"Your mother doesn't know anything about this ( Read more... )

Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature. I don't blame anyone for not believing. I don't claim to be any smarter or better than them. I guess what it really comes down to is the randomness of birth. I happened to be born into a group of people who live in ( Read more... )

L.A. Confidential is such a perfect movie, I love everything about it so fucking much. And I can't believe I've never read the book before. I'm pretty sure I've read some James Ellroy stuff but it was probably when I was in middle school or elementary. Since I don't remember a damned thing, I stopped by the public library (IN THE MIDDLE OF AN ICE ( Read more... )

He could see Mr. Gaunt looking at him with interest and amusement, and Mr. Gaunt's eyes suddenly seemed to grow to the size of tea-saucers. Yet this feeling of disorientation was not frightening; it was rather exciting, and certainly more pleasant than the slick feel of the wood had been to his exploring finger ( Read more... )

I could see him fall into the tale, and that pleased me-- it was like hypnotizing him again, but in a better way. A more honest way. The best part, though, was hearing my mother's voice. It was like having her again, coming out from far inside me. It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found. You wouldn't think it ( Read more... )

WELL. THIS IS A LITTLE EARLIER THAN NEXT TUESDAY:

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Oh God I just noticed that The Wind Through the Keyhole came out already. Oh God I immediately ordered it and it should be here by next Tuesday. Oh God. How did I forget ( Read more... )

Preordered A Confusion of Princes (by Garth Nix) because I am mostly easy for Garth Nix. Also sci-fi. Dramatic sci-fi:
These are the three deaths of Prince Khemri. Told in his own words, we follow him as he trains to become a Prince of the Empire, an enhanced human being, equipped with biological and technological improvements that make him faster ( Read more... )

Kalafina is singing the second opening for Fate/Zero when it comes back in April AAAAAAH SO EXCITED.

I finished a bunch of classwork early so I spent the day playing Rune Factory 3 (lol I am so slow with this game), watching two Detective Conan movies (fantastic~~~) and rereading a bit of Anne Rice's vampire books (Stefan and Klaus always give me ( Read more... )

"And she was dead," Dave said ( Read more... )