Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - End, The Cellar (The Beast House Triology), Paranormal Activity 3, The Dictator, Thunderstruck

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy turned out to be an interesting novel for me. The thing is I'm not interested in spies. So do not really read that many. Well I like Ian Fleming's Casino Royale mainly because it is and interesting character story (to me that is) but with Mr.Le Carré it is different. This book was all about discovering a double agent within a department in English Secret Service and despite the fact that I have fallen asleep more than once reading it, I have found the pull of the prose too strong to resist. In the end I have sat up late and finished it with some excitement. There were some books listed at the back from his filmography and the more I looked at the plots the more I was dicouraged since it looks like I like the man's writing style but not the subject matter. Then I have seen The Little Drummer Girl and it perked my interest. So I'll be on the lookout for that one.

Then I have started

The Cellar (The Beast House Triology)  I think I have read one of them already but the deal was too good to miss and I like all the Laymon books I have read so far. This one started out with a bang and I'm looking foward to keep reading it. Also I think it is better to post the pic before I start to read/watch.


Paranormal Activity 3 I have not seen one or two but this one was not that bad as to turn off (but I think I have falled asleep at some part.

The Dictator This film was bad. It is one of the most unfortunate misses that I have seen. Well I have watched it till the end but it was mostly due to 'how worse it can get' type of curiosity.

Thunderstruck This one turned out to be decent. I liked the message, the teen actors and the whole understated look of it all.

Meanwhile I keep watching Borgen (which is getting darker and darker), The Good Wife (pretty much the same but the plot is getting repetitive), Grey's Anatomy (I have a weakness for this show and now there are too many characters but still the best ones are the original cast and I think they should focus on them more), Scandal (this show is not really that good but I keep watching it  for some reason).

And Greatest Love - well I have fallen asleep during a curicial section of Episode 13 so looks like I prefer the funny parts. Anyway I intend to keep watching since Cha Seung Won is insanely hot and the characters are lovable.

Greatest Love

Yeah, yesterday evening I was looking at all the yet unwatched pile of films and dramas and suddenly I have had the urge to watch Greatest Love again. And after 2 episodes I have stayed up and watched the third one too.
I simply love Cha Seung Won on screen. Not only he is handsome (former male model) but he is also manly, funny, emotional and vulnerable. A dangerous combo. Gong Hyo Jin is not an actor I really like but the female character is such a good one (although the show is more about our male lead Dokko Jin) honest, hard working and kind that I keep rooting for her.

Meanwhile Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is going very good. The spy thing is not really my cup of tea but I love how very British it is and I also like a good mystery. Our protagonist Smiley is trying to expose a mole in an English spy organisation. We have some candidates but nothing is clear yet.

Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, Too Precious to Lose - End, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Sympathy for Lady Vengeance   I liked this film better this second viewing. There is an element of surreal that I appreciate and Lee Young Ae is such a great actor. All in all a great second viewing.

Too Precious To Lose and with that ends the three novella book that was entertaining. At best of times, Barbara Cartland is great read with wonderful period detail and interesting fairy tale stories and at worst of times she is an entertaining diversion. Too Precious To Lose help me shake Heart-Shaped Box off.

And now I have started my first John LeCarré novel which is Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. And I love how very English the prose is so far. Mr.Le Carré is a good story teller and I hope to enjoy this novel. The reason I chose it was because they made a film out of it and I wanted to read the story first before watching it.

Hear-Shaped Box - End

Heart - Shaped Box turned out to be a very good novel. It was not really scary but I liked the story, the way everything was described, the sentiments in it and most of all, the unexpected happy ending! I'll be looking out for other Joe Hill books.

Oldboy, Bol Bachchan, The Corridor, What's Your Number?, Friends With Benefits, They Do It With Mirrors, Bottle Rocket

A weekend fest of films :)

Oldboy  This is one of the films which I want to see again right after finishing the viewing. It is like a slap in the face and the impact does not lessen knowing the twist. Kudos Park Chan Wook.

Bol Bachchan  This is not a good film by any means but I have found myself laughing at Abhishek. Ok I like him best but it would not be totally biased to say that he is the only thing that livens this one up.

The films below, I have watched on Digiturk

The Corridor  mediocre film.

What's Your Number? I'd probably not like this one this much if it was not a rom com. I have a weakness for the genre and this one stands to multiple viewings.

Friends With Benefits I don't know how many times I have watched this one and I like it just as well with each viewing. Great rom com.

They Do It With Mirrors  This BBC Marple Adaptation was OK. Nothing more, nothing less. I'm more of a Poirot fan myself.

Bottle Rocket  Wes Anderson is a good director. This I think is his first feature film and it is a very good one. I like Wilson brothers too and they are both great in it.

Heart Shaped Box is going very well. Mr.Hill is not as good as his dad in the scary parts but I'm loving the non scary sections of the story (planning to post a pic after I have finished the book).

The Thieves, The Housekeeper + The Professor - End, Heart Shaped Box

The Thieves is fun and entertaining. Yeah it had lots of plot holes but for a heist film it flowed well and more importantly action scenes were good. I could tell who is who and who is doing what. I would not call it the height of good film making but I'm very glad of the purchase and see myself viewing it more than once.

The Housekeeped + The Professor was so so good. I liked a lot better than The Diving Pool. And this is coming from someone who doesn't really care for mathematics :)

I have started to read  Heart Shaped Box written by Joe Hill (who apparently is Stephen King's son) and so far I think the talent did not bypass Mr.Hill. The book is good, not as great as Mr.King's but a lot better than many out there. I'm curious to see how it will progress.
This is about a man who is an ageing heavy metal rock star with a taste for macabre/weird. He purchases the suit of a dead old man which the seller claimed that is haunted by the ghost of the old man. But now it turns out that the old man is the step dad of one of the groupies who he lived with for some time and then dumped (this is a habit of his) and this girl who was clinically depressed has killed herself and this is the revenge of her sister and the dad (who was a hypnotist when he was alive and instructed the sister on what to do to get their revenge this way).

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Retreat, Jack and Jill, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Pillars of the Earth - End, The Housekeeper + The Professor

Well yesterday was a bank holiday and everyone was out so I get to stay at home and watch films all day :)

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel I liked it a lot but it is not that good a film. I have shed A LOT of tears during. And I have missed India so much.

Retreat It was a decent viewing but nothing really special

Jack and Jill I have a weakness for Adam Sandler. This film, while it did so poor at the box office and got bad reviews was hillarious to me and I have had a good time with it.

Breakfast at Tiffany's Perfect. The more I watch this film, the more I like it. The only thing I would change in it is Mickey Rooney.


The Pillars of the Earth  This book was intense. I loved it despite it being a little over its head in the last section. At least it was a happy ending. Lovers united, villains got their just desserts and all was well in Kingsbridge in the end.

And this happy but tired reader turned to a completely different book
(I have finally recevied all my orders from amazon and am so so happy, I was able to order secondhand books this time since my manager was kind enough to allow me to give their home address and he brought all of them with him, and this morning I have received my order from amazon usa Thank God. Yippeeee!!!)

The Housekeeper + The Professor written by Yoko Ogawa, and I have finished the first chapter which brought me much happiness in that particular clean Japanese translated to English, prose. This one is so far different from The Diving Pool (which was deliciously sinister). So far we have a disabled maths professor (he only has 80 minutes of memory and then it is erased, he cannot build new memories) and a successful housekeeper who is proud of his job and they managed to find a way to communicate. Let's see what will happen next :)