You know, I was really getting bored. So, one day, I decided to update this.
Because saying "It All Ends" on such and such a date is really depressing. (*coughthepeoplewhomadethelastHarryPottermoviepostercough*)
Speaking of Harry Potter, I would like to say that I'm hooked again. Yes. Again. I reread all of the books for the second time this year over the summer (not a very good thing to do with summer reading :/) but it was worth it. And now it's almost time for the final movie to come out on DVD... -.- I feel like my childhood is evaporating before my eyes. Ten years. That's how long it has been. Ten years since Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring came out, too. Deary me, I feel old.
I don't like it.
In other news, I (think) I am a Gryffindor. Pottermore opens tomorrow (EEK!!! SO EXCITED!!!) and I can't WAIT!!!!!!!!!!! I'm even getting up early. :)))))))))))))
Well, this summer I finished THE LORD OF THE RINGS (it was AMAZING) and I have to say, The Return of the King is by far the best part of the three. I didn't even mind the hobbits!
Eowyn and Faramir are so cute together. They're my LotR power couple.
Also over the summer- excuse me, over the month of August- I read A Wizard of Earthsea. Not enough to measure up to LotR or HP, but hey! It's only 200 pages, and it moves a lot faster than Emma. Which you will hear me rant about later. So if you need a book to read and you have about three days, look no further. The font's pretty big, too. Not to mention decent spaces in between chapters.
This brings me to a nonfiction book that I read, Eat, Pray, Love. Um, no comment. It was just weird. And I'm not completely sold on it, but it was good for nonfiction. I guess.
And now, for Emma. So we had to read a challenge book as the last part of our summer reading, and I chose this monstrosity by Jane Austen. What it really needs is not more refinement, not a movie, but a serial killer. Yes. A serial killer.
See, if there was actually an element of danger and tradgedy in the thing, it would be decent. And the serial killer could off the characters I don't like (in other words, most of them). Maybe they'd have something to talk about- I mean, honestly! I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR BLOODY SISTER THAT HAS A BAROUCHE LANDAU, OR WHATEVER IT IS, MRS. ELTON!!!
Unfortunately, I can't slap the characters. I am siriusly disappointed.
This school year, after the horror that is Emma (you'll be hearing more about how much I hate it as time goes on), I had the pleasure of reading "A Great and Terrible Beauty" and "Rebel Angels" by Libba Bray. Another wonderful series, I'd reccomend it to all of my friends. It was effortless to get into and is NOT your typical Victorian-era novel. Ms. Bray even pulls a good one on the "normal" books fo that time period.
I love the protagonist, Gemma. She's witty and doesn't really care about being a lady, and she is really loyal to her friends. Not to mention next-to-impossible to beat. And she's got that red-hair+strikingly-green-eyes combo that I love. *See the link farther down for more on my redhead-greeneyes obsession*
If you get the time, check out my very first Harry Potter fan fiction piece by clicking here. I have two Harry Potter power couples:
-Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks
-James Potter and Lily Evans
This story is about James and Lily, and of course Remus is in it too, but there's really nothing about him and Tonks.
MAKE SURE TO REVIEW!!!!!!
My quote for this week (which is long overdue):
"Harry, you are so loved. Mama loves you. Dada loves you. Harry, be safe. Be strong. Harry, be safe...be strong." - Lily Potter, talking to her son moments before her death, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 (2011). What always gets me about this one is that she knows that James she knows that she's going to die, and that James is already dead, that Peter betrayed them, and that she is going to protect Harry no matter what, even more so now that James isn't there. And then Voldemort comes...and you know how it ends. And I'm crying the whole time, because, to be perfectly honest, they were so cute together. I hate myself for having to kill them in the end of my fanfic.
"'Will you stay with me?'
'Until the very end,'"
Harry and James Potter, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling (1st U.S. Hardcover Edition), The Forest Again.
It gets me every time *sniff* They shouldn't have died. DARN YOU, VOLDEMORT!!!!!!!!!!!! :'(
Until the very end,
Jenni (G)
Sorry you dont like Emma. Sometimes i think people dont get right off how like people today some of her characters are. Think we all know a know-it-all rich girl like Emma who thinks she knows whats best for everyone, and the Mrs E with the barouche landau is like some wannabe bragging about her rich family (barouche landaus were the Jags of the early 1800s)
ReplyDeleteSomething to try - there is a new anthology out called Jane Austen Made Me Do It - 20 short stories inspired by Austen and two of them are about high school kids - Jane Austen, Yeah Yeah Yeah about a group of high school girls whose advisor shows them how the Beatles are like Sense and Sensibility and a ROTFL story called What Would Austen Do about a high school kid who wants to be in with the popular kids (who are all acting like vampires, zombies and werewoves) and winds up in an English country dancing class by mistake. Seriously hilarious.