Eat Pray Love Movie Trailer

Eat Pray Love has been adapted to the movie srcreen, and the trailer for the film came out a few days ago. Here it is:

Book of The Week

This week, and in the next few days, I'm reading Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat Pray Love. I'm not even half way through it, so I won't write anything about it, except that I enjoy Gilbert's memoirs and her style too, the book is a real page-turner. Can hardly wait to find out what she learns about herself by the end of the book.:)

Song Of The Day

Book of The Week #2

As another weekend is passing me by incredibly quickly,I'm just finishing The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger. This is another book I enjoy consuming fairly much; as a matter of fact, whenever I read it, I rush through it in a few days. I remember buying the book at that large HMV store on Oxford Street three years ago, in March 2007, one of those days I spent in London au pairing. I didn't look for it, the Devil found me as I was standing in line in front of the cashier waiting to pay for a couple of dvd-s I'd picked up. Its beautiful cover immediately grabbed my attention with the bright red stiletto and the downturned pitchfork as the shoe's heel on it. I had already been familiar with the movie for there was quite a hype around it as the dvd was just coming out. I always like reading the original stories, the novels which the adaptations are based on, so I thought I would give it a shot, especially since it was only 5 quids. So I purchased the book along with the dvd-s, then not only read it, but adored it, too. I love how this book makes me feel: I get to peek into the everyday life of that infamous High Society (which most of us find loathsome, still, we would die to somehow make it into the closed and vicious circle of the High-and-Mighty), of the publishing industry, and enjoy the breathtaking atmoshpere of the Big Apple (where I've been longing to go for such a long time!). Last week I bumped into a documentary that came out a few months ago: The September Issue which chronicles Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour's preparations for the 2007 fall-fashion issue, whom the character of Miranda Priestley, the antagonist of the novel, is based on. I found it very arresting, all of a sudden I grew so interested in Anna Wintour that I immediately ordered her biography written by Jerry Oppenheimer... I also started yearning for The Devil Wears Prada, and decided to read it for the third time too, right after I was done with My Life in France. So tonight I am finishing it, and hopefully the Front Row will be delivered by tomorrow because I can hardly wait to read the (hopefully) authentic, non-fiction account of Anna Wintour's life as the ruler of the fashion industry.

Spring Fever

"If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom." ~Audra Fuveo

Photo Of The Day

I just love it when I  take a spur-of-the-moment photo of a dear friend that I know will make me smile every time I  look at it for the rest of my life!

The Book of The Week Is...

...My Life in France by Julia Child. 
(Or it's rather last week's as I've started it on Wednesday and  will be probably finishing it tomorrow.)

Okay, I have to admit that last week I went and saw Julie and Julia AGAIN in the cinema. ...and my love and admiration for the movie,  for the ladies, and for their whole story just keeps growing. Right after I watched it for the third time, I decided that I would order Julia Child's memoir and get to it ASAP. (I've already read Julie Powell's Julia & Julia and enjoyed it utterly.) I've spent the weekend reading it, and you know what?  I'm growing fond of not only Julia Child (whom I found rather weird and eccentric at first) but of France, too. She writes about 1950's France with such incomprehensible admiration that the reader cannot help herself but fall for the country. So here's another thing I can thank to Julia Child (on top of my starting baking): after three long years my good old loathing for the French is over; in fact, it is completely put to rest for good.  

Thank you, Julia.:)

PS: I wish I could pop over to France for a couple of days during the spring break...

Movie of The Day

I have just seen An Education. It's wonderful, the best movie I have seen lately, for sure.

Viva La Picasa, Polaroid, and Moleskine

I must admit I haven't made myself very useful in the past few days; in fact, I have been lazier than ever. This is the very first week of the spring semester, the one when there is no teaching yet only signing up for classes; therefore, I always spend this week at home, just hanging out and trying to undbend myself of all the weariness caused by the exam period. I also always make a lot of plans regarding this week: visiting all my relatives I never get to see during the term, watching at least two dozen movies, watching a couple of seasons of my fav tv show, and reading at least a thousand pages of pure literature. Naturally, doing it all in a week is next to impossible; therefore it's no wonder I hardly ever get to do even half of it... This year I made those plans again anyway: I have at least 25 movies saved up on my laptop to watch, plus the 7th season of Gilmore Girls and the 1st of Everwood. I also got a big bunch of books from the library and decided to read these during the week:

• Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates
• A Memoir of Iris Murdoch by John Bayley
• Gentlemen And Players by Joanne Harris
• Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes

But I've been too lazy even to watch films and tv shows, to read and to write in my journal... instead I always get stuck in front of the bloody laptop, surfing the net... To me it appears to be absolutely useless and pointless; however, in the past days I have found a few useful things while wandering around on the World Wide Web. 

• I finally figured how to make photo collages! (Hurrah!!) I have wanted to make such collages for a few months, have been looking for programs by which I would be able to do so but never managed to fine one... Lucky me, I finally bumped into it somehow and learned that by Picasa you can make collages very easily and quickly. Naturally, it's been right in front of my nose all the time as I use Picasa on a daily basis b/c I upload my Project 365 photos to a Picasa photo album... (However, I still have no idea how I could upload more than one photo to a post.)
• I have also been admiring those unique-atmosphered Polaroid photos taken by good old Polaroid cameras. It all started back in December when I bumped into a wonderful blog written by Susanna Conway, writer/photographer who takes photos with Polaroid cameras then uploads them to her blog. I admire her pictures so much! I thought of buying a Polaroid myself as they are pretty cheap; however, a pack of films for the camera is rather pricey... I was lucky again to find a great little software, Poladroid by which you can turn your simple photos into Polaroid looking ones. Thus you get the unique atmosphere without paying a fortune for films. I spent a good few hours turning my photos into Polaroid ones the other day... and had such fun!
• I have also found another new love of mine these past days: Moleskine. I haven't really been aware of Moleskine until now - I knew there were such typical looking and stylish notebooks and journals existing, I just didn't know how they were called and that they had such a history... I also learnt that they just started producing red ones too (and not only blacks), those I find incredibly beautiful. I wanted a bright red diary ever since watching Bridget Jones.... And finally I found the most perfect one. Can hardly wait to fill my current journal (which is also very beautiful and perfect to write in by the way... it's just not a Moleskine, you know) and have a brand new bright red Moleskine in my hands... I am so so addicted to writing and stationeries... but I don't mind it at all.:)

i heart winter (still)

O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . 

I crown thee king of intimate delights, 

Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, 

And all the comforts that the lowly roof 

Of undisturb'd Retirement, and the hours 

Of long uninterrupted evening, know.

                                                                     William Cowper

This is the most beautiful winter ever.:)