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Friday Night Lights season 2: a lot less lovely than season 1
Throughout the season I FUCKING HATED MRS COACH WITH A FIERY PASSION. I know she was supposed to be tired and emotional, but if she was as wise as she thinks she is she should have known her idea of being apart from Coach for 3 years - which she stuck to even when she found out she was pregnant - was VERY STUPID. And it was her fault, and her ( Read more... ) -
Friday Night Lights: the pilot. I AM SO IN LOVE WITH THIS PROGRAMME
The morning scenes are great!- Matt looking after his Grandma, she tells him she adores him and they hug. THEY ARE LOVELY.
- Tim waking up late, sleeping on a too-short sofa surrounded by empties. Billy's brutal honesty. Tyra walking in. All three of them half-dressed, and a bit debauched.
- Lyla's family, both parents are there, seems nice...Lyla ( Read more... )
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more half-arsed reviews of stuff everyone else saw long long ago
The Notebook. Bad. And not really sad, I don't know why it made me cry as they had happy lives and were old and together, so actually it was a lucky them ending, no tears needed ( Read more... ) -
Catching up with years of missed films, at last
The good:- Motorcycle Diaries. Utterly beautiful. Wish I'd seen it on a big screen.
- 40 Year Old Virgin. I did not expect to like this! But it was sweet and charming. Went on a bit long but maybe that's just my deficient attention span.
- Pride and Prejudice. I didn't expect to like this either but it was good. I even ( Read more... )
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Catching up with a lot of years of TV
Fabulous:- Cast offs.
- Band of Brothers.
- Shameless, series 1 and bits of 2. I only watched this for James McAvoy, who I have a crush on currently, but I really really liked it. Although probably won't watch any of the rest of it after JMcA left. Because I am shallow. And there is too much else to watch.
- Friends. When it was first on I aspired to be ( Read more... )
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Fanfic
I've just realised that one of the really excellent things about fanfic is you get to tell the writer how much what they write means to you. Before, I always felt it was a bit of a chore to leave thanks, even when I really, really enjoyed it, but reading Jensen Inside I'm actually having to stop myself saying something at the end of some of the ( Read more... ) -
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
The importance of clothes and fabric and flowers, sensual pleasures denied to a prisoner ( Read more... ) -
Anne Tyler: Digging to America
lovely
easy to read
omniscient narrator
viewpoint mostly of Iranian immigrant Maryam
two Korean babies adopted
later a Chinese baby adopted
annoying Bitsy - goodhearted but bossy - America? as traditonally viewed - seemed like a stereoypical American -
Bernhard Schlink: The Reader
In Germany in the late fifties fifteen year old Michael meets Hanna, who is 36 and they have an affair. Just as he is getting fed up with her she leaves town without saying goodbye. Eight years later he is a law student observing a long running trial of Nazis and Hanna is one of the defendants. She was a guard at a concentration camp whose ( Read more... ) -
Marina Lewycka: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
tragic
comic
felt close to them like they were like me
maus