Scott Pilgrim

Today my boyfriend got me the first and second volumes of Scott Pilgrim, that were released here in a single volume... It already hit my "currently reading" list, as I am playing the XboxLIVE game and intending to watch the movie as soon as it comes out!

Scott Pilgrim is 23 years old, living in the big city with his gay roommate, just trying to get by in this crazy world. He's in a band. He's lazy. He likes video games. Scott Pilgrim likes the new girl in town, Ramona Flowers, but to win her heart, he has to defeat her seven evil ex-boyfriends. Seven! Evil! Ex! Boyfriends! Lucas has muscles! Todd plays bass with his psychic powers! The Twins are twins! Matthew Patel is an Indian guy! AND MORE! (official site description)

Goodreads: 4stars

Movie trailer!

Eat, Pray, Love

Just finished the audiobook of Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. And in a great timing because my friends were thinking on going to the movies this Sunday to watch the movie!

What I thought about it? Well, it's kind of hard to say... There are really beautiful parts, really funny ones but there also are several dull parts and several boring ones as well. All in all, I liked it, I don't regret reading it, and sice I love reading books then seeing the movies, I think it was good that I did it! But I also enjoyed choosing it to hear as audiobook instead of actually reading it, I think it was better... And the audiobook is read by Elizabeth Gilbert herself, by that it is exactly read in the way it was supposed to be, stressing the important parts and so on.

Now I have to finish my Pride and Prejudice audiobook so I can move on to the next!
Goodreads: 3.53 stars

Movie trailer!

Tous les matins du monde (All the world's mornings) by Pascal Quignard

Yesterday my new French assignment arrived... "Tous les matins du monde" (All the world's mornings" in English) by Pascal Quignard... I'm taking the "Literature and Cinema" course where we analyse literary works and their adaptation for the big screens. This is the first of the three works we will be studying this semester...

Back cover text:

"Il poussa la porte qui donnait sur la balustrade et le jardin de derrière et il vit soudain l'ombre de sa femme morte qui se tenait à ses côtés. Ils marchèrent sur la pelouse.

Il se prit de nouveau à pleurer doucement. Ils allèrent jusqu'à la barque. L'ombre de Madame de Sainte Colombe monta dans la barque blanche tandis qu'il en retenait le bord et la maintenait près de la rive. Elle avait retroussé sa robe pour poser le pied sur le plancher humide de la barque. Il se redressa. Les larmes glissaient sur ses joues. Il murmura : 

- Je ne sais comment dire : Douze ans ont passé mais les draps de notre lit ne sont pas encore froids."

Back cover text of the english version (found on internet):

"Set in seventeenth-century France, All the World's Mornings is based on the life of Monsieur de Sainte Colombe, a solitary, reclusive widower and taciturn musical genius, and the father of two beautiful daughters.
One spring, a shy but ambitious young man arrives at the farm begging to become a pupil of Sainte Colombe. As time passes the attraction between Marin Marais and each sister in turn reaches a passionate consummation."

The addaptation to the movies was made by Alain Corneau with the help of Pascal Quignard himself, who addapted the dialogues.