TBR Intervention Challenge (30)

Welcome to the TBR Intervention Challenge!

TBR Intervention is a weekly challenge hosted by  April @ Books4Juliet, Dani @ Refracted Light and Ayanami @ Whatever You Can Still Betray

For information on why and how it was started and information on how to participate, please visit the TBRIC page.

THE BOOKS I COMMITTED TO READ:

I finished Sundays at Tiffany's. Finally! It had it's certain charm but I liked the movie better than the book. The film was more fun, light and interesting. Okay, I tried to convey my feelings in a paragraph, and I erased that since it was not making any sense so I'll just go by number and phrases:

1. Book Jane was more serious than Film Jane but Film Jane was more fun.
2. Book Hugh was evil while Film Hugh was just a jerk.
3. Book Vivienne was colder than the Film Vivienne, yet the FV didn't die in the end (ha! spoilers)
4. Book Michael was also more serious but I'd totally vote for the Film Michael - he's fun, naive, and had a childlike quality about him that Jane needed.

I noticed the word :fun: is topmost in the reason why I liked the movie more than the book. Well, it was.

I have not read The Fire Opal yet. I haven't even go near it yet. But, I promise I'll read it today after making sure no one will bother me when I do go and read. I did finish Taste by Kate Evangelista at two in the morning yesterday. Apparently, the only peace I could get here is in the dead of the night. I woke up at six in the morning to the sound of grandmother swatting away with the electricity mosquito thingy. Because of that I was cranky all day. Anyway, I liked Taste - four out of five apples. When I first read the blurb it reminded me of the manga Vampire Knight by Matsuri Hino since both talk of Day Students and Night Students and how no Day Students should be caught after dark in the school grounds. Although the Day Students in Vampire Knight did get to see the Night Students as they, the Night Students, come to school at dusk. But having Day and Night students are the only thing that made them similar since Taste was another story altogether. I'd be posting my review as soon as I could catch the feelings and words I have for the book. Kikaron. Yum, yum. I think I'll have some later.

The other thing that kept me busy was the re-design of the blog. Gah, I was not satisfied with the look before and I think this is the fifth or sixth time I changed the blog's look since putting it up. I don't know. I only started making new meme badges and I ended up changing the whole blog's look. I think I'm satisfied with the blog's look for now - it's more clean I think.

THE BOOKS I COMMIT TO READ THIS WEEK:

I'm going to read Dark Kiss by Michelle Rowen. I received it from NetGalley and I'm aiming to put my review before its May 22 release. And to reduce my TBR-stack-of-long-ago-books, I'm going to throw in She Smells the Dead by E.J. Stevens. Now that ability is none too exciting. It reminds me of a superstition here in our country: when you smell something out of the ordinary, something you're not sure where it's coming from, or if you smell flowers or candles then something or someone not of this world is near you. Also, when you smell a strong urine odor, then a kapre is just outside your window. A kapre is a mythical creature - a paranormal which looks like a man who is nine feet tall, has a beard, and is usually depicted as smoking a tobacco.