Books
Forever by Maggie Stievflater
This is the 3rd and final (so far) book to the Shiver series and I really enjoyed it. Thought it ended quite well and was really sad for it to end. This series has been one of my favorites.
Winter garden by Kristin Hannah
This is the author of Firefly Lane which I loved and this book was even better. Has several stories w/in stories and was really captivating.
Magic hour by Kristin Hannah
So third book by this author and she is now one of my favorites. This book was sooo good. Had great relationships and storyline and characters. Definitely reading more by her.
(Before you pass out from seeing only 3 books on here, I was ill for about 14 days and the end of July-1st of August and didn’t have the energy or the want to read. It was very awful but I’m trying to catch up now.)
Movies
Harry potter 7 part 2-Theater
The finale in the series! Cant believe it’s been this long. We saw the very 1st HP movie for Dylan’s 9th birthday. It was a really good movie and tho of course things get left out…it did what it needed to do. I was really happy w/it.
Made in heaven-TV
Timothy Hutton, Kelly McGillis, Debra Winger. This was made in the 80’s and was one I liked to watch but haven’t seen it in a very long time. It’s about a boy that dies and in heaven falls in love w/ a girl but she gets sent to earth as a baby and he’s allowed to go back as well as a baby and has till he’s 25 to find her. It was good even after all these years.
Christina Aguilara, Eric Dane(twilight), Cher. I only watched this one out of boredom but it turned out to be ok. Christina wasn’t too bad as an actress and the movie wasn’t boring but does have a typical storyline, so if you like musicals…this one would be a good one to watch.
So there’s a whole lot I can say about these movies. They’ve been my favorite for a very long time. I was just going to watch the first one and ended up watching all 3 over a few days and it was a lot of fun!!!
Been wanting to see this for quite sometime too and loved it. How could you not. It’s made by Daryn Tafts(singles ward) and Jeff Knudsen and they go around asking people questions about the church and get some really off the wall answers at times. It was funny and interesting and really enjoyed it.
Will Swenson, Connie Young, Daryn Tufts, Kirby
Heyborne. I think this movie was the first in a series of funny, popular church movies.
Partially inactive guy, meets pretty very active girl and sparks fly. Guy has very interesting friends which add to the mix , along w those primary songs turned into modern rock music. How can you not love the humor of it all??? There’s a sequel as well that I haven’t seen.
Pride and Prejudice Pink-DVD
Another in church made movies…based on P & P and it has a pink cover so I call it the pink one since I have 4 different versions I have to differentiate from. This one is an updated version and has great acting, likeable actors and is done really well. Another favorite.
Another churchy movie about an Rm that returns and no once is expecting him and his life does not go how he thought it was supposed to go after you serve a full time mission. This one has a lot of Church Lingo and has one of the best lines I’ve heard…..
Rm- “mom, you’re pregnant?”
Shot to the dad w/his hands up
Dad-“Hey, I didn’t know til the Visting Teachers told me.”
Classic!!!!!
The third wheel-Netflix Instant
Ben Affleck, Luke Wilson, Denise Richards, Jay
Lacopo. This is a comedy about a guy who falls in love w/ the hottest girl in the office and finally after about a year asks her out on a date and during the date hits a mentally challenged man w his car and the date ends up being all that guy. It was cute.
The animal-Netflix Instant
Rob Schneider,
Seen this one before and was kind of funny. As w/ any Rob movie there’s always funny parts and inappropriate parts as well. But I enjoyed watching it again.
Johnny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie
This one was funny to watch cause they’re all so young it and it’s such a bad movie but it was fun to watch in that it was so bad I couldn’t stop.
Four weddings and a funeral-TV
Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, James Fleet,
Simon Callow
Love this movie soooooo much. Love Hugh of course, love the accents, love the clothing, love the scenery, love the storyline. Just love it all.
Not since you-Netflix Instant
Elijah woods and other people but not worth mentioning.
This was just ok. It wasn’t bad but not brilliant either. College friends get back together for a wedding, but the bride is still in love w/ one of the others and that’s what the story is about.
This was a terrible movie. The previews made it seem ok but I remember Dylan telling me it wasn’t so I watched this out of boredom. Some parts were ok. I liked how the aliens were really aggressive in killing everyone, but the ending was just soooooo stupid that it killed the whole movie.
Someone was watching-byu TV
This I watched off the BYU channel and it was actually kind of cute. I sister is abducted while the brother is supposed to be watching her and because they were near a canal, everyone believes she is dead. But the brother and his friend don’t believe that and start investigating a family that moved the next day of the “accident”. Its kind of weird to say it would be a great family movie given the abduction and all, but it was good and it was on the BYU CHANNEL!!!!
Love this movie.
An enigmatic young man with startlingly white skin and
extraordinary abilities is discovered living in the cellar of a remote farmhouse and changes the people of the town.
This was one of those movies that I consider a generational movie. It was a big deal among the teens of that day. I love this movie….only problem is I don’t watch it too often cause the song in the movie, they play that same song throughout the whole movie and it gets on my nerves.
Moving mcallister-Netflix Instant
Benjamin Gourley, Mila Kunis, Jon Heder, Rutger
Hauer. Benjamin is from the Pink Pride and Prejudice I talked about earlier. Mila Kunis, that 70’s show. Jon Heder, Napolean Dynamite and then Rutger Hauer…
This is a quirky very cute movie about a guy working in a law firm and the boss hires him to move his niece and its all around the time he has to take the bar exam so of course all these crazy things happen along the way. It’s very well done and I love it.
We read this book for bkclub and I couldn’t put it down so I was really excited when I heard they were making it into a movie. In my opinion Its one of the better book to movie movies. At the time of this writing, I’ve actually seen it 3 times and each time was just as good!!!
What an awesome movie. Disney did great once again. Great characters and storyline and just loved the horse. It really is a must see for everyone!!
Babe pig in the city-Netflix Instant
Such a classic movie….Love that little pig and all those pets in the hotel they stay at.
Planet of the apes-Theater
Wow…..Loved this movie. It didn’t hurt too that Andy Serkis (LOR fame) did the acting for the ape. This is one of those movies that you’re not quite sure how it’ll be but I was very happy w/it….tho not too sure about the ending.
Christian Slater, Mary Stuart Masterson
A romantic movie from the mid 90’s back when Slater was GORGEOUS. I haven’t seen it in a long time and still enjoyed it.
This one is another romantic comedy tho its more of a train wreck comedy. This girl becomes paranoid of her boyfriend and when he leaves his palm pilot behind, she looks through it and all heck insues. It should be seen at least once. Oh and Gavin Rossdale (of the band Bush) is in it.
So this is a rather new and strange movie. It was pretty interesting and I don’t want to talk to much about it because you really just have to watch it
This one was pretty good too. Kind of strange storyline and you know how its going to end but it was fun watching it.
This one was really good til about the middle and then it got predictable and boring. But the concept of the movie was good.
TV
I watched this the last week of my horrible illness I had. Dylan had watched it all a few months back and it took him about 2 months(granted he was still in school) but it took me 7 days. 7 seasons, 20+ episodes a season and it was a lot of fun. It was one of those where when you finish you feel like the characters are your friends. Some parts were kind of inappropriate due to talking about sex and smoking pot but there are a lot of funny characters and situations that happen. My favorite characters are Red, the hard nosed father that hates everybody and everything and Kelso who is so concerned w/his looks and trying to “burn” all of his friends. The last season was a little awkward, Kelso was gone, a new guy was in, Eric was gone so you just kind felt like they were just getting through the season. But it ended well which almost like the beginning of the 1st season which I thought was really clever.
MUSIC
So, I’ve never been one to have the latest electronic devices mostly to due to money or sometimes no interest. Awhile back, one of Dyls friends sold him an Ipod and he used it and I tried a couple of games on it and it was fun. After he got back from working in Bellingham and having extra money on hand, he purchased one that had a camera and could do ‘facetime’ and he gave me his. So….now I cant imagine what life was like before I had this. I have my Foo downloaded to it and it’s all digital so even the cd that had scratches on it….you don’t hear them on this and I love to play all these different games including the words games you play w/other people. I have bought books to download and read off of it and I can check my Facebook from any part of the house.
So, Now I’m in love and stay up way too late at night playing games and getting on the internet. My reading and work has suffered because of it and the bad thing is now I want an IPAD!!!!
