… although, for some of them, “sing” might be optimistic. However, most of the cast of Tom Hooper’s cinematic adaptation of Claude-Michel Schönberg and Michel Boublil’s successful musical, Les Misérables, are quite pleasant to hear.
Books YA/MG fiction The Opposite of Hallelujah (***** – loved) Adult fiction Zoo City (***** – loved) Beauty and the Werewolf (*** – enjoyed) Broken Harbour (***** – loved) Adult non-fiction Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (*** – enjoyed) Movies Wreck-It Ralph (**** – liked) In…
The weird thing is, normally I’m a subtitle kind of gal. I don’t like listening to TV at high volumes. And some shows, like The Wire, just make a whole lot more sense when I can see names spelled out or hear what mumblers are saying in the background. In fact,…
Books YA/MG fiction The Sixty-Eight Rooms ( *** – enjoyed) Adult fiction Sandman Slim: A Novel (**** – liked) Hide Me Among the Graves (**** – liked) Adult non-fiction Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks & the Hidden Powers of the Mind (**** – liked) Feynman’s Rainbow ( **** –…
… but mostly, yeah, they still are. Also, I need to define “jerkwad,” because by the rules of storytelling, pretty much every fictional character in whom I have an interest is a jerkwad to someone. There’s an antagonist, and no matter how good our hero or heroine, sometimes sh*t gets…
Movies Foreverland (** – found interesting) Brave (**** – liked) Safety Not Guaranteed (**** – liked) Books YA/MG fiction: Monster (***** – loved) Anna Dressed in Blood (***** – loved) Adult fiction: The Angel of Darkness (***-enjoyed) The Eyre Affair (**** – liked) Moon Over Soho (***** – loved) The…
This is in response to my friend Steve’s post over at his blog, to which he has kindly allowed me to reply in the interests of opening friendly discussion (and also in the interests of giving both of us fodder for future blog entries. Win-win!). I actually meant to write…
(But first, happy birthday to my Aunt Marilyn!) Let me get one thing out of the way: it’s not that I actively dislike Joss Whedon or his work. I recognize that it’s above par in a lot of ways. It’s clever, the banter is snappy, there’s an individualistic touch of…
(Yes, it’s Monday, I know. Sorry. Dissertation stuff not over yet! Allow me to appease you by offering: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. Go read it.) Over the past year, I’ve found myself unintentionally becoming a YA novel hipster. As my friends and family get hooked on Suzanne Collins’s…
Move over, Shaun of the Dead! There’s another game in town. Its name is Pontypool, a 2008 film by Bruce McDonald. I originally rented it from iTunes because it was only 99 cents, and I vaguely recalled hearing some praise of it. I knew there were zombies involved; I put…