I've been doing my annual re-read of Howl's Moving Castle (that and Good Omens are pretty much my comfort books, and my copies are pretty much falling apart), and oh, but I don't think I'll ever really stop wishing for another movie adaptation.

It's not that Miyazaki's movie was bad (I don't think the man is capable of making a bad movie), it's ( Read more... )

I went book shopping yesterday! It was ace. It's always such a thrill to have new books to read :3 I got: 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood, Castillos de cartón and Alias de geografía humana by Almudena Grandes, El Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges and Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry. Has anyone read any of them? Were they good/ ( Read more... )

I started taking ballet classes! My aunt opened up an academy a few months ago, but I've only been to two classes. I'm liking it so far. I'd only done ballet before for about three months at the end of high school and when I was about five, so I'm most definitely not good yet, haha.

I also bought Malena es un nombre de tango* by Almudena Grandes, ( Read more... )

The thing that bothers me about Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is that it's such obvious self-insert, and yet no one seems to notice it. I mean, Stieg Larsson was a liberal political writer working for a magazine that wrote exposes on people. So what is Blomkvist? A liberal political writer working for a magazine that wrote exposes on people, that ( Read more... )

SO! I finished the last book of A Song of Ice and Fire a few days ago, and I'm already feeling a bit lost with no more massive intriguing books to read. But I also can't wait for the series! It looks absolutely brilliant.

( SPOILERS for A Feast for Crows. And, uh, everything else. Fair warning, I've had this window open for hours and I've just been adding more of my thoughts on the books on it, so it's all pretty random and non-cohesive )

I'm reading this Spanish book at the moment, The Ages of Lulú, and it's so filthy.

Seriously, I don't think I had read something as outright pornographic not sold as erotica since Bret Easton Ellis's Glamourama. It's all kinds of messed up, but, um, it's sort of hotFlist! What's the porniest ~mainstream~ book you've found? If only romance novels ( Read more... )

I started reading Games of Thrones yesterday, and I'm really liking it so far, though it's daunting to see the page number as 1841. Dude, long much? Anyway, QUESTION! How is Jaime's name pronounced? Jay-mee or the Spanish Jaime? (Hi-meh, hi as in hi how are you doing) I'm pleased to know he'll be played by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in the series. New ( Read more... )

I have new Fringe (!!!) and Bones to watch, but I'm halfway through The King of Attolia and I'm SO HOOKED.

YOU WERE ALL RIGHT, GUYS. ♥

I'm reading Megan Whalen Turner's The Thief, because everyone and their mothers seems to love it. I'm halfway with it, and so far it's been a long camping trip in which everyone eats lots of cheese and bread. Does it get better than that?

It's not bad per se, so far, but nothing seems to have happened so far.

Finished reading Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon today - and I'm really torn about it. On the one hand, the man has a way with words, and it's lovely storytelling, and more than anything, a story about writers, and a story about the words that have a hold on these writer. And yet, I HATED the main characters. They were all a bunch of man-childs, and ( Read more... )