So this is a show I've found myself addicted to. The "A" character is extremely addicting for some reason.
Although now we all know who "A" is, the first few seasons it was brutal trying to figure out which of their friends was after them.
In the first season you find out it's Mona, then the next time it's Toby, then it's a friend of Ally, then it's Ezra. Oh and Ally is still alive, which they have been seeing randomly in situations when they are close to dying.
Anyway the series is about 4 girls who are pretty much stalked and framed through secrets they told their dead friend. Throughout the whole series they are trying to figure out who it is that is doing all of this too them. The secrets drive them farther from each other and then also closer to each other.
In this current season they are in a race to find Ally before 'A' (aka Ezra, their English teacher) figures out.
Friday, March 21, 2014
Book: The Christmas Sweater
This is actually a good book. It was given to me by a friend. I think you could read this before or after Christmas there isn't too much -about- Christmas in it, just more about a present given to the author on Christmas.
It starts with a little boy who wants a bike for Christmas, it's the only gift he wants and he's been good all year and it's the only thing he wants. One problem, his mom is a single mom, now that his dad died of Cancer and she is struggling.
On Christmas morning, he opens all of his presents but none of them are a bike, in fact the big present that his mom was making was a sweater. He hated it, it looked awful, but he tries to make it seem he's not upset about anything.
They go to his grandparent's house for Christmas and he tries really hard to make his mom happier after he threw the sweater on the floor in his room and his mom saw it. He gets a hope up that maybe his mom hide the bike at their grandparents. After opening all his presents at his grandparents he still didn't get his bike. They eat dinner and his grandfather is very anxious and his grandmother is telling him to stop and that they will do it tomorrow.
Being so upset about not getting the one thing he wanted, he throws a tantrum about wanting to go home when his mom says she's tired and wants to stay there. His grandfather tells them maybe it's best they go home. On the drive home, his mother falls asleep at the wheel and dies. This leaves him with his grandparents. He's very angry that God has taken his whole family and lashes out at everyone. He makes friends with a nearby neighbor and thinks their life is so much better that he tries to convince them to take him in. This angers him when his friend leaves him because of his actions and his only friend is a strange old man living in an abandoned house.
He runs away after feeling more pressured from his grandparents and becomes lost in a corn field and a large storm is forming and he can't seem to get out. This stranger comes to him and tells him he needs to face the storm.
After facing the storm, he finds out that everything was a dream, he wakes up on his bed at his grandparents' house and his mom walks in. He wears his sweater and tells his mom how much he really does like it.
Although in his dream he already found out that his grandfather had hidden his new bike in the garage he still tries to act surprised about it.
It starts with a little boy who wants a bike for Christmas, it's the only gift he wants and he's been good all year and it's the only thing he wants. One problem, his mom is a single mom, now that his dad died of Cancer and she is struggling.
On Christmas morning, he opens all of his presents but none of them are a bike, in fact the big present that his mom was making was a sweater. He hated it, it looked awful, but he tries to make it seem he's not upset about anything.
They go to his grandparent's house for Christmas and he tries really hard to make his mom happier after he threw the sweater on the floor in his room and his mom saw it. He gets a hope up that maybe his mom hide the bike at their grandparents. After opening all his presents at his grandparents he still didn't get his bike. They eat dinner and his grandfather is very anxious and his grandmother is telling him to stop and that they will do it tomorrow.
Being so upset about not getting the one thing he wanted, he throws a tantrum about wanting to go home when his mom says she's tired and wants to stay there. His grandfather tells them maybe it's best they go home. On the drive home, his mother falls asleep at the wheel and dies. This leaves him with his grandparents. He's very angry that God has taken his whole family and lashes out at everyone. He makes friends with a nearby neighbor and thinks their life is so much better that he tries to convince them to take him in. This angers him when his friend leaves him because of his actions and his only friend is a strange old man living in an abandoned house.
He runs away after feeling more pressured from his grandparents and becomes lost in a corn field and a large storm is forming and he can't seem to get out. This stranger comes to him and tells him he needs to face the storm.
After facing the storm, he finds out that everything was a dream, he wakes up on his bed at his grandparents' house and his mom walks in. He wears his sweater and tells his mom how much he really does like it.
Although in his dream he already found out that his grandfather had hidden his new bike in the garage he still tries to act surprised about it.
Show: Revolution
I'm not sure how much longer I'm gonna keep watching this show. Things seem to progressively get more complicated and I'm not a huge fan of complicated shows you have to pay a lot of attention too.
It starts out about the lights (all of the electricity) goes out and no one really knows why. In the very beginning Charlie's (the main actress) brother is kidnapped by the army and her father is killed so she goes to find her uncle to get her brother back.
It turns out that her mother and father were part of the reason the lights were turned out due to a project her mother worked on with a bunch of different people. The last main person I think has a huge part, mainly because of the current season is Aaron. Turns out he's a genius who created the program that they used to turn out the lights.
In the end of the first season they manage to rescue Charlie's younger brother and they end up getting her mother too.
In the second season, Charlie's younger brother dies pretty early on, and they find out that these little devices turn on and off the lights when they are powered on and the armies want them to use to take control of things.
This means Charlie, Miles, Aaron, and Charlie's mom have to go to turn the light back on so that everyone has equal power and not one group in case someone got a hold of these little pendants.
Things didn't go exactly the way they planned and the power being turned back on ends up leading to missiles falling on the big cities so that the president can come back and that's where the show is right now.
It starts out about the lights (all of the electricity) goes out and no one really knows why. In the very beginning Charlie's (the main actress) brother is kidnapped by the army and her father is killed so she goes to find her uncle to get her brother back.
It turns out that her mother and father were part of the reason the lights were turned out due to a project her mother worked on with a bunch of different people. The last main person I think has a huge part, mainly because of the current season is Aaron. Turns out he's a genius who created the program that they used to turn out the lights.
In the end of the first season they manage to rescue Charlie's younger brother and they end up getting her mother too.
In the second season, Charlie's younger brother dies pretty early on, and they find out that these little devices turn on and off the lights when they are powered on and the armies want them to use to take control of things.
This means Charlie, Miles, Aaron, and Charlie's mom have to go to turn the light back on so that everyone has equal power and not one group in case someone got a hold of these little pendants.
Things didn't go exactly the way they planned and the power being turned back on ends up leading to missiles falling on the big cities so that the president can come back and that's where the show is right now.
Show: Chicago Fire
What's better on Wednesday, now Tuesday nights at 10pm then a lot of hot firefighter actors on your screen? Probably not much.
If you like Law and Order, then I have a feeling you will like this series too because Dick Wolf is the director of Chicago Fire.
This show follows the lives of the people who work for firehouse 51, this includes the truck, squad, and paramedics in it.
Casey is the lieutenant for the truck, Severade is for the squad and Dawson and Shay are both paramedics. All in Chicago. They have a lot of instances where they have to work with the Chicago P.D. Not always a good thing. In the beginning of the series, one of the detectives on the Chicago P.D. force harassed Casey after Casey filed a report putting the detective's son at blame. A lot was opened up showing that there was some dirty business going down. Dawson's brother, however, is also a detective and he's one of the good ones helping out.
Typically in every show there is some fire or emergency that the crew responds to that challenges them in some way... someone almost dies, someone does die, someone is hurt, etc.
The show also goes into the lives of the people in firehouse 51. For example. Mills (a candidate) has a thing for Dawson and they do date for a portion of the first season. While Shay and Severade are close friends who live together, but Shay is a lesbian. Dawson later finds she likes Casey and wants to be with him after his fiance leaves him (and later on dies in the series)
There's a lot of soap opera aspects to the show that make it actually pretty good. But I like the way they portray the firefighters and how they show them as being normal people outside of the job.
If you like Law and Order, then I have a feeling you will like this series too because Dick Wolf is the director of Chicago Fire.
This show follows the lives of the people who work for firehouse 51, this includes the truck, squad, and paramedics in it.
Casey is the lieutenant for the truck, Severade is for the squad and Dawson and Shay are both paramedics. All in Chicago. They have a lot of instances where they have to work with the Chicago P.D. Not always a good thing. In the beginning of the series, one of the detectives on the Chicago P.D. force harassed Casey after Casey filed a report putting the detective's son at blame. A lot was opened up showing that there was some dirty business going down. Dawson's brother, however, is also a detective and he's one of the good ones helping out.
Typically in every show there is some fire or emergency that the crew responds to that challenges them in some way... someone almost dies, someone does die, someone is hurt, etc.
The show also goes into the lives of the people in firehouse 51. For example. Mills (a candidate) has a thing for Dawson and they do date for a portion of the first season. While Shay and Severade are close friends who live together, but Shay is a lesbian. Dawson later finds she likes Casey and wants to be with him after his fiance leaves him (and later on dies in the series)
There's a lot of soap opera aspects to the show that make it actually pretty good. But I like the way they portray the firefighters and how they show them as being normal people outside of the job.
Book: A Christmas Carol
I read this book every year during the Christmas season. It was a gift to me and I do enjoy it. I can't read it in one night, like some people do, but I read it right before Christmas.
The book is strikingly similar to the movie.
It's about an old man named Scrooge. Who is greedy and very selfish. He gives to no one, not even himself.
One evening when going home he passes some very strange things. When he gets home, he sees his old partner Marley in the doorknob. When getting settled he hears chains and moaning and then Marley enters his room to bring him a message about how he must change or suffer the same agonizing fate he is forever to endure. He will be visited by three ghosts to help change him .
Although Scrooge thinks this is a bunch of bull, there is something about what his friend tells him that strikes him. The only main difference between the movie from 1980 and the book is that the ghost of Christmas Past is a guy in the book. He brings Scrooge to his childhood past in the orphanage twice then to when he was an apprentice and when his lady leaves him.
The Ghost of Christmas past shows him Bob Cratchit and his nephew and then to the homeless and poor and showing them how their lives are miserable and how they still are happy in them through it.
The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come shows Scrooge an image he doesn't quite seem to understand. People are robbing a house that is empty and selling what it has in it. He also sees Bob Cratchit's son has died and the family suffers. He begs to see who's house was being pillages and finds it was his own and he is dead and no one came to his funeral.
When he gets back to the real world he does what he can to make people happy, his nephew, his employee, the poor. He is a giving man and not greedy anymore.
The book is strikingly similar to the movie.
It's about an old man named Scrooge. Who is greedy and very selfish. He gives to no one, not even himself.
One evening when going home he passes some very strange things. When he gets home, he sees his old partner Marley in the doorknob. When getting settled he hears chains and moaning and then Marley enters his room to bring him a message about how he must change or suffer the same agonizing fate he is forever to endure. He will be visited by three ghosts to help change him .
Although Scrooge thinks this is a bunch of bull, there is something about what his friend tells him that strikes him. The only main difference between the movie from 1980 and the book is that the ghost of Christmas Past is a guy in the book. He brings Scrooge to his childhood past in the orphanage twice then to when he was an apprentice and when his lady leaves him.
The Ghost of Christmas past shows him Bob Cratchit and his nephew and then to the homeless and poor and showing them how their lives are miserable and how they still are happy in them through it.
The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come shows Scrooge an image he doesn't quite seem to understand. People are robbing a house that is empty and selling what it has in it. He also sees Bob Cratchit's son has died and the family suffers. He begs to see who's house was being pillages and finds it was his own and he is dead and no one came to his funeral.
When he gets back to the real world he does what he can to make people happy, his nephew, his employee, the poor. He is a giving man and not greedy anymore.
Book: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
This is the sequel to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's stone.
I think the book is great, I also like the movie, and again they are very similar. I think the first movie and book are more similar, but still very great.
It starts out with Harry Potter waiting for summer to end so he can go back to Hogwarts and his family, the Dursleys are having company and Harry has to be invisible. One problem, Dobby doesn't like this idea. Dobby is a house-elf who tells Harry he can't go back to Hogwarts. Harry tells him no and so Dobby makes a racket and the Dursleys lock Harry in his room and tell him he will never go back to Hogwarts.
One night, Harry, Fred, and George come and rescue Harry and bring him back to their home. While there, Mrs. Weasly takes great care of Harry. Even though the Weaslys are poor and can't afford much, Harry thinks this is the best place he had ever been. When it comes time to get school stuff he finds out just how much the Weaslys struggle.
When he gets back to Hogwarts (which is a struggle to do) he gets detention day one and when he completes his detention and is going back to his dormitory he hears a strange voice about killing. Next thing he knew, Mrs. Norris' cat was dead... or appeared to be. What was it? The whole school is in a little chaos.
Soon rumors about the Chamber of secrets starts popping up and the Heir of Slytherin. Hermine, Ron, and Harry all think it is Maofy. They go to investigate using a potion to transform into Slytherin members. Before they are able to finish the potion a few other people become petrified.
They don't find out much through, but enough to help Ron's father. Otherwise, Herminie turns into a cat and is in the hospital for a few more weeks. She's not out for long before she comes up with an idea and then goes to the library. Right before the next Quiddich game, it's canceled and ron and harry find out that Herminie has been petrified.
Before all of this, Harry found a diary that belonged to a student named Tom Riddle. It gave him more information about the Chamber of Secrets and led to Hagrid being a prime suspect for opening the Chamber of Secrets. It would make sense as he loves monsters and then he was also expelled from Hogwarts in his third year.
After Hermine is found, Ron and Harry go to Hargrid. When they get to him news comes from the Ministry of Magic that Hargid is under arrest and that Dumbledore is no longer headmaster at Hogwarts. Before they leave Hargrid and Dumbledore both say something knowing Harry and Ron are there.
"Follow the spiders" It's a few days after this message before Ron and Harry go into the forbidden forest after the spiders. They find Agroc there and he tells them that the monster in the Chamber of Secrets isn't him but a monster that Spiders hate. After barely escaping the spiders, Harry and Ron go to see Hermine in a slight accident just trying to get out of the room to see about the Chamber. When they go to visit her they find a piece of paper that tells them the monster is a snake and that's why Harry could hear and understand it.
They go into the Chamber of Secrets to find Ginny, Ron's little sister after a message about her being captured. When Harry gets into the big area he finds Ginny, but also Tom Riddle who tells him he is in face Lord Voldemort. Through the help of Dumbledore's phoenix, Harry is able to defeat the Snake and Tom Riddle. When they get back Dumbledore is reinstated and they find that Tom Riddle's diary actually belongs to Maolfy's father and he slipped it to Ginny. Harry also learns that Dobby is the Maolfy's house elf. He trick them into giving Dobby a sock and freeing him.
Pretty much the end at this point.
I think the book is great, I also like the movie, and again they are very similar. I think the first movie and book are more similar, but still very great.
It starts out with Harry Potter waiting for summer to end so he can go back to Hogwarts and his family, the Dursleys are having company and Harry has to be invisible. One problem, Dobby doesn't like this idea. Dobby is a house-elf who tells Harry he can't go back to Hogwarts. Harry tells him no and so Dobby makes a racket and the Dursleys lock Harry in his room and tell him he will never go back to Hogwarts.
One night, Harry, Fred, and George come and rescue Harry and bring him back to their home. While there, Mrs. Weasly takes great care of Harry. Even though the Weaslys are poor and can't afford much, Harry thinks this is the best place he had ever been. When it comes time to get school stuff he finds out just how much the Weaslys struggle.
When he gets back to Hogwarts (which is a struggle to do) he gets detention day one and when he completes his detention and is going back to his dormitory he hears a strange voice about killing. Next thing he knew, Mrs. Norris' cat was dead... or appeared to be. What was it? The whole school is in a little chaos.
Soon rumors about the Chamber of secrets starts popping up and the Heir of Slytherin. Hermine, Ron, and Harry all think it is Maofy. They go to investigate using a potion to transform into Slytherin members. Before they are able to finish the potion a few other people become petrified.
They don't find out much through, but enough to help Ron's father. Otherwise, Herminie turns into a cat and is in the hospital for a few more weeks. She's not out for long before she comes up with an idea and then goes to the library. Right before the next Quiddich game, it's canceled and ron and harry find out that Herminie has been petrified.
Before all of this, Harry found a diary that belonged to a student named Tom Riddle. It gave him more information about the Chamber of Secrets and led to Hagrid being a prime suspect for opening the Chamber of Secrets. It would make sense as he loves monsters and then he was also expelled from Hogwarts in his third year.
After Hermine is found, Ron and Harry go to Hargrid. When they get to him news comes from the Ministry of Magic that Hargid is under arrest and that Dumbledore is no longer headmaster at Hogwarts. Before they leave Hargrid and Dumbledore both say something knowing Harry and Ron are there.
"Follow the spiders" It's a few days after this message before Ron and Harry go into the forbidden forest after the spiders. They find Agroc there and he tells them that the monster in the Chamber of Secrets isn't him but a monster that Spiders hate. After barely escaping the spiders, Harry and Ron go to see Hermine in a slight accident just trying to get out of the room to see about the Chamber. When they go to visit her they find a piece of paper that tells them the monster is a snake and that's why Harry could hear and understand it.
They go into the Chamber of Secrets to find Ginny, Ron's little sister after a message about her being captured. When Harry gets into the big area he finds Ginny, but also Tom Riddle who tells him he is in face Lord Voldemort. Through the help of Dumbledore's phoenix, Harry is able to defeat the Snake and Tom Riddle. When they get back Dumbledore is reinstated and they find that Tom Riddle's diary actually belongs to Maolfy's father and he slipped it to Ginny. Harry also learns that Dobby is the Maolfy's house elf. He trick them into giving Dobby a sock and freeing him.
Pretty much the end at this point.
Movie: Ice Age
A family favorite this is right here. Perfect movie for kids and adults. Most cartoon movies are best for kids, but this one has a lot of comedy that parents will enjoy as well.
It starts three main characters; Manny, a mammoth, Sid, a sloth, and Diego, a saber-tooth tiger. They are all supposed to be migrating south for the ice age that is occurring, but they get slightly side-tracked.
Manny isn't much of a social interactive mammoth. He likes to go solo and thus is migrating north instead of south.
Sid, he runs into Manny because his family left him. He goes and steps into crap and then walks into a pair of rhino's food. Well they want to kill him when he runs into Manny and begs him to safe him.
Diego is with a pack of saber-tooth tigers who want to destroy a human group who killed so many of their own. They want the baby of the leader of the group. Diego runs into Manny and Sid when then baby is saved by Manny. Diego claims he is just trying to take the baby back to his herd.
With a little reluctance, Manny tells Diego he can lead the way but that he has his eye on him. They run into a few problems though. When the baby starts crying they aren't exactly sure what they are supposed to do about it, but turns out the little guy is hungry so they have to get him food.
Along the way, Diego meets up with his pack and tells them that he is bringing them a mammoth. That makes them really excited, but the longer Diego is with Sid and Manny, it's harder for him to want to kill his friends.
In the end, before they get to the ambush spot, Diego tells them the truth so they can work together to save themselves and still get the baby to his family.
While they are taking out the saber-tooth tigers, Diego is hurt and looks like he's out for the count. Manny and Sid reluctantly leave only because they need to get the baby back to his family and they make it just in time.
The three learn a big about each other during this journey and become, as Sid says, an odd herd.
It starts three main characters; Manny, a mammoth, Sid, a sloth, and Diego, a saber-tooth tiger. They are all supposed to be migrating south for the ice age that is occurring, but they get slightly side-tracked.
Manny isn't much of a social interactive mammoth. He likes to go solo and thus is migrating north instead of south.
Sid, he runs into Manny because his family left him. He goes and steps into crap and then walks into a pair of rhino's food. Well they want to kill him when he runs into Manny and begs him to safe him.
Diego is with a pack of saber-tooth tigers who want to destroy a human group who killed so many of their own. They want the baby of the leader of the group. Diego runs into Manny and Sid when then baby is saved by Manny. Diego claims he is just trying to take the baby back to his herd.
With a little reluctance, Manny tells Diego he can lead the way but that he has his eye on him. They run into a few problems though. When the baby starts crying they aren't exactly sure what they are supposed to do about it, but turns out the little guy is hungry so they have to get him food.
Along the way, Diego meets up with his pack and tells them that he is bringing them a mammoth. That makes them really excited, but the longer Diego is with Sid and Manny, it's harder for him to want to kill his friends.
In the end, before they get to the ambush spot, Diego tells them the truth so they can work together to save themselves and still get the baby to his family.
While they are taking out the saber-tooth tigers, Diego is hurt and looks like he's out for the count. Manny and Sid reluctantly leave only because they need to get the baby back to his family and they make it just in time.
The three learn a big about each other during this journey and become, as Sid says, an odd herd.
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