Considering I’ve been watching this show since 2007, and I started reading the book series in 2002, I cannot believe the last season is premiering tomorrow night! Based on the best selling YA series by Cecily von Ziegesar, Gossip Girl is a drama-filled soap about the Upper East Side—who’s rich and who’s richer. Although the… Continue reading TV Time: Gossip Girl
Category: Miscellaneous
Movie Mention: Interview with the Vampire
Now that I’ve given you all a great YA Halloween read, I thought I’d suggest a good Halloween movie. (But I wouldn’t clarify it as YA, because it is more on the violent side). Everyone nowadays seems to be in the vampire craze (or at least was in it at some moment). I have… Continue reading Movie Mention: Interview with the Vampire
Relax & Read: The Forest of Hands and Teeth
If you’re anything like me, the month of October is filled with pumpkin spiced lattes, witchy movies, cuddling with your black cat (okay, maybe not this one), and reading spooky novels that haunt your dreams. However, sometimes I’m not in the mood to read or watch something truly terrifying, but I do love reading novels… Continue reading Relax & Read: The Forest of Hands and Teeth
Movie Mention: Looper
Afternoon, readers! I saw Looper last night, so I thought I'd give my opinion on this science-fiction thriller. In the future, it's nearly impossible to get rid of bodies, so the mob uses loopers--trained assassins that kill and dispose of whomever the mob sends backwards in time. Shockingly Joe, being one of these men, gets his loop closed… Continue reading Movie Mention: Looper
Website Wonders: Wattpad.com
I've officially had this website for one week now, and it's been an adventure! So far I've had over 1,000 hits and followers and lots of wonderful emails, asking questions and/or fellow writers wanting to know me. (If you've read my About Me page then you know I LOVE talking to new people!). But I thought… Continue reading Website Wonders: Wattpad.com
Relax & Read: The Mortal Instruments
Reading can get expensive sometimes! Especially when you LOVE writing inside the books like I do, because you have to own every one of them. But, hey, at least you get to keep them forever! (I think I may need a bigger bookshelf.) Anyway…I thought I’d excite everyone by reminding them that the paperback version… Continue reading Relax & Read: The Mortal Instruments
Relax & Read: Embrace
Happy October, readers! As promised on my very first post (which, by the way, I’ve had a WONDERFUL time with all of you since then) here’s my review of Jessica Shirvington’s YA novel, Embrace: What better way to celebrate the month of October but with the sinister romance of an angel? Violet Eden, a seventeen-year-old… Continue reading Relax & Read: Embrace
Relax & Read: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Sunday is the perfect day to spend all afternoon in bed, curled up with that novel you’ve been meaning to read. And if you don’t already have one (or a billion!) on your reading list, I’m here to help! I first read Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, in 2005 when I… Continue reading Relax & Read: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
TV Time: Once Upon a Time
Fairy tale rewrites are HUGE nowadays. It’s almost the “in” thing with writers in all kinds of work (authors, television, movies, etc.). Think about it: Movies like Tangled, Shrek, and Snow White and the Huntsman are all fairy tale retellings. Novels like Throne of Glass and A Curse Dark as Gold (I had the joy of sitting… Continue reading TV Time: Once Upon a Time
Relax & Read: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
I’m really excited to be recommending this truly touching novel as my first book recommendation. I’m a HUGE advocate of reading a novel BEFORE the movie adaptation, so I’m here to discuss the epistolary novel (which is a fancy way of saying it’s written in letter-format) and not the movie that’s released in one week… Continue reading Relax & Read: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
