Ever since I started the Nostalgic Review feature, I’ve been meaning to do a post on my favorite/most-clearly-remembered short stories from grade- and high-school English classes. Remember those awesome lit textbooks you always wished you could keep after the semester or school year ended? (What? It wasn’t just me, right? Right?) And since a few […]
Another post for the From the Bowels of Obscurity Book Club (Hee! Ahem, *cough*, sorry, I promise to settle down now. Really, I will.) . . . . . . . . In 7th grade, I went through a cat phase. Since I couldn’t actually have one of my own (family members with allergies), I […]
Back in March, sj tweeted to me about this new informal club that Becoming Cliché was starting: the From the Bowels of Obscurity Children’s Book Club [pause while we wait for our inner 12-year-olds to stop giggling at “bowels.” Hee!] Y’all may remember some of my previous posts on nostalgic Juv/YA books (see the “nostalgia” […]
By: Camille,
on 1/23/2011
I may not get to them all but this year I want to re-read:
- I think I will see if entling no. 3 will read along with me.
- something I hear or read reminds me of this book at least once a week.
- all the movie talk reminds me how much I have forgotten about the book. Can I imagine Richard Armitage as Thorin Oakenshield? 
I’ve seen no mention of ST and and that Cumberbatch boy!!!
Hee! I try to keep my Cumberbatch love in check most of the time, in polite society, so’s not to seem obsessed or anything *whistles innocently* But yes, I did see Star Trek, and he was splendid, though they really could have explained his backstory better. The way they did explain it felt a bit rushed, and incomplete. Obviously it would’ve made more sense to someone who’s watched the Original Series, so there’s that…
Oh yeah, and the other characters were awesome, too, like that Kirk fella, and Spock, and Uhura…
Did you see it?