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I’m behind with this, but it was too funny not to post. Last week SNL did a digital short mocking something I dislike, Twilight, using something I do like, Frankenstein. Hilarious!
My only quibble is that the big green guy isn’t actually Frankenstein; Frankenstein is the scientist, the green guy is The Monster. Can we try [...]
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The “In Real Life” book club I’m a part of meet on Tuesday to talk about The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye by A.S. Byatt. The book is a collection a short fairy stories that we generally enjoyed, although we didn’t have a lot to say about it. I’ll have a review of the book [...]
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It’s been a quiet week here at the blog, but that’ s because I just needed a break from blogging. I just couldn’t think of much to write about, so I figured I’d just not write anything. In place of blogging, I got a lot of other things done. I finished reading Dangerous Laughter by [...]
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It’s hard for me to imagine imagine Rob, the main character of High Fidelity as anyone other than John Cusack because of his awesome performance in the movie version. When I picked up the book version of High Fidelity by Nick Hornby, I know I was going to want to see the movie again [...]
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I just remembered that today is Sunday and that I need to write a Sunday Salon post! Today has been, perhaps, my most unproductive Sunday since I started school. Of course that would happen on the Sunday before my last week of classes! It’s not totally my fault — I slept terribly last night because [...]
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In August I read and reviewed Word Freak by Stefan Fatsis, a nonfiction, memoirish book about the world of competitive Scrabble. I loved the book, so when I heard there was a documentary about a similar topic, I started to look for it. I came across it at the video store yesterday and jumped at [...]
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I got a lot of really interesting questions about Stardust by Neil Gaiman on my first Weekly Geeks #12 post. Since this is a book I read earlier this year, I’m going to expand the WG questions into a longer review.
Andi from AndiLit asked: What did you think of Stardust? Everyone raves about [...]
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I’m not much of a movie person, so the fact that I’ve now seen two movies in two weeks is an anomaly. I wouldn’t normally post reviews or thoughts on movies, but I had such strong reactions to both of them I thought it would be appropriate.
The first movie I saw was Persepolis, an [...]
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