I watched Danny Boyle's stage production of Frankenstein with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller yesterday. Spoiler alert: It was incredible.

( Frankenstein )

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No school today! Hooray for three-day weekends made possible by faculty work days! I had every intention of sleeping in, but I still ended up waking at 6:30am. It's a good two hours later than the time I usually wake, but I still don't think that waking at anything before 8:00 merits the term "sleeping in ( Read more... )

Within the past month, my world has been compacted down to these few things: food, school, Inception, and sleep (or lack thereof ( Read more... )

I've just begun rereading the first Harry Potter book because I'm trying to introduce my younger cousins to the series. They're lazy readers, sad as it may be, so I've figured out that I need to read alongside them and then quiz them about the chapters to make sure that they've actually been reading and not staring aimlessly at the pages. Anyway, ( Read more... )

How I Spent My Winter Break (The Cliff Notes Version)
by Anne H.

• Christmas morning I went to the movies with my cousins, both younger and older. P.A. took the little ones to see Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel. Just typing that out gives me the shudders, though to be quite honest, I think P.A. got more out of the movie than the young'uns ( Read more... )

It's quite possible that Bella Swan is the most idiotic character in the history of fiction. ( New Moon )

You may or may not have noticed that I haven't been around much lately. I lost my Internet connection for a few days, which, well, sucked. I was worried that it would be down past Sunday, which would have meant that I would not get to watch the new Doctor Who special. That was honestly the first thing that popped in my head when I found out that I ( Read more... )

I think the main reason why I put up with modern-day romantic comedies is because they help to expose audiences to upcoming female talent who are able to make the most of what is usually unremarkable material. Case in point:

• Jennifer Garner in 13 Going on 30
  
• Zooey Deschanel in Failure to Launch
  
• Maggie Gyllenhaal in 40 Days and 40 Nights (god, was ( Read more... )

I'm not sure why it is, but whenever my dad's family has a get-together on a particularly hot day, my grandparents always seem to cook soup, which is what happened on Sunday. Their house already felt like a pressure cooker, and yet they were feeding us piping hot egg drop soup; as you can guess, a combination of the two pretty much made you want to ( Read more... )