Happy Wednesday all, hopefully this day finds you well rested and ready to tackle whatever is to come. Yesterday was second Tuesday of the month which for the past 11 years has meant something awesome to me….
Book Club!
Have I gushed recently about my book club? Probably. Am I about to again? Probably.
So last night eighteen of us gathered in my home to discuss the 19th Wife. We laughed, if only we could have had one more… 😛
I absolutely loved our discussion surrounding this book on Polygamy, the mix of truth and fiction together made for an interesting topic and these girls really did their homework. If you are looking for a great discussion book for your group I would recommend this one.
I was hoping that after all was said and done last night I would sit down and write the review and Bookies thoughts on the 19th Wife for the blog today. However, after I had worked yesterday came home, cooked and cleaned and then cleaned up after everyone left around 8:30… I had little energy to do anything but answer a few email.
Watch for it tomorrow. 😀
Oh… and I did mention a dog didn’t I.
His name is….. well, I don’t know.
My friend Kerri sent me a picture of him a couple of days ago. Abandoned in her neighborhood seems to be the answer. she’s called the police, all the animal hospitals and no one has turned in a missing dog. She’s had him since last Thursday but already has a dog, a cat, and a day care, and does not want another dog.
I told her in so many words…. no. With the loss of Elmo last October, Bailey (our shih tsu) has not been the same. I didn’t want him to think “what is this? A replacement program???”
Yet…
she could not find the dog a home. I told her the dog could come with her to book club. If the dog did not freak Bailey out, it could stay over night…. no promises.
Long story short… the dog is still here. He knows how to work a room, laying down not bothering anyone… house broken… we will see. I have a friend who may be interested in him if it is not us. Bailey is neutral right now… not freaking out, but not hanging out either. We will see what happens when I leave the two together in the house ll day while I am at work.
Still hungry for Hunger Games? You have read the books, seen the movie, and now what? This book will give you that fulfillment! ~Sheila
Sixteen YA authors come together and take you back to the world of the Hunger Games with moving, dark, and funny pieces on Katniss, the Games, Gale and Peeta, even Buttercup (the cat), reality TV, survival, and more. From the trilogy’s darker themes of violence and social control to fashion and weaponry, the collection’s exploration of the Hunger Games reveals exactly how rich, and how perilous, Panem, and the series, really is.
Who is Katniss?
Comparisons to the book 1984
The Peeta Factor
Could Tracker Jackers Exist
Fashion
Does The Last Book Suck (arguments both ways by the same author)
CONTRIBUTORS: Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Mary Borsellino, Sarah Rees Brennan, Terri Clark, Bree Despain, Adrienne Kress, Sarah Darer Littman, Cara Lockwood, Elizabeth M. Rees, Carrie Ryan, Ned Vizzini, Lili Wilkinson, Blythe Woolston, Diana Peterfreund (NEW), Brent Hartinger (NEW), Jackson Pearce (NEW)
Yes. I read the books. I followed up by listening to Hunger games on audio as well. Yes, I went to the movie. Twice. And yes, I was one of those people who did not love love the last book, Mockingjay.
Yet… hungry for more, much like I still am with the Harry Potter books. I want something more.
Thanks to this group of authors there is more, a lot more! The Girl Who Was On Fire is not a bashing of the books by Susanne Collins. Quite the opposite. It’s taking the books (all three of them) and breaking them down into bite size pieces. It is sometimes funny (Katniss being compared to Buttercup the cat – keeps surviving against all odds, doesn’t let people in easy), it is sometimes sad (could Katniss pick who she really loved or did she know what she had to do, who to choose to survive, and isn’t that what it is really all about?)
Each chapter, or topic, is told by a different author who gives their insight on a part of the books. I found this interesting and have to admit I loved the chapter called Did The Third Book Suck, told from the perspective of an author who lists all the ways he felt as a writer it could have been done so much better, and then turns around and explains why just the opposite could be true as well, and why Susan Collins choices in Mockingjay may have been the authors road less traveled but also shows a deeper look into Katniss and Panem by writing it the way she did. (for the record, I did lean more towards this chapters first synopsis, and while I did not think Mockingjay sucked, it was my least favorite of the three books.) My review of Mockingjay.
Who should read this? Hunger Games fans this is a fantastic addition to the three books. It will make you think, nod your head, and occasionally laugh out loud. It is brilliant and fun – all rolled into one.
Why did I read it? I loved the trilogy as a whole. I thought the idea behind Hunger Games was so incredibly detailed and unique from anything I had read before. And yes, I was left Hungry… especially after the release of the movie… I wanted more. The Girl Who Was On Fire gave me that.
As you know I have been planning to go to BEA however, my roommate of the past two years will not be attending this year and I have been roommate searching. For a few days there I was even considering not attending, which really bothered me as it is something I look forward to all year.
Over the past week a few people came forward with possible opportunities I was looking into. Then thanks to Twitter, I discovered Gail also did not have a roommate this year, hers was also not attending. I had met Gail last year at the BBC. We started chatting and emailing and as of yesterday morning we are booked! 😀
Seriously – just typing those words is such a relief!
SO lat night I finished the BEA registration that had started and stopped over the past few weeks. That felt good too! 😀
The final piece was to book a flight and I had been watching Orbitz and knew there were plenty to choose from. Last night I made three attempts to book a flight and each time after I filled everything out and hit submit…
it would come up with a message that said sometimes seats get booked quickly and that one in so longer available. 😯
This happened two more times and I logged on to my credit card account to see what was happening there. Sure enough, every time I tried to book a flight my card put that into a reserve hold on those dollars. At that point I stopped thinking my credit card company is going to lock up the card thinking it is fraud… three attempts for flights.
So anyway…. that is frustrating.
I will try again in a few days, or if I have time this afternoon I may call Orbitz and just let them know what is happening and find out how do I actually find a flight that exists.
Anyhoo.. thats what is happening here. I can still bask in the fact that I am for sure going to BEA. I am excited and now planning out what I want to do there.
Hope your Tuesday is lovely. I have book club here tonight and I am excited for what is sure to be an interesting review of The 19th Wife. (Review, discussion, and food we had with the review will all be posted tomorrow)
Oh, and those participating in the Monday meme and the egg hunt – remember to qualify you must also comment on those blogs that had the eggs. I am seeing entrants who have not done that part. 😀
Welcome to It’s Monday! What Are You Reading, Easter Addition! This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well… you never know where that next “must read” book will come from!
I love being a part of this and I hope you do too! As part of this weekly meme I love to encourage you all to go and visit the others participating in this meme. I offer a weekly contest for those who visit 10 or more of the Monday Meme participants and leave a comment telling me how many you visited. **You do not have to have a blog to participate! You receive one entry for every 10 comments, just come back here and tell me how many in the comment area.
This winner will receive a $5 gift card from Amazon, while I straighten out the Reading Cafe this week to update the books i have for giveaway. Trust me…. it will be worth it. Next week I should have some sweet choices. 😀
I am behind on sending packages out and have worked today to get things bundled up to go in the mail tomorrow. Thank you all for your patience! 😀
*** Also be sure to read to the end of this post today – there is a fun bonus giveaway in honor of the holiday!
So anyway, Happy Easter! I hope everyone’s weekend was wonderful. Mine was a much appreciated quiet weekend. After a busy week it was nice to not have much on the agenda for the weekend. I read, I cleaned house, a little audio, and a little company. A perfect combo.
I know last week I mentioned I was still tweaking this look on the blog… but it is starting to grow on me and some positive feedback has allowed me to relax and let it be. Here is what has happened this week:
Wow! Looking back over the week, that’s the best week I have had in awhile! I also wrote a review today for The Girl Who Was On Fire which I will post later this week.
So what’s up for this week?
On the day she was abducted, Annie O’Sullivan, a thirty-two-year-old Realtor, had three goals: sell a house, forget about a recent argument with her mother, and be on time for dinner with her ever-patient boyfriend. The open house is slow, but when her last visitor pulls up in a van as she’s about to leave, Annie thinks it just might be her lucky day after all. Interwoven with the story of the year Annie spent captive in a remote mountain cabin — which unfolds through sessions with her psychiatrist — is a second narrative recounting the nightmare that follows her escape: her struggle to piece her shattered life back together, the ongoing police investigation into the identity of her captor, and the disturbing sense that things are far from over.
Holy crud! I thought I had read this one and realized I had not. I started listening to it on audio yesterday and I am GLUED to it.
Still reeling from the deaths of her mother and sister on the Titanic, Sibyl Allston is living a life of quiet desperation with her taciturn father and scandal-plagued brother in an elegant town house in Boston’s Back Bay. Trapped in a world over which she has no control, Sibyl flees for solace to the parlor of a table-turning medium. But when her brother is suddenly kicked out of Harvard under mysterious circumstances and falls under the sway of a strange young woman, Sibyl turns for help to psychology professor Benton Derby, despite the unspoken tensions of their shared past. As Benton and Sibyl work together to solve a harrowing mystery, their long-simmering spark flares to life, and they realize that there may be something even more magical between them than a medium’s scrying glass.
This book hits the shelves on the tenth, and we are currently in Titanic week which is a subject that really touches me.
It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband’s Mississippi Delta farm—a place she finds foreign and frightening. In the midst of the family’s struggles, two young men return from the war to work the land. Jamie McAllan, Laura’s brother-in-law, is everything her husband is not—charming, handsome, and haunted by his memories of combat. Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the McAllan farm, has come home with the shine of a war hero. But no matter his bravery in defense of his country, he is still considered less than a man in the Jim Crow South. It is the unlikely friendship of these brothers-in-arms that drives this powerful novel to its inexorable conclusion.
The men and women of each family relate their versions of events and we are drawn into their lives as they become players in a tragedy on the grandest scale. As Kingsolver says of Hillary Jordan, “Her characters walked straight out of 1940s Mississippi and into the part of my brain where sympathy and anger and love reside, leaving my heart racing. They are with me still.”
I am starting this one if I have time this week, as it is a winner that needs to pass on when I am done.
That’s it. Plenty to read around here. 😀 I will really curious as to what you are reading this week and plan to make my rounds and see so be sure to add your Its Monday What Are You Reading link below where it says “click here” and I as well as others will be over to see what you are reading.
I did mention a bonus didn’t I? 😀 Have you heard of the book Ready Player One? I listened to it on audio at the end of last year and LOVED it, probably one of the best audio I have ever listened to! Anyway, in this story there is a guy who is a multi billionaire and has no family. When he dies, he leaves in his will clues to what he calls a hidden Easter Egg and it hidden within this game world. The finder of this egg wins all he owns.
So… I was thinking in celebration of Easter, we would have our own hidden Easter egg here! 4 wonderful and gracious participants of this meme have offered to put an Easter Egg I have sent to them at the bottom left side of their posts. the egg looks like this:
As you go and check out the other meme participants, if you find the posts that have the egg:
1. Make sure you leave a comment
2. Make a note of which blog(s) you found the egg on
If you find at least three of the four eggs, email me at journeythroughbooks@gmail by Wednesday at midnight central time. If there is more than one winner I will use random.org to choose a winner and announce this name on Thursday morning here. That person will win a $25 gift card to Amazon (enough to get Ready Player One if they wish, or any other book that catches their eye!)
Link up! Lets get this party started!
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Another month, another recap. In January I felt like I rocked that month would a great start to the year. In February, I mellowed a bit but believed it was going to bounce back. Now here I am with a toe into April already and looking back at March as I type this with a mild curiosity.
How did I do?
For March I added 10 new books/audio to the map… however only three new states. 😯 Seem to have repeats in New York, Illinois, and Maine. GAH! For the first three months of the year I have in 18 of the 50 states. 6 books being outside the US.
Of those ten I wrote review for…. 7 were audio. I know. I can’t believe it myself… I need to sit down and READ. I am now at 21 audio books for the year.
I made no progress on the e-books challenge. I still have a partial one to read before I can count it. 😦
Thanks to Pandemonium, I was able to add one Dystopia read to the mix giving me three for the year, balancing me well for the 11 I hope to read in 2012.
No progress made on the 2012 Recommended Reading Challenge. 😦
For the year I am at 5,419 pages. Audio equals: 7 days and 62 minutes. I know… I know… but it is not idle listening… I clean, I cook, I work out… 😀
I am hopeful that April will pick up steam. I am finishing my third book for this month today, and I have finished 3 audio as well so far this month.
How is April coming together for you? Is this a good reading month?
I hope this Sunday morning finds you well… and happy and well you know… GOOD.
I had a pretty sweet week and even got the road bike out on the trail this week 3 times for a total of 68 miles (that makes me SO happy!) I am hoping that maybe I will get out there again yet today and Monday and make it to 100 by Tuesday night (that would be one week since I started riding this year). That will be a hard sell though as I have Monday night and Tuesday night commitments that will leave me only a little window of time to bike.
One thing I did not get a lot of time to do this past week is read and that annoys me. I almost put up a tweet that said “Really Sheila, how about you try to actually read a book?”
Seems like with the additional bike riding this week the reading fell to the way side, and the fresh air, knocked me out in the evenings. Seriously – that’s embarrassing. Friday night I came home around 6 pm after riding 36 miles, ate dinner, sat in the recliner to read and promptly passed out. I woke at ten, and went to bed. What am I? Five??? 😯
I did get a few goodies in the mail this week:
Some pretty exciting reads and a movie to review, We Bought A Zoo.
Today we will go to church this morning, and then out to Easter brunch. It’s just Al and I today without Justin being able to come home as he works and Brad in the Navy. For us it will be a low key day and that is alright. I have over 200 pages to go in our book club read, The Nineteenth Wife for our review on Tuesday.
As for other exciting news – it looks like I have a roommate for BEA! WOO HOO!!!!! More on that soon, waiting on a confirmation but a hotel was found… and it looks good and just looking at it today made me all giddy inside knowing that BEA is coming and finally (FINALLY) it feels like it is coming together. 😀
Is it really possible to love your enemies? That is the question that surrounds this book and leads the authors into the hear of the Middle East in Summer 2008. This is a trip that began in Egypt, to Saudi Arabia, and Beirut, before ending at the cradle of the world’s three major religions: Jerusalem.
Ted Dekker tells his side of this amazing true story through the eyes of a first timer into this country. Carl Medearis tells it from the side of a repeat visitor who had even been arrested and held in jail in the country on previous entrances in this country.
From late night border crossings to hair-raising taxi rides, and back room meetings, follow the story of these two men as they seek permission to talk to – and are granted permission to such people as Hezbollah Leaders,sheikhs, muftis, and even Osama bin Laden’s brothers who tell you first hand, they don’t like their brother much.
Finding the answers come from heartfelt interviews, surprising revaluation, and at times, life threatening situations, all to work towards the heart of this relationship we have – or more accurately – lack their of… with the middle east.
Imagine, going into a country that in many ways does not approve of Americans, or at least that is what many of us think. The country is at war, it is not necessarily a safe journey – yet you feel called to do it.
Why?
Jesus says in Matthew 22:
36“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[a]38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[b]40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
What does it mean to love your neighbor as yourself? I think of my neighbors. Sure we wave at each other as we go by, or occasionally chat about gardening or weather, but love them as myself?
And really, if you take this text to what that means… doesn’t it mean to love all people as ourselves? That is a heavy request. And that is what Ted and Carl go to find out. What does that mean in the midst of war? Is that even possible?
Of course I made tea. What is it about tea that seems so inviting? It is such a universal tradition to share a cup with friends.
I was engrossed in this true story of the authors adventures into the middle east, and the interviews that revolved around this trip. This audio is told from the authors perspectives, however the interviews, are word for word as told by the interviewed, and that I have to say was down right fascinating.
The interviews were the best part of the audio.
Unfortunately the reading falls short of hitting an excellent or even very good mark from me. I would say it was definitely good, and interesting, but it felt as though a goal was set, even implied in the synopsis, and I didn’t find it to have been reached. There is a fiction story that weaves itself among the pages, entwined throughout the book and is working towards I believe, a common thread to tie this whole read together. In some ways it works, it is definitely interesting, but in other ways I find it sad that this particular thread was not actually found as truth through all the interviews and traveling done in the book. That may have reached me in a stronger way. My take away is mainly what I already knew and what I strive to do anyway, and it is love everyone as myself, do not judge other people, and try to always put love and grace before all else. I don’t always succeed… but for the most part, living this way gives me a great peace knowing that in most situations, I have done all that I can to show love and grace and at that point, any disagreements or differences are off me.
My aunts often refer to me when there is conflict in the family and someone wants to know my thoughts as “Oh Sheila? Sheila gets along with everyone!”
I like that. 🙂
I am not passive, I can clearly speak my opinion and then let it go. Life is too short to live angry.
If you are interested in the middle east, the Biblical teaching of Love Your Neighbor’s As Yourself, or even what those interviewed had to say, I would say read this book or listen to the audio (which, yes, was narrated well by George Wilson.)
Why I listened to this book: I have read and enjoyed Dekker’s non fiction through the years. The last few years I have found his writing to become darker and I do not enjoy it as much as I once did. Besides the three reasons I listed above being true for me as reasons to read this book, I also wanted to know what Dekker would do with non fiction.
Here are a few other opinions by awesome bloggers:
What a great idea and what a great go along for a book about tea! I got a late start on making these, but I am giving you a recipe for the shortbread cookie in case you have any ideas… as I brainstormed I thought these could also by used for luggage tags , perhaps for a traveling get together, room keys, baby showers with its a girl r its a boy tags, and I even have an idea for my book club on Tuesday but you will have to wait until Wednesday when I put up our review to see what I came up with 🙂
Shortbread Cookies
2 cups butter
1 cup sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
4 cups all-purpose flour
For dipping:
I am using melted Ghiradhelli chocolate chips, but you can use semi sweet chocolate or whatever you prefer.
Preheat over to 350 degrees
Cream butter and sugar together until fluffy. Add vanilla and stir. Add flour and mix well. Roll out onto a lightly floured counter top. I used a cut out using cardboard to get the tea bag shape and then poked a hole in the cookie shape using a toothpick but making it big enough so it does not bake closed. Mine are still in the process of being made so I do not have a finished product yet, but will show you once I do 🙂
Bake 10-12 minutes, watching closely at that 9 minute mark to make sure the cookies do not get too dark. Let cool, then run string through the hole and add your tags. Fun!
Be sure to connect with Weekend Cooking at Beth Fish Reads to see what other people are cooking this weekend! 😀
Good morning! Happy Saturday. I have coffee brewing and outside, it looks a little gloomy out and that for once, is actually ok… I have some indoor things that need to be done and have been neglected as the weather has been pretty awesome this week and I have been biking! 😀
Yes the 2012 maiden bike voyage happened on Tuesday of this week and it was a glorious 14 miles! On my way back to my car I seen something BIG in a tree:
Mmm hmmmmm… WHAT is that?
At this point, I determine it is a beaver. There is some wetland near the bike trail in parts and I was near that now. In fact as a couple of rollerbladers passed by while I was taking pictures I pointed out the beaver in the tree. They were not as impressed as I was, they smiled politely and kept on blading.
It was kind of cool, his little paw would reach out for some of the leaves and I watched him for about ten minutes. He started to climb down and I thought I would video that but he sensed my presence and FROZE and finally I waved him good-bye and good luck getting out of the tree, and moved on.
Coming home Wednesday evening I had this vision close to my house.
That’s common, but I still like to look at them. That night our dog Bailey was going nuts around 3 in the morning. He was on the bed with us and staring out our big bay window we have in the bedroom. Of course it was pitch black aside and I had no idea what he was seeing so I got up and went and stood by the deck doors that look over out back yard. I could see two large darker shapes so I stepped out on to the deck and it was two deer. I wondered if they were the same deer…
Now back to the other thing in the tree. On Friday my awesome friend Amy (awesome as she agrees to do CRAZY things with me!) and I decide to go on a bike ride to the town of Nisswa, a 36 mile loop. It’s a straight stretch on the trail and she will be doing some rides with me later this year so this is good training. About a mile in, I see out friend in a tree again. We stop, try to decide what it is, and eventually I start calling it a Bechuck (beaver woodchuck combo) and eventually that lead to Bebird (beaver bird combo).
When I got home last night I Googled if beavers could climb trees. You probably already know this, the answer is no. (I flash back to Tuesday when I told those rollerblading girls it was a beaver in the tree… no wonder they kept on blading… they probably thought I had something stronger in my water bottle than water. 😳
The verdict is….
a groundhog.
According to wikepedia: Ground hogs (also known as woodchucks) will climb trees for escape.
So there you are boys and girls. Out wildlife lesson for today. 😀 For more fun pictures around the world be sure to pop over and see Alyce with her awesome Saturday Snapshots meme. I love to see what people ate taking pictures of!
My day is going to consist of some household duties,blog visiting, a couple calls to friends, audio books, and some reading. I have a few books going that I need to finish, one being the 19th Wife that is our book club read and we are discussing this coming Tuesday.
Thankfully our weekend here is pretty quiet. College son has to work so will not be coming home for Easter. That is a huge bummer… but we understand. I don’t mind quiet holidays, my life seems to go extreme so often that time to just hang is always welcome. 😀
How about you? Any awesome plans for the weekend? Fun traditions?
Oh! One more thing – This weeks Monday What Are You Reading is going to have a special bonus to it. I thought we would have a little fun since we are celebrating Easter! Really, you are going to want to participate so be sure to plan on connecting what you are reading this week if you are a regular to the meme, and if you are new to it, stop on by Sunday evening and check out what I am talking about. 😀
Yes I am here, just a little late this morning. I have been up since 6 am, but I have been reading emails I was too tired to get to last night, chatting it up a bit this morning with bookish peeps on Twitter, and cautiously looking into Pinterest.
Why the caution?
Any one that reads Book Journey on a regular basis knows I have no trouble at all filling up my time. I love to read, to blog, my job, hanging with friends, rollerblading, biking, the gym, volunteering with teen and the homeless, movies, and really…. honestly…
I was afraid (and still am a little) that Pinterest would become a time suck I just could not afford unless I gave up sleeping, which as hard as I like to run…. I do look forward to hitting the pillow at night to re-energize.
Friends invited me to join it, talked about it, I hear it’s praises on the blogs, but for me…. Pinterest was off the table.
And then… (gah… I am really starting to not like those two words…)
Jay at Joy’s Book Blog had a Pinterest Challenge for Bloggiesta. Not one to back down from a challenge I checked it out. What Joy talks about is how to use your blog with Pinterest… in other words, I could connect books on Pinterest that would draw attention to Book Journey.
I do like talking about books…
I did not do the challenge – I did not have time. But I did ask Joy to hook me up with an invite and she did, and this morning… I registered. Anyhoo… that’s why I am really late this morning 😀
Oh yes, you can plan on seeing these pop up in a post as soon as I find a book to theme them… 😀
I am registered but currently there is nothing on my board. I need to figure out how to do it, does it link back to the blog, etc…. maybe this evening I can look more into that and probably in the next day or two I will put up a link on the sidebar. Until then… yeah.
So let the time suck begin. 😛 If you do not hear from me for a while check Pinterest, I may be pinned to a board. “Help! I’ve been pinned and I can not get free!”
My day today is blog post writing, group power, hopefully a bike ride, reading, cooking, and some sort of low-key plan for hubby and I tonight… like a rented movie.
Questions to you: Do you use Pinterest? If so in what ways? (to look up things? What things?) Inquiring minds (ok, me!) want to know.
Good morning and HAPPY THURSDAY!!!! (Yes, I have had coffee, why do you ask?)
There is a big event coming up that I have yet to really talk about here but have wanted to. It is the 100 year anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, April 15, 1912.
Remember when they came out with the movie with Leonardo and Kate? Well I have a story…
Sheila, don’t you have a story for EVERYTHING?
No… No I don’t for instance… I have no stories about frogs. Oh… wait, that’s not true… I do, and it’s a sad one…
Ok…. ummmm…. Unicorns! I have no stories about unicorns. 😛 See? Not everything has a story…
BUT – this one does.
So it’s 1997, I think. I am working at Wal-Mart (yes, yes,…. I was that cool!) and my friends were talking about going to the movie Titanic. AND no way was I going to see a movie about a ship that sank a long time ago. And I am pretty sure I said so in so many words.
NOPE. Not gonna happen.
But, as seems to happen to me often, the chatter, the discussion around the movie, the excitement, peaked my interest and I went with Hubby one night and …
LOVED IT. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
Seriously, from the moment she is being lowered off the ship in the life boat and jumps back on the ship, I had to go to the bathroom sooooooo bad but refused to miss a moment. (I may have injured my bladder during that movie, just saying!) AND I had cried so much I actually left the theater with a headache.
I went on to see the movie another 5 times in the theater. And yes I know, it is over 3 hours long and yes, I know I probably should not tell people how many times I went to it. But, its out there now, and I know that over 18 hours of my life in the 90’s was spent in a small town movie theater watching Titanic. 😯 I kept going, because I became an evangelist for the movie (oh you know the type….. talking it up, persuading you to go, offering to go with you even….) I brought people to the theater. I sat with groups as small as 3, and as large as 12 (*waves to co-workers and assistant manager who said she would NEVER waste her time on the movie… and then did. With me. :razz:)
At that point I became obsessed with knowing more about Titanic. I read books (don’t, be shocked… occasionally I do read), I watched movies, and I found my way a few years later to the Titanic exhibit when it was in Florida – which was amazing and heartbreaking all together.
Now that you have the back story – here is modern day, today in fact…. now in fact… and here is what is happening that I know about.
My friend Reagan (if you have not met her you must, she is a hoot), is having a challenge:
Stop over and check it out. It’s completely doable and you may learn something about Titanic in the process.
AND
Kelly At The Written Word and I have been conversing about her upcoming Titanic week and we are working out a thing… details to come, but in the meantime here is the link to what she has going on:
Titanic 3D hits the theaters tomorrow, April 6th. I am not excited about the 3D part… in fact, I think that might just irritate me a bit just because of the subject matter and while it is a fictitious movie, it is based on actual events. However, after watching the trailer this morning and tearing up… I will be going to see Titanic in the theater again because it still affects me so much I am surprised. I guess I could then count that as 7 times I seen it in the theater….
If you know of any other Titanic happenings please let me know here, and I can add them to this post.
How about you, did you see the movie it the Theater? Would you go see it again, why or why not?
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