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Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Harry Potter Read-Along: Book 1 The Sorcerer's Stone
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I actually finished book 1 last week (and am well into book 2 now) but it's been crazy and I'm just now getting the post up. :)
So, book 1! I haven't read it for about ten years. Not long after I started college, I decided I wanted to read the Harry Potter series. I'd heard a lot of the hype and I knew a movie was in the works, so I picked up book 1.
At the time, only the first four books were published. I was rooming with my sister and I remember her making fun of me for reading "a kid's book." (Never mind that she's now more of a Potter Head than I am! Hehe.) Anyway, I remember really liking book 1. I wasn't immediately a fanatic, but I liked it enough to pick up book 2, and the rest was history.
Monday, November 24, 2014
The Walking Dead Recap, Episode 5.7: Crossed
Episode 7: Crossed
So, we start out seeing Sasha splitting wood. With a vengeance. She's using an ax to cut up the wooden pews in the church, and attacking them as though they're wild animals. Tyrese and Daryl watch her from a distance. Daryl asks if she's okay, to which Ty replies that she's not. (We actually don't see Noah come out of the woods after Daryl, or the two of them swap stories with Rick and co. Understandable, given how little time they have in each episode, but it still would have been nice to see.) They're using the wood and the pipe organs to fortify the church. Rick, Daryl, Noah, Sasha, and Ty will go to Atlanta while Michonne will stay behind with Carl, Judith, and Father Gabriel. (Grhh! I wanted Michonne to go!)
Michonne actually volunteers to go, letting Rick stay with his kids, but Rick says he wants to go. He feels like he owes Carol more than the rest of the group does. After they leave, Michonne and Carl bar the door, and Father Gabriel starts scratching at the blood on the floor. First with his fingernails (ew) and then with rags and such, as though trying to scrub it out.
As they travel back to the city, Ty tries to talk to Sasha, telling her that he of all people knows what she's going through, and Bob wouldn't want her to be unhappy. His words fall on deaf ears, as Sasha clearly isn't ready to hear them yet.
In the hospital, Beth checks on Carol.
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In the hospital, Beth checks on Carol.
Sunday, November 23, 2014
Towers of Midnight Read-Along, Week 1
Welcome to week 1 of our Towers of Midnight Read-Along! This week we read the Prologue-Chapter 4. Remember that everything in this section as well as everything that's come before is fair game for spoilers, so read at your own risk. Eivind Fonn is hosting this week and will probably post his answers over at Dab of Darkness. Hop on over and check out his answers as well!
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Well, we know the DO can bring them back, so Rand is actually right about the balefire thing, scary though it may be. Balefire seems to be the only thing that the DO cannot bring someone back from. So, anyone who wasn't balefired could feasibly return. Ugh. Seems never-ending, doesn't it?
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Follow Friday:Ad for Co-Blogger
The Feature & Follow is hosted by TWO hosts, Parajunkee of Parajunkee's View and Alison of Alison Can Read. Each host will have their own Feature Blog and this way it'll allow us to show off more new blogs!
How does this work? First you leave your name here on this post, (using the linky tools -- keep scrolling!) then you create a post on your own blog that links back to this post (easiest way is to just grab the code under the #FF picture and put it in your post) and then you visit as many blogs as you can and tell them "hi" in their comments (on the post that has the #FF image). You follow them, they follow you. Win. Win. Just make sure to follow back if someone follows you!
I'm one of the features this week! Whoo-hoo! :D
Create an ad listing all the qualities and qualifications of your perfect co-blogger. - Suggested by Girl of 1000 Wonders.
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Wanted: A co-blogger to help with a blog. Must be hard-working, adhere to deadlines, and resourceful. Must know how to properly site sources so neither of us gets arrested. Must have the ability to read several hundred pages a week, post regularly, cross-post to every social network in existence, and generally pick up the slack when I...can't. Please no fake writing tones, devil worshipers, zombies, witches or vampires. (Although liking to read about them is a plus!) If interested, please email resume to unreasonableblogger@gblogger.com. Serious applicants only, please.
Too demanding? :D
What would you put in a co-blogger ad?
Thoughts for Thursday: Belief
Just have fun, collect awesome sayings by awesome people, and try to be inspired!
This week's theme is Beliefs. Check out my other blog for more quotes.
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Wednesday, November 19, 2014
The Walking Dead Recap, Episode 5.6: Consumed
Episode 6: Consumed
This was an awesome episode! I loved it!
We start off with a flashback of Carol last season when Rick banished her. She drives around, cries, yells at zombies, finds a place to hole up, spends lots of quality time with herself, and eventually comes back to the prison in time to see the tail-end of its fall.
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Meanwhile, in present-day, she and Daryl are following the car identical to the one that abducted Beth. Daryl tells Carol about what happened with Beth. (I was thinking he'd have to. Because she wasn't in the train car at Terminus when he told the others, she doesn't even know that he and Beth were alone on the road together, or that she was taken or anything. I really loved that he was praising Beth here, saying how tough she was. My reaction: awww!)
Monday, November 17, 2014
Top Ten Tuesday: Sequels I Can't Wait For
Each week we will post a new Top Ten list that one of our bloggers here at The Broke and the Bookish will answer. Everyone is welcome to join. All we ask is that you link back to The Broke and the Bookish on your own Top Ten Tuesday post AND add your name to the Linky widget so that everyone can check out other bloggers lists! If you don't have a blog, just post your answers as a comment. Have fun with it! It's a fun way to get to know your fellow bloggers.
Top 10 Sequels I Can't Wait To Get (All covers courtesy of Goodreads.com unless otherwise linked)
I feel like we've done variations of this question several times, so lots of these I've done before, but oh well. Still want 'em. :D
10. Dreams of Gods and Monsters (Daughter of Smoke and Bone #3) by Laini Taylor -- I know this one is out but I haven't gotten a hold of it yet (maybe for Christmas). I've heard both good and bad things about it, but I can't wait to read it either way.
9. City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments #5) by Cassandra Clare -- This one's been out for a while too, but I haven't gotten around to it. I burned through the first four books in like 2 months, so I can't wait for the latest installment.
8. The Fall by Bethany Griffin -- Okay, this isn't really a sequel. It's more like the next retelling she's doing, but I really loved The Dance/Masque of the Red Death she did. This one is based on The Fall of the House of Usher, which is another favorite Poe story of mine. Can't wait to read it!
7. Winds of Winter by George R.R. Martin -- I'm not sure when this is coming out, but it says sometime in 2015. I'm going to try and re-read book 5 before it comes out, but I can't wait for the next installment of this awesome series.
6. Skybreaker (The Stormlight Archive #3) by Brandon Sanderson -- Loved books 1 and 2. Can't wait for book 3. Gotta love Sanderson!
5. Into the Still Blue (Under the Never Sky #3) by Veronica Rossi -- This is another series I may need to re-read, but I've totally loved it, so I need to finish the trilogy. I'm sure it will be fabulous. :D
4. Beast Charming by Jenniffer Wardell -- Like The Fall, this may not exactly be a sequel. But Jenniffer Wardell's debut, Fairy Godmother's Inc., was all kinds of charming. I totally loved it, so I'm totally psyched to read her second book!
3. Dr. Sleep (The Shining #2) by Stephen King -- Though I haven't read The Shining, I did see the film. I heard what the premise for this sequel was and I'm totally curious to see what he does with it. I need to read The Shining first, but then I'll definitely be reading Dr. Sleep.
2. Ruins by Dan Wells -- Cannot wait to read this one! It's probably my favorite dystopian series on the market, and so under-read and under-rated! Can't wait to get book 3!
1. Just for Fins (Fins #3) by Tera Lynn Childs -- I read the first two books and loved them. This is one of those things where I don't particularly care for teenage/YA/high school type stories, and that's exactly what this is, with the mermaid element thrown in. But I loved them! All kinds of charming and kept me laughing. Hysterically. Gotta read the final book. :D
What Top Ten Sequels can you not wait for?
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