Books
The Dry Grass of Autumn by Anna Jean Mayhew
This book is what I described as The Help meets the Secret Life of Bees. This is set in the 50’s and the main character has a dysfunctional family but has a good relationship w/the families negro maid and the book just goes through racism, even within the family and there’s a tragedy as well. It was a good read, but the ending for me just sort of left me w the feeling of what was the point of reading this.
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
This is another biographical book set in the early 40’s in America/Ireland of a little boy and his life growing up w/ an alcoholic father who would rather drink than bring home money for his family to eat or live properly. It was a good book. Someone somewhere, don’t remember, was all hyped about this book but even tho it was a good read, I didn’t see the big hype about it. And it might be because I loved Glass Castle so much, so maybe since the stories were basically the same it wasn’t fresh for me. I’d like to know other peoples opinions of this book.
Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
This one is a big hit with me. It starts out w/ 2 teenage girls but the story goes through to adulthood and their friendship that lasts through all the crap the people bring to their lives. It does have a few swear words and has some moral issues but I loved it so so much. This is a must read.
The Davis Family History
This is a book my dad started after my mom passed away. It basically chronicles his life, my moms life, a little of us as their children, people, stories, letters, drawings and pictures that he remembers and mean a lot to him. It’s for his posterity!!! It was a lot of fun to read. So many memories are in this book and it’s kinda fun to have little pieces of yourself and your memories laid out in a book like this. It was fun and stressing for him to make (Its over 600pgs.) but was very very worth it.
Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
This book is related to The Glass Castle book as it’s about the grandma from said book Lily Casey Smith. It was another great book by this author. I realy like her style of writing and I like how she describes these two books as “True Life Novels” since they are biographical but read like a novel. This book should really be read along w/the Glass Castle either before or after. I found it really interesting reading it after cause you could see the patterns starting the Glass Castle story.
Movies
there are too many movies this time…(Ive had a lot of time on my hands lately.)
So I’m doing a rating system……Must see, Loved it, Just Ok, or Booo!!
Easy A-TV
Loved it
Just go with it-redbox
Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston
Just ok
Chronicles of Narnia Voyage of the Dawn Treader-redbox
Must see
True grit-redbox
Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon
Loved it
Butterfly effect-netflix dvd
Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart
Just ok
Iron man 2-netflix
Robert Downey Jr, Gwyneth Paltrow
Loved it
Wings of the dove-netflix
Helena Bonham Carter, Elizabeth McGovern, Michael Gambon
Just ok
Molly-tv
Just ok
Battle LA-redbox
Boooo
I am number 4-redbox
Alex Pettyfer, Timothy Olyphant
Loved it
Notting hill-netflix
Hugh Grant, Julia Roberts
Loved it and must see
Lucky 7-tv
Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Patrick Dempsey
Must see
Benny and joon-netflix
Johnny Depp, Mary Stuart Masterson, Aidan Quinn, Julianne Moore
Must see
Wild target redbox
Emily Blunt, Bill Nighy, Rupert Grint , Rupert Everett
Loved it
Forget paris –tv
Debra Winger, Billy Crystal
Booo
The bumblebee flies away-tv
Elijah Wood
boooo
The invasion-tv
Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig
Just ok
Alicia Silverstone, Woody Harrelson
Must see-netflix
boooo
Americas Sweethearts-netflix
Just ok
My girlfriends boyfriend-netflix
Alyssa Milano
Boooo- didn’t even finish it
The scarlet tunic-netflix
Boooo
The best of times-netflix
Robin Williams and Kurt Russell
Just ok
Diane Lane, John Malkovich
Must see- I ddnt think I was going to like this one and only watched it out of boredom but it was really really good.
TV
Americas got talent season3
So this show started back up a few weeks ago. Now they’re down to the final 48 and so far they’ve kept who I wanted to see on the show so I’m happy so far. We’ll see cause the last 2 seasons I watched did not go the way I wanted it.
So far I like the pole dancing guy and Snap Boogie
Expedition Impossible-ABC
This is another reality show and also done w/Mark Burnett(survivor) and is A LOT like Amazing Race though I think they’re only in one spot not traveling all over. I only watched it once cause I didn’t like it. They had the team that all they did was fight and scream at each other which gets old and then they focused on this one team that I ddnt find very interesting, I wanted to see more of the other teams. I was going to try it again the next week and forgot to tape it and now another show is on at the same time which is more important.
This is another reality show and its premise is 10 girls and 10 guys are out in the jungle and they can choose a partner each week and try to find love. At the big ceremony at the end of the show, they choose their next partners and the one girl and one guy that haven’t been chosen, go home. It’s actually been good so far.
Melissa and Joey- ABC Family
This show has been on for awhile but I’ve never watched it til I wanted to watch the series of State of Georgia and its on before that one. It’s a single aunt taking care of 2 kids while their mom is in jail and she hires a boy nanny for the kids. I’ve watched this one twice (at the time of this writing) and am not impressed at all. There’s too much talk about sex and unmarried pregnancy and all in front of the kids and it has bad acting and I don’t like it. Wont watch this anymore.
State of Georgia- ABC Family
This show is new for the summer and it has Raven Symone who hasn’t done anything since Disney, but now she’s all grown up and this show is trying to prove that. It’s been ok. There’s only been 2 shows at the time of this writing and while its not GREAT…it’s been ok to watch.
Switched at birth-ABC Family
This is a new show for the summer and it’s really good. It’s about 2 teenage girls that find out they were switched at birth (hence the title) and the families kind of mesh together so that both sides can get to know one another. One of the girls is deaf which adds to the drama. It’s been really good so far….even Dylan likes it.
BIG BROTHER is back!!!! Anyone that knows me well, knows this my all time favorite summer show. This season’s theme is Dynamic Duo’s and they brought back 3 past couples. Jeff and Jordan,(yay) Evel Dick and Danielle(yay) and Rachel and Brenden(UGH)! BB also paired up the other houseguests so everyone plays as a team. Only the voting is separate. I’m really excited to start my BB Summer.
Music
I heard a song on my drive to work one day. I don’t ever turn on the radio on my way TO work, sometimes on my way home, so I like to think that I was inspired to turn my radio just to hear this song. I had to google the song just by using a line from the lyrics and up popped “Jar of Hearts” by Christina Perri. So I youtubed it and found the video. She has another song called Arms and both of these songs are on her debut album Lovestrong. She has a great voice and just love both songs I’ve heard.
