Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to

[mic0]

OH. Yeeeeeeah. Yeah. I get that.

[Portia]

It's still EXCELLENT, though, so I'm hoping Florentino is not an author avatar.

[Whistler]

I liked Love in the Time of Cholera way more than 100 Years! It is just beeeaautiful. I don't know what part you mean, though. :/

Oh, I need to read that book! I absolutely adore the movie The Painted Veil, which I believe was based on it?

[mic0]

Reading the description of The Painted Veil, definitely sounds like it was based on that. Looks like a great movie, too!

BTW, today I finished the Mistborn series. I liked it overall. Sometimes when I read books I have a hard time accepting what the author is doing and I start making up my own motivations for characters. This made me somewhat disappointed in Ruin's end and also Sazed's faith-decision, I guess because I was projecting my own ideas. Ah well, it was still a really good series and I'm glad to have read it!

[Portia]

Although cholera is an important plot point in both works, The Painted Veil is based on the 1925 novel of the same name by the British W. Somerset Maugham. Love in the Time of Cholera was first translated into English the year I was born (1988) and was written by the Colombian Gabriel García Márquez in '85, although it's set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Different works, but both could be worth checking out.

[mic0]

Grrrrl, you did your research!

[Whistler]

It's a Maugham novel!? okay, I'm reading it like, now.

[Digit]

I liked The Verger.

[Whistler]

I've been reading Neal Stephensen's The Diamond Age. I like it a lot better than Reamde (which after 200 pages I just sorta skimmed). And the random sex orgy might actually have plot significance! My favorite idea is definitely the Young Lady's Primer--basically a tablet that can teach a girl to read and almost anything else.

[Tally M.]

For you, Katya:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/reason ... e-they-die

[bobtheenchantedone]

I just read Elantris again. Now that I'm a little more well-read I can recognize some of the hallmarks of an inexperienced writer, but it's still a highly enjoyable book.

[Katya]

For you, Katya:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/reason ... e-they-die

Nice! (Although I can't help but notice that included Acadia National Park five times.)

[Dead Cat]

I kind of hesitate to recommend this (mainly because of language) but I have recently discovered something called Thug Notes, in which a straight up gangsta talks classic literature. Yes.

[UffishThought]

I kind of hesitate to recommend this (mainly because of language) but I have recently discovered something called Thug Notes, in which a straight up gangsta talks classic literature. Yes.

I am so happy right now. I wish there were a way I could integrate that into high school lessons. Couldn't show them in class. Maybe with disclaimers as one of several homework options? Hmmm.

[thatonemom]

http://www.mormonwomen.com/2013/07/31/c ... e-another/

I was in her ward when I was a little kid. She's a pretty amazing lady.

[vorpal blade]

Very inspiring article, thatonemom. Thanks for sharing.

[mic0]

This song by the UC Men's Octet is one I've seen countless times since I was a young teenager. It is perrrrfect, and today youtube-hopping I remembered it.

[C is for]

You guys have seen this, right?

I don't care what JKR says, my personal Remus Lupin canon will always be this pre-HBP rendering

[Tally M.]

So, I discovered NoiseTrade today.

My favorite artist so far that I've found is Courrier.

[Tally M.]

Well. We've got a new 12.