So, I decided that I will use this journal to review various books and movies. Yay! Not feeling particularly articulate at the moment, but I intend on trying out the popular new series Twilight. I actually got the idea to use this as a review blog from the xkcd forum and from another blog by Twilight Guy. I tried reading it, but wasn't really happy with the review after reading so many other negative ones. I decided the best thing to do was to read the book for myself and make my own judgment. After all, I dared to read Eragon, and this can't be much worse than that, can it?
I am, however, going off to England in just under two weeks and will be studying there for the next semester. Therefore I'm not sure how much time I'll have; hopefully I can get in an entry per month. That's the goal for now, but ideally it'd be much more frequently.
Most recently, I read Susan Cooper's Over Sea, Under Stone. It was a good young adult read, I remember enjoying it the first time I read it six years ago. However, it was frustrating to watch the characters bumble about - talk about dramatic irony. I just started The Dark Is Rising, but I don't know when I'll finish it as I want to take on this Twilight review project. I will say that TDIR seems to have a slightly older target audience (not by that much, though). I also read this six years ago, but have no idea what happens, and am thoroughly intrigued. Not enough to distract me from the Olympics, though!
I also recently saw Definitely, Maybe. SPOILERS It was cute, a little too cutesy at times, but what bothered me the most was that both Rachel Weisz's character and Isla Fischer's seemed sooo pretentious; they seemed like the writers tried to hard to make them a strong, independent, opinionated and quirky woman. Where were the flaws? Also, Elizabeth Banks' character was the only one I could at all imagine as a mother, so that wasn't surprising. I missed why he married her in the first place? And then why they were getting the divorce?
