Time to Abuse My Netflix: Once Upon a Time

I thought I start a new segment on here called 'Time to Abuse my Netflix' where I'm bored and I need something to do with my life so I get on Netflix and see what's good. 

So today's show is Once Upon A Time and I keep getting reconmended to watch this show because its really really good. I've seen the first episode of this show when it first premiered on ABC and I absolutely LOVED it a whole lot. So today and all of this weekend I'm going to be watching this movie with popcorn and a drink because I'm going to bloody enjoy this a whole lot.

Lauren Conrad's Starstruck: A Fame Game Novel

Are the stars of The Fame Game ready for their close-ups?

Madison Parker has discovered that not all publicity is good publicity. After turning herself in for stealing some bling, the reality star is stuck doing community service while her Fame Game castmates soak up all the screen time. Not that newcomer Kate Hayes needs more attention—ever since her breakout song became an overnight sensation she's suddenly acting like she's Katy Perry. Aspiring actress Carmen Curtis is finally making a name for herself, but she's finding it harder than ever to get out from behind her famous mother's shadow. And in Hollywood, leading men are a dime a dozen, but a good man is hard to find. So when two of the girls have their eye on the same guy, that can mean only one thing: on-camera drama.

In the second novel in bestselling author Lauren Conrad's Fame Game series, friendships are tested, lines are crossed, and fashion crimes are committed—and that's before the cameras even start rolling.

Anyone who has ever wondered what it is like to make it in Hollywood will love this fun, addictive series written by someone who has seen—and lived—it all. Full of dishy details about young Hollywood that only an insider can reveal, bestselling author, fashion designer, and television star Lauren Conrad shows that the real drama happens behind the scenes.

[via goodreads.com]

So I read this book while listening to the Falcons/Giants game and I absolutely loved it.  It tells how Madison covered for her father and did community service at Lost Paws, and while she was there, she saved the life of a dog named Samson, fell in love with her boss Ryan, and when Gabby ends up in the hospital, she snaps on her sister Spohia and quits The Fame Game. 

Carmen is currently doing a movie for a television show called The End of Love, and she's trying to get out of her mother's shadow. But she's fake-dating Luke (who fake-dates?) and she feels like she's hurting Kate, but when they fake break up, her and Kate becomes friends again and then her Mother, Cassandra, comes back into the photo, kicks her out of her house, and now Carmen's crashing on Luke's...well, bed.

Now Kate...Kate is one of the girls I acutally like.  She's down to earth, a singer and she's trying to get over her stage fright. Trevor sends her and films her doing all these things to cure stage frights and while she's doing all these shows and stuff, Drew, Carmen's friend, is there to help her. 

I do reconmend this book a whole lot and I hope y'all would love it like I did!!

What's in My Purse Bag: December 2012

Hey y'all and it's December-the last month of the year and its my favorite time of the year, Christmas. It's where we put up Christmas trees, lights and decorations, write our Christmas lists to Santa Claus and then wait till Christmas Eve, where you just can't go to sleep because you're waiting on Santa to come down the chimney to bring you Christmas. So this month, the books I got are....

From Top to Bottom:

The Legend of Drizzit Book IV by R.A. Salvatore

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Divanomics by Michelle McKinney Hammond

Starstuck: A Fame Game novel by Lauren Conrad

Books I Brought (not photoed)

Bullet: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novel by Laurell K. Hamilton

Books Mailed to Me (Not Photoed)

Tarnished: The St. Croix Chronicles by Karina Cooper

Lord of Temptation by Lorraine Heath

Unending Devotion by Jody Hedlund

Yep...I have a whole lot of reading to do and a whole lot of book reviewing to do...but don't worry I'll be book reviewing real soon so don't you worry! So have a merry Christmas and an amazing new year!!! I know I will!!!

Review: Secrets of the Tudor Court: The Pleasure Palace by Kate Emerson

Beautiful. Seductive. Innocent. Jane Popyncourt was brought to the court as a child to be ward of the king and a companion to his daughters — the princesses Margaret and Mary. With no money of her own, Jane could not hope for a powerful marriage, or perhaps even marriage at all. But as she grows into a lovely young woman, she still receives flattering attention from the virile young men flocking to serve the handsome new king, Henry VIII, who has recently married Catherine of Aragon. Then a dashing French prisoner of war, cousin to the king of France, is brought to London, and Jane finds she cannot help giving some of her heart — and more — to a man she can never marry. But the Tudor court is filled with dangers as well as seductions, and there are mysteries surrounding Jane’s birth that have made her deadly enemies. Can she cultivate her beauty and her amorous wiles to guide her along a perilous path and bring her at last to happiness? Basing her gripping tale on the life of the real Jane Popyncourt, gifted author Kate Emerson brings the Tudor monarchs, their family, and their courtiers to brilliant life in this vibrant new novel.

First off, I didn't even know that this book was based off a real person after I got done reading it. It was actually a really good book that I enjoyed. So this book is about Jane and how she became the companion to Princess Mary and Margret and also became a child of the ward to the King of England (before Henry VIII). Once she grew up, she receives attention from the young men until she becomes a mistress to a French prisoner or war. Then she goes to France to find love and to get her home back and to find out she's royalty. 

This is a good book and I do reconmend this book a whole lot if you like the Tudor Period, if you watched the show The Tudors, or you just wanna read it because its really good.

Character Casting for 'This Duchess of Mine' by Eloisa James

Hello all!

So I have been thinking about the casting of the two characters (aka lovers) in This Duchess of Mine and the more I think about it, the more it came to me. You know those videos on YouTube about character castings of who people think who's who in the books? Well I got to thinking one day about who the main characters (Jemma and Elijah-Jemijah) and I thought, who better to play the two than Natalie Portman and Daniel Gillies?

At first, I didn't know who would play Elijah in the book but I kept hearing Daniel Gillies' voice as Elijah from TVD saying everything Elijah said in the book. 

Book Review: 6 Rainier Drive by Debbie Macomber

6 RAINER DRIVE
CEDAR COVE, WASHINGTON

DEAR READER,

As you may have heard, we’ve recently had quite a shock. My husband, Seth, and I lost our business, The Lighthouse restaurant —- to arson. The investigation continues. The prime suspect is a young ex-employee named Anson Butler, who disappeared right after the fire.

So Seth and I are trying to sort out our lives. (And let me tell you, this kind of crisis is not good for a marriage.) In the meantime, life goes on for everyone else in Cedar Cove —- with marriages, births, reunions and even the occasional scandal. One of the most interesting pieces of news is that Cal, who works on Cliff Harding’s ranch, is now rescuing wild mustangs from Wyoming.

I have to run —- I’m meeting an old friend, Warren Saget, for lunch. Let’s talk soon, and I’ll fill you in on everything that’s happening in town!

JUSTINE

Uh...so yeah...I read this book....and I liked it. I've read a Debbie Macomber book before but I never finished it but after I read this book, I felt...I don't know. Weird. Like I lived in Rainier Drive for so long with my husband and kids (in book world, when you read a book, you somewhat have a life there...in this case, I'm married to a banker named Josh and we have two girls named Marissa and Ashley and we live next door to the Gundersons) so what's been going on lately in Cedar Cove? Well...

• Seth and Justine is trying to find out who burned down The Lighthouse
• Jon and Maryellen had a baby boy named Drake Joseph; Jon has horrible feelings for his mother and father
• Allison is trying to get Anson (the person who was a suspect to the fire) back to Cedar Cove and trying to figure out where he is
• Warren Saget is trying to hard to win back Justine...but it didn't work at all
• Teri ran off to cut Bobby Polgar's hair and she fell in love and got married
• Rachel is terrified to meet her boyfriend's parents

Yeah....all that happened. Do I recommend this book? Yep. Is this book confusing? Maybe. Did I enjoy it? Hell yeah.

Review: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "somethingnew--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.

It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem.

(via goodreads.com)

So....what is it about this book that made me wanna pick it up? Well one, I've never read it before. Two, because this books is being turned into a movie and I wanna see it. Did I enjoy this book? Yes I did-I enjoyed it a whole lot because the narrator, Nick Carraway, tells the story of how he met Jay at one of his extravigant parties and then it also tells how Jay and Daisy fell in low and how Jay pursuit his love for Daisy, who is married to Tom.

But one thing is bothering me: How come Daisy never knew, in the beginning, about Tom's Mistress in New York? If she did knew, why didn't she divorce him?

Book Review: This Duchess of Mine by Eloisa James

No man can resist Jemma's sensuous allure . . . Except her own husband

Wedding bells celebrating the arranged marriage between the lovely Duchess of Beaumont and her staid, imperturbable duke had scarcely fallen silent when a shocking discovery sent Jemma running from the ducal mansion. For the next nine years she cavorted abroad, creating one delicious scandal after another (if one is to believe the rumors).

Elijah, Duke of Beaumont, did believe those rumors.

But the handsome duke needs an heir, so he summons his seductive wife home. Jemma laughs at Elijah's cool eyes and icy heart--but to her secret shock, she doesn't share his feelings. In fact, she wants the impossible: her husband's heart at her feet.

But what manner of seduction will make a man fall desperately in love . . . with his own wife?

(from goodreads)

Everytime I read an Eloisa James novel, I get a smile on my face and I enjoy the book, and this book was amazing. I felt sorry for Elijah because he is having heart problems and throughout the book but at the end his heart problems go away. Also the one thing that confused me throughout this whole entire book was the playing chess in bed. Like seriously, who does that? Why Jemma and Elijah does!

This book also has a little story about the Duke of Villiers and how he's trying to find six of his bastard children. He found the first one, Tobias aka Juby and now he's looking for the rest of his children including a wife...and that would be in the next book of the Desperate Duchesses series. 

Also this book shows (or tells) how Jemma and Elijah "wooed" each other and I honestly like it.

What's in My Book Purse 9/17/2012

I went to the library today and got two more books that I'll be reviewing really soon once I get done with the last book from the last What's in My Book Purse, which is Eloisa James' "This Dutchess of Mine". So what two books made it in my purse this month? (pictures taken by me)

Debbie Macomber-6 Rainier Drive-I've read one of her books and was hooked quick. Since I never finished it, I went to the library and tried to look for it again. But sadly someone checked it out so I got this one instead.

F. Scott Fitzgerald-The Great Gatsby-Oh yeah. I've always wanted to read this because I've never read it before and I wanna read it so I can see the movie in December. 

Book I'm still reading:

Eloisa James-This Dutchess of Mine-Nearly done with this book and I might end up reviewing it tomorrow depending how tomorrow goes. 

Review: The Vampire Diaries Stefan's Diaries vol. 6: The Compelled

Control or be controlled....

Stefan and Damon thought they knew evil. But nothing compares them to Samuel, the ruthless vampire hell-bent of avenging Katherine's death by destroying the Salvatore brothers.

Reeling from Samuel's latest attack, Stefan and Damon find help in the most unlikely of places-a secret coven of witches. Together they discover Samuel's plan is more sinister than they could have imagined. Their only hope is to stop him before he secures the power to control humans and vampires alike. If they fail, not only Stefan and Damon but all of London will fall victim to Samuel's spell.

Based on the popular CW TV show inspiried by the bestselling novels, Stefan's Diaries reveals the truth about what really happened between Stefan, Damon, and Katherine-and how the Vampire Diaries love triangle began.

Summary: This was a good book. Stefan tells the tale of how he, Damon, and Cora, a human traveling with them, finding out about Samuel's plan to making a vampire army, and they found a group of witches so they could help stop Samuel's plan. There is a mention of Elijah in the book and I thought they were talking about Elijah Mikaelson (they might be...hrm...) but all in all this is a good book and I do reconmend this book one hundred percent.

Teaser: The Vampire Diaries Stefan's Diaries vol. 6. The Compelled

I feel like the bumbling villian in a burlesque show. Despite being foiled time and time again, I insisted on trying a new scheme. Only in a burlesque show, there was an audience. And I couldn't help but wonder: Was Samuel watching? I hoped he was, if nothing else than a distraction from buliding his vampire army.

pg. 159

Review: To Catch a Highlander by Karen Hawkins

In this sizzling romantic adventure, a daring Highland lass plays a high-stakes game to keep the home she loves...but ends up losing her heart instead. 

When her father gambles away the family estate to darkly dangerous Lord Dougal MacLean, Sophia MacFarlane is determined to use her wiles to regain it. Forced to stake the one thing she has left-her virtue-she desperately hopes her skill can limit her losses to a few kisses...no matter how hotly tempting Dougal turns out to be.

Dougal MacLean knows that Sophia has some trick up her sleeve, but her can't resist the challenge-or her ravishing beauty. So when she proposes a card game with most unusual stakes, Dougal is delighted to accept. But as the game ends, Dougal and Sophia discover they've wagered something even more precious-their hearts.

Review: Oh my. This was a quick read for me and if you like books that are fast-paced, good, and sizzling, then this is the book for you. Sophia MacFarlane finds out her father had just gambled the house away to a Lord Dougal MacLean and she plotted on taking the house back. So she works so hard to make the house ugly and horrible enough for him not to take it, but when he comes, he overhear her talking to Angus, a worker, about making the house horrible for him.

Oh, you devious, devious girl.

So Dougal played along, being putty in Sophia's hands until they start playing cards and things....things start to heat up. They have sex, Dougal loses the house to Sophia, thinking that Sophia tricked him into losing the house and he goes to his sister's house. Sophia was devistated for two days and her father tells her (after having a dream about his wife telling him to send her to Fiona's house) and they had a little fight, then they had sex in the tub that Dougal was going to bathe in.

After the lovemaking fest, Sophia and Dougal finds out that Sophia's mother's jewelry was missing. They search everywhere and found out at the end (after hearing Sir Reginald and Regina Kent, aka Miss Kent, get happy) that Sir Reginald sent it to the Earl of Ware and it turns out that the Earl of Ware was Sophia's granddaddy and Dougal asked Sophia to be his wife, in which she says yes.

I do recommend this book a whole lot if you like:

• Card games && High stakes
• Sexy Highlanders
• Fast-pace reads
• If you want to have #pheels

Teaser: To Catch a Highlander

"Wait."
She paused.
"More slowly."
She grasped a pin and slowly pulled it free, a thick strand of blonde hair falling to her shoulder like a whisper.

Pg. 94

What's in My Book Purse-8/20/12

So this is my first post on here and I figured I show you the books I have in my 'book purse' (I'll take a photo of it real soon) so what am I reading this month???

To Catch a Highlander by Karen Hawkins-I've read this book before but I never finished it. This time, though, I will finish it. I always wondered what happened between the two characters and I'm going to finish this....dang it. 

The Vampire Diaries Stefan's Diaries Vol. 6: The Compelled by L.J. Smith-I've almost read all of the Stefan's Diaries books (go to my book reviewing tumblr to read more) and this one is the next one...getting chills from the Damon (Ian Somerhalder) photo on the cover....that smirk tho...

 This Duchess of Mine by Eloisa James-I'm currently reading this book (just like the other one) and OMG I'm loving it already.