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Bring it on, 2017!

Daaang! Have I really not posted ANYTHING since May?!  Here i am, for at least ONE post this year... Last year was amazing for us. We were crazy, and hectic, and chaos reigned supreme, but it was Great! The good stuff: We bought a new home! We have way more room, and are super excited about it. Its been very busy, packing, moving, unpacking, and cleaning the old house! But it was obviously a big improvement for us!  Bought a new truck. Went to Six Flags all year, which was the first year we did anything like that. (Season passes to anything) Totally worth it for all the memories. I got to go on my first cruise, with my best friend. I really believe that you have to invest in your marriage, so that was awesome. We got 2 new baby kittens!! Who are a pain in the butt most of time, but who we love so very much! Dani got the braces she so desperately wanted (and needed). And won 2nd place in the spelling bee! Max lost his first teeth, AND started...

Queen of Zombie Hearts

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Title: Queen of Zombie Hearts Author: Gena Showalter Summary: I thought I had nothing left to give. I thought wrong. They started the war. Now I will end it. In the stunning conclusion to the wildly popular  White Rabbit Chronicles , Alice "Ali" Bell thinks the worst is behind her... until Anima Industries, the agency controlling the zombies, launches a zneak attack, killing four of her friends. It's then she realises only the worst has only begun. As the surviving slayers prepare for war, Ali discovers she, too, can control the zombies... and she isn't the girl she thought she was. She's connected to the woman responsible for killing — and turning — her boyfriend's mother. How can their relationship endure? As secrets come to light, and more slayers are taken or killed, Ali will fight harder than ever to bring down Anima — even sacrificing her own life for those she loves. Review: So... this book was good. A  lot of times the end of a series does...

Through the Zombie Glass Review

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Title: Through the Zombie Glass Author: Gena Showalter Summary:    Zombies stalk the night. Forget blood and brains. These monsters hunger for human souls. Sadly, they've got mine... Alice Bell has lost so much. Family. Friends. A home. She thought she had nothing else to give. She was wrong. After a new zombie attack, strange things begin to happen to her. Mirrors come to life, and the whispers of the dead assault her ears. But the worst? A terrible darkness blooms inside her, urging her to do very wicked things. She's never needed her team of zombie slayers more, but ultra bad-boy Cole Holland, the leader and her boyfriend, suddenly withdraws from her...from everyone. Now, with her best friend Kat at her side, Ali must kill the zombies, uncover Cole's secret and learn to fight the darkness. But the clock is ticking...and if she fails at a single task, they're all doomed. Review :  This book ventured even further than any kind of retelling. I guess I need t...

Alice in Zombieland...

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Title: Alice in Zombieland Author: Gena Showalter Summary:   She won't rest until she's sent every walking corpse back to its grave. Forever. If anyone had told Alice Bell that her entire life would change course between one heartbeat and the next, she would have laughed. From blissful to tragic, innocent to ruined? Please. But that's all it took. One heartbeat. A blink, a breath, a second, and everything she knew and loved was gone. Her father was right. The monsters are real. To avenge her family, Ali must learn to fight the undead. To survive, she must learn to trust the baddest of the bad boys, Cole Holland. But Cole has secrets of his own, and if Ali isn't careful, those secrets might just prove to be more dangerous than the zombies. Review :  So, Alice in Zombieland, while not really an Alice in wonderland retelling at all, is still an awesomely exciting novel.   The beginning of this novel- in the very first chapter- is devastating, and thrusts ...

Throne of Glass Review

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Title: Throne of Glass Author: Sarah J Maas Summary: After serving out a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, 18-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is dragged before the Crown Prince. Prince Dorian offers her her freedom on one condition: she must act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin. Her opponents are men-thieves and assassins and warriors from across the empire, each sponsored by a member of the king's council. If she beats her opponents in a series of eliminations, she'll serve the kingdom for four years and then be granted her freedom. Celaena finds her training sessions with the captain of the guard, Westfall, challenging and exhilirating. But she's bored stiff by court life. Things get a little more interesting when the prince starts to show interest in her... but it's the gruff Captain Westfall who seems to understand her best. Then one of the other contestants turns up dead... quickly followed by a...

Haiku challenge. Vote please...

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Haiku   is a form of traditional Japanese poetry  consisting of three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables.   Examples: So... Those are Haikus.  Until yesterday, I'd never tried to write one. However, since there's this little competition with a local library, I decided I'd give it a shot. So I wrote a few, and I'd appreciate some feedback. Which of these do you think would be more likely to win.  1.  Reading 2.  Writing 3.  Nothing Alternate: Until I had Children. 4.  Fail 5. Mom 6.  Music 6.5  Song Haiku Challenge 1. Reading 2. Writing 3. Nothing 4. Fail 5. Mom 6. Music 6.5 song Do Quizzes

The Power by JLA- Review

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Wow. So, The Power by Jennifer L Armentrout was just released a few days ago. In preparation for the release, I reread The Return, which made me fall for Josie and Seth all over again. So, some back story real fast. I love the Covenant Series. Its my favorite series by JLA, even more than Daemon and Katy in the Lux series. I love Alex and Aiden so hard its totally not even funny. So, when The Titan series came out focusing on Seth, I was... well I had mixed feelings. On the one hand, YAY this world with Alex and aiden will be expanding. But on the other...Ugh. Seth. He is not, and has never been my favorite character. He's an addict and an ass 85% of the time. And killed a lot of people. And sadly, I felt very little sympathy for him, despite his past and all the wrongs done to him. So, The Return made me seriously not hate Seth, and helped me to understand him even more. And I even kinda liked him. ;) Now though, after reading the Return, ,I still cant decide if...