Rose's Literary Influence

Yep, this is my first blog post in four months. Sorry about that, Rose.

Been really busy with a lot of Senior year stuff. But since the college app is handed in and the school musical practices haven't started on Saturdays (yet) I thought I'd finally post what people (ie. Rose and Joyce) keep nagging me about. :D Spoilers ahead.

A Rose montage is necessary

Rose's Literary Influence (complete with quotes from the muse herself)
So a lot of the things I've been reading/watching over the past several months has been because of Rose.

Rose, my soft-haired little British friend.

After sharing a bucket of KFC and watching The Office webisodes (we had an argument because she thinks Kevin is "cute" and that Creed is a "stupid creep,"), we watched Never Let Me Go. I was really impressed that they could compress such a flashforward-y, time-skip-py book into a good-length movie that included all of the essential scenes. All three leads were well casted--Keira was mean enough, Carey was sad-eyed, and Andrew Garfield played a great kiddish Tommy. And in the end, when (spoiler) Carey is standing at the fence, the clones-have-souls thing really made me tear up. Even with Rose there.

Rose: (during movie): "Wait. Are they robots? Are they clones? Scientifically engineered, though, right?" 

(when I'm crying): "Are you crying?!" 

(after the movie, to Liz): "...And at the end, it's so weird, because she's waiting for the fence for the dead guy to come back. And Mind cried!"

...I swear these are exact quotes. :P

Anyway, Rose liked it enough to read the whole book, and her reply to it seems pretty positive, so I guess that's good. 

Then, driven by curiosity of people hugging this 

book to their chest declaring it the best book ever written, I decide to borrow Rose's dog-eared copy that she got for her 14th birthday and read it. It is my first Christian romance book. And to be honest I had to deflect my immediate "ugh face" so that I could read it objectively. Liz said that I had to get rid of that attitude because if I didn't, I would just make fun of it, which, I quote, "I am not allowed to." (Which I was not going to do anyway, LIZ :P.) Anyway, I read it and it was a page-turner, as far as novels go. I made sure to thank Miss Talbot very nicely for letting me borrow it.

Rose: "Did you cry? I didn't cry either. I never got why she had to strip naked in the end."


And just this week, Rose got me onto the

bandwagon. Still climbing on though, since I only finished the first book. Popular adventure fiction is always fun to read (Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, etc). How it focused on surviving also reminded me somewhat of Hatchet. And I watched the trailer before reading, so reading was like watching my version of the movie. Kind of a creativity-destroyer, but whatever. Will start on the next book after I finish this blog post. I haven't had a spaz-session with Rose yet, but she did say

(to a group) "Have any of y'all read the Hunger Games?" SQUEEE!!
(I was confused because she's British but she said "y'all" )

And to finish off, make sure to visit my sister's friend's super-cute style blog.

I hope to dig up some blackmail material for the next post. Until next time! Maybe I'll do a Joyce post.