Buffy Night

I blame the lateness lj being down every time I thought to post about it.

What: Watch the next 3 episodes of Buffy: "Passion", "Killed by Death", "I Only Have Eyes for You"
When: 6pm for a 6:30ish start, Wednesday 12th August. Any time before 9:00pm is ok if you don't missing bits/being quiet as you come in. Finishes around 9:30.
Where: My house. If you're not on the filter for that post (and I suck at filters so that may be lots of people) email/IM/comment etc and I'll tell you my address
Who: Anyone who knows and likes me well enough to hang out for a few hours and would get some enjoyment out of watching Buffy.
What to bring: Any snack food you wish to eat, and if neccesary your own dinner. I will provide nothing but chairs and a tv(*) :P Maybe some carrot sticks and rice thins too.

My health issues mean I will probably kick people out quite sharply not long after the last episode so I can sleep. Please do not take this personally :)

(*)I'm fine with people having a mass pizza order or something, but since I have such wierd food issues will leave that to you guys to figure out for yourselves. I'll have some menus for local places to hand.

25: "Love Walked In" by Marisa de los Santos

I keep meaning to do a review of this and not getting around to it.

So, in short: I quite enjoyed this book. It's sweet and light, about love in all it's forms (well, many of it's forms) family and children and romance and marriage.

A number of implausible things happen to keep the plot going, the first few I could take as part of the setup but after a while it took away from the believability of the story a bit for me. Still, this is the first non-genre book I've read in a while (there's romance, but it's not a Romance afaict) and I really liked it.

Read some less perfunctory reviews here.

5: Malcolm X

As a white Australian I don't feel qualified to give an objective or informed review of this film. So these are just my impressions.

Overall, I liked it. Pretty much everything was done well (the writing, the acting, the period detail etc)
( cut for length not spoilers )