picky, picky, and ME

I found this on another blog. It’s awesome!

The rules: Mark the selections you have read in bold < italics. If you liked it, add a star [*] in front of the title, if you didn’t, give it a minus [-]. Then, put the total number of books you’ve read in the subject line.

• Chronicles of Prydain - Alexander, Lloyd
• Carrie’s War - Bawden, Nina
• Death of a Ghost - Butler, Charles
• *Ender’s Game - Card, Orson Scott
• Summerland - Chabon, Michael
• King of Shadows - Cooper, Susan
• The Dark is Rising sequence - Cooper, Susan
• Stonestruck - Cresswell, Helen
• * Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Dahl, Roald
• * Matilda - Dahl, Roald
• Ingo - Dunmore, Helen
• The Sea of Trolls - Farmer, Nancy
• Madame Doubtfire - Fine, Anne
• Corbenic - Fisher, Catherine
• * Inkheart - Funke, Cornelia
• The Thief Lord - Funke, Cornelia
• The Owl Service - Garner, Alan
• Happy Kid! - Gauthier, Gail
• Stormbreaker - Horowitz, Anthony
• Whale Rider - Ihimaera, Witi
• Finn Family Moomintroll - Jansson, Tove
• Fire and Hemlock - Jones, Diana Wynne
• * The Phantom Tollbooth - Juster, Norton
• The Sheep Pig - King Smith, Dick
• Stig of the Dump - King, Clive
• -A Wizard of Earthsea - Le Guin, Ursula
• * The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - Lewis, C S
• The House at Norham Gardens - Lively, Penelope
• Goodnight Mister Tom - Magorian, Michelle
• The Changeover - Mahy, Margaret
• The Stones are Hatching - McCaughrean, Geraldine
• The White Darkness - McCaughrean, Geraldine
• Beauty - McKinley, Robin
• Sabriel - Nix, Garth
• The Borrowers - Norton, Mary
• Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH - O’Brien, Robert
• Z for Zachariah - O’Brien, Robert
• A Dog So Small - Pearce, Philippa
• Life As We Knew It - Pfeffer, Susan Beth
• A Hat Full of Sky - Pratchett, Terry
• ****** His Dark Materials sequence - Pullman, Philip
• How I Live Now - Rosoff, Meg
• * Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Rowling, J K
• Holes - Sachar, Louis
• The Foreshadowing - Sedgwick, Marcus
• Marianne Dreams - Storr, Catherine
• When the Siren Wailed - Streatfield, Noel
• The Bartimaeus Trilogy - Stroud, Jonathan
• The Hobbit - Tolkien, J R R
• Charlotte’s Web - White, E B

I need to add this…

• *****Artemis Fowl - Eion Colfer

What is it like to be gone?

To leave without saying good-bye?

To know that RIP is all there is?

“Rest in Peace?”

You’re gone, disappeared for ever!

There is no end to the “I could of’s”

But there is a light, a fraction of hope,

A game that all the children play,

Of who can run the farthest…

Of who can touch the sky…

Of who can forget…

But do we truly forget,

Or even forgive, the divine claim?

All the world is a stage,

But who watched the play?

Is it we who play,

For when we bore?

Or for them, who can barely move?

Maybe for all! Young and old,

For those who wish to reminisce.

Yep, I found it on my mom’s blog! Just HAD to put it up!

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? Hot chocolate! Eggnog is yucky!!
2. Does Santa wrap presents or just set them under the tree? Wrapping! And sometimes Santa’s not-so-little helper helps…
3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? Rainbow! We have every sigle color on there and some light that bubble!
4. Do you hang mistletoe? No way!We only spend Chirtmas ever at our house alone.
5. When do you put up your decorations? Usually the first weekend after Thanksgiving weekend.

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? Ick! Chirstmas breakfast of chocolate and stocking?
7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child? Every Chirtmas Eve I would write all these questions for Santa. Ever Chirstmas morning I would check what he answered!

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? 11-ish? I kinda figured it out. The presents had different handwriting and I had wrapped some of the presents, too.

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? No. On the other had we play games all night and figure out what time to get up the next day.

10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree? Everything! Lights, ornaments, candy canes, and presents!
11. Snow! Love it or Dread it? Yay snow!

12. Can you ice skate?Ah-huh. I can’t even ride a bike!
13. Do you remember your favorite gift? Every Chirstmas I wake up at three AM. One year I found a cat hanging off of my bed. I played with it for hours before I found the other!

4. What’s the most important thing about the Holidays for you? Scrampering around the CHirstmas tree with mybrother to find presents. It’s fun just having the excitement of Christmas coming out.
15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? Cookies!!!

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? At 8 AM my brother and I run intomy parents room and scream ‘Merry Chirtmas!!’ to get them to wake up!
17. What tops your tree? Spining lights.

18. Which do you prefer giving or Receiving? I love ripping open presents and figuring out what’s inside.
19. What is your favorite Christmas Song? Twas the Night Before Chirtmas
20. Candy Canes - yuck or yummy? YUMMY!

I tag…YOU!…..please leave me a comment and let me know you played so I can check out your answers.

Yes, well she said I had to write SOMETHING and my brother came up with an idea. Not my favorite, I most admit. What so what does my mom say? Good idea! Gah….. Fine here goes nothing…

I play Dungeons and Dragons with a group of five guys and two girls, including me. My characters always have some sort of magic or are evil. I created a bard this time! He was cool, perverted, and named Oucane. That meant there was one female character. Tat was fun, I must admit. Anyway, we’re chasing some ’shiny rock.’ The campaign starts and each of us are silently attacked by orcs. To be wierd, my character slept without armor on. So I survived two orcs,barely, and I feel like victory drink. One of the other characters has 40 gallons of ale. I asked for a glass, which I got. Ends up he posioned it! I spat the thing out and stole half of the remaining ale. I drunk it all the up and my brother looks at me.

“Roll a d20(20 sided die).”

I shrugged and rolled. A 1. He shakes his head. I drunk 20 gallons of ale! And I died… So EVERYONE starts laughing at me. Once they reached leval 2 I can coem back though. So, I hang out and wait for them to bring me back. They finally did. I ponder on whether or not to come back was a girl. I came back as Oucane, the perverted undead vampire!! More laughs from this, but I’m to far gone to mind now. I then bit a tiny goblin. now he is stronger then me. Kind annoying, but I can handle it.

That’s Oucana’s story. Care to hear his song?Keep in mind it was writen by the (female)elf!

A dead perverted man,

He was our best friend,

But he drank to much ale,

And now he’s dead as a rale!

He was reincarnated as a female!

I think he stole my underwear,

But oh well!

He turned into a vampire,

So now we’re all scared!

We all bought crucifixes,

So now he’s scared!

Another one? Alright…..

I croaked and I float,

Across the sea,

Dead as a rale,

And woe is me!!

Yep. We have so much fun with D&D!

~Bri~

It’s a book. I know I’ve already done the book review(unless I haven’t…..), but this book was too good to put down! It is called Tithe and is by Holly Black. The back calls it a modern fairy tale, but I don’t think it’s quite like that. It is more about a girl who, when she was young, could see fairy. She moves away to New Jersey, but when she comes back the fairies join her. She is sweeped up in a war between the faries. It is awesome! I finished in less than 24 hours because it was so good. I’d say the reading level it about 12-13, but anyone above that will like it!

-Bri~