Every time I hear a new Green Day song or see a new Green Day video, I am 13 again. I am sitting in the apartment my mom, sister and I lived in during summer vacation. I am listening to Dookie. I am watching MTV non-stop, waiting for for the NEXT Green Day video to come on. I am on the phone 8+ hours a day with my boyfriend at the time, or I am online in a local BBS chat room, talking to online friends… typing Green Day lyrics back and forth with a friend who lived in Houston, crushing on a guy who kinda looks a bit like Billie Joe & actually gave me the time of day. I am wishing I had enough money to buy that copy of Kerplunk! I see everytime I go to Blockbuster Music. I am also trying to find a copy of 1039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours, which is nearly impossible to find… and when I do find it in a CD Warehouse-type store (except more indie and much cooler) in Addison, the world is ending because my mom won’t give me the money to buy it.
I did eventually get that copy of Kerplunk! I spent birthday money on it. We went right back to Blockbuster Music, where it had been but no longer was. I FREAKED OUT. They looked it up in the system, and the computer said they had it. They had to go dig around in boxes for it. I also got the copy of 1039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours. I threw a tantrum of EPIC proportions when we were back in the car, and I don’t remember why my mom gave me the money for it, but that she did. I had to run back into the store and get it, wiping tears off my cheeks.
I read this book because before we went to see the movie last year, I was CONVINCED I’d read it. The movie started, and I was like “Oh, they must have changed this part.” LOL. NO, dude, I hadn’t read it yet. I liked the movie, and I liked the book. In true Nicholas Sparks fashion (at least from what I know of the few Nicholas Sparks books I’ve read), it’s really happy and really sad. Or happy with an air of sadness.
The book is different than the movie, but I like them both equally. The differences between the book and the film aren’t enough to ruin anything for me (ahem, Twilight), but I wish I would’ve read the book first. I kept picturing the characters as the actors who portrayed them in the movie & I think that kind of took something away. I like to be able to picture my own characters, and I just couldn’t.
4 out of 5 stars. All in all, I’d recommend this book to just about anybody, especially if you like to read great love stories. Have a box of tissues handy, though.
This is how I spent my lunch break today. Knitting & reading. I love that I’m working on something simple & mindless enough that I can read a book. I wish the book would stay open a little easier… there’s a lot of fidgeting involved with trying to read this book while I knit, but I’m not willing to give it up. lol. The book is pretty good. There are differences from the movie, but not enough (at least not yet) that I can say one is better than the other. I guess I’ll come to that conclusion when I’m done. I’m about halfway through, and to keep on track for the “52 Books in 52 Weeks” challenge, I have to finish it by tomorrow. I don’t know if that will happen, but you never know.
I finished the Binder of Doom, finally. It ended up having to be TWO Binders of DOOM, and I almost had a party when they were done. I MAY have danced a little bit. Today was playing catch up on all the stuff I got behind on last week, and I got done with everything that should have been done through yesterday, so not too bad. I was a typing fiend today. The next few days will hopefully be quiet, and then we get to do it all over again next week.
BTW – I spent most of today thinking it was Wednesday. I didn’t start out thinking that way, but by the time I got off work, I was really excited that tomorrow would be Thursday & I would get to go to Knit Night. I was so excited, I even told Joe, and he’s like “Umm, yeah, it’s Tuesday.” Oops!
I finally finished my first book of the year, and I think it was kind of a dud. It was nice to have closure on the trilogy, but it all just seemed to end sort of.. abruptly, especially considering all they had to go through to get that far. It just seemed a bit anticlimactic.
It was nice to see the last couple come into their relationship, and a lot of it was kind of predictable, but it was a nice entertaining read. This trilogy is much darker than the other romance trilogies that Nora Roberts is known for, and I think it was an interesting change. I just wish the final book was as good as the first two.
2.5 out of 5 stars. I recommend it if you’ve read the first two books, Blood Brothers and The Hollow to finish out the series.
Not only is tomorrow a big day historically, it’s also a big day for Books!
Books are usually released on Tuesdays, and this Tuesday is going to be a big one. Two of the series I read are releasing their next installments.
Ever since I started knitting, my reading has really gone by the wayside, but the “In Death” series by JD Robb always brings me back to it. Where will I be tomorrow? At the book store, picking up the next one!
Check out the latest installment, Salvation in Death. If you’re a Nora Roberts fan, the final installment of the Sign of Seven trilogy (The Pagan Stone) is out later in the month, too. I also read Laurell K. Hamilton’s Merry Gentry and Anita Blake series (serieses? lol). Swallowing Darkness, the latest installment in the Merry Gentry series, comes out tomorrow, too! I’m two books behind on that series though, so I don’t know if I’ll pick that one up, but this month seems to be a great month for new releases if you like to read.
I have NO idea when it originally aired, but considering Dina and Adam were making googly eyes at each other the other night, I had to post it.
BTW, Dina… “Infatuation” came on while I was listening to M5 on shuffle on one of my breaks and that song is SO ABOUT YOU!! Only written before he MET you!! hahaah
I don’t remember which blog I stole this from… I was reading in bloglines, and I just copy/pasted to an email so I’d remember to fill it out. I forgot to note the blog where I saw it! Sorry!
1. One book that made you laugh: Any books in the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich make me laugh OUT LOUD… even if I’m in public. lol 2. One book that made you cry: Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson and Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows 3. One book that you loved as a child: My favorite kids’ book is Go Dog Go! As an older child, I was a fan of the Nancy Drew series, and I read a TON of the Babysitter’s Club books. 4. One book you’ve read more than once: I don’t like to re-read books.. whenever I do, I remember what happens, and then I stop reading it. 5. One book you loved, but were embarrassed to admit it: I’m not really embarrassed to admit that I love books. I am a sucker for cheesy romance novels, and I loved VC Andrews books through the Ruby series. 6. One book you hated: Animal Farm. It’s the only book I’ve ever thrown away. 7. One book that scared you: The Shining was kinda freaky. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski was also kind of scary to me because it was just so odd. I don’t think I ever finished it, though. 8. One book that bored you: Every book I had to read in high school except the Great Gatsby. The Outlander also bored me until I started listening to it in audiobook form… now I’m excited. 9. One book that made you happy: Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows, even though the series is done. 10. One book that made you miserable: I don’t think I’ve ever had a book make me miserable.. 11. One book that you weren’t brave enough to read: Most of the books by Stephen King. lol I don’t know why. 12. One book character you’ve fallen in love with: I have three! Roarke from the “In Death” series, Edward from the Twilight Series (and i am NOT afraid to admit it!), and Jean Claude from the Anita Blake series… I have a thing for vampires (except Roarke)… and series. lol 13. The last book you read: Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer… the new one comes out in a couple of weeks, and I don’t want to ruin the magic of the last one by reading something in between.
14. The next book you hope to read: Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer and The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
Stolen from kc, again. Check out the last one I stole from her.
Here’s a music meme to reflect how eclectic your music collection might be. Put your music library in alphabetical order by song, then take the first song for each letter of the alphabet. No repeat artists. Tag five people then let them know they’ve been tagged to do the meme themselves.
A – Addicted to Me – The Click Five
B – Bab’s Uvula Who? – Green Day
C – Cailin – Unwritten Law
D – Daisy – Switchfoot
E – Easier to Be – Lifehouse (It’s actually Easier then Love by Switchfoot, but I already used that band!)
F – Face Down – The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
G – Galaxy – Jason Mraz
H – Half-Life – Duncan Shiek (Hallelujah – Jeff Buckley is 2nd! LOVE that song!)
I – I’ll Be Loving You Forever – New Kids on the Block (hahahaha)
J – Jackson – Joaquin Phoenix & Reese Witherspoon
K – Karma – Alicia Keys
L – L.O.V.E – Ashlee Simpson
M – Mad as Rabbits – Panic! At the Disco
N – The Name of the Game – ABBA
O – O’Sailor – Fiona Apple
P – Paper Bag – Anna Nalick (Actually, Panic Song – Green Day, but I used them already!)
Q – Quicksand – Incubus
R – R-Evolve – 30 Seconds to Mars
S – Sad Songs – Matt Nathanson (Actually, S.O.S – ABBA, but I used them already!)
T – Tailor Made – Colbie Caillat
U – Under the Moonlight – Travis
V – Val Kilmer – Bowling for Soup
W – Waiting – The Rocket Summer
X – XO – Fall Out Boy
Y – Yes – Coldplay
Z – Zen – Miser
Alternately, I decided to alphabetize by Artist Name and pick the first artist & song name, which proved to be a bit more embarrassing.
A – a-ha – Take On Me
B – Backstreet Boys – Incomplete
C – Candlebox – Surrendering
D – Damian Giglio – Crush
E – Ehren Starks – Lines Build Walls
F – Fall Out Boy – The Carpal Tunnel of Love
G – Gavin DeGraw – In Love with a Girl
H – Haley James Scott – Halo (Album Version)
I – Incubus – Quicksand
J – Jack’s Mannequin – Holiday from Real
K – Kelly Clarkson – Never Again
L – The Last Goodnight – Pictures of You
M – Mandy Moore – Only Hope
N – Nada Surf – Popular
O – O.K Go – Here We Go Again (love this video!)
P – P!nk – Stupid Girls
Q – (none!)
R – R.E.M – Everybody Hurts
S – Santana f/Michelle Branch – I’m Feeling You
T – Taylor Swift – Teardrops on My Guitar (rofl. I’m such a loser!)
U – Unwritten Law – Cailin
V – Vanessa Carlton – Nolita Fairytale
W – Waylon Jennings – Amanda
X – (none!)
Y – Yael Naim – New Soul (the song from one of the iPod commercials, yes.)
Z – Zack Hexum – How Many Times
I’m so glad at least someone from the same conference won the Stanley Cup. Honestly, this is as it should be. The Red Wings have had the best record all year, and now they have the trophy to prove it.
The book is pretty good. There are differences from the movie, but not enough (at least not yet) that I can say one is better than the other. I guess I’ll come to that conclusion when I’m done. I’m about halfway through, and to keep on track for the “52 Books in 52 Weeks” challenge, I have to finish it by tomorrow. I don’t know if that will happen, but you never know. 
. If you’re a Nora Roberts fan, the final installment of the Sign of Seven trilogy (
) is out later in the month, too. I also read Laurell K. Hamilton’s Merry Gentry and Anita Blake series (serieses? lol). 
, the latest installment in the Merry Gentry series, comes out tomorrow, too! I’m two books behind on that series though, so I don’t know if I’ll pick that one up, but this month seems to be a great month for new releases if you like to read. 
