Watching and Reading….
Originally published at Tongue Tied 'n Twisted. You can comment here or there.
I’ve been a little lazy lately and have, instead of doing much else, been watching a number of movies and reading a number of ebooks. And listening to a couple audiobooks, just to round things up a little. Figured I’d give a tiny review here and there - I’m not really one for analyzing things, and I tend to enjoy most movies I see, so don’t expect anything in depth.
Movies:
Tangled - Disney’s Rapunzel story. I saw this in theatres a while ago, and have re-watched it a couple times since then. Yesterday I watched it with my mom. I love this movie so much. It’s adorable, relatable, fun. The animation is great. It makes me wish Disney could make animals, and I would buy them out in a heartbeat. I want the damned chameleon, and probably the horse. It’s just a really sweet movie. If you haven’t seen it yet, you really, really need to.
The Tourist - Depp is a tourist who ends up mistaken for a guy in a lot of trouble. I found this to be quite a light movie, action-y good but not dark at all. It was very fun if that makes any sense to those of you who have seen it. I really enjoyed it more than I expected to.
Love and Other Drugs - I’m not entirely sure what I was expecting out of this movie, or what it gave me. It was a cute little love story centered around a girl with a bad disease and a guy working for a drug company. It was a good movie, and I liked it, don’t get me wrong. I guess I just feel like the ending was a little disconnected from the whole drug company thing. Like it was a huge part of the movie and then… Nothing?
Books:
Diary of a Mad Fat Girl by Stephanie McAfee - I snagged this on Kobo on a whim, because I can’t resist sales and cheap/free books. It wasn’t very long, or didn’t seem so, but it was really fun. I read it in one sitting and that usually doesn’t happen even with shorter books. I found the characters real and enjoyable, the situations rather similar, and the ending was great. If you’ve got a few hours to kill I highly recommend giving it a go. A trio of girl friends deal with a cheating, abusive husband, blackmailing boss, and a crazy, AWESOME old lady.
Girl Parts by John M. Cusick - another cheap-or-free Kobo ebook snagged for no real reason. Basically the story of disassociated boys who get robotic girl Companions to teach them how to properly form relationships, and how they fuck ‘em up. The end was very interesting, and while it was a shorter read, I quite liked it. A teen book, I think. Still. (And while I kept thinking of Chobits while reading it, it’s not all that similar.)
Audiobooks:
Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson - I have no idea what I thought I was downloading when I grabbed this, but it was not the story I got. At all. This is the story of a socially inept teenager, Tyler, who gets in a whole shit load of trouble relating to the girl of his dreams and a party she invited him to, his emotionally abusive dad, and his twisted views of self. It was a good listen for a teen book, and I enjoyed whoever narrated my copy (which is not on my laptop and I am too lazy to look it up right now). It was an interesting listen.
Freebie:
HPPodcraft.com - okay, not an audiobook but a podcast. They mostly (so far as my brief listens have told me) talk about his stories, do some analysis, delve deeper into them. But they’ve got three full readings and I love their narrators. I also really enjoy listening to them talk about Lovecraft’s stories in general and find them to be really interesting, so check ‘em out!
More coming tomorrow, including some pics of my latest pieces, a write-up on what I learned at the 2011 Wedding Photographers Summit, and probably a few more movie blurbs.
Time to cuddle my kitteh and watch a movie til I fall asleep.
xoxo!
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