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My goodness but it has been forever since I updated my list of books I've read/movies I've watched this year! And I have pathetically little to show for it. D:

Books!

20. On Michael Jackson, Margo Jefferson
Reading reviews of this book after I'd read it, I came across one that pointed out that this book provides you with more questions than answers, and my reaction to that line was "THAT'S IT! That's why I didn't like it!" This book is made up of four cultural study-type essays written in a style that makes the entire book feel like fiction. There were some interesting passages, and then there were some passages that I definitely didn't even understand. Basically I spent most of the book thinking, "... And your point is?," because Jefferson does bring up so many different questions and then just as easily discards them. And at one point it seemed that she was trying to use the National Enquirer as a serious and legitimate source, so in the end I must confess I'm not much of a fan of this book.

21. The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science, Natalie Angier
Very interesting and funny, but as usual I think I forgot most of it as soon as I finished it. :X I do remember one thing, only because it was so shocking to me -- according to Angier, in terms of size, a human adult is to a cell as a cell is to an atom. THAT SOUND YOU JUST HEARD WAS MY BRAIN BREAKING. I just cannot even picture something being that small!!

22. Wild Blue: A Natural History of the World's Largest Animal, Dan Bortolotti
After my visit to the Ocean Discovery Centre, I wanted to read about sealife! So I borrowed this book on blue whales, and I really enjoyed it. I whipped through it pretty quickly, especially the earlier chapters. This book discusses whaling quite a bit, and it sounds rather more horrific than I'd ever pictured it being, but it also gives a lot of space to the methods scientists are inventing in order to study the blue whale, a particularly difficult animal to study. Really interesting! Marine mammals are my favourite animals for sure. xD <3

Movies!

44. 21, 2008
I was soooo distracted when betaraider and I watched this that I barely remember any of it, but I do remember that we were completely underwhelmed. I feel I very rarely give bad reviews, but ... this is one.

45. Inkheart, 2009
the_wykydtron and I had been anticipating watching this movie since we first saw the trailer in front of Twilight (we would've even seen it at the theatre except that I was in Japan when it came out and by the time I returned it was gone!). xD For the first half hour, I LOVED THIS MOVIE. Then it started trying desperately to be more epic than it needed to be and I just got frustrated with whoever's idea that was. I can't hate this movie though. It features my boy Brendan Fraser! And that guy who was an author, omg. I loved his reactions to seeing his own characters in the flesh, they were just too perfect. xD

46. The Glass Slipper, 1955
I stumbled across this on TCM and it was pretty interesting. A retelling of Cinderella in which Cinderella spends half the movie being rather unlikeable! I got kinda bored near the end when there was an extended dance sequence that did nothing for the plot (this is the same reason I didn't enjoy An American in Paris, not gonna lie -- and haha, please note that both of these movies star the same actress), but then there was the most pathetic day for night shot I think I've ever seen, and in a way that made up for it! hahaha, seriously, they obviously filmed that stroke-of-midnight scene about twelve hours early. >xD Oh, and the fairy godmother character was fantastic and I'm totally going to be her when I grow up.

In other news: brb, listening to this song on repeat forever~~