*hazlinda's lil corner in the world wide web*: 2017

Monday, September 25, 2017

latest read: hum if you don't know the words

I love the fact that the story is narrated by the two main characters - Robin (a 9 year old white girl) and Beauty (a 50 year old black lady).

Thursday, August 3, 2017

latest read: cannery row

This is a book mentioned by Luke Davies, the screenwriter for the movie Lion.

A summary from GoodReads.com:

Cannery Row is a book without much of a plot. Rather, it is an attempt to capture the feeling and people of a place, the cannery district of Monterey, California, which is populated by a mix of those down on their luck and those who choose for other reasons not to live "up the hill" in the more respectable area of town. The flow of the main plot is frequently interrupted by short vignettes that introduce us to various denizens of the Row, most of whom are not directly connected with the central story. These vignettes are often characterized by direct or indirect reference to extreme violence: suicides, corpses, and the cruelty of the natural world.

The "story" of Cannery Row follows the adventures of Mack and the boys, a group of unemployed yet resourceful men who inhabit a converted fish-meal shack on the edge of a vacant lot down on the Row.

Tuesday, July 25, 2017

latest read: big little lies

It's a really interesting read and keeps you glued in.

You just want to know more and more about the characters.

And, there are so many characters to go through but the focus is on three main ones i.e.

Madeline, Jane and Celeste.

I have been sleeping late to read through this book.

Liane is great at elaborating on the emotions, little nuances of human behaviour and thinking, that you really believe that you know these characters.

I can't wait to read her other books.

I also love that the setting is in Sydney, Australia rather than another American town.

Glad that this book is written by an Australian.

Monday, July 10, 2017

updated French sole collection

Friday, July 7, 2017

latest read: lion

When nomination for best picture was announced for the 2017 Academy Award, this was one of the books that I immediately went out to purchase, and this is the last one I got from the long list of books.

The premise of the story is quite simple- an adopted son looking and finding his birth mother.

But somehow this particular true story struck a chord with me. And after reading this story, the essence of the story stuck with me for days. Somehow it feels like I was taking the journey with Saroo. I have not brought myself to watching the film adaptation as yet for I am quite agitated and have a feeling of uneasiness as to how it will affect me emotionally to visually see the story unfold instead of just words on a page. The fact that the actor playing Saroo was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor for the Academy Award and in fact won Best Supporting actor for the BAFTAs, fills me with even more trepidation on watching the film. I am holding on and also prepping myself for a suitable time when I can find ample time to compose myself after watching the film. I have been binge-watching a lot of interviews regarding this movie and man, the anticipation is killing me to just plunge and watch the film, but I just can't at the moment.

The book is just a wonderful and emotional telling of a story that is simple in context but has layer upon layers of complex emotions and rawness to the journey that was taken to such a beautiful ending.