Sana's Scribbles

Originally posted by kdbleu at that book meme...

Hurricane Sandy landed in my state and I found that I had plenty of time on my hands. After flipping through my Kindle library for a few minutes, I arrived at the conclusion that I didn't have anything on there that I was really interested in reading. Ever since I finished "Cinder", I've been hankering for a book series of that sort, but haven't found anything that satisfied that itch.

My son had just finished up "Mark of Athena" and had been pressuring me to read the sequel to the "Percy Jackson" series for awhile. When I told him that I was at a loss on what to read, he rummaged around until he found all three (massive) books in the series and handed them to me. With absolutely nothing else to do, I armed myself with a flashlight and settled down to read the three books that have been published so far. 

I have to admit that I've been really enjoying them so far. I've finished the first two in the series and am now on "Mark of Athena" (I hate that I'll have to wait a year in between books from now on). The books are fairly cookie cutter and seem to follow the exact same formula every single time, but I can't help but be drawn into the story and I find myself rooting for the characters. I thought the Percy Jackson series (the first one) was a little childish but I read them with my son because I like to know what he's up to in the book world. This series is a little more racy than the first one (the characters are 13-17 and there is a lot of "he kissed her" and "she kissed him" going on) but it still very much reads like a kid's book series. It's been a little odd to do the head-hopping but I can understand why Riordan chose to write it that way. 

Anyone else reading this sequel or has read the original? What are your thoughts on it? 

I'm also thinking about diving into the books series called "Hex Hall" and since I'm fan of Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series, I thought I'd give his new young adult novel a try. Anyone read those and have any thoughts on them (good or bad)? 

Finally had a chance to watch it. Loved it. Very odd, but I'm shipping Black Widow and Hawkeye like nobody's business. What is odd about that is that (1) I had SJ with the passion of a thousand suns and (2) I know NOTHING about them because I'm not a Marvel universe fan.

Anyone else joining me on this shipping bandwagon? And anyone know what the deal is with them in canon?

Real Life has a been a b***h so I haven't had a chance to post here (or wander around) in a LOOONNNGGG time. It doesn't help that I write a lot for grad school now (and it's performance appraisal time at work so I'm writing a lot for that, too) and so I just don't want to come on here to write for the hell of it.

But I miss you all (really missing the Smallville fandom lately) so I thought I'd post a bit about random things and see what you all are up to....


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Originally posted by ellenemi at Meme...

Oh, it's so much fun when my love for two fandoms collide... (credit to littlepaperstars)....
 

It's so odd to be doing this, but I'm participating in a Holiday gift exchange forhp_tng. I can't say which prompt I claimed (it's supposed to be a secret), but I can say that I'm very STOKED to be doing this. And, oddly, terrified. I was always a little nervous when I wrote gifts for people in the Smallville fandom, but my writing in the HP fandom is so new that I'm convinced that whoever reads it will go, "Eh? What the hell is this? This is not what I wanted!"

But... hope springs eternal that I can pull it off. It'll be posted here between December 1st - December 31st. It'll probably be a one-shot. For all you Harry Potter fans... be on the look out! :)

And... just because I think this is pretty... I wanted to share....



The Deviant Art journal of the artist can be found HERE.

One of the earliest memories of my childhood is of watching Star Wars and going, “Wow, Han Solo is so hot and that Leia chick kicks butt. They really should get together.”

I was four.

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 I stumbled across a fanfic site called "Sink Into Your Eyes" and realized that there's a whole treasure trove of Harry/Ginny fanfiction on the interwebs. 

And happened to read a few by an author named CassandraCross. 

And now I'm addicted. Oh.my.God. I stayed up until 2am last night reading one of her fics (ironically, it has the same name as one of my own fics -- "Great Expectations) and now I'm trying to hunt down some more awesome Harry/Ginny fics to fill the void since I went through all of her stories. 

So... calling all Harry Potter/Ginny shippers: I need me some more fic! The problem is that I'm a very high maintenance fic reader. The fics MUST be 100% canon fics. Meaning that they have to be written post-DH and characters who are dead should be dead & people should be married to the correct people. No Draco/Hermoine pairings for me. 

I saw that the last post garnered some great fic recs & I'm on it... going to start going through them now. 

Since I wrote, but things have been crazy busy. A wonderful, wonderful trip to Atlanta to visit a newborn niece. Then a great 2 day, romantic trip with my hubby to Hilton Head Island (where I actually kayaked for 1.5 hours without whining and complaining. I told him the lack of whining was his anniversary present).

And now I'm back to reality where I'm applying for graduate school & have three essays to write, along with updating my resume & hunting down transcripts & getting bosses to send in letters. Oh, what fun. And what fun I'm avoiding.

All that to say that the Book Project has been put on hold. But that's OK, because I've got the story swimming around in there and it'll be put on paper eventually.