I just remembered why I was a lit major instead of film studies...
After receiving our latest Netflix arrival last week -- P.S., I Love You -- I sort of began to organize my room again. It's a really good movie and I'm now kind of on this Hillary Swank kick after seeing Freedom Fighters two weeks ago.
So I kind of organize my little corner of the house little by little -- such a French saying. What, like you'd actually expect the French to take on daunting tasks and set to work on them until they're completed? Right, I knew I was partially French! Well anyways, I began sorting out my books most recently. That was a.) convenient because I only finished reading Suite Française a few hours before and b.) good for me because I'm such a nerd and can't stop reading.
Oddly enough, the books I picked out to read on the plane back to France after spending my February "winter" break in California surfaced to the top of my book stack. The two I picked -- narrowed down from a pile of 18 more specifically -- were Eat, Pray, Love and P.S., I Love You. No wonder the plot seemed vaguely familiar when I was watching the film. Duh, the film jogged my memory back to one February day in Costco, reading the backs of handfuls of book jackets. I'm sure you can guess, I never actually brought those books with me to France because of my limited packing space.
Well, after seeing the movie, I'm nearly halfway done with the book.
And it's a thousand times better than the movie thus far! Even though I enjoyed the movie, the producer/director took a lot of creative liberty in changing up everything from the main character herself to the actual setting of the story.
So I'm interested to see where this will take me. Even more interested to finally get to reading all those books thrown under my bed -- due to the lack of space in my three other bookshelves -- that I've yet to read in my 23 years of existence. Ok, let's be serious here, 19 years of literacy.
Wanna know the funniest part of it all? I've only spent about three to five hours of the past three weeks studying for my GRE test in June. Between reading, friends, movies, working out, church and Wii, I hardly have time to study! And to be truthful, mentally gearing myself up to brush up on high school math and diving straight into practice problems is tiring enough to actually feel like I've been studying for hours.
At least I've already been accepted to UOP by virtue of my job. Hopefully I won't be the first person to score negatively on a graduate entrance exam.
After receiving our latest Netflix arrival last week -- P.S., I Love You -- I sort of began to organize my room again. It's a really good movie and I'm now kind of on this Hillary Swank kick after seeing Freedom Fighters two weeks ago.
So I kind of organize my little corner of the house little by little -- such a French saying. What, like you'd actually expect the French to take on daunting tasks and set to work on them until they're completed? Right, I knew I was partially French! Well anyways, I began sorting out my books most recently. That was a.) convenient because I only finished reading Suite Française a few hours before and b.) good for me because I'm such a nerd and can't stop reading.
Oddly enough, the books I picked out to read on the plane back to France after spending my February "winter" break in California surfaced to the top of my book stack. The two I picked -- narrowed down from a pile of 18 more specifically -- were Eat, Pray, Love and P.S., I Love You. No wonder the plot seemed vaguely familiar when I was watching the film. Duh, the film jogged my memory back to one February day in Costco, reading the backs of handfuls of book jackets. I'm sure you can guess, I never actually brought those books with me to France because of my limited packing space.
Well, after seeing the movie, I'm nearly halfway done with the book.
And it's a thousand times better than the movie thus far! Even though I enjoyed the movie, the producer/director took a lot of creative liberty in changing up everything from the main character herself to the actual setting of the story.
So I'm interested to see where this will take me. Even more interested to finally get to reading all those books thrown under my bed -- due to the lack of space in my three other bookshelves -- that I've yet to read in my 23 years of existence. Ok, let's be serious here, 19 years of literacy.
Wanna know the funniest part of it all? I've only spent about three to five hours of the past three weeks studying for my GRE test in June. Between reading, friends, movies, working out, church and Wii, I hardly have time to study! And to be truthful, mentally gearing myself up to brush up on high school math and diving straight into practice problems is tiring enough to actually feel like I've been studying for hours.
At least I've already been accepted to UOP by virtue of my job. Hopefully I won't be the first person to score negatively on a graduate entrance exam.
2 comments:
I absolutely loved the movie PS I Love You, can't wait to read the book!
Watch out for Wii injuries.... Zumaya, one of the Tiger's pitchers, was on injury last year for a very long time. Why? He hurt his hand playing Guitar Hero!
I saw the movie dubbed in French, here were my thoughts: http://blondeinfrance.blogspot.com/2008/02/ps-je-taime.html
And I read the book about a week later, but wasn't so into it. The same thing happened with "The Notebook", loved the movie, not the book. France must be turning my brain to mush, I am starting to prefer movies to books, oh no!!
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