To whoever might find this, I'm running at half mast.
This past year has been a mess of everything: Covid, losing my job, my housing, independence.
I just don't have it in me at the moment to write anything nice or inspiring.
If you find this, leave one of your favorite images from a film, or TV show. Brighten up the blog.
I realize this week that it's been two since I added anything to this blog.
It's been a rough month.
A year since I was laid-off from my job and evicted. Since being home.
Working on this blog every week has given me something to do. The only problem is at this point it's just for me.
I'll probably keep updating it for fun.
Thanks for the journey.
I am currently out of ideas for the moment. Maybe next month I’ll have a film worth talking about.
Any films you love that don’t get discussed? Let me know.
Happy Valentine's week!
I know I'm a few days late, being sick is the pits.
There are a few projects I've been trying to keep in the works. Today I'll post a snippet from NaNoWriMo 2020.
When they entered the house Katherine nearly gagged on the
excess of dust hanging in the air. They
walked in further, and Rhys opened one of the windows. A breeze came in
stirring up the dust in the unused building. Katherine sneezed.
“A bit dusty?”
Katherine looked over at her newly found brother. There was a
sly smirk on his face. Casually putting her hands behind her back, she scooped
up a bit of the dust. Walking over to him she gently blew it into his face,
smiling. As he inhaled it, she stepped back, knowing what would come. As if on
cue he sneezed.
“A bit dusty?” She asked
scarcasticly.
Putting on his best fake smile he stepped forward, scooping
up a handful of dust and walking towards her. The smile turned into a genuine
grin when she moved away.
“No…” she started,
backing away a memory flashed across her mind. “Rhys, don’t you dare . . .”
What have you been up to this week?
I may have done this novel before, but I began rereading it again recently. (Nearly done once more.) It's a nice break from the other novels I've been reading. More light-hearted and what-not.
Here are a few of my favorite aspects of this novel
1. It was written during National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) purely for fun
2. It plays with something every fan has encountered at least once.
3. It doesn't take itself seriously until it does
4. It covers more material than any book that size should (and does it well)
Rainbow Rowell's introduction is pure gold. She states how and why she wrote the book from the very beginning. At the end she then thanks everyone who's ever read or written FanFiction as well.
Ah, FanFiction. The art of taking something you love and writing a new character into the universe to meet the original characters. Taking the original characters and putting them into new circumstances. Slash.
WARNING PAST HERE BE SPOILERS!
This novel follows Cather through her first year of college and all of the awkward socialities that ensue.
We meet the following cast of characters in the regular narrative:
Wren - her twin
Regan - her upperclassman roommate
Levi - The smiling guy who's always in their room
Art - Cather's dad
Nick - fellow student and story thief
Cather prefers to be alone. She goes to classes, engages when she has to, but people are not her cup of tea. (To which I can relate, hiding in my room and avoiding people in the safety of my book-filled bedroom.)
Her preferred method of coping is writing.
FanFiction.
Slash.
Simon Snow and Baz slash, to be precise.
She has been writing her fanfiction, Carry On for two years and has to have it finished before the final book in the series comes out. All while attending college and taking a writing course which wants a 10,000 short story as a final.
Between trying to focus on Simon and Baz and her courses is a bi-weekly meeting with Nick. He's in her Fiction Writing course and wants to "collaborate" *coughstealherstuffcough*. Then there's Levi who's constantly in their room because he's Reagan's boyfriend (or so we assume because Cather assumes).
This novel deals with new roommates, social anxiety, mental health, and abandonment.
I won't spoil it all completely, but the issues that it talks about definitely are not listed in the fun going title. This is an excellent read for anyone beginning college, moving away for the first time, and living with mental issues. It takes us through the steps from the point of view of someone who is coping with them firsthand.
I recommend reading this book. And fear not.
Carry On is next on my To-Read list....provided I don't get caught up in another Cozy Mystery.
What is your favorite novel to read? Any recommendations?
See you next week!
Welcome to the shortest month of the year!
I hope all of you made it okay.
Expect a few new W.I.P.’s this month.
Stay safe and healthy, I'll catch you next week.
It's Obscure Movie Day!!
I realize that I've been doing mostly Disney films. I readily acknowledge that.
It's just that I'm particularly excellent at Disney films. That being stated I am on the lookout for lesser-known films you enjoy watching. I do ask any film recommended to be PG-13 and under.
Which leads me to find out something to do a quick write-up about this week. Getting back on track for this wayward blog.
For some of the entries, I've gone to the back of my DVD case (you read that right, case). Though now it's a bit more frustrating figuring out which to pick.
I suppose that for the sake of a new year, and a new time line . . . hmmm. . . .
Based on a novel of the same name by an author you're bound to recognize.
In 1999 Michael Crichton wrote a novel based on the science of time travel. He takes a group of archeologists from the modern era and twists their world up around.
In the midst of an unopened, unexplored site the group uncovers something unordinary. Something that looks centuries old, but couldn't possibly be.
A pair of glasses.
This leds them to a secret organization that's been making a time travelling machine.
The group travel back over six hundred years to confront a war between English and the French.
Check it out, it's a surprisingly fun film.
I'll catch you next week. Be safe and take joy in the little things.
