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glass_icarus⋄ Ahahaha, JLin, never stop being adorkable!
♣ Finally managed to find someone to watch Fruitvale Station with me... if we can fit in the time. ^^; Wire fans, you might be interested in this Michael B. Jordan interview if you haven't already seen it. (... I still haven't managed to watch The Wire yet, sigh.)
♥ I signed up for Touch Pass after all! I'm still debating whether I want to add more requests, but I like the ones I have so far (super-short-form: Riko + Satsuki + Alexandra being awesome/terrorizing their players, Aomine + Kuroko relationship repair + preferably spectators loling forever, Riko + Hyuuga + Kiyoshi being their OT3 little selves). Now it's definitely time to play catch-up, I guess.
♠ Booklog for the week:
+ Graceling, Kristin Cashore: I liked the way this book dealt with Talents as things characters had to learn about themselves/grow into! It's a pretty novel approach compared to most other SF/F things I've read.
+ Curtain, Agatha Christie
+ The Spanish Bride, Georgette Heyer: Not interested enough in war stories to enjoy this. My half-buried completionist tendencies strike again?
+ Friday's Child, Georgette Heyer: Entertaining, but I didn't like the orphan/benefactor dynamic that much; my tolerance for power imbalances has gone down, though it didn't help that the orphan in this case was extremely naive.
+ The Mystery of the Blue Train, Agatha Christie
+ What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw, Agatha Christie
+ Death in the Clouds, Agatha Christie
+ Monkey High, v.4-8: This series started out pretty cute and ended pretty cute, though there are a couple of unnecessarily tortured and not-so-well-resolved relationship entanglements/barriers in the middle.
+ Endless Night, Agatha Christie
+ Double Down, M. Chandler (reread): I was in the mood for heist shenanigans but didn't feel like watching something. Also, this was one of the rare times that I skipped rereading book 1 because book 2 was more exciting.
+ With a Bullet, M. Chandler (reread)
+ Vampire Knight, v.1-2: Well, that was kind of a ~dramatic~ beginning...
+ One Piece, v.1: Apparently Bookoff did some restocking since I was last there or something, what can I say? I got curious.
+ The Last Hellion, Loretta Chase: Picked this up oncrossedwires' mention. I'm not often in the mood for romance novels and have also been spoiled by reading The Grand Sophy at the start of my meandering streak of them, but I thought it was an okay read. I liked Lydia helping others and managing her own affairs (from writing to hand-to-hand fights) and the female side characters who were also clearly managing their own affairs. I also wasn't quite expecting a romance novel to pass the Bechdel test, but yay for that as well!
+ High Fidelity, M. Chandler (reread): ... yeah, so it looks like the mental imagery associated with Nessun Dorma will never stop being entertaining.
♣ Finally managed to find someone to watch Fruitvale Station with me... if we can fit in the time. ^^; Wire fans, you might be interested in this Michael B. Jordan interview if you haven't already seen it. (... I still haven't managed to watch The Wire yet, sigh.)
♥ I signed up for Touch Pass after all! I'm still debating whether I want to add more requests, but I like the ones I have so far (super-short-form: Riko + Satsuki + Alexandra being awesome/terrorizing their players, Aomine + Kuroko relationship repair + preferably spectators loling forever, Riko + Hyuuga + Kiyoshi being their OT3 little selves). Now it's definitely time to play catch-up, I guess.
♠ Booklog for the week:
+ Graceling, Kristin Cashore: I liked the way this book dealt with Talents as things characters had to learn about themselves/grow into! It's a pretty novel approach compared to most other SF/F things I've read.
+ Curtain, Agatha Christie
+ The Spanish Bride, Georgette Heyer: Not interested enough in war stories to enjoy this. My half-buried completionist tendencies strike again?
+ Friday's Child, Georgette Heyer: Entertaining, but I didn't like the orphan/benefactor dynamic that much; my tolerance for power imbalances has gone down, though it didn't help that the orphan in this case was extremely naive.
+ The Mystery of the Blue Train, Agatha Christie
+ What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw, Agatha Christie
+ Death in the Clouds, Agatha Christie
+ Monkey High, v.4-8: This series started out pretty cute and ended pretty cute, though there are a couple of unnecessarily tortured and not-so-well-resolved relationship entanglements/barriers in the middle.
+ Endless Night, Agatha Christie
+ Double Down, M. Chandler (reread): I was in the mood for heist shenanigans but didn't feel like watching something. Also, this was one of the rare times that I skipped rereading book 1 because book 2 was more exciting.
+ With a Bullet, M. Chandler (reread)
+ Vampire Knight, v.1-2: Well, that was kind of a ~dramatic~ beginning...
+ One Piece, v.1: Apparently Bookoff did some restocking since I was last there or something, what can I say? I got curious.
+ The Last Hellion, Loretta Chase: Picked this up on
crossedwires' mention. I'm not often in the mood for romance novels and have also been spoiled by reading The Grand Sophy at the start of my meandering streak of them, but I thought it was an okay read. I liked Lydia helping others and managing her own affairs (from writing to hand-to-hand fights) and the female side characters who were also clearly managing their own affairs. I also wasn't quite expecting a romance novel to pass the Bechdel test, but yay for that as well!+ High Fidelity, M. Chandler (reread): ... yeah, so it looks like the mental imagery associated with Nessun Dorma will never stop being entertaining.
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Date: 2013-08-17 02:12 am (UTC)Only if you're in the mood for more of the same (but possibly better--hard to tell if it's just the order I read them in, you know?).