AbielleRose

*crowns self Queen of Halloween movies* Do any of you remember this song?

Fleurs du Mal- Sarah Brightman

What are your favorite Halloween movies and songs? My favorite movies for a good, All Hallows Eve themed night are The Craft, Hocus Pocus and Halloweentown.

These Days- Rascal Flatts

I just made up a batch of penne pasta with a tomato/onion/mozzerella sauce and meatballs.

Tonight I haven't managed to read anything more (aside from a magazine) but did buy 3 more books: The Book of Air and Shadows by Michael Gruber Promise Not To Tell by Jennifer McMahon Slash by Slash with Anthony Bozza

I read a bit more in The Mermaid's Mirror today and am really enjoying it

Hello and welcome to BCF Johanna!

Ghost Train- Counting Crows We'll Be a Dream- We the Kings Beautiful- Me'Shell Ndegeocello Let Me Roll It- Paul McCartney Bad Romance (Starsmith Remix)- Lady Gaga Fortune Faded- Red Hot Chili Peppers Smooth Criminal- Michael Jackson Jellly- Blessid Union of Souls No More I Love Yous- The Frames Still They Ride- Journey

Not in the least! Reading that made me put on their cover of Total Eclipse of the Heart

I've finally managed to go through my books and re-do my current 'owned' booklist. I haven't marked yet which ones I've read and which have yet to be, but this little project has taken me the last 12 hours (give about 5 or so for sleep and another 2ish for staring mindlessly at the computer screen). Later I'll update the ones I've already read and add a mini list of books I'm hoping to buy/read in the near future that I don't already own. 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

Tonight I'm going to catch up on my Hell's Kitchen and Castle episodes from the last 2 weeks.

Rocky Horror

I See You- Mika

Hello Oksana, welcome to BCF!

The Mermaid's Mirror is turning out to be a very quick read so last night I borrowed Oogy by Larry Levin from our work stash. If any of you read Dewey (the library cat) and liked it you'd probably like Oogy, too. It's about a dog that was being used as a dog fighting target and survived. He lost an ear and got pretty beaten up, making him look 'ugly' (Oogy, his name, is a play on ugly). The book is written by the family who adopted him.

I gave up reading Fallen by Lauren Kate because her writing was just not very good. The story had potential but it seemed like she was just rambling on for ages trying to fill a word count quota. Tonight I started The Mermaid's Mirror by L.K. Madigan and it is very good so far, I'm only one chapter in and am loving the story (and the writing).

Here's the blurb. It sound really interesting. Maguire, who made a name for himself with bestselling fantasy books like Wicked, delivers a sharp, funny, and provocative dual coming-of-age story set in 1999 upstate New York, focusing on obnoxious 17-year-old Tabitha Scales, and Jeremy Carr, a musician and director of the local Catholic church choir. Tabitha becomes the caretaker of her devoutly Protestant mother, Leontina, after she takes a nasty bump on the head and transforms into a foul-mouthed, helpless stranger. Jeremy, meanwhile, hopes an upcoming music gig in New York City will give him what it takes to leave Thebes--and former flame Willem Handelaers, now happily married with children--in the past. Jeremy's longing for Willem is heartbreakingly conveyed, as is Tabitha's rushed maturity and yearning for a man she later learns is engaged to a woman in Jeremy's choir. In conversations and their inner lives, Maguire's characters philosophize about faith, religion, acceptance, and desire in a way that never feels forced or preachy, and though cutesy at times, Maguire's humor buoys the darker story lines and keeps this winning story on track. (Oct.)

I just saw this and am so sorry, Chrissy. It's so hard to lose a pet because they are our family. I'm glad that Cap isn't suffering and that his passing was a peaceful one.