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

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.

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.

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~

-Bri~

Fruits Basket(Furuba)

Jing; King of Bandits

Azumanga Dioh

Yotsubato

PhD: Phantasy degree

11th Cat

Ranma 1/2

Inuyasha

Anne-freaks

Destiny’s Hand

Black Cat

The Tarot Cafe
.Hack(Dot Hack)

Claymore

xxxHolic

Chrono Crusade(Chrno Crusade)

I [robably could think of more if I was in a bookstore, but I don’t remember all of them now!

Normal people are made of gold,

Special people never grow old,

Normal people are works of art,

Special people are par t of the heart,

Normal people can bring you up when you’re down,

This kind of people can bring you back around,

Hey, your’re an angel,

It’s what you do,

I’m not sure I’d be here,

If it wasn’t for you.

-Bri

Artimis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

A 12 year old Irish genius makes a discovery: fairies do exist. He maes plans to capture one. What for? To hold it ransom! He asks for gold in return for Captian Holly Short. It follows Artimis through his life for a total of 5 books so far. It might sound like something for little kids, but it is much better than I can make it sound!

COLORS
All the colors in the rainbow,

Seem to gather ’round this table,

Red, green, orange, blue,

Are just some of these earthly hues.

The Sky is falling! The Sky is falling!

Comes the cry of cheerful kids,

Bundled up then squished right out,

Is the colors fate, no doubt.

Now they sleep, and sleep they will,

Yet long and lively the children sing:

Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas!

Their joy buried on skies of white ,

The colors leave in sorrowful flight,

Their friend is gone, their playful delight.

Alas, all is not! Their back! Their fine!

Newer colors creep up their spine,

Opening anew, everything starts to bloom.

The friends come back to touch the sky,

To reach the top, to never cry,

They reach, they reach….And snap! They fall,

The lush green picks them up,

To try again, you’ll never fail!

They shake their heads and push away,

Yet in a month they’ll be back again,

To touch the sky, to reach the top.

Thus their story begins anew,

New friends will push and bloom,

And if they fall, they’ll come right back,

To touch the sky, to reach the top.

The end! Did you like it? I’ll put more up soon.

“Great. The one thing I want isn’t up…..” my mother grumbles under her breath as we empty the bag with our friends things in it. We have three boxes, a bunch of papers, and a bag.

“Think we can make it in one trip?” my mom asked me with her head still in the car. I shrugged, “Maybe if you put some the papers in the bags.”

“You’re a genius!” my mother exclaims and puts the papers in the bag. I end up getting the bag and one box. My mom got the other two. She started walking up the stairs to the door when some random guy cuts in front of us. I’m not quite sure why, but I keep my mouth shut tight. As we reach the top, he presses the handicap button for us. I still am not sure why thought we couldn’t do it, but I stay quiet. We walk in and turn to go down the stairs. My minds thinking, why can’t we take the elevator? I’m still quiet. My mom is nervous enough that I wouldn’t get the answer I wanted anyway.

We reached the top and look at the schedule. Room D. The one in the far back.

“Wonder why they gave us THAT one.” I say to no one in particular.

“Doesn’t only hold 25 some people? Maybe they thought it wouldn’t get that much attention.” my mom responds as we walk down the hall to our room.

Now, I’m thinking that it will have a table in front and chairs set in rows in front of it. We walk in and…………They have three tables shoved up against each other and chairs everywhere around them. There’s also five comfortable chairs against the farthest wall. I set my box and bag in one of the good chairs and look around. This time I see a chalkboard and a screen. My mom is pulling out the chair from the first table. Then she sets it against the wall away from the door and sets her boxes on it.

“Can you do the same with the other?” she asks me as she takes the magazines out of her boxes.

“Sure.” I pull out the chair and start dragging it along the ground. I push up to
up the opposite wall and look at all the chairs around the room. If they had any organization, it was now lost. I grabbed the third box and start to help my mom.

“Where is she….” my mom mutters as she set the books out.

“Who?”

“The librarian said she would sent her helper to bring print outs.”

I nod and go back to working. A few minutes later she shows up with the print outs. She also has a lot of books the librarian thought to put out.Student/Teacher stuff. I did’t pay to much attention to them.

“I’m also supposed to do a little speech in the beginning. What would you like me to do?” she asks my mom. My mom just stood there for a second. I don’t think she had realized that they were going to do.

“It doesn’t really matter.” my mom replies and starts to put the print outs on the other table. I cput the stairs in straight lines and blah, blah, blah. NOthing more really important happened so I’ll skip a little.

At two minutes until seven, the helper comes back in. By now we have about 10 people in the room. Including a older guy in a suit, a woman with an infant, a woman with a 6year old, a women with really frizzy hair, and three wierd ladies that I just can’t describe. The librarian’s helper steps up and says something short about the library. That’s where it gets fun. A couple minutes after my mom starts her speech a women walks in with a guy with a camera. I look at the camera to find that they’re from a news station. They were coming to video tap this!

The women makes a lot of notes and shows them her partner, who nods. He starts to tap the print outs and fliers for different homeschoolers. About half way through the talk, they get up and stand in the hall. At the end , she comes in and asks my mom for a interview. She agrees and they walk into the hall. I follow them for a little, but I got bored and went back to the room.

(Nothing more eventful happens for a bit so……)

Towards the end of the interview, two of the attendees try to leave. Guess what? They don’t want to get on TV!

“Is that room next to us empty?” one of asks and points to the room. I look in and nod.

“Yep. It should take you to a hall. Follow and you’ll end up in the front.” I replied and return to the hall.

“No it doesn’t. It goes to another room.” the second (whom I know) argues. I merely shake my head and show them through.

“Oh it does!” the second responds and I laugh. What? It was a funny thing to do! My mom comes off and we go back to Room D to clean up. It took probably five minutes. MUCH less work than taking it in! We walk back up at five to nine, five minutes before it closes. We got in the car and went home.

Ends up she was on the 10 o’clock news, which we watched, and the one on at 11. It was fun to watch my mom and guess what? They want to come wideo tape us working on school!

The infamous Bri!