Thursday, October 25, 2007

Ideal Job

I was talking to my sister a while back and we were talking about ambition and dream jobs etc and we were saying that it would be great if reading books was a job. And I was like "it is a job if you are an editor" and she explained that she didn't mean reading for work, but that if you could get paid just to read books for pleasure. For me this would be great, but only if I could talk to other people afterwards about the book. It's the same for me when I watch a movie. If I don't have anyone to talk about it with it loses something. I recently ready A Thousand Splendid Suns and while it didn't MOVE me like The Kite Runner I really really liked it and the entire subject of women in general, women in muslim countries etc etc. (don't want to ruin the book for you if you haven't read it.) And I recently saw BABEL with Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett...really good, confusing and wonderful and thought provoking...which I like. I don't like movies or books that end with you going "what the f***?" but neat ending leave no room for the imagination. One of my favorite movies LOST IN TRANSLATION....I believe this is the Asian version of my life many times in Italy......

1 comment:

Nat D said...

Hey- I just finished 1000 splendid suns tuesday night. loved it. also loved the kite runner, though i need to re-read it because i don't remember it fully.