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-?, ?