Showing posts with label atonement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label atonement. Show all posts

Friday, 2 March 2012

Follow Friday #11



Q: What book would you love to see made into a movie or television show and do you have actors/actresses in mind to play the main characters?


Paper Towns by John Green into a TV Show because they are way awesome-r than movies.




Adam Brody as Quentin "Q" Jacobsen.
I reeeeeeealy miss Seth Cohen and Brody needs to get back in my TV Screen.






For Margo Roth Spiegelman, I honestly couldn't think of any actress. 

Maybe a cross between Kristen Stewart and Zooey Deschanel i.e Strange and sullen meets Manic Dream Pixie Girl.









Donald Glover as Marcus "Radar" Lincoln. GEEEEEEEKTASTIC!


And the effervescent Dianna Agron as Lacey Pemberton.
Because I hate what Glee is doing to Quinn Fabray and Lady Di deserves much much more. 



Book Moments: What has been your favorite moment (scene) in a book that you've read so far in 2012? Please be kind & not include spoilers.


"He looked into the water, then he looked at back at her, and simply shook his head as he raised a hand to cover his mouth. By this gesture he assumed full responsibility, but at that moment, she hated him for the inadequacy of the response. He glanced toward the basin and sighed. For a moment he thought she was about to step backward onto the vase, and he raised his hand and pointed, though he said nothing. Instead he began to unbutton his shirt. Immediately she knew what he was about. Intolerable. He had come to the house and removed his shoes and socks—well, she would show him then. She kicked off her sandals, unbuttoned her blouse and removed it, unfastened her skirt and stepped out of it and went to the basin wall. He stood with hands on his hips and stared as she climbed into the water in her underwear. Denying his help, any possibility of making amends, was his punishment. The unexpectedly freezing water that caused her to gasp was his punishment. She held her breath, and sank, leaving her hair fanned out across the surface. Drowning herself would be his punishment. When she emerged a few seconds later with a piece of pottery in each hand, he knew better than to offer to help her out of the water. The frail white nymph, from whom water cascaded far more successfully than it did from the beefy Triton, carefully placed the pieces by the vase."
- Atonement By Ian McEwan ( THE FOUNTAIN SCENE!! @@*LE GASP* *LA SIGH* *INSERT HEARTS*@#@)

Friday, 27 January 2012

Booking Through Thursday & Theme Thursdays #1



What’s more important: Good writing? Or a good story?
(Of course, a book should have BOTH, but…)

Wow, That's a tough one. 
I guess I would go with story. While writing is extremely important and sometimes the voice, the beauty with which you construct the sentences can make or break a book, I definitely need a story that is worthwhile. What's the point of a stunning prose if there is no good plot. 
But that's just because I had to choose,  I think a book MUST have both. I want my cake and I want to eat it too.
Think, Ian McEwan or Margaret Atwood. 
Great plots and pretty prose. 

This week’s theme is

VERY


"The very complexity of her feelings confirmed Briony in her view that she was entering an arena of adult emotion and dissembling from which her writing was bound to benefit. "

"I'm very very sorry." 



Check out my new Read The Classics Challenge and let me know if you are interested! 
  http://oopsireadthatbook.blogspot.com/2012/01/read-classics-2010-challenge.html

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