A pretty good weekend. The first Mage: The Ascension game of the year, a bit of hanging out with friends, plenty of Sara time. (At the moment, we're Netflixing The Gilmore Girls, and streaming Red Dwarf) Yesterday, Sara, Becky and I went to the Montgomery Mall for shoes and sundries. And while Sara was trying on some pants in Torrid, Becky and I ( Read more... )

Saw Sweeney Todd last week. It... well, it was good. I didn't like it, but it was good.

The problems are these: Tim Burton, while clearly a skilled film maker who deserves all the praise other people give him, doesn't work for me. I watch his movies, and I'm not immune to their charms, but I tend to find myself thinking, "Was that it?" while ( Read more... )

I think, and I could be wrong, that some of you are (justly) tired of me blogging about the books that I've read. And I'm a reasonable person, one open to a change of topics.

So, here's a post about a book I haven't read. Well, finished. And furthermore, a book which I honestly don't want to finish, but which I fear it is my destiny, my geas if you ( Read more... )

So, about a month ago, I reviewed like eight books, one of which was a fantasy novel entitled The Tower of Shadows. I'm actually quite pleased with my criticism: it not only amused me more in the writing than the book did in the reading (and if you don't enjoy writing about a book you dislike, you clearly didn't dislike it very much), but it listed ( Read more... )

OK. Time to review every book in the history of ever. Go!

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie: I'd been reading this over the course of a few weeks. I don't know when I started it; I finished it on the second trip we took to the Great Wall of China, back on the seventh of April. It was...

Well, it's a good story, about the ( Read more... )

So, apparently the "Introduction to Chinese Literature" course is canceled for next semester in Beijing. So... I'm not really sure what to do there besides fret (and I'm so very good of fretting). Probably talk to the Lit department and see if I can whip together an Independent Reading Course. I'm second guessing myself over the whole thing, ( Read more... )