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Apr. 25th, 2013 09:51 amTwo heist movies I watched recently and quite enjoyed: Mad Money and Dhoom 2.
What I'm reading: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald*, Ariel by Sylvia Plath, and Trust: the social virtues and the creation of prosperity by Francis Fukuyama.
What I recently finished reading: Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima, Your Royal Hostage by Antonia Fraser, Cordelia's Honor (Shards of Honor/Barrayar) by Lois McMaster Bujold, the Identical series by Lanning, Omiai by toomuchplor, the latest issue of Archaeology magazine, and lots of various other fanfic and articles.
*Apparently everyone else is reading Gatsby too since I just saw it at #2 on the Washington Post bestseller list. What happened was that they showed a preview for the movie when my mother and I went to see Oz the Great and Powerful and I mentioned to her that I still hadn't read the book. Well she told my father and later that day he came into my room with two copies of it and offered to lend it to me. Now my father is a bit of a Fitzgerald fanboy, you see, and the upstairs of the house is the Fitzgerald Suite (they got this plaque from an old B&B that was shutting down; it was actually better in the last house when the Fitzgerald Suite was the tiny bookshelf area at the end of the hallway). Fitzgerald is actually buried about two blocks from the house and my father goes to his grave a lot and brings home the stuff people leave there and he has a whole collection of these offerings in a closet in the basement. Though I think he hasn't been going as often recently and hasn't added anything to the collection in a while once the closet got pretty full. So Papa came in with these two copies of the book and was like, "Your mother says you still haven't read this classic of American literature. Want to borrow it? This copy is off Fitzgerald's grave but Mama said you might be creeped out by that, so here's another copy, too." And I was like, "Okay, I will take the other copy." And now I'm actually reading it. So that my father won't hassle me anymore. It's not quite like I expected. But I'm not done yet so I need to see how it goes. Also, the reason my mother and I went to see the Oz movie is because my grandmother was the biggest Oz fangirl ever so it was like our duty to keep up. Grandma would probably have been horrified by the retconning to be honest. Although then again it was only movie continuity and every true fan knows that sucks anyway and the books are what counts. No lie, the Oz con she took me to when I was 14, one girl in the costume contest was movie Glinda and the whole room sighed in outrage.
What I'm reading: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald*, Ariel by Sylvia Plath, and Trust: the social virtues and the creation of prosperity by Francis Fukuyama.
What I recently finished reading: Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima, Your Royal Hostage by Antonia Fraser, Cordelia's Honor (Shards of Honor/Barrayar) by Lois McMaster Bujold, the Identical series by Lanning, Omiai by toomuchplor, the latest issue of Archaeology magazine, and lots of various other fanfic and articles.
*Apparently everyone else is reading Gatsby too since I just saw it at #2 on the Washington Post bestseller list. What happened was that they showed a preview for the movie when my mother and I went to see Oz the Great and Powerful and I mentioned to her that I still hadn't read the book. Well she told my father and later that day he came into my room with two copies of it and offered to lend it to me. Now my father is a bit of a Fitzgerald fanboy, you see, and the upstairs of the house is the Fitzgerald Suite (they got this plaque from an old B&B that was shutting down; it was actually better in the last house when the Fitzgerald Suite was the tiny bookshelf area at the end of the hallway). Fitzgerald is actually buried about two blocks from the house and my father goes to his grave a lot and brings home the stuff people leave there and he has a whole collection of these offerings in a closet in the basement. Though I think he hasn't been going as often recently and hasn't added anything to the collection in a while once the closet got pretty full. So Papa came in with these two copies of the book and was like, "Your mother says you still haven't read this classic of American literature. Want to borrow it? This copy is off Fitzgerald's grave but Mama said you might be creeped out by that, so here's another copy, too." And I was like, "Okay, I will take the other copy." And now I'm actually reading it. So that my father won't hassle me anymore. It's not quite like I expected. But I'm not done yet so I need to see how it goes. Also, the reason my mother and I went to see the Oz movie is because my grandmother was the biggest Oz fangirl ever so it was like our duty to keep up. Grandma would probably have been horrified by the retconning to be honest. Although then again it was only movie continuity and every true fan knows that sucks anyway and the books are what counts. No lie, the Oz con she took me to when I was 14, one girl in the costume contest was movie Glinda and the whole room sighed in outrage.
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