Oh I'm horrible! My posts aren't recent and all I've managed to post in forever are damned reviews. but I'm sure anyone who bothers to check this page at all will forgive me for my over-workedness, my laziness and my new found insomnia (which reminds me I should just blog at 4 am when I can't sleep).
we all know the rule: no blogging about work so a simple recap is LONG 17 hours on Friday, 4 hour day yesterday and today... well, I'm here until around 4pm when I need to get aurora.
My very sore limbs, from moving awkard tables and in general being way too uptight for my own good, went home last night probably earlier than I should have and I spoiled myself by continuing to ignore the stack of dirty dishes, the garbage and only doing one load of laundry. Instead of doing something productive I took a shower and curled up with some of my best friends (being Lizzy and Mr. Darcy). I can't tell you how surprised I was a few months ago to hear Chelsea's review of one of my all time favourite novels. Dry? Dusty? Boring? I've been slowly re-reading it (until last night when I devoured the second volume) and I promise I have been looking for some sign of boring detail and non-intriguing characters and I have been heartily disappointed! I've read Austen's P&P at least 7 times, maybe more? (and the movie at least II & III more times than I can count), and I still get silly little grins, laugh out loud, scoff and even last night as I paused to get a drink of water just as Lady Catherin de Bourgh insisted Lizzy show her around that "pretty little wilderness" I actually FELT! anxious as if I didn't know almost word for word!
So Chelsea.. I am sorry if you are reading this but I want to slap you with a clue bat very roughly! Perhaps it is your tone of reading. I swear some day I will read the entire novel to you and you will like it. For Lizzy's animation reminds me of us and Mr. Darcy... le sigh. Well, if there is a more perfect creature I know not of it. Perhaps I will "Surprise" you with your very own Audio CD of my rendering of Austen. ha! How delightful that sounds.... For me.
Aurora is Potty trained (?) no diaper for about a week. She still, of course, likes to fight me when I suggest she go to the bathroom, so I must try to control my urges and let her do it herself. We're both so overwhelmingly controlling it's hard for us not to argue.
I haven't seen her much this week, as you may have imagined and I am a little sad. She hasn't been happy with the current arrangments (i.e., I was home in the mornings two days and getting ready for work when she awoke and she didn't like it one bit). Thursday evening as I kissed her goodnight she reminded me to make sure I "go to work 'morrow. No home!" Certainly didn't give me warm fuzzies. Actually made me fill a bit of a failure. but I'm trying to ignore the gnawing in my gut.
Last night went to bed at 10.. put in P&P disc 2 and was awake at least through the first 45 minutes, maybe longer. Eddie came home around 1 and I woke up again and the anxiety in my chest at being awoken wouldn't let me go back to sleep so I stayed up and watched TV with him. He went to sleep around 2 and I watched Sylvia Scarlett! an absolutely adorable movie with Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant (YUMMY). WEnt to bed around 4 and got up at 9 this morning.
Okay. I'm staring at the notes on my desk at work and I am feeling guilty for not accomplishing anything on them YET! So I am off. Yours, &c.
31.8.08
6.8.08
Breaking Dawn review With SPOILERS
le sigh. I know. not the reaction I was hoping for either. give me a minute to gear up. I don't feel so hot, but since I read the book Saturday evening and Sunday Morning I thought if I waited too long to review I would never end up doing so.
I searced for BD in the airport along with a few others. We walked away disappointed, but certainly not alone, which was slightly comforting. After flying into Boise and getting a bite to eat I made Eddie take me to the mall so I could pick up the book.
I had to wait behind a woman who kept asking too many questions and people were on the phone and computer trying to help her so i waited... and waited and then Eddie teased me because he said i looked like I would rip an arm off of anyone who tried to take the book from me. And he was right. I had it wrapped up nice and protectively in my crossed arms, against my chest, rocking back and forth slightly.
I was so excited I kicked up my feet in the car and read while Eddie went into Best Buy. Finished prologue and first chapter and I was happy to be on the way home to devour the book (and hopefully having Edward devour Bella).
I THINK i probably ruined myself a bit with the fan fiction. I already have such a mind set about vampires that I wasn't willing to give much for Meyer's own creations, but then writing it from my own perspective... which, while I don't think is BETTER per say it certainly is more likely to fit my own ideal of vampires (okay I gave in with the whole vampire sex thing...that just really weirds me out; even though I wrote it too).
BUT! After the first few chapters (I read fast so maybe it was farther along) but I almost threw the book. Something was OFF about Bella's perspective for that first part of the book and what with the disappointment of the wedding and THEN THE NON-EXISTENT Sex scene during the entire honeymoon. well, I was livid.
She had more sexual description in the other 3 books. Which I find hypocritical ms. i-won't-condone-premarital-sex... great.. but you'll get everyone worked up to a frenzy with foreplay and THEN when they are legal in the eyes of god, or whatever, all we freakin' get is an "i love you" and then they wake up the next morning. I'll let my emotions out now, "Thank you for writing these stories. what the fuck were you thinking with that honeymoon you bitch?"
AND HERE IS THE BIG ONE. IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THE STORY DO NOT READ FURTHER
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Bella getting pregnant!? That was my least favourite story line EVER and she went there. Meyer's actually knocked up a human bella with a vampiric edward.
CRINGE! CRY! BERATE! SCREAM!
deep breath.
Oddly enough once Jacob takes over the story I enjoy it much better. Perhaps it was because it felt normal and his anger suddenly seemed okay as my own anger was bubblig under the surface (or not so much as Eddie had to listen to me rant and rave before I could force myself back to the book). I like him now. I never really did much before.
Edward (AkA leech) was certainly not the hero of this story .. which was disappointing. I felt too detached from him. Maybe because it comes from Jake and then when bella picks up again she is too distracted.
And Alice. weep. I missed her this time around. yea yea hero for the day and all that good stuff but I WANT ALICE!
I forced myself to read through it... liking jake more than I imagined... PISSED BEYOND BELIEF that meyers had him imprint on Nessie. what the hell?!
but... i have to admit Bella is more natural as a vampire. I like her again at that point. And what with having a daughter of my own I can't say I didn't want to let Nessie nibble on me all she wanted.
But and again.. here is where reading the fanfiction can get you into trouble; there were whole chapters I felt I had read before and seemed out of place in THIS Story. LIke she just picked them up and dropped them in. It was disconcerting. And not that I think any other would take someone else's story.. but I really felt like she had read fanfics herself and copied the ideas.
I know. I KNOW! I'm sorry. I'm sure she didn't. THere are really only so many responses. People were bound to land on some of them and I'm sure there were far more fanfics that guessed other pieces.
And the other piece which made me sick... and confused the hell out of me (she didn't want her readers to be lead astray by premarital sex but it's okay to have someone drink blood from a cup?) Anyway, yes, it makes perfect sense for Bella to need blood if she's having a vampiric child. This is something I agree with. BUT GIVE IT THROUGH AN IV FOR FUCK SAKE! The fact that Bella actually SUDDENLY liked the smell and taste of blood and sucked it through a straw while eating a plate of eggs. I was actually sick to my stomach. Talk about some confused messages in these books.
But I'm sure I'll read it again. At some point. After savoring the first three again. It was just so against everything I believe to be "normal" in the vampire world - yes I know lots and lots of interesting myths to be explored (like the vampires with the suckers in their hands) - but nothing will ever compare to Rice's vampiric bible or lestat... sooooo.
Nice try Meyers. Sorry if my language is overboard. but I get pretty emotional about my books. And I'm very much looking forward to Midnight Sun.. I think you get it right through Edward as you have never done before.
I searced for BD in the airport along with a few others. We walked away disappointed, but certainly not alone, which was slightly comforting. After flying into Boise and getting a bite to eat I made Eddie take me to the mall so I could pick up the book.
I had to wait behind a woman who kept asking too many questions and people were on the phone and computer trying to help her so i waited... and waited and then Eddie teased me because he said i looked like I would rip an arm off of anyone who tried to take the book from me. And he was right. I had it wrapped up nice and protectively in my crossed arms, against my chest, rocking back and forth slightly.
I was so excited I kicked up my feet in the car and read while Eddie went into Best Buy. Finished prologue and first chapter and I was happy to be on the way home to devour the book (and hopefully having Edward devour Bella).
I THINK i probably ruined myself a bit with the fan fiction. I already have such a mind set about vampires that I wasn't willing to give much for Meyer's own creations, but then writing it from my own perspective... which, while I don't think is BETTER per say it certainly is more likely to fit my own ideal of vampires (okay I gave in with the whole vampire sex thing...that just really weirds me out; even though I wrote it too).
BUT! After the first few chapters (I read fast so maybe it was farther along) but I almost threw the book. Something was OFF about Bella's perspective for that first part of the book and what with the disappointment of the wedding and THEN THE NON-EXISTENT Sex scene during the entire honeymoon. well, I was livid.
She had more sexual description in the other 3 books. Which I find hypocritical ms. i-won't-condone-premarital-sex... great.. but you'll get everyone worked up to a frenzy with foreplay and THEN when they are legal in the eyes of god, or whatever, all we freakin' get is an "i love you" and then they wake up the next morning. I'll let my emotions out now, "Thank you for writing these stories. what the fuck were you thinking with that honeymoon you bitch?"
AND HERE IS THE BIG ONE. IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THE STORY DO NOT READ FURTHER
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what the fuck is up with Bella (no I'm serious)
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
Bella getting pregnant!? That was my least favourite story line EVER and she went there. Meyer's actually knocked up a human bella with a vampiric edward.
CRINGE! CRY! BERATE! SCREAM!
deep breath.
Oddly enough once Jacob takes over the story I enjoy it much better. Perhaps it was because it felt normal and his anger suddenly seemed okay as my own anger was bubblig under the surface (or not so much as Eddie had to listen to me rant and rave before I could force myself back to the book). I like him now. I never really did much before.
Edward (AkA leech) was certainly not the hero of this story .. which was disappointing. I felt too detached from him. Maybe because it comes from Jake and then when bella picks up again she is too distracted.
And Alice. weep. I missed her this time around. yea yea hero for the day and all that good stuff but I WANT ALICE!
I forced myself to read through it... liking jake more than I imagined... PISSED BEYOND BELIEF that meyers had him imprint on Nessie. what the hell?!
but... i have to admit Bella is more natural as a vampire. I like her again at that point. And what with having a daughter of my own I can't say I didn't want to let Nessie nibble on me all she wanted.
But and again.. here is where reading the fanfiction can get you into trouble; there were whole chapters I felt I had read before and seemed out of place in THIS Story. LIke she just picked them up and dropped them in. It was disconcerting. And not that I think any other would take someone else's story.. but I really felt like she had read fanfics herself and copied the ideas.
I know. I KNOW! I'm sorry. I'm sure she didn't. THere are really only so many responses. People were bound to land on some of them and I'm sure there were far more fanfics that guessed other pieces.
And the other piece which made me sick... and confused the hell out of me (she didn't want her readers to be lead astray by premarital sex but it's okay to have someone drink blood from a cup?) Anyway, yes, it makes perfect sense for Bella to need blood if she's having a vampiric child. This is something I agree with. BUT GIVE IT THROUGH AN IV FOR FUCK SAKE! The fact that Bella actually SUDDENLY liked the smell and taste of blood and sucked it through a straw while eating a plate of eggs. I was actually sick to my stomach. Talk about some confused messages in these books.
But I'm sure I'll read it again. At some point. After savoring the first three again. It was just so against everything I believe to be "normal" in the vampire world - yes I know lots and lots of interesting myths to be explored (like the vampires with the suckers in their hands) - but nothing will ever compare to Rice's vampiric bible or lestat... sooooo.
Nice try Meyers. Sorry if my language is overboard. but I get pretty emotional about my books. And I'm very much looking forward to Midnight Sun.. I think you get it right through Edward as you have never done before.
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