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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Movies for the New Year- SuperHero Fans will be thrilled

January
From Prada to Nada -twist on sense and sensibility-looks so cute!
Season of the Witch-Nicolas Cage is a knight sent to deliver a witch to her execution- interesting for sure.

February
The Eagle
Roman Legion captain"s son travels to Breton to find out what happened to his father.
Waiting for Forever-this movie looks like it could be bittersweet.
Just go with it- Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler-need I say more??

March-Full of suspense, romance and drama
RedRiding Hood-a bit on the erie side..hmm not sure if I will see this one or not.
Jane Eyre I know i posted this before-but now you can watch the trailer!! HERE
The Adjustment Bureau - Matt Damon fights his fate while holding on to love.
Beastly-modern day take on beauty and the beast
Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2
April
Water for elephants
-not sure what this one will be rating wise-but looks good!
Robert Pattinson/Reese Witherspoon
May-Adventure Month
Thor

Pirates of the Carribean
Kung Fu Panda 2
Men in Black 3 -man it's been a long time ..hope it's better than the second.

June
Green Lantern
XMen-First Class
Cars 2

July
Transformers-Dark of the Moon
Winnie the Pooh

The Smurfs-I really hope this one is not dissapointing.
Harry Potter-The deathly Hollows pt. 2
Captain America: The First Avenger

August-
Spy Kids 4
Conan the barbarian..This version supposed to be more accurate than Arnolds.

The Avengers (2012)-great cast full of superheros (Iron man, green lantern, incred. hulk, thor..etc)

Okay so all the guys who loved comic books/cartoons growing up are going to love 2011/12

Saturday, December 11, 2010

I've read 21 of them..what about you??

My reading list for the future:
Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.

• Bold those books you've read in their entirety.
• Italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read only an excerpt.
Tag other book nerds. Tag me as well so I can see your responses!

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - On my bookshelf for someday.
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma -Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis (shhh...don't tell anyone)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas On my bookshelf for someday.
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Friday, December 10, 2010

Haircut

Whitney has been begging me to cut her hair-so tonight I finally did.

Cut about 4 inches off.


Thursday, December 09, 2010

Tis the Season....to be busy


That is one reason why it's taking me forever to get posts up. Well here is what I have been up to lately:

Brooke turned 3!!!


Decorated for Christmas-our nativity stockings!



Made ornaments!! My tree has a Nutcracker Theme!



Enjoyed this cutie!!