Love the book. Love the movie.
Usually I dislike book adaptions; they twist the story until it will appeal to a wide spectrum of an audience and the beauty of the printed pages just gets lost. So I was especially sceptic when one of my all time favorite books was transferred to the big screen.I first stumbled upon ‘PS: I love you’ the year it was released. A friend lend it to me, back then it was the German edition. And boy, did it make an impression on me.
The story focusses …

The writer of amazing stories like “Jurassic Park”, “The Andromeda Strain” or “The 13th Warrior”, Michael Crichton, has died today, losing his battle against cancer at the age of only 66. I am pretty shocked, I loved Crichtons books and I had no knowledge about his condition.
My kindest thoughts to his family.
There’s a very nice article on Macworld.com “Remembering Michael Crichton“.

Now, I passed my exam today as well (2.0, yay!), went to work (another: yay!) and upon coming home found three (!) Amazon packages waiting for me.
The only problem is: it’s not my birthday yet! So I can’t open any of the packages though two of them are full of books I ordered myself, I just don’t know which ones! *argh* This is hell!
And to my surprise another book is now listed as “purchased” on my Wish List that I certainly did not buy. This list thing is working much …

I just watched “The Golden Compass“, which was terrific (and I will give it a full review later), but of course the ending … how on earth is this story ending? I have no idea and since I will cash in another book voucher this week, I have already ordered the “His Dark Materials” Trilogy by Philip Pullman. There is a re-seller on Amazon who offers hardcover books second hand. I get the whole trilogy for the price you’d normally pay for one paperback. I am SO excited! (And I …

Alright, after running into those NaNoWriMo badges all over the web, most recently on Jarsto’s website, I decided to check it out as well.
As far as I understood, you spend the month of November writing a 50,000 word story. It doesn’t matter if it’s good or not, the goal is to reach that magical number. I searched the web and that word count is roughly the equivalent of 200 pages! Wow! Not even my final thesis was that long.
But the idea … well, it intrigues me. I have some story …