Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Summer reading

Two weeks ago, J gave me Atonement, by Ian McEwan to read. It was better than I expected, a bit wordy in the beginning but interesting throughout. She also gave me a copy of the movie, which I saw this weekend. Unfortunately, that was a disappointment. The acting was pretty good, but the directing left more to be desired.

This morning, R gave me Murakami's new memoir, What I talk About When I Talk About Running. I read the piece ( an excert from the book) he had in the New Yorker a couple of weeks ago and put the book on my wish list. It's exactly what I wanted. Thanks for spoiling me. What a sweet gift. Thank you!

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2 Comments:

Blogger nina said...

what did you think of the cinematography in atonement?

August 3, 2008 7:15 PM  
Blogger Rona Chang said...

The cinematography was beautiful, but almost too beautiful. The sun was always setting with amazing skies and the colors hyper-saturated. I would have opted for muted tones to depict the torment of the war.

August 4, 2008 9:20 AM  

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