Anna Begins

There are much better ones out there! 11/22/63 is a great one, if you don't like horror but enjoy a tad bit of science fiction. This is the next one I plan on getting my dad on Or maybe Green Mile. You've seen Stand By Me (1986)?

Ya I noticed sometime last week- I'm glad- Congrats!

I just got my dad to buy (what I am 99% sure of) is his first King book! I can't wait to hear what he thinks about Mr. Mercedes! How is everyone else reading or read think of it? Don't we have a few? Dex? When I told him I was reading The Fountainhead, the text back said "ahhhh"

I'm enamored with The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. If anyone cares, I am keeping some quotes and thoughts on my thread about it. I will be buying Microsoft Word in the next couple of days and start keeping thoughts there for a review. It's a biggie though- over 700 pages and I'm only 20% in. I loved Atlas Shrugged last year, but somehow Rand's philosophies show more in Fountainhead- or maybe I am just more aware of them, having studied more about her ideas.

Quotes from The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand "Architecture is primarily a utilitarian conception, and the problem is to elevate the principle of pragmatism into the realm of esthetic abstraction. All else is nonsense." ...we could be true to history only in heeding her law, which demanded that we plat the roots firmly in the reality of our own life. "It's like the shadows some say we'll see of the Earth in that other world. Maybe that's how I'll see the rest of it. I'm learning." "Do you understand the difference? Your house is made by it's own needs. Those others are made by the need to impress. The determining motive of your house is in the house. The determining motive if the other is I the audience." "You know, I never open again any great book I've read and loved. It hurts me to think of the other eyes that have read it and what they were." "...Why I always feel, when I see you, that you're the most life- giving person I've ever met." Peter Keating had never felt the need to formulate abstract convictions. But he had a working substitute. "A thing is not high if one can reach it; it is not great if one can reason about it; it is not deep if one can see its bottom." "There's so much nonsense about human inconstancy and transience of all emotions. I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place. There are books I liked at the age of sixteen. I still like them."

I just wanted to have this note in my thread. ******* I finally got Microsoft Word (Office) for school, so I am deleting this post of notes; these will be used in my review of The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.

Did you make it? How was it? How was Alice In Chains? Details, please

Over here, Amazon says Firefight will not be released til Jan.6th. But the Amazon description for Mitosis says Firefight will be released in Fall of 2014?

Thanks on the review. People are SO missing out

That looks like a beautiful place to read! It reminds me a little of one of my favorite places, Lithia Park in Ashland, Oregon. Anyway, I just popped in here to ask if you've read/ heard there is a short story by Brandon Sanderson called Mitosis: A Reckoners Story. It's only about 40 pages. I guess to hold us over for Firefight

I don't know what to read next! I am so full from Don't Let Me Go by Catherine Ryan Hyde. Ever find it hard to start a new book after a really good one? I was going to read Veronica Roth's Four series but the first one is lame- I'm trying to re-read the first one (only 30 pages) and I just can't get through it. I only gave it 2/5 when I originally read it. I'm also temporarily giving up Linda Lafferty's Drowning Guard. I need something better after Don't Let Me Go. Anyway, so now I'm reading the beginning of The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. I loved Atlas Shrugged last year, so maybe The Fountainhead will do the trick!

(5/5) Don't Let Me Go by Catherine Ryan Hyde (422 pages) I read this book in two days. 15% in and I was crying. This touching story, about the love people can have for each other and how they can be brought together, is one of Catherine Ryan Hyde's reoccurring themes and the best I have read of hers. This is the third book of Hyde's that I have read this year and every one of them are touching and are lasting memories. With her distinct writing, Hyde reaches down into you as you read, faster and faster- needing an emotional break but not being able take one. As I read this book, I kept thinking about her writing this book- where do these soul bearing books come from... I envision her ferociously typing away on a computer. Hyde is definitely (and quickly) becoming one of my favorite authors. From Muggle Not and Amazon: Former Broadway dancer and current agoraphobic Billy Shine has not set foot outside his apartment in almost a decade. He has glimpsed his neighbors—beautiful manicurist Rayleen, lonely old Ms. Hinman, bigoted and angry Mr. Lafferty, kind-hearted Felipe, and 9-year-old Grace and her former addict mother Eileen. But most of them have never seen Billy. Not until Grace begins to sit outside on the building’s front stoop for hours every day, inches from Billy’s patio. Troubled by this change in the natural order, Billy makes it far enough out onto his porch to ask Grace why she doesn’t sit inside where it’s safe. Her answer: “If I sit inside, then nobody will know I’m in trouble. And then nobody will help me.” Her answer changes everything.

Just finished Don't Let Me Go. Two days. Best. Ever. Yet. I totally loved it.

That was my second choice- love it! I like Good Morning too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB2yiIoEtXw

If you like the Tango and Dancing With the Stars, check out this Paso Doble. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nidCOkGVa_4 Have you ever been to the Moulin Rouge? I saw a show when we went to Paris- all those beautiful women and dancing. It was cool to see the big windmill out front too.

Oh god do I remember mixed tapes! I remember this one popular guy (in our circle, at least) made me one with The Cure and all these alternative bands I had never heard of and I was in rapture I always had mixed feelings about Alice continuing without Layne. But I guess Jerry Cantrell was just as much as part of that band as Layne was. Love Numb! It didn't break here, but should have! I think the US was too caught up in grunge at that time.

Of course, Singng in the Rain I did a lot of plays in High School and after (36 in 8 years). We did musicals, Hello Dolly and Into the Woods. The year after I left, they did Little Shop of Horrors I loved the Judy Garland clip- and I wouldn't put it past (or is it passed) Bob Hope to do anything! Didn't he get his start in Vaudeville?

These are the only two I know! I loved Alice In Chains when Layne Staley was singing, such a tragic and hard life he lived. Jar of Flies will always be in my Top 5, I can't live without that album. Portishead had a major hit here in the US with Sour Times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niIcxMuORco Have a GREAT time, I know you've been looking forward to it. I can't do big concerts anymore- too many people and chaos!

When I think of famous dance scenes, I think of one of my favorite movies, Singing In the Rain... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1ZYhVpdXbQ Always fun to watch- I love the couple with the newspaper This one, Dance of the Drums, in House of the Flying Daggers is one of my favorites too- took me for-ever to find both of these! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NVpK8Vh_h8 For some reason, my computer will only click on these if I hold Control and click at the same time, dunno why they don't pop.

Oh and it's so very good! I've had the luxury of reading it all day. I need a break, but don't want one.

It sounds interesting! Wow- there are a lot of them!

I'm 15% into Don't let Me Go and crying already.

I felt the same way and just decided to give it a try. Thought I might be able to read more or faster, but ended up just "reading" Carrie because it was so good. I got a great suggestion on here to start with books you want to re-read, so that's what I did with Carrie and it was so fun! I like to read too much too, so I chose to do Amazon's Immersion Reading, where it highlights the words as they are read- so you can read along and listen at the same time. If you have a Kindle Fire, Android or IPhone, you can do Immersion Reading through Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000827761 They are kinda pricy, but cheaper if you buy the book, then buy the audio and do the Immersion. They also have lots of classics for 99 cents to 2 dollars. Oh- and Carrie is a great one to start with, although it is on the gory side

I always keep a ton of Kindle Samples- that's how I keep track of books I want to read! I don't think I could even survive without free Kindle Samples- in fact, I always read the Sample before buying the book! Happy Reading! You'll have fun finding tons of stuff in your Sample collection

The second trailer/promo for Mockingjay has been released- it really makes me want to see it! http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/9/5884423/the-second-mockingjay-trailer-hints-at-revolution