Well...there has currently been some madness this mouth. A little virus is going around making people fight over toilet paper.
I go to a collage in the middle of nowhere. You will think that the last place to get infected. Well the collage shut down anyways and move classes online. Half the people left and the ones that stay are party animals. After waking up in the middle of the nigh and waiting in the freezing cool rain because, someone pull the fire alarm and then in the mourning walking in to the dorm lobby to see boxes of beer and pizza pile up in the trash. I decided to pack up what I needed and take my chances at home.
Now all classes are online for the rest of semester and I'm waiting for the collage to say I can go back and get the rest of my stuff from my dorm.
Books read this mouth: 8
Books: 4
ebook: 2
Audio: 2
A little corner of the Internet I made to talk about my two favorite things, books and movies.
3/31/20
March wrap-up 2020
3/30/20
Zahrah the Windseeker

Author: Nnedi Okorafo-Mbachu
Genre: Fantasy, Greenpunk
Age: MG
Summary: In the northern Ooni Kingdom, fear of the unknown runs deep, and children born dada are rumored to have special powers. Thirteen-year-old Zahrah Tsami feels like a normal girl -- she grows her own flora computer, has mirrors sewn onto her clothes, and stays clear of the Forbidden Greeny Jungle. But unlike other kids in the village of Kirki, Zahrah was born with the telling dadalocks. Only her best friend, Dari, isn't afraid of her, even when something unusual begins happening -- something that definitely makes Zahrah different. The two friends investigate, edging closer and closer to danger. When Dari's life is threatened. Zahrah must face her worst fears alone, including the very thing that makes her different.
Labels:
Adventure,
Book Review,
High fantasy,
Middle Grade
3/27/20
Land of the Lost: Movie Review

Rated: PG-13 - rude and sexual content
Year of Release: 2009
Director: Brad Silberling
Summary: On his latest expedition, Dr. Rick Marshall is sucked into a space-time vortex alongside his research assistant and a redneck survivalist. In this alternate universe, the trio make friends with a primate named Chaka, their only ally in a world full of dinosaurs and other fantastic creatures.
3/25/20
Forget Me Not

Author: Ellie Terry
Genre: Contemporary, friendship, Mantel illness/neurological disorder
Age: MG
Summary: Another break up, another move. Once again Calli is moving to a new town and is going to a new school. Cali June has Tourette syndrome, sometimes she makes faces and noise she doesn’t mean to make. She tries to hide her TS but, it isn’t long before kids at her new school realize she different. Only Cali’s neighbor sees her as she truly is, an interesting person and a good friend. Is he brave enough to take their friendship public?
Wedesday Weekly Bloggig Challenge #1
This Week's Topic is Favorites things I like to do in spring.
Walking around barefooted, as a kid my older brother and I will run around barefooted and climb trees. Wearing no shoes has continue as I gotten older. There something about feeling the soft earth beneath my feet.
The spring time is when I start to work in my garden. I'll be out there for most of the day. By the time I'm done my lags, feet, and hands will be cover in dirt. I like working in my garden because I know it going to pay off in end with tons of fruits and vegetables to eat.
What I grow is blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, grapes, tomatoes, different types of squash, peppers, different types of herbs, and since my little brother like watching the show 'The Offices' I get him a seed packet of beets as a joke.
3/20/20
The Lion Boy Trilogy

Genre: Dystopian
Age: MG
POV: 1st person
Book One: Lion Boy
Summary: Set in the near future, Charlie is a boy who can talk to cats. His parents are top scientist. One day Charlie comes home to find out his parents have been kidnapped. Stealing away on a circus ship, Charlie befriends a pride of lions. Can Charlie help the lions escape and find his parents in time?
Labels:
Adventure,
Book Review,
dystopian,
Middle Grade,
Sci-fic
3/18/20
The City of Dreaming Books

Goodreads Review
Author: Walter Mores
Genre: Fantasy
Age: YA/Adult
POV: 1st told from the view of Optimus Yarnspinner
Summary: After his godfather’s death, Optimus Yarnspinner much go to Bookholm to track down an author who wrote a strange meanspirited. Soon Yarnspinner falls prey to the city’s evil genius who traps Yarnspinner in the pearliest labyrinth beneath Bookholm.
Labels:
Adult,
Book Review,
High fantasy,
YA
3/16/20
The Sword of Summer: Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard

Genre: fantasy, mythology
Age: MG
POV: 1st person
Series: Mangus Chase and the Gods of Asgard #1 The Sword of Summer
Summary: One day, Magnus learns that someone else is trying to track him down— his uncle Randolph, a man his mother had always warned him about. When Magnus tries to outmaneuver his uncle, he falls right into his clutches. Randolph starts rambling about Norse history and Magnus's birthright: a weapon that has been lost for thousands of years.
The more Randolph talks, the more puzzle pieces fall into place. Stories about the gods of Asgard, wolves, and Doomsday bubble up from Magnus's memory. But he doesn't have time to consider it all before a fire giant attacks the city, forcing him to choose between his own safety and the lives of hundreds of innocents.
Labels:
Action,
Adventure,
Book Review,
Middle Grade,
mythology
3/14/20
Book Blogger Hop #4
3/13/20
Yesterday: Movie Review

Rated: PG-13
Year of Release: 2019
Director: Danny Boyle
Summary: A struggling musician realizes he's the only person on Earth who can remember The Beatles after waking up in an alternate timeline where they never existed.
3/12/20
The Gunslinger: The Dark Tower

Series: The Gunslinger book one
Genre: High fantasy, Cattlepunk
Age: YA, Adult
POV: 3rd person
Series: The Dark Tower #1The Gunslinger
Summary: Roland of Gilead, The Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner on a spellbinding journey into good and evil. In his desolate world, which frighteningly mirrors our own, Roland pursues The Man in Black, encounters an alluring woman named Alice, and begins a friendship with the Kid from Earth called Jake.
Labels:
Action,
Adult,
Book Review,
High fantasy,
YA
3/11/20
Reading the World: Which was Witch? Tales of Ghosts and Magic from Korea
Goodreads
Author: Eleanore M. Jewett
Illustrated by Taro Yashima
Where did I find this book: A private school was having a yard sale. There were boxes line up on the sidewalk. In those boxes were books loosely shorted so, non-fiction was mixed in with fiction. A majority of the books were from their school library and this book was one of the library books. It even still has the card in the back with names written on it of who check it out.
Review: There are fourteen different stories from Korea each centering around magic and trickery.
Author: Eleanore M. Jewett
Illustrated by Taro Yashima
Where did I find this book: A private school was having a yard sale. There were boxes line up on the sidewalk. In those boxes were books loosely shorted so, non-fiction was mixed in with fiction. A majority of the books were from their school library and this book was one of the library books. It even still has the card in the back with names written on it of who check it out.
Review: There are fourteen different stories from Korea each centering around magic and trickery.
3/10/20
TTT #33 Books with one word titles
Top ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by the Artsy Reader Girl. This weeks topic is last week's topic books with single word titles. I'm not a fan of anti-social media.
1. Hood
Author: Stephen R. Lawhead
1. Hood
Author: Stephen R. Lawhead
3/6/20
Tintin: Movie review

Genre: Action, adventure
Rated: PG
Director: Steven Spielberg
Year of Release: 2011
Summary: Having bought a model ship, the Unicorn, for a pound off a market stall Tintin (Jamie Bell) is initially puzzled that the sinister Mr. Sakharine (Daniel Craig) should be so eager to buy it from him, resorting to murder and kidnapping Tintin - accompanied by his marvelous dog Snowy - to join him and his gang as they sail to Morocco on an old cargo ship. Sakharine has bribed the crew to revolt against the ship's master, drunken Captain Haddock (Andy Serkis), but Tintin, Snowy and Haddock escape, arriving in Morocco at the court of a sheikh, who also has a model of the Unicorn. Haddock tells Tintin that over three hundred years earlier his ancestor Sir Francis Haddock was forced to scuttle the original Unicorn when attacked by a piratical forebear of Sakharine but he managed to save his treasure and provide clues to its location in three separate scrolls, all of which were secreted in models of the Unicorn.
3/5/20
The A-Z Book Tag
A - author you’ve read the most books by
This is a no brainer
Defiantly the warrior cat books by Erin Hunter - 40+ books
Terry Pratchett - 16 books
Brian Jacques - 13 books
3/4/20
Red Sparrow

Goodreads review
Author: Jason Matthews
Genre: Spy thriller, erotic
Age: Adult
POV: 3rd person
Summary: In contemporary Russia, state intelligence officer Dominika Egorova has been drafted to become a “Sparrow”—a spy trained in the art of seduction to elicit information from their marks. She’s been assigned to Nathaniel Nash, a CIA officer who handles the organization’s most sensitive penetration of Russian intelligence. The two young intelligence officers, trained in their respective spy schools, collide in a charged atmosphere of tradecraft, deception, and inevitably, a forbidden spiral of carnal attraction that threatens their careers and the security of America’s valuable mole in Moscow.
Labels:
Adult,
Book Review,
Espionage,
Thriller
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