I don't have much to say except thank you if you've stayed with me during this year and that hopefully I will keep making more and better posts for another number of years!
Tuesday 22 March 2016
1 Year Anniversary
I don't have much to say except thank you if you've stayed with me during this year and that hopefully I will keep making more and better posts for another number of years!
Monday 21 March 2016
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events | Movie Review #1
As promised, I am going to start doing more regular movie reviews, and
my first one will be of the movie adaptation of the book series by
Lemony Snicket's "A Series of Unfortunate Events".
The movie starts off by having Lemony Snicket (who narrates the film) warn the viewer that this will not be a cheery film but quite a tragic one, and then goes on to tell the story of how the Baudelaire children become the Baudelaire orphans, lose their house in a fire, are almost-murdered several times by an evil Count chasing after their fortune and as soon as you think things are getting better and they're finally safe from the evil Count, an unfortunate event occurs.
I think this movie was a good mixture of funny and dark. Three reasons why I liked it are: the performances given by the cast (Timothy Spall, Jim Carrey, Meryl Streep as well as the "child actors" Emily Browning and Liam Aiken); the "message" of the film, which was that you should listen to children, which can be generalised to listen to everyone, because everyone is important and everyone matters; and finally the look of the film, the characterisationof the actors, the clothes, the sets and the animation was beautiful and really elevated the film.
Rating: 7/10
After watching this I will definetly try and find the books to read them, just to see if this was a good adaptation or not!
-Maria
Saturday 19 March 2016
100-ish Book List
The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien*
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee*
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
Little Women, Louisa M Alcott*
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame*
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
The Chronicles of Narnia, CS Lewis
Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Anne of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
Life of Pi, Yann Martel
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
Dracula, Bram Stoker
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
Ulysses, James Joyce
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
The Help, Kathryn Stockett*
Charlotte’s Web, EB White
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
Les Misérebles, Victor Hugo.
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Rick Riordan*
Will Grayson, Will Grayson, John Green*
Looking for Alaska, John Green*
An Abundance of Katherines, John Green
Landline, Rainbow Rowell
Carry On, Rainbow Rowell
The Kane Chronichles, Rick Riordan
The Chronicles of Ice and Fire, George RR Martin
If I Stay, Gayle Forman*
Throne of Glass, Sarah J Maas
The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
The Mortal Instruments, Cassandra Clare
The Infernal Devices, Cassandra Clare
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snickett
Complete Works of Jane Austen*
Complete Works of Charles Dickens
Complete Works of William Shakespeare
The Giving Tree, Shel Silverstein
The Book Thief, Markus Zuzak
The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
The Princess Bride, William Goldman
Where The Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak
The Odissey, Homer
My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
Outlander, Diana Gabaldon
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
Vampire Academy, Richelle Mead
Matilda, Roald Dahl
The Oldman and The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
The Cat in The Hat, Dr Seuss
The Scarlett Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
East of Eden, John Steinbeck
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S Thompson
Sophie's Choice, William Styron
Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
Marley & Me, John Grogan
The Prince and the Pauper, Mark Twain
The Little Mermaid, Hans Christian Andersen
The Invisible Man, H G Wells
Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
Anna and the Girl Next Door, Stephanie Perkins
All My Friends Are Superheroes, Andrew Kaufman
Love, Love Me Do, Mark Haysom
The Time Machine, H G Wells
The War of the Worlds, H G Wells
Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
Nothern Lights, Philip Pullman
-Maria
*started reading
read
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee*
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
Little Women, Louisa M Alcott*
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame*
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
The Chronicles of Narnia, CS Lewis
Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Anne of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
Life of Pi, Yann Martel
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
Dracula, Bram Stoker
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
Ulysses, James Joyce
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
The Help, Kathryn Stockett*
Charlotte’s Web, EB White
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
Les Misérebles, Victor Hugo.
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Rick Riordan*
Will Grayson, Will Grayson, John Green*
Looking for Alaska, John Green*
An Abundance of Katherines, John Green
Landline, Rainbow Rowell
Carry On, Rainbow Rowell
The Kane Chronichles, Rick Riordan
The Chronicles of Ice and Fire, George RR Martin
If I Stay, Gayle Forman*
Throne of Glass, Sarah J Maas
The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
The Mortal Instruments, Cassandra Clare
The Infernal Devices, Cassandra Clare
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snickett
Complete Works of Jane Austen*
Complete Works of Charles Dickens
Complete Works of William Shakespeare
The Giving Tree, Shel Silverstein
The Book Thief, Markus Zuzak
The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
The Princess Bride, William Goldman
Where The Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak
The Odissey, Homer
My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
Outlander, Diana Gabaldon
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
Vampire Academy, Richelle Mead
Matilda, Roald Dahl
The Oldman and The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
The Cat in The Hat, Dr Seuss
The Scarlett Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
East of Eden, John Steinbeck
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S Thompson
Sophie's Choice, William Styron
Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
Marley & Me, John Grogan
The Prince and the Pauper, Mark Twain
The Little Mermaid, Hans Christian Andersen
The Invisible Man, H G Wells
Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
Anna and the Girl Next Door, Stephanie Perkins
All My Friends Are Superheroes, Andrew Kaufman
Love, Love Me Do, Mark Haysom
The Time Machine, H G Wells
The War of the Worlds, H G Wells
Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
Nothern Lights, Philip Pullman
-Maria
*started reading
read
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