Feeding Your Soul

It took me over a year to decide that I did want to watch this movie. And I am glad I did. This isn’t your normal, Disney animated Alice in Wonderland. This is Tim Burton’s version of Alice and her travels down the rabbit hole and his version and imagination is a little scary at times. The movie starts with a flashback to when she was a little girl and her father was trying to convince people of a fantastical idea. She had a bad dream and her father comes to her room to comfort her. She says she saw a purple cat, a hatter, and a white rabbit with a clock. Her father tells her it was just a dream and she goes to bed.   The movie then jumps 13 years into the future. Alice is in a garden for a party that secretly (at least to Alice) is an engagement party because a lord is about to ask Alice to marry him.   Everyone is excited for Alice, telling her so, but the frown and unhappiness on Alice’s face is the exact opposite. She doesn’t know what to think and everyone is telling her...

It has been a very busy month for this blogger, hence why I haven't had any new postings for over a month. Well, that is all about to change. I need to get back into the swing of things and what better way to do it than an update Entertainment blog. So let's get started. Books - I still have 20 books to read by the end of the year. According to Goodreads.com, I am 1 book behind so I need to start reading more books. The last book I tried to read was The Rose Labyrinth by Titania Hardie.  I got to page 145 after 4 weeks and decided this was not a book for me. I kept trying to give it the benefit of the doubt but just when the story would get good, the characters would get some screen time, Hardie would rush right back to historical fiction information and lots of description that most of the time I had no idea why she was putting that information in there. It felt as if Hardie was tryiing to put a story in the middle of her research on 15th/16th century England.  I kept expe...