AbielleRose

I'm visiting my vegetarian parents this weekend so probably salads and tofu

Chicken noodle soup and left-over hushpuppies. Yum!

One of my favorite books as a kid was Ballet Shoes by Nole Streadtfeild. I never read the other ones though... maybe I should!

Tonight I had fish, French fries and hushpuppys.

A cheeseburger dipped in ranch dressing with fries and a chocolate shake.

Great news! I just checked out Cassandra Clare's blog and the ink is officially dry! The Mortal Instruments Series is currently in the process of being adapted to the big screen! It is still in the beginning stages but a screen writer has been hired and Ms Clare has high hopes for a great end result! Here is the link to her blog/website if anyone is curious about checking it out. http://cassandraclare.livejournal.com/33056.html In other reading 'news' I have been lazy today and have not managed to read a page yet... then again, it is only about 10 in the morning so there will be plenty of time for that later We have a beautiful waterfall park in town that has lots of grassy hills overlooking the falls. It is one of my favorite places to relax and read so I am planning on going out there for a few hours today to soak up some sun and stories. There couldn't be a better day for it either! Not a cloud in the sky, no humidity and just a light breeze. Hope you are all having a wonderful weekend! Enjoy the rest of your Sunday before returning to the world of work tomorrow. I know I will!

I just watched Confessions of a Shopoholic last night and now I really want to buy the books! It was one of the better movies I've seen lately so I'm hoping the books are good (I'm sure they are great!) Can't wait to read them!

I am planning on making a cabbage and tomato stew today.

Thanks Mac! I will definately look into those and check out your thread

Updated Reading List for 2010 (updated 10/20/2010) Abby’s Books (Auto-) Biography The Beatles- Lewisohn Reading Lolita in Tehran- Nafisi John Lennon- The Life- Norman A Child Called ‘It’- Pelzer Prime Green- Remembering the 60’s - Stone Classics Essential Shakespeare Irish Fairy Tales The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Women and Literature (textbook containing multiple authors) Jane Eyre- Bronte The House of the Seven Gables- Hawthorne To Kill a Mockingbird- Lee Dramatic Life- Ludlow The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath Catcher in the Rye- Salinger Romeo and Juliet- Shakespeare Frankenstein- Shelley The Picture of Dorian Gray- Wilde’ Cookbooks The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook- Bucholz Poetry Japanese Death Poems Selected Poems of William Blake The Collective Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning The Collective Poems of Emily Dickinson Essays and Poems of Ralph Waldo Emmerson Refrence American Heritage Dictionary Druid Magic The History of Witchcraft and Demonology The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Royal Britain Revision and Self Editing- Bell Romance/ Mystery/ Historical Fiction/ Other Thanks for the Memories- Ahern Warlord-Bell The Heir- Burrows Secrets of Mary Magdalene- Burstein Hero- Brooks The Reckless Surrender- Campbell Stories I Wouldn’t Tell Nobody But God- Clark A Secret Kept- de Rosnay Learning to Die in Miami- Eine A Lady’s Guide to Improper Behavior- Enoch Sun Stroked- Fox Water for Elephants- Gruen A Thousand Splendid Suns- Hosseini The Devotion of Suspect X- Higashino Seabiscuit- Hildenbrand A Kiss at Midnight- James Echoes- Jones-Gunn Filthy Shakespeare- Kiernan Traveling With Pomegranates- Kidd/Taylor The Breach- Lee God’s Guest List- Macomber The Secrets of Seduction- Mallory More Tales of the City- Maupin O. Juliet- Maxwell The Road- McCarthy A Man No More- McPhee The Heretic Queen- Michelle Moran Adam and Eve- Naslund Voice of America- Osondu Sunday at Tiffany’s- Patterson The Monster of Florence- Preston Irish Born Trilogy- Roberts Push- Sapphire The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud- Sherwood The Man Who Ate the 747- Sherwood The Lovely Bones- Sebold Dear John- Sparks Wolf Fever- Spear The Lady Elizabeth- Wein Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Paranormal Halloween Horrors (Multiple Authors) Bitten- Armstrong Doctor Who- Autonomy- Blythe The Alchemist- Coelho Wicked Appetite- Evanovich Pride and Prejudice and Zombies- Grahame- Smith House of Horror- Holzer First Grave on the Right- Jones Shadow Bound- Kellison Shadow Fall- Kellison Through the Faerie Glass- Klein The Historian- Kostova Ghost Country- Lee The Next Queen of Heaven- Maguire Doctor Who- The Glamour Chase- Russell Born to Bite- Sands Lord of the Rings- The Two Towers- Tolkien YA Fiction Buffy the Vampire Slayer 1- 3 stories (Multiple Authors) Brightly Woven- Bracken Glass Houses- Caine Clockwork Angel- Clare Hunger Games- Collins Revolution- Donnely Inkheart- Funke Nightlight- The Harvard Lampoon Heavenly- Laurens A Wrinkle in Time- L’Engle The Mermaid’s Mirror- Madigan Once a Witch- McCullough Evermore- Alyson Noel If I Should Die Before I Wake- Nolan Before I Fall- Oliver Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix- Rowling Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince- Rowling Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows- Rowling The Forest of Hands and Teeth- Ryan The Book Thief- Zusak

I've heard a lot of good stuff about this book and can't wait to read it! I just bought it yesterday *does happy dance*

Tennyson is one of the most passionate writers I have ever had the pleasure of coming across. This stanza in his poem Maud is what inspired my user name 'CaliLily' "There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming, my life, my fate; The red rose cries,'She is near, she is near;' And the white rose weeps,'She is late;' The larkspur listens,'I hear, I hear;' And the lily whispers,'I wait.'' It tugs at my heart whenever I read it.

Books are as much a part of me as water and carbon. I tend to read very quickly and after a while forget the books I have read, even the ones that I loved. So, here I am, on this wonderful forum website writing a blog so that if I ever get that deja vu feeling of 'I know I've read that before...haven't I?' I can just come back here and find out for sure! Someday, when the time is right, I hope to be a writer myself. Unfortunately school is just not an option for me at the moment so I am relying on the greats such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Tennyson, Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, J.R.R. Tolkien, James Patterson, J. K. Rowling, etc... to inspire me to pick up a pen and work on my own dream works. One book that I have recently finished is a beautifully written Sci-Fi YA Fantasy by Cassandra Clare called The Mortal Instruments Series. If you are looking for a book full of passion, demons, epic fight scenes, and a creative 'good vs. evil' plot line than this would be a great choice. It is one of the most compelling works I have read recently and the characters are very easy to identify with. The main character, Clary Fray, is one of my favorite characters ever written. Trust me people, she is sitting up there with Elizabeth Bennett, Frodo, and Harry Potter (yeah... weird combo... I know...). I just picked up 6 books yesterday and am looking forward to starting Mister B. Gone by Clive Barker (thanks to whoever on this site recommended it!) If anyone happens upon this little thread please feel free to leave me some recomendations. I love having a long reading list; it makes me feel good. You can make my day by leaving me a book or two to tack onto it!

Out of all of Sookie's 'love interestes' in the series I have always held out hope that she would end up with Sam in the end. Eric is like the sexy dangerous one and Bill is the protector but Sam has always been her friend. He has also been there for Sookie in ways Bill and Eric never have. Don't get me wrong, I like both of Bill and Eric's characters, I just like Sam's better

At the resturant tonight the waitress ended up spilling my Irish coffee all over my burger and my lap. After seeing my food floating in a pool of coffee and trying to mop it off of myself I lost my appatite. *Sigh* back home to nuke some popcorn as a replacement...

I might have to check that one out. I've heard the title a few times elsewhere.

I had never heard about them until I started working in a book store in November. Every other person who was coming through my line was buying one or more of the books. I finally got so curious that I bought them for myself and fell in love. She really knows how to portray the emotions of her characters so that the reader feels everything they (Bella and Edward if you have read Midnight Sun on her website).

I don't know if she for sure will or not (so don't quote me on this) but there have been quite a few rumors that Stephenie Meyer may do a series about Leah Clearwater.

One of my favorite quotes is from a book called Wildflowers by Robin Jones Gunn. 'A single wildflower given with love is worth more than a dozen roses given with indifference.'

One part in Breaking Dawn that I will be very dissappointed if it dosn't make it on the big screen is when Emmett and Bella arm wrestle. I really hope they include that scene in the movie because it was one of my favorites in the series.

I never really liked Fantasy book until I read Harry Potter. That remains one of the best books/series I have ever read. Now I love Sci-Fi/ Fantasy and am constantly searching for new stories to give me the same rush as HP did.

I recently finished a book called Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah and I don't think I have ever cried harder because of a story. It was a wonderful book (all of Kristin's are if you have never read hers.) Another great tear jerker is Jodi Picoult's My Sister's Keeper.