Book Updates

It's been a long time since I made any sort of updates on stuff I've read recently.

( So here goes. )

Since I have some extra time nowadays, I went to the library and picked up the latest Amanda Quick novel, Carol O'Connell's latest in the Kathy Mallory series (which came out last year and I hadn't even known!), and a Paul Auster novel called Travels in the Scriptorium. I've never read anything by Auster before, but I read an exerpt from this novel and it was captivating. I really look forward to reading it fully.

Have I mentioned lately how I really like Christian Bale? Especially in Batman Begins? <3

Prada was never actually mentioned at all. SPOILER warning.

I just finished watching The Devil Wears Prada. I really enjoyed it up to the last 20 minutes or so. It really disappointed me fucking pissed me off that it turned out to be just another innocent/moral country girl in the big, bad, corrupting city. Besides that, I think there was a HUGE difference between the relationship between Nigel and Miranda, and Emily and Andrea. Nigel had worked for Miranda for a long time and Miranda owed him a lot more than anything between Emily and Andrea. Emily treated Andrea like shit, always talked down to her. How was there even a comparison? How was Andrea so smart about everything else, but cannot see the difference in the relationships that Miranda was comparing? It's such bullshit! Morality is not black and white.

I really really hate that there are so many stories that have the sophisticated atmosphere being corrupt and immoral whereas the "down-to-earth" viewpoint is always the moral and righteous one.

What propaganda!

I'm so thankful that I didn't see this movie in the theater; I would have shot someone.

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