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Jul. 6th, 2008

  • 10:54 PM
 Well, as you can see I've changed my layout around...CAMP ROCK! lol

This is my new current obsession....and the fact that the JoBros were in it was a pretty good bonus! :) I loved Joe and Demi's characters so I decided to have them both grace the header of my LJ...

Anyway, I've got a whole bunch of icons coming up...I'm even going to try some text-only icons...that's my new challenge..o and I just remembered I've got that Susan/Caspian fanmix I said I was going to do..I'll get around to it..anyway, I'm off to keep working on the icons, I hope I can get them all done before school starts up again......

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Review - The Taken; Sarah Pinborough

  • Jul. 6th, 2008 at 7:55 PM


The Taken
Sarah Pinborough
Fiction; Horror
 
I am forever on a quest to find good horror authors, and as a rule I almost always prefer the Brits. I’m also forever on a quest to find good female horror authors, and Sarah Pinborough has stepped into that sparsely-populated spot rather well. I discovered her through Dorchester/Leisure’s large line of mass market horror paperbacks. 
 
Not only do I love the way Brits tend to write, but I also love English, Irish, Welsh and Scottish settings. In this story, Alex(andra) is a young woman who, after the demise of her marriage, has come to stay for awhile with an aunt in the rural English village of Watterow . One of the most startling and effective devices in this story is the fact, known only to Alex and to the reader, that Alex is dying of ovarian cancer, and dying quickly. She only has a few months left, and the cancer is the real reason her marriage ended, although no one knows this because Alex has decided to keep the cancer a secret from everyone for as long as possible, until she literally cannot hide it anymore. For the reader, knowing this and being inside Alex’s head as she struggles with her pain, despair and internal rage, brings an intimacy and dark edge to the story that really changes one’s perception of everything that takes place. 
 
Not really ready to deal with anything beyond the very immediate present, Alex runs straight into an old secret the town has covered up for decades. All Alex knows at first is that a supposedly long-dead, angelic-looking 10-year old girl named Melanie Parr has something to do with a sudden rash of shockingly violent deaths in the once-peaceful little town, and that whenever the girl’s name is mentioned the locals – including Alex’s own cousin – glance at each other, clam up, and radiate fear from every fiber. Who on earth was this girl, Alex wonders, and what kind of sinister hold does a little girl lost in a storm 30 years ago have on these people? Who, too, is “The Catcher Man” people whisper about – often in the same breath? Once a pagan forest legend about a fertility god, twisted into a sinister being who steals children, it poses an interesting if indirect question about what kind of genuine power the human ‘thought form’ can give to something and truly make it real. 
 
I was thoroughly captivated by this book and have already ordered Pinborough’s other novels.  She’s definitely one author horror fans should be watching for if they haven’t discovered her already.
 

Weather ~ Eating ~ Book ~ Neopets

  • Jul. 6th, 2008 at 7:25 PM

Weather: Cloudy. Why couldn't it make up it's mind!!!! It was cloudy all day and it was just annoying. Yesterday it rained today it was cloudy and it could have gone either rain or stayed or cleared. It never decided. It kept either getting darker and drizzling and then a patch of the sky was bare and the it would cover itself back up to try something else.

My Worthless Activities of the Day:

Watched a bunch of shows like Gilmroe Girls and The Office on the computer for free without downloadnig them....is that illegal?

 

My sister made those cookies that you just have to cut and put them in the oven, but she definatly thinks that just cutting them is too easy, so she got all her cookie cutters on the island and started rolling the prerolled dough. It's so fun to watch her trying to get this all done and think that she's jsut out of her mind, and it comes out so absoluly amazing that you can't even belive that you were thinking about insulting her way of life! So I ate a bunch of cookies.

I was playing a bunch of differnt games. it was fun, I visited the old famous neopets.com and that was all fun. there was this game called the chain reaction game that was addicting for a while.

Finished Sorry for Celia. It was a really good book. See sometimes the mom would leave a note randomly somewhere and then Elizabeth would pick it up follow it and know where her mom was. Well, what would happen if she didn't find one of them. I mean it wouldn't be the end of the world, but I think it'd be kinda of like a game every day. and what if she did that every day, she left a note i mean, and then one day she didn't. Would you go searching the entire house to find something tha twasn't there. and I think that the ending was pretty cool. the one line that I thought was so funny, but i don't quite know why is when Celia's "mum" and Lizzy's Mom were thinking of things and ways and why they didn't like Saxton's mom and Elizabeth's mom said, "Freedom! The children must have freedom!" I don't know why i thought it was soo funny, but just image a mother shouting *thoug i don't think she was shouting it in the diolouge, "FREEDOM! THE CHILDREN MUST HAVE FREEDOM!"

Called a bunch of people who just didn't want to pick up their phones.

Listened to music

Ate salad.

That was my day, but now I feel kinda icky from eating all those chocolate chip cookies.

Jul. 6th, 2008

  • 8:20 PM
Hi all,

I have been reading the Pandora Prescription lately. Its a good read, and now theres this treasure thing on youtube about it..

could this be real?


www . youtube.com/watch?v=rbx3qnKKC0Q

Has anyone here read The Count of Monte Cristo unabridged?

I was a hundred pages into a copy of the book I recently bought when I randomly flipped to the title page and discovered it's - gasp! - an abridged version. It didn't say this on the cover, back, or spine, so I had no idea when I bought it. I'm quite disappointed because I have never in my life read an abridged version of any book; it just feels like cheating to me.

I looked around online, however, and discovered that this book is frequently abridged since the original is so massively long. (I think it was originally written as a serial for a newspaper/magazine, but I'm not sure.)

So, I guess what I am asking is... is it worth it to start over with the original or should I just suck it up and read the version I've got (which is still a solid 550 pages)?

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