Never, never again start a Harry Potter book when you need to be focusing your energies on job hunting and dissertation notes and research. Maybe it’s because I haven’t read fiction in so long, but I have absolutely devoured the 3rd and 4th Harry Potter books recently. 636 pages (the length of book [...]
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Note to self:
Posted in Movies/Books on May 8, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Harry Potter citation!
Posted in Anthro/Development, Movies/Books on April 9, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Perhaps I’m finding this more entertaining than I should, but I just read an article that cited Harry Potter! And, believe it or not this is an article about Maasai pastoralists in Kenya.
So, apparently there is a guy named Harry L. Potter who wrote an article titled “Some Thoughts on the Prospects for Diversification [...]
The Constant Gardener
Posted in Movies/Books on February 12, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Last night I saw this movie for the first time and loved it. I actually had not heard the reactions of very many people who had seen it, and so I went into it with no expectations. After seeing the film, I’d really love to read the book by John le Carre. Rachel Weisz did [...]
Oxford, Emily’s Birthday, and other events….
Posted in Movies/Books, Random on January 25, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Things have been pretty hectic since the last time I posted. I was in Oxford last weekend visiting Thad, which was a lot of fun. We went to go see Memoirs of a Geisha, which was a great film. The actor’s accents were a little off, and at times the speech seemed a little stilted, [...]
Harry Potter!
Posted in Movies/Books on November 18, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Went to the midnight showing of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire last night – it was great! All of the kids have definitely grown up a lot since the last movie, and there were a lot of cool special effects. Dumbledore threw me off a little, because I watched the Sorcerer’s Stone again [...]
Whew!!
Posted in Movies/Books, Random on November 7, 2005 | 1 Comment »
Just finished writing the first academic paper that I have written in over two years! I would tell you what it’s about, but I am so tired of writing and thinking about the concept of “civil society” that I don’t think I can. I am done for now, and hopefully when I look over it [...]
Happy (belated) Halloween!
Posted in Anthro/Development, Movies/Books, Random on November 1, 2005 | 1 Comment »
Last night I got back from a fun weekend in Oxford. Thad and I were able to catch a couple of movies while I was in town: Oliver Twist and the Corpse Bride – both were very good! I was also able to have a proper St. Cross lunch before leaving to come back to [...]
Crash
Posted in Movies/Books on September 17, 2005 | 3 Comments »
So, tonight I watched this movie for the second time. I loved it the first time, and watching it again just made me even more aware of the message it communicates. The plot is also full of twists and turns, and watching it again was interesting because I caught a few things I didn’t the [...]
The Kite Runner
Posted in Movies/Books on September 11, 2005 | 1 Comment »
I read this book in about two nights and loved it! I actually hadn’t had a marathon novel-reading session like that in quite a while. Although the story itself is fiction, a lot of the background information is very historically accurate. The book spans the peaceful years in Afghanistan before the Soviet invasion in the [...]
