September in Review

Blogs I Found and Enjoyed: 

• Mini Penny 
• Vanillery Garden
• Studs and Pearls
• Living in Florence by Melinda Galto (A really great blog about living in Florence. I really wish I had been writing a blog while I lived in Florence.)
• Wanderocity (My friend Heather, who I met on my study abroad program, now lives in Pisa as an au pair. Her blog is always fun to read. So jealous of her living back in Italy.)

Books I Read This Month:

• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins - review found here 
• Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (second in The Hunger Games series) - review found here
• Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (third and last in The Hunger Games series) - review found here
• Coraline by Neil Gaiman - review found here
• The Walking Dead (Volume 10): What We Become by Robert Kirkman

Books I Plan On Reading:

• Silk by Alessandro Baricco (author recommended to me by best Italian friend Maila, who I still miss terribly!)
• Letter to a Child Never Born by Oriana Fallaci (also recommended to me by Maila)
• Harbor by John Ajvide Lindqvist (author of one of my favorite books Let The Right One In which was made into two movies - Swedish film - American film. The Swedish one is much better, in my opinion)
• The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron 
• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Movies I Watched For The First Time:

• Alien - totally awesome, can't believe it took me so long to watch it. Aaron and I are thinking of getting the box set with all the movies. 
• Watchmen - again, don't know why it took me so long to watch this. Aaron and I bought it on blu ray and it was a good watch, bought the book, I'm sure the book is much better. But Rorschach has to be my new favorite comic book character. 
• Aliens - totally awesome again, yet it reminds me a lot of Avatar because of how many similarities I caught between the two, even though their plots are very different. 
• Hellboy - was always really uninterested in this movie, but it turned out to be a pretty fun watch. 
• Winter's Bone - wanted to originally watch this because the lead (Jennifer Lawrence) is going to be playing the lead in The Hunger Games as well and wanted to see how good of an actress she's going to be. She is good, the movie was an okay watch, interesting, but nothing all that thrilling. A little twisted and sad, which made it interesting. 
• Predator 2 - pretty hilarious that Danny Glover was the lead in this movie, only because the only other movie I've seen him in is Be Kind Rewind, and to compare his character in that to the character in Predator 2 is pretty hilarious. Also strange that it was set in Los Angeles? Anyone? I dunno, thought it was kinda a big leap to go from being in the jungle in the middle of nowhere to being in Los Angeles. Aaron pointed out while we were watching it that in the one scene where Danny Glover sees all the skulls that the Predator has been collecting, there is an Alien skull among them. I guess their alliance was long planned, huh? 
• Alien 3 - (can you see a pattern here?) (SPOILER ALERT) just as good as the others, but when Aaron told me that Sigourney Weaver's character comes back in the other Alien movies, I was a little surprised, why? Because she dies!
• Alien: Resurrection - another Sigourney Weaver win. 
• Alien VS Predator - Alien and Predator in the snow? Yes please. Thank you. Loved the whole competition and rights of passage kind of story they made to bring these two characters together.
• Alien VS Predator: Requiem - small town attacked by Aliens? Yes please. Any situation with Alien or Predator, I'm into it, no matter how ridiculous. 
• Thor - I wasn't ever really excited to see this movie when it was out in theaters, now I kind of regret it, because it was actually a pretty good watch. Can't wait for the Avengers movie to come out next year.