books and tv updates

Havent read very much lately….I started a book which I thought was the 2nd one to the “Great and terrible beauty” but then realized that it was actually the 3rd. haha
Then I tried to get through that one bookclub book which took forever.(or maybe it just felt like it)
Now I’m reading this new book which has 8 books in the series-and we all know how much I like that to happen- called the Outlander.

It’s been interesting. It’s long…..and there is of course the unnecessary sex scenes in it but it’s got a good story line to it.

I'm also working on Very Valentine by Adriana Trigiani. So far it's good and I like this author. She wrote the Big Gap Stone series and I loved those.
She's a good writer w/out all the sex and violence and language. 

                                   Now for TV updates.

Big Brother BABY!!!!
That started this past Thursday and is my summer favorite. Its on 3 nights a week and is so much fun. New season, new cast. Already have picked the people I dont like and the ones that I do.

The Gates
This is a new show on Sundays about a gated community which is supposed to be really safe because of the gate but of course they aren’t that safe. This also has a vampire/werewolf/witch aspect to it. I’ve enjoyed it so far so I hope it does good, but experience tells it probably wont last long.

 America's Got Talent

My exchange student Victor and I started watching this last summer. There were a few good people on there like Barbara Padilla who made me cry each time she performed. She didnt win which was dumb.
So now it's a new season and for the same reasons I stopped watching American Idol....I'm not watching this one anymore. They spend too much time with the IDIOTS who just want on the stage in order to be the next William Hung.
This week it was Vegas week and I spent 3 hrs watching them put through some of the good ones but more of the bad ones. They criticize performers even to the point of telling one he could disqualified for going over his performance time and then put him through. This old lady got put through and she is horrible, cant sing, cant play but they think she's cute and funny. Really?????
Anyway....There really isnt anyone that holds my interest like Barbara did last year so I'm done.

Drop Dead Diva
This is a cute show. This perfect model w/ a perfect life dies and comes back in the body of this overweight, stressed out lawyer. We're into season 2 this summer and it's just a fun little quirky show.




Curb Your Enthusiasm
TVGN is now playing reruns from this HBO sereis created by Larry David  who created Seinfeld. He stars in the show and it's just daily stupid life stories. I love it...it's great....I'm glad I'm watching on TVGN so that they clean up.
It's my new show that I look forward to. 

Three Rivers
This CBS show came out at the beginning of Fall season last September. It's another hospital show w/ twist. They specialize in organ transplant. It was a good show....has Alex O'Laughlin whom I LOVE!!!!(he's from the Moonlight series) They took it off soon but it's been playing again w/new episodes on Saturday nights this summer.

The Forgotten
I really liked this show. Christian Slater totally redeemed himself in my eyes with this show. It's about a group that takes Jane/John Doe cases and in the end, finds out who they are and how they were killed. It was interesting and I loved all the characters. They took this show off as well. But the past two weeks there were some new ones. My niece said they're probably ones they didnt show before they took it off. If it doesnt come back...I will miss this one!!!

The Office
So this one has been around awhile and I've been watching it for awhile but I just had to throw this one in. The people who created this show are GENIOUS's. My DVR tapes this show's reruns everyday and we've also watched all the seasons either on dvd or Netflix and still cant get enough. On Tuesdays TBS has a 3 hr set and Dyl and I look forward to watching these even tho we've seen them a thousand times. I also keep several random episodes on my dvr list just in case we have nothing to watch, we always fall back to The Office!
Take a close look at this pic. It's so messed up!!!! love it

more updates and reviews

 

Remember Me –dvd This movie was really good. Kinda dark but with a cute love story and an unexpected ending. Of course it doesn’t hurt that it has Rob Pattinson in it. I do like how even with all the Twilight hype going on…he can make a movie and you don’t even think of him as Edward.

What a girl wants- tv This has Colin Firth in it…one of my most faves and I’ve never seen this before. So I sat down to watch it and it was cute and quirky with a good Cinderella storyline.

 

Avatar the last airbender- Netflix This is a 3 season series that Dylan actually got me hooked on. It’s a cartoon that was on Nickelodean awhile back.We watched all 3 seasons to prepare for the movie that would be coming out at the time and tho at first I balked at watching it, I ended up liking it very much and loving the characters. 

 

Last chance Harvey –Netflix I was unsure if I wanted to see this movie. It looked kind of boring, but I was bored one night and it does have Emma Thompson whom I love so I decided to give it a chance and it was actually pretty good. Not over the top WOW…but just nice with some good acting and a nice story line!

Dear John – dvd This one was ok. I don’t like Nicholas Sparks books but I did like The Notebook as a movie so I took a chance w/this one. It was ok. Typical storyline!

Toy Story 3 theater- The Toy Story movies have always been a favorite in our
house so of course we had to see the 3^rd.  It ended up tho w/Dylan working and ect. he hasn’t seen it yet but Sylvia and I went and saw it in 3-D. It was really good. I think they did great for a 3^rd movie. The bad thing is that at the end I bawled and bawled. I literally was trying to hold myself together as not to embarrass Sylvia. I even had a hard time leaving the theater and on the way home. I’m a sap, I know. We still have Dyls TS toys and w/him graduating this year it was a little tooooo close to home.

Shrek 4 –theater This was actually awhile ago and I didn’t comment on it. The last in the Shrek series and it was good. A little dark but good. I loved Puss as a fat/lazy cat. So funny!

JUNE bookclub

I cant believe its July and I didn’t even write about June’s bookclub meeting.  This month we met at Bryanna Elliotts house (sidenote: I have never been there and was totally amazed at it. It’s big and beautiful with rich colors and unusual rooms!!) So, the book was picked out by Kathy Hansen which was The Shadow of your Smile by Mary Higgins Clark
http://www.maryhigginsclark.com/book_page.php?isbn13=9781439172261  

I’m sorry to say that I did not enjoy it at all. I really wanted to because I didn’t want to hurt Kathy’s feelings but I just couldn’t get into it. There were others that said the same but the ended up liking it the more they read but for some reason I just couldn’t. We had a good discussion about it and it was fun hearing the others take on the book. Also that night it was Becky Yawney’s bday and someone had put together a basket of goodies for her! She enjoyed it of course. Now…in our club whosever house we have the meeting at, picks the book for next month but in this case, Bry wanted to have it at her house but didn’t want to pick the book so they volunteered me to pick the book since I don’t have a place that will hold everyone. I thought and thought and chose “The Story of Edgar Sawtelle” by David Wroblewski. I loved it so I hope they do too.