Book piece

I will now write a new piece for my book, right here, right now. Then I would like everyone to PLEASE comment. Because I'm not sure if I want this in my book or not. Thank you!

When I woke up, I had an odd feeling today was going to be very strange. I wasn't sure why.
I was reading Les Miserables and eating a blueberry muffin when Nathaniel, Nicolaus, Edmond, and Seth came noisily into the room.
"Hey, boys," I said without looking up from my book.
Olivia yawned, and said, "I thought you guys wouldn't be around till the afternoon."
Seth shrugged. "Well, that was the plan..."
Nathaniel looked very annoyed at something. "Has anyone come 'round the house, looking for me and Thomas?" he asked me sitting across the table from me, and stealing a bite off my muffin.
"No," I said, surprised. I took my muffin back. "Why? Were you expecting someone?"
"Not in the way you mean it. I got a piece of very unwelcome news, from James," his frown deepened as he said this.
"Oh! You got a call from James?" Olivia asked, surprised. She truly never payed attention.
"Liv," I chastised. "Please pay attention."
"Sorry, Art," she said, yawning again.
"Hey, where is Thomas, anyway?" Edmond asked.
"I think he's still asleep," I said.
"Sure sounds like him," muttered Nicolaus, as Nathaniel shook his head, in a very annoyed fashion.
Just then, Thomas came into the kitchen, yawning. His shirt was on backwards.
"Thomas," Nathaniel said.
"Oh, hey, Nat," said Thomas, taking a muffin. "I thought you wouldn't be back till around one."
"Do not call me Nat," Nathaniel practically growled. "And your shirt's on backwards." Olivia giggled.
"Whoops," Thomas muttered, turning slightly red.
Once that was all straightened out, Thomas asked again, "Okay, kid. Why are you back so early?"
"First of all," Nathaniel started. "It is NOT early. It's 9:30."
"On a weekend," muttered Thomas. Nathaniel ignored him.
"Any way," Nathaniel continued, speaking to me, because I was the one he wanted to talk to any way. "Last night James called me. With some not great news. It turns out my mother had a brother. And he lives here, in California. Practically in this town." I gave him a quizzical look. I didn't see what was so bad about that. But he wasn't done with the story, yet.
"He has decided that he has some weird claim on Thomas and me, because we're minors, and for some reason our sister isn't qualified to take care of us. Although, I do agree with him on the fact that our father certainly isn't." He rolled his eyes. "So, now we've got some cousins, who we've never met, and didn't know existed till, pretty much, last night, and a wacko uncle."
Just then the doorbell rang. We all froze.
"Well, someone's got to answer the door," I eventually said, in a small voice. No one moved.
After a moment, I took a deep breath and walked out of the kitchen, towards the door. Olivia, Nicolaus, and Nathaniel, followed. The rest stayed frozen.
I opened the door to a man with curly red hair, like Charollette's. Although, unlike her, his eyes were brown. And yet, I could see the resemblance between him and the Legards. 

"Um... hello," I said hesitantly.

He smiled. "Hello," he said. "My name is William Whittemore. I see you know Nathaniel," the man said, nodding in Nathaniel's direction. "I am his uncle."

"Oh," I said, slightly surprised. Even though Nathaniel had said, that James had told him about the uncle they had, I was still quite surprised, even though I had expected it. James wasn't the one to give you faulty information. 

"And why exactly are you here?" Olivia asked, clearly, to me, any way, trying to get the facts straight from him.

William Whittemore smiled at her, then. "I am here to claim my nephews, of course."

And that's where the chapter will end. I might add the next chapter, or something in a few days. Because I'll have nothing better to do.

My friend and her fav books

Since I can no longer think of something to write for the day I will write about my friend. Since I'm bored, like I said before, I will take a leaf out of Cranberry's book (Cranberry is one of the people who's blog I follow. She also follows mine.) and not call my friend by her real name. I asked what I should call her and she asked to be called Infublo. (No clue what the heck it means.)

Favorite books:
The Inheritance Series (Eragon, Eldest, etc.)-Christopher Paolini
The Keys to the Kingdom-Garth Nix
The Twilight Saga-Stephenie Meyer
The Wicked Series-Nancy Holder
I can no longer think of any others.

As you can see, we have very similar taste in books. I like all the books on that list, except The Inheritance series. I don't know why, I just don't like it. She likes it WAY more than I do. Even my mom likes them more than I do. Oh, well. Now, about the Wicked series. Those are really sick, but still really good reads. I do NOT recommend them for anyone under 13, or anyone squeamish when it comes to READING about blood, or anyone who gets nightmares really easily. In the series there are many sacrifices, about 45% of them are human.

Happy Birthday!!!!

As you can tell, every time a character has a birthday, I post about it. And today is Harry Potter's birthday. So...Happy birthday, Harry Potter. Above is a picture of Harry in the third book. I did not draw this. It was from the nocturnalsoldier website. (Yes, the pictures are back.)

The Magic Thief

The Magic Thief is a REALLY good book, written by Sarah Prineas. There are two books in the series at the moment. Right now, I'm reading the second one, which is called Lost. The main character is a boy named Connwaer (Conn) who is apprenticed to the wizard, Nevery. And that's all I can say about the books, without giving away the whole story. Oh, and by the way, I finished both of the books in the series, each in less than 24 hours. More like 6, or something.

More book characters

Here are some of the adults in The Digger's Daughter. And also some previews of characters in the second book.

Lewis Roswell: Artemis's father. He has blonde-brown hair and brown eyes.

Elizabeth Athena Roswell: Artemis's mother. She has black hair and blue eyes.

Beatrice Moore: She is Artemis's aunt. She moves to California in the second book. She has black hair and brown-gold eyes.

Dieudonne Legard: He is Nathaniel, Thomas, James, and Charollette's father. He tries to murder Artemis a lot. He has black hair and black eyes.

(Yeah, I don't have that much to say about the adults. They aren't really very major. Just extras, mostly. :-))

Now for the previews of some of the characters in the second book.

Bridget Colons: She is 9-years-old. She is also Gothic. She has two brothers, one older,one younger. She has curly blonde hair and blue eyes.

Claire Whitney: She is 13-years-old. She has WAY too many brothers. Her parents liked to give them all really old, unpopular names. Like from the early 1900s. Like Fredrick and Theodore. She is the only girl. They also have four big dogs. She has light red hair, and hazel eyes.

Edmond Whitney: He is 14-years-old. He is Claire's favorite brother. At one point he hated his name, and, just to spite him, none of his brothers would give him a nickname, like they did for each other. So, then, he grew into his name. He has gold-blonde hair and blue eyes.

And those are all the characters I will write about for now. All the new characters live in California. The city is yet to be determined/named.

The Digger's Daughter

That's the name of the main book I'm writing. Here's a little bit about a bunch of the main characters.

Artemis Emma Roswell: She's British. Her father is an archeologist. He has a HUGE rivalry with a man named Dieudonne Legard. She has black hair, past her waist, and gold-brown eyes. She plays piano and harp. (Don't ask why harp. I was just bored.) She is 12, in the first book. Birthday: July 22, (1996?)

Nathaniel Ian Legard: He is also British. His father is also an archeologist. His dad is Artemis's father's rival. He has two older brothers and an older sister. He has black hair and green eyes. He plays guitar. He is 13 in the first book. Birthday: October 31, (1995?)

Olivia Juliet Carwin: She is French. She is Artemis's best friend. She has wavy blonde hair and blue eyes. She is 13 in the first book.

Nicolaus Antioco Palmas: He is Italian. He is another of Artemis's best friends. He has brown hair and dark brown eyes. He is not particularly friendly with Nathaniel. He is 14 in the first book.

Thomas Legard: He is one of Nathaniel's older brothers. They don't particularly get along the best. But, he does get along quite well with Artemis. He has black hair and black eyes. He is 16 in the first book.

James Legard: He is Nathaniel's oldest brother. He is studying to be a doctor. He has black hair and black eyes. He is 19 in the first book.

Charollette Legard: She is Nathaniel's oldest sibling. She is learning to be an archeologist from Artemis's father. She has curly red hair and green eyes. She is 24.

That's all I'm going to put up for now. Maybe tomorrow or something I'll put some of the parents up and maybe some previews of characters in the second book.

A Very Potter Musical, Acts 1 & 2

Part 1, act 1

Part 2, act 1

Part 3, act 1

Part 4, act 1

Part 5, act 1

Part 6, act 1

Part 7, act 1

Part 8, act 1

Part 9, act 1

Part 10, act 1

Part 11, act 1

Part 12, act 1

Part 13, act 1

Part 14, act 1


NOW FOR ACT 2

Part 1, act 2

Part 2, act 2

Part 3, act 2

Part 4, act 2

Part 5, act 2

Part 6, act 2

Part 7, act 2

Part 8, act 2

Part 9, act 2

AND THAT"S THE END!!! :-)

Have a nice day! :-)

A Very Potter Musical

There is a HILARIOUS group of strange people who made a parody play of the Harry Potter books. There are mostly kids, with some adults. I will post the whole play but you MUST watch them in order. Thank you!

Numerous books stuff, again

I have more about those characters.

Amelia (Amy) Knoll: Sight. Twin with Amanda. Saw, in this order, great-grandmother, mother, grandmother die. Blames dad for moms death. Falls in love with Anthony. Black hair, black eyes. Becomes the Goddess of Fate.

Amanda Knoll: Sight. Blonde hair, blue eyes. Becomes Goddess of ?

Meahgen Rutgert: Sight. Brown hair, hazel eyes. Likes to dye her hair red and black. Best friends with Amy. Becomes Goddess of the Mind.

Kevin Dawtry: Sight. Falls in love with Clover. Brown hair, green eyes. Best friends with Anthony. Becomes God of ?

Anthony Whitehall: Sight. Falls in love with Amy. Blonde hair, hazels eyes, speckled with gold-brown. Becomes God of Healing.

More stuff about my numerous books

OK. Now I'm going to write about a DIFFERENT book I'm writing. But, it takes a LOT of research, so it'll take me MUCH longer to finish. (I have to create a LANGUAGE, for GOODNESS sake!!!!!) Yeah, so anyway, I have created some of the characters. Here are their names+slight descriptions.

Twilight Whispers: Goddess of Dawn, Twilight, and Childhood/Youth. She is one of the Creations. Her hair is blonde during the day (sunrise to sunset), then turns red-black during the night. Her eyes are normally black. When she is extremely mad, or in a huge, "magical" fight, her eyes are red. When she is sad/depressed/etc. her eyes are a purple-violet color.

Thanatos Whispers: God of Death and Healing. He is an Adma. His hair is black. His eyes switch between blood red and pitch black. (Red-night, black-day.) They are each other's favorite siblings of the whole Whispers clan.

Jour Whispers: Goddess of Daytime and the Sun. She is an Adma, the second one to take the original Creation's place. She is blonde, with sky blue eyes. She sleeps during the Night.

Nacht Whispers: God of Night and the Moon. He is an Adma. He has black hair. His eyes are a similar color to the moon, and they glow like stars when he is angry. He normally sleeps during the day.

Lady Temps Whispers: Goddess of Time, Mother of the Whispers clan, rulers of Change (Time, luck, fate, etc. (They are the highest clan. Twilight was the second Creation to come to be. The original God of Death and Healing was before Twilight.)) She is one of the Origins. Her hair is dark brown and her eyes are usually green. Can be black or purple.

Sir Providence: King of all the Dark Angels. He is higher than the Origins, which, in turn are higher than the Creations, which are higher than the Adma, who are much higher than most humans. Sights are the exceptions. Sights are humans who's Souls will become Dark Angel Admas, eventually.
Those were the "Dark Angels" as they are called in English.

Samantha Kirktrace: Sight. Will become the Goddess of Luck. She is not the most central character to the story, but she is my first person narrator for most of the book. She has brown hair and brown eyes. Her nickname is Clover because she usually has amazing luck.

Amelia

Amanda

Meahgen

Kevin

Anthony

That was most of what I could remember. I'll add more when I can take a look at my notes.

My book

So, in my book I created a myth. I still haven't decided where it's supposed to have come from, and I doubt I ever will. But the story was so wonderful I couldn't resist writing it. So, here is the myth, along with some of Artemis's and Nathaniel's commentary to what THEY think of it. A lot of it isn't actually what I think.

“I don’t quite remember. I know she was in a different country. There’s a legend about these bracelets.”
“May I hear it?”
“Sure.” He paused for a few moments. Then he said, sheepishly, “First I need to remember it.” He ducked his head rather guiltily.
I smiled and gave a little laugh. “That’s okay. I’ll give you a little while.”
After sitting together quietly for about ten minutes Nathaniel finally said, “I still can’t remember the whole story, but I remember what the bracelet is for.”
“Okay, that’s good enough.”
“Well, what happens with the bracelet is that the mother is supposed to give it to her sons. There are always six beads. Half of them are the boy’s favorite colors. The other half’s colors all have something to do with the description of their 'soul mate'.”
I could hear the skepticism in his voice as he said that, almost see the quotation marks that his voice implied around those two little words. But, as I looked again at the bracelet, I couldn’t help but notice that three beads were a very similar shade of gold to my eyes and there were black speckles on them that look quite similar to my hair.

Français

Bonjour, chacun. Je ne pourrais pas penser à quoi écrire aujourd'hui, mais à moi ai vraiment voulu mettre quelque chose vers le haut. Ainsi, puis, j'ai eu une idée. Pourquoi non mis quelque chose vers le haut dans une langue complètement différente. Ainsi j'ai décidé du Français, parce que j'aime la langue.

Empower the women!

I dunno where all this pro-women, feminist stuff came from, but today I just felt like supporting all the stuff like that. So, here's a wordle of pro-women quotes.

Women's Quotes

All these sites are all about empowered women and a lot of their quotes;

www.biography.com/womens-history

quotations.about.com/woman

ezinearticles.com/20-Famous-Quotes-by-Women-to-Celebrate-Womens-History-Month

www.quotegarden.com/feminism

Music quotes

Here are a bunch of music quotes in wordle. Including one of my own invention;

"Music is only for those who listen."

Another quote site

If you can't tell, I like quotes. Here's ANOTHER site with good quotes. Lots of adds, though. :-(

www.famous-quotes-and-quotations.com

Peace on Wordle

I took a bunch of quotes about peace and put them into wordle.

????????

I have no idea what to write in my book. So, to all the people following my blog, I could use some help. If you have any ideas on scenes and you check my blog sometime soon, could you please give me some ideas? My book is about a bunch of kids. A 12-year-old girl, a 13-year-old girl, a 13-year-old boy, a 14-year-old boy, a 16-year-old boy, and a 19-year-old boy. Three of the boys are brothers (not the 14-year-old).

Book teazer

    After the flu was really and truly done I sat up and the first thing I did was to say, “Traitors.” I stared directly at James, Thomas, and…Nathaniel.

That was a line from my book. Bet you can't figure out what's going on with that, can you?

More Women's Rights

Here's my favorite part of Susan B. Anthony's speech in wordle.

Going to the moon

Just a week ago the 40th anniversary of going to the moon happened. So I took Kennedy's speech, where he asked NASA to go to the moon, and put it in wordle. So, here it is.

Here's the site I got the speech off: www.historyplace.com/speeches/previous.htm

Women's rights

This is Susan B. Anthony's speech on women's rights:

In the 1800s, women in the United States had few legal rights and did not have the right to vote. This speech was given by Susan B. Anthony after her arrest for casting an illegal vote in the presidential election of 1872. She was tried and then fined $100 but refused to pay.

Friends and fellow citizens: I stand before you tonight under indictment for the alleged crime of having voted at the last presidential election, without having a lawful right to vote. It shall be my work this evening to prove to you that in thus voting, I not only committed no crime, but, instead, simply exercised my citizen's rights, guaranteed to me and all United States citizens by the National Constitution, beyond the power of any state to deny.

The preamble of the Federal Constitution says:

"We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people - women as well as men. And it is a downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government - the ballot.

For any state to make sex a qualification that must ever result in the disfranchisement of one entire half of the people, is to pass a bill of attainder, or, an ex post facto law, and is therefore a violation of the supreme law of the land. By it the blessings of liberty are forever withheld from women and their female posterity.

To them this government has no just powers derived from the consent of the governed. To them this government is not a democracy. It is not a republic. It is an odious aristocracy; a hateful oligarchy of sex; the most hateful aristocracy ever established on the face of the globe; an oligarchy of wealth, where the rich govern the poor. An oligarchy of learning, where the educated govern the ignorant, or even an oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex, which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters, of every household - which ordains all men sovereigns, all women subjects, carries dissension, discord, and rebellion into every home of the nation.

Webster, Worcester, and Bouvier all define a citizen to be a person in the United States, entitled to vote and hold office.

The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not. Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities. Hence, every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several states is today null and void, precisely as is every one against Negroes.

Susan B. Anthony - 1873

Quotes

Here are some very nice quotes from J. K. Rowling: "I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself." Here's my other favorite: "Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth." If you want to read more, here's a link to where I got them: www.quotationspage.com/quotes/J._K._Rowling

Here's a wonderful Jane Austen quote from Pride and Prejudice, said by Mary Bennet: "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library." Here's another one: "I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them." If you want more, here's a link: www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Jane_Austen

This is a good Oscar Wilde quote: "Be yourself; everyone else is taken."  I also like this one; "Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." If you want to read some more here's a link: www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Oscar_Wilde

And now, so I don't take quotes from over half the people on the site here's a link to the whole site; www.quotationspage.com/quotes

Artemis

These are more book characters and words that have to do with the book. Wordle is cool.

Book Characters

These are the names of some of the characters in my newest book. 

Size=main-ness in the book.

Yay for wordle.

More music

I'm not sure if I'm even going to TRY to tie the songs I put up to books any more. Anyway, here are the songs on my top 25 most played list at the moment(in order):

The River Flows in You-Yiruma

My Beautiful Rescue-This Providence

Supermassive Black Hole-Muse

Leave Out All the Rest-Linkin Park

Vanilla Twilight-Owl City

Stand in the Rain-Superchick

Keeping On Without You (Acoustic)-This Providence

Gives You Hell-The All-American Rejects

Viva la Vida-Coldplay

Little People from Les Miserables

A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing-This Providence

Decode-Paramore

Playing the Villain-This Providence

Reach for the Sun-The Dangerous Summer

Hero/Heroine-Boys Like Girls

My Hero-Paramore

Boulevard of Broken Dreams-Green Day

Hallelujah-Paramore

When It Rains-Paramore

Night Song-Relaxing Piano Music

Where I Want To Be (Acoustic)-The Dangerous Summer

Think of Me from The Phantom of the Opera

One Day More from Les Miserables

Do What You Want-Ok Go

To Kill This-This Providence

Keeping on Without You by This Providence

I love this song. It works for Jacob at the end of Eclipse and many other books, I'm sure. I dunno why this video says it has lyrics, cuz it doesn't.

Comments

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Born For This by Paramore

This is a really good song. Still have no idea what it has to do with a book. But I don't particularly care.

Sessical the Musical

Who didn't read Dr. Seuss books when they were little? Well I certainly can't think of anyone. How about seeing a bunch of them mixed together in a play? I'm sure quite a few less people. When I was six, I think, I saw Seussical. It was SOO GOOD. I still think it was one of the best plays I've ever seen. And I was in first grade, or something. It's based mostly on the Horton books. So he's obviously a main character. And then the main book it goes with is Horton Hears a Who. But it also has a big part of Horton Hatches the Egg. And then The Cat in the Hat is the narrator for a lot of it.

Fullly Alive by Flyleaf

This song works for the end of New Moon/beginning of Eclipse, I think. Maybe? What ever. It's just a good song.

Ok. The original video I had up had lyrics, and was regular. But copyright laws made the person take it down. So, here is another version. Sorry.

Cheerio, peeps!

All Around Me by Flyleaf

This is a really good song. And I have no idea what it has to do with books. But I really like it. So what ever.

More good music

OVER 50 POSTS!!!!!!!!!!

I have been blogging for less than a week now and I already have 55 POST! AAAAAAH! I didn't know I had that much to say! (Well, eh, maybe I did.)

Hallelujah by Paramore

This song is so awesome.

The Scientist by Coldplay

Hooray for Coldplay! (Yay! I can RHYME!) On the TS playlist. (Shocker!(NOT!))

Viva la Vida by Coldplay

Freakishly awesome song. On the TS (Twilight Saga) playlist.

Gives You Hell by The All-American Rejects

On the Twilight playlist.

Know Your Enemy by Green Day

Jacob to Edward.

Fireflies by Owl City

I cannot think of anything this has to do with books, (Although, I'm sure there's something somewhere!) but this is the song that got me hooked on Owl City, so I HAD to post it! Didn't I?

If My Heart Was A House by Owl City

Such a very pretty song. It's on my Twilight playlist (below), for Eclipse, I think.

My Twilight Playlist

I have made a playlist for each book. Here are the songs and their artists:

TWILIGHT

Monsters-Matchbook Romance

Full Moon-The Black Ghosts

Hello Seattle-Owl City

I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For-U2

Boulevard of Broken Dreams-Green Day

I Caught Myself-Paramore

Stolen-Dashboard Confessional

Sand In Your Shoes-This Providence

Northern Lights-The Dangerous Summer

Baby Come On-+44

Twenty-Four-Switchfoot

Supermassive Black Hole-Muse

Decode-Paramore

Crushcrushcrush-Paramore

My Beautiful Rescue-This Providence

I Remember/Stranger Than You Dream It-Phantom

Patience-This Providence

Swan Dive-Sister Hazel

Reach for the Sun-The Dangerous Summer

Hero/Heroine-Boys Like Girls

Starlight-Muse

NEW MOON

Leave Out All The Rest-Linkin Park

My Immortal-Evanescence

Brighter-Paramore

Taking Me Over-Evanescence

Stand in the Rain-Superchick

Vanilla Twilight-Owl City

Bring Me To Life-Evanescence

Much Like Falling-Flyleaf

When It Rains-Paramore

Merchants of Soul-Spoon

Dare You To Move-Switchfoot

Viva La Vida-Coldplay

The Crow & The Butterfly-Shinedown

Miracle-Paramore

Let It Rain-Ok Go

Sunshine-The All-American Rejects

On My Own-Les Miserables

Fully Alive-Flyleaf

Never Let This Go-Paramore

Sure As Hell-This Providence

The Scientist-Coldplay

Vindicated-Dashboard Confessional

ECLIPSE

Tremble for My Beloved-Collective Soul

Going Under-Evanescence

Back to the Life-Spoon

Know Your Enemy-Green Day

The Bird & the Worm-Owl City

Map of the Problamatique-Muse

On the Wing-Owl City

To Kill This-This Providence

There for You-Flyleaf

Stab My Back-The All-American Rejects

If My Heart Was a House-Owl City

This Is the Real Thing-This Providence

Your Guardian Angel-The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

Sword and Shield-Sister Hazel

Gives You Hell-The All-American Rejects

Keeping on Without You-This Providence

Night Drive-The All-American Rejects

Tidal Wave-Owl City

Think of Me-Phantom

BREAKING DAWN

Pachelbel’s Canon

Back to Me-The All-American Rejects

Given Up-Linkin Park

Spotlight-Mute Math

Invincible-Ok Go

Hallelujah-Paramore

Claire de Lune-Debussy

The River Flows in You-Yiruma

Hamlet's speech, again

This is the Hamlet speech I put up. But in WORDLE!

More author websites

Here are a few more sites of authors:

www.corneliafunkefans.com/
www.austen.com/*

*Note: some Jane Austen websites are rather similar to cults.

Shakespeare quotes

Most people don't know the whole of Hamlet's most famous speech. They just content themselves with know the first line, "To be or not to be; that is the question." Well, here's the rest of it:
Hamlet:
To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep,
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep, perchance to dream—aye, there's the rub:*
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause—there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th' unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovere'd country, from whose born
No traveler returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pitch and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action.

*On Stephenie Meyer's website, if you read the little piece of New Moon from Edward's point of view, he says that line. I accidentally thought it was from Romeo and Juliet. Whoops, my mistake.

Editing the blog

This blog is no longer exclusively about books. I'll also have things about music and word origins and other things like that.

Night Drive (acoustic) by The All-American Rejects

This is a good song for Jacob at the end of Eclipse.

Playing the Villain by This Providence

This song was MADE for Rosalie.

Reach for the Sun by The Dangerous Summer

This is a really good song. It works very well for Edward in Twilight, at about the middle. I'm sorry the picture doesn't change, but it was the only video for the song.

Pentominoes

In the book Chasing Vermeer, and the rest of the series, one of the characters, Calder Pillay, has a kind of toy, or a math tool, called pentominoes. They are really fun to play with. You are supposed to make different shaped and numbered rectangles out of them. I have a set and have made a three piece, a six piece and a twelve piece. Don't ask me how I got the tweleve piece. I haven't a clue.

Happy Birthday!

As I've said before, I think, I write books. Well, the main character in my first series is named Artemis Roswell (pronounced Rose-well). Today is the day I have put her birthday on. So...HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Artemis! :-) Yay for her. This is the picture that inspired me to create her, when I started the school project to write a story. And NOW look where it's taken me! I have a whole series of books going! So, I tip my hat to whoever drew this picture, (Cuz it CERTAINLY wasn't me. I got it off www.deviantart.com.) because I would never have become an author if I hadn't found this picture you drew! Thanks SOOOO much! :-)

Vanilla Twilight by Owl City

This is a very beautiful song. Can some one say New Moon?

Trying out for plays.

I just tried out for a bunch of plays today. My monologue was a letter from Pride and Prejudice. I sang a piece of Little People from Les Miserables for my song. I think I did horribly but what's done is done. (Shrug.)

Twilight Saga site

This has cool stuff about Twilight and really hard trivia. I know, I helped make it. The poem on the first page is mine.

twilighttodawn.wikispaces.com

Here's the poem, if you don't want to look at the site:

Vampires
Vampires
Stregoni benefici
Italian
Good
Danag
Filipino
Estrie
Hebrew
Upier
Polish
Varacolaci
Romanian
Nelapsi
Slovak
Beautiful
Strong
Fast
Pale
Undead
Vampires

Team Switzerland

Jacob is a jerk in Eclipse, constantly crossing the line. In New Moon he also crosses the line, trying to be a good friend to Bella. In Breaking Dawn he is a jerk for the whole book, till the last few chapters. Twilight is the only book where he's fairly decent.
Edward is an over-protective idiot. He has first right on Bella and Jacob should've just accepted that. However, Edward was an idiot to leave and think that he could stay away. He should have payed more attention to poor Alice.
Edward is better than Jacob, though. (In my opinion.) He has had rather more life experience, so he some what understands the consequences of his actions better. (Not much, though.) Edward is more willing to sacrifice things for Bella. Jacob seems (sometimes) to only think of himself. He doesn't seem to quite grasp that Bella was perfectly happy with Edward and now he is totally messing up there lives.
Although, there are sometimes when you have a perfectly good right to feel sorry for Jacob. Like certain times in Breaking Dawn, from his point of view. However, he antagonizes Edward a little too much for my liking.
That's why I'm on Team Switzerland. However I'm on the edge, leaning much more towards Edward than Jacob.

Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day

This song was practically made for Edward Cullen.

Les Miserables

Les Miserables is one BIG book (1222 pages). It's also really good. Some 200 or so years after it was written some people came along and decided to make a musical out of it. Which was quite a good idea, in my opinion. It follows the book very well and it has great music. This song is "On My Own".

The Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz is a strange book. Especially because of what so many people did to it in the years after it was written. First, they made a movie of it. That was perfectly acceptable. It's a good movie, too. Even though it doesn't follow the book hardly at all. (Did you know that the origional shoes Dorothy got were silver?) Except, then Gregory Maguire came along an wrote an excedingly disturbing book about how the Wicked Witch (Elphaba) wasn't actually all that bad. Then some one came along and made a musical out of that. Wicked the Musical is TOTALLY awesome. I've seen it twice already. But, like I said before, the book is highly disturbing.

Wordle

Wordle is a cool website where you make things like the below.
Here's a link: www.wordle.net/

Translate THIS!

I made up some strange things that have to do with the Twilight Saga. Then, I translated them to a few different languages. Translate it, if you dare! MUWAHAHAH! (Evil laughter.) Okay, no, not really. But, still see if you can translate it.

#1)Italian: Funzionamento! Il Volturi sta venendo! Funzioni per la vostra vita! AAAAAHH!

#2)French:J'ai parié qu'Emmett pourrait casser Tour Eiffel. Voulez-vous l'oser à ?

That's all I have for now. Once enough people try a hack at it, I'll post the translation above this.

Leave Out All the Rest by Linkin Park

Great band. Awesome song. What more can I say?

Supermassive Black Hole by Muse<3

ROCK ON, Muse! One of the BEST BANDS EVER!!! 

Full Moon by The Black Ghosts

From the Twilight soundtrack. (Obviously.)

Flightless Bird, American Mouth by Iron & Wine

Pretty song, full of nonsensical lyrics.

Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven

Very pretty. Which Twilight book should it go with? I can't make up my mind. It does, however work well with a book I'm writing.

Claire de Lune by Debussy

Very pretty song. Both Edward and Bella really like it. And I gotta agree with them. :-) For all the people who don't know French, Claire de Lune means "Clear of the Moon". How very appropriate  for Twilight. :-)

I Caught Myself by Paramore.

More from the Twilight soundtrack. Hooray for amazingly wonderful Paramore!!! :-)

Bella's Lullabye (The River Flows in You by Yiruma)

Beautiful song. I like this video a lot, because of the dialogue they added. I'm learning to play the song on the piano. Incredibly, extremely hard. Totally worth it. 

Spotlight by Mute Math.

Hillarious video. Good band. They look kinda squashed in there, don't they? 

Midnight Sun.

COME ON Stephanie Meyer!! Why won't you finish the book?!?!?!?!? I've read it on her site and it might actually be better than Twilight! It is SOOOO good! Please Finish it!!!
www.savemidnightsun.com/ This is a link to a petition to save Midnight Sun. PLEASE SIGN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Eyes on Fire by Blue Foundation.

This song is from the Twilight soundtrack. And it's really good.

For my dad.

I like to read Shakespeare and I like to see shakespearean plays. I've also done some shakespearean acting. My dad likes to annoy me with only quoting two lines from Shakespeare. "Alas poor Yorick. I knew him well." (Which actually aren't the right words.) Especially while I'm watching Bones. (Good TV show.) So, I went and found the right words, and part of the scene. This is for my dad.

First Clown:
A pestilence on him for a mad rogue! 'a pour'd a flagon
of Rhenish on my head once. This same skull, sir, was, sir,
Yorick's skull, the King's jester.

Hamlet:
This? [Takes the skull]

First Clown:
E'en that.

Hamlet:
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite
jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his back a
thousand times, and now how abhorr'd in my imagination it is!
My gorge rises at it.

Insulting Voldemort.

By the nocturnal soldier website. No explanation needed.

The purty flower.

This is another doodle of Snape by nocturnal soldier.

Bring Me to Life by Evanescene.

This song is practically the soundrack to New Moon. Also, another great band.

Invincible by Ok Go.

Ok Go is another awesome band. They have a song called Invincible. It fits in perfectly at the end of Breaking Dawn. Now, if you have no clue what I'm talking about go ask some one, cuz I'm not going to tell you. OR just read the book!!!!!!!!!

Decode by Paramore.

Peppermint humbugs.

If you've read Harry Potter and had no idea what the heck a peppermint humbug was read on. A peppermint humbug is a minty candy, that is made by boiling sugar and such.

H. P. plants.

There are a multitude of plants in the Harry Potter books. So I was outside in the garden and I found a Whomping Willow and a Venomous Tentacula. Here are some pictures.

My cat.

My cat's name is Harry Potter. Here are some pictures of him.

Places where books are set.

I have been to Hyde Park, Illinois. That's where the Chasing Vermeer books take place. Except the last one. I've been to King's Cross Station, to see platform 9 3/4. I've been to Paddington Station and the Peter Pan statue in London. I don't think I've been to many other places where books take place, though. But, ya never know.

Music+books.

I like music. I like books (obviously). Sometimes, I can read a book faster while listening to music. Although, it doesn't work for everyone. I also like making playlists on my iPod for some of my favorite book characters. It also helps a lot, if you want to write a book, to do that for your own characters. It helps you get into their heads, and figure out what they'd do next.

Author's websites.

Here are a bunch of websites that belong to authors. OR have stuff about books.

www.stepheniemeyer.com/

www.jkrowling.com/ 

www.rickriordan.com/ 

www.vivianvandevelde.com/

www.jonathanstroud.com/

Hooray for authors!!!! And these are just a few.

You can find a bunch of the other authors here:

www.scholastic.com/kids/stacks/index.asp

If you're a kid, anyway. There are also a bunch of fun games.

More funny pics.

Also by the nocturnal soldier person. Not me.

I think her name is Tealin. Click the cartoon to read it.

Great H. P. Pics.

There is a wonderful website called www.nocturnalsoldier.org/ that has amazing and hillarious pictures. I'll post some of my favorites.

Books to movies.

There are LOTS of amazingly awesome books that deserve to have a movie. But they don't. Then there are some books that are ok, but have a movie. Then there are some awesome books that deserve an awesome movie, and their movie are TOTALLY AWFULLY TERRIBLE.

The Harry Potter movies. 1 and 2 are really good. I wish that the first Dumbldore hadn't died. But he did, which was sad. And there's nothin' we can do about it. 3 was a bad movie. It didn't follow the book all that well and it was bad, just as a movie. Don't even get me started on 4 and 5. They both suck. 6 was a brilliant movie, just as a movie, but did absoloutly horrid at following the book.

Twilight as a movie was ok as just a movie. I don't think they did very well at following the book, though. Sometimes it seemed as though they didn't try. But, sometimes, there was just something about the way that Stephanie Meyer wrote some scenes that it would be practically impossible to capture unless you were Bella. So, good job, movie people.

Those are all I can think of for now.
Bye,
Ariella

More books I like (and dislike). Continued

I didn't get to finish that other post. Anyway, back to the book list.

Around the World in Eighty Days-Jules Verne, ?
The Bartimaeus Trilogy-Jonathan Stroud, fantasy
Percy Jackson and the Olympians-Rick Riordan, fantasy
And LOTS of other books I can't think of at the moment. There will most likely be another list.

Now for books I dislike...
Books by Isaac Asimov
The Pretties series, Sci-Fi
I can't think of anything else, but I'm sure there's more. (Or not. If you couldn't tell before, I like to read. A lot. :-)

Books I like.

Hello, to everyone. This is my first actual blog. And it's going to be about books. Shocker! (Nope, actually not.) So, here is a slightly random list of very good books (in my opinion), along with their genres'. Then a list of not-so-good books (with their genre).

The Twilight Saga-Stephanie Meyer, romance
Harry Potter-J. K. Rowling, fantasy
Pride and Prejudice-Jane Austen, romance
Heir Apparent-Vivian Vande Velde, Sci-Fi
Les Miserables-Victor Hugo, historical fiction
Around the World in Eighty Days-?, ?