Book Review: Breaking Dawn

 

They say the final book in the #1 bestselling twilight saga, will take your breath away. However, this was not the case, i painstakingly read this book as i had read the other and once i start a set of books i like to finish them. Unfortunately, The twilight saga, is just as painful as nails going down a chalk board. However, i must say that any book that get teenagers reading is a bonus so i will say for this reason and this reason alone, twilight has done some good in the world. Anyway, back to Breaking  Dawn, there were moment when i laugh but for the most part i was waiting for something to happen, i actually thought this books was heading somewhere unlike it previous books but nothing happened, and i finish reading, I thought to myself what a waste of time and effort. And the main story line, Bella's pregnancy and the half- vampire and half- human baby is oven done. Book such as Vampire  Academy, L.J. Smith's Night World: Huntress have one or more, and movies like Blade and Underworld also have this concept, and even one of my all time favorite TV shows, Angel had Connor.

  

As this is the final Twilight book, i will thankful not have to read another one, and if  Stephanie Myer write another book about anything, i will not be reading it.

10. Plan a date night each month Part A

I shared already the photos from our first date night but i wanted to share the page i created for mini album

Nick Hornby's A Long Way Down

"New Year's Eve at Toppers' House, North London's most popular suicide spot. And four strangers are about to discover that doing away with yourself isn't quite the private act they'd each expected
Four strangers, who moments before were convinced that they were alone and going to end it all that way, share out the pizza and begin to talk ... Only to find that they have even less in common than first suspected." Nick Hornby's A Long Way Down is a novel that asks some of the big questions: about life and death, strangers and friendship, love and pain, and whether a group of losers, and pizza, can really see you through a long, dark night of the soul"

I never read a book by Nick Hornby and after reading this one I am  not sure I will read another, I am sure a lot of people will find this book rather enjoyable and I would not say it was bad but at so many moments I just wanted to put it down and not pick it up again.

There were moments that were funny and could help but lol, and I love the ending because it was not the typical Hollywood ending , however the characters in the book were not like able, there was nothing enduring about them, nothing that drew me to them... when I read a book I want to love my characters or love to hate them but with this book I felt nothing, I did not care for them at all.
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I WON

I received an email the other day saying that I had won Vera Wang perfume from The Knot, Australia at first I laugh and giggle as I never win anything... Anyway it arrive in the mail, and I just have to say I love the scent, I love the way it make me feel. I love putting it on in the morning and feeling all girly.

So i think i have accomplished another thing of my list of things to do? OR maybe i still will go perfume shopping and see if can find another perfume i love very much.

Today

Today I feel so sore and tired all over, it partially because I have a cold which is cause general aches and pain but also because I am trying to keep to my 27 before 28 goal of exercising each day... okay so far this one has not been going well BUT I am trying, so today I did 30 mins of Yoga, followed by 20mins on the cross trainer, so it wasn't much but it was a start and after a few days the aches and pains will go away AND I will start to feel good about it..

Date Night: October

On my the 27 before 28 list, is to have a date night once a month every month... since i only finish my list at the end of September, that means there will be only 10 date nights, rather than 12. For our first date night, Daniel and I went to mini golf, which I loved so so much I have to say mini golf is my new favourite thing to do in the whole wide world... My favorite memory for the evening was the rule about moving the ball in from the edge, the sign stated "each player can move there balls one head space in when against the edge", of cause i took this as my head size not the club head size, he he.

The President's Wife

Blurb: "Her youth, charisma and freshness have endeared her to thousands. Photographers lay siege to her family home. She is followed everywhere.

But who is she? Young, beautiful, with an impeccable political pedigree, she is the women in love with Marshell Avery, the next President of the United States. And while Beth has the poise not to falter under the barrage of flashbulbs, it can't protect her from a would-be assassin's bullet.... "

When I finish started reading this book I was surprised to learn that it was written by an Australia author, I guess I presumed since written about America, it was written by an American. After discovering this I was not sure if I wanted to read this, after all an Australia writing a very American book, However, Thea Welsh pulls it off, I very much enjoyed The President’s Wife, it’s engaging and well written. The book is a suspenseful, gripping tale of marriage in the public spotlight and the private anguish that comes with it, which gives us an fantastic examination of the way certain women-like Diana and Jackie- live there life.

Blog a Day

I set myself the task to blog everyday on my list of things to do before my next birthday and the last few days I have not blogged and I have felt great about it, and not one little bit guilty on "failing" something on my list because the list is just a metaphor of trying to do new things, or do doing the best I can do each and every single day.
On my few days off from blogging I realised how much I enjoy documenting my life, my discovers and the things  I enjoy so I will keep on my blogging my life but at my own pace.
Tomorrow I will give you an update on what we got up to on the days I did not blog.

Book Review: Good to a Fault

One of the items on my 27 by 28 list (see this post) is to read a book per month, so far i have read two. The First is Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott

Blurb:-Absorbed in her own failings, Clare Purdy crashes her life into a sharp left turn, taking the family in the other car along with her. When bruises on the mother, Lorraine, prove to be late-stage cancer, Clara tries to do the right thing and- against all habit and comfort- moves the family into her own house, upending her life in the process.

As Lorraine walks the borders of death, Clara expands into life, finding purpose, energy and unexpected love amidst the hard, unaccustomed work of sharing her day. But the burden is not only Clara's: the children must cope with the guilt of divided loyalties, and Lorraine must live with the growing, unpayable debt to Clara- an the feeling that Clara has taken her place.

Review

At First i was unable to get into good to a fault, i picked it up, i put it down but once i got past the first few opening chapters i was surprised that i was having trouble reading it. At first the situation that Clara Purdy adopts for her self seams unrealistic, who would really let a family of strange into her house, however if you ignore this fact, the Story of Clary and the family she adopts is a amusing, sad and will keep you complete hooked.
Overall, Good to a Fault is a very interesting and thoughtful book about what it means to be good, and the prices we pay for being good and doing kindness to others. Where is the line drawn between selfish and self-serving.

Sneak Peak: Mini Albums

Currently, i have two mini albums on the go. Neither of them are finish because they are project that will develop over time.

The first album is for spring 2010. I plan on filling it will photos that represent my meaning of spring.

The second is a mini album to document the 27 before 28 list.

Just a little look at the two projects i am currently working on, once i start filling in the pages i will share them with you

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Birthday goals

On my list of things to do before my next birthday was to blog everyday... so I will not achieve this because I missed the whole month of August and most of September, but since finishing my list.. I have managed to achieve this goal.
Since I am going to spend so much time blogging in the next ten months, I want this blog to represent who I am and be something I can be proud of. For the next few days, weeks I will be making changes until I can say I am happy with this blog, until it truely represents who I am.

Number 26

So on my list of things to do was to blog at least once a day everyday... This is going to be quite an effort for me to do so since i am the queen of organisation, that i should make some form of a plan to how i am going to achieve it.
When i say blog, it does have to be long, it can be a sentance, a paragraph or an essay it could be a photo, or just a quote, some will be done on spare of the moment, other will be well plan out but what every format it comes it there is going to be one per day for everyday until my next birthday.

I have decided that some days i am going to have themes to help me blog, i working out the full detail still but my ideas at the moment are

Monday
Tuesday
Wedding Wednesday
Thursday- Mid Week Cooking
Friday
Saturday - I love
Sunday

Well that what i have come up with so far... i am sure there will be more information about this soon enough.... i know i want to do a day about the craft project i am working on but not sure which day yet...

27 before 28

So i have decided that i am going to do my list of things i want to do before my birthday again… i was not going to do this again original but decided that i need some focus, some what do i wish to achieve and experience this year. So yes it is coming a little late… but better late than never right. so starting next week, i am going to be working on my list.

1. See a show

2. Sew something

3. Plant something

4. Have a xmas party

5. Hold a girls weekend away

6. Go on a picnic

7. Take a cooking class

9. Decorate the bedroom

10. Plan one date night per month

11. Find a good perfume

12. Take a photography course

13. Get my driving license

14. Visit Melbourne at least 6 times

15. Take picture in a photo booth every week (starting once this list is finish)

17. Get over my fear of falling

18. Purge three things from my house…daily…starting today

19. Reduce, reuse, recycle

20. Exercise daily

21. See a band live

22. Read one book a month for 12 months (did two in august)

23. Go on the ghost tour of the rocks

24. Do a hard Sudoku in one sitting

25. Visit the Paddington market

26. Blog at least once a day

27. Where make up everyday

Note: number 8 and 16 are a little too personal to share, so i am keeping them a little secret.

Also i plan on documenting all of these things. i have made a little mini book which i will share later once i have taken some photos to scrapbook these moments.