Monthly favorites: March

Hi fellas!

I'm late for this post, but March has been pretty uneventful (except for my EIT and Dex obsession which I'll be mentioning in a sec) so I didn't have much to write. Besides I'm working and blah blah, you know, life stuff. Anyway, off we go to my unfortunately very short list of March favorites.

Experiment in Terror Series by Karina Halle

This series was another one suggested to me by Goodreads. Seems like I can't manage to read a word without looking it up there. I've read the comments and people were like "You won't be able to read this in the dark", "I dare you to read this alone" etc etc. I'm not a fan of horror reads, I would shamefully admit that I haven't even read one Stephen King novel. But anyways, I got curious. The thing I wonder about these kind of books is how can the author manage to spook you by just writing. I always feel like all those scary movies wouldn't be half as scary without the soundtrack that shoots your nerves to the moon. So, I gotta admit, the books weren't all that scary to me. I did read all of them alone and in the dark, well with a night light so I could see obviously, especially before I go to bed cuz that's when I do most of my reading, and I wasn't attacked by nightmares or such. This doesn't mean I didn't like them though. I actually loved them. Read parts of them over and over again. Had (ok have) a Dex obsession. I'm crazy about the in between books that is written from his POV, and can't wait for the next full novel, Come Alive, that will be entirely from his POV. The relationship between Dex and Perry is madness. You know those scenes in scary movies where you tell off a character for going to "investigate" something instead of getting the heck out of there? Well, that's what they do, over and over again. At a point you ask yourself if they've really lost their minds, till they eventually pull it together and get the heck out of there. And you see the personal Dex/Perry relationship develop more and more with each book and you just fall in love with their banter, and friendship, "harmless" flirting, and just everything. I can go on and on and on obviously, but I won't, so, READ THEM!! 

Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare

Third book of the Infernal Devices series finally came out this March, something I'd been waiting for a while. I love the shadowhunter world, and enjoyed reading the whole story of Will, which will sound familiar to those who read Mortal Instruments series of Cassandra Clare, the here and there mentioned Will of Magnus. But this series still lack something I can't quite put my finger on, though it is in the same world, it isn't Mortal Instruments, or maybe I like Jace too much, I dunno. Still it was a good ending to the series, I liked the bit about Jem, which I won't mention since it'll be hugely spoilery.

Shawn James cover of John Legend's "Who Did That To You"

I saw this link on wimp and listened to it for like a week straight. Really good cover of an awesome song. Which you can find here if you want to listen to the original. I've been obsessed with this song for almost all of March. On that thought, almost all songs in the Django Unchained soundtrack are pretty sweet, if you're itching for something to listen, I'd recommend that also. 

March 17th, 2013 MIKA Concert 

I'm kind of cheating with this one, since Mika isn't a March favorite, he's been a favorite of mine for years. But I kinda loved him even more than before in this concert when he called that fan of him to the stage, the girl who threw a note to the stage, and asked her to play one of his songs. She was so overwhelmed, bless her, so she couldn't play much of anything, but she sat on the stage for the whole song, and they finished it together. It was the sweetest thing I've seen in a while. Who wouldn't love this guy, seriously? Here I'll link a few of my favorite songs, and you decide whether to like him or not.  But the concert was amazing, he really lights up on stage. Though it made me feel pretty old, cuz most of the audience were in their teens, meh.  Anyway, songs: Grace Kelly, Billy Brown, Good Gone Girl, Love Today, We Are Golden, Lollipop ... I can actually go on for a while but let's stop here.

That's actually all I can think of from March. Sorry my writing's kind of weird today, I can't really focus, and I've been listening to Bob Dylan's The Hurricane on a loop for hours, which doesn't help with focusing.

Laters.