But you all knew that, right?
Well, I've been absent for a while now. I've enjoyed it, too, and have had a marvelous time catching up on my life before it could catch up to me. And now I'm back, but who knows for how long? In any case, nothing truly amazing that would also be amazing to you all has happened to me, but here's an exciting insight into my past two weeks:
Seriously, we have been doing this. Its been fun, too, book awards. Technically they were the books we were writing ('we' being me and a few people who joined me to write stories together...to be fair, I came a little late in the game, it was my fellow bloggy Mokka who started it...) and not real books, but someday we should do this too. Movies are all very good, but books deserve hype too.
Speaking of book, I've been thoroughly enjoying Ender's Game and its counterparts. While the series certainly isn't for everyone, there are precious few books that make you think about things the way that these ones do. In most books, you have the good and the evil. You never stop to question that the good is good and the bad should lose the war. Ender's Game and the others make you question the morality of war in a new light, and the fact that the human weaknesses of deception, misunderstanding, jealousy and anger can't always make the good 'good', and just because you're fighting for the humans doesn't mean that you're right.
And I was in shock, having not expected anything much from the BBC series Sherlock. Yes', I'd heard how amazing it was, but being a die hard fan of the books and the Robert Downey Jr. movies, I decided no uppity British dude and his weensy little sidekick could top it, much less make the classic stories modern, even if they did do a fantastic job in Star Trek: Into Darkness and The Hobbit. (Cumberbatch and Freeman, respectively). And I was right - they didn't top it. They tied in just about every way, though. My first mistake was thinking that Cumberbatch had a high voice. Wrong, so wrong.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64eonMsecAA
And I nearly fell asleep listening to this, too. Yes, I listened to the whole thing. No, I didn't really understand it. No, you don't have to listen to it. But that's beside the point - the entire series, with the amazing acting, captivating story lines, subtle humor and character development completely exceeded my expectations and made me an instant fan of Sherlock Holmes...again.
Why there's Hogwarts in the background, I don't know. But really, the ever-quotable Moriarty did a fantastic job. Not like the books in any way, but somehow I still thought he was one of the best villains ever.
...and Smaug suddenly became a very sexy dragon...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4hK0y_u6yI
Speaking of TV, I started to watch it for the sake of The Voice and America's Got Talent for the first time in forever. Danielle Bradbury, sixteen years old, youngest competitor, and she blew me out of the water, winning against one of Michael Jackson's background singers, the remaining two finalists and hundreds of other incredible voices - 40,000, to be exact.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-q7cfA8pfs
America's got some real talent this year - the above is my favorite act. Of course, they had some plain insanity, too - a man eating three raw eggs (oo! such talent! >:P), a voodoo doctor (or at least pretending to be), etc., etc. But if there's any TV show to watch, I'd encourage that one.
Well isn't that just the most miserable thing? Ernest Hemingway was challenged to to write a tragedy in six words. This doesn't really have anything to do with my week, except to prove the power of words, because I've already read more sad and classic books this summer than I've read the rest of my life, and probably cried more too.
Just...just because, ok?
Thus, besides working and writing, that is my insight into my life right now. And grad parties, of course, but I didn't get any pictures. So, besides finding a marvelous balance between books and movies that I've never seemed to understand before, what is the lesson learned?
-Rhian
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