The Butterfly Tattoo
Its Phillip Pullman's first novel, the introduction said and formerly released as The White Mercedes. Finished the last chapter on the 10 mins ride to work. Feels good to have someone as handsome to drive me to work everyday, heheh :P
I spent quite an amount on 5 Pullmans, Fables - 1001 Nights, Authority, Agatha Christie, etc. I had read the scans of Authority before, but good to have it for the Appollo and Midnighter "fight" :D
And some more on 39 DVDs. From National Market, of course. I got this amazing rate of 65/- per DVD with boxes, hee! And I have finished watching Little Miss Sunshine, which I need to review. It is a delightful movie. With all the pain and confusion going on, it was amazingly uplifting too. ♥Steve Carrel and Abigail♥
Somehow, I can't find the The Last Kiss DVD that I had picked. Gosh, found and lost :(
A bunch of Hitchcock's (about 11 DVDs) 3 Satyajit Ray's, Borat, and the usual Oscar nominated crap and bleh! I just wanted to splurge some money since I had exhausted my stash of movies and was itching to watch something new. I might watch Borat tonight.
The Devil Wears Prada was ok. I mean, enjoyable only for Streep. And Anne Hathaway looked pretty as ever in all the designer outfits, of course. But it was sort of shallow. Honeymoon Travels was rather stupid and funny. I enjoyed it. Hell, I have watched a couple more movies, but I forgot which ones. Sigh!
Honestly, the book, The Butterfly Tattoo, I mean, was heartbreaking. Someone who is only 17 and comes from a broken home, has a stupid mother who tries, but is incapable of understanding him, and a father way too absorbed in his young mistress, does not deserve this sort of a heartbreak. Oh god, I didn't cry, no. It didn't touch me that deep because I didn't read it in one sitting, but over last night and this morning. It did move me and I was trying to justify the brutality and all that, and I could not.
Its a story of this 17 year old boy Chris who, like I said above, comes from a broken home. The father is a fairly successful architect who now lives with his 23 year old secretary. His mother lives with a wimpy Professor Mike in their home. Chris is trying to come in terms with this and his summer job at the electrical company is helping because Barry, his boss, is this very affable guy, who is the only one Chris feels close to.
On a night of an assignment at a ball, he meets this young girl, trying to escape an assault of 3 men. Chris saves her and instantly falls in love with her. After warding the rich, spoilt, wannabe assaulters, Chris can't find her. He only knows her name as Jenny (that's how the pursuers were calling out to her) doesn't know her name, hasn't seen her clearly, but has fallen in love with her. How hopeless is that?
The next day on, he begins his search for her. Finds her and they go out on a lovely, innocent date. They meet again and that's it. There's the unfortunate raid at the place where Jenny was "squatting" (a new term that learnt and solemnly swear to use at every given opportunity till I find the next "pet" word), and they come really close many a times, but never meet again. Sob!
In the course of the book you find out about Jenny's sad past, Barry's shady one, and the boy's inward struggles that would eventually spell doom for all.
And the ending is CRUEL. Oh my god, I was mortified. Well, sort of. I DID NOT cry.
It is a yound adult fiction sort of a book. But given my taste in books, I obviously liked it. And it is a tiny book. I mean, it took me about 3 hours to finish it. Some 200 odd pages and fairly big font. I am still heartbroken from the shocking ending (ssssort of)
Sigh!
I spent quite an amount on 5 Pullmans, Fables - 1001 Nights, Authority, Agatha Christie, etc. I had read the scans of Authority before, but good to have it for the Appollo and Midnighter "fight" :D
And some more on 39 DVDs. From National Market, of course. I got this amazing rate of 65/- per DVD with boxes, hee! And I have finished watching Little Miss Sunshine, which I need to review. It is a delightful movie. With all the pain and confusion going on, it was amazingly uplifting too. ♥Steve Carrel and Abigail♥
Somehow, I can't find the The Last Kiss DVD that I had picked. Gosh, found and lost :(
A bunch of Hitchcock's (about 11 DVDs) 3 Satyajit Ray's, Borat, and the usual Oscar nominated crap and bleh! I just wanted to splurge some money since I had exhausted my stash of movies and was itching to watch something new. I might watch Borat tonight.
The Devil Wears Prada was ok. I mean, enjoyable only for Streep. And Anne Hathaway looked pretty as ever in all the designer outfits, of course. But it was sort of shallow. Honeymoon Travels was rather stupid and funny. I enjoyed it. Hell, I have watched a couple more movies, but I forgot which ones. Sigh!
Honestly, the book, The Butterfly Tattoo, I mean, was heartbreaking. Someone who is only 17 and comes from a broken home, has a stupid mother who tries, but is incapable of understanding him, and a father way too absorbed in his young mistress, does not deserve this sort of a heartbreak. Oh god, I didn't cry, no. It didn't touch me that deep because I didn't read it in one sitting, but over last night and this morning. It did move me and I was trying to justify the brutality and all that, and I could not.
Its a story of this 17 year old boy Chris who, like I said above, comes from a broken home. The father is a fairly successful architect who now lives with his 23 year old secretary. His mother lives with a wimpy Professor Mike in their home. Chris is trying to come in terms with this and his summer job at the electrical company is helping because Barry, his boss, is this very affable guy, who is the only one Chris feels close to.
On a night of an assignment at a ball, he meets this young girl, trying to escape an assault of 3 men. Chris saves her and instantly falls in love with her. After warding the rich, spoilt, wannabe assaulters, Chris can't find her. He only knows her name as Jenny (that's how the pursuers were calling out to her) doesn't know her name, hasn't seen her clearly, but has fallen in love with her. How hopeless is that?
The next day on, he begins his search for her. Finds her and they go out on a lovely, innocent date. They meet again and that's it. There's the unfortunate raid at the place where Jenny was "squatting" (a new term that learnt and solemnly swear to use at every given opportunity till I find the next "pet" word), and they come really close many a times, but never meet again. Sob!
In the course of the book you find out about Jenny's sad past, Barry's shady one, and the boy's inward struggles that would eventually spell doom for all.
And the ending is CRUEL. Oh my god, I was mortified. Well, sort of. I DID NOT cry.
It is a yound adult fiction sort of a book. But given my taste in books, I obviously liked it. And it is a tiny book. I mean, it took me about 3 hours to finish it. Some 200 odd pages and fairly big font. I am still heartbroken from the shocking ending (ssssort of)
Sigh!