Eat Pray Love Movie Trailer

Eat Pray Love has been adapted to the movie srcreen, and the trailer for the film came out a few days ago. Here it is:

Book of The Week

This week, and in the next few days, I'm reading Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat Pray Love. I'm not even half way through it, so I won't write anything about it, except that I enjoy Gilbert's memoirs and her style too, the book is a real page-turner. Can hardly wait to find out what she learns about herself by the end of the book.:)

Song Of The Day

Book of The Week #2

As another weekend is passing me by incredibly quickly,I'm just finishing The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger. This is another book I enjoy consuming fairly much; as a matter of fact, whenever I read it, I rush through it in a few days. I remember buying the book at that large HMV store on Oxford Street three years ago, in March 2007, one of those days I spent in London au pairing. I didn't look for it, the Devil found me as I was standing in line in front of the cashier waiting to pay for a couple of dvd-s I'd picked up. Its beautiful cover immediately grabbed my attention with the bright red stiletto and the downturned pitchfork as the shoe's heel on it. I had already been familiar with the movie for there was quite a hype around it as the dvd was just coming out. I always like reading the original stories, the novels which the adaptations are based on, so I thought I would give it a shot, especially since it was only 5 quids. So I purchased the book along with the dvd-s, then not only read it, but adored it, too. I love how this book makes me feel: I get to peek into the everyday life of that infamous High Society (which most of us find loathsome, still, we would die to somehow make it into the closed and vicious circle of the High-and-Mighty), of the publishing industry, and enjoy the breathtaking atmoshpere of the Big Apple (where I've been longing to go for such a long time!). Last week I bumped into a documentary that came out a few months ago: The September Issue which chronicles Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour's preparations for the 2007 fall-fashion issue, whom the character of Miranda Priestley, the antagonist of the novel, is based on. I found it very arresting, all of a sudden I grew so interested in Anna Wintour that I immediately ordered her biography written by Jerry Oppenheimer... I also started yearning for The Devil Wears Prada, and decided to read it for the third time too, right after I was done with My Life in France. So tonight I am finishing it, and hopefully the Front Row will be delivered by tomorrow because I can hardly wait to read the (hopefully) authentic, non-fiction account of Anna Wintour's life as the ruler of the fashion industry.

Spring Fever

"If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom." ~Audra Fuveo

Photo Of The Day

I just love it when I  take a spur-of-the-moment photo of a dear friend that I know will make me smile every time I  look at it for the rest of my life!

The Book of The Week Is...

...My Life in France by Julia Child. 
(Or it's rather last week's as I've started it on Wednesday and  will be probably finishing it tomorrow.)

Okay, I have to admit that last week I went and saw Julie and Julia AGAIN in the cinema. ...and my love and admiration for the movie,  for the ladies, and for their whole story just keeps growing. Right after I watched it for the third time, I decided that I would order Julia Child's memoir and get to it ASAP. (I've already read Julie Powell's Julia & Julia and enjoyed it utterly.) I've spent the weekend reading it, and you know what?  I'm growing fond of not only Julia Child (whom I found rather weird and eccentric at first) but of France, too. She writes about 1950's France with such incomprehensible admiration that the reader cannot help herself but fall for the country. So here's another thing I can thank to Julia Child (on top of my starting baking): after three long years my good old loathing for the French is over; in fact, it is completely put to rest for good.  

Thank you, Julia.:)

PS: I wish I could pop over to France for a couple of days during the spring break...