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I've been hearing quiet a buzz about a movie called Beasts of the Southern Wild and decided I had to see it. So on Saturday I happened to watch the whole movie and was moved by it and what can I say anything that moves me has to be amazing. Beasts of the Southern Wild is about a town called the Bathtub and the young girl name Hushpuppy who lives there with her father. Hushpuppy's world is threaten when the polar ice caps start to melt and flood her part of the bayou. In conjunction with the treat of losing her home she must also worry about losing her father who's failing health causing him to act harshly towards his daughter to strengthen her up for when he is gone.  The people of the Bathtub love their home and refuse to leave even after it was totally flooded. This flood not only alters Hushpuppy's view on life it also unleashes ancient animals that called Auroch, that have made their way from the poles down to the bayou. Hushpuppy and the rest of the surv

The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan My rating: 4 of 5 stars This adventure was great. I like the fact that Percy is growing up and experiencing all these adult situations that adults themselves would buckle under. I love the inclusion of a new character and how he sees that it's not what someone looks like that makes them a good person. He finds a brother along the way to share is battles with him but loses him as soon as he is getting to know him and claim him as his brother. Happily Percy does reunite with his brother but once again finds himself a lone when his brother (who happens to be a cyclops) is invited to stay at his father's underwater palace and Percy isn't. This book is filled with adventure and suspense like the first. We see Percy and Annabeth and Grover grow closer together as friends, he even manages to get one of his enemies Clarissa to not hate him as much. View all my reviews

Today in our country another great act of evil was done on the most innocent of our citizens. A gun man walked into an elementary school today and murdered 20 children between the ages of 5-10 and 6 adults in cold blood in Newtown Connecticut. The gunman murdered his own mother before driving to her place of employment and murdering these innocent young souls and the teachers that tried to protect them.  As I mother I feel for the parents that are told that they will no longer be able to see the faces of their sweet children anymore. I hope up on all hope that these families will one day heal and that the children that witnessed this horror will also heal. Their nights will be filled with nightmares and pain and they will need to be helped and they will needed their parents to hold them and I hope that they will get the help they need to over come this act of horror.   This is a total act of evil that can not be explained. We will never know why this man went to this school

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan My rating: 4 of 5 stars So I just finished reading Rick Riordan's The Lighting Thief from his series Percy Jackson and the Olympians. What can I say, I loved it. I saw the movie a while back and never read the book and I have been looking for a new YA series to get into since I left Twilight behind. This first books did not disappoint. Percy's character is way different than he is in the movie. In the movie Percy's character looks to be around 16 and in the book he is 12, which I must admit I like better. I liked the fact that they characters are so young because it makes ever battle and ever minor quest they go on such a big deal. You think are they going to survive this? Are they really going to fight a god and live? Like I am sure so many have already discovered this book is very entertaining, packed with adventure and it's even a great way to make a child fill good about themselves. Percy suffers from dyslexia and even though h

Hey all it's my first post for the month of December, you better enjoy it because for all you know it might be one of the last. According to the Mayan calender this is the year that the world goes to sh*t. So hopefully you've been watching The Walking Dead and Revolution and getting a few tips to survive the on coming doom that's supposedly to befall us all. But on a happier note it's December!! Time for us all to do Christmas shopping if you haven't already done so and if you even celebrate Christmas anyway. Here in the States we rock Christmas like gold fronts. Unlike so many of the masses this woman did not go outside on Black Friday to buy a crap load of supposedly marked down items to stash in my house until it's jingle bells time. I am one of those wait till it's almost here persons then make a mad dash for the store and see what is left on the ravaged shelves. Luckily I don't have that many people to shop for seeing that my husband aske

So I found another reason that you should watch your back when it comes to the police. While reading the AM New York today, I came across the story of one Officer Gilberto Valle, 28. Valle was arrested for allegedly conspiring to kidnap, torture, cook and eat women. Yes you heard me cook and eat women. REALLY! Did Dunkin Donuts run out of food or something. Valle, Via Facebook Investigators discovered a filed on Valle's computer containing the names, addresses, and physical description of some of the women he had planned to have for dinner. It said that he even had some of them under surveillance, following from work to their homes. Currently and thankfully Valle is behind bars. His attorney a woman nonetheless is appealing to get the 6 1/2 year police vet. out on bail. (It's been denied 2x) Of course Valle has plead not guilty to the charges and his lawyer claims he was all talk. Really people of all the things that we have to watch out for in this world now y

So yesterday  I went to see Breaking Dawn Part 2 again and it was just as spectacular as when I saw it on Friday. This time around I didn't go a lone; I took one of my friends with me that just happens to be a guy. Of course being a man he was really prepared to hate it and throw a bunch of criticism my way and at the movie about how much it sucks. On the train ride to the movies we spoke about tragic love you know Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet & Ophelia, Edward and Bella (yes there love is tragic in someway). Well once we got to the movies were arrived a little too early and pass the time by browsing around my less favorite book store Barnes & Nobles. Being the NERDS that we are we spent most of the time talking about books that we are currently reading and books that we wish to read. Near the end of our lengthy conversation we ended up in my favorite part of the bookstore the Shakespeare section. We went through each of his plays saying which ones we've read and what w

OMG! If you haven't seen Breaking Dawn Part 2 there is something wrong with you. But let me start wit this: This was the best Twilight Saga movie...EVER EVER EVER The movie opens up with a song we all know and love. I know when I here it, it makes me think about love and I don't me regular love I mean the love to end all love. I am to not going to tell you the song cause I hate spoilers.  As we all know by now Bella is a vampire and a beautiful  strong one at that. No matter what you think of Kristen Stewart, she acted the hell out of this role. Maybe it was because this was her last time being Bella, but who the hell care I am happy she did. She performed like never before, staying true to the emotions Bella poured out after her transformation. Robert Pattinson was amazing as always. Playing the part of the loving father and husband, he made sure that we would never forget that he would always be Edward Cullen. The rest of the cast and the newcomers to the Twilight

"> Grave Secrets: Deadtime Stories by Annette Cascone My rating: 4 of 5 stars So I went a little young with my reading. I had this book since October where I picked it up at Comic Con and even meet the authors (so it's signed). What can I say, but I love it. I love the characters, the suspense, and everything in the story. As an author of books in the same genre and age group it was worth reading to get a lesson how it should be done. The book and story over all was great. Amanda, Jarrad, Kevin, and Laura are all wonderfully written characters. I wont give any of the story away but it has you guessing the whole time about Ms. Barns. I would most definitely recommend this book for your readers that are into goose bump giving reads. View all my reviews

La Luna Readers: MARRIAGE AS A LEASE WITH OPTION TO RENEW : Marriage as a leash with option to renew- No I don’t think so.   “Marriage as a leash with option to renew”, my Professor brought up the... just click on the link to read post.

You ever wonder why you can't resist the urge to go into McDonalds or Burger King and sink your face into that fating stuff they pass off as food. Well I just watched a movie that tried to explain it all. BRANDED I must say has to be one of the most worst/best movies I've seen in a long time and I've seen a lot of bad movies; I have the Sci-Fi channel. Yes I know it came out earlier this year, but I just saw it. In a world blanketed by advertising the lead character in the movie Misha Galkin (portrayed by Ed Stoppard) fines that he has a knack for selling people things.  Set in Russia which in the movie is a large testing ground for international companies and their products. Misha uses his skill to sell the Russian people on everything. Not only is he an advertising executive but he is also a spy. He is recruited by Bob Gibbon portrayed by Jeffery Tambor to help sell the Russian people the crap that the west is already drowning in, burgers, soda, fast food galore, a

ANOTHER UPDATE: I WILL BE @ THE AMC ON 34TH STREET @ 5PM TO SEE BREAKING DAWN 2 TONIGHT UPDATE: I WILL BE SEEING BREAKING DAWN PART 2 SUNDAY @ 130PM AT THE UA COURT STREET THEATER IN DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN So I am gearing up to see Breaking Dawn Part 2. Like most Twilight Sage fans I am excited and sad that next week will usher in the end of all the movies. I am very happy that I got to see each and every movie and that Stephenie Meyer wrote such and addictive book. I'm current going to see the movie by myself on Sunday, why you ask well 1) My hubby doesn't like Twilight (I should totally dump him) 2) I can't do opening day because I have to work and then run home to watch my little vampire in the making 3) because I don't know who is going to be around Sunday when I want to see it.  But like I said totally excited. I am hoping there will be a series out there that will fill the hole that the Twilight Saga will leave in my heart. Luckily Mrs. Meyer writes awesome e

UPDATE: OBAMA WON..SO ANOTHER FOUR YEARS CONGRATULATIONS NOW LETS GET AMERICA BACK ON TOP. So I got up this morning around 6 A.M got myself ready and went with my Grandma and voted. We had to take a little detour since they changed our voting station and did not mention anything. There were no signs around the school to let us know we had to go somewhere else. I am sure there were probably people inside but we didn't make it that far. Thankful someone that had already gone in told us where we had to go to vote and even gave us a ride (What a nice lady). Nothing was going to stop us from voting especially my Grandma. I am not going to say who I voted for (but you can guess) since who ever you vote for is your own business, but the important thing is to get up off your butt and go vote.I know some people out there don't like either candidates that are running but guess what it doesn't matter either way one of them well be president, so why not vote for the one who tal

Expressing my appreciation for the GREATEST band around (What's your favorite 30 Second to Mars song?) Okay so I've loved Jared Leto from the first moment I saw him on "My So Called Life". I was the only black chic in school rocking plaid because of him. After the series ended it was hard for me to find things he was in. Happily he did star well co-star in a couple movies that I watched with great enjoyment. But even though I love Jared as an actor, I love him more as the lead singer to what I am saying is the greatest band on earth 30 Seconds to Mars or even the greatest band in the galaxy. After punching Jared's name in to my search bar for the millionth time, I found a link that lead me to the video  "The Kill" and man I could have died a happy woman that day. Jared Leto, Shannon Leto, Tomo Milicevi, and then band member Matt Wachter gave me something I was longing for, a band that had a message and that wasn't all about money and groupie

So it's November and for all of you that don't know it yet, I am a writer. Yes you heard me a writer. You might have read some of my papers on here or even seen my post about myself and my series The Adventures of Marco and Carla.  Well this month I have taken up a whole new venture. What is it you ask? Well it's NaNoWriMo of course. NaNoWriMo is an event open to all writers out there. The quest of NaNoWriMo is to try and write 50,000 (Yes I said 50,000) words by the end of November. Each year thousands of writers put a side what they are doing to participate in the event and this year I am one of those writers. I was hard at work on the next volume to The Adventures of Marco and Carla series when I decided to take a break from it and try this out, also it's for school. So I am currently writing a new story and of course it's YA because that's all I really write, besides papers for class. Hopefully I will have it done by the end of November and publishe

Hello readers. Just a quick post to let you know that I survived a long with my family this annoying supposed hurricane. I am originally from Jamaica and this was more of a tropical storm than a hurricane. But none the less this natural disaster came and took lives not only here in The United States, but also in Jamaica and the Bahamas where it started out. My prayers go out to the people back in my home country and to those here in the US that have lost people. Also I just wanted to post a picture of what outside of my house looked like. I live a cross the street from a stream if you can call it that and this thing turned into a monster and destroyed a lot of property. 2 OF MY NEIGHBORS CLEANING AFTER THE STORM NEIGHBOR'S CAR FLOODED...WITH THE REST OF THE BACK YARD AND FRONT ALL THE DIRT AND GARBAGE THAT WAS LEFT THIS MORNING That happens to be my backyard and the last pic on the right hand side my front yard. I would say it was about 4 to 5 feet of water that w

So the other day while I was at New York Comic Con, I happened to wonder by the Random House booth and looked over the books that they were showing off. To my joy they were giving away advanced readers copies. This is the copy that the publisher puts out there I guess to test the waters. Well I got an advance readers copy of a new young adult novel slated to be released in February 2013 it's called DUALED by Elise Chapman  the first novel by the author. Okay so here is my sweet intro.. Imagine a world ravaged by a vaccine everyone thought would help. The United States a long with many other countries are plugged into war. But there is a haven, a protectorate named Kersh. Kersh is free of war but keeps soldiers at its boarders at all time, but there is a dark side to living in Kersh. Everyone in Kersh is born with a double called an Alternate. For you to stay in Kersh you have to prove that you're worthy, and the way to prove you're worthy is by finding and killing

So fanboys and fangirls New York Comic Con has come and gone for another year and there was much excitement and joy over the whole experience. I only got to go there on Sunday, but it was fun nonetheless.  There were still tons of stars there Sunday that I could have meet such as Tom Felton aka Draco Malfoy, Peter Davison aka the 5th Doctor Who and a bunch of others who names slip my mind at the moment. Sadly I really really did want to meet Peter Davison to see if he would run off with me in a TARDIS I found wondering around, but it would have cost me $40.00 to speak to the man and my pockets are still in a recession. But either way I did have a lot of looking around and happen to run into some cool people, one of the real reasons I was there. Such all the masses where up top on the main floor of the Javits Center checking out the latest games and toys that are coming out for there favorite almost beaten dead series, but all the way in the back to what seems like the basement

So after a long day of New York Comic Con, I rushed home to go do laundry and get all that stuff out of the way so that there was nothing stopping me from watching the season premiere of The Walking Dead. Mine you when I got home it was 7:30 PM so I had more than enough free time to get myself pumped up to see some zombie butt kicking. So here is my recap of the season premiere if you missed it our if you're one those persons that have Dish and can no longer see it (sucks to be you). Well after seating through the last episode from last season, the premiere started with a bang. The survivors think about whether or not they can still trust Rick after he revealed that he killed Shane. I for one do not miss Shane since he  was  jerk and the ever plotting liar. Anyway so they manage to make it to a not so abandon home and comes across two zombies who they readily take out. They search the house for food and come up empty (unless you count the dog food Rick's son fines as

Khary Randolph  We all have our favorite things to look at and admirer. I myself I like looking at drawings and colorful things. Yes, I like Vincent Van Goff, Leonardo Da Vinici, and all those other artist. But since the day I saw this artist work and yes that what he is an artist even though he is classified as an illustrator. I've been enthralled by the way he brings simple illustrations to life and how all his work seem to speak volumes. You might ask who is this person I am speaking of ?  Well if you've watched Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teen Titans, or the Boondocks, or ever picked up a comic book or just seen some really cool poster for a comic that you want to read but haven't gotten the chance too maybe this artist drew that cover. I'm talking about Khary Randolph . This Boston transplant has been drawing in New York city for the last 10 years. He has had his hand in bring to life a lot of great comics out there and has worked for some of the top com

Nickelodeon 2012 version So the other day I wrote a post about 80's cartoons they should bring back and try not to mess up. In that post I happen to mention that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was one of the shows they were already planning on revamping. Yes like so many others I was totally skeptical whether or not Nickelodeon could or would do a good job bringing back the iconic 80's action cartoon stars. When I saw the new art I was automatically putting this revamp in the garbage, due to the fact I grow up on the old turtles and the for years watched and worked with the 4kids Entertainment versions, but I must say I was totally wrong.  4Kids Entertainment version After watching the premiere this past weekend with my 10 month old son (who loved it by the way) it was good. Sure they aren't rough and worn like the turtles of old, but still they are the Turtles a younger version. In this version the Turtles are 15 years old even Splinter is younger by the

Today as I sat at my table by myself at school eating my dinner of chicken tender covered in barbecue sauce, I kept thinking about all the pictures I've been seeing of Lady Gaga lately. If you didn't already know Gaga posted a pic of herself on via Twitter only dressed in matching bra and panties. She did this to show of the body that she has admitted has had its ups and downs battling bulimia. I am proud to say thank you to mama monster for doing this and showing that people talking about other peoples weight only brings ugly thing out into the light. Gaga along with Katie Couric has admitted publicly that they both have had their battles with bulimia and continue to struggle with the sickness. The way our society is today it praises those they consider the ideal size and shape. They tell you that you aren't perfect unless you are a size 6 or even smaller. They tell you that you aren't beautiful if you don't look a specific way. All these ideals of beauty and

Quick post...if you're looking for a great way to keep track of all the books that you've read this site is the place for you  GoodReads . This site is amazing you can find all the books that you've read and let the whole know how literate you are. Also you can keep a list of books that you plan on reading and also invite friends to read the same book. This place is also a great place if you are looking for something to read. If your friends are already on the site you can see what they've also read and reviewed and you can pick from their list. If you are looking for something that was published by an independent author and are not able to find the book you are given the option of posting the information about the book on the website for everyone to see. So once again if you're trying to keep your thought organized about what you've read this is the site for you. If you do stop by make sure to check out my profile and see all the books I've read, am cur

We all fear the dark. Now imagine a world where the lights have gone out for good. No one knows why. No one knows how it happened, but it just did. The governments are gone. The world is now ruled by the laws of the jungle. Only the strong can survive in this new unlit world. But there is a beacon of hope in the shape of an old looking necklace. This may be the salvation of mankind and a way back into the light. The new Fall TV show Revolution on NBC looks like a great hit. We open with a family who are engrossed with technology, when all of a sudden when the lights go out. We jump a head 15 years later. America as we know it no longer exist. The government has been replaced by a brutal militia lead by General Monore that seeks to dominate all. But there is hope in a small town lives a man, a scientist by the name of Ben Matheson who may know why the lights went out and how to turn them back on. Matheson, is killed by the militia that was sent to capture him and his son taken.

Silver Hawks, He-Man, Thunder-Cats, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and the Smurfs are just a few names of cartoons that were popular in the 80's. I myself grew up watching all of these shows being a child of the 80's. So you think to yourself  why don't they bring these shows back? Well some of the shows that we have loved over the years have been brought back but unhappily a lot of them just plan SUCK. 1980's THUNDERCATS One of my all time favorite shows growing up was Thunder Cats. Debuting in 1984 the story of a Lion-O and his loyal Thunderans was a tale of tragedy and an epic struggle to survive against the mutants Plun-Darr and the evils of Mumm-Ra The Every Living. After losing their home Thundera, the ThunderCats travel to third earth. While the rest of the ThunderCats sleep Jaga voluneeters to pilot the ship to the new planet. Sadly on the journey Jaga dies from old age but delivers the then sleeping Thunderans to Third Earth.The Thunderans awaken to fi

We've all been battered by the on going coverage of the scandal that has rocked our faith in happily ever afters. Yes! You know what I am talking about. But if you've been living under a rock for the past couple weeks let me remind you. It was announced that Kristen Stewart cheated on boyfriend of 3 years Robert Pattinson with a married man, who happened to be the director of her latest role Snow White and the Huntsman . Yes my fellow Twilight fans; when we all heard this it seemed unimaginable, unbelievable, something the tabloids made up to sell papers. But sadly we've all seen the pictures and been bombarded with the topic on all the entertainment shows on TV. Many of us thought that this coupling was the greatest thing to happen ever since in the roles they portray of Bella and Edward Cullen, they were the perfect couple. But this is reality and there is no such thing as perfection. While I myself thought that this relationship would be the stuff of legend, we have