![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Saturday night and it's all clear.
Feb. 4th, 2012 08:20 pmThis is one part book post, one part blah blah blah post!
I finished reading The Fault in Our Stars earlier this week, after putting it off for weeks because I was convinced it was going to make me cry. Having cried (or, at the least, gotten very teary) while reading books before, I tend to want to do it when I'm alone and not in public. I got about four chapters in during the first week I had the book, and then left it on my bookshelf for the perfect time when I could dive into it and possibly cry in peace when the time came.
( It wasn't so much crying as it was a case of eye sweat. Spoilery, obvs. )
In other book related news, I think I've figured out what I want to do for my analytical paper for my YA lit class! If my professor approves, I want to write about the diary/epistolary format as a narrative device, basing it around Sloppy Firsts. If that doesn't work, then I'm going to do something about war/possible apocalyptic themes in books like Meg Rosoff's How I Live Now. Either way, I have a little over two and a half weeks to write the paper, and two more months 'til my creative project is due. Next up on the reading slate for that class is Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, and then Speak.
On the other entertainment front, I saw Chronicle yesterday! If you can, go and see it because it's pretty damn good. The cast is excellent and it makes pretty good use of the whole "found footage" nature of everything. (On a shallow note, Michael B. Jordan is super-cute.) I had a minor "zomgzomgzomg" moment near the end, but that's just because I always get freaked out near the end of movies wherein shit is going down in a major way, and shit does go down in quite a major way in this one. We got a bunch of meh previews, and the only thing that stuck out in my mind was Snooki getting the good ol' eyepoke at the end of the trailer for The Three Stooges. I am STILL surprised that they finally made that, 'cause I remember hearing rumors about a modern Three Stooges movie since the mid '90s, and Jim Carrey was supposed to have been involved at some point. That is a long-ass time for a movie to be in development hell.
It should have stayed there.
I finished reading The Fault in Our Stars earlier this week, after putting it off for weeks because I was convinced it was going to make me cry. Having cried (or, at the least, gotten very teary) while reading books before, I tend to want to do it when I'm alone and not in public. I got about four chapters in during the first week I had the book, and then left it on my bookshelf for the perfect time when I could dive into it and possibly cry in peace when the time came.
( It wasn't so much crying as it was a case of eye sweat. Spoilery, obvs. )
In other book related news, I think I've figured out what I want to do for my analytical paper for my YA lit class! If my professor approves, I want to write about the diary/epistolary format as a narrative device, basing it around Sloppy Firsts. If that doesn't work, then I'm going to do something about war/possible apocalyptic themes in books like Meg Rosoff's How I Live Now. Either way, I have a little over two and a half weeks to write the paper, and two more months 'til my creative project is due. Next up on the reading slate for that class is Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, and then Speak.
On the other entertainment front, I saw Chronicle yesterday! If you can, go and see it because it's pretty damn good. The cast is excellent and it makes pretty good use of the whole "found footage" nature of everything. (On a shallow note, Michael B. Jordan is super-cute.) I had a minor "zomgzomgzomg" moment near the end, but that's just because I always get freaked out near the end of movies wherein shit is going down in a major way, and shit does go down in quite a major way in this one. We got a bunch of meh previews, and the only thing that stuck out in my mind was Snooki getting the good ol' eyepoke at the end of the trailer for The Three Stooges. I am STILL surprised that they finally made that, 'cause I remember hearing rumors about a modern Three Stooges movie since the mid '90s, and Jim Carrey was supposed to have been involved at some point. That is a long-ass time for a movie to be in development hell.
It should have stayed there.
