The Sunday Salon -- A Book Pulls Me Out of the Funk, Bookish Movies and TV Shows

Earlier this week I posted my frustration with my reader's indecision which was causing me to be unable to finish any books, even though the books were good. When I get into these weird moods, I really try not to read anything I'm anticipating will be good, because I want to give the book a fair shake, and I don't want to ruin a good reading experience with my moodiness. This time, I picked up a book I got over the summer and was so so so thrilled to be so completely sucked in by it. It's one that got pretty good reviews around the blogosphere, but to me it was a great reminder that...hey I really do like this reading thing. The book, by the way, was The Adoration of Jenna Fox.

This week is usually the start of the holiday season for me. Of course I still very much believe in celebrating Thanksgiving and the spirit of it, but November is a really good time to sort out Christmas details, like shopping, cards, what special events I want to partake in, planning my time off, etc. In the past, I always attended an event at my parents former church that was focused on Christmas and had a shopping boutique with handmade crafts for sale and the like. This year, the event was not at all for Christmas, but instead decorated for harvest. For some reason, I found it to be a huge disappointment, even though it was still enjoyable. The other tradition for this weekend is Hallmark's Holiday Open House, which was also massively scaled back this year, there was no new roll out of ornaments, no special Christmas CD, and our Hallmark which usually has a nice refreshments table for the event had only some candy out. The poor economy, I believe, is really showing this year.

Of course these things don't make the season, and aren't that important in the long run. They are just a reminder that life is always changing.

Movies
I've been wanting to write about Where the Wild Things Are since I saw it a few weeks ago. I really really loved it, I found it to be beautiful and bittersweet. I haven't seen many other book blogger reviews, but I also have had my blog reading time be massively shortened. Has anyone seen it? What did you think? I've seen a lot of negative reviews in general, so I'm interested.

I also saw The Box and let me tell you something....I feel like this was a story that had huge potential, a fantastic concept, but just absolutely insisted on being WEIRD. The beginning and the end worked for me, but the middle? No, no, no, no. A big disappointment.

TV
Okay, I have a confession to make. I did NOT like the turn Supernatural took this week. SPOILER ALERT Why did they have to make the Trickster an angel????? That episode started out so awesomely, I loved the whole television show thing, couldn't stop laughing in fact, but then they pulled that the trickster-is-really-Gabriel business...and I think maybe they thought it was brilliant but I thought it was a huge disappointment.

BUT, the true bookish TV thing I want to discuss is Rizzoli! I'm a huge fan of Tess Gerritsen as you may know and very interested to see how this show will turn out. The casting is in full force and the role of Jane Rizzoli..one of my favorite bookish characters has been cast....Angie Harmon will be playing Jane.

I have really mixed feelings on this. I like Angie Harmon, but she did bring to life Lindsay Boxer and that show failed. And she's not quite how I pictured Jane Rizzoli. But I'm willing to give her a chance...and I really hope they make this show interesting and that someone really awesome gets cast as Gabriel Dean. :) Any other Gerritsen fans out there care to weigh in? (Sasha Alexander has been cast as Maura Isles)

Well that's all I've got for the moment. Here's to finishing lots of books this week! What are you Sunday plans? Books, relaxing, work? Tell me all!