Book Beginnings and 56: Crank

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"Life was good

before I

met                    

                        the monster.

After,

life

                       was great.

At

least

                      for a little while."

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And it occurred to me                 for one uneasy moment

that every move I had            made lately might have

started a landslide.

What if I couldn't go back?                  What if I died in the crash?

Almost immediately,                   the monster soothed

       me, confused me          with a deeper question.

What if the ride was worth it?

I mean, who wants to                  trudge through life, doing

everything just right?        Taking no chances means

wasting your dreams.

How can I explain the                  pure chilling rush of

waiting to do something        so basically not right?

No fear. No guilt.

How can I explain                  purposely setting foot on

a path so blatantly         treacherous? Was the

fun in the fall?"

(56% or page 300-301 of Crank. I tried to make the editing look the same, I'm sorry if its not perfect.)

Harry Potter Moment of the Week: Ron Weasley

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Best 'Ron' Moment

Harry kicked out wildly, trying to push himself back to the surface, but merely propelled himself into the rocky side of the pool. Thrashing, suffocating, he scrabbled at the strangling chain, his frozen fingers unable to loosen it, and now little lights were popping inside his head, and he was going to drown, there was nothing left, nothing he could do, and the arms that closed around his chest were surely Death’s…
Chocking and retching, soaking and colder than he had ever been in his life, he came to facedown in the snow. Somewhere, close by, another person was panting and coughing and staggering around. Hermione had come again, as she had come when the snake attacked…Yet it did not sound like her, not with those deep coughs, nor judging by the weight of the footsteps…
Harry had no strength to lift his head and see his savior’s identity. All he could do was raise a shaking hand to his throat and feel the place where the locket had cut tightly into his flesh. It was gone. Someone had cut him free. Then a panting voice spoke from over his head.
“Are – you – mental?”
Nothing but the shock of hearing that voice could have given Harry the strength to get up. Shivering violently, he staggered to his feet. There before him stood Ron, fully dressed but drenched to the skin, his hair plastered to his face, the sword of Gryffindor  in one hand and the Horcrux dangling from its broken chain in the other.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Top Ten Characters I Would Want with Me on a Deserted Island

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1. Hermione Granger from Harry Potter
   
2. Roland from The Dark Tower
   
3. Jon Snow from A Game of Thrones
   
4. Tris Prior from Divergent
   
5. Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games
   
6. Samwise Gamgee from The Lord of the Rings
   
7. Jessica Day from The Midnighters
   
8. Daenerys Targaryen from A Game of Thrones
   
9. Tally Youngblood from Uglies
   
10. Peeta Mellark from The Hunger Games
    

What Are You Reading? (July 21)

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Currently Reading:

Finished This Week:

(3 Stars - Review Coming Soon)

Posts This Week:

Top Ten TV Shows
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Book Review)
Life of a Blogger: Tattoos
Book Beginnings and 56: Chasing Shackleton

Book Beginnings and 56: Chasing Shackleton

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"I thought I knew Antarctica by now. I had been to its frozen alien shores, a world with no native human population, three times. I had become, to the extent one can, "used" to the highest, coldest windiest continent in the world with its extreme weather and the staggering, kilometers-thick mantle of ice that covers it."

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"More and more modern equipment now went into the boat, but none of it would give us an advantage over Shackleton - it would merely allow us to record the experience for Discovery Channel and the American PBS network. In fact, if anything, the equipment could be seen as a disadvantage, significantly reducing the space on board while increasing electrical hazards and fire risk."

Life of a Blogger: Tattoos

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I currently have three tattoos:



 Deathlty Hallows tattoo that I got done the day the final movie was released to celebrate by lifelong obsession with all things Harry Potter:

The Number 13 that my fiancee and both have on our chests, sort of an inside-joke that reminds us of our love each other and how our lives have changed since we met each other"

The corset on my back which I am now realizing I have no good finished picture of. It is now pinkish-purple but here is the outline. I laid there for five and half hours in one session to get it done:



Top Ten TV Shows

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1. Friends
   
2. Dexter
   
3. Game of Thrones
   
4. Doctor Who
   
5. Top Gear
   
6. LOST
   
7. How I Met Your Mother
   
8. Master Chef
   
9. Sons of Anarchy
   
10. Breaking Bad