I'm counting this as a book, because that's what it is, but it's pretty short, and probably took me less than an hour to read, which is much less time that I put in to some webcomics, but oh well.
I really enjoy Jeffery Brown, but I think I hyped this book up in my head too much. My library doesn't have it so I actually bought the book, which is rare for me. I felt like the story was too short, or not really a story just a glimpse into a few weeks of his life, where I was expecting more of a story like other things I've read by Brown. Still, I really like the art style and the story was interesting, although not engrossing.
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Book count: 16
Movie count: 5
Other media: 3
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Monday, May 28, 2012
Book: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games #3) by Suzanne Collins
I liked this better than book #2, but definitely not as much as book #1. I appreciated the slight twist in the ending, but didn't like how easily some plot lines were closed (wtf, Gale). Overall, I think the series was too simple; the two other books series that I would compare it to would be Harry Potter and His Dark Materials. In both of those other series, the plot lines are much more complex with different stories interweaving and things that seem to have lost importance regain relevance is clever and surprising ways. However, I thought that the Hunger Games series had none of this, which was probably why it was so popular, because it's simple, straightforward and easy to read.
Goodreads
Book count: 15
Movie count: 5
Other media: 3
Goodreads
Book count: 15
Movie count: 5
Other media: 3
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Book: The Signing Family: What Every Parent Should Know about Sign Communication by David Stewart, Barbara Luetke-Stahlman
Yay, another school assignment. I thought this was a really informative book that presented information in the most fair way. However, it's about 20 years outdated, so maybe not the best resource by itself, but certainly helpful if combined with other more recent sources of information about signing systems for deaf children.
Goodreads
Book count: 14
Movie count: 5
Other media: 3
Goodreads
Book count: 14
Movie count: 5
Other media: 3
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Book: The Help by Kathryn Stockett
I read this because it was the most popular book for kindle at the library, so I figured it couldn't be too bad. If not for the anonymity of reading a book on an e-reader, I probably wouldn't have read this.
I think I am not in the target audience for this book, and if I was I would have enjoyed it much more. I think probably middle aged women would greatly enjoy this book, with its multitudes of characters to relate to and many cultural references of the 60s. For me, however, I felt like it took weeks to finish the book and at a certain point I only kept reading for the sake of finishing, which I'm not sure was really worth it.
Goodreads
Book count: 13
Movie count: 5
Other media: 3
I think I am not in the target audience for this book, and if I was I would have enjoyed it much more. I think probably middle aged women would greatly enjoy this book, with its multitudes of characters to relate to and many cultural references of the 60s. For me, however, I felt like it took weeks to finish the book and at a certain point I only kept reading for the sake of finishing, which I'm not sure was really worth it.
Goodreads
Book count: 13
Movie count: 5
Other media: 3
Movie: Beyond Silence
I found this film off a list of movies I could watch to fulfill a class assignment, so this is another film that I watched for class, which I'm not sure if it should really count in my movie count, but apparently I hardly ever watch movies purely out of my own desires, so whatever.
I did enjoy this movie. It's in german, but centered around Deaf characters, so a lot of dialogue is is sign. I don't know how german sign language works, but in the film whenever a hearing person was communicating with a deaf person, the hearing person would both sign and speak at the same time, and also speak aloud what the signer was saying. If two Deaf people were talking, the conversation was subtitled. I don't understand why all of the signing couldn't have been subtitled. I thought it was really clunky and unrealistic to work in someone repeating half the conversation aloud, when subtitles would have sufficed. Are Germans as afraid of subtitles as Americans? I didn't think they were, but maybe I'm wrong.
Also, the woman on the DVD cover was definitely not, in my opinion, the main character who I would have put as a representative of the film. However, the main character was not "conventionally" attractive, so I wonder if that had anything to do with that. Or maybe these are all techniques of German cinema that are going over my naive American head.
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Book count: 12
Movie count: 5
Other media: 3
I did enjoy this movie. It's in german, but centered around Deaf characters, so a lot of dialogue is is sign. I don't know how german sign language works, but in the film whenever a hearing person was communicating with a deaf person, the hearing person would both sign and speak at the same time, and also speak aloud what the signer was saying. If two Deaf people were talking, the conversation was subtitled. I don't understand why all of the signing couldn't have been subtitled. I thought it was really clunky and unrealistic to work in someone repeating half the conversation aloud, when subtitles would have sufficed. Are Germans as afraid of subtitles as Americans? I didn't think they were, but maybe I'm wrong.
Also, the woman on the DVD cover was definitely not, in my opinion, the main character who I would have put as a representative of the film. However, the main character was not "conventionally" attractive, so I wonder if that had anything to do with that. Or maybe these are all techniques of German cinema that are going over my naive American head.
imdb
Book count: 12
Movie count: 5
Other media: 3
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Book: The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials #2) by Philip Pullman
Seriously, the covers for this book and the first book in the series are really bad. Looks like a couple kids going on adventures with cats. But it's so much more than that! I think I liked this book as much or more than the first one, because there were many different story line happening at the same time that all somehow met each other in the end. I think that almost made it feel like reading short stories, which I love.
However, I'm not super eager to read the final book in the series, which could either mean that the story isn't keeping my interest so well, or maybe I'm just used to other series (The Hunger Games) that end books in the series with severe cliffhangers.
Goodreads
Book count: 12
Movie count: 4
Other media: 3
However, I'm not super eager to read the final book in the series, which could either mean that the story isn't keeping my interest so well, or maybe I'm just used to other series (The Hunger Games) that end books in the series with severe cliffhangers.
Goodreads
Book count: 12
Movie count: 4
Other media: 3
Book: Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture by Peggy Orenstein
I really enjoyed this book. It was filled with lots of fun and interesting information about toys and girl culture, which were interesting to me because I could compare what I see at my work with what's in the book, and also my own childhood experiences. The book also was interspersed with bits about how all of the culture of young girls today relates to feminism and how things may have gotten a little confused somewhere since the 70s. Fascinating!
Goodreads
Book count: 11
Movie count: 4
Other media: 3
Goodreads
Book count: 11
Movie count: 4
Other media: 3
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