Nollaig

Brown bread sandwich with a tuna in tomato and herb dressing filling.

I love Shyamalan. He's got possibly the coolest name in the history of cool names. And his film aren't half bad either. Signs is probably the first one I saw by him, and I don't think it's my favourite, but it's very close. It's an absolutely superb film. The Sixth Sense is okay, but it's now a total cliche and it was a cliche by the time I saw it. I knew the ending prior to watching it, so I wasn't blown away by it, and I cracked up laughing at the 'I see dead people' bit. The Village was great, but I did feel it lacked a little something in the same way The Happening did, and I love The Lady In The Water - that's a work of art. I haven't seen Unbreakable but I know the story, and it's my brother's favourite. As for The Last Airbender, well, I watched about three episodes of the cartoon ages ago before being bored to tears so I can't say I have any interest in this movie. Watching the trailer it looks like a typical action blockbuster, nothing in it appears to have Shyamalan's trademark eerie darkness.

You should definitely get that up and running again! It looks great and I read the Eternal Sunshine review as I love that movie - it's a proper extensive, critical review, which I really like. I don't have a critical eye for movies so I wouldn't have been able to talk about the colours for example, but what you say is exactly right. I've 'followed' you, as my own blog is also on blogger and it gave me the option. Hope you don't mind!

Haha no pressure, it's your thoughts rather than your ability to entertain me I'm interested in Still, it's always nice to read well-written reviews I sometimes like writing reviews, and sometimes hate it. I spend more time formatting my review blog than actually posting reviews on it (I have it structured with links like an actual website, as opposed to archives like a blog). Drives me mad but I like to think it looks rather pretty.

I also cannot wait to read it, as it's not long since I last read Dracula and it's still pretty fresh in my memory.

Oh man. That kills me. I need an entire box of tissues to get through that scene. I hate cruelty to animals more than cruelty towards people because, well, I hate people, but also because an animal doesn't understand it hasn't done anything wrong. It thinks, 'I'm sorry! I didn't mean to do whatever I did!' and comes crawling back trying to make up for it. Okay so I'm still applying human emotions to an animal but the fact is if I kicked my mother, she'd know I was in the wrong. If I kicked my dog, she'd roll over on her back stick her tail between her legs. And when the woman leaves Tod, not only is it heartbreaking, but Disney animate their animals with human expressions, so you can SEE Tod thinking, 'What? Why are you leaving me? What did I do wrong? Don't you love me?!?!' Okay I'm actually getting teary just thinking about it.

I don't think ANY name can be THAT hard to pronounce. I worked with a quiet Polish woman called Agniezska, and it's really easy to say, but everyone called her 'Aga' just because it was easier to say. (It IS a nickname for the name Agniezska, but I know she preferred to be called by her full name, so I always did.)

I'm not actually sure what I have in the house. Hmm. I might have to pop to the shop.

What bugs me along those same lines Kylie is that these social events always consist of drinking and clubbing, or in the case of staff parties, drinking and more drinking. I never went to any staff party in either of the places I worked, because I don't really drink, and I despised virtually everybody I worked with. I need to work somewhere nerdy where their idea of a social event is going to the local gallery. If I had a local gallery. *sigh* I need to get out of this country Another thing that bugs me is when people consistanty spell or pronounce my name incorrectly. My landlord calls me 'Nollag' which IS actually a word in Irish, Christmas, which becomes 'An Nollaig' when used in just about any sentence. However, the pronounciation is different, and for some reason Irish people have a tendancy to call me the former, which is just a word and not a name, rather than 'Nollaig', which is (without the 'an') actually a name meaning 'Noelle'. Popular spellings include, Nollag, Nolliag, Nolaig, and even Nollige. I've actually gotten Christmas cards with 'Nollaig Shona Dhuit' (Happy Christmas) written on the front, and my name spelt incorrectly inside. Consistently. IT'S SO ANNOYING. My name is 7 letters long, it's hardly anti-disestablishmentarianism, THAT'S a word I'd forgive the misspelling of, and the pronunciation is exactly how it looks, but I can't articulate it on here, obviously.

I'll be eating a chicken sandwich soon!

Whoops, sorry, I only just saw this now! Yes, it's a good book. Very atmospheric and beautifully written. It's more like a work of art than a work of literature.

Okay, I need a To-Do list for my personal bookblog as it's falling behind. I'm actually unsure whether I want to keep it or not. I think it looks pretty, less bloggy and more website-y than most what with no archive and clicking links to access everything, but it's a lot of hassle keeping it all together. I'll keep at it for now, anyway. To Do: Editing: - 2010 Reading List - Adding Star-Ratings (In progress) - Adding Upcoming Reads - Reconstructing Classics Collection (In progress) - Adding Updates Page Write up reviews for: - The Magicians - Something Wicked This Way Comes Format reviews for: - Norwegian Wood Others to add to personal bookblog: - If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things - Hector & The Search For Happiness - Oscar Wilde: A Life In Letters

It's not that weird. I read aloud (well, mouth the words) when I want to read slowly, because my mind reads about three times faster than I can say the words. I have an awful tendancy to speed read through exciting bits, and often only skim enough to get the gist of a sentence, or even parargraph.

Have less than 50 pages to go in Something Wicked This Way Comes, so I'm hoping I'll get it finished tonight

I'm glad you enjoyed it to the extent you did - though I understand why it could alienate some readers. Personally, being a fan of learning about physics generally, I knew most of the material in the book and yet it still managed to provide a conclusion I hadn't come to in reality (which I later posed to my genius brother, and he concurred about it being a nifty idea) - that of quantum physics necessitating the existence of a multiverse or a sentient God outside this universe due to the indefinite nature of unobserved quantum particles. (That's not really a spoiler, it's just a random discussion had in the book.) God I loved this book. I must read it again.

If some guy stood outside my door with cue cards, I'm sorry but I'd run away and marry him. It was unbelievably adoreable.

Oh yeah!! What is it about that scene? I completely broke down when I saw it. Like, I was gone. I wanted to hug the woman and go beat yer man round the head. She just acts it so well, I guess, but it's, as Chrissy said, incredibly powerful.

Mexicola & Cookie: agreed! The worst is when they say, 'it can't be all that bad' and I feel like listing the reasons why you don't have to be living on the street to be having a particularly hard time of it.

We have an Eason's which is sparse at best, and the Waterstones NEVER has books I actually want. Neither is amazingly pretty or big. I generally have to shop online for things. Soooo not going to Waterford lol. I have family there but I don't know them. And the only person I even vaguely know from Waterford is apparently in Brussels for six months

SKM - that's not fair. We have nothing like that in Cork city! Couple of extensive second hand bookshops, but nothing that pretty!

I can't join the library. I'd take their books home and keep them. I don't sacrifice food to the point of starvation, but I make deals with myself - 'buy this book, don't buy coke/chocolate/dessert/etc' and I end up eating a bit better Or more often, it's clothes vs. books. Today Waterstones didn't have a book I wanted, so I came home with two new sundresses

I read usually curled up on my bed in my room. Then again, I do most things here (anything laptop based, reading, drawing etc).

That's me I'm ALWAYS laughing at the worst time. Someone dies in a movie, I crack up laughing. Two minutes silence for something, I start giggling. Someone tells a really awful and offensive joke, I'm gone

*Still hating Waterstones for their lack of Algernon*

The season 2 finale of Angel. It's so funny