Love the Doctor!!! valuable lessons for adults and children…
Colin Campbell on journalism. Editor in Chief at IGN
I do both! I am an athlete who works out & I write for a living and read all of the time!
Love this <3
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Don’t you think it’s better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?
Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife (via bookmania)
Totally unrelated to books but, I made valentines heart cookies today! Valentines Day might be the worst holiday ever but I love letting my friends and family know how much I love them!
I was also excited to take this picture with my new camera! Didn’t even need to edit it!
Running With Scissors was the most recent book I have read. I finished it at Starbucks yesterday.
This was an unbelievably weird book— there was not a single ‘normal’ character in the book. I felt terrible for Augustine being so young and having a ‘crazy’ mother, dealing with her ‘crazy’ psychiatrist and living a crazy life.
It was heartbreaking, really. Not only did Augustine need to deal with his grief of his parents not getting along but he had to deal with the confusion and guilt he felt toward his sexual orientation. The gay scenes were just heartbreaking— thinking about an adolescent (and confused) boy and a 30-something year old man having sex broke my heart. I thought that gay or not, it seemed Augustine was looking for a reliable father figure…
The whole book was like a huge car crash and I couldn’t wait to see and get all the details— it is almost like watching Teen Mom … you know everyone is doomed from the start but you want to see what happens anyway (or at least I do!).
I loved Augustine’s character, as sad as it was to read about the abandonment and confusion this young man faced early in his life at a time when he probably needed his mother, or at least a stable and consistent role model to look up to and spend time with. I hated Dr. Fitch and pretty much the entire Fitch family. Dr. Fitch is a fraud psychiatrist (who has a room for masterbation at their office?!) who is an irresponsible husband and father. The descriptions of the house and how Augustine an the Finch family lived was disgusting. Mr. and Mrs. Fitch give their children no guidance or rules, which made me greatly appreciate my parents for being responsible and providing me with structure and a safe living environment.
The book was made into a film but, to be quite honest, I have no desire to watch this train wreck of a novel as a film.
Has anyone seen it & was the film any good?
Room was by far one of the best novels (that hasn’t been made into a movie yet) that I have read in awhile!
It got off to a slow start and was a bit confusing because I wasn’t sure if Jack was mentally disabled or not. The way Jack refers to things like “Table” or “Bed” as proper nouns took a bit of getting use to but once you learn the circumstances in which Jack and his mother grew up, it makes sense and becomes a bit easier to read.
Room was full of suspense and mystery making it difficult to put down. The tragedy and heartbreak you feel throughout the novel makes you want to stop reading but read on with hope that the characters unfortunate circumstances will look up as the novel goes on.
The second half of the novel was unbelievable. It was so compelling and action packed. Witnessing someone discovering things about the world that we take for granted everyday brings a new appreciation to the freedom and knowledge we have as free beings.
I have not hated a character as much as I have hated “Old Nick” in Room. He may very well be one of the most evil villains I have encountered in a novel to date! He is a disgusting pig who gets what he deserves in the end of the novel!
The very end of the novel was satisfying to the reader bring a sense of closure to the novel and really marks a sense of growth, knowledge, and understanding. Though it was a satisfying ending, I thought it was a little bit abrupt and would have liked to spend more time with the characters throughout their recovery. The end left me curious about the fate of the characters, but also left me with the feeling that,j after visiting Room one last time, Jack and his mother would be okay.
With the ending sense of optimism and hope for their future, I was left thinking about what a great book Room was and what an incredible journey I had just been taken on. I would highly recommend it!
If you have read it, what did you think?
I have been doing so much reading so luckily I have a lot to post about the next few days (Finally). Unfortunately, most of my reading hasn’t been books turned into movies but I guess any book is worth blogging about.
So, I just finished the book “Suck it, Wonder Woman” by Olivia Munn. I wasn’t expecting big things from this book from the get-go based on the cover and the description (shallow, I know).
I had never heard of Olivia Munn before and was curious as to what the novel could be about with the subtitle of “The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek”. I figured I would appreciate the humor, being a bit of a geek myself.
Though some of her stories were amusing the chapters were not coherant and there was not point to the novel. Dissapointing.
I thought some of the chapers that were just lists weren’t worth while and seems to be filling space, there were quite a few blank pages throughout the novel, and I wasn’t impressed with the pictures. On the bright side, you can have sever brain damage and still be able to read and understand the book.
I thought that maybe Munn was going to be debunking myths that girls on tv who appear slutty and shallow have more going on in thier spare time butt she was still slutty and sort of shallow, even when she was not on tv— not shocking.
The title of the book had little to nothing to do with the content of the story. There was a chapter dedicated to how Munn felt putting on a slutty Super Woman costume. Good for her feeling empowered, but I was almost embarassed for her.
It was a fast and funny read but was by no means good literature. It wasn’t life changing and it certainly didn’t give me any insight of new found respect for Olivia Munn. This book will NEVER be a movie and I wasted two days of my life reading it— sweet.
Even though I am guilty of occasionally reading on my iPad.. I would rather hold a book. There is just something about a nook that cannot be replaced— 1/2 of it is how books smell ( so good! )
(Source: stoner-wenday, via the-book-whores)
… Story of my life! Luckily there are billions of books :)
cinderellainrubbershoes: I am a book hoarder— books I have read, I refuse to get rid of because I hope to have a library room in my house one day— dreaming big :)
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(above photo)Patrick Ireland escaping out of the library window at Columbine High School.
It has been awhile since I have posted! primarily because I have made a little detour in reading books that are turned into movies to read “Columbine” by Dave Cullen. Though there was a documentary created surrounding the tragedy (Bowling For Columbine— which the book I just read claims is not true— claiming Dylan and Eric went bowling the night before the massacre) the novel (which was extremely lengthy) reflected on and debunked the myths and media misunderstanding and misinterpretations of the tragedy.
It was an extremely interesting read that left me angry with the police department and media for not giving families of the victims closure or answers for 5+years! I also was left feeling badly for the parents or Eric and Dylan who were often the targets of the nation and communities anger because the boys chose to kill themselves leaving no one living to place the blame on— the boys parents were the closest thing.
I found the book so interesting and it was inspiring to see how those affected by the tragedy were able to move on and find strength and power in such a tragic event. The after shock of the event was far more complex and took far longer for everyone to recover from than I could have ever imagined— and the media only covered the event so many weeks out— it was interesting to see how everyone from victims, teachers, and parents were coping years after.
I do well with gore and graphic descriptions and found most of the killers planning and scans of drawings and journals so interesting but got really emotionally caught up in on of the final chapters— Quiet. That chapter evoked some intense emotions, describing the moments leading up to Eric and Dylan’s suicide. Talking about how the boys tried to set off the bombs and wanted to have an honorable death in battle— they wanted to by gunned down by cops or burn in an explosion. The whole chapter was like the science after the atom— that weird quiet where you wonder if it is actually over. Knowing the boys walked around and assessed the damaged and the tone of disappointment and failure in this chapter irked me but I felt like I was therewith the boys observing all of this chaos, death, and devastation From how the library had changed from moments after the shooting to half and hour after the shooting. It was incredibly graphic— talking about the changes dead bodies go thought in that amount of time, to how blood changes and brain matter changes, to the boy’s suicide— how each boy committed suicide to how they lay on the floor once they were dead. It was creepy and weird but brought a sense of peace and closure to me as a reader— knowing almost felt good ( of course after reading the novel I went to google and the boy’s bodies on the library floor were one of the first images that appeared)
I am not a Columbine buff and was young when the massacre happened so this novel was an eye opener for me and helped me make a cohesive story out of the fragments I recall from that day. There were so many media misconceptions the day of the murders and the weeks and years after the murders it is amazing! Made me question how trustworthy media outlets are!
It was a great read!
SO MANY TRUFAX
From books to movies HP style.
This thing maketh me incredibly happy.
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