Tanu Weds Manu

It has been strange since the start of the week. I wanted to watch 7 Khoon Maaf but it was so bad that I actually fell asleep and the next night I wanted to watch An Affair (which I have seen about 5 times now I guess) and I fell asleep during viewing. I thought that this was caused by my waking up every morning at 06:00 o'clock to run (heh - I'm a bit proud of this) but last night I gave

Tanu Weds Manu a chance and not only I have finished the film without a yawn, I even watched some of the making of docu. It is not a good film by any means but it was entertaining.

Tatta Hitotsu No Koi, How to Train Your Dragon, Toy Story 3

This weekend was animation for films and Japanese for dramas.

Toy Story 3 I liked it so much that I have actually shed tears over the characters. Great sequel

How to Train Your Dragon I liked this one a lot too. I cried while watching this too! But not as much as Toy Story 3.

Tatta Hitotsu No Koi Another winner after Nobuta Wo Produce. Kame was adorably cute and a good actor and despite the fact that the female lead couldn't really cry well (the same girl in Hotaru no Hikari) I liked this love story very much. The best thing about it was how they treated the age old story. Everthing was very realistic and without any melodrama (well not everything, the fight scenes were laughably bad - but that is my only pet peeve). But the writing was very good and the direction excellent. I cried (again and again almost in each episode). Nevertheless it will not appeal to one who doesn't care for young love. Otherwise I'll recommend with a clean conscience.

Lord of the Flies - End, Love In the Time of Cholera and Nobuta Wo Produce Eps. 4-8

Lord of the Flies ended very quickly since I actually kept on reading it while getting a pedicure and while waiting for the nail polish to dry. It is an excellent book.

Now I have started Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera which started very very good. Unlike popular opinion I don't really care for Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novels (a lot of people I know consider 100 Years of Solitude their favorite novel, it was definitely very good but didn't appeal to me as strongly it did to the rest of the world's readers. This one though started with an interesting death and keeps getting interesting as I read it. It seems that purchasing the price pack (which included 100 Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera and another book Memories of My Melancholy Whores).

And Nobuta keeps going on awesome, I was very very close to marathoning the remaining two episodes but decided to save them for tonight insaallah. I gave up hoping for a happy ending but wish at least for a definite one (I don't really care for ambigious endings in general)

Nobuta Wo Produce - First Four Episodes

I loved it so far. Shuji is, not suprisingly, my favorite character (I almost never suffer from secondary male syndrome since started being honest to myself) because he has a kind heart and not averse to critisism about himself. Furthermore he listens to it and thinks about it.
Akira is supposed to be cool character but I disliked him for some reason (not because he is the secondary male but maybe because he is usually drunk and unnecessarily affectionate). Nobuta is a character I can't understand, I can identify with her goodness but they way she seems to give up and her seeming indifference to being damaged puzzles me.

Of course being introduced to Shuji, she starts to change, as she does and I want them to be together and experience that sweet high school love but the drama has a serious tone and being told by Shuji's voice, so I'm not really hopeful for those two walking into the sunset hand in hand with Akira being a happy cheabol son (I didn't really like him but I still would like him to be happy)

Last Night At Chateau Marmont- End, Lord of the Flies

The weekend was active and I only managed to watch season finale of The Good Wife (I love this show) and some episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - last season I think.

But I have finished Last Night at Chateau Marmont and I liked it much better than I thought I would in the beginning.

Lord of the Flies I have read I think twice before but at an apparently early age since even though I remember some horrible scenes in it, overall I feel like I have started a new book and a good one at that.

Thelma and Louise

I liked it even more so in this second viewing. Great story and a fab ending.

Tales of the Otori - End, The English Patient, Last Night At Chateu Marmont

I loved loved loved Tales of the Otori. Not only it was good prose but the descriptions of the costumes and surroundings were also very much to my taste.

I have started Last Night At Chateu Marmont by Lauren Weisberger. I like her prose and despite the fact none of her other books are as good as Devil Wears Prada, they are at least entertaining.

Last night I have watched The English Patient and I liked it better the second time. The acting, the music, the cinematography are all so so good.

Tales of the Otori: Brilliance of the Moon, The Ghost Writer, Dum Maro Dum

I'm currently reading the third book of The Tales of the Otori: Brilliance of the Moon and I'm loving each page. The odd thing is that some of the excitement of reading the first book sort of waned but I can't decide whether it is because the story is not as exciting or because I'm used to it so some of the shine fell off. Either way this is not the first time I feel like this and there are very few exceptions one of them being Harry Potter, that one got better with each book and the ending was the high point.

Meanwhile I have watched

Dum Maro Dum which was not good and

The Ghost Writer which I liked a lot. And not because Ewan McGregor is starring. I liked the filming, the close up shots, the uncluttered sets and cinematography.

Silk

Silk: this film didn't leave any impression but since some parts of it were in Japan, it sort of connected nicely with Across The Nightingale Floor, which gets better and better as I read.

Revenge of the Sith, Nicholas Nickleby- End, Tales of the Otori Book 1 - Accross the Nightingale Floor

Revenge of the Sith was actually better than I remembered. Liked all the actors and it was suitable dark and tied nicely with the remaining films. I do love Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christiansen was not bad either. Natalie Portman was luminous but they didn't have much of a chemistry with Hayden.

Nicholas Nickleby finally ended and I was in tears of joy. Well nothing really beats a happy ending and Mr.Dickens was obliging after all the misery he has put us through since his villains are truly evil characters and it was great to see the good guys triumph over them.

Now I have started the first book of the Tales of the Otori and predictably I'm loving it. She made a great fictional world but so much of Japanese culture & history are incorporated in it. So far, so very good.

Meanwhile I have decided to learn Korean.

Mişs Potter

It was a decent enough film. Rene Zellweger is a decent actor and I do like Ewan McGregor (although his role was not that much). I liked the film in the end but it sure didn't carve much of an impression.

My Girlfriend is A Gumiho - End

Last night I have finished My Girlfriend is a Gumiho and I ended up really loving it. Never thought I'd shed so many tears in the last episode since there were emotional scenes earlier and I watched them normally, my usual reacting was laughing at the funny bits. This ended up being a good purchase.

My Girlfriend is a Gumiho Still

I have finished episode three last night and I'm definitely enjoying it. Light and funny it was probably just what I needed. I doubt that it will turn into an obsession though.