That which does not kill me is my family- part ii

[kitewithfish]

While my mother berates Frank Lloyd Wright for his perfidious loins, my brother has arrived back from a trip into Boston. He is officially broken up with girlfriend, which is rather sad in light of their apparently recent cute three month anniversary.

He seems rather more chill, or at least centered, knowing that he is broken up than he did yesterday, when he was still deciding what to do.

As for me, I am deeply involved in writing nothing of importance, ignoring my studies for the sake of the heat, and re-reading novels I liked already. This means The Venom Factor by Diane Duane is making another appearance. I have to say, rereading this book is a pleasure overall and I am really quite pleased at the amount of detail and thought that goes into the canon characters and the ones that Duane makes up to flesh out the book. Duane is smart and likes her characters and it shows. I would highly recommend this series as a whole.

However, I finally saw "Little Miss Sunshine", and I have to say I am just so totally grossed out by it that I don't even want to wonder what the film makers were thinking. Up to the last twenty minutes, I was willing to consider the movie to have its good points and be worth watching, but I find the ending so off-putting and played so much for laughs that I can't really stand to even think about the good parts of the movie.

Comments

[beanie-platypus.livejournal.com]

Oh. Oh, friend, you need to read these books. They get *better* over time, not worse. I still read them and feel smarter than I did before I picked them up. There are ethics! And Ireland! And exploration of the concept of sainthood! And the studied incorporation of computer programing into wizardry!

Um. Yes. I highly recommend further reading if you've the time, as they make me grin and giggle to this very day, despite me being A Very Busy and Important Person (bah, humbug).