Sorry for disappearing on everyone for so long. I wasn't really busy, just... procrastinating because I wanted to post a book review at the beginning of the month and I didn't get it done because the book gave me ~feelings and I didn't want to post anything other than the review and... yeah, I suck.

I'll catch you all up on my life happenings (such ( Read more... )

Day 04 - Your favorite book or series ever

Hold on to your butts, it's that time of meme again when I talk at you (once again) about my favourite book: Hallucinating Foucault. Goddamnit, one of these days someone on my flist is going to read it and thank me. So there. And I'm bloody tired of using my words to try and sell this book to everyone, so I ( Read more... )

At long last, I've seen The Golden Compass.

For the most part, I was fairly impressed with its quality. The cinematography was ace and the realisation of Pullman's world was done with style and in good taste. Dakota Blue Richards (the young actress who played Lyra) was… OK, I’ll give her that. She wasn’t my Lyra, but my Lyra doesn’t exist.   ( Read more... )

I saw Elizabeth tonight at my campus cinema. There were many things about it that I loved and there many things I disliked.

I’ll start with the good.

The best thing about the movie was Cate Blanchett. My lord that woman can act. She commanded that screen. I was blown away and I think she stole the movie completely. Not a single other actor had ( Read more... )