5 posts tagged “a sweet far thing”
I am about 250 pages from the end of A Sweet Far Thing and I really hate Libba Bray. There is just no way that good things can really come from the mess she has unveiled. I had hopes for this book, that it would have a great deal more of Kartik in it, but I think it's even less than Rebel Angels. I love some of the scenes she has with Gemma and Kartik, but she marks them all with an awful exclamation point. Since I spoiled myself concerning the end with Kartik I can't say that she is particularly good to him in this book and that makes me really sad. I wish Ann and Felicity were left behind in the realms. They are really annoying. I actually am annoyed with 90% of what Gemma does and I don't know how it is that I claim this trilogy as something I like. But I would read it again. I would love to get it on audiobook so D can listen to it.
I bought two new books today. I will have to read The Host before Thursday, so it will be a few days until I get around to reading them. One is The Blue Girl by Charles De Lint and the other is Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr. Both are YA books but I don't think that means anything at all. I hope it doesn't anyway. I also have plans of reading a book D has been wanting me to read forever called Sword Dancer by Jennifer Roberson. That is a pretty good reading pile.
After that we watched Stardust again as Belle had never seen it. I was excited to share Ben Barnes with her. I am trying to cultivate an obsession for him and it is only lukewarm and lending more toward admiration than fascination. But I did find a few pictures of him so I had to decorate this post in one.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl was next and I think the consensus was that Johnny Depp is a god.
Today, we watched The Bad Mother's Handbook. Another Robert Pattinson show. He was utterly adorable in this. I really liked his character and I hope that David will watch with me sometimes. I can honestly say that he was the best actor out of all of the cast.
Tonight after we took Belle home we watched Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. I am trying to get all refreshed before the new movie comes out. I don't have much expectation for the new one. I totally think Harrison Ford is too old to pull of Indy and Shia LaBouf isn't going to be able to distract me from Ford taking his Geritol. But I plan to rewatch all the old ones and they were really good even though they were formulaic and cheesy.
I got set straight by Belle that A Great and Terrible Beauty is being made into a movie. So my dream is someone else's dream too. The script is supposedly been bought by Mel Gibson's production company and that worries me to death, but, okay. There is much talk about who should play who but I know some of the suggestions confound me. No Kiera Knightley. I have managed to read 100 pages into A Sweet Far Thing and I am distraught for the lack of Kartik. It makes the first part of the book worthless to have him absent. If he doesn't show up soon I might start on the last page and read backward.
Lastly is a little comic of the Twilight movie that made me smile. Today was Twilight Tuesday and MTV had an article talking about the plan to shoot the sequels together should the movie see enough of a turn out in the theaters. It pretty much said what has already been said and I was looking for more concrete things than what-could-bes and might-bes. The other thing was a little clip on Peter Facinelli and Carlisle's car. What happened to interviews? I want more of what I was getting during filming.
Back to Ben Barnes, I also finished Prince Caspian. It was a quick and sometimes pedantic read. The voice that the entire book is written in is so obviously masculine that sometimes it feels rather cardboard. I don't know how to actually describe it. It's just a shallowness. Like if a male is telling a story where you aren't really described the situation, but you are getting a summation. I am looking forward to the movie at the end of the week. I am hoping that I find this more memorable than The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe movie. I just can't say that I recall a whole lot of what actually happens in the first. This is the bane of being un-fan-like about something.
I am hemming and hawing now, whether to read The Host or A Sweet Far Thing. I have missed Kartik this last week without him. I even found Gemma Doyle fanfic and I couldn't read it without spoiling myself. Of course, because it is my way, I did manage to spoil myself some anyway. It's not as bad as last time where my nosiness spoiled me for the end of Rebel Angel's. This is more of a 'and after everything that happens, this happens' thing. I will stop talking about before I write it out and spoil Belle. So I guess I just made my decision. I will be reading, A Sweet Far Thing next. I wouldn't be sad if that got made into a movie. I don't have a clue as to who would play Gemma or Kartik. I would love for Kate Winslet to play Miss Moore. I don't know who I would have play Gemma's mother or father. Could I pick Charlie Cox to play Thomas though? And Pippa, Felicity and Ann... *sigh*. Too hard. I have one person cast in my version of A Great and Terrible Beauty. I will have to keep it a work in progress.
Today it is only 18 days until the 31st. I am hoping to be awake and coherent at 10AM that day to go to the bookstore and read the Special Edition Version of Eclipse for the Breaking Dawn chapter 1. I have tried to talk D into buying me the new version but as I want the paperback versions too, he's not as convinced to buy every version that comes out. So I might be living at the bookstore reading and rereading the chapter until 2 August. How pathetic. But it can't be helped. I feel like I've been waiting for this forever and it hasn't been a month. I can't imagine how those who read Eclipse when it came out feel. They are probably heavily medicated.
I have so many things I want to write about today that I just don't even know where to start. I finished Rebel Angels this afternoon. What can I say, I really love Kartik. I loved how his character was developed in book two of the trilogy, although I was a bit disappointed about how things end between him and Gemma. The action was great in this book. The twists and turns were diabolical. All those things you sort of thought you were right about you find out you are, but you no longer think you are. It's tricky. I liked Gemma more in this book than in A Great and Terrible Beauty. She was still terribly immature at times but she isn't as blindly naive. I was ambivalent up to a certain point about Simon Middleton and then flat out didn't like him. Not to mention I measured him up to Kartik the entire time and he doesn't compare. I think Bray is doing an excellent job of defining the taboo and the expectation of the society. I just wish that Kartik wasn't taboo. I'll take him if Gemma can't make it work.
I went and bought The Host and A Sweet Far Thing today. I am currently torn because I don't know if I should read either one of those or Stardust. Stardust, I could probable read by tomorrow. Okay I have to study so maybe not. But I could read it quickly. The Host is 600+ pages and A Sweet Far Thing is 800+. Those are real commitments. With how fuzzy my head is at the moment I just don't know which is the better book to start. And I'm reading Twilight again with Jason and I told him I would be ready to discuss chapter 5 by Thursday. So many books and so little time.
While at the bookstore I took note of the display for Twilight. It is so big and always in flux. Sometimes stocked, sometimes not so much. The woman who checked us out gave me a small happy when she noticed that I was buying The Host and asked me if I was waiting for Breaking Dawn to come out. I admitted, shyly, that I was and told her how many days until 2 August. I mentioned the movie coming out in December and she surmised that it was going to be huge. She thinks the sequels won't be a problem. It made me feel good about the whole situation. Random bookstore clerk who sees popularity of the books, thinking that the franchise is a go. *sigh* Happy thoughts.
Speaking of Twilight, today is Twilight Tuesday and MTV released the official movie poster. I'm not that excited about it. I think it could have been better. Edward looks disjointed to me, not like he's looking over her. I think she looks soft and he looks too dead. Maybe he should look dead, but it just makes me not like it. I do like one thing. His eye looks topaz. Score points there. There was a fan poster made by Loleia that I liked, I'll post that too. If I had my choice between this and the cast photo I would pick the cast photo. I think the teaser trumps them both. Although with some time and space I can recognize that the teaser caters too much to those who already know and love the books and were going to see the movie anyway. It could have been catered more toward a more diversified audience.
Tomorrow is my second exam in Art History and I am not, exactly, looking forward to it. I am sort of dreading it. But to save me from real dread, the class is at the Getty. I hope to go in early and be able to look at one statue in particular. I want to do my paper on it. It's called the Venus Genetrix. She's very much in the style of the Winged Victory of Samothrace. I hope to compare them to one another. It will also give me time to study a bit before the exam. Of course I don't think we will have a tour tomorrow. Since we have so much to make up after last weeks class fiasco.
After class it will be a comic book day. Angel: After the Fall, Buffy and Lords of Avalon are all coming out tomorrow. It will be a nice reward after the exam. LOA left off at the place where Seren is stabbed by Kerrigan. It's one of my favorite parts of the book and I loved seeing it done in comic. D told me that after Angel: After the Fall that they are going to do a Spike: After the Fall. I am interested in that. I still can't get into the Buffy comics. I don't like the legions of slayers. It was hard enough for me when there was Faith. I hope that there could be a Twilight Manga. That would make for good adaptation.
I have been having a bit of a hard time reading lately. I'm unfocused and undisciplined and have been tending to get sucked into some truly horrible fanfic rather than finishing what I have started. I explained it today as being a heroine addict and taking cough medicine to get me through. It is a bad, nasty habit that is attached to a goodly amount of self loathing. But enough belaboring... I have been reading Rebel Angel's for almost an entire week. I am liking it well enough, but would like to just be done with it already. I am looking forward to finishing the Gemma Doyle Trilogy with A Sweet Far Thing. I hope the last book has more Kartik in it than this one does. I am not feeling the Simon Middleton vibe. I don't care if Kartik is taboo in her society. They kissed once and I want more of the same.
Lastly, after The Host, I am going to attempt to read Stardust so D's head won't explode. I have yet to see the movie because I haven't read the book. D would love to watch the movie again and I'm the wrench in the works. I owe him this small favor. So it's been added to my cue. Of course at the rate that I'm reading this could be reading for next month. How did I go from reading a book a day to not finishing one in five days? It's Twilight. It ruined me in so many ways.
