made a cheesecake out of guava paste. very delicious. inspired by trying the guava cheesecake at pollo tropical. here is a link to any who are interested: http://lovemyphilly.com/philadelphia-3-step-guava-cheesecake/

Personally, I liked Max Barry’s other two books better, Jennifer Government and Syrup. It took me a while to get into the book, about 100 pages in. On a positive note I did stay up until 3 am, sacrificing precious sleep time to finish reading it. I wish I could give it 3 and a half stars. The story seemed ridiculous in the beginning but it made more sense later on.

I am almost near the end of the book and I am feeling kind of sick to my stomach at this point. The main character is pretty appalling in her behavior and I don’t think I like her or sympathize with her very much. I wonder if the author tried to think of all the things that people found disturbing and decided to put it all in one book. I don’t know if this typical German writing, in the sense that they are more comfortable in talking about bodily fluids/functions than Americans are. Worth consuming though, maybe you will have a better time reading through this than I did.

*EDIT: Finished reading the book. I don’t feel that the ending was realistic. Glad I read it though but it has a terrible experience.

I just can’t get that into it!! I’m going to keep trying!

I did not like this movie at all. The acting in general was terrible. Javier Bardem’s character was really annoying to me. He just seemed like he was a stalker and although his love wrote him back in the beginning, she never gave him anything past that. It didn’t feel like it was a great love compared to Like Water for Chocolate. He was just pathetic in his walk, in his appearance. I heard the book was way better, i would probably give it a chance.

You have to watch this movie because of all the razzie awards it has won. I really didn’t think it was the worst movie I have ever seen though.

i feel like something is wrong with me because so many people liked this movie and i didn’t. i felt like it was an after school special, just longer and just as boring. it was kind of funny when i was watching the making of in the special features, where they were saying that they wanted to make a positive movie about latinos, and then they had that scene where she goes into the convenience store for a soda and they had this asian sterotype at the register. i feel like that scene should have been cut out, it had no point to it. i wasn’t deeply invested in the characters although the ending was touching.

i was glad when i was done reading the book, i didn’t think i would make it through. some parts of the book i like, but sometimes it got too technical that it lost me. i like more of the personal touch he put into it, but not having a military background and not being familiar with some of the things he talked about kind of turned me off. another thing that bothered me was how he kept saying how other people kept telling him what a great writer he was, and comparing him to hunter s thompson and chuck palahniuk. makes me want to read fear and loathing and any palahniuk book and see if it’s remotely true. i feel like it can’t be. maybe he was better at writing the blogs than writing an entire book. just one girl’s opinion.

i thought this movie was going to be terrible because scarlett johansson was in it, but i was pleasantly surprised.

favorite lines…

“Let me tell you something ass-eyes, let me tell you ALL something: war has made me very PARANOID! and when you get to eye-balling me, makes my Agent Orange act up, makes me want to KILL!”

“Killin is my buisness and buisness is GOOOOD”

“Slippery he say. You think Charlie cares anything about slippery? The only thing he know is to slip your throat.”