Monday, February 18, 2013

Long time No Blog- Back to Reading

There is absolutely no point in trying to catch things up from August of last year. I am going to say thatnks to my friend Leslie I am going to try to take my blog in a different direction. But first I will address some things- quickly.
Chase and I got an apartment right after Thanksgiving and that is going great.
My mom's husband is in jail awaiting trial for three different things done on three different occasions. Best thing is no one will give him bail this time, finally and the bad is apparently he is trying to snitch his way out of trouble not gonna happen but gonna cause some issues.
Also, my mother has decided to let him go and move on with her life. Best part is she is talking to my grandmother again, worst part she is going to have to leave the house on Chestnut Street. We have already moved the cats and taken out the memory type things we cant replace. But its a hard thing for us to grasp its the longest I lived anywhere in my life and my brother literally grew up in the house. Its been approx 19 years moms lived there and thats a lot of memories to leave behind. Hell, I had my first kiss on that porch!

Now on to my new direction---
Amoungst many people who have been making me feel guilty, by no fault of their own, that I do not read right now was my uncle this weekend. We were talking about nerdy things and I realized I just dont have a good excuse for not reading and there are so many things I want to finish that Ive started. Also, my friend Leslie reads upwards of 100 books a year and makes me feel like a lazy butt, she also does these cute little book reviews on her blog. So, I was thinking of rebooting my blog like hers. Quick posts about everyday things occasionally and little book reviews as I finish the books, but be warned I cannot read as fast as Leslie and will not be posting mulitple every week as she is able to. As a surprise to myself I was able to finish the first book in the 4 book series I decided to start with in under 48 hours, but I had previously read this book AND it was the weekend. So, here's my first synopsis, this might not be so great but I am sure Ill get better as time goes by.

Ring- by Koji Sukuzi
This is the first book of four, although the 4th book is a prequel it was released last and I shall read it last. This is the horror style book that stemmed the Japanese movie Ringu, which was the inspiration for the US version of The Ring, that I assume most people are familiar with, even if you didnt see it Im sure you know the concept.
The book, as one would expect is different from both the US and Japanese versions of the movie. One thing that is the same in both movies is the newspaper journalist, who is the main character, is a female that is unmarried. Well, in the book its a man and he is married so that completely changes the dynamic of the story. But a lot of the general aspects and basic story line are the same. There are some major twists and turns that are different, but I wouldnt reveal them here, because thats whats fun about reading! Figuring it out or thinking you have then having it all change! There is not much that I can tell you about the story without ruining the surpirses, but a lot of it you would already know due to the movie. The second book is Spiral and I started it last night, Im excited to see where it goes bc I know I started this one but I dont think I finished it and if I did I dont remember the end at all!

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    1. Thanks! I didnt think anyone read but a couple of my friends, glad to know others find me moderately interesting!

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  2. I don't know how to organize this so it will just be a bunch of random thoughts:

    Your apartment is awesome and I want to steal your couch.

    I'd like to put a motion on the table that your mom stops getting married. She's such a great person and no one is good enough for her. Come visit her, bring her presents, keep her company, but no more screwing with her life!

    Sorry if I make you feel guilty about the reading thing. Keep in mind that I haven't had a real job in forever and often times I'm trying to tune out Disney Jr. while Daven insists that I stay in the room with him.

    I wouldn't want to read these books, but that's because I hated the movie and pretty much the whole scary movie genre in general. I have no problem with the crime story lines, but add in the freaky stuff and I just can't handle it. I just keep thinking about the girl ripping her fingernails out trying to claw her way out of the well - ::shudders::

    My biggest thing with book reviews is I don't know exactly how much to say. It would be one thing if you knew that the reader had already read the thing and knew what was going on. But you don't want to give important things away either. But I figure I have a small audience so it's not that big of a deal lol.

    We need to get together again soon so that I can make the photo wall on the side of your blog :)

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    1. I did try that motion with Ray, we asked mom not to get married to him, just to tell people they were married and be happy but it wasnt good enough and she snuck off and got married at Mertyl Beach behind everyones back. We were not happy.
      And I wasnt guilty in a bad way it was a good thing, sorry if I made it seem negative.
      They are a little scary but they are not like the movie and the little girl is not little shes like 18-20 and she doesnt try to claw her way out of the well either. You might not be that bothered by it.
      I like the reviews you do. I am trying to do them the way you do bc they seem to be appropriate.
      Also, I am sorry you arent on my blog wall Ill have to put one up the problem is I havent added a picture in a while and they changed everything so I dont quite remember how.

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