Author: Whitney

Read-A-Thon Starting Line

Read-A-Thon Starting Line

I’ll be starting the Read-A-Thon soon and I’m super excited to set aside a whole day for reading!  But before I begin, here is a quick introductory meme for Hour 1. Where are you reading from today? I staked out a chair to glue my butt to (or at least for most of the time). […]

Posted October 9, 2010 by Whitney in read-a-thon / 8 Comments
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Friday Memes #17

Friday Memes #17

It’s Friday! Time for another Book Blogger Hop hosted by Jennifer at Crazy for Books The Hop is designed to discover great book bloggers and be discovered yourself. Not only can we discover new blogs but great books to add to the ever growing wish-list. So hop on over and join the fun! This week’s […]

Posted October 8, 2010 by Whitney in Friday Memes / 10 Comments
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Femme Fatale Fridays: Jean Muir

Femme Fatale Fridays: Jean Muir

“A femme fatale, translating to “Deadly Woman” in french, is an alluring, seductive woman whose charms ensnare her lovers in bonds of irresistible desire.  Often this leads them into compromising, dangerous   and deadly situations.” ~ Wikipeda Innocent “19” year old Jean Muir is hired as a governess by the wealthy Coventry family.  She quickly enchants all members […]

Posted October 7, 2010 by Whitney in Femme Fatale / 4 Comments
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Halloween Read-A-Thon

Halloween Read-A-Thon

Another Read-A-Thon for me in the month of October, the Halloween Read-A-Thon hosted by  Lesley at Young Adult Books Reviewed  and is the weekend of October 15-17 Here’s what Lesley says: For this readathon: read Halloween themed stuff. Not necessarily with the day of Halloween, or even the month. None of that (unless you want […]

Posted October 4, 2010 by Whitney in read-a-thon / 2 Comments
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Review: The Girl Who Played With Fire

Review: The Girl Who Played With Fire

I was still on the edge of my seat while reading The Girl Who Played With Fire I did find some of the plot to be rather tangled and the link between Bjurman and the sex trade to be rather poor and took me some time to completely understand it as it wasn’t written in […]

Posted October 3, 2010 by Whitney in Review / 6 Comments
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The Bad Seed Movie Review

The Bad Seed Movie Review

I will never look at little girls with pigtails the same way again.   Rhoda Penmark is an eight year old who if doesn’t get her way goes far beyond a childhood tantrum but resorts to cold-blooded murder, in this case, to obtain a penmenship medal she feels was wrongly awarded to another classmate. Patty McCormack […]

Posted October 2, 2010 by Whitney in movie review / 8 Comments
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Femme Fatale Fridays: Lucy Westenra

Femme Fatale Fridays: Lucy Westenra

“A femme fatale, translating to “Deadly Woman” in french, is an alluring, seductive woman whose charms ensnare her lovers in bonds of irresistible desire.  Often this leads them into compromising, dangerous   and deadly situations.” ~ Wikipeda  Lucy Westenra is a 19 year old from a wealthy family, who I guess you could say, mixed with wrong crowd.  […]

Posted October 1, 2010 by Whitney in Femme Fatale / 6 Comments
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Helluva Halloween II

Helluva Halloween II

Misty at Book Rat is once again hosting Helluva Halloween a month long event (October 1 – 31) to celebrate all things that go bump in the night. Usually I’m like the Cowardly Lion when it comes to spooks but always make an exception for fall, it must be something in the air…

Posted October 1, 2010 by Whitney in Event / 1 Comment
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Bride & Prejudice (2005)

Bride & Prejudice (2005)

Director: Gurinder Chadha Writers: Jane Austen (novel), Paul Mayeda Berges Stars: Martin Henderson, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Nadira Babbar Release Date: March 11, 2005 Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice gets a Bollywood treatment. Maybe it’s because I’ve become accustom to Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy, but I had difficulty with Bride and Prejudice. Bride and Prejudice […]

Posted September 29, 2010 by Whitney in movie review / 9 Comments
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