Obsessive-Compulsive Thinking

Some thoughts on the last two books I read.

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Will Grayson, Will Grayson - John Green and David Levithan 

I am going to start this with a very obvious question: What will you do if and when, by some stroke of luck, you meet a person with the same name as yours? Will you…

a)

b)

c)

d)

e)

f)

If you’re not Will Grayson or, well, will grayson, you probably won’t buy a Spanish porn magazine entitled Mano a Mano (Will) or ask if your namesake’s name is actually Isaac (will). I also assume that you will not hook up your namesake with your bestfriend or let be hooked up to a stranger by your namesake. Sounds bad? Sounds confusing? Naah, not really.

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The Mission Song - John le Carré 

Bruno Salvador, commonly known as Salvo, is a top interpreter working for the British Government. One night, during his wife’s very important office party, he receives a call from his boss telling him there’s a big-shot gig waiting for him and—wait for it—it’s urgent as FUCK!

Salvo, being the obedient man that he is, whisks off his dinner jacket, leaves the party and, in no more than 4 hours (maybe), is on his way to a no-name island for a no-name conference sponsored by a no-name international syndicate to be attended by big names in the Congo political scene!

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Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett 

In the beginning… it’s actually nice.  Nice as in “pleasing, agreeable”, not “exacting in requirements or standards”, but kinda “possessing, marked by, or demanding great or excessive precision and delicacy” (as seen in the Merriam-Webster Offline Dictionary app on my Android phone). There’s a very good mix of the normal and the mystic in it. (Ya know, it’s just the usual angel-demon casual conversation about good and evil, nothing new here folks.) The tone is light and easy to follow, therefore engaging the reader (in this case, me) to consume page by page by page by page until she realizes that, what the fuck, she’s finished the book! Just. Like. That!

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Songs of the Humpback Whale - Jodi Picoult 

So, Songs of the Humpback Whale…

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Garden of Bones 

I have never written a reaction post about Game of Thrones before and didn’t have any intention of breaking the tradition when I started watching this week’s episode. My feelings about the show are mostly similar to those about the book so I didn’t see much point in reviewing episodes. But now…

Garden of Bones contains the most added/altered scenes in the whole series so far. And I just have to let all the ~feels out.

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Chatroom (2010) - Trailer HD

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Not enough Richard Madden