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1. It's finally raining. Or rather pouring. The sky opened up and let loose. It's thundering in the background -- either that or someone is stomping about above me...I'm thinking it actually might be the latter.

And my sick sinus headache from hell has finally abated. ( Read more... )

Anyhow, as you can well imagine -- headache made me more irritable than usual. But it is blessedly gone now -- and I am so grateful!

2. Reading Meme...

I am halfway through Where'd You Go, Bernadette, which has been adapted into a movie directed by Linklater, starring Cate Blanchette, Kristin Wigg, Billy Crudup and Laurence Fishbourne. The book is better than expected. It's a feminist satire on well our society -- specifically Seattle, Microsoft, and the suburbs. Told in an interesting and rather innovative style, and reads a bit like a puzzle. The narrative structure is fascinating to me -- because it is the narrator (Bernadett's daughter) trying to understand what happened with her mother by riffling through all the correspondence, news clippings, emails, etc regarding her mother.

So you have to work a bit -- the writer doesn't really tell you what is happening in a straight forward manner, yet you figure it out. I'm not sure how they've made a movie out of this -- 85% of the appeal of the novel is the narrative structure.

Anyhow, I've also bought more books on the Kindle. I know, I need to stop. Most have been gifts courtesy of my mother -- she gave me a gift certificate to Amazon for my birthday -- which resulted in ( Read more... )

Other books?

* Where The Crawdads Sing. Ordered from Library, but the waiting list is long. So gave up and got it as a birthday gift.

* The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon - it was a Kindle Daily Deal. Got it for $1.99 (now it's 8.99...which is why I keep buying books - I can't pass up a good deal.)

* The Widows of Malabra Hill -- sort of fell into the same category --- the Kindle Daily deal had been for $1.99

* Rogue by Night by Kelly Bowen -- was a good price for pre-order. Also I loved the review on Smart Bitches.

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Courtesy of yourlibrarian -- The True Story of Copyright Piracy: Why the Verve will Only Start Getting Royalties Now on Bittersweet Symphony.

Wow. Just wow. You might have to be a former copyright specialist to appreciate this. I don't know. Or know struggling supporting artists and how important copyright is to a lot of them. They survive off the royalties.

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Apparently it gets worse and worse...

Oh dear.

Here's The Official Music Video of Bittersweet Symphony by the Verve

And, I can't resist...this is hilarious... Screen Rants take on the GoT pitch meeting -- aka what happens when the writers are bored of their current project, and just want to rush the ending and move on to greener pastures, such as writing Star Wars movies instead...so all logic goes out the window. Good news, Star Wars is a bit harder to screw up. It's like Star Trek. Lots of branches.