Will You Be My Best Friend Samantha Ellis?

       A complete turn around from my last book review I will start out by saying how much I absolutely loved How To Be A Heroine  or What I learned By Reading Too Much by Samantha Ellis. Easily 5/5 stars. 

       The book is a memoir about the authors fascination with literatures greatest heroines and her connection with them. Samantha Ellis realizes that her whole life she has been trying to be a Cathy Earnshaw when maybe she should have been trying to be Jane Eyre.

I completely connected with everything the author had to say and though I hadn’t read every book the author described I loved every second of it. Samantha Ellis is the kind of friend every avid reader wants to have, a literary feminist. 

“ From Greer, I learned that there was a stereotype of female beauty and I didn’t have to conform to it-and that it might be fun and liberating to ‘undress with `eclate’. I learned to stop laughing at men’s bad jokes.”

From The Little Mermaid to Valley of the Dolls to Scheherazade Ellis covers that and everything in-between with a refreshing sense of humor and an interesting look at life and the things life throws at you.

George R.R Martin Can Be Wrong

     

     One of the fun things about moving to a new town is that everything is unexplored and waiting to be discovered. About a month ago I went to a book store that I had driven past many times passing through down town Corvallis but had never stopped in until that day. It was my favorite kind of book store…chaotic. There were piles of books along the isle ways and books crammed tightly on the shelves. The kind of book store where you have to work to discover the good finds.  After searching I finally thought I found THE book. It was buried among all the tacky science fiction covers…Pavane by Keith Roberts. It had such amazing reviews, and a GREAT review written by George R.R Martin about how this book is a masterpiece and a landmark in the history of the genre(science fiction and fantasy). 

Let me start off by telling you this…George R.R Martin can be WRONG. The book doesn’t quite reach 300 pages but I had to struggle to finish it and force myself to read till the end. Each chapter section is a new character and most characters aren’t interconnected. There were a few chapters where I thoroughly enjoyed reading the characters story line but those moments were far and few between. Most was a lot of finger tapping and waiting for the plot to thicken, the story line to develop more but it just didn’t happen. And not only did that not happen but the ending was just as disappointing as the whole rest of the book. 

     Overall, I would have to say I give it 0/5 stars!!!!!

It Was a Blog and Run or Long Time No Blog

~Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! And well everything in-between!~

(old pic of me and the boyfriend in Tahoe, California)

      Okay guys, I am going to be honest and say I couldn't make up my mind with which title I liked better for the blog post and since the only vote to be calculated is mine I decided to go with both! Haha!

      

     So what have I been up to lately??? I was hired for a job, I quit a job. I have been crocheting up a storm...working on granny squares, beanies and creating a few patterns of my own. I can't wait to share some of my pattern creations with all of you! I am also going to have them listed in my etsy shop soon as I have them tested and all the bugs worked out( I can't wait and am crazy excited about it if you can't tell!).

      

     On another creative note, I have undertaken the longest project I've ever worked on! It's illustrating a children's book my boyfriend wrote, "Wesley the Brave". It's quite a lot of fun and playing with my new copic markers might be my latest obsession haha.

     Another project the boyfriend and I have been working on is a table painting project that I will be hopefully sharing on here soon!!!!

     

      I keep wanting to do some book reviews on here but I have mostly been reading the Game of Thrones books because my new friends in Oregon are SUPER into them. I just finished the 5th book(finally) and as much as I would like to review the books I think the million and one book reviews that have already been written probably have any unique thought on the books already covered. I might end up doing a break down of my favorite characters buts it's highly unlikely. Especially since I just bought three new fabulous books at my local book store that I cannot wait to read and review!

  

What else have I been up to? Watching Game of Thrones, I’m currently finishing the second season and almost to the third. Just finished Buffy the Vampire Slayer for the second or third time…I know I’m obsessed but it’s just so good. And I am starting the last season of Angel. It’s my first time watching it and I am surprised how much I enjoy it though I have to say I’m team Spike for life haha. And then to add to the television watching(what? it’s the best way to crochet) I have been watching the Mindy Project…I am in love. Mindy is my super girl crush. My more serious girl show I (watch without the boyfriend)

is Greys Anatomy(I know I’m late on the Greys Anatomy band wagon).