Feeding Your Soul

All I can say is I can't wait for Part 2. From the moment the lights went down and the screen lit up, I was hooked. Before the title was brought on screen, the viewer was hooked and the mood of the entire movie was set with the little to no dialogue from the 3 main characters - Ron, Harry and Hermione. The 3 of them looked out of their houses into the world, preparing for what they were all about to embark on, trying to digest what they signed up for. In my opinion, it was one of the best beginnings for a movie, ever.  What the beginning also did was tell all of the viewers this isn't like any Harry Potter movie you have seen - it is darker, more evil and more gruesome than all of the other six movies. And frankly, it has to be. Harry is fighting to stay alive and he is looking death in the face. Not to mention he is still a 17 year old teenager who is trying to fight the feelings he has and the worry he has for the Weasley family (his family), especially Ginny. The movie was...

Almost everyone tries to outrun their past or at least part of their past. IN Joshilyn Jackson's The Girl Who Stopped Swimming the main character Laurel has a very unusual past that will not stay dead - literally. She sees ghosts. Specifically of her Uncle Marty who was accidentally killed on a hunting trip with her father, herself and her younger sister Thalia. The book starts with Laurel waking in the middle of the night to see the ghost of her daughter's friend Molly in her bedroom. Molly leads Laurel to her window and Laurel sees a body sunken to the bottom of the pool. Somehow Molly was in their backyard in the middle of the night and because of that Laurel now has to dredge up the past and her family in order to figure out what happened to the girl who stopped swimming. Usually I will know within the first 5-10 pages if I like a book and if it is worth it to keep reading. With this book the first chapter was all about Laurel seeing Molly's ghost so it caught my att...

Before I begin this review, I must put a disclaimer. The only way I got through this movie was to look past Miley Cyrus as the lead. With that said, so starts my review. With imagination running out in Hollywood, producers have to look to other forms of entertainment for inspiration. Nicholas Sparks books have always been a very good place with hit movies such as A Walk to Remember, Message in a Bottle, and The Notebook. In 2010, Hollywood made 2 of his books into movies - Dear John and The Last Song starring Miley Cyrus and Greg Kinnear. Before seeing this movie, I made it a point to read  the book so I could compare the two mediums. This story wasn't a typical Sparks novel in the sense of about finding your true love. This is a story about the dysfunctional yet oddly functional relationship between an 18-year old teenage and her estranged father. Roni and her 10 year old brother come to live at their father's house in South Carolina, on the water, for the summer much to ...