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Trilogy (3): MaddAddam (2013) by Margaret Atwood. Really liked it. Am really curious about how they will handle the tv series.

Not a part of the challenge: Let's Go to Colasanti's (1999) by Jane Buttery

Book that you owned but have never read: Trail of the Wolf (1993) by RD Lawrence. One of those books that have been in the house forever.

Not a part of the challenge: The Casual Vacancy (2012) by JK Rowling. Daaaaamn. She went all out.

Book based solely on it's cover: The Ghost Orchid (2006) by Carol Goodman.

Can't really write right now. I'm just

Trilogy (first part): Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

• loved it


• though, maybe it's not such a good idea to portray Crake as autistic (Atwood said he has Aspergers). Then again, it was written in 2003 when there weren't so many genius autistic white dudes in books/movies/tv.


• I really hope those Crakers mating rituals are left in, it would be hilarious.

Book set in highschool: Princess in the Spotlight by Meg Cabot

• It's irritating how much Mia complains about her body. I didn't even write that kind of shit when I was 15 and I was suicidal.

Classic Romance: Love Story by Erich Segal

• I saw the movie years and years ago. I don't remember much, but I certainly don't think it was funny. The book is funny.


• Only poc character was a guy offering Oliver drugs :|


• I thought the part with Jennys doctor was really messed up, but that's how they did it back then :|


• Oliver was based sort of on Al Gore, but mostly on Tommy Lee Jones (who was in the movie).

I have decided not to look at Post Secret anymore. I dunno.

My Gotham City Sirens dream cast:

• Poison Ivy - Christina Hendricks


• Harley Quinn - Juno Temple (she's a bit younger than the other two though)


• Catwoman - Gugu Mbatha-Raw

When I was reading Breakfast At Tiffany's, I was so surprised at how racist Holly was. I know it's the 40's and she's from Texas, but gawd! I couldn't imagine Audrey Hepburn saying some of those things. Or Marilyn Monroe, who Truman Capote wanted as Holly. While I was reading, I was trying to think of an actress who I could see as book-Holly, and I thought of Amanda Peet. Igby Goes Down Amanda Peet.

The wiki page for The Handmaid's Tale answered some questions I had. It was Atwoods birthday yesterday.

Here are some Jane Austen novel covers from the past. I really love that 1907 one.

I should start going to the art gallery or something. I haven't been there since I was 12, maybe?

Finally reading the first 72 pages of The Tale of the Body Thief. My first copy was missing them... It's taking me longer than it should.

1. Lestat is computer savvy


2. "Lest their radiance mesmerize and entrance at random" - about his eyes and why he has to wear sunglasses


3. "Sometimes I become spellbound in the middle of Walmart" - about modern life


4. "How could anyone ever trust Cary Grant, I wondered -- a man who looked as though he were made entirely of wood?" - about the movie Suspicion (1941)


5. The old woman was very interesting.


6. The Thing on the Doorstep by HP Lovecraft

My main book is The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. I have seven of her books, this is the first one I'm reading. But I already love her from interviews. Unfortunately, I haven't had much time to focus on it. Here are things that The Forest of Hands and Teeth has in common with it:

1. Set in the future


2. Main character has to give up dreams to be a babymaker


3. Aunts/Sisters


4. Guards/Guardians


5. Rugs made of braided rags

Fifty Shades Darker by EL James. Agh. I know I shouldn't take them seriously, but fuck it.

1. I thought that Ana would have a couple of chapters without Christian, but they get back together within the first fucking chapter! And he's horrible and controlling right from the start!


2. Ana's "inner goddess" has returned, but her subconcious has not. Maybe James figured out she should have been using conscience instead.


3. I don't think James has a knack for American English. Some of the things Ana and Christian say or think seem off.


4. Why can't Ana have one platonic relationship with a dude? Ugh.


5. Christian says some poetic shit one minute and then "Laters, baby" the next.


6. It is kind of painful to read Christian making her feel like shit for forgetting the safe word.


7. I wrote down "Patrick Bateman" in my notes, but can't remember what I wanted to write.


8. Ella Fitzgerald - This Thing Called Love


9. "Put the chicken in the fridge". I have Silence of the Lambs on my mind, so it's more like "IT PUTS THE CHICKEN IN THE FRIDGE!"

I hate that FSD gets the most notes. Actually, I think it's difficult for me to say anything about books I like. That's why some of the books in my October list weren't mentioned anywhere else, even though I loved them.