March 2012
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claro3:
A quick post for my dear kajacana. Mockingjay, again.
Oh, I could go round and round and round.
Basically, the parts of Catching Fire that I liked, I liked more than the parts of Mockingjay that I liked. Katniss had some pretty awesome straight-up (almost) uninterrupted character development in the middle third of that book. I just think Mockingjay works better as a novel, overall,...
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Well, I finished Mockingjay.
claro3:
I actually did not hate it, at all.
It starts off kind of rocky, but like I said, once the ball gets rolling it’s actually the best of the books. The plot makes more sense than the plot of either preceding book, the world-building, while still inconsistent and problematic, holds up better, and there’s some stuff that actually resembles real, honest-to-goodness character development.
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February 2012
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“‘Kummerspeck,’ a German term which translates to ‘grief...”
– Cracked.com, 9 Foreign Words the English Language Desperately Needs
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30 Days of Hamlet
[All 30 days in one shot:]
1. If a line was going to be tattooed on your body, which one would it be? Well, it CERTAINLY would not be “To thine own self be true.” For my opinion on that, go here. There are so many great lines in Hamlet, it’s hard to choose. But probably: “In that sleep of death what dreams may come, when we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give...
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“The first time that Katniss has to go into the cylinder and she goes up into the...”
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Jennifer Lawrence on The Hunger Games (via maytheodds)
You see, THIS is why I feel like the movie is going to be good. This is the actress who plays Katniss speaking. And I don’t see her pandering to Collins’ bizarre insistence that Katniss is either Evil And Guilty or Unforgivably...
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i can't wait until the academy award annoucers go...
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and they’re not there
because alan rickman has all of them
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Spoiler-free Book Review: "The Name of the Star"...
Premise: New Orleans teenager Rory heads to London to spend her senior year at a fancy English boarding school. Unfortunately, her arrival in London coincides with the first strike of a serial killer whose grisly murders bear an eerie resemblance to the 1888 crimes of Jack the Ripper. DUN DUN DUNNNN!!!! My thoughts:
Maureen Johnson did a lot of things right with this book. The teenage...
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egenin:
Them
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Flavorwire » The 30 Harshest Author-on-Author... →
cleolinda:
15. William Faulkner on Ernest Hemingway
“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”
14. Ernest Hemingway on William Faulkner
“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?”
24. Virginia Woolf on Aldous Huxley
“All raw, uncooked, protesting.” [ETA: That’s precisely why I like him!]
4. Mark Twain on Jane...
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claro3:
kajacana replied to your post: So I’m forcing myself to read the whole Hunger Games series.
Yeah pretty much. This series was fun to read (to an extent), but mostly I found myself disappointed because there is SO MUCH POTENTIAL with a story like this, and Collins just wasn’t committed enough to go there. Excited to see it as a film, though.
Okay, Grace might not have rant-y feelings,...
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My feelings about J.K. Rowling's upcoming novel:...
I think most of us had a sneaking suspicion that this day would come: J.K. Rowling has announced that she has written another novel. Its target audience is adults, and it has nothing to do with Harry Potter. I’m having a little trouble responding to this news. …oh, hell, no I’m not, I have a LOT to say. Okay. First things first: I love the Harry Potter series. I’m a part...
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Watching "Casanova"
(Yeah, you know, the one with Peter O’Toole and David Tennant - obviously.) It’s reminding me a LOT of Amadeus (best movie ever or BEST MOVIE EVER, am I right?!), only sillier and sexier and with 100% more David Tennant looking smashing hot in what I can only assume is barely-accurate 18th century Venetian clothing.
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“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul,...”
– Sylvia Plath
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treabitch:
Attractive at all times.
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Oh, for fuck's sake.
Only 4 minutes in, and Glee is already pissing me off astronomically. I love ya Sue, but WHAT.