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One for the Money

January 15, 2012 Books / Money / Movies / Read-A-Day 2012 / Television
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While I was work­ing on the prob­lems with my Kin­dle yes­ter­day, I was intrigued by the Kin­dle ad for a con­test to attend the movie pre­mière of Janet Evanovich’s One for the Money in New York, so I picked up the book.

It was a pretty short read and I pounded through it in just under a day — a fun read, and the newbie-​female per­spec­tive was fresh. I can see Plum being taken in a lot of dif­fer­ent direc­tions, which is obvi­ously true since there’s some­thing like sev­en­teen books in the series now, despite the fact that the first one was pub­lished in 2005. I have to admit, Kather­ine Heigl seems like a good fit for Stephanie Plum — she’s got the flus­tered female thing down pat.

Any­way, this made me want to read some more hard-​hitting mys­tery. Should I re-​read Sher­lock Holmes? (By the way, have you been fol­low­ing the sec­ond sea­son of Sher­lock? So good!)

On sec­ond thought, I should try some­thing new. What’s the best mys­tery novel you’ve read?

Proving The Rule

May 12, 2011 Food / Movies / Pictures / Post-A-Day 2011
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Although I’m not big on cake, I would love to get this one:

I’m not sure how you would go about eat­ing such a thing, though. Maybe I’ll wrap the legs up with some Twiz­zlers Pull ‘n’ Peels until it falls over, then pick at the bro­ken chunks.

Hungry For More

April 20, 2011 Books / Food / Friends / Games / Internet / Movies / Pictures / Post-A-Day 2011
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Thanks in part to the Suvudu Cage Match but mostly to Isaac L’s sug­ges­tion, I picked up the Hunger Games series a cou­ple of weeks ago. The books are short and aimed towards the “young adult” crowd so I man­aged to burn through the tril­ogy in a weekend.

First impres­sion — the first book is very sim­i­lar to Bat­tle Royale, only with a dis­tinctly Amer­i­can female per­spec­tive. And like with Bat­tle Royale, I would have been happy if the story ended with the com­ple­tion of the games. Even if Suzanne Collins planned for it to be a series the whole time, I think it would have been bet­ter if she had ended the first book a few pages sooner instead of set­ting up the sequel.

Unlike Bat­tle Royale, I did enjoy the fol­low ups. (Not so much as the first, though. I’ve real­ized I’m very milieu-​oriented.) The action made sense, even if the teen-​angst got old. It (or at least Kat­niss) wasn’t as polit­i­cal as Suvudu led me to believe, but I sup­pose not every­thing can be Dune. I did like the Capitol/​District con­flict more than Bat­tle Royale’s gen­er­a­tional one. The Hunger Games as a form of both con­trol and enter­tain­ment works bet­ter than a bizarre way to keep juve­nile delin­quents in line, and I hon­estly did feel Katniss’s hunger (read­ing straight through helped, too) and appre­ci­ated my own life cir­cum­stances a lit­tle more.


(from Kate Wheeler)

I hear they are mak­ing it into a movie, too! I like Jen­nifer Lawrence for Kat­niss. It’s pretty sim­i­lar to her Oscar-​nominated role in Winter’s Bone, so I’m sure she’ll do well. Plus she proved on Oscar night that she cleans up well for the Capi­tol scenes. Not sure about the cast­ing for Peeta and Gale, though. Josh Hutch­er­son seems scrawnier than I had pic­tured for Peeta, but he can fill out. Liam Hemsworth, on the other hand, seems too bulky for Gale. Maybe he can pull a Machin­ist, but I highly doubt it.

If you haven’t read the series, you should check it out!

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