EPIC!!!

Ok...so today my roommate and i were sitting outside the library chatting when all of a sudden i look up and Behold! a hot air balloon was in the horizon...out of no where!! it was epic. then it started to come closer...and closer and closer and by the time it passed over head the entire college had stopped to stare at it!! :jawdrop: epic!! it was epic i tell you!!

Book Worm Corner

So this year at school I live in a townhouse with 4 other people. we have an extra room that we werent overly sure what to do with so Tim and I created a library. now, i will admit that tim's book collection here far out-classes my own, currently all that's on my bookshelf is the harry potter series, narnia, the mists of avalon, school books (all 2 of them), mythology and fairy tale collections, and a stack of murder mysteries. Tim, on the other hand, has most of the barnes and noble classics collection that i now have full access to....muhahahahahahahahaaha
first book to be stolen....Peter Pan

i loved it. of course, thanks to Disney, the characters in my head were all pre-made but i still loved it. i normally have a hard time reading classics, it's the lack of dialouge and way too much detail that tends to get to me, but Peter Pan was perfect. it was a light read, there actually was a good combination of dialouge and details AND it was just fun to read.

so now that peter is done i'm not sure what i want to read next but, i might as well work on those classics because even though i know most of those stories (thanks mostly to Wishbone) it would be nice to actually read them.

Summer Reading

So i guess, now that school has finally started, summer is officially over.
my final book count for this summer....36
not bad, that's slightly more than 10 books per month and 5 books more than i read last summer.
so on to the reviews, of course im not going to review 36 books in one go, just the ones that i liked.

The Percy Jackson Series-5 books in all, all considered young adult, i loved them. It's about Percy Jackson who is a normal teen aged boy but his father just happens to be Poseidon. throughout the whole series Percy and his other demi-god friends go on adventures that most readers will recognize from ancient myth. and thats what it really is, ancient myth with a modern twist. Also fun fact, Mt.Olympus is on top of the empire state building, and the entrance to Hades is in Los Angeles.

The Inda Series-ok so i read the first 3 books of the series last year, and they were amazing! the world is realistic, the conflict is great and the characters are just so well written that its mind-blowingly real. this summer the final book came out. and while i enjoyed it i feel like there was just too much going on at once. there was too much conflict (like the weird love triangle between Inda and everyone on the planet, though Inda is completely oblivious to all of it) and there were too many characters, in fact i started losing track of characters! and i normally dont do that. but other than that it was still a great book. after reading Treason's Shore i went and re-read The Fox and King's Sheild.

Water for Elephants- great great book. you're pulled in straight from the start and you dont put it down until you're finish

The Gargoyle-another great book, but you need to come to terms with the whole idea of reincarnation before you read the book because thats the main plot-line of the book. plus it has some really great historical myth/history going on.

The Lace Reader-i think i already wrote about this book, but i dont care, it was that amazing!! the psychology alone in the book is fantastic (and you dont realize until the end) plus the added element of magic just makes it that much better.

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane-If you like Salem Witches you'll love this book. Great characters and not that heavy of read so its just a lot of fun.

Random

You know it's sad when you get overly excited when Supernatural and Bones are answers on Jeopardy....

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

I saw the midnight showing of the movie, and then, a little over 12 hours later, i saw it again.

the first time i actually enjoyed the movie, the second time, i realized how angry the movie made me.

but first the good bits.
1.The Weasley's Wizard Wheezes-the shop looked great and i love the Phelp Twins as fred and george

2. Rupert Grint-needs to give Dan Radcliffe acting lessons, he plays Ron perfectly

3. Tom Riddle-both actors chosen were great..and made voldie look perfectly crazy :D

4. Humor!!-it finally came back!!

5. Quidditch-though it was wrong, im glad it was back

6.Aaragog's Death-was perfect..."not to mention the pincers" lmao!

7.Slughorn-i liked him...thou i wish he looked more like a walrus like he was supposed to

.....and i think that was it

now for the bad bits

1. it was an awkward movie, not as awkward as Twilight (shudder) but still awkward

2. the Weasley's house gets blown up-....wait what!?! where did that come from? and what does that have to do with the plot??

3. Dumbledore's Death-a. he should have been smushed, b.it was all wrong, why no funeral? does the poor man get any respect

4. Battle of Hogwarts-where was it? its kinda important!!

5.Bill and Fleur-ok i kno this isnt that important in the books, but it still would have been nice to see that and it was important for that whole battle of hogwarts thing that never happened.

6.Sectumsemptra-um...my name is Harry Potter and i just preformed Dark Magic and almost killed Draco Malfoy, but i get no punshiment nor feel any remorse...fail WB, epic fail

ugh...i can keep on going, but for the sake of everyones sanity, i shall not.

Overheard at the Playground

Batman: The Joker is over there!
Spiderman(whose hand is stuck in Clayface):No he's not! He escaped to Canada!!
Batman:.....Oh

Summer Reading 2k9

Here is the list so far
If you're interested....just click they're all links!!

1. Cold Hit
2.Just After Sunset
3.Coraline*
4.Pandora in the Congo*
5.Firestarter
6.The Secret Life of Bees-Make sure you have honey handy...you're gonna want it...
7.Cold Truth
8.Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince-Hey the movie is coming out soon!! i had to refresh the memory!!
9.The Lace Reader*
10.The Bell at Sealey Head*
11.Chalice-again you're gonna want honey handy...

*there actually has been a review of the book some where in this blog