I know it ain't easy giving up your heart.

September 24, 2012, 3:45 pm

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The Bridesmaid by Hailey Abbott
1/5   -didn't like it
family, angst, love story, teeny bopper, young adult


After years of watching couples come to blows over ice sculptures, Abby wants no part of the family business. She’d rather spend weekends kicking a soccer ball or antagonizing Noah, the cute son of a famous pastry chef–not doing the Electric Slide.

Then Abby’s barely legal sister, Carol, does the unthinkable–she announces she’s getting married and wants Abby to be her maid of honor. Clearly, Carol has lost her mind! Will Abby soon lose hers?

So what if Carol turns into Bridezilla? So what if the dresses are hideous? So what if the invitations get messed up? So what if Noah looks extra hot with frosting in his hair? Abby can handle it. After all, it’s just one day. Right?
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There wasn't one thing I liked about this book.
I like all that wedding stuff! I don't think this is the book for me.

Spoiler alert!
I was surprised that Abby and Noah got together so early on in the book. That's usually last page kind of stuff. And the end was just vomit inducing.

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In your arms I finally breathe.

September 24, 2012, 3:50 pm

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The Bar Code Tattoo by Suzanne Weyn
2/5    -nothing special
adventure, dystopia, young adult


Individuality vs. Conformity

Identity vs. Access

Freedom vs. Control

The bar code tattoo. Everybody's getting it. It will make your life easier, they say. It will hook you in. It will become your identity.

But what if you say no? What if you don't want to become a code? For Kayla, this one choice changes everything. She becomes an outcast in her high school. Dangerous things happen to her family. There's no option but to run...for her life.
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I, and my whole family, would be destroyed if we had the bar code tattoo.


I just didn't buy the whole thing at the end.

If I could walk on water...

September 24, 2012, 4:33 pm

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The Wednesday Letters by Jason F. Wright
2/5    -nothing special
family, angst, contemporary, realistic fiction, adult fiction


Their story begins with one letter on their wedding night, a letter from the groom, promising to write his bride every week—for as long they both shall live.

Thirty-nine years later, Jack and Laurel Cooper die in each other's arms. And when their grown children return to the family B&B to arrange the funeral, they discover thousands of letters.

The letters they read tell of surprising joys and sorrows. They also hint at a shocking family secret—and ultimately force the children to confront a life-changing moment of truth . . .

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The Malcolm/Rain story was enough to keep me interested.

There was nothing really great about this book, and it seemed a little preachy to me.
I did find the climax interesting and a little shocking.

I loved the letter at the end. Not what was written particularly, but the fact that it was a letter and not just another page in the book.

You're seeing that you're sinking over time.

September 25, 2012, 7:01 pm

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The Vow by Kim and Krickitt Carpenter
2/5   -nothing special
non-fiction, movie

A massive head injury, as the result of a tragic car accident, left Krickitt Carpenter in a coma just two months after her marriage to Kim. When she finally emerged from the coma, she recognized everyone in her life except her husband, Kim. Starting all over, they built a new love and dedicated their lives to each other all over again.

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This is a spiritual read, about faith and God. It's really nothing like the movie.

I think my big mistake with this was reading it after so recently seeing the movie. Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum were in my head so much that I couldn't just focus on the book.

I don't want the next best thing.

September 26, 2012, 3:39 pm

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What in God's Name by Simon Rich
4/5    -just wonderful
adult fiction, alternate views, beach read, funny, mature, love story

Welcome to Heaven, Inc., the grossly mismanaged corporation in the sky. For as long as anyone can remember, the founder and CEO (known in some circles as "God") has been phoning it in. Lately, he's been spending most of his time on the golf course. And when he does show up at work, it's not to resolve wars or end famines, but to Google himself and read what humans have been blogging about him.

When God decides to retire (to pursue his lifelong dream of opening an Asian Fusion restaurant), he also decides to destroy Earth. His employees take the news in stride, except for Craig and Eliza, two underpaid angels in the lowly Department of Miracles. Unlike their boss, Craig and Eliza love their jobs - uncapping city fire hydrants on hot days, revealing lost keys in snow banks - and they refuse to accept that earth is going under.

The angels manage to strike a deal with their boss. He'll call off his Armageddon, if they can solve their toughest miracle yet: getting the two most socially awkward humans on the planet to fall in love. With doomsday fast approaching, and the humans ignoring every chance for happiness thrown their way, Craig and Eliza must move heaven and earth to rescue them - and the rest of us, too

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This was a delightful read! Refreshing and funny, sweet and satisfying.
This book is a very short, lighthearted read; I read it in a few hours.

I know just what you're saying.

September 27, 2012, 8:13 pm

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The Emmy's weren't all that exciting. Modern Family and Homeland kind of swept the floor with everyone.




Zoey Deschanel
I love her dress! It's so princess-y and nothing like what she usually wears. She said she wanted something to match her eyes, and it's beautiful. I personally would have liked it better with less cleavage, but hey, that's just my opinion. I like how all the tulle has this shredded look, it's kind of a modern twist on a classic ballgown.

Tina Fey
This is the best she's looked on the red carpet! And she's not wearing black! I really like the scoop neck, it's just right.


Sofia Vergara
Only she could do this. She looks like a mermaid. I like the color on her and I like the shimmer. I do not like the cut outs and the straps. I think it would have looked better without those awkward straps and the cut out on the chest.

Sarah Paulson
I like her as a brunette. The dress is a very pretty color and I really like the embellishments over the gown. I'm not so sure about the shear material though. I don't really get the trend of the shear cloth draped over the nude material. At least I hope that's a nude material, otherwise it's just inappropriate.


Sarah Hyland
I love the color! I like the crisscross ruching across the bust, very pretty. The embellishments at the shoulders are fabulous. I think the hemline should have been just a bit longer. It looks weird that you see just a tiny bit of shoes; all or nothing, I ssy.

Padma Lakshmi
The color is gorgeous on her! She could have done a little something more with her hair and makeup. I love the knot at the thigh and how the mermaid skirt just flows out from there.

Michelle Dockery
I like the style of this dress; the solid color with the black netting up to the neck. I don't this this dress fits her very well.


Melissa Rauch
I like the gathering at the waist and the way this dress flows. I love the color, you don't see much true green on the red carpet.

Melissa McCarthey
I was disappointed with this. Long sleeves and black; just plain and boring.

Leslie Mann
I love this! It's such a fun look! I love how full the skirt is and how delicate the top is; it's like a perfect little match that shouldn't match at all. And I love her turquoise accessories with the orange skirt!


Kristin Wigg
I love how the solid color dress is shorter and smaller than the shear top dress. It's very interesting to look at, and I think it's very pretty.

Kiernan Shipka
She looks very cute. The silver shiny material is very Cinderella. I love tea-length dresses, the especially look very nice on young girls.

Kerry Washington
This is a terrible picture, her posture is very awkward. The dress doesn't come across well in the photo, but it was pretty on the red carpet. The scoop neck was very nice.


Kat Dennings
She looks great; the color, the lips, the hair. It's all working for her. The dress fits her enormous chest well without being too much. I love the gold chain in her hair.

Julie Bowen
An interesting color, I'm not sure how I feel about it. I love the little gathering at the knee detail, it looks great.


Julianne Moore
I don't know how I feel about this. On one hand, I really like it. The full length of the gown and the long sleeves and the high neckline, I think that looks great. I just don't know how well it fits her. Her boobs look weird to me. I don't like the band across the stomach or how it looks like a different material on the chest.

Julianna Margulies
I think there's too much material on that dress...with that print, less is more. She doesn't look as severe as she usually does. I'm proud of her for taking a risk.


Julianne Hough
I don't like this dress, I don't like the bust or the - I don't even know what those are on the mermaid tail. She's wearing way too much makeup, she looks terribles. I do really like her hair though.


Jena Malone
I don't like her dress, I just think it looks weird. I do like the color though, and her shoes are amazing.

January Jones
I like the crisscrossing throughout the top. I like the structure of the skirt, but I don't like that it's so shear. I think it would be prettier if the skirt was longer.


Heidi Klum
I like the color on her and the super high slit. Again, with the shear material, why is this so popular? She looks naked. Then againg maybe that's the reason for it's popularity. I don't like the matchy-matchy earrings.

Hayden Panettiere
This is pretty, those colors like fabulous together. I do think there is too much fabric, maybe just chop that train off.


Hannah Simone
OMG! This shear fabric will be the death of me. This dress does not look good. The one shoulder looks awkward, and the bust line looks weird. It looks like the material is detailed in a swirl and at the center of that swirl, her nipple!

Emily Vancamp
I like the sleeves, but not the netting across the neck. The gray and the white just makes it look dirty. The bracelet is amazing!


Ginnifer Goodwin
This dress look very much like her. There isn't anything I like about it. The shoes are a bit of a different story. I like the design of the shoe, just the tips get that color. I don't like the velvet on the shoe.


Elizabeth Moss
This dress is just yucky. The mullet, or whatever you want to call it, is weird. Especially seeing it move. It just kind of bounced behind her.

Claire Danes
This is just so boring. Like a burlap sack with a belt looped around.

Christina Hendricks
I like the opposing ruching on the waist and the chest, but I don't like the belt. It feels a little too casual. I don't like the train and all the extra material on the skirt. I really like the color, I'm just not so sure about the color on her.


Ashley Judd
I think Ashley Judd has lost her mind.


Ariel Winter
I like the print and the look on top. The high neckline and the cut out on the back. I like the shiny snake skin pattern. I hate the train.

Allison Wilson
I like the crumbcatcher bust and the skirt details at the waist. It's a flattering silhouette.

Things will never be the same again.

September 28, 2012, 7:34 pm

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I finally got to play Disney scene-it! I almost won too, I was that close! Dan said he's win, but when the clips started playing he realized that he hadn't seen any of those movies in 20+ years. He thought some of the questions were unfair (which they weren't) and Dave got all the easy ones (which he did). He got the question, 'What Disney movie is about a deer?' Really though, those guys didn't stand a chance against me and Jess.

I think that everyone (EVERYONE) should have a little basket by their front door and when people come in they drop theirs phones in there. If you're going to someone's house to hang out with them, why do you always have your phone glued to your hand? You went to that person's house, why are you texting someone else all night?

I've already started Christmas shopping. Is it too early?

I'll catch up with my flist later, I'm going to watch Fringe.

I don't know where your heart went.

September 30, 2012, 7:56 pm

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1) currently listening: I've been a little obsessed with Disney music lately. I can't help it.
2) currently eating: I had a giant can of spaghettios for dinner.
3) currently drinking: Hawaiian Punch has been my choice of drink as of late.
4) currently wearing:
5) currently feeling: scared, worried
6) current weather: It's getting chiller, the leaves are changing
7) currently wanting: I want to go finish my book.
8) currently needing: a good night's sleep
9) currently thinking: I just had an odd thought; iPods are expensive, depending on which kind you choose. I think mine was $200, plus at least $2,500 worth of music, and we just throw these things in our bag or pockets and drag them with us everywhere. You'd think we would be more careful with something so expensive.
10) currently enjoying: fashion blogs on tumblr

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Now you're in my way.

October 1, 2012, 6:38 pm

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Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion
3/5   -worth reading
adventure, angst, dystopia, love story, male protagonist, mature, young adult

R is a young man with an existential crisis--he is a zombie. He shuffles through an America destroyed by war, social collapse, and the mindless hunger of his undead comrades, but he craves something more than blood and brains. He can speak just a few grunted syllables, but his inner life is deep, full of wonder and longing. He has no memories, no identity, and no pulse, but he has dreams.

After experiencing a teenage boy's memories while consuming his brain, R makes an unexpected choice that begins a tense, awkward, and strangely sweet relationship with the victim's human girlfriend. Julie is a blast of color in the otherwise dreary and gray landscape that surrounds R. His decision to protect her will transform not only R, but his fellow Dead, and perhaps their whole lifeless world.

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I thought it started pretty slow, but I'm glad I stuck with it.

Spoilers!
The end is a little foggy to me. I don't understand why everything changed. I get that Julie helped R, that he loved her and that was enough to change him, but why did everyone else change?

The promises I never should have believed in.

October 1, 2012, 6:50 pm

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Why doesn't lj allow us to feel what we feel? I just tried to enter my feelings as 'icky', but I guess that isn't a legitimate emotion. Then I tried 'bad' and that isn't and option either. neither is 'mad'. Don't try to tell me how to feel, live journal!

I finally received the invite to my cousin's wedding. A month before the event with no save the date anywhere to be found. That is crazy late! There is a line on the RSVP for a song suggestion and that is awesome. I'm going to write in 'Party in the USA' because that's my jam and if I don't request it, there's no way Becky is going to put Miley Cyrus on her playlist.

I slept all day today. I haven't had a great night sleep for a few days and last night (or really this morning) I didn't go to bed until like 4am. The around 7am my dog worried me with his crying so I had to go check on him, he brought his toy to me when I got upstairs so I guess nothing was wrong. Then I just slept and next thing I know it's 4 in the afternoon.

I hope I never figure out who broke your heart.

October 4, 2012, 6:09 pm

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I'm reading a book where, as a kid, the main character was told stories by his grandfather. He grew to hate those stories and resented his grandpa for telling them. I recently watched a movie about the same thing. The stories, the resenting...it was sad. Because all I could think about was how I (and all my cousins) would kill to be able to remember Grandpa's stories. To have an actual substantial piece of paper with stories from 'Oo-bop-ba-ree-a-bam' would be amazing! I just wanted to yell at these characters to always remember and write them down because you're going to want to tell your kids, and they're going to want to tell their kids.

I was kind of reading last night. If there's a book I've read enough, I can speed read or just skim through it. Read the really good parts or the scenes stuck in my head. So I was doing this last night with Jennifer Echolls' Going Too Far, there was a moment where I really felt for these people, I had tears in my eyes. I couldn't believe I was crying, it felt like I was in that relationship. It was especially crazy considering I was only skimming and wasn't even completely into the story.

I'm thinking of starting some more daily challenges.


30 Day Film Challenge

Day 01: The best movie you’ve seen all year.
Day 02: Your least favourite film
Day 03: The last film you saw at the cinema
Day 04: Your favorite horror movie
Day 05: A film that reminds you of someone
Day 06: Favorite drama film
Day 07: Favourite animated feature
Day 08: A movie that you’ve seen countless times
Day 09: A movie with the best soundtrack
Day 10: Favorite love story in a movie
Day 11: The most surprising plot twist or ending
Day 12: Favourite movie villain
Day 13: A guilty pleasure
Day 14: The film that no one expected you to like
Day 15: The film that depicts your life
Day 16: Your favorite biopic
Day 17: Most overrated film
Day 18: Favorite movie from your childhood
Day 19: Your favorite trilogy/quadrilogy/etc.
Day 20: The funniest film you’ve ever seen
Day 21: The most bizarre film you’ve ever seen
Day 22: The most depressing film you've ever seen
Day 23: The most powerful film you’ve seen
Day 24: First movie you saw in the cinema
Day 25: A film you could quote word for word
Day 26: A film that was filmed close to where you live, or close to
Day 27: Favorite movie character
Day 28: Your favorite movie protagonist
Day 29: A movie that makes you happy
Day 30: Your favourite movie cameo



20 Day Gilmore Girl Challenge

Day 01: Are you a Lorelai or a Rory?
Day 02: What was the coolest Stars Hollow town event?
Day 03: Favorite of Rory's boyfriends
Day 04: Favorite of Lorelai's boyfriends?
Day 05: Are you and your mother more like Lorelai/Rory, Emily/Lorelai, or Mrs. Kim/Lane?
Day 06: Have you ever tried a food after seeing it on the show?
Day 07: Are you a Paris or Lane?
Day 08: What was the first episode of Gilmore Girls you saw?
Day 09: What is something that will always remind you of Gilmore Girls?
Day 10: How long was your longest Gilmore Girls marathon?
Day 11: Have you ever quoted Gilmore Girls in real life?
Day 12: What is the weirdest couple that you secretly ship?
Day 13: What is the number one thing happening in pop culture the you wish to hear Lorelai and Rory discuss?
Day 14: If you could have a crossover episode, what show would it be with?
Day 15: Who is your favorite Gilmore guy?
Day 16: If you could choose just one character to bring into your life, who would it be?
Day 17: Is there a character in the show that you know HAS to be based on someone from your life?
Day 18: What characte do you wish was in the show more?
Day 19: Would you rather eat at Luke's or go to Friday night dinners?
Day 20: What is the first line to come in to your mind right now?



15 Days of Crushes

Day 01: TV Star Crush
Day 02: Movie Star Crush
Day 03: Movie Character Crush
Day 04: Book Character Crush
Day 05: TV Character Crush
Day 06: Disney Prince/Princess Crush
Day 07: Old Enough to Be Your Parent Crush
Day 08: Singer Crush
Day 09: Couple Crush
Day 10: Badass Crush
Day 11: Geeky Crush
Day 12: Opposite of Preferred Gender Crush
Day 13: Unlikely Crush
Day 14: Childhood Crush
Day 15: Superhero Crush

How fickle my heart and how woozy my eyes.

October 8, 2012, 6:34 pm

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30 Day Film Challenge
20 Day Gilmore Girl Challenge
15 Days of Crushes

Day 01: The best movie you’ve seen all year.

I just loved Tangled! I don't know why it took me so long to see it. And I'm kind of upset that I missed out on the ice show because of it.

Day 01: Are you a Lorelai or a Rory?

I'm a Rory. Before Logan anyway. I'm a good girl, some might say boring. I'd rather hang out at home than go to a party. I only wish I was as outspoken or quick-witted as her.

Day 01: TV Star Crush

David Boreanaz has been on tv most of my life and I love him. My cousin and I often marvel at the fact that he looks the same all the time after so many years.

So many secrets I couldn't keep.

October 9, 2012, 8:29 pm

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30 day film challenge
Day 02: Your least favorite film

All those stupid comedies that are supposed to be the "funniest movie ever!" I don't get it.

20 day Gilmore Girls challenge
Day 02: What was the coolest Stars Hollow town event?

The dance marathon! Even I would set my alarm for this.

15 days of crushes
Day 02: Movie Star Crush

I can't help but lust after Zac Efron whenever I see him on screen. He distracts me from the movie I'm trying to watch.

I hope someday you'll join us.

October 18, 2012, 8:15 pm

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30 day film challenge
Day 03: The last film you saw at the cinema

The Hunger Games….I don’t pay $15 much to go to the AMC.

20 day Gilmore Girls challenge
Day 03: Favorite of Rory's boyfriends

Dean. Jess treated Rory like garbage and Logan is just an arrogant, selfish asshole. Dean was always there for her.

15 days of crushes
Day 03: Movie Character Crush
 
 
            
I had a few to choose from, but I ultimately decided on Mr. Darcy. It wasn’t a very hard choice.

Those three words are said too much.

October 19, 2012, 6:00 pm

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30 day film challenge
Day 04: Your favorite horror movie
Scream. I’m not a scary movie person, but I just love Scream! I love how so many of the characters survive instead of just the main person. I liked the twist with the killers and that they both died. And I like that they somehow managed to squeeze a love story in there.


20 day Gilmore Girls challenge
Day 04: Favorite of Lorelai's boyfriends?
I’ve always liked Christopher. That’s not to say I don’t like Luke, but I don’t like him so much as her boyfriend. I hated Jason more than anyone else that has appeared on the series! I also liked Max a lot, but there’s always been a sweet spot for Chris.


15 days of crushes
Day 04: Book Character Crush
John After from Going Too Far. Ugh. I love his perspective on life and his love of art and his pride in his work.
“No. I just don’t want to be a detective. They figure out what happened after the fact, when it’s too late. I want to prevent it from happening.”
  -Jennifer Echols, Going Too Far

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Haunted by a heart full of you.

October 20, 2012, 1:47 pm

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30 day film challenge
Day 05: A film that reminds you of someone
Urban Legend. I used to watch boatloads of scary movies, it’s a slumber party rule. Urban Legend makes me think of my cousin for a number of reasons.
The girl singing ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’ at the beginning was always fun, and we used to sing it just like her.
“Get away from the volcano before it erupts.”
The coat the killer wore, my mom had the exact coat.
The way the killer waved to Natalie, we started waving to each other like that.
Pacey and his radio randomly tuning to ‘I Don’t Want to Wait’.
The thing with the pop rocks; we took a mouth full of candy and shots of pepsi to go with it


20 day Gilmore Girls challenge
Day 05: Are you and your mother more like Lorelai/Rory, Emily/Lorelai, or Mrs. Kim/Lane?
We were Lorelai and Rory.


15 days of crushes
Day 05: TV Character Crush
Jim Halpert. Be still me crusher’s heart.

If I had the chance I'd never let you go.

October 20, 2012, 9:17 pm

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Saw/going to see the movie


1984 by George Orwell
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Archidamian War by Donald Kagan
The Art of Fiction by Henry James
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Babe by Dick King-Smith
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney
The Bhagava Gita
The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy
Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel
A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner
Candide by Voltaire
The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Carrie by Stephen King
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman
Christine by Stephen King
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
The Collected Short Stories by Eudora Welty
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
Complete Novels by Dawn Powell
The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas père
Cousin Bette by Honor’e de Balzac
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Cujo by Stephen King
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Daisy Miller by Henry James
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
The Da Vinci -Code by Dan Brown
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Deenie by Judy Blume
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx
The Divine Comedy by Dante
The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
Don Quijote by Cervantes
Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn
Eloise by Kay Thompson
Emily the Strange by Roger Reger
Emma by Jane Austen
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Ethics by Spinoza
Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves
Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Extravagance by Gary Krist
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore
The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan
Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
The Fellowship of the Ring: Book 1 of The Lord of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien (TBR)
Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce
Fletch by Gregory McDonald
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers
Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg
Gidget by Fredrick Kohner
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford
The Gospel According to Judy Bloom
The Graduate by Charles Webb
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Group by Mary McCarthy
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare
Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare
Henry V by William Shakespeare
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris
The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
How the Light Gets in by M. J. Hyland
Howl by Allen Gingsburg
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
The Iliad by Homer
I’m with the Band by Pamela des Barres
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy
It Takes a Village by Hillary Clinton
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito
The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Lady Chatterleys’ Lover by D. H. Lawrence
The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield
Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway
The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Love Story by Erich Segal
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Manticore by Robertson Davies
Marathon Man by William Goldman
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer
Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken
The Merry Wives of Windsro by William Shakespeare
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin
Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor
A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman
Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret
A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It’s Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh
My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken
My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin
Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen
New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Night by Elie Wiesel
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan
Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell
Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Old School by Tobias Wolff
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan
Oracle Night by Paul Auster
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Othello by Shakespeare
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
Out of Africa by Isac Dineson
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche
The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron Suskind
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Property by Valerie Martin
Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Quattrocento by James Mckean
A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall
Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman
The Return of the King: The Lord of the Rings Book 3 by J. R. R. Tolkien
R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton
Rita Hayworth by Stephen King
Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert
Roman Fever by Edith Wharton
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi
Sanctuary by William Faulkner
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman
Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Several Biographies of Winston Churchill
Sexus by Henry Miller
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Shane by Jack Shaefer
The Shining by Stephen King
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton
Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Small Island by Andrea Levy
Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore
The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht
Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos
The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker
Songbook by Nick Hornby
The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams
Stuart Little by E. B. White
Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett
Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Term of Endearment by Larry McMurtry
Time and Again by Jack Finney
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson
Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Unless by Carol Shields
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Walt Disney’s Bambi by Felix Salten
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker
What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles
What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
Who Moved My Cheese? Spencer Johnson
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

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Hope Floats
1998     2/5 -nothing special
Sandra Bullock, Harry Connick Jr., Gena Rowlands

Birdee Calvert-Pruitt is back in her hometown of Smithville, Texas, after discovering that her husband is having an affair with her best friend, Connie. The entire town knows what happened to flawless beauty Birdee since Connie let her know about the affair on a national talk show. Back in town, she's dealing with catty old friends and acquaintances from high school who can't help rubbing it in her face that she isn't as perfect as she thought while still trying to get back on her feet with her daughter, Bernice. Deeply depressed, she runs into an old friend, Justin Matisse, who tries to help her through, but is still in love with her. Birdee must make a new life for her and her daughter, but will Justin be able to be part of it?
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I thought it was pretty boring.


City of Angels
1998    4/5 -just wonderful
Nicolas Cage, Meg Ryan, Andre Braugher

Seth is an angel who accompanies the spirits of the recently dead to the ever after. Seth has never been human and so has has never experienced touch or taste. When in the hospital however he comes across Dr. Maggie Rice, a brilliant young heart surgeon who is devoted to her profession and her patients. Seth has the power to let himself be seen but Maggie finds him far too mysterious. Seth also meets a patient, Nathaniel Messinger, who has news for him - he too was once an angel like Seth but chose to fall to Earth and become human. Seth makes a decision on his future, which does not turn out as he had expected.
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I loved this movie! An angel falls in love with a human and has to decide if she's worth falling for..so beautiful!


Friends With Kids
2011    4/5 -just wonderful
Adam Scott, Jennifer Westfeldt, Maya Rudolph, Chris O'Dowd, Kristen Wiig, Jon Hamm, Megan Fox

Julie and Jason have been best friends for years with no romantic interest in each other. He sleeps with someone new every few days, and she's looking for Mr. Right. Now in their thirties, they notice that their friends seem to lose all their good qualities when they have children - child rearing and the spark of Eros don't seem to co-exist. So, they decide to have a child together, share in child rearing, but pursue their own romantic lives. Things go well until he meets Mary Jane and she meets Kurt. Both seem like perfect mates. What could go wrong?
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I really liked it. It could have been shorter, but not so much that it was bad or boring. I felt their relationship and I liked that. Spoilers. Though Adam Scott's declaration of, "I want to fuck the shit out of you", wasn't exactly romantic or charming.

   

Cleaner
1/5    -bad
Samuel L. Jackson, Ed Harris, Eva Mendes

A former cop who now earns a wage as a crime scene cleaner unknowingly participates in a cover-up at his latest job.
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I thought the concept was really cool, but the movie was slow and boring. It was only a 90 minute movie, but it felt longer.


Cinderella
1950     3/5 -like

In a far away, long ago kingdom, Cinderella is living happily with her mother and father until her mother dies. Cinderella's father remarries a cold, cruel woman who has two daughters, Drizella and Anastasia. When the father dies, Cinderella's wicked stepmother turns her into a virtual servant in her own house. Meanwhile, across town in the castle, the King determines that his son the Prince should find a suitable bride and provide him with a required number of grandchildren. So the King invites every eligible maiden in the kingdom to a fancy dress ball, where his son will be able to choose his bride. Cinderella has no suitable party dress for a ball, but her friends the mice, led by Jaques and Gus, and the birds lend a hand in making her one, a dress the evil stepsisters immediately tear apart on the evening of the ball. At this point, enter the Fairy Godmother, the pumpkin carriage...
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I have a hard time believing that Cinderella had such a close relationship with mice.


Big Fish
2003    3/5 -like
Ewan McGrgor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange

The story revolves around a dying father and his son, who is trying to learn more about his dad by piecing together the stories he has gathered over the years. The son winds up re-creating his father's elusive life in a series of legends and myths inspired by the few facts he knows. Through these tales, the son begins to understand his father's great feats and his great failings.
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I saw this shortly after it came out and I didn't like it. I caught a glimpse of it again recently and it grabbed my attention so I netflix-ed it. I really enjoyed it this time around. I'm sure it's an age thing. Maybe kids don't like it, but it becomes magical as an adult.


   

In Love and War
1996    1/5   -bad
Sandra Bullock, Chris O'Donnell

Reporter Ernest Hemingway is an ambulance driver in Italy during World War I. While bravely risking his life in the line of duty, he is injured and ends up in the hospital, where he falls in love with his nurse, Agnes von Kurowsky.
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I guess now we know why there aren't any hot and steamy sex scenes in period movies: too much clothing! I thought this was a slow and boring movie.


101 Dalmatians
1961     3/5 -like

Pongo and Perdita have a litter of 15 puppies. Cruella De Vil takes a fancy to the pups, and wants to get hold of them, as well as more pups, to make herself a lovely dalmatian skin coat... Cruella hires some thugs to kidnap the pups and hold them at her mansion. Will Pongo and Perdita find them in time?
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Cute puppies! I really liked Roger and Anita;I feel that they're underrated, overshadowed by the dogs.


Restless
2011    1/5 -bad
Henry Hopper, Mia Wasikowska, Ryo Kase

Annabel is a terminally ill cancer patient and is quietly awaiting her death spending her time studying nature. Enoch is struggling to recover from the death of his parents and spends his time attending funerals with his only friend - a ghost named Hiroshi who was a WWII Japanese kamikaze pilot. Just as Annabel's sister is trying to cope with Annabel's impending death, Annabel and Enoch fall in love. They both finally have a reason to live, but is it too late to have a life together?
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Kind of boring and it seemed long. I was just waiting for her to die. Spoilers. There was a scene toward the end with a little montage thing of all the place they went with this voice over and it seemed lik the end, but it just kept going. There was a lot of things I thought were left unresolved. Or maybe just resolved a little too quickly and cleanly. I hate in movies that feature a funeral and no one is crying! This girl's sister just died, the guy's boyfriend, and not even a tear is shed. It seems totally unbelivable to me.


   

How To Deal
2003    1/5 -bad
Mandy Moore, Allison Janney, Alexandra Holden, Trent Ford

Halley is a young high school student who is disillusioned with love after seeing the many dysfunctional relationships around her. Her parents are now divorced and her father has a new young girlfriend she doesn't care for too much. Her mother is now always alone; and her sister is so overwhelmed by her upcoming wedding that she barely leaves the house anymore. On top of that, the shallowness of all the girls and guys at her school convinces Halley that finding true love is impossible. A tragic accident, however, leads her to meeting Macon, and suddenly Halley finds that true love can occur under unusual circumstances.
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This was some weird combo of two Sarah Dessen books. And I guess that's why she stopped putting her movies up for fil remakes. It was pretty bad.


Bye Bye Birdie
1963   2/5 -nothing special
Ann-Margret, Jesse Pearson, Janet Leigh, Dick Van Dyke

1995   2/5 -nothing special
Chynna Phillips, Marc Kudisch, Vanessa Williams, Jason Alexander

Conrad Birdie is the biggest rock & roll star of the 60's ever to be drafted. Aspiring chemist and song writer Albert is convinced he can make his fortune and marry his girlfriend Rosie if he gets Conrad on the Ed Sullivan show to kiss a high school girl goodbye. Albert's mother will do anything to break him up with Rosie. Kim and Hugo, the high school steadies, live in Sweet Apple, Ohio where most of the action takes place.
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I used to watch the original when I was little, go the library and borrow the video. I saw the remake on tv a little while ago. I don't think it's all that great simply becasue it's way too long. But after seeing it again I had to return to the library for the soundtrack.


   

Dark Victory
1939    3/5 -like
Bette Davis, George Brent, Geraldine Fitzgerald

Judith Traherne is at the height of young society when Dr. Frederick Steele diagnoses a brain tumor. After surgery she falls in love with Steele. The doctor tells her secretary that the tumor will come back and eventually kill her. Learning this, Judith becomes manic and depressive. Her horse trainer Michael, who loves her, tells her to get as much out of life as she can. She marries Steele who intends to find a cure for her illness. As he goes off to a conference in New York failing eyesight indicates to Judith that she is dying.
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This normaly isn't the kind of movie I'd watch. Old, black and white. I liked it though. Mayber I'll branch out more.


Temple Grandin
2010    3/5 -like
Claire Danes, David Strathairn, Catherine O'Hara

Biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who overcame the limitations imposed on her by her condition to become a Ph.D. and expert in the field of animal husbandry. She developed an interest in cattle early in life while spending time at her Aunt and Uncle's ranch. She did not speak until age four and had difficulty right through high school, mostly in dealing with people. Her mother was very supportive as were some of her teachers. She is noted for creating her 'hug box', widely recognized today as a way of relieving stress in autistic children, and her humane design for the treatment of cattle in processing plants, which have been the subject of several books and won an award from PETA. Today, she is a professor at Colorado State University and well-known speaker on autism and animal handling.
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This was such a lovely and inspiring story. Everyone should see it.


The Emperor's New Groove
2000    2/5 -nothing special

In this animated comedy from the folks at Disney, the vain and cocky Emperor Kuzco is a very busy man. Besides maintaining his "groove", and firing his suspicious administrator, Yzma; he's also planning to build a new waterpark just for himself for his birthday. However, this means destroying one of the villages in his kingdom. Meanwhile, Yzma is hatching a plan to get revenge and usurp the throne. But, in a botched assassination courtesy of Yzma's right-hand man, Kronk, Kuzco is magically transformed into a llama. Now, Kuzco finds himself the property of Pacha, a lowly llama herder whose home is ground zero for the water park. Upon discovering the llama's true self, Pacha offers to help resolve the Emperor's problem and regain his throne, only if he promises to move his water park.
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I don't know about this one. I liked Kronk, I can't imagine anyone who doesn't. I didn't think it was great.


   

Salem Falls
2011    1/5 -bad
James Van Der Beek, Sarah Carter, AJ Michalka

A man with a troubled past tries to settle down in a small town, finds love and then ends up being the target of a witch hunt.
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Pretty boring, nothing happened in this movie. I can't imagine reading the book.


The Amityville Horror
2005    1/5 -bad
Ryan Gosling, Melissa George, Jesse James, Jimmy Bennett, Chloë Grace Moretz

George and Kathy Lutz and their three children move into a house that was the site of a horrific murder a year before. They decide to keep the house and try to keep the horror in the past. This is until, George starts to behave weirdly and their daughter, Chelsea starts to see people. What now follows is 28 days of sheer terror for the family.
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I don't like scary movies, but I thought I'd be okay with this one. It was on tv, and I wasn't scared. The power all of a sudden went out with three minutes to go in the movie so we missed that. I assume they all made it out.


Junebug
2005    1/5 -bad
Embeth Davidtz, Alessandro Nivola, Ben McKenzie, Amy Adams, Celia Weston

Successful Carolinian George Johnsten meets Chicago art gallery owner Madeleine at an electoral benefit art auction- love at first sight. Madeleine decides to meet a Southern original artist, so George seizes the opportunity to come along and present her to his North Carolina parents Eugene and Peg, drop-out brother Johhny and his high-pregnant wife Ashley. Confronting the outsider soon opens a can of worms as emotions revive or emerge, like admiration and jealousy.
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Why can't I stop watching indie movies? I very rarely -if ever- like them. I liked the opening credits, that little make out scene gave me hopes..nothing happened though. And I don't know what was up with those random, boring, long scenic shots..weird. Also weird, seeing Matilda's teacher's boobs. I did like Amy Adams, so silver lining or whatever.

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October 23, 2012, 6:30 pm

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I bought my eight year old cousin some books that I plan to give him for Christmas. They've just been sitting in my room and I've had the urge to read them. Relive my Boxcar Children memories.

I'm having a serious problem with Fringe this season. Not only does Olivia not seem herself, it's also really weird to see her in the blue t-shirt. Maybe that's just me. My real problem is that Peter and Olivia never got married. WTF? Despite everything they've been through and despite their daughter, I don't think Peter is in this relationship as much as Olivia is. I'm still a little peeved that he couldn't tell he was with Fauxlivia in season three. That very obviously wasn't Olivia, and it pissed me off that he couldn't see it. And then in season four he told her that when he looked in her eyes he could see that she wasn't "his Olivia". How many times does he have to mistake her identity before Olivia doesn't forgive him? Besides all of that, he has never said "I love you." Not when she came to get him in the alternate universe, not when she escaped from the alternate universe, not after she said it, not after he got out of the machine after she was killed in the would-be future, not when she was killed in the season four finale, not after she told him she was pregnant. What is wrong with him? I like Olivia too much to take his bullshit anymore. The problem is that I can't write him off because of the enormous romantic gesture. He literally changed the future and erased himself from existence for her, so she would live.

I wonder if The Good Wife is a popular show. It has to be popular enough if it keeps coming back. Where is the love though? Why isn't Alan Cumming winning all those Emmys? He is so good in that show. His eyebrows alone could tell the story. Speaking of TGW, Kalinda's hubby needs to go. Sure, that ice cream scene was wonderfully dirty, but her storyline is just out there. She needs to come back down to earth.

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October 24, 2012, 6:03 pm

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 The Giver by Lois Lowry
 2/5, nothing special
 dystopia, male protagonist, young adult, own

 Jonas's world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear or pain. There are no choices. Every 
 person is assigned a role in the Community. When Jonas turns twelve, he is singled out to receive special training 
 from The Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of the true pain and pleasure of life. Now, it is time for Jonas to
 receive the truth. There is no turning back.

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I liked that it was slowly revealed what these people didn't have or experience, like color or snow.

I didn't like how it kind of jumped all over the place at the end or how none of the sudden conflicts were explained or dealt with. It just was and just so happened that they could execute their plan so perfectly even with a baby.