Feeding Your Soul

Leaves are changing and temperatures are dropping.   Fall is in the air and it is nicely welcomed after a hot and grueling summer.   What is also nicely welcomed are all of the new series and seasons of your favorite and new television shows.   This year is very busy for this entertainment junkie – 17 shows both returning and new are slated for my viewing this year.   Below is the list of returning and new shows that will be watched for the next few months: How I Met Your Mother Revolution NCIS The New Normal Vegas Supernatural Chicago Fire Nashville Last Resort The Big Bang Theory Grey’s Anatomy Glee Made in Jersey Fringe Once Upon a Time Revenge 666 Park Avenue As you can see, my tastes run all over the spectrum.   There are 8 new series that I will be watching and one – The New Normal – has already grabbed my attention and my laughter. In a world where the definition of family is changing – and whethe...

Love stories come in all shapes and sizes. Most of the ones I read are young adult novels. I read them because unlike adult novels, the love stories are pure and innocent. They aren’t looking for anything long term or even 6-months down the road. For the people involved, they are looking for instant gratification – which involves companionship, kissing, conversation something that I find lacks in some adult novels. Tiger’s Quest and Tiger’s Voyage are the middle 2 books of a four-part series focusing on Kelsey Hayes and her sudden pull into a 300-year-old curse to save 2 men from being tiger’s forever. And of course a love triangle that makes everyone’s head spin. Following the events of Tiger’s Curse Kelsey is back in Oregon trying to move on from Ren whom she believes she doesn’t deserve. She comes “home” to her own house, car, money all set up by Mr. Kadam for helping him and the tigers with their curse. He tells her that there is more to come but for now we can lay low. Sh...

Whenever Hollywood makes trilogies, they have to tread very carefully. They want to extend the storyline to the exact point where the audience has gotten just enough and doesn’t need any more closure or information. If it goes past that point, the audience gets laden with too much information and loses interest to keep going back. If it stops short of that point, the audience feels gipped that they wasted all of this time without a significant end to the story. The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise stopped at the right point when it finished “At World’s End.” With “On Stranger Tides” it went way past that point and failed to find it again. In “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” the audience finds Jack Sparrow in quite the predicament. His first mate Gibbs tries to free him from the gallows but alas he is captured and brought before King George who has a new right hand man – Captain Barbosa. The King wants Jack to guide an expedition to locate the Fountain of Yout...

It is an interesting topic – living forever.   We all have said at one point or another we want the fountain of youth to bless us with eternal beauty and life.   But what would living forever mean? You would see history happen right before your eyes – and see it written in history books for children to read during school.   If you had been living forever, you could have seen the curse start for the Red Sox in 1918 and then get broken in 2004.   And again in 2007.   But what it would it mean?   By living forever, you don’t like a day in your life. If you live forever, what makes tomorrow so special.   The people in District 12 have it better than the rich – they have to make very moment, every second count. In Time, starring Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried, is set in 2161 where a genetic alteration has allowed humanity to stop aging past age 25.   But people are required to earn more time in order to stay alive past age 25 or their ...

With the spring finales over, that means sun, sand and of course the summer TV series!   Over the past month, I have been watching the first 3 seasons of White Collar staring Matt Bomer who some might remember from a recent episode of Glee as Blaine’s older brother or from a departed too early show Traveler.   White Collar is centered around Neil Caffrey, an art thief who gets caught by FBI Agent Peter Burke and after lying in prison for a few years gets to come out early on one condition – he works for the FBI and has to wear a tracking anklet.   Neil gets into his fair share of sticky situations which lead him back to the question of who he is – is he an art thief masking as an FBI informant or is he an FBI informant masking as an art thief? In the first season, Neil is trying to find his long lost love Kate while Peter hides secrets about Kate and the past that they share.   The second season focuses on the aftermath of finding Kate and the relationship bet...

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, ...