Game of Thrones

“When you play this game of thrones, you win or you die ”

 Game of Thrones is an epic struggle for power set in a vast and violent fantasy kingdom. Summers span decades. Winters can last a lifetime. And the struggle for the Iron Throne has begun. It will stretch from the south, where heat breeds plots, lusts and intrigues; to the vast and savage eastern lands; all the way to the frozen north, where an 800-foot wall of ice protects the kingdom from the dark forces that lie beyond. King and queens, knights and renegades, liars, lords and honest men…all will play the ‘Game of Thrones.’ source

game of thrones is a far cry from the usual heart warming fantasy story
it starts with a stereotypical good vs evil crusade but then spins wildly and brilliantly out of control towards the season finale
the first series even got me so hooked and curious that I started reading the novel
yep, a 700 pages fantasy novel with difficult vocab
I’m pretty much addicted to the point it starts interfering
with my social/professional life -_-

e.p.i.c.w.i.n

the love not taken

in love with the book
anxiously waiting for the dvd ori movie release

since i write shitty reviews in which i abuse the vocab of awesome or epic
i’ll just leave the professionals do that for me

In 1988, the day after commencement, two college graduates briefly, romantically collide. She’s an earnest, outspoken lefty, he a handsome, apolitical toff who “liked the word ‘bourgeois’ and all that it implied” and “wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph.” Their chemistry is as inarguable as their differences, but because of the pride, carelessness and misplaced optimism of youth, they let time and distraction separate them. Yet they never lose track of each other. “One Day” checks in on their intersecting lives once a year, every July 15, from 1988 through 2007 …

Liesl Schillinger via nytimes
image from very aware