Feeding Your Soul

Many could ride this off as an adult version of Twilight but that couldn’t be further from the truth. This book, story isn’t just about a girl falling for a vampire. This is a book about a witch who has been blinded by her parents, her aunts and everyone else in the magical community about who she is and what she can do – all saying for her own protection.   Even though that does turn out to be true, for anyone that would come as a shock that you were sheltered from who you are – sheltered from the truth. This first book in the series is about Diana and the search for her self.   Yes, she is attached to a vampire by the hip but the vampire doesn’t make her who she is – she is the only one that can do that.   I had an immediate reaction to Bella in Twilight and to Katniss in Hunger Games.   With Diana, there was no initial reaction of I liked her or didn’t like her. I was indifferent toward her and the same with Matthew.   With each new supernatural book I...

2012 Finales – Let the Summer of Speculation Begin! It is that time of year again when the flowers begin to bloom, leaves can be seen on all of the trees and our favorite shows end their season or series run and leave us with a summer full of speculation and theories that will not be satisfied until the new chapter in the story beings in the fall.   This year the shows that I have kept up with religiously have been Once Upon a Time, Glee, Revenge, Grey’s Anatomy and Fringe.   Let’s start with the first – Once Upon a Time. **SPOILERS ARE AHEAD – PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK** Once Upon a Time From the writers that brought us the best show on television – Lost – Once Upon a Time was taking a big risk by asking viewers to watch a show every Sunday night about the fairy tales that we grew up with.   The season finale was no exception; it introduced the Snow White sleeping potion, a fire-breathing dragon, (in 2 different realms), a kiss that can bring back the dead, ...

Movies show you how. Books show you why.   With any movie adaptation of a widely popular book, the filmmakers will inevitably not please every movie-goer.   But this movie-goer was very impressed and thoroughly enjoyed the movie adaptation of The Hunger Games.   The movie hit 95% of the major points in the book so it flowed very well and kept me watching and wondering what was going to happen next.   Even though I knew what was going to happen next, it was exciting to see it happen on screen and see my imagination come to life. The 5% that did not match with the book I will get into later. For now, let’s dwell on the positive and exciting parts of the movie. Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson were wonderful. Lawrence looked as if she had been studying the book intently to before Katniss.   Hutcherson has grown as an actor. In this movie, he was able to change from the boy-next door to the one people should watch out for in the arena in a split second. H...

My next two reviews are both on movies that are harsh and in your face. Breaking Dawn Part 1 puts everything right in front of you no matter what the scene is about, and it isn’t afraid. With the “Twilight” series books so popular among all age groups and facets of life, there were some very hard to imagine and grotesque scenes in the book that to put on screen made them even worse. This blogger was not prepared for the birthing scene – I forgot out painful and bloody it was. Bella deteriorating over time was for lack of a better word grotesque and very hard to watch. The scene where she breaks her back and her knees right before the baby comes was the worst part. I had to look away. But this book isn’t all peachy keen – it is dark and this moment in her life was the darkest it had ever been. It makes sense that the moment right before she is to become this amazing, beautiful being would be dark and mad and gross. The progress was a little slow in places but if you had read the b...

Katniss returns to the districts after the events that transpired in the Quarter Quell. She returns not to District 12 since as Gale told her no longer exists but to District 13 which unbeknownst to everyone in Panem expect the Capitol has been living and thriving all along. Now more than ever, her thoughts are jumbled, what she believes is changing everyday and the one person she needs the most is sitting in the Capitol, being tortured for information about her. She comes to the breaking point and beyond and this is a fight for her survival as much as the rest of Panem. I don’t want to go into too much detail about the book because I do not want to give anything away. What I have written below does highlight a few aspects of the book that I have to mention to get my point across so if you do not want to be spoiled, do not keep reading. You have been warned. I couldn’t read fast enough. I wanted to keep reading and find out what happened to everyone. I will admit that I wanted t...

What do you get when you take a CEO of a consumer product company and 2 CIA spies vying for her attention? War. In the new movie This Means War starring Reese Witherspoon and Chris Pine 2 CIA operatives fall for the same girl and the comedy that ensues is spectacular. Comedy movies like this one is all about happiness.  Happiness - depending on one’s state of mind when the read the word, could make one smile, cry or even want to throw something.   Happiness is something that I have been lacking in the past week and when I think back to the last time I was happy in the past week (besides scoring my hockey team’s winning goal with 8.6 seconds left!) it was when I went to see this movie.   It was hysterical. I found myself laughing harder than I have laughed at a movie in a long time. It might have been because I was in a movie theater with other people besides my fiancée but I like to think that the movie really was that funny.   I can’t wait to watch it again w...

Here we go again – back into the arena our heroine goes but this time all the rules have changed. And some that she isn’t even aware of yet. Catching Fire picks up a few months after the events of Hunger Games where Peeta left Katniss standing on the train platform after he realized that her “feelings” in the games was all a rouse to keep her alive. Katniss goes on about what life has been like since their return, what it has done to her family, herself, and her relationship with Gale who was shown to be introduced as her cousin instead of friend (the capitol didn’t want a love triangle to form).   She comes home one day to find President Snow in her new Victor’s Village house waiting for a private chat.   What happens boils Katniss’ blood – he full out threatens the lives of her family, Gale and everyone she holds dear if she does not make everyone believe that she is truly in love with Peeta. There are possible uprisings that could happen and he doesn’t want a little girl...