24.Jan.2010 Read the Book, See the Movie Challenge
1 January 2010 – 31 December 2010 You do know that I need to join this challenge, right? Comparing book and its movie adaptation is really my thing. In 2009, I did that with: Breakfast at Tiffany’s The Color Purple Silk A Christmas Carol Wicked (not a movie, but with its musical) Dracula + movie [...]
09.Jan.2010 Orbis Terrarum Wrap-up
I kinda dreaded wrapping up this challenge, because I predicted it would be the longest of them all. And it is. But here we go, my last challenge wrap-up of 2009! I joined Orbis Terrarum Challenge in March 2009, running from 1 March to 31 December 2009. The rule is to read 10 different books [...]
15.Nov.2009 Sunday Salon: Mixed Bookish Things Feat. Two Children Books and Fight Club
Not a good week. Caught cold. Home sick one day but had to work for the rest of the week. Didn’t manage to compile a proper review. But don’t despair, I can still talk about books! I’m halfway through The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. The Classics Circuit is going to enter the third [...]
08.Nov.2009 Bookish Movie Mini-Reviews: Dracula and Mao’s Last Dancer + Holiday Swap
Dracula (1992) I told you earlier when I reviewed Dracula that I was going to watch its movie soon. So I did. It’s directed by Francis Ford Coppola and has a line of stars: Gary Oldman, Anthony Hopkins, Winona Ryder, and Keanu Reeves. The movie is definitely more sexual (sometimes unnecessarily I thought). The main, [...]
17.Oct.2009 A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and the Disney Movie
I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their house pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it. Their faithful Friend and Servant, C.D One [...]
11.Oct.2009 TSS: Movie Mini-Reviews: Julie & Julia, Coraline, Shawshank Redemption, My Neighbors the Yamadas
I’m going to watch WICKED the Broadway Musical this Wednesday so I’m reading Wicked the book by Gregory Maguire feverishly so I can finish it before Wednesday — which is a more difficult task than I thought, because the book is LONG. I’ve been reading it for about 2 weeks now! Surely I will write [...]
03.Oct.2009 Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote and the Movie
New York 1940s. Playgirl Holly Golightly captures the heart of everybody that passes her path. Our narrator, Fred — as she calls him, is a shy wannabe writer. Neighbours at first, they start to develop a unique relationship. Holly is all charm — the type that men want but can’t have, free as a bird. [...]
24.Sep.2009 Silk by Alessandro Baricco and the Movie
The Book Written in fable style, Silk tells a story of a silk merchant in southern France who is appointed by people in his vilage to make a long voyage to Japan in search of good quality of silkworms, as there’s an epidemic that ruins the regular supply of silkworms in their neighbourhood countries. And [...]
16.Sep.2009 Movie Mini-Review: Dolls
Dolls Japanese, 2002 “Westerners loathe the notion of death. There is no reason. Life is considered to be something meaningful. There is no religion which justifies the notion of death. In Japan, there’s no philosophy. So death seems something sublime, once it’s decorated with an ornament like love. You’ll find something creeping towards you and [...]
09.Sep.2009 Movie Mini-Reviews: Jin-Roh, An Autumn Afternoon, Cheri
A few movies that I watched recently: Foreign Movies Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade Japanese, Released: 1999 Japan, 2000 US A world in future dystopian Japan where Little Red Riding Hood is a bomb-carrier terrorist and Wolf is elite government army. Red and Wolf are involved in political mess that bring them closer as two wounded [...]