November 17, 2008, 10:03 PM
I've been waiting for the bugs to get all worked out of
the new system we're using for blogging and then November came upon us.
For those of you who don't know, in November a writing challenge called
NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) takes place. All participants
have the entire month of November to write a 50,000 word novel. I know
it sounds daunting, and if you don't write every day then it is
definitely a big challenge. The goal of this challenge is to get people
to just write and w...
October 04, 2008, 04:53 AM
We've all heard the arguments and read the long articles on Leaky main. How Laura Mallory tried to get Harry Potter censored in Georgia. How people claim that HP is the work of the devil and is trying to turn children to the occult. I read those accusations, then I think back to when i first read HP. My own mother bought me the first three books in a set because she had heard from a friend of hers that the books were wonderful. Clearly my mother was not worried that I would begin to dres...
September 28, 2008, 08:34 PM
The one that I want to talk about is One Flew Over the cuckoos Nest. I can understand why some parents are concerned with their children reading these, but I am also of the belief that teenagers are more mature than parents give credit for. i read this in play format in my senior year of high school. It was one of the most interesting books we had read that year, and I remember my Lit. class having long discussions and Socratic Seminar's about the morality of what the Chief did.
For those...
September 27, 2008, 08:25 PM
Today kicks off the start of Banned Books Week. For more details on this topic, check out Doris's Blog.
I went through this list and picked out the books that I have read, and a surprising number of them are YAs. Here are the ones that I have read:
Harry Potter
Alice Series
Bridge to Terebithia
The Giver
To Kill A Mockingbird
His Dark Materials
Gossip Girl
Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging
Blood and Chocolate
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Speak
Fahrenheit 451
Are You there God...
September 26, 2008, 05:59 AM
Breaking Dawn spoilers!
(psst: part 1 was my guest blogger, Abbey, blogging about Snape and his sacrifices. check it out here!)
Where do we begin? Parents so often sacrifice so much and their children either don't know it, don't understand it, or don't appreciate it enough and take it for given. There is so much going on that we feel is so important and that our parents can't understand.
In Twilight I often felt that Bella, like most teenagers, did not fully appreciate her parents, and t...
September 18, 2008, 09:41 PM
Today I'm deviating from the usual topic.
I have a list of author blogs that I check regularly, and one of them is Jeaniene Frost, author of the bestselling Night Huntress series. Today she posted on her blog about Cystic Fibrosis, and how it affected her through someone very close to her. She also linked to fellow author Colleen Gleason's blog where she talks about a day in the life of her son, a child living with CF.
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I read both blogs and I am not afraid to admit that I was a litt...
September 10, 2008, 03:17 AM
How many times have I apologized now? I'm still having trouble getting into the system to blog, and for that I apologize yet again! I'm trying very hard to get in, and when I do get in sometimes the post that I type out doesn't save!
Anyways, this is something that I've always wanted to start and never got around to it. I love to take quizzes and personality tests and such, because sometimes they can say so much about a person. I found this personality quiz and took it with Edward in m...
August 31, 2008, 03:44 AM
Hello everyone, Abbey, Iheartprofessorsnape here, guest posting for Candace about Snape and his sacrifices throughout the series.
Professor Severus Snape was one of the most mysterious characters that this series has seen. I may be biased since he is my favorite character as well, but what he did for Harry to succeed is what this series is based on. As I'm sitting here writing this, I have so many thoughts and ideas going through my head, but the one thing that I keep coming back to is...
August 24, 2008, 06:48 PM
I'm so sorry that I didn't blog last week like I promised. Small mishap...I cannot locate my copy of Deathly Hallows and I really would like to check a couple of facts before I post. I've also been having some minor issues with my computer but never fear, I'll get something up this week!
August 17, 2008, 12:15 AM
What is up with that? I liked the idea of getting Half-Blood Prince before Twilight. It's a silly little thing but since I started reading HP before Twilight that's how I wanted to see the movies. Instead, Half-Blood Prince gets pushed back to almost a year from now, and Twilight takes it's place. I'm curious as to why Twilight has moved up into that slot. I haven't heard any reason why it's been moved up but we're getting Twilight on November 21 which is about 3 weeks earlier than antic...
August 04, 2008, 04:07 PM
For me, the last book of a series are always a hit or miss. The last book in a series is so significant. It completes the story and ties everything up in a neat bundle. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows took me a solid nine hours to read, from start to finish. I read through the night to finish it, and it was definitely worth it. Deathly Hallows was a hit.
Unfortunately, Breaking Dawn was a miss. If you go one post down, the one from yesterday right after I finished the book, I sa...
August 02, 2008, 04:46 PM
It's always strange to me when a series is finished. Complete. There's something just so final about the words "The End" that I don't know what to do when I read them. I definitely feel a sense of closure but also a tugging sense of loss. Is there a hole? No, but I don't know where to go from hear. I don't want to reread it so soon. After each Harry Potter book I needed some time to let it all soak in, and with Deathly Hallows I read the book straight through the night and then fell asl...
July 31, 2008, 06:51 PM
Can you remember last year how we were all excited and hyped up for the Deathly Hallows release? Amidst all of that excitement, there was also a small pang of longing and a bittersweet feeling because that was the last time we would stand in line for a midnight release for a Harry Potter release. Now, the time is upon us again except it's Twilight, not HP, that is giving us a memorable book release. Tomorrow night my best friend and I will be standing in line with many other people for Bre...
July 26, 2008, 07:28 PM
I was going to post this yesterday but my internet chose a particularly untimely moment to go haywire and we just got it reset.
As you might, or might not, know, Wednesday was the kick start to Comic Con, a gigantic convention that features comic books and video games as well as movies. Twilight was featured on Wednesday with a panel of actors as well as the director, Catherine Hardwicke, and the author Stephenie Meyer.
( If you want a detailed report of the convention, go check out Meliss...
July 11, 2008, 06:25 AM
It's hard to imagine a time when Harry Potter didn't exist. The books have sat in a neat row on the third shelf of my bookcase for as long as I can remember. I have files of transcriptions saved on both my PC and my laptop, and a couple of Harry Potter related clothing items I adore.
Almost two years ago I discovered something else that captured my attention. You see, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was not due for awhile and I was frequenting the bookstore and the library for someth...
