Day 8 of Learning to Blog

Okay so i have had my blog here for just over a week now. I think it is coming around. I have had some positive feed back from people, which makes me real happy. I keep checking our other blogs to see if I can get any ideas from them too.
Well today I added a new widget to my blog...if you look to the left here you will see my Currently Reading shelf which has been added thru www.shelfari.com. I saw it on another blog and really liked it and best of all it was so simple to add. All I had to do was click the link off the shelf and I believe it was only 4 steps. Pick the shlf you want to have viewed n the book that will be on that shelf, pick the kind of shelf you want, enter your blog URL then add widget...or something really easy like that...lol..
But anyway, if your checking this out, keep coming back to check my progress,any comments or suggestions are all ways welcome!!!

I think next will be making a personalized signature!!


Hope everyone has a wonderful day!

Graceling by Kristin Cashore

Graceling by Kristin Cashore

I loved this book. I thought is was brilliant and completely captivating.
In a land of Seven Kingdoms, where there are those few that are born with extreme special skills, this is the story of one Lady Katsa, neice of the Middluns King Randa. Katsa is believed to be Gaced witht the talent to kill and has held that reputaion since the young age of eight.
Katsa thought her life would be nothing more than being the King's "thug" when punishment was to be handed out. That is until she met Prince Po. Prince Po changed everything in Katsa's life and as more and more questions come about, time reveals the sometimes overwhelming and shocking answers.

When I was reading this book I was swept away to another time and I loved it. I will say I love the character and the way the story was written. Katsa is amazing, but I will say Princess Bitterblue is my favourite in the book.

This book is recommended and I give a full 5 stars!!!!

Quotes:
(First line of the book):"In these dungeons the darkness was complete, but Katsa had a map i her mind."
"And then, with all her might, she focused her attention on the back of Po's head and screamed his name, inside her mind. He pulled on his reins so hard that his horse screeched and staggered and almost sat down. And he looked so startled and flabbergasted--and irritated--that she couldn't help it: She exploded with laughter."

"He ducked his head for a moment. He raised his eyes to her again."I'll give myself to you however you'll take me," ge said, so simply that Katsa found she wasn't embarrassed."

On to Day 7

Okay so this is day 7 for blogging!!! Didn't do anyuthing over the week because I was working and busy, but I am back.
Today I have added a couple of new pages. One that is about Me and what is going on in my life. Then I have a goals and chellenges page and favourites page. I have not yet posted anything on these pages but I will be over the next couple days.
I am getting excited because this blogg is coming together better than I thought and feels like it is a bit easier but I know there is still alot to learn and I do't understand it all yet. But I will get there:)

The Last Song - The Movie

So FINALLY watched The Last Song lastnight with my husband and best friend. I had been wanting to see it for so long and happy I didi watch it.
I really enjoyed the movie, although of course I loved the book much more.
I would like to start by commenting on the casting of the movie and I will start with the father, Steve, who was played by Greg Kinear. Kinear was the perfect actor for this role. Even before I watched the movie and I heard he played Steve, I instantly knew he was perfect for the role. Next would be Ronnie, played by Miley Cyrus, who i thought did a pretty good job by didn't really blow me away. I keep thinking there could have been someone slightly better for the role and I haven't quite figured out who I would pick for the role yet but whe I do I will let you know. And finally Will, played by Liam Hemsworth, I think did a pretty good job for my first time watching him. I don't really have anything outstanding to comment on him but I have nothing negative either. So all in all cast was pretty good for the main character's.

Now for the movie. I really did enjoy alot. It made me laugh out loud several times and made me cry, but not the hicupping, sobbing kind of cry. I thought the movie followed the book fairly well but of course there were changes. I was a little disappointed that the Reverend didn't play a role in the movie because I think he would have played an important supporting role for both Steve and Ronnie, but the movie made my good graces with out the role. I would recomend watching this movie for anyone who loves a good chick flick cause it has all the elements of making it a good movie...and it wasn't a long drawn out movie like some chick flicks can turn into.

My movie rating of this...I would give it a 3.5/5 stars.

The Last Song by Nicolas Sparks

I decided to post my reveiw for this book because I watched the movie last night and I thought it would be a good one since in is in my top favourite books.
This book is absolutely fantastic. I love everything about it. I haven't read all of Sparks books but this is by far the best yet out of the ones I have read and would be pretty tough to top it.
I really enjoy the story because it isn't just about the love story but about a father and daughter getting close again. The writing style was great and I love that each chapter alternated between Ronnie (everyother chapter being the #1 main character) Will, Steve and a few short ones as Markus. This way you got p[arts of the story from a different persons point and got to read into the thoughts of the other characters that normally you wouldn't know unless they were the main person of interest.

Ronnie and her younger brother Jonah are being taken from NYC to Wrightsville Beach to spend the summer with their father. Although Jonah is excited, Ronnie wants nothing to do with her father and hasn't spoke to him in 3 years. When they first arrive, she spends as much time away from her father as possible and meets with Blaze and spends time her, her suppose to be boyfriend and friends who just don't give the right vibe to Ronnie.
When things go wrong and Ronnie stops hanging out with Blaze she meets up with Will again (the beach volley ball guy that spilled her soda on her the first day there) and the love begins to form, spending as much time together as possible.
Ronnies relationship wither her father also begins to change when she realizes that he wants nothing more than a realtionship with her.As the summer is ending, Ronnie comes to find another reason why her father wanted her and Jonah to spend the summer with him.

I would recommend this book for sure with a 5/5 stars rating from moi!!!!

Day 3 Learing How to Blog

First I would just like to say thank you to Julie!!! I checked out that link you commented on my yesterday post and who would have thought adding a page would be so easy!!! I had figured out labelling but was originally trying to make a new page.
So, I checked out this link http://shabbyblogsblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/how-to-add-pages-to-your-blog.html that Julie posted for me and it was a world of help. Now I need to decide just what pages I would like to start and go from there next. My next step is giving myself a little more of a plan for how I want this blog to develope and start to publish on those ideas.
This morning I also played around a little more with the page design (really just experimented with colour changes). Just doing a little at a time witht he design til I get just the way I want!

Day 2 of Learning How to Blog

So, I was up early today and started to play with my blog here. Since I am still experimenting, I started with a small Book review of one of my Favourite books.
So easy enough to put up a new post, but it I wanted to set it as it in it's own page that will be listed in a category or topic of just book review's. I wasn't sure how to do that but yay for me I think I figured it out by creating a label for it so it has a folder now.
So, needless to say I learned something new about blogging today even though it took me at least an hour to figure out. So here is the official start to my walk along to road of blogging!!!

Thirteen Reason's Why by Jay Asher

So, I am still trying to figure things out so I am using an older book review of mine of one of my favourite books to play with. I believe this was also the first book review I ever wrote so it's short, but hope you enjoy!!!!

I could not stop reading this book. I felt almost like I was listening to the tapes and getting to the end of them I just wanted to cry for Hannah because she had all the signs and no one could see it to do anything to help. I think this is a book that everyone should read at some time especially kids just coming into high school so they know what kind of effects the small things have on other peoples lives. I even felt like yelling at some of the character's for what they did because they had no right or they were just plain blind. But all in all this is a top 10 book for me possibly even in the top 5.

Rated 5 Stars!!!

Published:October 18,2007 by Razorbill
Literary Awards:Florida Tenn Reads in 2007 & South Carloina Book Award for Young Adult Book Award in 2010

Book Description
Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker—his classmate and crush—who committed suicide two weeks earlier.

On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he’ll find out how he made the list.

Through Hannah and Clay’s dual narratives, debut author Jay Asher weaves an intricate and heartrending story of confusion and desperation that will deeply affect teen readers.

Welcome to My Secret Life of Books

Hello Everyone
This is my first blog and kind of like an experiment because I have noo Idea of what I am really doing. So just to get started I am gong to be trying to get back here once a day or every other day(time permitting) to put new posts such as book reviews, movie reiews and just randoms postings. During these times I will also be experimenting to templates and formatting things. Please feel free to give advice because this is new for me and I am excited to be trying this and hope I can learn what I am doing to make this a semi interesting page and i hope you will enjoy my Secret Life of Books.

All the best, Carla