I also want to tell you all about the books I read and give good(or bad) reviews on them.
   Since I last spoke to you all, I read the book Looking for Alaska and bits and pieces of the Princess Diaries series. I also became a believer in graphic novels and comic books. I too turned SEVENTEEN! I do not know what I was expecting once I became seventeen, but I definitely notice a change.
   I will begin my review on Looking Alaska and then get back to the train of thought that I was on a few minutes ago.
   Looking for Alaska is a wonderful novel by the author John Green and it features the characters: Miles Halter, Alaska Young, and Chip Martin as the primary characters. The story starts out as a slow one but it introduces the reader to Miles Halter's life. He is a loner, no real friends. At the beginning of the story Miles' parents throw him a going away party before he goes to Culver Creek Preparatory School. He says," I go to seek the Great Perhaps." as quoted by Francois Rabelais, a great french thinker. One he arrives at Culver Creek, the school his father went to(I forgot to mention that), he makes a friend out of Chip Martin; also known as the colonel. He is a short guy with an even shorter temper(not to be too cliche). The Colonel is one of my favorite characters. Out of the three primary characters, I prefer the Colonel out of all three. Miles, receives the nickname Pudge, and then he meets Alaska Young; the character that this story is centered on.
   Alaska, in my opinion, is a very flighty girl who is incredibly promiscuous. When we first meet her in the book she talks about one of her exploits with a boy. Miles becomes friends with Alaska very quickly and they become incredibly close.
  This book was not one of my favorite books, mostly because the amount of amatory references that it included(if you want to know what that means, look it up), but do not get me wrong. John Green is a magnificent author and I wish that I had half of the writing skills that he has. It was just not my cup of tea, albeit it was enjoyable at some points.
  The other genre that I delved into at the end of the summer was graphic novels and comic books. Graphic novels are like comic books of epic proportions. Comic books are about 20 pages, whereas graphic novels are 40-50 pages in length and can be included in a series.
  The day before my birthday I went to my friend's house and we read comic books all afternoon. I read four comics that were about this mutant girl named Firestar who can manipulate micro waves and fly. She is pretty cool. My other friend got me a New Avengers graphic novel for my birthday and I was in love. With the graphic novel that is. They are a little violent, but it like a good action movie. I am loving the New Avengers. I hope to get more graphic novels. Oh! I almost forgot the Amazing Spidergirl series that I read before my birthday as well. I think that the Amazing Spider is a very good read, so if you can get your hands on them, do so!
   Today I found two sites, I almost forgot to mention these too. My brain is somewhere besides this blog. One page was called The Book  Seer. It is where you type in the name of a book that you just read and the author, only if you have liked that book and author of course, and it gives you more ideas of what to read that are similar to that book that you have just read. I also found a page that had 100 adjectives. It might not be of use to you all but I like it a lot and I plan to write them down in my composition book in preparation for NaNoWriMo(which I will explain later if you do not know what it is). I will see you all very, very soon!