The Great Gatsby

86. Read 26 books I've never read starting with each letter of the alphabet. (in progress - 11/26)

I’ve been planning on reading “The Great Gatsy” for over a year. But finding an edition of the book in Portuguese for only 8€ sold the deal for me. I had to buy it! (Unfortunately, since then I found an edition for only 5€!) And the fact that Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan are filming a movie based on the book coming out next year helped a lot!

I really enjoyed the book. It made me feel for the characters and think about me and the people that I know. I felt so sorry for Gatsby character it made me start wondering how I would feel if I was in his shoes. I hope I’ll never be.

Now I just can’t wait for the movie to come out!

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Little Women

86. Read 26 books I've never read starting with each letter of the alphabet (in progress - 10/26)

About three years ago I watched the “Little Women” movie and I quite enjoyed. Therefore I bought the book. What a mistake! It took me forever to read it and I read a lot of books in between.

I couldn’t relate at all to any of the characters and their feelings. I thought that they were all a little stupid and their little speeches about what they had to do to become better people annoyed me a lot!

Apparently I only read the first part of the book. Usually “Little Women” is published as a single book that includes “Little Women” and “Good Wives” but my edition only included “Little Women”. By the end of the book I started thinking that the film had a lot more going on. For that reason I googled and understood what happened. Not planning on reading “Good Wives”…

I’ve already read another book. I’ll blog about that later.

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Giant - James Dean *.*

64. Watch all James Dean's movies (in progress 2/3)

I absolutely LOVE James Dean! He’s so dreamy…

Before this project I had already seen “Rebel Without a Cause” and yesterday I watched Giant. I enjoyed the film, in particular James Dean’s character and acting. But it is way too long; it lasts for 201 minutes (3 hours and 20 minutes)!

I still have to watch East of Eden, however I want to read the book first. Kind difficult because I don’t have the book yet. 

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Journal... Will it last?

81. Start a journal           

            Today I started a journal. I think it was around 2 A.M.

Last night I just decided to go to FNAC and buy the damn journal. I’ve been planning on doing that for a while but I would never go through with it because I didn’t have enough money and because I didn’t have my FNAC card with me. Yesterday, I said screw that and I just bought it.

I’ve started many journals but I can never write faithfully every day. And when I can’t write one day that almost always means that I won’t ever touch that journal again.

But I love too much the idea of 20 years from now reading what I felt and what I was going through, to not give it another try. Maybe I could give it to my future children when I am about to die… Enk, maybe not. Kids shouldn’t know every little detail about their parents’ life just like parents don’t have to know everything about their children’s life.

Plus, it will be a good writing exercise. Maybe one day I’ll finally write a book. I would love that so much!

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