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current mood: cranky
Went on FB yesterday and my friend said that if my life was a movie I'd be played by Joey from Dawson's Creek.
*blinks*
I never knew she hated me so much. *points to icon*
Also, finally read Shutter Island since I saw a giant movie poster of awesomeness when I went to see Mao's Last Dancer. After reading all the Kenzie books, I needed a break from Lehane and thus distracted myself with other genres. Leonardo Dicaprio and Martin Scorcese again. I think they're trying to defeat the guy love ratio of Tim Burton and Johnny Depp but they have catching up to do. After reading the book, I actually think Leonardo Dicaprio is well cast so I'm looking forward to that one. Book was an intense read with an ending that left me with a couple of bloody, black eyes (what can I say, Mr. Lehane makes me get attached to his characters and then he's sadistic enough to make me enjoy watching them get pulverised). I still prefer the Kenzie & Gennaro books over his others. Wish another one would come out...*begs*
Other books I've enjoyed while I've been away:
"Frenemies" by Megan Crane. She compared the hot male character to Sark and also made geeky references to fans that get pretentious over Buffy costumes at halloween parties (season four hair should not be worn with season three leather...heh). The fan geek in me squeed. Ultimately more about friendship than romance, this book cracked me up and reminded me so much of that period when you grow apart from highschool/college friends while still hanging out with them. Very fun summer chicklit read.
"Benighted" aka "Bareback" by Kit Whitfield. No, it's not porn as the Australian title would have you believe. If you like your paranormal thrillers, you won't find a better written one than this gem. I love this book because it's not just porny, violent paranormal romance which is par for the course in the genre. This has multilayered themes and takes a wonderfully grey stance on the morality of power and the necessity of violence(both lunes and 'barebacks' do very dark deeds in the name of what they believe is right and sometimes just because they can). I love the whole concept of normal people being the minority, the way she has distorted and challenged religious history as she incorporated it into her mythology (Inquisition and 'witch' trials in particular) and that the weakest population is actually seen as the most violent and dangerous by the majority. Fascinating themes. It has everything you want in the paranormal genre but it was written by someone with a gift for constructing poetic prose. Buy it now.
"Company of Liars" by Karen Maitland. I've honestly never read anything like this before. It's all sorts of weird and wonderful. It's biblical and brutal and who doesn't love this level of schadenfreude? Key words: medieval, plague, godly wrath, extremely gruesome death, and a creepy little girl who really doesn't like liars. The complete lack of sentimentality for this period was refreshing but it also made the read a stomach twister at times. I loved that she didn't impose contemporary morals on the characters, it makes some of them hard to sympathise with but heightens the tension in the book and was a brave, well executed choice.
