And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I am still tearing up after reading this book but yet here I am, writing a review.
What can I say other than Khaled Hoseeini is a master storyteller? He grabbed your attention from the start and didn’t stop till the end. And if you think you can avoid not crying after reading this book (or any of his books, in fact), you are wrong.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned after watching this movie, it is the fact that I can never ever watched anything Nazi-related without crying buckets of tears. I could not stop sobbing after watching this movie. Luckily, I was putting on a very good waterproof make-up.
For this week, the only movie that actually interests me is RoboCop, which is a remake of the ’80s movie of the same name. I’m an ’80s girl and I always feel that remakes hardly ever did justice to the original. But, I shall take that all back because this remake of RoboCop might actually be better than the original.
Assassin’s Creed: Renaissance by Oliver Bowden
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
It’s really sad when a book shows a lot of promise to be a great one but alas, did not. This book is in that list.
After watching Dallas Buyers Club, I watched I, Frankenstein. If Dallas Buyers Club got me raving about it, I, Frankenstein just made me go: “What the hell did I just watch?” No pun intended whatsoever. If you watched it already, you would know what I mean. But if you haven’t, there’s something to do with hell thus the pun thing there.
I have been waiting for this movie to arrive in this small island since last year when I saw a clip of Jared Leto as Rayon. I fell in love and I knew I had to watch it. It’s something I should not miss. And that has got to be the best decision I’ve ever made.
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
After reading “Fangirl”, I decided to give “Eleanor & Park” a try and it is definitely not a bad decision ever. I’m beginning to think that Rainbow Rowell knows how to write a book that teenagers and young adults can easily relate to.
Golden Globes- and Oscar-nominated movie, Her, certainly gives me a doze of what could possibly happen in the next 5-10 years.
The movie is set in a slightly futuristic world, where people are highly dependent on technology, walking around with earbuds and talking possibly with their computer. Say what? No, really. You just tell the artificial intelligence in your ear to delete an email, read out a new one or send out one, etc etc. Anyway, that’s not the story.
The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Well, we all know who Robert Galbraith really is now and let’s not pretend that I didn’t buy this book because of the real writer behind the pseudonym – J.K. Rowling. I love this woman and admire her greatly and so I decided to pick up my first ever crime fiction book after a very long time.
Happy 2014! It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything on this blog. I shall just admit my laziness and leave it at that.
Anywho, the first movie of 2014 that this girl who never sleeps (not really, I sleep, I do) watched is… The Legend of Hercules. Not much of a surprise or a suspense there since I had the poster up above before I even began the post.
This Siti Never Sleeps At Night 