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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New hobby? Jewellery

68. Make a pair of earrings.

I wanted to make a pair of earrings for a long time but I couldn’t find the time to explore the city and find a shop that sells beads.

I decided that today would be the day.

The shop is fantastic. I’m not saying that I liked every single type of bead but I’m pretty sure that anyone can find something for their own taste.

As soon as I got home I made them. Pretty quickly, actually. And my friend Lucia helped me. 

I think they’re very cute. They don’t look homemade at all.

I’m thinking that making jewellery could be my new hobby. :)

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Mockingjay

85. Read 26 books I've never read starting with each letter of the alphabet (in progress - 9/26)

I've finished reading this book for a while but I forgot to post about it. I have to be honest. I was so disappointed. This is the 3rd book of the Hunger Games series. I loved the first book. I loved the second. But this one left me feeling like something was wrong. Some story lines were over explored and others, very important storylines, weren't explored at all. I had a problem with the ending. This will be difficult to explain and not spoil the book to anyone but she ended up with the person that I wanted but the author didn't take the time to explain how it happened.
Maybe it wasn't that terrible but I loved the other books SO much that I thought that Mockingjay would just as awesome!

Btw, the trailer looks awesome. I'm super excited for the movie. It's a shame that it only comes out in March.

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11/11

6. Make a wish at 11:11on November 11, 2011.

I did it! I’m not gonna share what the wish was. I’m like Cinderella. I’ll just say that I’d really like it to happen.

At that time I was with a friend in uni and when the alarm clock went on, we just stopped everything. We stood there and thought about our wish. I probably seemed a little silly. Especially because it was raining ahah

Sorry for the late update but I’ve been really busy!

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