A Review of The Taker by Alma Katsu.

The Taker by Alma Katsu.

The Taker is a minty fresh breath of air in a world so dominated at the moment by a tween culture hooked on Twilight.

When I first picked up the book in ASDA, I admit I judged it, I read the back saw the words immortals and thought, oh no another product of the vampire craze that's going on. A craze I'm not a fan off, I like my vampires like Mitchell on Being Human except maybe less Human. Now however I'm misleading you because this is a book far from vampires, this is about humanity.
This is Lanny's story, after she arrives in the E.R one cold night, Lanny begins to tell Luke a tale of love reminiscent of that from Wuthering Heights.
The book begins by leading straight into action that tickles every part of your curious being, I fail to see how anyone can not read at least the first few pages and not want to know more, not want to know who Lanny is, where she has come from, what led to her to being in that ER.

Taking a break from essay writing.....

Ok so I'm tkaing a little break from essay writing. As I've previously stated, twice now my Blog will be back on full form after my exams were over which in my eyes is a shame because I miss writing it and I have found several things that I want to write about, several reviews and things I want to have a little rant about.
Anywho my essays are sort of coming along, I've been stressing out over them which I never normally do, I think  the fact that next year I will be in second year and should know everything makes me a little worried. I'm probably missing some vital skills that I need but I'll learn them again over summer.

Anyway not only do I have all these essays and the like I also have a birthday party to plan because this saturday I am due to turn 21, thats 2 and a 1. I'm having a fancy dress party with friend and family and the like I'm going as one of the best characters of all time, The Joker :) well actually I'm being a female Joker.
I'm excited of course I am but theres so much to do I feel like I have no time at all this week. When i return to full blogging mode, sometime within the next two weeks. there'll will be a wonderful feast of things.

1. A Review of the amazing novel I'm nearly finsihed reading The Taker by Alma Katsu
2. Some more diagnosis Murder reviews
3. A review of X-men first class which I will hopefully ave seen by then.
4. A Post about my new love in the form of the amazing Jane Lynch.

So I guess for now it's farewell for a little while... check back soon :)

Ugly Duckling Out

Lack of intelligence....

I do apologising for my lack of posting at the moment I have so much work to do, I'm really struggling with my University work to. I think the words swimming against the tide might have some relevance here. I'm also trying to make my way through a wonderful book called The Taker, which as soon as I've finished reading I will do a lovely review for you.

I didn't do very well on my last essay and I'm very dissappointed, I feel like giving up and just letting my work slip, which is what coupled with other thingsled to my downfall at college.
I'm determined to atleasttry and do really well on these last two essays but I don't even understand the questions, sohow I'm meant to answerthem I don't know.

Oh well as soon as I've handed it in on thursday and before I start my last essay I will give you a review of a very good lay I went to see, a review of a very good book I've read and a wonderfully long post on Diagnosis Murder =)

Ugly Duckling Out xx

Diagnosis Murder: a tale of Love and Obsession =): Part 2

Part two of my session of posts on Diagnosis Murder.

In this post I intend to tell you about my personal favourites, the episodes I feel are the five best episodes over all 8 series, it was difficult because there are so many brilliant episodes of the show.

Diagnosis Murder: a tale of Love and Obsession =)

It will come as no suprise to people who have peered onto my facebook that I love Diagnosis Murder, but I recently realised that while i have been doing this blog for a while I don't think i have written one post about this amazing show. I've tried to restrain myself from writing about Harry Potter or indeed Diagnosis Murder.

I first watched this show when I was in primary school, I've got no idea how old I was, I don't even remember the first time I actually watched it, my mum tells me it was after having my teeth out at the dentist once. All I know is that from that day forward any sick day would be accompanied by an afternoon spent in the company of the wonderfully bright Dr Sloan and his family, who in case I haven't mentioned are quite adept at solving murders in L.A.

So won't you indulge me a little as I waffle on for a while about, my favourite characters, episodes and scenes of this amazing and brilliant show.

The Best Way To Eat An Apple ;) (In my opinion)

The Best Way To Eat An Apple.

I bet your thinking are you mad woman! Eating an apple is as simple as ABC, it doesn't require special skills.
But oh how wrong you are my friends there are many different way to eat an apple.
Maybe for example your a biter .......

Or maybe you like to cut it into segments,

Maybe you even like to peel those segments first. Maybe you like to cut it in half devour one half and leave the other in the fridge. Maybe you only eat them on bonfire night or you love to dip them in something sweet. Maybe you even like to coat them in something like cheese and pop them in the oven.

For me though absolutley nothing beats this way of eating an apple.

Ok so maybe it's more in the cutting then the actual eating, but it turns the eating into an experience.
For me there is nothing better then holding an apple in one hand and a knife in the other and just taking chunks off the apple and popping them straight into my mouth. It makes me salivate just thinking about, espeically when it's a big green Granny Smiths apple because they are indeed a beautiful breed.
It's not just the fact your not picking it off a plate, it's kind of taking the eating back to days when plates were not used, I imagine its how Robin Hood would eat his apple. Or it is indeed the way the wise old man eats his.
I guess it's a filmic thing with me, the idea, the picture in my head as I eat it like that.
But there is no doubt in my mind that this beats, grabbing one and taking a huge bite, or neatly chopping it and picking your favourite bits off a plate.

Ugly Duckling Out xx

"I Want Bi Polar Disorder" Article and some thoughts......

I don't know whether I mentioned on here or not but last week, last friday to be exact, after years of going to the Doctors and trying to tell them I thought their was something wrong with me they packed me off to the Psychiatrist.
After being asked lots of questions by them, they've told me to keep a mood diary and they gave me some hints and tips which I don't remember. They've told me to do this because they think it's a possibility I could have it. While I'm releived though, I'm also rather apprehensive.
I decided to do some research on how to keep a mood chart today, and came across this article....

http://www.acutecareprogramme.org.uk/silo/files/i-want-to-be-bipolar.pdf

Now I don't understand why anyone would want a mental illness, it's not nice. What worries me though is could my Doctors see me as one of these people?

A Glorious trip To The Park.......

So after I finished work today me and two of my friends ventured to the park.

Ok so the park didn't look like this, but you get the idea. My friend brought her little girl to and she was so cute. Shes a proper little cheeky monkey, a real cute kid.
For all the moaning I did the other day about parents and kids I really enjoyed being with them though, shes a normal kid but shes really cute and just fun lol. I enjoy entertaining her to.
Anyway we got some drinks and sweets and sat on the park for an hour and a half got some good pictures and a good video of my friend running around quoting East is East.
The one thing that was missing though was one of my other friends were like a four piece jigsaw me and I would call them my best friends, so it really feels a bit wierd when one of them isn't their. I don't know how they feel about it, maybe they are fine without me there it probably doesn't really matter to them but to me it does.
Anyway we had fun and then I came home to my lovely boyfriend who bought me and him tickets to Frankenstein at the corner house, it's a live streaming of the Danny Boyle version from the national theatre so I'm rather excited about that :) <3

The Simple Art of Comedy.....

Last night I watched a rather brilliant film, a film so bad it was good, it didn't have amazing visuals, beautiful scenery and a cast of hollywoods biggest and brighest upcoming stars.
No this film consisted of middle aged men, run of the mill women and animals.
Last night I watched Fierce Creatures a film from 1997 starring John Cleese, Michael Palin, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ronnie Corbet Kevin Kline and Robert Linsay.

Some Parents Need to Realise Not Everyone Likes Kids.........

Ok so I work in a kids shop, meaning I should love kids right? NO You couldn't be more wrong and their is nothing worse for me then pushy parents out in a park who insist everyone must love their kids, therefore their kids even when kicking a ball at someone are doing nothing wrong.