So you may or may not know I moved into college recently

And you may or may not know that a few months ago I bought a beta fish to bring with me. I named him Watson (I bought him after I watcher Sherlock) and he's awesome. Well last week I went and bought new fish food for Watson cause I figured I should leave the little pack I had before at home for when I come home for weekends and whatnot. I moved into school, started feeding Watson this new food and he stopped eating. At first I thought it was just the new location and I figured it would be ok. Then the next day the food was still there and I realized he wasn't eating it. I went and looked for the brand that I had at home, couldn't find it and there was no pet store around. I started getting worried that he was going to die (I should mention I get very attached to my pets.) He was lethargic and hardly moving. I was completely panicked I called my mom and asked when I should do. So my very awesome and kind grandmother, who lives 15 minutes away from my school, offered to go out and search for the allusive fish food. She found it brought it to me and all was well. I had to re-wash his tank, cause the old food was all in the bottom. I put him back in his tank and he is swimming around the edges, bumping into the corner every time, with new found enthusiasm. I'm really happy he didn't die, it was so stressed about it I had a dream he died. Moral of the story, Watson likes freeze dried blood worms.

This has been a story of my fish

University

So I moved into university yesterday and this blog may be a bit preemptive, but I need to vent so it's happening here. You can ignore this if you want. Things are going pretty well if you look on the surface. My roommate and I get along well. I've talked to a few people and I'm figuring out how to navigate my way around campus. But for some reason, I feel like I'm not doing it right. The whole college experience is about meeting new people, but I hate meeting new people and I'm terrible at it. My schools a big party school so right now I'm sure there are parties going on all over campus but I'm writing a blog. My roommate is nice, but she seems a bit unwilling to go out with me, not even to parties (cause I clearly don't want to party) and just to find people to hang out with. I hung out with one of my high school friends today (and friend may be a bit of a strong word) and I've been talking to my good friends from home all day through text. I just feel like I shouldn't be doing that. It could be worse my roommate has a boyfriend who's still in high school, who seems completely overbearing. Maybe once I'm forced to talk to people, in class and the like, I'll meet people. I'm just worried this is going to be like high school all over again. And I really think I can't deal with that.

Pottermore

I mentioned in my last blog that I stayed up all night in order to sign up for beta testing for Pottermore. I've received my conformation e-mail that I am one of the million who get early access so I'm going to do this fun little Pottermore survey.

1. What's your Pottermore username? GalleonRose56
   
2. What House do you think it sounds like? I'm not sure, I'm getting a bit of Slytherin because of the Galleon bit, but the rose part I'm thinking Hufflepuff because of Herbology
   
3. What House do you want to be in? I want to be in Ravenclaw. I've always kind of thought I had the most in common with the Ravenclaws even thought I wasn't 100 percent fantastic at school I think that there are other characterists that I posses that relate me to them, for example cleverness, logic, creativeness, inquisitiveness. So yeah, Ravenclaw. But the sorting I'm actually worried about ha
   
4. Does your username relate to you at all? Actually yes. My user names for everything when I was a kid was GlassRose because roses have always been my favorite flowers (they're also the flowers for my birth month; June). The Galleon part not as much because I hate money and the number has nothing to do with it.
   
5. What kind of wand would you wish to get? I'm not really sure. If it were to go by the Celtic tree birth calendar it would be Oak but I've never really thought about the core. Maybe Unicorn hair would be cool. I'm not really worried about it, I'll be happy no matter what.
   
6. Are you pure, half-blooded or Muggle born? Eh I wouldn't really care. I feel like I'd be a half-blood though
   
7. Which day did you get into Pottermore? Day 2, I didn't really care that much the first day, I figured I could wait till October but after day one and everyone was freaking out on Tumblr I decided to stay up
   
8. What shape is your Patronus? Ehh I don't know, maybe an owl
   
9. What does your boggart look like? Probably the personification on death
   
10. Would you rather be an Animagus or a Matamorphmagus? Animagus, definitely.
    
11. If you were an Animagus, what animal would you be? Either an owl or a wolf

The Importance of Harry Potter

I know this is incredibly overdue, however I'm going to write it any way. Like many people of my generation at a young age I became entranced in a world of magic. A world where love and friendship prevailed and you could taste the magic in the air.

My Hogwarts journey started way back in 2001. The commercials for Sorcerer's Stone were playing every other minute on every channel. I wanted to see the movie but I can't remember begging and pleading with my parents to take me to the theater like I did with the other films. I was in third grade at the time and, believe it or not, had no interest in reading. My third grade teacher, who was one of my favorites from childhood, told us one day we would begin reading a story together. She pulled out her copy of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and started reading. From that moment on I was hooked. I went and saw the movie twice in theaters. I explained to my mom everything that was happening at Hogwarts. I played wizard's chess during indoor recess with my then best friend Nick. I laugh hysterically at his brilliant (brilliant for a 7 year old) impression of Snape in Harry's first potions class, "Mr. Potter. Our. New. Celebrity." But even with that obsession, I didn't go on to read the second book. I still didn't like reading.

I didn't continue on with the series until 4th grade. That is when the literature bug bit me. I began to read anything I could get my hands on and one day Chamber of Secrets fell into my hands. I remember reading it and not being as engaged in this story. Maybe it was because I wasn't experiencing it with my friends (Nick had moved away by then) but I didn't fall in love. Again, I stopped reading the books.

Until the next year. In 5th grade I had one of my favorite english teachers to date. He made reading fun, even school reading. He allowed us to pick our own books, didn't matter what they were, for our individual reading. Some how, I found Prisoner of Azkaban. And it all ends here. This is where I became obsessed. I remember finishing Goblet of Fire later that year, closing the book and wanting more. I went and devoured Order of the Phoenix, and was distraught; the next book wasn't out yet, and wouldn't be out for a while.

This is when I started looking up Harry Potter on the internet. I found Mugglenet (which I still visit today) and found forums (which I never posted on but stalked endlessly). It was always on my mind. I loved all the actors from the movies and wished I could have played Hermione, hey I have the hair.

For the Half-Blood Prince release I went to the midnight release party. It was brilliant. I wished I could do this for hours, running around the out door shopping center, pretending I was in Diagon Alley, getting sorted (they just handed you a pin, but you got to put on the shorting hat!) But the best part was being around all the fans.

From then on, my obsession knew no bounds. I've been to midnight releases of both books and movies. I listen to podcasts dedicated to the Boy who lived. I have t-shirts and ties. I've visited the Wizarding World of Harry Potter and cried because it was like I was living my childhood dream. I stayed up until 5 am talking with other Potter fans to gain early access into the elusive Pottermore (I regret nothing, you may call me GalleonRose56)

Harry Potter has changed me in so many ways. I've grown up with these characters; they've taught me lessons that no one in my real life has. People who say this fandom is over, you're dead wrong. I saw that last night. I was up talking to people from all over the world, supporting each other, people who have never met before, who have one thing in common.

"Of course it's happening inside your head harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"

It's real for us.

Summer

Pottermore!?!, X-Men: First Class, University Orientation, Battlestar Galactica, Longing for an Adventure, Lord of the Rings in theathers!!, My Birthday :), Chalk Adventures, Deathly Hallow part two trailer, Finished Sherlock, Getting my own pet, Summer Clothes, Tonks & Lupin, Green Lantern, Needing to Read, Following Fashion Blogs, DEATHLY HALLOWS PART TWO, Grad parts...so. many. grad. parties, Cream Soda, Buying stuff for my dorm room!, JK Rowling is a mad-women, Collab Channel, Making new friends.

Hello there...

Oh hey. What? I have a blog that I haven't posted on for 3 weeks? Right, so since my last post I have started my senior project. I'm really enjoying it and am learning a lot. I definitely think that while I like the lab work I am doing, it's not what I would want to do for my whole life. Also, the professor I am shadowing is a biological anthropologist and I want to go into cultural anthropology so our main interests are kind of different and she keeps trying to persuade me to go into biological anthro, which I just don't think is going to happen.

So, you may have noticed during my BEDA blogs I really like lists and on Tumblr I've become addicted to list picture blogs. I just thing they're so fun. I think I follow 3 which all have different themes to them. One is the little things in life, one is your fiction bucket list (what you would want to do with your favorite fictional characters), and a normal life bucket list. They're so simple and really brighten up my day when I read them.

That's about it for now. I'll think of something deep and insightful for my next post but I figured I should just post something since it's been so long.

Later Days!

BEDA Blog #30 - The End

The end is near...in about 55 minutes exactly. This has been a lot of fun. I definitely will keep blogging and I think frequenting this blog even more. I think it was an awesome idea to do this project because in the past month so much has changed just like how so much is going to change in August, when I totally plan on doing this again. Tomorrow I am essentially moving out of my house for the next month, which is probably the most surreal thing that is going to happen soon. I'm officially registered for college and have a roommate. I'm super excited for my senior project, even though I will miss my friends, I'll still get to see them on the weekend and at prom next week. Overall I would say that BEDA 2011 has been a success. It's been a fun time. Later days!

BEDA Blog #29 - E

I am officially a college student! Ah that's completely crazy!

Elephants, Eyes, England, Emma Watson, Elves, Eclipses, Ecology, Eggs, Expedia, Eiffel Tower, English, Elijah Wood, Email, Etymology, Eagles, Earth, Echos, Emeralds, Education, Egypt, Elections, Electricity.

BEDA Blog #28 - A bitter sweet ending

All things in life come to an end. Tomorrow is my final day of high school. I've mentioned this in a lot of blogs this month, but now that it is here, I am completely torn. I've been waiting for this for 4 years. And now as I'm going through it, I'm noticing I'm paying for attention to small aspects of life that have been mundane for those 4 years. Today, was my final school bus ride ever. For some reason, I got weirdly reflective while on my 20 minute ride home. Tomorrow, I know that I will miss certain classes and feel very little towards others. I know that I will miss certain people and just feel the same thing towards others. I know I'll think of good times and the bad, but I guess that's high school. I'm excited for tomorrow. I'm excited for the next month. I'm not as excited for the actual graduation ceremony, other because it's gonna be 500 hours. I'm excited for this summer. But mostly, I'm excited for the future and in 24 hours, I'll have finally made that jump.

BEDA Blog #27 - University!

I am so excited for uni in the fall! I just found my roommate and it's so cool, she really awesome and we're a lot alike so I'm really looking forward to meeting her and getting to hang out with her. I'm excited that we have school much in common and I hope that we become really good friends. I'm excited that I only have two days of school left (I'm still really freaked out though).

Now I can start thinking about fun things like buy new stuff to bring with me to college. My roommate and I have started coordinating or bedding and stuff; since we both like black and white patterns, we're doing that as a base and using both of our favorite colors as accents. I can't wait to schedule classes, I really hope to take an intro to Italian class. I want to be able to study abroad and meet never more new people and travel to even more awesome places on the weekends.

I'm just excited overall, even though I had a crappy day. The small things, like going to get ice cream with a friend and finding a new friend, picked up my mood a lot.

BEDA Blog #26 - Photography

I really wish I was into photography. I've been thinking a lot about this lately, mostly because of Tumblr, and it has inspired me. Because I have no other artistic abilities, I feel like photography would be a good use of time for me. Having been enrolled in a photography class when I was a freshman only to drop out at the last minute is coming back to haunt me. The only problem with photography is that in order to take good quality photos, you need a nice camera. And nice camera cost lots of money. And if you know me, you know I hate spending money. I'm kind of hoping that I can get a high quality camera over the summer then take a class in school so I can learn to use it. For now, I guess I'll just have to admire the photos I see on Tumblr.

BEDA Blog #25 - D

So, so, so tired. Spent 12 hours in my living room, being epic. And it was defiantly epic. I think I deserve my "I'm a super nerd" badge now.

Disney, Doughnuts, Dogs, Dance Parties, Down Time, Disney World, Dancing, Disco Balls, Dark Colors, Draco Malfoy, Day, Disco music, Dinosaurs, Dresses.

BEDA Blog #24 - Easter/LotR Marathon

I'm sorry, but I dislike holidays. My family doesn't do well under pressure and everyone just freaks out for at least 2 days before the event that is coming up. Also, while some people can relax and really enjoy times with their family that's not how mine is. It's almost like my extended family is just a group of co-workers. I only see them around holidays and don't really know anything about them. I guess that is just my family, but when I hear about people who go and visit their cousins randomly and talk to them often it just confuses me. Which is kind of sad, but that's how its been my whole life.

On a happier note, tomorrow I'm having a day long Lord of the Rings extended edition movie marathon with my friend. I'm pretty pumped because I've never seen the extended editions and I've only seen Return of the King once and I was working on a paper so I was hardly watching. My friend Sarah, who I'm watching them with, is a HUGE LotRs fan. She is a LotR fan like I'm a Harry Potter fan. Needless to say, it's gonna be freaking awesome watching them with her. We're taking over my living room for the whole 11 hours and we're gonna eat food and be nerdy. I really like days where I can just hang out and people who judge me for being a freak. Later Days!

PS: Totally didn't steal that from the Weekenders.

BEDA Blog #23 - Movies 2011

Here is a list of movies I want to see this year. Ideally, I'd like to see them all in theaters, ticket prices are pretty insane so, we'll have to see.

1. Water For Elephants - Such a beautiful book
2. Thor
3. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
4. X-Men: First Class
5. The Green Lantern
6. Cars 2 - Even tho it looks kind of lame, I love Pixar
7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part II - Hmmm do you think I want to see this? I don't know, I'm pretty on the fence about it
8. Captain America: The First Avenger
9. The Three Musketeers
10. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
11. The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn

BEDA Blog #22 - Most influential books I've read

I'm a big reader. I honestly never realize how many books I owned until I had to carry all of the down to my new room. There are a few books that have really stuck with me and influenced a lot of my personality.

1. Harry Potter - This is pretty obvious. I've been a fan since 2001 when my third grade teacher read us SS. That was also when the movies came out so I've been there pretty much since the beginning. These books inspired me to read, because previously I hated reasons. The opened up my world to reading and the brilliance of writing and creating new worlds. They also gave me friends in those characters. I love Harry Potter and that entire world that J. K. Rowling created.
2. Pride and Prejudice - I love this book. It was the first classic I read on my own and it is so beautiful. Elizabeth Bennett is so strong and went against what her society expected of her, which I really admire.
3. The Hunger Games - If you haven't read this trilogy I highly suggest it. It is beautifully written and so awe inspiring. I can't peg a reason these books have stuck with me but they are just brilliant.
4. 13 Little Blue Envelopes - Every time I read this book it inspires me to travel without a plan (which is something differently against my nature) it's funny and smart and I can not wait for the sequel (comes out in 4 days!).
5. Will Grayson, Will Grayson - This book can inspire all different types of people. It has a character that everybody can relate to. For me Jane and Will Grayson (the John Green one) were such honest characters and while they were flawed they were perfect because of that. Their relationship is very similar to the way I think so I could feel for and with them at the end of the book. Another must read!

BEDA Blog #21 - Changes

I changed rooms. I'm changing schools. This are changing. It's weird. Today while I was at school my parents moved all of my stuff into the basement room previously occupied by my brother. I had known that I was gonna move down into the basement but I didn't know it was going to be so soon. I mean, I would have appreciated my last night in my room if I had known they were going to move me. It's the same place I've been living for the past 5 years and all of sudden it's filled with is a bed, TV, Xbox, and boy scent. I'm not sure I'm OK with that. I'm not going to complain because my brother wanted to move and I'm going to be moving in two weeks to my grandmas house for the month and then again in August when I move into Uni. It's just weird, I had always pictured coming home from college and staying in that room. Now this big, slightly empty, with a navy blue wall behind me (not something I'm liking) is rather imposing.

I'm not afraid of change but I like to be prepared when things are going to change. I'm prepared to leave school and go work on my senior project. I'm prepared to move into Uni in the Fall. I wasn't prepared for this and I'm confused.

BEDA Blog #20 - C

Creativity, Castles, Cassandra Clare, Cheez-its, Christmas, Cardigans, Carrot Cake, Classical Studies, Candles, Ceres, Cheesecake, Cars, Cafes, Canada, Cupcakes, Cruises, Cobb...Jayne Cobb, Classics, Cake, Cerulean, Chocolate, Cashews.

BEDA Blog #19 - A Leather Bound Classic

I was losing her. Day after day I could see it in her eyes. She was scared. She longed for adventures and she had become too stable. I couldn’t keep her here, it would just be a cage. I would be her cage. I would rather lose her than have her resent me.

And I knew, how could I be so stupid? I knew what to except. It was why I loved her. So uncomplicated. But then it happened and I couldn't control it. I fell harder and further until it was like I couldn’t breathe when she wasn’t around. And the funny part is, I tried to hide it. I didn’t want her to leave so I concealed my feelings. She isn’t stupid, of course she would find out. You know what is even more funny, she had done it herself too. Fallen for me.

Now, don’t misunderstand me, she isn’t a hypocrite. Neither of us could help it. Last time I check, we were both humans and capable of emotions. Morrie Schwartz said “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” We both failed at that. I would have rather swam with sharks than admit it. But I’m being hyperbolic. Of course I wouldn’t swim with sharks. I would man up and tell her. And that’s what I did.

And two months later she was scared. We had become too comfortable. Everyday I would come home expecting to see all of her stuff gone and a hand written letter on the counter. Because that is what she did, hand wrote things. I never knew why. Maybe she liked to pretend she was Lizzie Bennett writing to Darcy. I should have asked her. Yet everyday I came home and her things were still there. So I thought, she’s gonna stay. I bought us plane tickets to Alaska. We could see the Northern lights I said. Like you’ve always wanted. She put on a smile and kissed my forehead. That sounds great, she whispered. She could have her adventure and be here too.

Her masquerade was flawless.

It finally happened. We were to leave for Alaska in three days. I walked through the door and stopped in my tracks. A single envelope was on the counter. The heavy cream parchment paper. My name scribbled on the front. For some one who hand wrote things, she did not have great penmanship. In a daze, I picked up the envelope. Going through each room and mentally categorized everything that had been hers. A leather bound copy of Pride and Prejudice she had bought at a flee market. Her tea cup from London. The vanilla and peppermint candles in the living room. Her hairspray in the bathroom. All the little things I had never thought of were like frozen bullet to my chest.

Finally, I came to the bedroom. She was sitting on the bed, her suit case full but opened. In her hand she played with the silver chair she always wore with the small silver locket I’d given her. Saddness was knotted in the back of my throat. Even knowing it was coming didn’t prepare me for the actually moment. It also didn’t help that I thought she would just leave not stay to chat.

Pushing her hair behind her ear, she looked up at me. Small tears, like freshly polished diamonds were on her cheeks. And with that I realized; she didn’t want to leave but she had to. Only because fear of hurting later. I walked over to the bed and zipped her suitcase. I took her hand and stood her up, wrapping my arms around her. I took her face in my hands and kissed her forehead. She handed me the silver chain with the silver locket, picked up her suit case and walked out of the room.

I always kept the letter and locket in a draw in my house, but I never read it. My wife once or twice asked me about it but I couldn’t bring myself to throw it away. I had accepted it. A few months after she left I saw her when I was away on business. Same intense look on her face when she read her beat up leather bound copy of Pride and Prejudice. Steam coming off her cup of tea. Feet tapping to a phantom beat. I did not say anything to her. This is what she had always wanted; the freedom to do as she pleased.

BEDA Blog #18 - Movies

I am unoriginal. Since yesterday I talked about TV, today I will talk about movies. Now, I'm not as much of a movie buff as some people, I like movies that are generally not Oscar award winning movies but they're fun and not total crap so I like them. My ultimate favorite movie is Jurassic Park. Because my family is weird, we used to watch this a lot when I was a kid and to this day I never get tired of it. Dr. Alan Grant is probably one of my favorite fictional characters. I really should buy that on DVD. And read the book. Another movie I love is Jumanji. I learned how to work our VHS player when I was like two, so I could watch this movie on repeat. I hate to admit but one movie I've seen a million times is Bring it On. I don't even like cheerleading but that movie is so funny and Eliza Dushku is pretty awesome. I also really love super hero type movies. Spider Man and X-Men are my favorites, and I'm so pumped because a bunch of new hero movies come out this year and my brother and I are going to go see as many as possible in theater. Because I am a nerd and Firefly fan, Serenity is a must on this list. I also love The Outsiders, it is my favorite 80s movie and one of my very favorite books since I was 12. I has such a crush on Johnny Cade. I love nearly everything created my Pixar and Disney, I'm a bit of a kid at heart, I'm not above seeing animated movies in theaters. Of course I love the Lord of the Rings, I can't believe it took me nearly 10 years to see those movies. I can't believe they are 10 years old! Probably the most obvious of my favorite movies are the Harry Potter movies. No matter how irritated I get at the huge plots that they leave out of the movies, I realize they are a different entity than the books and I need to separate them. I can not believe that the last movies comes out in less than 100 days. I think I'll talk about that another time.

BEDA Blog #17 - TV

A lot of people really hate TV. They think it's a waste of time and it rots children's brain. But like most things, I don't really see a problem with it as long as it's in moderation. And because of this, I really like TV. It's another form of creative expression, just like movies, writing, art, or dancing, the people who create TV shows are doing what they enjoy and are good at, so I can appreciate that. There are three parts of this blog: what I watched as a kid, what I currently watch, and what I wish was still on TV.

Part 1 - What I watched as a kid

I was a 90s kid, who I watched pretty much all the typical shows. As a really young kid, I liked Barney. As I got older I moved onto Nick shows; Hey Arnold, Doug, The Wild Thornberrys, Rugrats (I still watch this on Netflix when I'm bored), Are you Afraid of the Dark (which scared the crap out of me!), The Weekenders, Pokemon, and Power Rangers ( the original).

Part 2 - What I currently watch

I don't actually watch a lot of TV on the actually TV. I mostly watch stuff on my computer through Netflix/DVDs. Shows that are currently on TV that I watch are: Glee, Pretty Little Liars, Modern Family, NCIS ( but I don't watched the new eps, just reruns), Cougar Town, and Off the Map. But things that I also watch that don't air new shows are: Gilmore Girls, Avatar: the Last Airbender, Lost, Battlestar Galactica, and Firefly.

Part 3 - Shows I wish were still on TV

Most of the shows I already mentioned I wish still aired shows but specifically Lost, Battlestar Galactica and Firefly. Firefly was such a good show and the fact that it has such a hugh fandom over 14 eps. and 1 movie just show what an amazing show it was.

If I had to pick a top 3 favorite shows in no particular order they would be Lost, Firefly, and Battlestar Galactica. Which is weird cause I never pegged myself as a Sci-fi person, but those are all Sci-fi shows. I mean I've never even seen Star Wars, I should get on that.

BEDA Blog #16 - B

Frak Battlestar Galactica! Ahh It's so good! Speaking of B's today is B day, which means, all the things I like that start with the letter B.

Books, Battlestar Galactica, Blogging, Bread, Bohemia, Boots, Bakery, Bookshelves, Bacchus, Bracelets, Black, Boats, Bagels, Brown, Beds, Barefoot, Backpacking, Baking, Bay Windows, Beads, Beanie Babies, Blue, Broccoli, Beverages.

BEDA Blog #15 - Summer Plans

So my high school days are coming to an end, only 8 more days. That is both scary as hell and horribly exciting. I'm really kind of upset that I don't have anything awesome planned for the summer. Last summer all I could think about for months was going to Europe and then getting home and going to Florida a few weeks later. I wish I was going somewhere fun, we don't have any vacations planned because of all my random college orientation things and baseball for my brothers and it's difficult to work around that. I'm going to try to go to New York with my mom this summer because I really want to visit the Harry Potter exhibit and I don't know how much longer it is going to be in the US. I was so ticked that that exhibit wasn't going anywhere close by and while New York it still kind of far, it gives me an excuse to go to NY when it is not freezing and I think It'll have more of an affect on me when I'm not freezing. Or wearing a fanny pack.

BEDA Blog #14 - Lord of the Rings

Mehhhh migraines suck. Anyway, I'm gonna talk about a recent obsession of mine. That is Lord of the Rings. I've been a Harry Potter fan since 2001. Since then I've loved almost every fantasy book I've ever picked up. But there was a glaring hole in my fantasy book repertoire. Lord of the Rings. I had never seen the movies (which came out the same time I became obsessed with HP) or picked up the books. I think the reason I had never been exposed to LotR was because my parents thought I would be too afraid of the movies and I knew the books were kind of hard to read. This past Christmas I asked for the box set and got it. Now I was a little weary to start the books and once I did start FotR I knew why, they're difficult to read. A friend told me to watch the movie first so I could understand the books better and once I did that I became engrossed. Tolkien created an entire new world. Often fantasy stories and integrated with the real world but there is nothing mundane about Middle Earth. I love this series so much and I'm only half way through TT. I love the characters who are so real and the different races that are in these books. And as I read and watched the movies I was so sad that I wasn't apart of the movie franchise more. I've been with HP since the beginning and I didn't have the opportunity with LotR to go to midnight showings with other huge fans. But, when I found out they were making The Hobbit was so excited. I get to be apart of that! I get to go to the theater and watch that movie on the big screen with other huge fans of the series and I'm just so happy. I watched the new video that came out today about Peter Jackson on the set and I'm so happy I get to be there from the beginning.

BEDA Blog #13 - Careers

I realized today that I was a weird kid. Well, I already knew this but when I put it in perspective I was really weird. I never had those generic kid "what I want to do when I grow up" dreams. By this I mean vet, firefighter, teacher, police officer. Clearly, all of these jobs are important but I feel like kids pick them because they are what they are exposed to most often. But I never had one of those "normal" aspirations. And even more odd, I almost always had jobs that were in some way related to science. If you know me, you know I'm very right brained, english and history are my forte, I've always been OK at science. Not every job was about science but nearly.

When I was in 3rd grade I decided I wanted to be a paleontologist. What 8 year old I whated to go into paleontology? That probably explains why my favorite movie is Jurassic Park. But I was dead set on paleontology. I got just about every book from our school library out and read them cover to cover. I've since forgotten a majority of the information. That lasted for about two years.

When I was in 5th grade, I decided meteorology was my thing. I know the reason for this new career choice was because I liked watching the weather channel. Which is just weird in general. But I wanted to go into meteorology. That stopped in the beginning of 7th grade when I took "weather" in my science class and decided there was a lot more to it that I actually didn't enjoy.

After that for about two years I wanted to be a writer. I mean I read a lot right? How hard could it be to do that? Well that was just dumb, and I soon realized that I wasn't that great of a writer and the technicalities of writing bored me to tears. Also, I think if I was forced to read books, I would stop enjoying reading them in general. And I realized that wasn't a lucrative career and I'm not even big into money issues.

So in about 9th grade I did some research and found anthropology. Technically it is a science, a social science. I think this just works for me. It has all the best parts of history and culture and travel mixed into something I can spend my whole life doing. I'm so excited to start actually taking classes in this subject because I've taken a similar class (sociology) and I really enjoyed it.

BEDA Blog #12 - Life

Ah why does blogger say my post yesterday was posted today!? It wasn't! What the heck Blogger trying to mess up my BEDA. Lame. Anyway, today was a good day, well at least it was after I got home from school. I'm just no long a fan of school, it has gotten monotonous and boring and I feel like I'm just too stir crazy for it any more. So happy yet sad that I only have 12 more days. It's one of those bitter sweet moments because although I crave change and adventure, there is always something scary about starting something new and unfamiliar. Mostly I just think about some of my closest friends who are probably the only things that I will completely miss about high school. Having spent the evening with my best friend and another close friend, I realize that that is what I'll miss about my life as it has been. And tomorrow I'll probably feel completely different because that is just in my nature, but for now I know for years to come I'll think about the good times, regardless of the stress they cause me now, and be happy that those memories are what I have to show for my teenage years. I wish I could remember that all the time.

BEDA Blog #11 - Lazy

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

- Robert Frost

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

-Robert Frost

BEDA Blog #10 - A

Things I like that start with the letter A, I won't do this everyday but I'll make it through the alphabet.

Anthropology, Adventures, Air, Apples, Athens, Aragon son of Arathorn, Almonds, Archaeology, Artemis, Airports, Astronomy, Airports, Athena, Apple cider, A and W Cream soda, Airplanes, Alex Day, Art, Accents, Alexandre Desplat, Angelica Pickels.

BEDA Blog #9 - Disney

I love Disney. I've grown up with all of the movies and they will forever be my favorites. As I've grown up and become more analytical about things (thanks honors English) I've noticed an interesting growth from the early princesses and the newest ones. If you watch the original three princess (Snow White, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty) you will notice that the main reason that their prince falls in love with them is because they are beautiful. These three and lovely, feminine and passive. They enjoy cleaning and singing and need to be taking care of. The idea of the perfect women, right? Wrong, these three show young girls that having ideas and opinions isn't necessary as long as you are pretty. Snow white never even speaks to her prince, he just loves her by seeing her apparently dead. Everyone regardless of gender should be valued for their ideas not just their looks. After these three the princesses became a little more bold. Belle, Ariel, and Jasmine are all opinionated and adventurous. Belle reads and Ariel collects little trinkets. They have hobbies because cleaning. However, when the princes come along, they back track slightly. The other reason Eric falls for Ariel is because she is lovely. They never even have a conversation so her can know how interesting she actually is. Jasmine is rebellious but she doesn't need too much. Aladdin still needs to rescue her, she is still a damsel in distress with an incredibly skimpy outfit, which is something we defiantly do not want little girls to emulate and glorify. In the end, they all still need a man to free them. This is where Disney shaped up. The next generations of Princesses are strong willed and feisty. Pocahontas, Mulan, Tatiana, and Rapunzel. While also being gutsy and independent, these characters also are proud of their heritage and family. They don't lose themselves because of a man. Pocahontas did not even leave with John Smith, a shocker for Disney with no real "and they lived happily ever after" Shang had to go after Mulan she didn't fall at his feet. Tatiana worked all her life to reach her dreams and Rapunzel fought off a bunch of thugs by herself. With a frying pan, beat that female stereotypes. These princesses can fend for themselves if necessary while also appreciating the men in their lives. This is what young girls should see, they can function alone but don't have to be alone. They should love and be strong, find that happy medium for them. I'm not saying the early princesses were bad, but they shouldn't be idolized as the perfect women. They should be seen as one type of women who has the ability to sing and clean and frolic with woodland creatures. They should be valued just as much as women to crave adventure.

BEDA Blog #8 - Fantasy worlds I wished I lived in

There are a lot of places I wish I could live. My post yesterday was about places I wish I could visit and if given the choice I would live there for even just a few months. But there are some places that I can never visit that I wished I could live in. Yes, I mean fictional universes that I want to live in. This may sound weird but when stories affect you as much as they affect me you think about this kind of stuff.

The first world is probably the most obvious, Harry Potter's world. Hogwarts is that place where even misfits can be heroes which I think is something everybody thinks about. If I went to Hogwarts I think I'd be a Ravenclaw. However, I do have some Hufflepuff qualities about me. People make fun of the Hufflepuffs but they are loyal and just friends, that is just as Nobel as bravery. Maybe I'd be a Ravenpuff.

Secondly, I'd live in Middle Earth. If I lived there, I think I would be a shieldmadien of Rohan. They are so bad ass, just look at Eowyn, she is no man (ha), just because she is a women she doesn't let people push her around. The women of this country learned long ago, those without swords can still die upon them, look at me dropping quotes. The people of Rohan are so strong and determined, I love them as a whole. Just saying though, being an Elf would be pretty cool too, but they are so serious, and living forever would be kind of boring.

Next, I think I'd live in the world of Battlestar Galactica. I'm not sure which colony I would be from, maybe Caprica. But that is lame because it is like the main colony in the show. I think if I was in the fleet (hopefully I would be or else I'd be dead or a Cylon) I would work for Laura Rosalind. I don't think I could be in the army, even though I love Adama.

Those are just some that I think I would like to live in. Some honorable mentions go to Pokemon world, The Mortal Instruments world, and Camp Half-blood. Maybe this topic is kind of weird, but I honestly wonder about it sometimes. Woo I'm a nerd!

Best Wishes!

BEDA Blog #7 - Places I want to visit

Travel is one of the most important parts of my life. I would do anything to just have a year and an unlimited supply of money to travel around the world. If only. But I can still fantasize about places I want to go.

• Europe - England (again), France (Paris, Nice, Marseille, Versailles, Lyon), Italy (the entire country), Spain (Madrid, Barcelona), Greece ( whole country), Germany (Berlin, Munich, Hamburg), Ireland (Dublin), Scotland, Turkey (Istanbul), and all the places I've already been again


• Africa - Egypt (Cario, Giza), Morocco (Fez, Casablanca, Marrakech), South Africa


• South America - Peru (Lima, Machu Picchu), Brazil (Brasilia), Argentina (Buenos Aires)


• Asia - China (All major cities), Japan (Tokyo), South Korea (Seoul)


• Australia (All major cities, plus some Aboriginal areas)


• New Zealand (come on LotR was filmed there, that is happening)

So clearly, that is a long list and honestly, that's just off the top of my head. There are probably more places that I want to see. But if I had to pick the most important to me they would for sure be United Kingdom (yes that is cheating cause I could visit more than one country), Italy, Greece, Australia, and New Zealand. I really need a job so I can afford this. Ha just kidding.

BEDA Blog #6 - Things I wish I was good at

There are a lot of things in life that you can choose to spend your time doing and excelling in. However, with limited amounts of time in a day there are things that you just can't fit in. For me there is a myriad of different activities I wish I could do

1. Piano - being a singer I wish that I could also just look at a piece of music and play it. It was be helpful if I could even look at a piece of music and know where the note was on the piano, I know where it is on the flute, but that is just not helpful.
2. Archery - This is probably stemmed from all the books I read where people arch. I just think it would be a cool skill to have, if they offer it at Uni I am so taking it.
3. Dance - This is more of a thing that I wish I wouldn't have quit. I'm not a natural quitter unless something is really off about the subject and when I started dance, my teacher was insane so I didn't want to go back and never found a new school, I really regret that.
4. Drawing - I have no ability what so ever in the field of visual arts. I wish I did because I enjoy art and wish I could see something in my head and put it on paper.
5. Fencing - Again, this has probably caused from the books I read where people sword fight. I almost took a fencing class once and I don't know what I back out.

I realize that if I had spent my childhood doing all these things I probably would have missed out on a real childhood, but if I could have done maybe two of them, I would have been happy. Also, I really like blogging lists, it makes it look very neat and organized.

BEDA Blog #5 - In my life time...

In my life time I want...

1. A whole room dedicated to books that is just for me
2. Live in a foreign country
3. Get my PhD
4. Visit as many places as possible on my travel list
5. Live in another state
6. Go on a road trip with my friends
7. Have my name in a magazine or journal about research I have helped work on
8. Meet J K Rowling, so I can be one of the millions of people who have told her how much she changed my life
9. Do volunteer work in an under-developed country
10. Become fluent in a second language

BEDA Blog #4 - Poems

I have a migraine and no time to actually blog so I'm going to cheat and just post a poem from Lord of the Rings that I really love.

I sit beside the fire and think
of all that I have seen,
of meadow-flowers and butterflies
In summers that have been;

Of yellow leaves and gossamer
in autumns that there were,
with morning mist and silver sun
and wind upon my hair.

I sit beside the fire and think
of how the world will be
when winter comes without a spring
that I shall ever see.

For still there are so many things
that I have never seen:
in every wood in every spring
there is a different green.

I sit beside the fire and think
of people long ago,
and people who will see a world
that I shall never know.

But all the while I sit and think
of times there were before,
I listen for returning feet
and voices at the door.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

This is just beautiful.

BEDA Blog #3 - Quotes

I'm not going to lie, I'm a bit of a quote whore. I love quotes. I have tons in little places all over my room that I've printed out and hung or hand written when I didn't have time to print it. The reason I love quotes is because they are little pieces of someones work that have such intense meaning and when you find one that you can relate to, you feel this connection to the author and you realize that other people feel the same way you do. Some of my favorites range from Horace to John Green to Galileo. It doesn't matter who said it, just what they said.

Horace - "Pulvis et umbra sumus" -We are shadows and dust

John Green in Will Grayson, Will Grayson - "...all the words we use are stripped bare, so that no one ever knows what anyone else is saying, so that all kindness is cruelty, all selfishness generous, all care callous."

Mark Twain - "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

Galileo - "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."

J. R. R. Tolkien in Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - "'Not all those who wander are lost"

J. K. Rowling - "We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already; we have to power to imagine better."

BEDA Blog #2 - College

I've been dreaming about college since I started high school. Some might say I've had senioritis since I was a sophomore. High school hasn't been this terrible experience that I've block out of my memory, that was middle school. The problem with high school for me was that I always felt like I was more advanced than the people around me. When I say advanced I don't mean academically, I mean in my personality. I've always felt that I view things in a more rational way than most high schoolers because I tend to see the big picture of things rather than the immediate consequences. I've always hoped that when I got to college I'd find people who saw things more like me. Now that college is approaching I've been hoping this more and more. The issue is, I think I'm putting college on this pedestal and it will not live up to my expectations. If that is the case, I'm in for a terrible 7-10 years seeing as how I plan on getting my PhD. The other thing that worries me is the fact that I've known my major since I was 14. It has always seemed like a perfect fit for me but maybe things will change. Maybe I will end up being a weird hippie nomad with no money and a bachelors in something useless. Honestly, I don't see that happening but there is always that fear. I guess I just worry about things too much. I can't see the future, no matter how hard I try and I have to go with what life throws at me and deal with it as it comes. Que sera sera.

BEDA Blog #1 - An intro

Guess what today is? April 1st and the first day of BEDA! I just had a mini heart attack because I couldn't find my note book where I wrote down all my blogging topics and that would be pretty bad because I don't remember any of them. So today's topic is an introduction of myself, mostly weird stuff about me. So I will have at it let the BEDA-ing being!

1. I allot too much time for almost everything. I think it will take five minuets to walk across the street. I'm not sure where this came from because my parents are completely opposite. Because of this I arrive too earlier to pretty much everything I drive myself to, which in my opinion is extremely obnoxious and I can't help it.

2. I am a massive dreamer however I am very realistic. I realize this doesn't make sense and it is hard to explain but I can think of the most outrageous situations of things to happen but when you get to the nitty gritty of it, I will always be the pragmatic one.

3. In order for me to remember things and feel like I'm getting tasks accomplished I need to write them out long hand. Even my dad asked why I do this and not just type my things out (my dad can hardly work a cell phone and he's advising me to use technology) and I just remember things better if I've written them myself.

4. I have picked the wrong career for some one who wants to travel a great deal. I'm not going to earn a lot of money and I am OK with that because I hate spending money any way but the one thing I would spend money on is travel and I just probably won't have money to. Hopefully my job will let me travel a lot.

5. I am a massive hipster. This is just painful to write but I've come to realize I am. I am so critical of everything and often times go out of my way to not do or see things that are really popular. For example, I have not seen the Rebecca Black Friday song video. I've heard most of the song but I've never seen the video deliberately to prove a point. Ahh that is just upsetting.

And that is it! First BEDA Blog done at 12:05 am on Friday April 1st. I'm trying to be proactive about this so we'll see how it goes.

BEDA

So, I've decided I am going to BEDA or Blog Every Day in April. I think it is a cool idea and I have some topics I want to talk about so I will have to spend time talking about things I like or a passionate about. I also think that because April is my last month of High school ( thank you senior project) it'll be interesting to document and I'll be able to look back a reflect on it. I'm also considering doing a BEDA in August because I start school at the end of that month so it will be another cool documenting experience. Speaking of school, I finally picked one. Now all that stress is done and I can think about exciting things like scheduling and getting a room mate and getting to buy fun stuff for my dorm. I'm really excited and can't wait for August 25, which is the start of moving in weekend!

100 books you should read before you die

Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here

bold = read

1. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

2. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien - I've read 1/3 but I'm counting it

3. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

4. Harry Potter series, JK Rowling

5. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

6. The Bible (not in its entirety)

7. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell

9. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman

10. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

11. Little Women, Louisa M Alcott

12. Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy

13. Catch-22, Joseph Heller

14. Complete Works of Shakespeare, William Shakespeare

15. Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier

16. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien

17. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks

18. Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger

19. The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger

20. Middlemarch, George Eliot

21. Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell

22. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald

23. Bleak House, Charles Dickens

24. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy

25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

26. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh

27. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28. Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck

29. Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

30. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame

31. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy

32. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens

33. Chronicles of Narnia, CS Lewis

34. Emma, Jane Austen

35. Persuasion, Jane Austen

36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, CS Lewis

37. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini

38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernières

39. Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden

40. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne

41. Animal Farm, George Orwell

42. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown

43. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney, John Irving

45. The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins

46. Anne of Green Gables, LM Montgomery

47. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy

48. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood

49. Lord of the Flies, William Golding

50. Atonement, Ian McEwan

51. Life of Pi, Yann Martel

52. Dune, Frank Herbert

53. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons

54. Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen

55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth

56. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

58. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Mark Haddon

60. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck

62. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov

63. The Secret History, Donna Tartt

64. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold

65. Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

66. On The Road, Jack Kerouac

67. Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy

68. Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding

69. Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie

70. Moby Dick, Herman Melville

71. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens

72. Dracula, Bram Stoker

73. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett

74. Notes From A Small Island, Bill Bryson

75. Ulysses, James Joyce

76. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

77. Swallows and Amazons, Arthur Ransome

78. Germinal, Emile Zola

79. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray

80. Possession, AS Byatt

81. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens

82. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell

83. The Color Purple, Alice Walker

84. The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro

85. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert

86. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry

87. Charlotte’s Web, EB White

88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven, Mitch Albom

89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90. The Faraway Tree Collection, Enid Blyton

91. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

92. The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery

93. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks

94. Watership Down, Richard Adams

95. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole

96. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute

97. The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas

98. Hamlet, William Shakespeare

99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl

100. Les Misérables, Victor Hugo - I read part of this in French so i'm counting it.

21/100 I say that's pretty good. There are about 35 books on this list I plan on reading eventually so we'll see how that goes. I just thought this was interesting.

D.C.O.M

I remember when I would get so excited to watch the premiere of a new Disney Channel Original Movie. My friends would come over and we would have a huge sleep over and watch the movie like 5 times that night, because they kept replaying them. I was just thinking about all of the movies and I wanted to talk about them and remember my childhood.

Some of my favorites included...

• Halloweentown - This may be my absolute favorite Disney movie. I mean just finding out you have magic one day, that would be so awesome.
• Zenon - I just looked it up and this movie is supposed to take place in 2049...if this is how our future will look I am totally living on a space ship, even if I'll be 55 then
• Smart House- Oh my god I wanted a smart house so bad!!
• Up, Up, and Away - This movie was actually kind of lame but for some reason I loved it. Again, one day just having super powers!
• The Color of Friendship - This was such a touching movie, they really should play it more often cause it is timeless
• Rip Girls - I really love this movie, I wanted to take up surfing after seeing it. Clearly I live in the perfect place for this to happen
• Quints - I think I liked this only because they girl who was in Halloweentown was in it
• Luck of the Irish - I wanted to be Irish after watching this movie
• Tru Confessions - This movie was intense. Very much unlike a normal Disney movie but so moving
• The Kim Possible movie - I loved this show and was so sad that it was ending even though I remember this movie not being as good as the show
• Tiger Cruise - Another really moving movie. So sad and really well done
• Buffalo Dreams - I remember being totally in love with the Native American boy in this movie

After these movies I feel like most of the movies went down hill. They aren't really that good or deep as some of the old movies were. It is sad because I feel like most of these movies really taught us things and now they are just a lot of fluff and no meaning.

Which when you think about it, it's sad. Adults say that the younger generations have lower attention spans and do not care about the world around them, but they are feeding this kind of fluff to them. I mean a ten year old is not going to willingly turn on the news, but if you put the news into a venue for them to enjoy, you are not only teaching them but entertaining them.

Well this took a weird turn, but it is interesting. And I feel like this is happening in a lot of different ways not only these movies but TV shows on many channels.

50 book challenge - 1 - 5

So I am a little behind on the my challenge already...but I had finals and stuff so I'll make up for it during the summer. I won't do a plot summary in these just to save time, it will just be my thoughts on the book as a whole. So here it is books 1-5:

1.) Let it Snow: Three Holiday Romances - John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle

I enjoyed this book. I love John Green and Maureen Johnson and I've read a lot of their books. I have only read one of Lauren Myracle's and I don't really remember much except I liked it. At any rate, all three plots were fun and depicted beautifully the thoughts and lives of a bunch of teenagers. The characters were likable and realistic. I was not surprised that I liked this book, it was well-written and fun, all three authors and brilliant.

Rating - 7/10

2.) I am Number Four - Pittacus Lore

This book was pretty good. I usually can't stand books about aliens just because they end up being too Sci-fi for my taste, however I thought this was a good blend of fantasy and sci-fi. The plot was innovative keeping my interested and on edge. My only complaint would be against the characters. I didn't really believe them. They were easy enough to relate to, however I thought that certain people fell flat and almost seemed forced. I recommend this book because it is a fun read.

Rating - 6/10

3.) Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

This has been on my list for ages and I always put it off because I knew in AP English we read it. So, my class just finished it and I will say I was not disappointed. I am a huge sucker for dystopian novels, I'm not sure what I find so compelling about them but I will read countless stories about the price of progress. Brave New World was intriguing and slightly scary. This book is interesting because while some aspects as so far fetched that they are hard to imagine others hit really close to home. I would highly recommend this book to anyone, especially if you love dystopian novels.

Rating - 7/ 10

4.) Mugglenet.com’s What Will Happen in Harry Potter 7: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Falls in Love And How Will the Adventure Finally End?

I had not touched this book since I read it in Fall '06. It was written by many members of the popular Harry Potter fan site Mugglenet before we knew anything about the final installment of the Harry Potter series. I only picked this up because I was avoiding something else, but going back and reading all the theories fan has before DH came out. My favorite part was reading the stats on who would live and die and how completely wrong some of them were. If you want to relive the blindness the world had before DH came out, I would read this because it fun and definitely well written.

Rating - 6/10

5.) An Abundance of Katherines - John Green

So, I love John Green. I follow his and Hank's Youtube channel I've read all of his books, this being the final one. While I still loved this book, Colin was a normal confused Dumpee, I don't think this is my favorite John Green book. It was well written and funny ( I literally laughed out loud while reading it during my study hall) it was probably my least favorite of his books. That being said, I would recommend this book because it was witty and catchy.

8/10

So, there we go. Only 45 more books to go...that sounds daunting. But I can do it!

Till next time.

Today's Recommendation: Lord of the Rings. Pretty much Lord of the Rings anything. I'm kind of obsessed right now, I've watched the first two movies and I am about a fourth through the first book. They are pretty awesome