Vampire series

I’ve been reading Stephanie Meyer’s vampire series for fun of late.

I say for fun though this is not something I would have normally picked up. I’m not too much on the whole horror genre, which was my impression of this series, and generally prefer non-finction reading anyway.

To make a long story short, a friend was cleaning up her book shelves and left me the first 2 of the series, Twilight and New Moon, which just stayed on my shelves for a little while.

Then I saw the Twilight movie.

Wow, nothing like I expected. I really did like it. So now off course I am reading the books too. Twilight and New Moon were read in a matter of 2 weeks. I now have to be patient and wait for the third, Eclipse -remember I only have the first 2, and all 13 copies at the local library are already checked out! I’m on the waiting list (sigh).

Oh well, it’ll be all the more sweet when I do get it.

Superheroes Movies

Comic books are the movies of the time. There are so many comic characters and superheroes now being made into Hollywood fares. Not that I mind actually. In fact, I rather enjoy them.

I wonder what it says about us as a society. Are we in need of heroes? Are we hoping someone will fly in and save the day? I think in some ways we are that and more. We want to believe in Good again. We want to believe there are those out there all about helping others and doing the “right thing.”

The last couple I’ve seen are The Incredible Hulk and Hancock.  Both Edward Norton and Will Smith are enjoyable any day of the week, so I most certainly enjoyed both movies.

I’ve been posting small, quick reviews on the ciao site.

Here’s my list so far:

http://www.ciao.com/Member__SunFish_10080533#reviews

And since I am snowed in today up here in Colorado -I believe the correct term is White Out, my first- it’s probably going to be a movie day (and hot chocolate). Ha, ha. 

Movie Reviews

I write reviews of movies and books every once in a while.

I found a new site with all kinds of consumer reviews for just about everything and anything one might use through the course of our daily lives, and, they just so happen to have a movie section.

So, I am moving my reviews one at a time over.

I’ve got a couple over so far:

American Splendor with Paul Giamatti, and Flight Plan with Jodie Foster.

Check them out through this link:

http://www.ciao.com/Member__SunFish_10080533#reviews

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