books.
I figured if I was recording movies, I may as well record the books I read this year too.
upcoming: the pillowman, everthing is illuminated
- EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE
- Oskar is the badassest 9 year old to walk the planet. I wish i was half that cool when I was nine.
- The ending was magical and amazing and made me cry, and it's been a very long time since a book did that.
- I enjoyed the weirdness of form. Changing back and forth between stories and then having them all match up and come together is always an element I love in literature. Especially when it has a KABOOM quality about it like this book did.
- THE HOURS
- Yeah I read it because of the movie, and I have to say I enjoyed the movie a lot more.
- Not that the book wasn't amazing, it was beautifully written and lyrical and awesome, but the things that were edited out from the movie were edited for a reason.
- I loved how Michael Cunningham spilt the book up into each character though.
- Meryl Streep is referenced in the book which I find to be wildly amusing.
- Basically, I'm glad Stephen Daldry knows what he's doing, the adaptation of this book was perfectly suited to the text. KUDOS to him, because I usually hate movie adaptations and have to think of them as entirely separate entities [see: harry potter, hitchhikers guide, confessions of a shopaholic, princess diaries]
- ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE
- This book is only worth it if you read the whole thing, persevere through it's complicated web and you will be rewarded.
- It reminded me of how I felt at the end of Catch-22, how it's all neatly put together and orchestrated so that the end blows your freaking mind. Marquez is a genius is all I'm saying.
- If anyone does end up reading this book, have the family tree handy.
upcoming: the pillowman, everthing is illuminated