Things
1.) I can't decide if I liked The United States of Leland or not. Parts were really good; parts felt tacked-on and pointless. Good: Gosling, Cheadle. The rest: sort of unnecessary? Charlotte's Web ended up being really good and made me cry so hard at the end that Daisy became flustered and squealy and pawed me and pawed me in concern. And Miss Potter was a sweet and lovely if someone boring in parts little movie. My favorite part was when Ewan McGregor sang, no shock there.
2.) I just heard "Stars," one of my favorite songs by The Weepies or anyone, on an Old Navy commercial. I am not sure how I feel about this.
3.) I am positive about this: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie is a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful book. I just finished it and want to turn back to page one and start over. It made me laugh out loud and also hurt and filled my heart. The cartoons are brilliant. LOVED IT. If you need a book to give someone for Christmas, you should probably go ahead and give this one. Or The Book Thief. But The Book Thief is so devastatingly beautiful that I don't think you can give it to the faint of heart. My heart is still in pieces after reading that book, but in the best possible way.
4.) I am suddenly now seeing my sister on December 1 instead of several weeks later as originally planned and am close to freaking out about it. I already bought two six-packs of Christmas Reese's trees for us to break open in celebration in the airport parking lot.
2.) I just heard "Stars," one of my favorite songs by The Weepies or anyone, on an Old Navy commercial. I am not sure how I feel about this.
3.) I am positive about this: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie is a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful book. I just finished it and want to turn back to page one and start over. It made me laugh out loud and also hurt and filled my heart. The cartoons are brilliant. LOVED IT. If you need a book to give someone for Christmas, you should probably go ahead and give this one. Or The Book Thief. But The Book Thief is so devastatingly beautiful that I don't think you can give it to the faint of heart. My heart is still in pieces after reading that book, but in the best possible way.
4.) I am suddenly now seeing my sister on December 1 instead of several weeks later as originally planned and am close to freaking out about it. I already bought two six-packs of Christmas Reese's trees for us to break open in celebration in the airport parking lot.
posted by eliza @ 8:49 PM
3 Comments:
There's an Ingrid Michaelson song (the way I am) on an Old Navy commercial and it made me sad originally but then I thought -- more money and more fans for one of my favorite singers -- how could this be bad?
I think I was just having 16-year-old feelings of "But I discovered her!" and "selling out."
Thanks for the tip - I just added 'The Book Thief' to my list on amazon.
Yes, yes, I cried and cried and cried during Charlotte's Web! I went with two adults and their three-year-old, the adults all wept like three-year-olds, the three-year-old wached stoically.
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