2014 Reading: A Child Called "It"

I heard about this book a long time ago in my sociology class when I was in college. It was on a list of potential books that we had to read to write a report. I, of course, being who I am chose the book about the drug addict instead of the one about the abused child. I don't know what that says about me, but whatever. This book was going to someone at the library and it caught my attention again after all these years and I decided to give it a try.

I am not ashamed to admit that parts of this books made me want to throw up. No matter how deranged I think my mind can be sometimes, I will never understand this kind of treatment of a child. I mean, I understand that the mother must have had mental problems aloing with her alcoholism, but another thing that just makes me sad is the general neglect of everyone else in this boy's life.  Teavhers, friends, siblings, nurses, doctors... his own father. They all knew what was happeneing but no one did anything about it.

There are two other books that go with this one, but I don't think I am going to read them. I think that this book by itself was a tale that needed to be told and gotten out into the world and the rest is just page fillers in order to make a couple of bucks. Not to say anything bad about the writer, but I think the story should have ended there.

It was an easy read, but also, I think, a very important one.

*NEW VIDEOS!* I Suck At Life + Boy Meets World

I made a very very late video for the 4th of July, but then I figured it wasn't worth posting and then I just kept forgetting. After the forgetting, I just kept avoiding it until we find ourselves in the situation we are now.

I've been reading a lot, and not much else.

I don't know.

I'm actually thinking of not doing vlogs anymore, but maybe just blogging about the shows instead. I think I might be able to get more out that way. I feel self-conscience in front of the camera and I know that I don't always get out everything I want to say in a single video. I'll think about it some more.

So here's the late late late video

So then today, I get a message from my friend who says that she needs me to vlog today.

Meh, who I am to argue.

2014 Reading: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

I saw the movie once, many years ago, and I remember thinking "This is hilarious! And also sad."

It's not really a secret that Hamlet is my favorite play of all time and I've seen just about every adaptation of it available. I love the speeches and the story and the characters... I mean, you can't go wrong. 

Except Mel Gibson's version, which I don't want to talk about.

 I love thinking about these two characters as they appear in this play. Their lives begin with the summons to Elsinore. There is literally NOTHING before that for either of them. They begin not knowing who they are or where their going and must learn so along the way. They meet everyone and around every corner is a foreshadowing of death but they don't know it yet. And just when they find out who they are and feel like they've accomplished something in this small world they've been thrust into, they are executed. Thus dies two characters who never really lived.

I think they best part was the very last scene and Guildenstern seems to go through all five stages of grief in a mere moment. Brilliant.

Now I wanna watch the movie again.

And the players! I don't think I've laughed as hard as I have at the first meeting they have with the traveling players.

This was a nice little detour before I get back to the rest of the books I have piled up to read.

2014 Reading: A Million Ways to Die in the West

Okay, so I have a huge crush on Seth MacFarlane. Sue me.

This was exactly like watching the movie.

That's about it.

*shrug*

2014 Reading: Daughters of Eve

Okay, this book was horrible!

Seriously, at the beginning of the book, I was totally on board with the whole girl power thing. One of the first things I write for this update was: "One of the character's brother said something about not helping to clean up because he wasn't about to practice being a housewife, and the parents just went along with it and continued to force all the housework on the girl... Oh hell no... HELL no."

But then, it just kept getting more and more ridiculous. HUGE exaggerations of misogyny and female oppression (even for 1979) spawn even grander acts of female empowerment and radical thinking.

Okay, I'm a feminist and all, but holy shit.

And then it ends, with little to no resolution and everyone gets away with everything and lives happily ever after. WHAT?!

Definitely not one of my faves, Lois.

Shitty 80's Horror Movie Review: Pet Semetary (franchise)

Okay, so since I didn't post last week (because I am lazy) I decided to combine the two in this series to make up for it.

I had never seen these movies before, but it's one of those things that you always hear about from other people.

There are some things I would like to know though, like:

What the fuck was up with the mom in the first one and her story about her sister? It had NO bearing whatsoever in the story line.

Why did the old guy, who KNEW that burying things in the crop circle (because that place was, like, 20 miles away from the actual pet semetary) would turn them into evil flesh eating zombies, tell that dude about it in the first place? So the fucking can got run over by a truck. Shit happens. Get another fucking cat. Ugh. People are stupid.

Pet Semetary (1989)

Pet Semetary II (1992)

2014 Reading: Killing Mr. Griffin

I decided a while ago to just gta ALL the Lois Duncan books and finish them off one by one. So, after the seriousness that was the last book, I wanted to go with some easy, short books.

Holy shit, that kid was a psychopath. I mean, I've had some tough teachers, but none that I've hated THAT much.

And seriously, what was with Sue saying she loved Mark at the end?! I thought she was all into David (you know, the nice one) but then, when she's being burned alive by the man no less, she says she loved him...

WHAT?!

That was one of the weirder books by Lois Duncan. But, meh, what can you do?