Remember Me

I just saw one of the most shocking endings ever!!! But I'm not going to tell you about it, I'm not a movie-spoiler after all... haha But I'm just going to tell you that it was amazing and that it left me crying, which I almost never do and because of that some people think that I'm cold (I'm definitely NOT!) I just cry for good reasons.

 And it's so good that it even makes me like Robert Pattinson's acting and I soo like his clothes in this film! He's so much better when he doesn't look unnaturally pale!

Right now I'm listening to this song named Ghost of Stephen Foster by Squirrel Nut Zippers. It's amazing.. haha

Someone like you

Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen




I think this book is really different to the rest of her books and I was surprised in a good way. I started reading it on a whim and didn´t stop after some hours when I finished it. I kind of expected her usual developmentes that seem to trap you in, but instead I got very real situations (like always...) like someone getting pregnant, problems with parents, sexual relationships with your boyfriend and that sometimes there are different endings. I just love how her characters learn to see life in a different way and how they learn to overcome problems. She's certainly my favorite YA author.



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I just reviewed this book in goodreads after finishing reading it. I'm also listening to this awesome song... Loca people

Mansfield Park

I just finished reading Mansfield Park from Jane Austen and I better write what I think about it now before I forget what I intended to say about it. haha... First of all this book is very different to her earlier novels like Pride and Prejudice. First of all Fanny Price (the main character) doesn't have a strong character unlike previous characters from other novels and she is used by everyone for their own convenience. It mainly shows the difference in economical status and how certain nasty attitudes were overlooked if you had enough money. But even if it starts like this, eventually her uncle and his family that used to think lowly of her learn that certain things that they did to her were wrong. Her only ally, her cousin Edmund, is the only one that defends her but it's eventually blinded by Miss Crawford and her brother that arrive to make their lives difficult.

There are a lot of nasty characters that you just can't stand and make you want to close the book, and the beginning of the book sometimes gets to test your patience with its boredoom and the annoying ways they treat Fanny. But as the book goes on, the family finally learn to appreciate her for all that she has went through. Nasty characters are put in their place and everything has a happy ending. And it's also the first of her books that leaves you with very important moral wisdoms.

Indie Albums & Small Earthquake

Today there were a lot of small earthquakes here and the stronger was of 6.1. So yeah... scary. So I've been hearing indie music while I read Mansfiel Park from Jane Austen and this are some cool covers from the albums.

ok.... that's enough... haha or I'll fill the entire page with album covers. I especially like the last one from Beirut.

Modest Mouse and 3MSC

This are some snapshots from the movie I saw tonight. It's a spanish movie called "3 Metros Sobre el Cielo" or if I traduced it would be Three meters above heaven. And the most funny thing it's that I only decided to see it because my friends had been talking to me about this movie forever and they really wanted me to see it because they thought it was amazing. At first, I didn't like the guy at all with his arrogant attitude but at the end he won me over to say the least. You really have to see it!!!!



This is one of my favourite parts of the movie, it's in spanish though, but I think that just the way they act tells everything and the song is amazing! haha...

I have actually spent all my day reading books, manga, this movie, but more importantly I stopped everything I was doing to watch how the elections in my country were going. Because even if I can't still vote, I'm really interested in everything that is happening and I still have hope in the democratic process in a third world country like this. After all, anything could happen today, any minute I could hear that something violent is happening due to the elections and my family is out there. So while I wait doing a lot of stuff my soundtrack is by Modest Mouse. ^^
I'm hearing the album: Good News for People Who Love Bad News

And We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank

Sophie's World

I'm very tired to say the least, I've been reading Sophie's World. It has more than five hundred pages but it's filled with philosophical stuff so it's kinda hard to understand all at one so I just take my time to think it through....

Have a nice day! I'll go to sleep now...

Foster The People

Lately, I've been really obsessed with Foster The People and this is probably because some of my friends are playing one of their songs so I had to check out the video and suddenly I was watching other videos from them. And I just couldn't help myself because the videos are so cool and they are so hot!!



In this song I really like the part where they sing "I tie my hands up to the chair so i dont fall that way" and I just love to sing along.... ^^



And I just like the beat of this song! : D




This are cool videos.



And this is just a great song!!! haha

An Education

I just finished watching the Virgin Suicides. The movie is just amazing! I love movies by Sofia Coppola! And I love movies with Kirsten Dunst!!! I had been looking forward to watching this movie after reading the book from Jeffrey Eugenides, and it surpassed all my expectations...

I also finished reading the book Emma by Jane Austen. Her books are so amazingly good, I love how she uses words and describe the actions of the characters. Emma is such a great character, I love how she struggles with her vanity and how Mr. Knightley helps her to be a better person. Mr. Knightley is one of my favourite character in her novels so far. There's a certain magical quality to Jane Austen books and it's really nice to immerse in the world of english countryside and in this case in the live of a rich girl and matchmaker. Altough there were some obnoxious characters that I just couldn´t stand!

And this movie...!! it's one of my favourites from now on! I just love everything about it. It's called An Education and it's about a sixteen year old english girl that always dreams of going to Paris and then she meets this older man who seems to make all her dreams come true.

I had a really stressful week and watching this movies and reading Emma for a couple of hours every night made me really relaxed... : ) Sometimes, instead of reading a book really quickly, I just take my time and enjoy it and sometimes it's just what I need. And this couple of movies where perfect for that because they're really artistic and show everyting in a different way. And finally this is a relaxing song that I've been listening to very frequently.

Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

From Wiki: Madame Bovary (1856) is Gustave Flaubert's first published novel and is considered his masterpiece. The story focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. Though the basic plot is rather simple, even archetypal, the novel's true art lies in its details and hidden patterns. Flaubert was notoriously a perfectionist about his writing and claimed always to be searching for le mot juste ("the right word").

My Review: okey, so it's been a long time since I´ve reviewed good books, but I had to make an exception for this one!

This book was once censured and it is said that it is one of the best books ever written. It's really impressive all the attention that Flaubert gave to his choosing of words... Emma gives a slight remembrance to Marie Antoniette... because she used clothes and expensive things to feel good about her life. The book also gives an existensialist feeling because the main characters has an apparently happy life but always feels a need for something else. She always tires herself of what she has, like lovers, clothes, her husband, her child, her house, and her town. She's always desiring for something new and eventually this leaves to her demise. It's like a tragedy but it also mockes the attitude of certain people and the way of thinking at the time. So it turns into a satire.

In short, this novel is such a mystery and I'll probably read it again and find something new inside it.

Gokinjo Monogatari

I've been reading this awesome manga!!! It's called Gokinjo Monogatari and it's written by Yazawa Ai who also wrote:

Nana and....

Paradise Kiss!!

All of this series are awesome and they are my favorites together with Strobe Edge. In fact, I have actually read Gokinjo Monogatari before but it's so epic that I had to read it again!

To understand the awesomness of Yazawa's genious I have to tell you that all of this past three mangas are about fashion and music. But Yazawa's drawings are also fantastic. I personally love the fact of how, in Gokinjo Monogatari, the main character Mikako faces many dilemmas in her life but she gets to feel good with herself by dressing nice or coloring her hair. That's so nice! because I definitely do that so I get to understand how she feels. Like dressing nice is one of the best parts of my week because I have to wear an uniform to school every day but at the weekend I get to wear some outfit that I have had in my mind for all that week.

An interesting fact is that many characters in all of this mangas appear in the next manga but in a major or minor role. It's like the author created them abstedmindedly in Gokinjo Monogatari and then turned them around her head until those characters got their own series. But with different appearences sometimes but still with the same attitude.

Today I'm not sad or angry but a little annoyed with certain fake people that act a certain way and then expect you to act that way too. Especially when they are almost forcing to feel it. I may not be really expresive but I think that I get to display my feelings when they are real.