Thoughts

Dear readers, Hope you're all OK...well, at least better than me...not that I'm depressed or anything. Just that lately, my mood has been playing russian mountain again...don't like it much but then who does really? I don't know why or if it's the weather or again because I miss my family or my friends or just because I may need to adjust myself to this new and last year at university and the fact that I've to think about what I'd like to do next year...which is stressful for me at least...I'm aware of the fact that one day or the other, we all have to find our own way in life such as find a job, becoming independant , but for me (as I think I previously talked about it in a article a few months back..., anyway, it's not as simple as it looks like. Indeed, you must have guesses by now, that all these things and becoming adult, having responabilities and everything (I know we all have to begin somewhere but...) although, just by trying or picturing what I could do, is really scaring me...I feel like a big fish in the ocean, completly lost...I'm not alone but sometimes...just a feeling...:) all those things seems quite big to me...maybe we all feel like, we all go through things like this...I don't know... Fortunately, I know I can count on my family or friends, and all the good books I read, the music I listen, lightening some candles, drinking many warm cup of tea (rire),watching funny movies or that some TV shows are going to be back soon to keep my mood up,to distract myself, which has lately been mostly more low than up...hopefully it's just a moment to pass...:) I really hope that... Anyway, let's not dwell on that, I hope to write a more chearful article soon! :) thank you again, for listening to me, I really appreciate and in way, writing helps me..! :) a bit like therapy, we could say, put the words on what you really feel can be helpful sometimes (at least it is for me!) :) Take care and see you soon I hope, xxxxx

Ces séries qui vous rendent accro!

Dear readers, Hope you're all OK! It seems that you're quite lucky (lol), inspiration has strike again! (rire) Anyway, I still don't know how they do it but they still do! These TV shows that keep you awake at night, that keep your imagination going all the time , wondering what's going to happen next! We're all waiting impatiently every year for new episodes and discover, (re)discover again our favourites! There is so many that I can't remember every one of them, but these american (mostly because they come from that country but there others of course!)know how to keep your attention alive with all their famous ingredients: suspense et retournement de situation, making the characters evolve, making romantic situation impossible (sense where you always want them to be together but they're often too stubborn at first!) or make you think that this person kill someone else when it's not him or her, but someone else did it or getting on your nerves when of course someone tries to getting away with it (or think he/she can)...anyway you see what I mean...it's always the same thing, you discover a TV show you like and you can't stop watching it! And you can't wait to see what's going to happen next! :) Take for example: Friends, How I met your Mother, Castle, Drop dead diva, Burn notice, Csi (et autre franchise si vous aimez but I've a slightly preference for CSI Las vegas), Ncis (or NCIS LA), Once upon a time, Grimm, Vampire Diaries, Bones, Royal Pains, Necessary Roughness, White Collar and many others...you can't get enough and sometimes even if it's not that great...they still found a way to make you watch it, to renew your interest, it's horrible! They must be really good! :) That's it for today, I just wanted to share it with you! Take care and see you soon for another article I hope! :) xxxx

Anna Karenina- the movie adaptation (2012)

Hello again! Dear readers, hope you're still OK since my last posting. Good luck pour cette rentrée ou pour le retour au taf! :) Know it must be hard, I quite like holidays myself! :) (though we might get bored in the end lol) Anyway, yesterday,as you can see by the title, I went to see another adaptation (among many which have been made) of a book I read recently (see the july article if you miseed it): Anna Karenina! Eh oui, it finally came out (lol) and was quite surprised as we all know it's always hard to adapt a book at the cinema and there is always some passages cut or some details that we find ourselves important but that are unfortunately missing...(still the case here)but despite that I quite liked this new adaptation and we still found Tolstoï's spirit in it and Anna's courage to choose love over everything she has known. She doesn't care about what people think at the time. This new adaptation is also quite surprising as first, it's made as if it was a theatre play. The decor is always changing as if you were un spectateur watching the play going on directly on the stage! There is good actors (Jude Law, Keira Knightley, Kelly Mac Donald and Aaron Taylor-Johnson (saw in the Kick-Ass movie) and I like their exchange. You spend a good time and don't get bored too much (rire). You let yourself in the movie, picturing how these characters were living and what are the rules in the Russian society. When Anna's chooses Count Vronski over her husband (she has married young), she shocked a nation, she surprises everyone. She's in her own way right and we can understand why she chooses love over her husband (who only care about his reputation). Anna wants to be happy. However, despite that, she needs to be constantly reassured about her lover's love, always asking whether he still loves her and he still does. But she is regularly asking him and is jealous if he talks to a beautiful woman. In the end, Anna seems to think everyone is judging her (maybe some but she usually doesn't seem to care) and end up resenting everyone. She's unhappy and takes her life, jumping in front of a train. Irony or not, she's met Count Vronski in a train station at the beginning of the novel. I don't like this ending much (as I always like happy ending) but fortunately for some characters like Levine, he finally marries Kitty (to whom he has proposed already but she was first smitten by Count Vronski who himself has choosen Anna over her) and have a son together. Anna's daugther (she' had a daughter with Vronski) goes to live with Serge (Anna's first son) and her (ex)husband (though I don't recall they have ever divorced). So the end is not completly sad, there are still some happy moments. Anyway, hope you'll like it as much as I did (if you're going to see the movie when it comes out) or if you simply read the book! :) Have a good week-end, take care and see you soon I hope for another article! :) xxx

Demain, J'arrête!

Dear readers, Hope you're all OK and that until now you had good summer as much as I did. Even though it went too fast, as usual lol :) Anyway, just wanted to share an article with you. I know it has been a few weeks since I've posted something. But as I must have said already, I don't write for writing. I prefer to write if I'm only inspired and not too bore you with something meaningful. So, today, I wanted to talk about a book I've recently read. I discovred it by accident but didn't regret it as I couldn't stop reading it. Books it's not a secret, i love them! :) The plot? But first, the title (it's a french book): 'Demain, J'arrête!' Unusual title but really fun! Julie is currently working in a Bank (which she really hate) and has recently broken-up with her awful boyfriend. But it begins with something else. She could tell you all the stupid things she has done along her life. Although there is more stupid. A new neighbor arrives in her building. And suddenly without knowing why, she finds herself wanting to know more about him. Who is he? What is he job he is doing? What he likes? What he dislikes? In other word, she wants to know everything and every stragegy is good to learn more about this new intriging and mysterious new neighbor :-) I'll let you guess what happened next by reading it yourself! I guarantee (and hope) that you'll like it! :) A lot of fun and laugh! Enjoy! :) Have a good read and See you soon for another article! Take care, xxx

Anna Karenine by Tolstoï

Dear readers, Hope you're fine and having a nice summmer! :) Sorry for not writing so much but lately inspirations hasn't struck me much and as the summer will pass, I won't be writing much. Otherwise, I wanted to share with you a book I've been reading for the past month. yes, (rire), I know but it took me some time to read it and the book was quite long. It was divided in 8 parts and more than 900 pages! :) But I proud of me, as many times I wasn't so sure I would read it entirely. Although despite a few sentences (book translate from Russian to French and many languages after that) not always understandable and some passage can be a bit boring (sorry), sometimes it's quite complexe... I would like to add that the names of the characters can be sometimes different but apperently it the same and only person. (I suppose it can be nicknames...) Anyway it was a challenge but in the end one your mind is set on the it and that your understand better what happened, you can't stop and you want to know what happened! :) Well, I talked about the book in general but I should maybe tell you about the plot..., don't you think? :) So, the story is mainly taking place in Russia, during 3 years. Many events will happened but mostly we follow the story of Anna Karenine, married woman (don't ask me to tell you name of her husband, it's hard to remember) and mother of a young boy. Anna has a love story with Vronskï. She fell heplessy in love with him and leaves her husband and child for him. Doing that Anna will upset the Russian society,revealing its hypocrisy by just doing what she believes in and simply following her heart. She has been married young and soon had her son. Her husband is a strict and severe man with many principles. We can understand why she does that. Anna and Vronskï will live together in Italy for a while before returning to Russia. Throughout their story we also follow the story of her husband, her son, her brother and wife's story, and Kitty and Levine's (Leon en Russe)story. And many others that meet all the characters I've listed. (Hope I'm clear enough...) It's a beautiful story and I've enjoying reading it. It makes you react and think at the same time, trying to make you understand the characters better and also trying to see how life was at that period. It's worth reading it, no matter how long it takes you to read it (rire)! :) I just prefer happy endings...but will not say more (though you might already know what happens...?) I knew it before reading it..so I don't really know..:) but I migth add that some characters have a nice ending. I also heard that another adaptations will come out in the cinema soon, hope it will be good and faihful enough to the book...let's see! :) On that, I will now leave you but hope to write another article soon enough! :) Take care and see you soon I hope! :) Have a nice summer! :) xxxx

Divers

Dear readers, Hope you're all ok since my last article! Sorry for not writing sooner but lately I've a lot of things in mind and inspiration wasn't there much and as you must already know I don't really want to write for...writing something, I prefer to have something to share with you...:) Anyway, let's hope that the weather despite of some improvements, will be slightly better for the summer! :) I've nothing against the rain (we need water), sometimes I find it...soothing, I don't really know why but just listening at the rain coming down the sky...it can be relaxing! :) Of course, I love the sun as well! it make you smile and gets you mood up quite a bit! :) Also, I've recently discovered a rather nice TV show, that hab been broadcast in England, un petit bijou d'humour et de english mystery as they know how to do it. It's called 'Dowtown Abbey'. The plot? It first begun with the Titanic which goes under water and put in question the inheritance of a family house. The family is called the Grantham. It also continues with the first world war and a bit after for the second season. And along the family and the impact of all these events happenning, we follow as well the life and aventure of their staff, that worked with them. It's quite nice and the decor is well done. The clothers, the evolution of each characters is nicely written as well. We plunge easily in their world and we always ask for more! Can't wait for the next season! :) Hope you'll like it as much as did when I watch it! I also plunge myself (again lol) in some Jane Austen's Tv adaptation such as (mostly): "Sense and Sensibility", "Pride&Prejudice (Ah! I love it), and "Emma"! All very good and still not tired of it! :) And still reading of course, what would I do without books? I feel 'empty' without them! I like having books around, it's rather nice feeling as usual! :) I know that I haven't written a Bookholic recently but it takes times...anyway, we'll see, maybe later! :) Thanks again for reading my articles and hope to be able to write more often, though with the summer coming, I might write articles less...but don't worry I don't forget you! :) Take care and see you soon! xxx :)

Cinephiles

Dear readers, Hope you're alright since my last article. Sorry for not writing sooner, but I wasn't really inspired. Anyway, as you might have already guess by reading the title of this note, I'm going to talk about movies,well, mostly the ones I recently saw. So, there is quite a long list, not too long but as 2012 bring quite a lot of nice movies, why not enjoy it? :) (smile) it's not often...! :) ;) Let's begin, then! (I might not remember all the movies but will try to add them as I go along) Movies I recenlty saw...(well just another...interruption before I start, you may have also already guess, I love going to the cinema, being in your seat, sitting in the dark and only the screen,enjoying every moment, laughing or crying, without anyone to see, being lost...) :) 1-Sherlock Holmes 2-"Games of Shadow", Never too far this one! :) "Élémentaire, mon cher Watson"! We were missing him too much and he has come back for another adventure, still funny, a lot of action and Sherlock, still the same, big kid liking the danger and the thrill of a new case! 2- Then, if I remember, I went to see the famous movie, "War Horse"! A spectacular movie, I quite liked it especially the extraordinary bond that linked Albert and Joey (the horse). The extreme courage and luck...doesn't let you unemotional. Steven Spielberg still got it, I think! :) ;) 3-"The Iron Lady"- Well, well, also a great movie. Meryl Streep, faithful to the character, gives quite a performance of Margaret Thatcher (hope I've spelled it ok^^) and we can see that she was very stubborn and very ambitious all along, never giving up! Quite impressive! :) 4-"The Artist"!!!! Well, well, there is no need to present that great movie which has already won many prizes on its way! I really liked and was really surprised! I didn't know what to expect and had a great time! :) 5-"The descendants" a touching Georges Clooney playing a father, whose his wife after a boat accident is in a coma, and he has to struggle with the fact that his wife had a lover. He also learn to know better his 2 daughters along the way. You can't not have a tears around! :) 6-"Jack&Jill" a funny comedy: when a brother invites his twin sister for thanksgiving and she's not like the other! :) Quite a nice movie, where you have a good time! :) 7-"Man on a ledge"- A thriller which keeps your breathe! A ex-convit escapes prison to prove his innocent, he wants to prove that he didn't stole a big diamond! While he stands on a ledge, all the eyes on him, his brother and his girlfriends help him! Also nice! :) 8-"Young Adult" Charlize Theron plays here -sorry for the terms but here her character is- a bitch (which she plays quite well), she is a divorced woman, writing novels and when she's receives from an ex-flame, who is married, a news announcing that he is a dad, she decided to go back where she grew-up and to win him back!Hope you'll also like it! :) (story written by the author of "Juno")! ;) 9-"The Vow" A touching love story, apparently based on a true story, where a couple has a car accident. His wife,unfortunaletly lost her memories and he has to win her back, trying to make her remember,to make her know him all over again...:) Really nice and a lot of emotions! :) 10-"Extremely loud and Incredibly close" A really really touching story where young Oskar lost his dad in the world trade center, on 11th sept. One day, by looking in his closet, he accidently find a mysterious key, hidden in a vase, he had broken by mistake. He begins to wonder: What is this key? What does it open? And begin a long quest to find out...! :) To see absolutely! :) 11-"One for the money"-Action comedy telling the story of Stephanie Plum, who has recently lost her job at Macy's and in need of money to pay the bills, she reconvert herself...in...being a bounty hunter! Original, no? Quite fun! ;) 12-"Safe house"- An action movie, where you don't have time to be bored or to breathe! Set in South Africa, we see a ex-cia agent who has turned his back and sells his service to highest bidder. On a mission, which doesn't really turn out well and a lot of other bad guys are after him, he lets himself being arrested and is later transferred in a safe house. Though, the safe house, is soon attacked...who's behind? I'll let you discover it,hoping you'll like it! :) 13-The Best exotic Marigold Hotel", another touching story, but this time, it is about 6 british pensionners,they don't know each other and they all have their own story, going to India. Meeting another culture, complety different from their, they will rediscover themselves...:) Also meeting a young man, full of dreams, managing the hotel (well, not really what they expected)and learn "that's alright in the end". great movie! :) 14-"This means war" A nice action comedy, where two CIA agent and best friends, begin to accidently date the same girl and the "war" begin to know who's going to win the girl! :) You won't regret it! ;) 15-"Wanderlust" A couple living in New York, lose their job and decides to experiment life in commune full of hippies (no they still exist^^)and a new adventure begin! :) you'll also learn that door are in the end, really really useful! (seeing the movie you'll see why^^)! :) 16- Again? Lol! Almost finished! I went to see : "John Carter"! A nice action movie where John Carter, goes to Mars (called another name but today it's called Mars)well, he goes there accidently, and...I know the story but my brain has trouble working lol maybe because it's the end of the day...but it's quite nice and the special effects are quite impressive! You won't be bored! :) 17- And the last one I recently saw:"Bel Ami" based on the novel written by the famous french writer , Guy de Maupassant, where Georges Duroy, a peniless soldier, uses his charms and body to gain fortune, seducing women, even married women...well he is really determined and doesn't accept being poor, dening he has been before, he can't live without money (well ok) but when he sees money his eyes are shining! Be careful lol! :) A quite nice adaptation among many others (though it's the first time I saw an adaption of the book, so I hope it stays faithful to the novel) and Robert Pattinson, is quite good in the role of Georges Duroy! :) Well, I think I've put all the movies I saw this past 2 months...! :) A lot, I know but never bored to discover new movies! :) And more to come, can't wait! :) ( like ' Mirror, Mirror' (a new "Snow White" adaptation before another this summer called "Snow White and the Huntsman" with Kirsten Stewart (aka Bella in Twilight) and Charlize Theron in the Evil Queen), 'The Hunger Games' (based on the book of Suzanne Collins, having read the books, (there are 3), they're quite good, though sometimes...I don't know...maybe I'm older and sometimes you really want to...(if I find the word I'm looking for, I will put it later) and "Avengers" based on the Marvel Comics, I love heroes, don't you?, also another adapation of Spiderman called "The Amazing Spiderman"(out this summer) and many others! :) still can't wait, héhé! :) xxx Anyway, good luck for everything and see you around for another article!(Maybe another Bookholic, we'll see) Take care, and don't hesitate to indulge yourself! :) xxxx