tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55748426105283591602024-03-14T03:45:58.211-07:00The World CrafterKatrina DeLallo: Young Adult WriterKatrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18293316104653990391noreply@blogger.comBlogger419125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574842610528359160.post-41753256017290819602017-06-21T22:19:00.001-07:002017-06-21T22:19:32.971-07:00Summer, Swimming, Sickness and Other News<br />
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Those of you hanging on the fringe and seeing this post pop up, I
appreciate your loyalty. I have been buried in the silence for six months. Yep. Six months, people. I looked at my last post, idly curious as to the amount
of time I'd let pass since my last post, and had a little sad all to
myself.<br />
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Six months is a long time to quit the cybersphere. Sorries all
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anyhoozle, I've done many, many reviews at Compass Book Ratings since last I posted. Check it out:</span></div>
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I don't know why blogger can't freakin' format, but it apparently cannot, which is why all the books are wonky up there. But look at all the books I've reviewed! (Actually, I did review a fifteenth book, but since I threw up my hands about three chapters in, thinking, "Watch, I bet you anything the next character introduced is ALSO going to be exploring gender identity," I'm not posting that review here. I wouldn't recommend it anyway. <span style="font-size: xx-small;">To paraphrase Buzz Lightyear: "Gays. Gays everywhere.</span>")<br />
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But see. I <i>have </i>been busy, contrary to what my visible life on this blog might say.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">In other news, HAPPY FIRST DAY OF SUMMER!</span></div>
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I love Google's doodles. They're always so adorable. Did y'all see the one where you could play cricket? That was fun! I really like the interactive ones. I literally waste so much time.<br />
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Fun news:<span style="font-size: large;"> I got pink eye over the last week.</span> That crap sucks, man! It started developing Friday evening, and it wasn't <i>toooo</i> too bad until later that evening, when my eyes got pretty weepy and freakin' itched and burned. <br />
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I went to the doctor promptly the next morning, because it <i>hurt</i>,
and am now on medication and doing much better, thanks for asking. I had
originally thought it was just allergies, because our pollen is coming
down with vengeance (thank you, pine trees), and my throat has been a
little sore anyway, and I've been congested and watery-eyed. But when
the itch turned into horrific burning and
go-away-give-me-a-cold-towel-take-away-the-lights, I figured it was no
longer allergies.<br />
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We had breakthrough hot weather end of May/beginning of June, which degenerated into really foul weather over the weekend that my sister (whom I haven't seen for...hmmm... four years?) came up for a visit. Once she and her family left, the weather popped back up into the upper 70s/low 80s, with a bold foray into the 90s. So, it is about swimming weather, which we will likely attempt tonight. I will swim, but I may not dunk. Protecting my precious eyes, see?<br />
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A few of us are going to a civil war reenactment this weekend. I'm not 100% sure <i>where </i>it is, but I do know the weather is going to be very HOT, and we are camping near a beach. So you can be sure I'm packing my swimsuit. But the reenactment itself should be fun. I'm looking forward to it.<br />
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I have been reading bucketloads of manga. Bucket. Loads. Manga is actually rather lovely. I mean, yeah, you get the shapeless wonders once in awhile, but can you imagine drawing an entire story in pictures? <span style="font-size: large;">That's crazy talented.</span><br />
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I currently own all of Fullmental Alchemist, all that is available of D.Gray-Man, and I have about half of Pandora Hearts. The wrong kind of half, though. Like, Barnes and Nobles has a bad habit of chronically having the first seven books in that series, and the last five, but totally ignoring books 8-19. Apparently, those twelve are only purchasable online and never in-store. Lame-oh. (Also, I would like to point out that there is a serious lack of Xerxes Break collectibles. What's up with that, manga world? I bet you can't take a walk in freakin' Japan without stumbling over <i>some </i>action figure or another!) I did get my sticky mitts on some pretty cool Fullmetal Alchemist figures, which are proudly on display with my manga collection. I have also come to the conclusion that I think I like the Noragami manga slightly better than the anime. So I can see myself eventually collecting the manga of that. Perhaps not the anime, but the manga has beautiful art and a great main character.<br />
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But that is currently all for now. So, without further eloquence...<br />
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<br />Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18293316104653990391noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574842610528359160.post-75058621964047529332016-12-23T10:35:00.000-08:002016-12-23T11:48:19.122-08:00A Really Random PostIt's funny the things your brain comes up with at 7:30 in the morning, when you're sitting on your couch, saying your prayers and staring at the darkened Christmas Tree.<br />
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My brain went: That Christmas Tree is just like so many people in the world, who refuse to let their light shine.<br />
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Then my brain went: We are all Christmas Trees, of one sort or another. <span style="font-size: large;">Some of us might be average trees. Some might be </span><span style="font-size: large;">spindly little twiggy things. </span></div>
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Some might be Douglas firs, absolutely gorgeous and so marvelously bedecked people sigh in envy. </div>
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Some might even be those trees made out of <span style="font-size: large;">wire and light </span>you see in
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But we are all trees. And we all wear ornaments and tinsel and random decorations. Some might be better dressed than others. Some might have huge gaudy decorations. Some might be all in pink. Some might be camouflage. <span style="font-size: large;">It really depends on you .</span><br />
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But we are all of us rather ugly without our lights. A Christmas Tree without its lights on is really not very pretty at all. No matter how gaily we are decked out in garland and red or green bulbs... no matter how big the star at our tip... no matter the size and shape of our branches, or the artistic drape of our garland, or the amount of ornaments hanging on our branches... without lights, you can't see the shine of the tinsel. You can't see the reflected light in the bulbs. You can't see how the shadow cast by a lighted Christmas Tree is more like a cast of light and not shadow at all. You can't actually see how pretty a Christmas Tree is until you've turned on the lights.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Then! How it shines!</span></div>
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So many people are concerned with outward appearance; how "well dressed" they are, how much makeup it takes to conceal deformities, how "pretty" they look. But if you're ugly inside - if you don't let your light take over, then you're really not pretty at all. You're just a grim little tree wearing tinsel.<br />
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So this Christmas, don't just be a tree. Be bright. Be illuminated. Shine. Let your soul kindle with God's grace. Let Him work His changes within you, so you become brilliant.<br />
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Be a Christmas Tree.<br />
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(Sorry if this got a bit cheesy. It was really random. I said so.)<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">But God Bless and MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!</span></div>
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Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18293316104653990391noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574842610528359160.post-22219987726530818272016-11-25T16:08:00.000-08:002016-11-25T16:08:34.589-08:0030 Days To Christmas!!!So, those who know me, know that I'm really into Christmas. <span style="font-size: large;">Like, I count down from St. Stephen's Day, I'm that pathetic.</span><br />
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But guys... It's only a month til Christmas! HOOT HOOT! Isn't that exciting? We actually got a little bit of snow for Thanksgiving Weekend, which was really good for the tourists. And in about a week and a half, it'll be St. Nicholas' Day. That's when you get chocolates and little gifts in your shoes, and drink Bishop's Wine later. :)<br />
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Also, a little bit on Front Sight.<br />
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The first day we had to get there so early - like, the gates opened at 6:30 a.m., and that's when you had to be there, to do a weapons check and all that jazz. Then once we got all our weapons and ammo approved, we went to our range and we got a whole day of "info-dumping, while we tested out the techniques on a "cold" range - meaning, we didn't ever holster a loaded weapon. The next day (when the gates opened at 7:15 am, and we would get there in time to do some dry fire drills before the actual lessons started) was a lot of the same, but we started firing more ammo, and by the middle of that day we finally got to put loaded guns into our holsters! That was really cool. (We couldn't leave the range with our weapons loaded, but while we were on the range, our guns were loaded. Sweet Lord of the Rings.)<br />
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The third day, we transferred to a larger range, and we did a lot of the same, practicing controlled pairs to the thorax with head shots when the instructors called them, and worked on clearing malfunctions. Then we were shuttled to a place they called Monsters Inc., because it is literally a space of doors. Like, five doors lined side by side about 10 lanes deep. We had had a lecture on tactical entry the night before, so we all got these "red" guns (heavy plastic guns usually made of red or orange polymer) and practiced entry through the doors. Then we were shuttled BACK to the range, did some more shooting, and were shuttled off to a shoot house, where we got to make entry through a house that had targets and hostages set up. We got to clear the house, practicing controlled pairs to the bad guys and head shots to those who had hostages, and that was intense and scary and fun.<br />
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The next day, we did the skills test first thing in the morning, after doing some dry practice, and I did really well - all my shots were in the thoracic cavity and the head box. Yay! But then, then, then!<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">WE HAD FUN!!!!!</span></div>
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The instructors put up targets that looked like actual thugs - like bad juju thugs - and we got to shoot at those, and since some of the thugs were angled differently, you had to judge where would be best to shoot them. Then the instructors marked the thugs off in groups of four, and we stepped up in relays and on the go we did a single shot to two thugs in our line, then to three, then to four, and then we had to take head shots as the instructor called them. It was tons of fun! (My accuracy improved when the targets were thugs and not simple grey targets - which is either really good, or really disturbing.) At the end of the day, we had a "Steel Competition" where we went up in pairs and had to shoot at hostage takers (metal targets) and whoever did it fastest and in the right order, moved on to the next round. That was the best!<br />
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Honestly, by the time we headed home, we were all having Front Sight withdrawal. I absolutely love my Glock-19. I like the way it fits in my hand, the weight of it, and the fact I now know how to clear its little issues.<br />
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I LOVE MY GLOCK!<br />
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So that's my Front Sight story. I want to look for a smaller semi-automatic, for concealed carry, and if I can find a small Glock, I think I'd like that. (I'm willing to look at others, but I totes love Glock.)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Last, guys.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anime...</span></div>
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I started mildly with Avatar, The Last Airbender.<br />
Then I did Voltron.<br />
Then I watched Fullmetal Alchemist.<br />
I'm almost done with Pandora Hearts.<br />
I'm into season 2 of Noragami.<br />
I'm going to start D.Gray-man.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME???</span></div>
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Like, I want to get the manga for the anime that isn't finished - like, Pandora Hearts. When did I become this weird?<br />
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<br />Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18293316104653990391noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574842610528359160.post-26303304531450575872016-11-12T21:21:00.002-08:002016-11-13T18:22:11.548-08:00Tralala! Tralala! Tralala! Tralala! Rum Tum Tum Tiddle-um<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Hello, friends! I've got three more reviews posted up at Compass Book Ratings.</span></div>
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The first is <a href="http://www.compassbookratings.com/reviews/index.php/review/view/2363" target="_blank">RIP VAN WINKLE AND THE PUMPKIN LANTERN.</a></div>
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While I wasn't 100% in love with this story, there were some elements I appreciated: Namely, the heavily Christian undertone that you really don't find in a lot of books these days, and the really clever correlations the author made fairy tales and symbolism. It's a very simple read with some unexpectedly dark undertones, but overall engaging, and I quite liked Rip. He was a sweetheart of a character. <span style="font-size: large;">I also liked the "plug" advocating big families. </span>Since I come from one, I really liked that.<br />
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Next up, <a href="http://www.compassbookratings.com/reviews/index.php/review/view/2378" target="_blank">FEAR THE DROWNING DEEP</a>.</div>
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I really wanted to love this one. Come on, that's a pretty sick cover! It's evocative, compelling, and plus, it deals with sea myths! <span style="font-size: large;">What's not to love?!?... </span>(Well, to be honest, the romance.) I'm not hugely into teen romance, especially what's being written these days. It's so very, very dramatic and touchy-feely. I like my romance to be the slow blooming kind, not the <span style="font-size: large;">"girl-sees-boy-wow-hotness-must-have-yessssssssss!"</span> This was, unfortunately, more of the latter. I don't really need to be reminded how attractive someone looks in this type of lighting, or with that kind of smile, or with this touch. Less is more, guys. Less is more. BUT, the last third of the book was pretty tight, and the ending had a fairly good climax (we got more plot and action, here, rather than thoughts of kissing, being kissed, wanting to be kissed, and so on and so forth). The last few chapters, I was flipping pages pretty quickly to make sure people survived. And the sea monsters used in this story were well done. There's a particularly gruesome sea serpent that was simply ugh, if you know what I mean. Simply UGH! :) If you are someone who is not turned off by teen romance, you might really, really like this book. I just personally have a prudish side that found the romantic content a bit overwhelming, and I likely wouldn't recommend it to my family, who are also not hugely into current teen romance. But, the writing is rather lovely, and the description of the island is excellent. <span style="font-size: large;">If you've ever been to the ocean, you'll taste the salt and smell the wind and feel the sand.</span><br />
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Last, I've got <a href="http://www.compassbookratings.com/reviews/index.php/review/view/2349" target="_blank">THE QUEEN OF ATTOLIA</a> reviewed.</div>
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If you guys don't know how much I love Megan Whalen Turner's Attolia books (The Queen's Thief, The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia, A Conspiracy of Kings) <span style="font-size: x-large;">then I haven't gushed about them enough!!!</span> Some of my sisters love The Queen of Attolia best. Me, my favourite is The King of Attolia, with The Queen a close second. I simply ADORE the main character, Eugenides. You do get more of him in The Queen's Thief (book one), since it's told entirely from his perspective, and he sort of slips into the background over the course of the books, with him barely making an appearance in A Conspiracy of Kings (which is probably why it's not my favourite book in the series). But in the King of Attolia, you get him from someone else's perspective, and he just gets incredibly more awesome. What I really admire about these books, other than their beautiful worldbuilding, is the fact that it's primarily about the three countries of Eddis, Attolia, and Sounis, and their struggles to remain independent. That's clever. <span style="font-size: large;">I've never seen a book where the countries themselves are almost characters.</span> And I also am hugely amazed at the way Megan Whalen Turner can take a character that you rather despise and make you somehow fall in love with them (I'm referring to The Queen of Attolia here). It makes me desperately anxious to become a better writer when I read her books. (Oh and HOLLA! She is writing a fifth book called Thick As Thieves! The only drawback I can see to it is that it, like A Conspiracy of Kings, doesn't deal with Eugenides at ALL. That is a great sorrow, guys.) But here, in The Queen of Attolia, we get a perfect example of the slow blooming romances that I go for. Subtle romance, simple romance, that's so keenly beautiful and heart-stopping you sit back, marveling how much those perfectly phrased sentences can make you <i>feel</i>. <span style="font-size: large;">So yeah. If you haven't read the Attolia books, what are waiting for?</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, yep. There you go. Three new books for you to read. You're welcome.</span></div>
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What all did you do for Halloween? I had been idly contemplating an Edward Elric-esque costume...<br />
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...but since I am not the only person obsessed with Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, another sister dressed up as him, so I went as my default old-fashioned witch. Maybe next year...? We shall see. :)<br />
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Also, I went to Front Sight directly after Halloween - me and three other sisters drove down to Pahrump November 3rd, participated in a four-day handgun class and a CCW class the day after, and came back home (albeit reluctantly) November 9th. <span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You wouldn't BELIEVE how attached you can get to a shooting range, guys!</span></div>
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I want to do a more in-depth blog post about Front Sight, so I'm not going to say too much about it here. But omigosh, FUN! It is very satisfying to know how to handle a handgun. <span style="font-size: large;">For reals.</span><br />
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Oh, and I saw Doctor Strange on Friday. Wow magic! Such sorcery. </div>
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And that's it for me. It's almost Thanksgiving, guys! If I don't manage to blog before then, hope it's a good one.</div>
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<br />Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18293316104653990391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574842610528359160.post-3691053869682409762016-11-12T21:21:00.000-08:002016-11-12T21:21:39.901-08:00Tralala! Tralala! Tralala! Tralala! Rum Tum Tum Tiddle-um<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Hello, friends! I've got three more reviews posted up at Compass Book Ratings.</span></div>
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The first is <a href="http://www.compassbookratings.com/reviews/index.php/review/view/2363" target="_blank">RIP VAN WINKLE AND THE PUMPKIN LANTERN.</a></div>
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While I wasn't 100% in love with this story, there were some elements I appreciated: Namely, the heavily Christian undertone that you really don't find in a lot of books these days, and the really clever correlations the author made fairy tales and symbolism. It's a very simple read with some unexpectedly dark undertones, but overall engaging, and I quite liked Rip. He was a sweetheart of a character. <span style="font-size: large;">I also liked the "plug" advocating big families. </span>Since I come from one, I really liked that.<br />
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Next up, <a href="http://www.compassbookratings.com/reviews/index.php/review/view/2378" target="_blank">FEAR THE DROWNING DEEP</a>.</div>
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I really wanted to love this one. Come on, that's a pretty sick cover! It's evocative, compelling, and plus, it deals with sea myths! <span style="font-size: large;">What's not to love?!?... </span>(Well, to be honest, the romance.) I'm not hugely into teen romance, especially what's being written these days. It's so very, very dramatic and touchy-feely. I like my romance to be the slow blooming kind, not the <span style="font-size: large;">"girl-sees-boy-wow-hotness-must-have-yessssssssss!"</span> This was, unfortunately, more of the latter. I don't really need to be reminded how attractive someone looks in this type of lighting, or with that kind of smile, or with this touch. Less is more, guys. Less is more. BUT, the last third of the book was pretty tight, and the ending had a fairly good climax (we got more plot and action, here, rather than thoughts of kissing, being kissed, wanting to be kissed, and so on and so forth). The last few chapters, I was flipping pages pretty quickly to make sure people survived. And the sea monsters used in this story were well done. There's a particularly gruesome sea serpent that was simply ugh, if you know what I mean. Simply UGH! :) If you are into teen romance, you might really, really like this book! Go for it! The writing is rather lovely, and the description of the island is excellent. <span style="font-size: large;">If you've ever been to the ocean, you'll taste the salt and smell the wind and feel the sand.</span><br />
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Last, I've got <a href="http://www.compassbookratings.com/reviews/index.php/review/view/2349" target="_blank">THE QUEEN OF ATTOLIA</a> reviewed.</div>
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If you guys don't know how much I love Megan Whalen Turner's Attolia books (The Queen's Thief, The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia, A Conspiracy of Kings) <span style="font-size: x-large;">then I haven't gushed about them enough!!!</span> Some of my sisters love The Queen of Attolia best. Me, my favourite is The King of Attolia, with The Queen a close second. I simply ADORE the main character, Eugenides. You do get more of him in The Queen's Thief (book one), since it's told entirely from his perspective, and he sort of slips into the background over the course of the books, with him barely making an appearance in A Conspiracy of Kings (which is probably why it's not my favourite book in the series). But in the King of Attolia, you get him from someone else's perspective, and he just gets incredibly more awesome. What I really admire about these books, other than their beautiful worldbuilding, is the fact that it's primarily about the three countries of Eddis, Attolia, and Sounis, and their struggles to remain independent. That's clever. <span style="font-size: large;">I've never seen a book where the countries themselves are almost characters.</span> And I also am hugely amazed at the way Megan Whalen Turner can take a character that you rather despise and make you somehow fall in love with them (I'm referring to The Queen of Attolia here). It makes me desperately anxious to become a better writer when I read her books. (Oh and HOLLA! She is writing a fifth book called Thick As Thieves! The only drawback I can see to it is that it, like A Conspiracy of Kings, doesn't deal with Eugenides at ALL. That is a great sorrow, guys.) But here, in The Queen of Attolia, we get a perfect example of the slow blooming romances that I go for. Subtle romance, simple romance, that's so keenly beautiful and heart-stopping you sit back, marveling how much those perfectly phrased sentences can make you <i>feel</i>. <span style="font-size: large;">So yeah. If you haven't read the Attolia books, what are waiting for?</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Buy them! Read them! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, yep. There you go. Three new books for you to read. You're welcome.</span></div>
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What all did you do for Halloween? I had been idly contemplating an Edward Elric-esque costume...<br />
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...but since I am not the only person obsessed with Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, another sister dressed up as him, so I went as my default old-fashioned witch. Maybe next year...? We shall see. :)<br />
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Also, I went to Front Sight directly after Halloween - me and three other sisters drove down to Pahrump November 3rd, participated in a four-day handgun class and a CCW class the day after, and came back home (albeit reluctantly) November 9th. <span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You wouldn't BELIEVE how attached you can get to a shooting range, guys!</span></div>
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I want to do a more in-depth blog post about Front Sight, so I'm not going to say too much about it here. But omigosh, FUN! It is very satisfying to know how to handle a handgun. <span style="font-size: large;">For reals.</span><br />
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And that's it for me. It's almost Thanksgiving, guys! If I don't manage to blog before then, hope it's a good one.</div>
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Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18293316104653990391noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574842610528359160.post-41604200565272013092016-09-22T20:18:00.002-07:002016-09-22T20:18:48.887-07:00Cute Li'l Life Update<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I haven't done a book review in ages, but hollah! <span style="font-size: large;">Now I'm doing book reviews over at <a href="http://www.compassbookratings.com/" target="_blank">Compass Book Ratings!</a></span> (Go on, click the link. You know you want to.)</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's pretty cool, sort of an IMDB for books. </span>So, IBDB, I guess. <span style="font-size: large;">I'm one of the new young adult fantasy reviewers, </span>with a possible and occasional science fiction novel thrown in. These books are rated for readability, age recommendations, and scored on violence, sex, and language. I've never seen a website like this before, so I'm pretty stoked to have joined them. Not only do you get more of a literary review on the book, but you can also see at a glance the sort of "violence" or "sex" that it might contain, which is pretty handy if you really don't feel like reading something chalkful of blood and gore. <span style="font-size: large;">Right? <span style="font-size: x-large;">Riiiiight</span>?</span><br />
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I currently have three new reviews up, that you can check out if you want. (Go on, click the links. You KNOW you want to!)<br />
<a href="http://www.compassbookratings.com/reviews/index.php/review/view/2318" target="_blank">The Winner's Curse</a><br />
<a href="http://www.compassbookratings.com/reviews/index.php/review/view/2317" target="_blank">Dragonsong</a><br />
<a href="http://www.compassbookratings.com/reviews/index.php/review/view/2316" target="_blank">Enchanted Glass</a><br />
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Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18293316104653990391noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574842610528359160.post-14821379534008828362016-09-15T12:27:00.001-07:002016-09-15T12:27:59.207-07:00Two Interesting Writing Things that Happened to Me this Week<span style="font-size: large;">I'm going to write about the second thing first, because it was more recent and I still feel geeked out by it.</span><br />
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I'll be honest - it was
sort of a cool/sad moment. I work part-time at a flower shop, which opens at 9:00 a.m. When I got into work, I discovered we had a
wire-in order from PUTNAM, CONGRATULATING ONE OF THEIR AUTHORS ON HER
BOOK BIRTHDAY!!!! I kid you not, I stared at that sheet for a full
minute, thinking how cool that there was an actual traditionally
published author IN MY TOWN and that she got signed by a really big
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I did feel a <i>little </i>sad that I was so far away from that being MY
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<span style="font-size: large;">But, it was cool I got to deliver her flowers! </span></div>
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But, t was sad because she wasn't home so I didn't get to meet her or get a business card or be all like, "Yo, congrats, gurl!"</div>
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But, it was cool to see she posted a picture of the flowers on Twitter! :)<br />
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The other and FIRST cool thing was that I attended a one-day writing workshop. I LOVE going to those things. They are so inspiring. Gets me really pumped up and in the writing groove again.<br />
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I have to say, though, that writing conferences contain some of the most introverted attendees in the world! (It is possible other conferences, such as those for actors, singers, musicians, or anything dealing with the artistic side of the brain contain introverts as well, but I have never seen more people less willing to cause a scene in real life than I see at writing conferences.)<br />
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The speaker is giving the opening speech, all crazy-confident and funny. (Obviously, he is experienced. The public speaker in me suffers some serious envy.)<br />
Mid-sentence, the speaker pauses and asks, "Are you looking for a seat?"<br />
All attendees shift in their chairs, and cast surreptitious glances back.<br />
The person in question hunches up like she's trying to disappear into a sweater and waves a don't-worry-about-it-hand. "It's okay, I'm just going to stand in the back."<br />
Speaker: "There are seats available, if we could get people to point them out?" Questioning glance around the room.<br />
Timorous hands come up, pointing to empty seats. Nearly inaudible voices say, "There's one here."<br />
Person in question sort of drifts to a chair in the back and goes invisible as she settles.<br />
Speaker goes on like nothing happened, while everyone else breathes relieved sighs that THAT awkwardness is over!<br />
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And this happened a couple times, not just once. In retrospect, it was super funny, but at the time there was this camaraderie of commiseration at BEING SEEN IN PUBLIC. It was especially bad when people had to leave to attend their 10-minute query pitch. Standing up in a room of people is hard, you guys! So many muttered regrets of "What was I thinking?" and "Should I go now, or wait another minute, since it's still five minutes before I have to pitch?" and "I wish I was sitting in the back! I'll know better next time."<br />
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I had a 10-minute pitch of my own, wherein I verbally pitched my query to a really awesome agent. Like, awesome. She was incredibly nice, and actually seemed to like what I had to say. For a writer, that is just really nice, to get the affirmation that your writing isn't as bad as you sometimes feel it is. (Just so you know, a verbal pitch is WAY harder than a round-table critique. At least with a round-table critique, you have your MS in your hand and you can read the printed word aloud and not really make eye contact with anyone. With a verbal pitch, it's just you tooting the merits of your manuscript, and I think most writers are very precious about their ideas. They cradle them close and don't share. Ever. So, saying, "this is what my story is about" and ENGAGING... is hard.)<br />
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Guys, I could literally world-build all day and not write a lick of story. I love to figure out why MY world is the way it is (such as someone in the far distant history of a particular world making such an enormous mistake that the hero in the present day now has an issue with adamant), and I love to study how other people sprinkle in backstory and implement that into my novels, so I don't have the ever-present problem of INFO-DUMPING (oh cursed words!) or people scratching their heads and saying, "I don't understand what's going on..."<br />
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I love creating the history of my world. I also find it interesting that, for the most part, a lot of fantasies tend to have a sort of creation element. Like, this world exists, and while there may not be a One God figure (mine tend to have those, because that's the way I roll), there is often a strong draw from Roman or Greek myths, folktales, legends, and fairytales. I think it's because fantasy reveals a truth. Myths, legends, and fairytales contain that same kernel of truth. <br />
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What is your favourite fairytale?</div>
What is your favourite fantasy book/series?<br />
Do you prefer Greek or Roman myths? (If you answer other, what's the other myth you prefer?)<br />
Favourite fantasy artist?<br />
What's the coolest thing that's happened to you this year?<br />
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Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18293316104653990391noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574842610528359160.post-54211204195182689932016-07-25T16:27:00.000-07:002016-07-25T16:47:06.066-07:00Katrina DeLallo's Bio<span style="font-size: x-large;">See this? This... This is mine! My PitchWars mentee bio... <span style="font-size: large;">intro...</span> <span style="font-size: small;">thingy.</span> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(What's it called, again?)</span> Oh yeah. <span style="font-size: x-large;">#pimpmybio</span></span>. EEEK!</span><br />
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I'm Katrina. Sometimes Kat. Other times, Cat. Sometimes Kit Shelle. Sometime Kit-Kat. Pretty much anything goes, nickname-wise. I've heard basically every derivative out there.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And I'm excited to submit my YA Fantasy, DRAGONFIRE, the first in a trilogy, in the 2016 #PitchWars contest!!! (Extra exclamations for extra enthusiasm!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Now for a robust greeting!!!</span></div>
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Um... so apparently, I don't know what I'm good at? Or what makes me an interesting human being. Or why my novel is better than <i>their </i>novels. *What is speak?* Help!<br />
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I can make things out of polymer clay. Once upon a time (four months ago), I made a wicked cool Stitch and Angel cake topper for my brother and sister-in-law's wedding. Epic, right?<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm also pretty decent at black and white drawings. </span>I've never had a lesson. I mostly ogled my older sister's drawings, then ogled Trina Schart Hyman's illustrations, and started drawing horses obsessively for years, graduated into unicorns and fantasy, and finally started drawing the characters of my novels. <span style="font-size: large;">But I can't do colour. </span>I don't know what it is. I pick up a crayon, a marker, a coloured pencil, paint, and my brain goes <span style="font-size: large;">"What is draw?</span> <span style="font-size: x-large;">How art?!?"</span> and I put down the crayon/marker/coloured pencil/paint and walk away.<br />
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I have a pretty okay voice. I've taken classes at a community college - nothing noteworthy, but I have a goodish mezzo-soprano range, and once I sang <span style="font-size: large;">Susan Boyle's version of Wild Horses</span> so well I had the class IN TEARS!!! Well, mostly. <span style="font-size: large;">There were some hardhearted troglodytes in the back who didn't seem impressed.</span><br />
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I am a queen of quotations, be it movies, music and books. For real. It has been said my sisters and I rarely have an original thought between us, but we can rock the *insert random quote into the conversation HERE* vibe. We're pretty cool that way. We also talk with our hands. (Taboo is quite an interesting game to play when you're not allowed to use gestures). <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I can still mostly sing the entire Phantom of the Opera musical by heart</span>. Michael Crawford, Sarah Brightman and Steve Barton are my peeps.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am a good cook!!! </span>I love Italian when I make it myself - I don't usually go out and order it (unless it is a white sauce something or pesto something). But I prefer the taste and texture of MY red sauces and MY pizza and MY spaghetti, so I don't usually do red-sauce meals when I eat out. I also make a mean chicken enchilada. (When I say mean, I mean MEAN! Like, spicy mean. Sometimes, I may or may not kill my sister's taste buds with spice. Sorry, not sorry.)<br />
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I have been writing for awhile. I remember getting a journal for Christmas when I was five, and writing a sort of Laura Ingalls-esque story in it. The MC was ancient, as I recall - seven going on eight. So old. The next story was a random one I wrote between the ages of nine and twelve, about a girl who gets miniaturized and makes friends with the (very weird) insects and bugs and random critters in her garden in order to get back home and properly resized - sort of Alice in Wonderland, featuring garden life. I took a writing test in high school that was put out by the Institute of Children's Literature, took two courses from them over the space of four years, learned from Orson Scott Card that fantasy writers have a hard time breaking out into magazine pieces, and have been creating world-sized novels ever since.<br />
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I write first drafts of novels into notebooks. For some reason, the bright white light of a computer screen paralyzes my brain. I can only copy the story into the computer AFTER it's been written on paper. I also like fountain pens. And Poppin pens. And empty notebooks.<br />
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I work in medical transcription three days a week. The other two days, I do stuff in a flower shop. Mostly deliveries, mostly paperwork, sometimes corsages and boutonnieres for weddings. <span style="font-size: large;">Trust me, transcription is way less stressful. <span style="font-size: small;">(But I <b><i>AM </i></b>a bit shy. Why phone someone when you can shoot them an email? You feel me? Medical transcription, I get to work at home and not worry about irate customers or ringing phones, and instead concentrate on transforming a doctor's dictation into an accurate, typewritten report.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I live in America, and use mostly British spelling. I have also been thought to be native Canadian, Scottish, or Hawaiian, but no one has ever thought I was born and raised Californian.</span></div>
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I live in Lake Tahoe. <span style="font-size: large;">Gorgeous, right?</span> Yes, I swim in that water. Yes, I do it without a wet suit. No, I have never gone out on a boat. Yes, it's cold. Yes, it's clear. No, I don't water ski. Basically, my family and I will go the beach, and we will run and dive into the water, and <span style="font-size: large;">then watch the tourists touch the water with their toes</span>. (We might laugh condescendingly at this point.) Once they feel for themselves how cold the lake is, they stare wonderingly out at us, as though judging and deciding which insane asylum we are headed to.<br />
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The summers are beautifully warm (not deathly hot!) with lots of sunshine, the winters are mild most of the time, with snow and lots of sunshine, and spring and fall are both beauteous in their own way. I prefer spring, because next comes summer, but fall IS lovely. And you can SMELL the pine trees. And the air is very clear. It's sharp when you breathe, like <i>mmmmmmm</i>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I am one of eleven children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I excel at The Floor Is Lava.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">RANDOM EXTRA STUFFZ:</span></b></i></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Favourite movies/TV shows:</span></b><br />
Hawaii Five-0 (remake, because Steve is HAWT! And Danno is HAWT! And I'm still over here going STEVE AND CATH FOREVER! I hope she comes back for season 7.)<br />
Blue Bloods ('cause, Reagan family. 'Cause Catholic+Irish+Jamie+Danny+Papa Frank = yusssssssss.)<br />
The ENTIRE Marvel Cinematic Universe (particularly Iron Man, Captain America, and freakin' Daredevil, but <b>excluding </b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Jessica Jones *shudder* and Deadpool *double shudder*</span>)<br />
The Lord of the Rings (but not that travesty of The Hobbit Movies, which is basically fan-fiction in all its grisly glory. Blech)<br />
Prison Break (Yay, 2017 sequel!)<br />
Avatar: The Last Airbender<br />
Doctor Who (Primarily 11, who is the freakin' best. My adorable giraffe.)<br />
Bourne movies (including Legacy, and YAY 2016 sequel in four days!)<br />
Pretty much ALL the Disney/Pixar stuffs, particularly Tangled, Sleeping Beauty, Brave, Robin Hood, Monsters Inc, Inside Out, Up, The Rescuers, Wreck-it Ralph, The Great Mouse Detective, Bolt, and How to Train Your Dragon (even though that's NOT Disney or Pixar, but good nonetheless);<br />
Leverage<br />
Psych<br />
On the fence with Grimm. Still waiting to see if Juliette comes back, because <b>Nadalind=No. Silverhardt=YESSSSSSSS!!!!</b>)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Favourite books/authors:</b></span><br />
Lord of the Rings/Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien, basically - have you <i>read </i>Roverandom? Or the Silmarillion? Or Farmer Giles of Ham?)<br />
Chronicles of Narnia<br />
The Queen's Thief + Queen of Attolia and King of Attolia<br />
Pretty much all the Diana Wynne Jones novels<br />
Pretty much all the Patricia McKillip novels, most notably The Riddlemaster of Hed<br />
Pretty much anything Ally Carter, particularly the Gallagher Girls<br />
The Winner's Curse trilogy<br />
Pretty much anything Jonathon Stroud, particularly Lockwood and Co., with Bartimaeus being my first love<br />
The Last Unicorn.<br />
The Graveyard Book<br />
The Scorpio Races and ONLY the Scorpio Races <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Favourite Music:</b></span><br />
Musicals (Phantom of the Opera, the Secret Garden, A Tale of Two Cities, The Light in the Piazza, Jane Eyre, Les Miserables, Finding Neverland, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, Pirates of Penzance)<br />
Josh Groban<br />
Hayley Westenra<br />
Sarah Brightman<br />
Imagine Dragons<br />
Taylor Swift<br />
James Blunt<br />
The Piano Guys<br />
Soundtracks<br />
Random mishmash of all kinds of things, including Hurts, OneRepublic, Lifehouse, O.A.R., The Fray, The Script, Jackie Evancho, Air Supply, Nickleback, some Backstreet Boys and some opera. Eclectic, I know.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">NOW! About mah novel!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>DragonFire Twitter pitch:</b></span></div>
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Hunted for his elemental power, Dragon must transcend death to save his
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">In Elfennol, a world fashioned from fallen
stars and its soil infused with the elemental magic known as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">glede</i>, tarragon is not just a spice. It
is also the title of the man with the threefold glede of fire, water and
shadow. A man reborn throughout history to be the guardian of the <i>Tân-a-dur</i>, a mystical
beast whose fiery breath renews the land's magic, but whose very nature makes it a
dangerous ally. Once upon a time, the Tarragon was revered. But rumors battle legends, and now the Tarragon's name is a curse, and to be a gleder is to be
under the penalty of death.</span></b></div>
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Sixteen-year-old
Dragon is a thief by profession, courier by necessity, and gleder by birth. Adopted son of a blacksmith, and possessing a rare ability over three separate elements, Dragon lives in a city where gleders like him are ruthlessly hunted. He dreams of <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">escaping to a land where magic is still protected. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">But then a mysterious girl enters his life,with triple gledes as unique as his own, and he is
pulled towards their intertwined destiny. One in which the </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tân-a-dur</span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">is not merely a creature of legend, but the
key to renewing Elfennol’s fading magic. </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">W</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">ith an ancient voice waking in his head</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, Dragon
must make a choice: </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">flee and
renounce his claim on the Tân-a-dur, or welcome death and trial to become the creature’s
new Tarragon.</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>10 Reasons why you should pick me.</b></span></div>
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<li>I'm pretty awesome. Really. My sense of humour tends toward sarcasm and random quotes. I also provide cyber cookies to lift a mood.</li>
<li>I was home schooled, so I'm excellent at managing my time. </li>
<li>I am really good at communicating via email!!!! I am rather introverted and shy, so my idea of a party is to binge on Netflix and eat cake (or ice cream. Or chocolate. Something sweet, anyway). My idea of a nice day off is to go the beach with my sisters (or on a hike, or someplace pretty where there can be a picnic later) and sit with notebooks and music and books and write and listen to music and read as the mood takes me. (I don't like phones. Were it up to me, people would only ever have contact to others via fax and email. Video chats = ninth circle of hell.)</li>
<li>I'm not afraid of tackling revisions, especially if I'm having concerns over a scene that doesn't seem to be working or contributing to the story. (I prefer notebooks, so a lot of time revisions occur on notebooks, then get integrated into the computer.)</li>
<li>I was once complimented as being the queen of revision at an SCBWI conference I attended back in 2012, after an intense round-table critique session where I was encourage to rewrite chapter one. The rewritten chapter is what prompted the praise. (I am a member of SCBWI, by the way, and that is still one of the best compliments I have received EVER). </li>
<li>I got three non-YA fantasy readers to beta-read my YA fantasy in its entirety, and they all were hooked. Which was pretty rewarding, I gotta say.</li>
<li>I have a <b>solid </b>group of CPs - we get along super well and are all very positive and supportive of each other.</li>
<li>I'm a volunteer judge for Miranda Paul's Rate Your Story <a href="http://rateyourstory.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">blog</a>, and that has been incredibly helpful in improving my editing eye and finding what resonates with me and what doesn't.</li>
<li>I like to draw my ideas down, because visualization is everything. If I can't see my world, I can't see to write, so I do character sketches as needed, or find Pinterest things that make me go, THIS. This is my world. </li>
<li>I take every comment seriously, but I'm not afraid to stand my ground if I think something needs to stay the way it is. I'll listen and consider, but if my gut feeling says NO, I say NO and that's that. But I WILL do whatever it takes to polish my work, because I want to write for the rest of my life. I want my words to last and make an impact on others. I want my stories to make other people aspire to dream.</li>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">So that's that. Pick me! Pick me!</span></div>
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Huge thanks to <a href="http://www.brenda-drake.com/" target="_blank">Brenda Drake</a> for hosting #PitchWars, and <a href="http://www.lanapattinson.com/pitchwars-2016-pimpmybio/" target="_blank">Lana Pattinson</a> for hosting #pimpmybio! <br />
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Check out the other mentees' bios <a href="http://www.lanapattinson.com/pitchwars-2016-pimpmybio/#.V3SYWLpvBgA.twitter" target="_blank">here</a>! (But don't pick them, 'kay? Pick meeeeeeee!)<br />
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God bless!<br />
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CatKatrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18293316104653990391noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574842610528359160.post-15126595235659704482016-05-19T21:30:00.000-07:002016-05-19T21:30:28.499-07:00Day Five - FREE DAY!<span style="font-size: large;">Because I get to do what I want</span>, I'm going to post awesome clips/pictures of my favourite scenes from each of the MCU movies. (Since Ant-Man appeared in Civil War, he is added to the roster.)<br />
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Technically, Captain America should be the first of the films to watch, but I'm going to treat it as a "flashback" movie and stick it before the Avengers, because when Cap wakes up, a lot of the events in the first two Iron Man movies, the Hulk, and Thor have already taken place.<br />
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(Because I tend to love ALL the scenes from the movies, I'll limit myself to a total of five per movie - I'll aim for three, but I can go up to five. Does that seem fair? Thank you s' much.)<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><u> </u></span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><u>Iron Man 1</u>:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When he's freakin' blacksmithing in captivity!!!</span></div>
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Since I've already fangirled over the part when Yinsen saves Tony, I'm not going to post that. Instead, I'll skip forward to<span style="font-size: small;"> the entire Gulmira scene, where Tony takes out a fleet of bad guys.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This scene, where Pepper has to replace the Arc Reactor...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When Dummy saves Tony...</span></div>
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When his arc reactor flickers back on after Pepper calls his name...<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><u>Iron Man 2</u>:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When he tries to be sweet and brings Pepper</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">strawberries, forgetting she's allergic to them.</span></div>
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When he rediscovers the Vibranium element that will not only make his<br />
arc reactor more powerful, but will also stop it from poisoning him...</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When Pepper finds out he was dying...</span></div>
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Tony and Rhodey's Bro Battle against the Hammer-Drones. :)</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><u>The Incredible Hulk</u>:</b></span><br />
(I have only watched The Incredible Hulk once, and this was after I'd seen The Avengers and had embraced <span style="font-size: large;">Mark Ruffalo</span> in the role of the Hulk. So, I didn't much care for Ed Norton as the Hulk, but he had some cute vulnerable scenes, and the movie overall had some good parts.)<br />
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The way he tries to control his blood pressure, so he doesn't go critical...</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This pretty epic chase scene... </span></div>
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And that's really about it. (It wasn't my most favouritest Marvel movie in the whole wide world.)</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><u>Thor</u>:</b></span><br />
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When Darcy Tazes Thor...</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This entire scene. :)</span></div>
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When Thor breaks the Bifrost to stop Loki from destroying Jotunheim...</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When Steve Rogers leaps on that grenade!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When Steve gives zero cares about orders and goes on an op</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">that saves hundreds of POWs - including Bucky...</span></div>
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This scene after he loses Bucky and he's trying to get drunk...</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When he gives zero cares about Red Skull...</span></div>
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When he has to put the ship in the water. :(</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><u>The Avengers</u>:</b></span><br />
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Ugh! <span style="font-size: large;">There are too many good scenes in the Avengers!</span> I'll do my best to only choose five of the best... even though I could pretty much post the entire movie and say, "I loved it all!" <span style="font-size: large;">But the best scenes, IMHO:</span><br />
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When this old man refused to kneel to Loki...</div>
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When Natasha "re-calibrates" Hawkeye...</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When Coulson <i>DIES!!!</i></span></div>
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THIS SCENE!!! </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When Tony flies the nuke into the portal...:'(</span></div>
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Every time Tony has a panic attack :(</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This totally sweet scene...</span></div>
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When he loses Jarvis...</div>
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When he demonstrates some pretty sick moves in this fight...</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When he saves Pepper and calls her "Honey." :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Frigga's Funeral.</span></div>
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THIS SCENE! :)</div>
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Followed closely by THIS SCENE!!</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thor's grief at Loki's death...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">THIS:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><u>Captain America: The Winter Soldier</u>:</b></span><br />
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This start to a beautiful friendship...</div>
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This entire fight scene, but especially that knife flip. :)</div>
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BUCKY! :(</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This Steve epicness...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><u>Avengers: Age of Ultron</u>:</b></span><br />
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Adorable Steve Rogers being adorable...</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tony, reminding me so much of myself here... :)</span></div>
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When Bruce and Natasha were suddenly PERFECT together...</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Clint in this scene: "Nobody would know."</span></div>
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When Quicksilver saves Hawkeye...</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><u>Ant-Man</u>:</b></span><br />
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When Scott gets out of prison...</div>
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When he introduces himself to the Falcon...</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When these guys come roaring to Scott's aid,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">only to be faced with a phalanx of cops...</span></div>
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When he goes subatomic to save his daughter...</div>
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This movie had more scenes that broke my heart than probably any other MCU movie out there. I think it's because Steve and Tony are my GUYS, and having them angry at each other was the hardest thing in the world. Steve is the man who is already on the moral high ground and who we aspire to become, and Tony is the man who gives us the hope of attaining that moral high ground by conquering ourselves more and more each day. I couldn't stand to see them fighting.<br />
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So this is more a collection of favourite bro scenes/scenes that broke my heart (there are more pictures here because there were too many good ones NOT to post...):<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This scene, when Tony and Steve were still BESTIES!! :(</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Peggy's funeral...</span></div>
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When freakin' Zemo reactivates Bucky, and he goes on a rampage...</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When lines are drawn...</span></div>
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<i>"I'm trying to keep you from tearing the Avengers apart!"</i></div>
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<i>"You did that when you signed." </i></div>
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Bucky not believing his worth...</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">THIS. FREAKING. SCENE. x-(</span></div>
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When Rhodey gets hurt...:(</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">When Steve and Bucky take cover behind the shield. :)</span></div>
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When Tony sees this footage...</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Which understandably incenses him...</span></div>
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...Which leads to this awful scene, where Steve is forced to fight a friend to save a friend.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This very epic, but very heartbreaking moment...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And finally, the last scene, where hopefully the healing has</span></div>
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And that's all for now, folks! I hope that put you back in the mood to rewatch all the Avengers movies (in order, of course!) and get totally caught up in the character development again.<br />
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Until next time, that's a wrap!<br />
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God bless!<br />
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<br />Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18293316104653990391noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574842610528359160.post-35471264373843778562016-05-14T11:27:00.000-07:002016-05-14T11:27:10.263-07:00Day Four - Opposite Team CharacterDay Four: Pick a character from the opposite team that you like. Talk about him and/or defend him.<br />
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Day Four of <a href="http://isabelladelallo.blogspot.com/2016/05/make-it-blue-make-it-red-make-it-blue.html" target="_blank">Bella</a>'s Blog Party is to pick a character from the opposite team I like and talk about him/her and/or defend him/her.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Obviously the character I choose from the opposite team is Bucky.</span></div>
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I mean, I love Steve. Duh. Who wouldn't? But if we are just choosing a member that's NOT Steve, it would be Bucky. Think about this. He is Steve's friend from way back. He always had Steve's back. Even after he was rescued in CAFA, he immediately deferred to Captain America, and literally followed him into death. He didn't choose to become the Winter Soldier. The Russians messed with his brain and made him a dangerous weapon, but it was never something he chose. In fact, once he remembered who Steve was, and who he was, he went into hiding. He didn't "do that anymore." The only reason he came out of hiding was because THIS man...<br />
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...Baron Zemo, lost his family in Sokovia and, blaming the Avengers for their deaths, was determined to destroy them from the inside out. So he framed Bucky for killing the king of Wakanda, which brought hordes of policemen swarming to find and capture the Winter Soldier, thus making Steve lose his normally cool-headed perspective to ignore the law in order to protect his best friend. <br />
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Bucky has a really tragic story. He's left for dead in the Alps after falling from an impossible height in CAFA, but apparently due to whatever the Russians did to him while he was in their prison, the fall did not kill him. Instead, he is found and apprehended by HYDRA agents, and programmed to become their assassin. He is transformed from the good old Brooklyn kid Steve knew, into a mindless killer who's only job was to comply.<br />
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Steve - <i>"What you did all those years, it wasn't you. You didn't have a choice."</i><br />
Bucky -<i> "I know. But I did it."</i><br />
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The thing I like best about Bucky, he knows fate has dealt him a cruel hand, but he never complains. Even while Steve is trying to keep him safe, Bucky takes each obstacle step and step and accepts it for what it is.<br />
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<i>"I don't know if I'm worth all this, Steve." </i>- Bucky Barnes<br />
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Even at the end, when Zemo plays footage revealing Bucky was the assassin who killed Tony's parents, Bucky never tries to shift the blame. He just stands there as the video plays, watching Tony slowly losing it, quietly ready to take whatever violence Tony throws at him (which, by the way, I totally get. I dare you to stand and watch your parents get viciously murdered by the best friend of <i>your </i>friend, and just shrug it off).<br />
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Tony - <i>"Do you even remember them?"</i><br />
Bucky -<i> "I remember all of them."</i><br />
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And then, after all is said and done, Bucky chooses to go back into cryostasis, because he is still programmed to be dangerous. He would rather be put on ice indefinitely than to be the cause of any other problems for Steve. And I think that was the most heroic thing done in the movie.<br />
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That's a wrap, until tomorrow!<br />
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God Bless!<br />
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Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18293316104653990391noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574842610528359160.post-19510282376771723322016-05-13T10:30:00.000-07:002016-05-13T10:30:00.208-07:00Day Three - Supporting Character<div style="text-align: center;">
Day Three, I get to talk about a supporting character from my team - which, since I decided I probably agreed more with Tony's logic than Steve's for a change, makes that Team Iron Man.</div>
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(For those of you jumping in to participate, you can find the Blog Party rules on Bella's <a href="http://isabelladelallo.blogspot.com/2016/05/make-it-blue-make-it-red-make-it-blue.html" target="_blank">blog</a>.)</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The character I became unexpectedly fond of was Spiderman. </span></div>
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I didn't expect to like him at all. My favourite Spiderman of all times is the first one I ever saw -Toby McGuire. Yes, the effects were terrible. Yes, those movies could have used some work, and I despised MJ. But Toby McGuire was such a cute, sympathetic character as Peter Parker. He was the kind of superhero I could admire. I liked him a lot. (I didn't care too much for the Andrew Garfield remake, and I confess I did not watch the sequel to the Amazing Spiderman. It was mostly that part, where the teacher tells him not to make promises he can't keep, and Peter whispers to Gwen, "But those are the best kind," which completely ruined him for me. I mean, what? You promised a dying man to leave his daughter out of your escapades, and now you're freakin' saying <i>broken promises are the best kind?! </i>That's not cool at all, Bro!)<br />
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So, to watch Civil War and realize that, hey, you know what, I kinda like this Peter Parker... <span style="font-size: large;">well, let's just say I went from violently disliking the idea of Spiderman, to feeling pretty glad he was on Tony's side. <span style="font-size: small;">(Also, the fact that he's from Queens - that Tony found another kid from Brooklyn to join his team - is cool.)</span></span></div>
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Plus, he's so genuinely nice. I mean, the first time we even meet Peter, he comes into his house and finds Iron Man having tea and some kind of bread (was it walnut date bread? I think it was walnut date bread) with his aunt, and he's so adorably awkward in that scene. Tony pretends Peter had won some kind of scholarship, and Peter is just terrible at acting along, and I was over there going, well Marvel, I can't believe you have managed to introduce yet ANOTHER Spiderman, and somehow make him someone I might actually like more than Toby McGuire.<br />
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Also, during the fight between the teams that I loved/hated (loved because the dialogue was FUNNY, hated because it was friends against friends, and then RHODEY...) it was mostly Spiderman (and Ant-Man) who made the scene less horrible than it could have been.<br />
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I liked the freshness Peter brought to the team, the constant geeking out over peoples' suits, armour and abilities, and his overall ingenuousness.<br />
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Spiderman <i>- "Are those carbon fiber wings?"</i><br />
Falcon - <i>"I don't know if you've been in a fight before, but there's usually not this much talking." </i><br />
Spiderman - <i>"All right, sorry. My bad."</i><br />
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He was so young, and I liked that we got to skip over the whole "how Spiderman came to be" backstory and went straight to where he had had these abilities for six months, and was now able to apply them. I also liked the little nods to previous movies, like where he says something to Tony that's akin to Uncle Ben's famous line, "With great power comes great responsibility," and how he feels a personal obligation to use his powers to help the "little guy."<br />
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I'm glad they cast him younger, too. I almost felt like it was a way for Tony to reconcile his conscience with the boy killed in Sokovia - that by taking <i>this </i>young boy and making him one of his team members, he could make a small restitution. I thought it worked really well, and I'm interested to see how this Peter Parker grows up.<br />
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Until next time, that's a wrap!<br />
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God bless!<br />
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<br />Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18293316104653990391noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574842610528359160.post-85110760413711262352016-05-12T10:00:00.000-07:002016-05-12T12:47:03.120-07:00Day Two - The TAG<div style="text-align: center;">
So, today is Day Two of Bella's Civil War Blog Catastro-party, and today's the day I do <span style="font-size: large;">The Tag</span>. (For those of you jumping aboard this blog party, details are <a href="http://isabelladelallo.blogspot.com/2016/05/make-it-blue-make-it-red-make-it-blue.html#comment-form" target="_blank">here</a>, on Bella's blog.)</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Because I'm a little rebel and I don't have sides</span> (Yes, it's a go for TeamGetAlong), I'm doing both tags. <span style="font-size: x-large;">So there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Team <span style="color: #660000;">Iron Man </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>1.) What is your favorite Iron Man movie?</b></span><br />
Probably the first one, because that's the first one I saw and the one with the tightest plot. But I love all three Iron Man movies. I absolutely adore watching Tony's constant character development - he keeps growing and changing and becoming more vulnerable as time goes on, and the selfish persona he dons so effortlessly gets gradually more visible as the charade it is.<br />
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>2.) When did you decide you loved Iron Man?</b></span><br />
In the first movie, after his friend Yinsen gets shot. Tony straightens up, and there is that absolutely terrible expression on his face, like someone is going to GET it.<br />
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>3.) Do you tend to agree with Iron Man's thinking/logic?</b></span><br />
Um, I oftentimes see where he is coming from, but I wouldn't say I'd entirely agree with his logic. I feel like I'd become a Pepper Potts quite quickly - I would humour him and, when possible, make the appropriate decisions for him.<br />
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>4.) What is one thing about Tony that drives you insane?</b></span><br />
His apparent inability to take a situation seriously. As time goes on, that does get a little less pronounced, but I would get angry if I told him he was making me anxious and he laughed at me. <br />
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>5.) Do you think you'd like Tony in <i>real</i> life?</b></span><br />
That depends. I probably wouldn't like him upon a first meeting, I don't think, but once I got to know him and became comfortable with his sarcastic attitude, I think I'd be able to give back as much as he gave, and gently snub him when needed.<br />
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>6.) Do you think you'd get along with Pepper Pots? What about Rhodey?</b></span><br />
I love Pepper. I love Rhodey. I think they are both great foils to Tony's character. I think I'd get along smashingly with them.<br />
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>7.) Would you like to live in Stark Tower?</b></span><br />
Not unless there was an area I could turn into a den/library/hobbit hole. Otherwise, it's too sterile for me. It doesn't feel like a home. It feels like an office.<br />
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>8.) Would you want to try out/own any of Iron Man's robots or fancy little gadgets?</b></span><br />
None of the big suits, that's for sure. I'd appreciate some of his gadgets, though. I would like one of his fancy-schmancy computers - I'd love to be able to manipulate simulations the way he does, and physically play with computer generated designs.<br />
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>9.) What is your favorite Iron Man quote?</b></span><br />
That bit, after he finds Yinsen dying and Yinsen tells him his family his dead and he's going to go see them now, Tony just says, "Thank you for saving me." I love that line. To me, that's when he stopped being playboy Tony and started to become Iron Man.<br />
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>10.) If Tony <u>as he is now</u> volunteered to take you to dinner and a
movie, would you accept his invitation? Not a date, just a night out
cause he knows you are soooooo stressed.</b></span><br />
Again, it depends on how well I know him. If I knew him well enough to be like, "That's enough wine for YOU, mister," and take the glass out of his hand, then maybe. But I think if I was someone he actually cared about, he would make a bit of an effort to be inoffensive. So, maybe.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Team <span style="color: #073763;">Captain America</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b>1.) What is your favorite Captain America movie?</b></span><br />
The first one for sure. That's when Steve Rogers is just Steve Rogers, no-one special or unique, just a kid from Brooklyn with tons and tons of heart and spirit.<br />
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b>2.) When did you decide you loved Captain America?</b></span><br />
C'mon, you should know when... After he threw himself on that grenade. <br />
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b>3.) Do you tend to agree with Steve's thinking/logic?</b></span><br />
Steve is a pretty black-and-white kind of guy. He tries to do what's right and questions what he thinks is wrong. Plus, he seems a pretty moral guy, so I think I mostly agree with how his mind works.<br />
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b>4.) What is one thing about Steve that drives you insane?</b></span><br />
While I appreciate his stubbornness, I think that's the one thing that frustrates me most about him. He won't back down on things (Bucky, for example) and no matter what you say, he will focus on that issue to the point of obsession.<br />
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b>6.) What is something about Steve that you really admire?</b></span><br />
His selflessness. He will do anything for his friends.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #073763;">7.) Do you think you would like Steve in <i>real</i> life?</span></b><br />
For sure! He's pretty much everything I like in a man - strong, protective, manly, gentle, subtly funny - plus, he's got that Brooklyn toughness about him.<br />
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b>8.) What do you think of Steve's motorcycle, and would you want a ride on it?</b></span><br />
I love his motorcycle. People that ride motorcycles are freakin' hawt. If it were Cap driving, yes, I'd ride on that bike. <br />
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b>9.) What was an iconic "STEVE FREAKIN' ROGERS" moment for you?</b></span><br />
Again, you know when that was... when he threw himself on that grenade.<br />
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b>10.) If Steve asked you on a date, would you accept?</b></span><br />
Yes. <br />
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And that's a wrap! Until next time,<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">God Bless!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Le Cat</span></div>
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<br />Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18293316104653990391noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574842610528359160.post-41661827933423874432016-05-11T16:12:00.003-07:002016-05-11T16:12:32.415-07:00Civil War Blog Party<div>
This was supposed to start May 10th, but first of all, Mother's Day. Second of all, Mother's Day withdrawal. Lastly, Mother's Day. So, my blog party participation started a day late, but whatever.<br />
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Before I begin, let me post the Blog Party rules:<u> </u></div>
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You <b>must</b> link back to <a href="http://isabelladelallo.blogspot.com/2016/05/make-it-blue-make-it-red-make-it-blue.html" target="_blank">Bella</a>! No exceptions!</li>
<li>You must tell Bella when you post so she can read your Civil War Wonders!!! (She even Pretty Pleases the request, so maybe give her a head's up.)</li>
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<li>You <b>should</b> follow her! (She Pretty Pleases this with ice cream on top, so yeah, give her a follow.)</li>
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You <b>shouldn't</b> be mean to people who are on the opposite team! No
being mean! There's nothing wrong with a little friendly banter and what
not, but No. Being. Mean!!!!! Meanness is not allowed!</li>
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You <b>must <i>absolutely</i> must</b> choose a side! (even if, in your humble opinion, there IS no side, just two stupid men who refuse to compromise a teensy bit in favour of maintaining friendship.) You don't have to feel guilty about this. This
isn't about who you like better, (though that can obviously come into
the equation.) This is just about who you would most likely join because
you agree with them.</li>
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You have to have fun! Have lots of fun!</li>
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<i>(For participants, the list of what to do each day is available on this <a href="http://isabelladelallo.blogspot.com/2016/05/make-it-blue-make-it-red-make-it-blue.html" target="_blank">post </a>of Bella's. Okay? Okay.)</i></div>
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Day One is PICK A SIDE (even if you don't feel that there is a side - just two stupid men unwilling to compromise a little in the name of friendship).<br />
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Here's my problem. Iron Man and Captain America are my TWO FAVOURITE AVENGERS. The stupid thing about Civil War, it pitted my TWO FAVOURITE AVENGERS against each other.<br />
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I admit to being more of an Iron Man fan. His was the first actual Avenger movie I saw, and I fell in love with his character arc. The first Iron Man movie was probably the best, but in every single one of his movies, as well as the Avenger movies, he always has this character arc that I ADORE. So I loved him, and was prepared for Civil War, being Cap's movie, to be skewed in favour of Cap and I was bracing myself against an onslaught of Iron Man hate.<br />
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That was not the case. I was surprised at how even the "sides" were. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thank you, Marvel, for giving us a perfectly balanced, incredibly clear look at two sides that are equally wrong and equally right.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Even still, I probably ended up agreeing more with Tony.</span></div>
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I totally get both sides. For Steve, he has this Brooklyn tough guy attitude that absolutely will not lie down and let the bad guys beat on the small guys. He has to step in and DO SOMETHING, even if that something may be a little outside the boundaries of the law. He has to DO SOMETHING, and I love that about him. In this case, his DO SOMETHING attitude ended with Wanda, the Scarlet Witch, saving his life, but accidentally killing dozens of people in the process. So to have the governments all siding against the Avengers and demanding they be kept in check - I didn't really blame the governments, but I didn't like the idea.<br />
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<span> <i>"While a great many people see you as a hero, there are some who
prefer the word vigilante. You've operated with unlimited power and no
supervision. That's something the world can no longer tolerate." </i>- General Thaddeus Ross</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span>I don't blame Steve for not wanting to sign the Accords.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span><i><span style="font-size: small;">"Our job is to save as many people as we can.<br /> Sometimes that doesn't mean everybody."</span></i></span></td></tr>
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However, and I say this with total and complete understanding, if it weren't for Bucky, I don't think the Civil War would have happened. Whenever Steve hears the name "Bucky," he loses all perspective, and I get that. I do. For him, it's only been something like five years since he thought Bucky died, and only about two years that he's known Bucky is alive, but still lost in the persona of the Winter Soldier, and that grief and loss is still sharp. He wants to save Bucky so badly, and he will do anything it takes to do so, even if it means splitting the Avengers apart.<br />
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<i>"</i><span><i>You know I wouldn't do this if I had any other choice. But he's my friend."</i> - Steve Rogers</span><br />
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In my opinion, Steve was willing to risk everything to save Bucky, and I love that, but if you look at the repercussions, this could cause some serious international incidents. I mean, he goes into a foreign country, dressed as the obviously American superhero<span>, to protect a suspected terrorist responsible for the death of Wakanda's king. That's some serious crap.</span><br />
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<span>"<i>He said 'Bucky' and suddenly I was that 16-year-old boy from Brooklyn again." </i>- Steve Rogers</span><br />
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<span>So, at first I kind of agreed with Steve. I wouldn't want to sign the Accords. I wouldn't want the government telling who I can or cannot save. </span><br />
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<span><i>"What if this Panel sends us somewhere we don't think we should go? What
if there's somewhere we need to go and they don't let us?"</i> - Steve Rogers</span><br />
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<span>Let's take a look at Tony's side.</span><br />
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<span>First off, we see him struggling with guilt over the death of his parents, that he didn't properly say goodbye to them before they were gone forever. Right after that, he is confronted by a woman who blames him for the death of her son, when the Avengers were trying to stop Ultron in Sokovia and pretty much decimated that city. Directly after that, all the active Avengers are called into a meeting with the Secretary of State, who shows them a film chronicling all the casualties of the wars they've fought, which hits everyone pretty hard. The Secretary then proceeds to lay down the law - either the Avengers agree to sign the Accords, which will put them under the supervision of a governmental panel, or they retire. Tony suspects that if they don't sign now, they will be forced into an Accord that will give them zero ability to assist people. (Plus, he's also got the guilt of the Sokovian boy weighing on him, and I think that played into his distrust of himself - the fact that he feels there needs to be someone the Avengers are accountable to.)</span><br />
<i><br />"Oh, that's Charles Spencer, by the way. He's a great kid. Computer engineering degree. 3.6 GPA... He decided to spend his summer building sustainable housing for the
poor. Guess where? Sokovia. He wanted to make a difference, I suppose. I
mean, we won't know because we DROPPED a building on him while we were
KICKING ASS... There's no decision-making process here." </i>- Tony Stark <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span>"We need to be put in check.<br />Whatever form that takes, I'm game."</span></span></i></td></tr>
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<span>Through the whole movie, I kept swaying back and forth between Steve's point of view, and Tony's. They were both acting in the way their consciences dictated, so neither of them was at fault. However, there did come a point where it seemed that Tony was more focused on keeping the Avengers safe, keeping them together despite the Accords, keeping the team alive while appeasing the governmental powers, and Steve was entirely focused on saving Bucky and no-one but Bucky.</span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: large;">That's when I sided with Tony.</span></span></div>
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He wanted to save his team. He didn't want any of them to be forced to "retire." He wanted to protect everyone, and if that meant bowing to the will of the Accords, he was going to (and this is a man who doesn't bow to anyone). I think if it had just been a matter of the Accords, the trust and friendship between both sides would never have been questioned. It was the way everything escalated, building off one set of incidents, which led to another, and to another, until finally it was no longer just a difference of opinion and conscience, but complete disregard for the law and a duty to uphold the law, even at the cost of friendships.<br />
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<i>"If we can't accept limitations, we're no better than the bad guys."</i> - Tony Stark<br />
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I liked how Steve did his best to solve the Bucky problem on his own, only assembling his team when the only other choice was to admit defeat and sacrifice his best friend. But I hated that he turned on Tony to do so.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.popsugar.com/entertainment/Why-Avengers-Fighting-Captain-America-Civil-War-41219817" target="_blank"><i>Tony - </i>"I'm trying to keep you from tearing the Avengers apart."<br /><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Steve -</i> "You did that when you signed."</span></a></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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I liked how Tony did his best to protect Steve from the repercussions of the law, and how he tried to protect the entire Avengers crew, even at the cost of coming off as arrogant and self-serving. But I hated that he lost Steve's friendship to do so.<br />
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So I guess I'm Team Iron Man, because everything Tony did was to try and assure a better outcome for his team. He kept Wanda housebound, not only to protect the world from her, but also to protect her from people who would see her as a threat.<br />
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<i>"She's confined in a compound currently - She's not a US Citizen and they don't grant visas to Weapons of Mass Destruction." </i>- Tony Stark<br />
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He tried to keep Steve safe, to talk the Secretary of State into overlooking Steve's few misdeeds which occurred after the signing of the Accords. He even tried to assure a better future for Bucky, despite all Bucky's crimes done as the Winter Soldier. (Yes, I know he was brainwashed and he wasn't himself, nonetheless, as Bucky himself said, "But I did them.")<br />
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<i>"We need you, Cap. Until nothing further happens that can't be undone, please... sign. We can make the
last 24 hours legit. Barnes gets transferred to an American psych center
instead of a Wakanda prison." -</i> Tony Stark<br />
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When it was discovered that Bucky had been framed for the Wakandan King's death, it was Tony who admitted he had been wrong in believing Bucky was the terrorist, and tried to make peace with Steve. And it probably would have all been smoothed over then, if it hadn't been for a certain video (played by the movie's antagonist intent on destroying the Avengers from the inside out), which shows Tony's parents getting killed by the Winter Soldier, thus destroying all attempts at peace.<br />
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I REALLY REALLY REALLY wanted this movie to end with friendships restored, and while it didn't exactly end the way I wanted it to, at least it left it open enough to show there was some healing going on, and that eventually friendships would be resurrected and mended. (At least, they'd better be, Marvel!) I still wouldn't say there was a Team Captain America or Team Iron Man. Both Tony and Steve had totally valid points as to why they would or wouldn't sign. But all in all, I think Tony's actions were more what I would follow. I don't know if I'd be willing to step outside the law to save someone who has been an assassin for years, no matter how much Captain America believed in him. I think I'd rather side with Tony and try to protect my team at all costs - even if it meant giving up some freedom of action.<br />
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And that's a wrap! I'll do my best to do Day 2 tomorrow, but depending on how busy I am, that may or may not happen. Until next time...<br />
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God bless!<br />
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<br />Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18293316104653990391noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574842610528359160.post-6938237184175702032016-05-04T11:52:00.000-07:002016-05-04T11:52:59.816-07:00Blink and You'll Miss It<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Happy New Year!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh wait, that was five months ago.</span></div>
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Oh well. So, how is everybody doing? Good? Great? Less than stellar? Freakin' Fantastic?</div>
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Me, I'm doing well. Spring is coming (bouncebouncebounce) and I adore spring! I want to plant flowers and go for rambling walks through the forest (I'm in Tahoe, so I can do that) and I want to go swimming and have picnics in the mountains and just immerse myself in the weather.</div>
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(Yes, I am a fairy, why do you ask? Or a unicorn. It really depends on the day. And the magic.)</div>
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Some good things happened this month(s). I went to <span style="font-size: large;">Barnes and Noble</span> middle of March and spent hours there browsing, which I haven't done in ages. I found the last few seasons of a couple TV shows for a real cheap price and BOUGHT them. I got Ally Carter's book, <span style="font-size: large;">SEE HOW THEY RUN</span>. (Ally Carter, FYI, is fab. She writes so well and I adore her!) I got coffee and a croissant from the B&N coffee shop, because it was freaking <span style="font-size: x-large;">B&N</span> and I was going to ENJOY MYSELF! So there. (Yes, the coffee and croissant were delicious. I have no regrets.)<br />
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Then, about a week ago, I received <span style="font-size: large;">Josh Groban's STAGES LIVE </span>from two adorable sisters when they went to Barnes and Noble (without me, I might add. I had to work, which was RUDE! but the STAGES DVD was a nice consolation prize) and we had an enjoyable evening where we watched <span style="font-size: large;">Il Volo's WE ARE LOVE</span> concert, followed by <span style="font-size: large;">Josh Groban's STAGES</span> concert. (Guilty confession: I could watch videos of people singing all day. Unfortunately, I don't get paid to do that. Sigh.) Both Il Volo (consisting of the three adorable Italians, Piero, Gianluca, and Ignazio) and Josh Groban (consisting of himself) are TONS of fun to watch. They are funny, awesome singers, and they give a great show. (Next up, movie/musical binge night, featuring Il Volo in LIVE FROM POMPEII and Josh Groban in AWAKE LIVE.)<br />
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Also, I checked out books from the library and they didn't all suck! That was such a surprise for me. Usually I check out so many books, and I go <span style="font-size: small;"><i>skimskimskim</i></span>, and then I return all those books to the library, feeling melancholy and sad that there wasn't a single book I liked. This time, out of the six or seven I checked out, I actually liked<span style="font-size: small;"> three or four </span>of them! Surprising, yes? (Funny how most of my good things have to do with books, bookstores and libraries. <span style="font-size: x-small;">Shhh, no one mention how many books I have in that closet... or under that bed... or in that house... or on those bookshelves.</span>)<br />
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OH! Another good thing that happened - I discovered the remake TV series of Hawaii Five-0, which I LOVE! (and it got renewed for a season 7, which I'm SO EXCITED ABOUT!!!! So, my good stuff doesn't revolve <span style="font-size: large;">ENTIRELY </span>around books, I guess. I like TV shows, too.) It was a good time for me to find H50, 'cause all my <i>other </i>shows were burning and crashing and dying. So I decided, I don't care if Hawaii Five-0 sounds like a silly show, it's recommended for me on Netflix and I shall watch it. And I did. And I was like, Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang Daniel! (And Steve. Oh m' gosh, Steve! You are a sweet, sad puppy and I love you.) So, I was hooked and watched the five seasons streaming on Netflix in 3-1/2 weeks or less. I swear it was at least three weeks. Treskie seems to believe it was two. I don't think I watched them THAT quickly.<br />
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Then I did have some crappy things happen. Like, I didn't make it to confession last Sunday, which means it will be four weeks before I can actually go. To quote Captain Haddock, <span style="font-size: large;">"You don't know what that means."</span> You feel soured with life. You feel mean and small. Kind of like Gollum. Sort of thin. Stretched. Like butter scraped over too much bread.</div>
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Then, I have gotten a couple more agent rejections. I know it's just business, but still. You feel unhappy getting those rejections. Kind of small. Sad-like. (I believe in you, Dragon! One day, your story will be told, and not just to my sisters and my writing group. I promise!)</div>
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Last, and most depressing of all, the fourth book in a series I have adored since book one, and which I have been waiting to be released since I finished book three in April last year, ended up making two of the best main characters gay. Since one was a Catholic (and honestly, freakin' HAWT), I was pretty upset that happened, and I'm thankful I didn't end up reading book four. (My sister Treskie did that for me, and when she told me, I went into a grieving state which I'm still not quite over.) I think the thing about this book that makes me so depressed is that, from the beginning, there is this quintet consisting of four boys and one girl, and they are nothing BUT friends. There is a slight romance between the girl and one of the boys, which later transforms into a deeper romance between the same girl and a DIFFERENT boy, but the the boys themselves are like a foursome of brothers. There was nothing romantic in there at all. So to see the author (whom I have loved and adored for the past five years, and now feel utterly betrayed by) obeying the trend of the world and writing two of the boys as gay (when they are both honestly too manly and moral to do that) infuriated me. I was like, "What's wrong with just being friends? What's wrong with just being BROS?! Don't people <i>like</i> bros anymore!?" (Note to self: Write story about BROS. Emphasize the BRO-ness. Steve and Danny bro-style.)<br />
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So, that upset me. Depressed me. Made me cry. Utter lamentations. Rewrite the book in my head. Turn to Diana Wynne-Jones for comfort. (I can always count on her to make me feel better!)<br />
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Anyhoozle, that's what's been going on for me. Tonight, as it is <span style="font-size: large;">May the Fourth</span>, Treskie, Panda and I are going to watch The Force Awakens. Pandy has not seen it (Shhhhhhh, don't tell her about the <span style="font-size: x-small;">really shocking thing </span>that happens!) and as it was the one Star Wars movie I liked perhaps as much as A New Hope, I'm excited to rewatch it. <br />
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Um, let's see. Honestly, probably going to <span style="font-size: large;">Carmel </span>and visiting a couple of the missions. That was such a wonderful and epic trip. My older sister and I went for three days and it was just really lovely. Plus, <span style="font-size: large;">the ocean was gorgeous</span>! (I think I might love the ocean.)</div>
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I had a two-day jury summons, waiting while the judge and attorneys tried to decide on jurors. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Christmas</span>. Christmas was definitely the most memorable thing about last year.</div>
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'Kay, I was able to go to this thing called <span style="font-size: large;">WordWave</span>, where I got to meet an agent from Fuse Literary. That was really cool and exciting and SO helpful for my query and synopsis.</div>
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I was also excited to hear that <span style="font-size: large;">Prison Break</span> is getting a new season. YAY! :-)</div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>5. What song/album will always remind you of 2015? </b></span></span><br />
Josh Groban's <span style="font-size: large;">STAGES </span>CD. Especially "<span style="font-size: large;">What I Did For Love</span>" and "<span style="font-size: large;">Dulcinea</span>."<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Epicly! </span>(Epically?) We had Midnight Mass privately up near where we live, and we got some pretty awesome snow Christmas Eve, so we had these huge soft drifts everywhere, and there was a full moon that night, <span style="font-size: large;">so I wished on it.</span><br />
Christmas is always glorious in our house. We light the <span style="font-size: large;">Christ Candle </span>first thing and sing Joy to the World, and put Baby Jesus in the manger. My dad always gets a fire going and makes sausage rolls and puts down a pot of coffee, and we open stockings and eat food and drink mimosa and/or orange juice and coffee and pass out gifts and get really, really loud. We had a lot of people over that day, too. We have a friend who moved to Tahoe from Wyoming, and her brothers came for dinner, which was our traditional gnocchi and ham. We also had a snowball fight later that night, and it was pretty freakishly cold out there, which probably wasn't good for all of us with our wicked chest colds. <span style="font-size: large;">We were all:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #ffd966;">8. What were the best movies you saw in 2015? </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Antman</span>, <span style="font-size: large;">Age of Ultron</span>, and <span style="font-size: large;">The Scorch Trials</span>, because <span style="font-size: large;">Marvel</span>, because <span style="font-size: large;">AVENGERS</span>, and obviously because<span style="font-size: large;"> Dylan O'Brien</span>. </div>
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<u>What Came From The Stars</u> by <i>Gary Schmidt;</i> <u>The Winner's Curse</u><i> </i>by <i>Marie Rutkoski.</i><br />
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I was briefly hooked on Person Of Interest, then a female character was introduced who sort of usurped my boys, Reese and Finch, and I later discovered she was having a relationship with another female and I lost interest. <span style="font-size: large;">I restarted 24, though. (Still adore Jack.)</span><br />
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Yes! <span style="font-size: large;">Finding Neverland</span>, and <span style="font-size: large;">A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder</span>.</div>
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I am mostly revising books I've already written - namely, DragonFire and Fulcrum. I had been kicking around an idea concerning nightmares, and that one has really taken off this month. I've been actively writing it a few hours each night. I'm pretty excited about it. :-)<br />
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Gosh, I hope not. Well, I'd like to move. But otherwise... Gosh, I hope not.<br />
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Life is hard, but trust in God. <span style="font-size: large;">Worry gives you insomnia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"He will always hate me / No matter what I say / And there is no mistaking the love is gone."</span><br />
(This is actually a man's song, so I had to change the "she" in the original lyrics to "he".)<br />
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a.) <span style="font-size: large;">Land an agent</span>. (That makes me sound like I'm hooking a fish. Sorry, agents!)<br />
b.) Buy a piano and start composing music again.<br />
c.) Go to one of the two <span style="font-size: large;">SCBWI Annual Conferences</span> in either LA or New York (though since I didn't get tax returns this year, that's probably not going to happen this year).<br />
d.) Get a better job.<br />
e.) <span style="font-size: x-large;">Move</span>.<br />
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Truly, not the best year I've ever had. It had it's ups and downs, and I was mostly very worried and stressed during it. I concentrated on trying to be a bit more trusting and take it one day at a time. I sometimes felt like I was doing good with that, but then someone would say, "Are you okay? You seem sad," and I so I guess I wasn't being as brave as I'd thought I was being.<br />
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2015 did have some epic moments - <span style="font-size: large;">Carmel and WordWave and Christmas </span>were three incredible highlights to the year and I want to go back to check out more of the missions in the very near future. That's a definite To-Do. I also got myself submitting to agents, which is an A+ for me in regards to my courage. (Submitting to agents is scary!)<br />
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However, I seem to have grown more antisocial. The best thing in my life is going to my little home and being alone, with no people other than my sisters. And Netflix.<span style="font-size: x-small;"> (Seriously, guys. NETFLIX.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">HERE'S TO A BETTER <span style="font-size: x-large;">THIS </span>YEAR!!! :-) </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">God bless. </span><br />
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The CatKatrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18293316104653990391noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574842610528359160.post-70863522417262842812016-03-09T15:56:00.001-08:002016-03-09T15:56:15.292-08:00............Vroom.........Vrooooom..........<span style="font-size: x-large;">So, February happened...</span><br />
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure it gave me whiplash as it hurricaned by. It was a *blink* "Whaaaaaa....?" kind of month. Literally, like, *blink*, Valentine's Day, <span style="font-size: large;">DISNEYLAND</span>, and WHAM. March.<br />
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Valentine's Day was same-old, same-old. We had tons of orders and many last minute orders, and <span style="font-size: large;">I. Hate. Phones.</span> Me, I was the answering machine. Which kinda sucked. But my <span style="font-size: large;">fab sister <a href="http://teresadelallo.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Teresa</a></span><a href="http://teresadelallo.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"> </a>ALSO helped with the phones, so that made it less hard UGH and more hysterical HAHAHA. I just don't think Valentine's Day is my holiday. I'm rather meh about it.</div>
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But yeah, directly after Valentine's Day, we got ourselves packed off in a three-car caravan to Disneyland. *Insert whooping and hollering and eight dedicated hours of listening to Il Volo.*<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Look at us first-timers, grinning and rockin' the matching shirts! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I want to go back to Disneyland again</span>. Maybe not any time in the near future, but say, like in five years or so. I'd want to for sure re-ride California Screaming, Tower of Terror, Hyperspace Mountain, Star Tours and the Indiana Jones ride, and I wouldn't mind getting back on the Matterhorn and Splash Mountain. I DO want to do Soaring Over California - we weren't able to make that one this year - but other than that, I'd want to explore more, visit more of the park and actually SEE everything instead of hurrying so much. I'd want to check out some of the shops a bit more than I did this time, <span style="font-size: large;">especially Disneyania where they had two artists arting </span>(that sounds like the 12 days of Christmas, doesn't it? "Two Artists Arting and a Shop full of Disneyland ART!) and The Mad Hatter, and visit Critter Corner and that kind of stuff. So next time, a little more walking and less riding, I think. It was crazy fun, though, and there were so many of us, it was a little terrifying - we were a mob of 17 and we were COOOOOL. IT was coooooool! :-) See? Look at us! Look at how COOL we are! (<span style="font-size: x-small;">What a mob</span>.)<br />
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In other news, during January I got officially addicted to <span style="font-size: large;">Il Volo </span>(Piero Barone is my fave), I watched all available seasons of <span style="font-size: large;">Hawaii Five-0</span> (the 2010 remake) in perhaps three weeks or less, I sent out queries to 20 agents, and started drafting a new book. (Always gotta work on something new while I'm waiting for something old to hopefully get accepted.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In February... well, you know what happened in February.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Suddenly, March. So HAPPY MARCH, PEOPLE! </span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Happy St. Patrick's Day! Happy St. Joseph's Day!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Last, but not least, HAPPY EASTER! </span></div>
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I hope you all had a <span style="font-size: x-large;">beautimous </span>and <span style="font-size: x-large;">frabjous </span>Christmas. <span style="font-size: large;">Ours was sublime. </span>Did you know that there was a <span style="font-size: large;">full moon on Christmas</span>?</div>
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I made a wish, of course. <span style="font-size: large;">You wanna know what I wished?</span></div>
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But we had a <span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">gorgeous Christmas</span></span>. I was actually feeling *good* on Christmas, which was a big thing for me. I've been sick for something like<span style="font-size: large;"> two months </span>now. I was sick when I went to Carmel early in November, with a horrid chest cold that kept me up at night coughing. That switched to a horrid head cold early in December, wherein my ears were SO FULL they were so sensitive, and my voice had <span style="font-size: large;">no depth</span>. (That, by the way, is when we recorded that 25-minute Christmas music video posted earlier on my blog - hence the reason for the slightly whispery/reedy quality to our voices.) So Christmas, I actually felt GOOD. <span style="font-size: large;">I could SING</span>, which I could not do for Midnight Mass. (My voice kept cracking then. Imagine how cute our Christmas carols sounded.) And Christmas morning, we had our beautiful sausages on sweet rolls with orange juice for the littlies and mimosa for the not-so-littlies, opened our stockings and what-all, sang <span style="font-size: large;">JOY TO THE WORLD</span> after mein papa lit the Christ Candle, and then opened pressies! There were a bunch of us - fourteen opening presents in the morning, and then a total of nineteen at the table for our gnocchi dinner. We watched <span style="font-size: large;">Rise Of The Guardians</span> after dinner and had dessert, and I wished on the full moon.<br />
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Anyway, what are your plans for the New Year? Me, I'm going to spend it in. I may have a shot of honey whiskey, shared with my besties, Stoick, Chrysophylax Dives, and Amalthea. We are pretty tight, the four of us. I will prolly watch Person Of Interest, so I can be sure to stay awake until midnight. I don't usually have too much trouble doing that. I'm a night owl anyway.<br />
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And that was our Christmas, and I just wanted to wish you all a <span style="font-size: large;">holy, happy, blessed New Year</span>. I hope you enjoy this little song. I have a sister who knows Eleven is MY Doctor, and will send me all kinds of things Eleven related. I happened to love this song in the <span style="font-size: large;">Christmas special</span>, and this priest actually has a wicked good voice. I hope you enjoy it!<br />
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Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18293316104653990391noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574842610528359160.post-21530564001323861962015-12-24T17:54:00.001-08:002015-12-24T17:54:14.985-08:00No One Will Be Sleeping On The Night Of Christmas Eve...<div style="text-align: center;">
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Christmas Eve, for me, is my most favourite day in the world. Everything feels very magical, like anything can happen. When it snows on Christmas Eve, I get so excited.<br />
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I have two mindsets on snow.<br />
Before and during Christmas: "Christmas snow is magic, as everybody knows! You'll never see a frowning face on Christmas when it snows!"<br />
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After Christmas: "And there's one more thing that I have discovered, And I would now like you to know, The reason for Christmas I now realize is an excuse to tolerate snow! Snow. I don't even like the SOUND of it!"<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But anyway, today it is snowing and I'm so happy. </span></div>
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There is one funny thing I want to tell you. Every year in Tahoe, our fire station decorates a fire truck and it goes around the town, different areas each night, blasting Christmas music and shining with lights and visiting the neighbourhoods, and then the people driving the truck hand out candy canes to the townsfolk. Well, this year, they were apparently not coming to our neighbourhood. Sadness! My whole family looks forward to it every year. <span style="font-size: large;">It somehow doesn't *quite* feel like Christmas without the fire truck.</span><br />
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Yesterday, I had a couple sisters over for dinner - there was me (Kat), Amanda, Teresa and Maria - and we were going to eat chicken enchiladas and watch Disney's Christmas Carol, followed by Mickey's Christmas Carol. So, we had finished our enchiladas, and were about at Marley's Ghost in the movie, and we paused it to put down coffee, when my sister Amanda suddenly opened the door and stuck her head outside.<br />
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"What are you doing?" I asked.<br />
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"I thought I heard the fire truck," she said. Remember, it blares <span style="font-size: large;">Christmas music loud</span>. <span style="font-size: x-large;">Real loud. </span>Just as she said that, she pointed and said, "There it is! I see it!" It was heading up Ski Run Boulevard toward Heavenly, the mountain where the skiers go. "Do you want to chase it?"<br />
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So we all flung on coats and shoes and ran outside, but it had vanished. We ran past a couple streets, but we couldn't even hear the music anymore. "That's sad," Amanda said.<br />
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"Do you want to get in the car and see if we can find it?" Teresa asked.<br />
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So we ran back to the house, piled into Amanda and Teresa's Landy, and drove up Ski Run, following the fire truck. We craned our necks down each street we passed, trying to catch a glimpse of the lights. We came to the intersection of Ski Run where it connects to Pioneer Trail, and decided to turn right. So we come up to the light, and there is a fire station at this intersection, also to the right. <span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lo and Behold! </span></span>There was the Christmas Fire Truck! We screamed so loud, we couldn't decide if we should pull into the station and jump out to holler Merry Christmas, or if we should pull to the side or the road and do the same. As we turned right onto Pioneer, trying to make up our minds, the fire truck started moving, like it was going to leave again. (Perhaps it was refueling its stock of candy canes?) Anyway, so we drove past, hollering like maniacs, and looking behind us to see if it was going to turn right as well and come along behind us, or if it was going to turn left and go back down Ski Run Boulevard.<br />
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So we made a frantic U-turn and came roaring up behind it, and idled at the red light. Then, unbelievably, THE FIRE TRUCK RAN THE RED LIGHT, MAKING A LEFT HAND TURN ON A RED LIGHT AND TURNING BACK ONTO SKI RUN BOULEVARD, GOING DOWN TOWARD LAKE TAHOE BOULEVARD!!!<br />
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We screamed. "COOOOOOME BAAAACK! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" It was torture, watching it creep down Ski Run and unable to follow.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">That was the longest red light ever, you guys.</span> But our light finally went green and we zoomed through and got back behind the fire truck. By this time, we were all starting to feel a bit stalkery and giggling at how weird we were. But you don't understand, this is the <span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Christmas Fire Truck. </span></span>We look forward to it EVERY YEAR!!!<br />
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So we followed the truck, even when it turned right onto Lake Tahoe Boulevard. However, it did make another right turn into a small shopping mall that has a Red Hut, a ski rental place, a salon, et cetera. We prudently let it turn, and passed by and turned right down a different driveway, and then made a few right hand turns until we could get into the shopping mall via a different entrance. And the fire truck had stopped, and was idling in the parking lot and giving out candy canes!<br />
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So, we parked and piled out and waved and shouted Merry Christmas, and got our own candy canes.<br />
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Then Teresa asked them if they'd go up to Spruce Avenue, because our family would love to see them, and they said YES!<br />
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So we piled back into the car, and the fire truck exited the parking lot, but since there are two Spruces in Tahoe and very near to each other, we followed the truck in a roundabout way to make sure it was going to the right Spruce.<br />
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Teresa called the family, making sure they knew the truck was coming and to line up outside and wait for it. And they did. And we took a bunch of pictures and so many people came out to greet it and get candy canes. And we all felt like good spirits of Christmas, bringing the fire truck to our neighbourhood! :-)<br />
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And that's my funny story of how we didn't expect the Christmas truck, and then we found it and stalked it, and made it come to our house anyway.<br />
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Oh, and here's a little Christmas music from our family to you. Merry Christmas!<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">Today is the feast of St. Nicholas!</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The tradition of leaving one's shoes out for St. Nicholas to fill on December 6th stems from a tale about a poor man who had three daughters. Since this man could not afford dowries for his daughters, they would have had to be sold into slavery. But during the night, St. Nicholas paid the house a secret visit, and the man woke to find coins in his shoes. This happened three times, providing the man with the needed dowry for his daughters, and they were spared from slavery. (Read more about St. Nicholas <a href="http://www.stnicholascenter.org/pages/who-is-st-nicholas/" target="_blank">here</a> and here.)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In my family, we celebrate St. Nicholas Day by leaving shoes out the night before, and waking to see what presents St. Nicholas has left in our shoes. It is a nice, anticipatory feast during Advent, and we look forward to it every year.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">Now, since I'm a little under the weather with a head cold and I can't think of words to write an actual blog post, I'm going to post a Christmas story instead, one I wrote awhile back and never subbed because, honestly, it's not really publishable. Here you go!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">CHRISTMAS IS:</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">CHRISTMAS IN FIVE SENSES</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">She tasted Christmas, in the
sweetness of a sugar cookie. She sneaked icing, dough, and chocolate and let it
all mix on her tongue. She decided, Christmas is hot cocoa and whipped cream
stirred with a peppermint stick. Christmas is the taste of cold snow on her
lips.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">She smelled Christmas, the butter,
sugar, and flour mixed in a bowl, cookies baking in the oven, and the clear, sharp smell of snow. She said, “Christmas is
the smell of the pine tree in the corner, the aroma of lighted Advent candles,
and the clean snowy breeze coming through that opened window.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">She felt Christmas, the cookie dough
under her fingernails. She poked her palms on prickling pine needles, and fingered the
rough, glitter-crusted lining on an ornament. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Christmas</i>, she thought, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is
the touch of snowflakes on my face, paint on my fingers as I help paint this
nativity scene on the frozen windowpane. Christmas is the warmth of fire thawing
my numb fingers, the touch of the chiseled, porcelain statues of St. Joseph,
Mary, the shepherds, the sheep, and donkey, in my hands.</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">She heard Christmas, the crackle of wrapping paper as
someone wrapped a present, followed by the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">snick</i>
of tape cut off a spool. She heard the <i>clink </i>of </span><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US">cookie
cutters clattering on the counter. </span>Christmas is "Silent Night” playing on
the radio, a timer going off on the stove, a spoon racketing off the ceramic
side of a mixing bowl. Christmas is the sound of wind blowing past the window
and rattling the sills, of flames crackling on the hearth. Christmas is the
sound of a teakettle whistling on the stove, ready to prepare a pot of hot
chocolate. Christmas is the silence in the evening when the world goes still.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">She saw Christmas. There was the decorated
tree standing in the corner, lights blinking on and off on pine boughs and
gleaming off the silver, blue, and red ornaments. She saw the Nativity scene
painted on the windows, the Advent wreath wrapped in green ivy and red beads on
the table. She decided Christmas is red and green garland strung in the
entryway between the kitchen and living room, Christmas cards displayed on the decorated
tree, snow piling in mounds in the yard, and snowflakes filling the sky with a
kaleidoscope of diamond glints. Christmas was the snowmen standing in every
yard, white lights illuminating houses on the block, Santa Claus’s ringing
bells at every store.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">She lived Christmas. Christmas is the glory
of Midnight Mass, the candles and bells rejoicing Christ’s birth. Christmas is a
drive home through a silent night, a stop at a gas station for coffee and a
chocolate bar. Christmas is a couple hours’ sleep, an early morning vigil,
huddled in blankets on the couch, excited gazes fixed upon a mound of presents
beneath pine boughs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Heading for <span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">GLORY</span></span>, living a prayer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's to the <span style="color: #0b5394;">HEROES </span>who change our lives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thanks to the Heroes, <span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Freedom survives</span>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's to the <span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">HEROES </span></span>who never rest.</span></div>
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<br />Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18293316104653990391noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574842610528359160.post-58264480793677435612015-11-04T23:58:00.003-08:002015-11-04T23:58:42.289-08:00The Secret Garden - The Original Broadway MusicalMy sister, Bella, has (or had?) this blog party thingy going on over at her <a href="http://isabelladelallo.blogspot.com/2015/10/avm-blog-party-rules.html" target="_blank">blog</a>. I'm not going to do the whole thing - I'm lazy that way. But I am going to do a blog post from #9 on her list:<br />
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I'll be honest, guys. <span style="font-size: large;">Phantom is my favourite</span>. I basically grew up with that. It was the first musical I ever listened to. However, I feel like I harp on that all the time, so I'm NOT going to do The Phantom of the Opera. I'm going to do my second favourite.<br />
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of Les Mis, and we share music back and forth. I had her listen to the <span style="font-size: large;">Original Cast Recording of Phantom</span>, and she let me listen to the <span style="font-size: large;">Complete Symphonic Recording of Les Mis</span>, with
Gary Morris as Veljean, Philip Quast as Javert, Michael Ball as Marius,
and the <span style="font-size: large;">one and only Anthony Warlow as Enjolras.</span> (You notice I only
mention the male singers. That's because Les Mis, like all the rest of
the musicals out there, tend to go in for busty-voiced singers, or
high-pitched vibratos, and I hate it.) I liked Les Mis, though the lack of
musicality always annoyed me. However, I was quite wildly fond of <span style="font-size: large;">Anthony
Warlow's</span> fabulous interpretation of Enjolras, and I WAITED for those moments when his voice would swoop in and save the day (and the musical).<br />
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I started digging, to see what other songs he sang, and
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Album (which, by the way, is the ONLY version to listen to. David
Hasselhoff is a huge and crying letdown over Anthony Warlow's incredible
delivery as Jekyll). Then, I realized <span style="font-size: large;">Anthony Warlow had CDs!!</span>
Surprise, surprise, right? I got his Best of Act One CD, and on that CD was a song called "Lily's Eyes" that he sang with Philip Quast.<br />
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I researched to see which musical this came from, and found <span style="font-size: large;">THE SECRET GARDEN</span>.</div>
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I am fond of the book. I never much cared for the pantheistic element to the story, where the garden becomes this sort of godlike entity and is responsible for all the good that happens to the characters. But I have always liked to read the story, so I can forgive a lot.<br />
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In the musical, I feel a lot of that mysticism is muted. Instead, the garden seems more like a refuge, a place that Mary makes her own, and it's her love of the garden that lends it that sense of magic. Also, Daisy Eagan as Mary is gold. And also, Rebecca Luker. 'Nough said 'bout that.<br />
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What I love about the musical version of the Secret Garden is that fabulous blend of music and dialogue that The Phantom of the Opera captures so well, and which (IMHO) many musicals lack. For instance, in Phantom, when characters read the notes received from the Phantom, the way the music is written is basically how one would inflect their voice while reading aloud.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In Les Mis, it's like this clunky crash of chords that I just don't get. </span></div>
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Secret Garden emulates Phantom in the sense that it IS very musical, every bit of it, dialogue and chorus and all. <span style="font-size: large;">There is not a bit that sounds dissonant or ill-fitted.</span></div>
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The best version is the <span style="font-size: large;">Original Broadway Cast Recording,</span> starring Mandy Patinkin as Archibald Craven, Rebecca Luker as Lily, Daisy Eagan as Mary, and James Cameron Mitchell as Dickon. (I have a fondness for the Australian version that I don't own, because Anthony Warlow is Archibald Craven and Philip Quast plays his brother Neville, and they have FABULOUS voices, but the rest of the cast is lacking. Seriously lacking. Trust us, precioussss.)</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Secret Garden</span> is the story about <span style="font-size: large;">Mary Lennox</span>, a little girl born in India and raised more by servants and housemaids than by her parents. She is sent to live with her uncle, <span style="font-size: large;">Archibald Craven</span>, in his house in York, after an outbreak of cholera kills her parents and pretty much the entire household, leaving her the sole survivor.<br />
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At the beginning of the story, Mary really is an unpleasant child, sickly and foul tempered. Her mood is not helped by Uncle Archie, a brooding, "miserable hunchback" who wanders through the house, still grief-struck over the death of his wife, Lily, who died about 10 years ago. <br />
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The house is also haunted by far-off cries, which Mary is forbidden to
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Her hunt for the garden sends her roaming the moors outside the manor. The exercise and fresh air invigorates her. She becomes friends with an old gardener, Ben Weatherstaff, and Martha's brother, Dickon, as well as a robin redbreast that lives in the secret garden. </div>
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With the robin's help, Mary finds the entrance to the garden, and she and Dickon begin to secretly tend the neglected flowers. But not even the garden can help her ignore the distant, mysterious cries. Flagrantly disregarding orders, Mary hunts out the source of the cries and discovers Colin, Uncle Archie's invalid son who everyone in the household believes will die an early death. Since Archie cannot bear to look at his son, being reminded too acutely of Lily, Colin has been hidden away, his every whim granted by the servants that wait on him. Fantastically spoiled, Colin meets his match in Mary, who refuses to put up with his tantrums.<br />
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Believing Colin's sickness to be more in his mind, Mary thinks that the surest cure for Colin is for him to spend time in the secret garden. The good air works the same rejuvenating magic it did on Mary, and Colin begins to improve. Eventually they are discovered, but Archie is so grateful to what Mary has done for Colin that he finally accepts her and loves her as his own, and Mary finds the home she never had with her own parents.<br />
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Take a listen to this version of I HEARD SOMEONE CRYING (The voice at the very beginning doing the vocalise is Rebecca Luker. Come on. You can't beat THAT voice.)</div>
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I love the absolute crystalline quality Rebecca brings to Lily's voice. It is so soaring, clear and gorgeous, and what I desperately look for in most musicals these days. I can't stand the belting Broadway sound (Idina Menzel, for example. It's not pretty. I'm sorry. Not a fan.) <br />
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This quartet is really, really good. I love when musicals have these songs where each singer has a different line to sing, and then everyone sings together, and it's just like... *shiver*. (Skip about 20 seconds into this one. This QUARTET is fabulous and the blend of voices is perfect.) <br />
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I love how, in this song, Lily doesn't sound angry. I've heard so many versions where the female singers are like, "No, me!" and they just over-sing the men, and it, again, drives me crazy. Here, Lily just sort of soars over them by virtue of being soprano, and she sounds more like a loving Lily, not a confrontational Lily. She sounds like she truly loved Archie, not like she married him to spite her sister, Rose, which is how a lot of Lilys sound. (Why are singers so angry in their performances? Can't we have gentle solos? When did passion in music become rage?)<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">came to life in picture frames. Which is why Lily is sitting in this picture frame here. </span></div>
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And also, in my opinion, this is the best Dickon ever. Just, don't even try. This WINTER'S ON THE WING is the bestest version ever. <span style="font-size: large;">James Cameron Mitchell</span> NAILS Dickon.<br />
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My first introduction to Mandy Patinkin was as Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bridge. Finding out he could sing was like discovering Michael Crawford (whom I had only known from the corny, crazy 1981 movie CONDORMAN) was the Phantom. It blew my mind.<br />
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Mandy Patinkin is STELLAR as Archibald Craven. He plays it so well, as the melancholy man who is suffering from the crushing loss of losing the love of his life, and having a sickly young son whom he believes is going to die as well. This song, RACE YOU TO THE TOP OF THE MORNING, is just so sweet. This is one of the best versions ever (Anthony Warlow sings it too, you see, so I have the hardest time choosing which version is better).<br />
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I love the way he sings it, and depending on my mood, it makes me cry. He delivers it so well!<br />
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So, the Original Broadway Cast Album of The Secret Garden is probably my most favourite book-to-musical adaption I've heard (other than Phantom). I hope you give it a listen, and let me know what you think. :-)<br />
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Kay, that's all that's on my ninja mind for now. TTFN! (Let's see how many people know what THAT stands for. Mwahahaha).<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">...SOOOO</span><span style="font-size: large;">OOOO</span><span style="font-size: small;">OOOO</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">oooo</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">oooo</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">OOOO</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">OOOO</span>OOOO<span style="font-size: large;">OOOO<span style="font-size: x-large;">OOOOO...</span></span></span></div>
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Huh? <span style="font-size: large;">Huh?</span> <span style="font-size: x-large;">Huh?</span></div>
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If you didn't, you might consider <span style="font-size: large;">getting glasses</span>.<br />
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Yep, I changed my blog. I'm still trying to decide how I like the colours. I was getting over the dark green, so I decided pale green. Yeah, pale green was good. Then I thought, grey. Or maybe pale blue. So I'm not totally sure what colour I've ended up with here, but it's definitely not what I had before. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I like my new header. </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">Sparklies!</span></div>
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Okay, so what's been going on with you for the past... <span style="font-size: large;">53 days? <span style="font-size: small;">(*Stage whisper* - <i>Has it been 53 days? </i>*Not so stage whisper* - <b>YEP! </b>*Stage whisper* - <i>I iz <b>ASHAMED</b>! I 'pologize. Oh well.</i>)</span></span></div>
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I haven't done much. Writing, reading, writing, reading, writing, reading. <span style="font-size: large;">Rinse, repeat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">I do confess to a sudden huge adoration to James Blunt. Most of his songs speak to my soul. I don't recommend watching his music videos - they can be a little we'rd - but my goodness, his songs are GOOD! Here, see for yourself.</span></span><br />
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You should also listen to "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IFF9yu5i3k" target="_blank">Carry You Home</a>" and "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eptoL1rYf4Q" target="_blank">She Will Always Hate Me.</a>" Oh, and "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1j1qwQQ8-Q" target="_blank">Bonfire Heart.</a>" And "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lsgh-yO_aY" target="_blank">Postcards</a>." And, "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9eR4exw2Jo" target="_blank">No Tears.</a>" Okay, I won't post anymore. I like him. :-)<br />
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Also, I have a sister who does videos. She's rather good, you know. I requested a music video to Eleven, since his catchphrase is "Geronimo" and this song is called "Geronimo." QED, this is Eleven's song. I quite loved it. But then again, Eleven (and the Ponds) are my favorite:<br />
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Oh, and I did go to this thing called WordWave. I heard tell about it by <a href="http://www.bonafidebooks.com/" target="_blank">Bona Fide Books</a> (our independent small press in Tahoe, which is cool) and it was quite a lovely event. It was three days - Friday and Sunday were both more of "events" that you had to pay for, but Saturday was a free day, so my mother, three sisters, a friend and I went on Saturday. There were some workshopping conferences (more conference than workshop, unfortunately) and booths where you could make your own simple journals, a printing press, a booksale, and agents.<br />
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Not in the booths, of course. Just, there. Offering 10-minute pitch sessions. So I did what any self-respecting writer with two books written would do. I signed up for a 10-minute session, a one-on-one pitch, if you will, with an agent from <a href="http://www.fuseliterary.com/" target="_blank">Fuse Literary </a>(formerly Foreword Literary). It ended up being more than 10 minutes - the agents were really chill on time, which was cool - so I had more like 20-30 minutes where I pitched my story to Laurie McLean and got awesome feedback on a query and synopsis. I tell you, I haven't felt this good about a query and a synopsis since... like, ever.<br />
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So now I've changed my blog. Because, it was time to change my blog. <span style="font-size: large;">FACELIFT, PEOPLE!!!</span> I'm also trying to figure out what I want to do with this blog. Like, it's sort of drifting in La-la land, poor thing. It's just sitting here patiently, going, "Oh, don't mind me. I will come when you caaaaaaalll!!" Sort of like a chorus line from Les Miserables. So I guess 2016 resolutions would be:<br />
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Visiting <span style="font-size: x-large;">B&N</span>, going to <span style="font-size: x-large;">Scheels</span>;<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Avatar, Crossing Lines, </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">24</span> too</span><span style="font-size: large;">.</span></div>
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<br />Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18293316104653990391noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574842610528359160.post-47119313915002446242015-07-30T21:11:00.000-07:002015-07-30T21:11:47.017-07:00Movies and Writing and Front Sight, Oh My!<span style="font-size: large;">Since I last posted </span>(pretty much a month ago exactly) I have seen <span style="font-size: large;">two </span>movies in theaters, written about <span style="font-size: large;">three quarters </span>of the first half of a novel, remembered how much I enjoy baseball, started watching <span style="font-size: large;">Avatar</span>, and signed up for hand-to-hand combat classes at <span style="font-size: large;">Front Sight.</span><br />
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For all y'all who don't know what Front Sight is, basically it's a gun school. You go there, they teach you how to safely use/carry firearms, so you don't go out literally <span style="font-size: large;">half-cocked</span> and accidentally cause <span style="font-size: large;">mayhem </span>rather than <span style="font-size: large;">assistance</span>.<br />
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It teaches you how to be a responsible gun owner. MmmHmmm. <span style="font-size: large;">Anyhoozle</span>, so I'm signed up for the hand-to-hand combat part of it (because it is my first time and I'm a little intimidated at the idea of doing guns first) and I shall be heading down to Pahrump tomorrow - along with my sister Amanda, and our "sister/friend" Sammi. I am trying to figure out how to wear pants. As I am strictly a shirt and skirt kind of girl, pants are a whole 'nother kind of ballgame. But one simply cannot wear skirts to a martial arts type of setting. <span style="font-size: large;">Awkward</span>.</div>
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I gotta say, I was a little disappointed with the Minion movie. I enjoyed the bits with the actual minions, but there was some stuff in there that I thought was totally unnecessary and inappropriate for kids - such as that disgustingly overweight sumo wrestler wearing next to nothing and leaving NOTHING to the imagination. <span style="font-size: large;">The Cat did not approve</span>. Also, I kind of would have preferred that the Minions met Gru earlier, and worked together to bring down the baddie Scarlet, even though Sandra Bullock voiced Scarlet and I could just "see" her getting into the role. I felt they could have done MORE with the movie, but instead relied on people being such fans of the minions they would overlook some loose plotting.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As for my writing</span>, I'm knocking out the first half of my novel quite rapidly. It's going to be told from two points-of-view, but since the timeline is a little "weird" for one character, I'm having a hard time switching back and forth, so I'm doing one character at a time, and I'll fit them together later. (All hail the revision process!) Besides, the second half will need a bit more research into the landscape, and mapping out the world being travelled. <span style="font-size: large;">So, I'm procrastinating on the part</span>. But the completed project will be great, I promise!<br />
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<br />Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18293316104653990391noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574842610528359160.post-67425571240404989362015-06-24T17:25:00.000-07:002015-06-24T17:25:51.924-07:00"They're... flocking this way."<div style="text-align: center;">
I saw Jurassic World the other day. My favourite part was the Ant-Man trailer before the movie.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I kid, I kid!<span style="font-size: small;"> (Though truly, that train scene in the Ant-Man trailer is the BEST.)</span></span></div>
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Actually, I quite liked <span style="font-size: large;">Jurassic World</span>. I didn't expect much from it - not sure why. But I would watch it again, and coming from me that means a lot. To paraphrase Anton Ego from Ratatouille, "If I don't <span style="font-size: large;">love </span>it, I don't <i>watch it again</i>." So that I WOULD watch it again means I would rate it more than three stars. So now you know. :)</div>
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Chris Pratt was my favourite. He is a great actor, and I loved the way he treated his raptors like dogs. That was kinda cute. I also liked that it was a little less gory than the originals. I'm all for survival movies, but I <span style="font-size: large;">don't like</span> watching people get chomped in two. I prefer not to see the actual blood spurt, 'cause that's nasty. I like to let my imagination "realize" what just happened. <span style="font-size: large;">That's just me.</span><br />
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I also liked the younger brother, <span style="font-size: large;">Gray</span>. (That could also be because he was in Iron Man 3, and I quite liked his character of Harley.) The older brother, <span style="font-size: large;">Zach</span>, grew on me a bit, but I never fully warmed up to Claire. She was a bit too "business" for my taste, and though she ended up being a bit more spunky at the end, she never really grew out of the business enough for me to find a good connection with her character.<br />
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I really appreciated the occasional "nod" to the originals, such as when the two boys stumble into what I'm positive was the <span style="font-size: large;">original HQ in Jurassic Park</span>, or when the funny-weird computer guy with the glasses wears his Jurassic Park t-shirt he bought on eBay because dude, they had the real thing. That <span style="font-size: large;">Mr. DNA</span> thingy. (As an aside, I'll just say it was weird for me to find out later how different Vincent D'Onofrio, who plays Vic Hoskins in Jurassic World, looks with hair. He plays Wilson Fisk in Daredevil, and he looks quite different. Observe.)<br />
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Watching Jurassic World, I decided I have no problem with the herbivore dinosaurs. I admit, it would be pretty cool to have a park where you can see brontosaurus (brontasauri?) roaming around and minding their own business. I <i>don't </i>understand this fascination with the Tyrannosaurus Rex, or velociraptors, or any big creature like that who would eat you as soon as look at you. Why would you WANT to have a beast that size come back to life?<br />
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Though, I guess I'm not being fair. After all, <span style="font-size: large;">I rather like dragons</span>, and what are <span style="font-size: large;">dragons </span>but the <span style="font-size: large;">fantasy version </span>of dinosaurs? <br />
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I'm reading something called IN THE BEGINNING by Walt Brown, PhD.</div>
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It gives a fascinating account of the flood and how the world is the way it is today. I'm using it because I have an idea brewing for a novel that might involve a crisis like this, as well as <span style="font-size: large;">pyramids</span>, <span style="font-size: large;">haunted areas</span> around the world and the <span style="font-size: large;">Bermuda triangle</span>. Mostly I'm reading IN THE BEGINNING because it's just really interesting how the world "started over" after such a major catastrophe, and how the earth reformed after the flood waters had settled. I'm researching pyramids and haunted areas because the story that I have out on submission to an agent (while it is a stand-alone novel) does have the potential for companion novels to be written about worlds within its world... if that made sense. So this new story idea I have brewing would be a companion novel. (Besides, I needed a reason to write about pyramids. And <span style="font-size: large;">nightmares</span>. Yes, somehow the two will be interconnected. BOOM!)<br />
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I finished Jonathan Stroud's two new(ish) books of LOCKWOOD & CO, titled respectively <span style="font-size: large;">The Screaming Staircase</span> and <span style="font-size: large;">The Whispering Skull</span>. Oh my goodness, I LOVED them. They were a little bit creepy (think Supernatural creepy, without so much gore) and just as funny and unique as his Bartimaeus books. It's about agents who are hired to rid houses of ghosts, and as only children can see the various types of ghosts, the agents tend to be in their teens. <span style="font-size: large;">Rapiers may or may not be involved.</span> I *believe* the third book in the series is coming out in September, titled <span style="font-size: large;">The Hollow Boy</span>. My only comment to that is <span style="font-size: large;">GIMMME</span>!<br />
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That's all for today, except that my singing final was yesterday and I feel like I scored really well on both songs. (I sang both FLARES by The Script and L' ULTIMA NOTTE by Josh Groban.) So, yay on that!<br />
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Now if I would just get my new harp string in the mail so I can fix my harp and start re-teaching myself how to play... Guys, I need a bigger house.<br />
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Tra la la! That's all for today!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">God bless!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">~Cat</span></div>
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