Post #3 today, but I figure I should at least make it interesting.

Reviews of recent (to me) things! As if I'm some entertainment critic or something.

A Book I liked:
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
By Gabrielle Zevin

So I read this book because I liked the author's other book, Elsewhere, which was about a girl who died very young and her experiences in "heaven." That one made me sad. This one just made me think. Naomi loses her memory in a freak accident during her junior year of highschool. She forgets her best friend, her boyfriend, her passion for being co-editor of the yearbook, tennis, her parents' divorce.... everything since she was about ten years old.


I won't give any more away, but it was just really good, and really made me think about what it means to be who I am. If I didn't have the memories and experiences I've had so far, I would certainly be different. Obviously. This is feeling too much like an APLAC paper. So I'm done. I just really enjoyed reading this.


Also: I liked the music the characters discussed. There's a list of playlists in the back of the book that made me really happy.

An album I didn't like:

Backspacer

By Pearl Jam

Basically, it sounded exactly like their last album. If you're listening to a new album thinking to yourself, "I've heard this song before..." then it's probably not a good thing.

The one song I do like is "Just Breathe" because it sounds like Eddie Vedder's work for the Into the Wild soundtrack. Which I like a lot.

A movie I didn't like:
The Last Airbender
Directed by M. Night Shyamalan

The acting was overly dramatic. They mispronounced the names! Too little happened in too much time. Sokka wasn't funny, Katara wasn't motherly, Aang wasn't impish and adorable. Iroh was thin and didn't obsess about tea! What? The series is much better.

But Dev Patel was in it. I like Dev Patel. :)