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this is Trevor Bayne

winning the 2011 Daytona 500

being just 19 years old...

what next?

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Title: This Side of the Grave

Author: Jeaniene Frost

Series: Night Huntress Series

Book #: 5

Pages: 357

Reading Level: Adult

Published Date: Feb 22, 2011.

Publisher:  Avon

Book Rating: .7

Cover Rating: 

Danger waits on both sides of the grave…  

Half-vampire Cat Crawfield and her vampire husband Bones have fought for their lives, as well as for their relationship. But just when they’ve triumphed over the latest battle, Cat’s new and unexpected abilities threaten to upset a long-standing balance…  

With the mysterious disappearance of vampires, rumors abound that a species war is brewing.  A zealot is inciting tensions between the vampires and ghouls, and if these two powerful groups clash, innocent mortals could become collateral damage. Now Cat and Bones are forced to seek help from a dangerous “ally”—the ghoul queen of New Orleans herself. But the price of her assistance may prove more treacherous than even the threat of a supernatural war. …to say nothing of the repercussions Cat never imagined.

Taschima's POV:

This book wasn't what I expected. In some way Ive been waiting so long for this book that I didn't really know what I was expecting but kick butt awesomeness. Not to say this book wasn't totally awesome, it was so worth it, it just wasn't as completely out of my mind awesome like the previous books. Nevertheless, I am going to read it another 4 times!!!

If you haven't read a book in this series then don't read this review, it will be full of possible spoilers. But just one question for that sad person out there who hasn't read this series, what are you waiting for?!

Anyways, the main problem in this book is the possible war between the vampires and the ghouls. One guy got the ghouls all scared because he says that if Cat were to become a vampire/ghoul that then she would be indestructible and the balance scale would fall off balance. He clearly doesn't know Cat. What she wants is for the vampire world to leave her in peace, but that isn't going to happen. Peace is hard to come by, as Cat and Bones are about to find out.

This book was different than the others in a number of ways. It's like everything was a bit on the down side. There wasn't that much epic fighting like in the other books, nor was there as many steamy sections. Also some things didn't make that much sense to me. Like for example, there was a part where Cat drinks the blood of ______ and she keeps the power of said person for a lot more time than I thought she was, also it seemed like they were implying that she would get to KEEP the power, so that didn't make sense to me. But oh well, maybe my remaining questions will be answered in the sequel (out this fall) called One Grave at a Time. I don't know what I'm going to do once this series ends :( Jeaniene, make this series into a T.V. Series!!! If Sookie could so can you! It would be so much better...

I love this series to no end. Even though Cat seemed to be less reckless in this book (it's supposed to be a good thing) I enjoyed it because it still has the main things I love about this series, it's characters and the great laugh out loud quotes. 

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This is another fantastic movie. I love the animation. The animals look like humans! I had to use this scene to practice choosing adjective or adverbs forms within a sentence.



I. First watch the movie segment. Then circle the correct form of the words in parentheses.


1. A lot of guests were walking (calm/calmly) in the garden before the party.

2. Speckles, one of the guinea pigs, can speak English (fluent/fluently)

3. The guinea pigs used very (modern/modernly) gadgets.

4. The man who Darwin, the guinea pig, was observing was wearing (expensive/expensively) clothes.

5. They can swim under the ocean (confident/confidently).

6. They communicate by giving each other (special/specially) information to synchronize their mission.

7. Darwin was a little (nervous/nervously) during the mission.

8. Juarez looked (extreme/extremely) sexy to Darwin's eyes.


II. Write down 2 sentences about the segment using the words below.


1. Intelligent ____________________________

2. Intelligently __________________________

3. Efficient _____________________________

4. Efficiently ____________________________

I.

1 calmly

2 fluently

3 modern

4 expensive

5 confidently

6 special

7 nervous

8 extremely

II. Answers will vary

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Ive got them! After going through a bunch of entries (my eyes hurt) I got the 4 lucky winners, which are:

Britney Wyatt

Crystal

CiNdY

and...

latishajean

I will email you ASAP. Each of your have 48 hours to respond to my email, if you don't I choose another winner.

Have a good one!

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Eric Carlson

Saab

Monte Carlo 1964

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first thing 19 year old Daytona winner Trevor Bayne yelled out  bounding from his car,

This is insane!!

to be in this situation and with the No. 21 car,

right where it belongs, in victory lane.

of course he revered to the legendary star David Pearson,

here in his #21 Mercury way back in 1972 

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I had a great time in Montevideo, Uruguay last week. The city is beautiful and the seminar was rewarding. I want to thank the messages, support and the audience, who cooperated to the successful accomplishment of the presentation's goals. I hope I will be back to Uruguay again soon. Let me know if you were there and how you liked it. Thanks!

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This is my read shelf. 

Behind the James (the skeleton with the maracas) are the Vampire Academy books and the Blue Bloods books. The first shelf is still reserved for Young Adult Vampire books.

Books in this shelf:

Twilight Complete Series

A New Dawn

The Host

House of Night Complete Series

Evernight Complete Series

The Eternal Ones

Vampire Academy Complete Series

Blue Blood Complete Series

Second shelf  is the adult genre. Books in this shelf:

Black Dagger Brotherhood Complete Series

Covet by J.R. Ward

Sookie Stackhouse Complete Series

Night Huntress Complete Series, including the spin off.

Time Traveler's Wife

Minion by L. A. Banks

Gargoyle

The Nanny Diaries and The Nanny Returns

There are so many books here, I won't bore you by naming them all. It's a little blurry, sorry.

The last shelf is reserve for the manga and the books that don't fit on the top.

Books to Read shelf.

Part read shelf and part to read shelf.

The top shelf is filled with books Ive read shelf. The other shelfs are to be read shelves.

My last two shelves are for Dvds. My other obssession.

My newest shelf. I got it from CSN Stores and its beautiful!! A review will be coming up soon.

... and that is all folks. What do you think?

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hard to believe it has been 10 years

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This movie has very funny scenes, but it could be better. This opening scene is very nice and I used it to practice the use of adverbs of frequency, making this grammar point more attractive to deal with.

A. Talk to a partner:

1. Are you married? Do you have a girlfriend (boyfriend)? Talk about him or her.

2. Which activities do you like to do together?

3. Which activities you don't like to do together?

B. Watch the movie segment and read the activities below. Which ones can you see in the segment? Then write sentences saying how often you and your beloved perform them together. Use the adverbs always, often, usually, sometimes, seldom, rarely and never in your sentences

Ex:

1. Ride a bike
We often ride a bike together

2. Vacuum the house

3. clean the house

4. Laugh

5. Go dancing

6. Go to birthday parties

7. Go jogging

8. Work out

9. Talk on the phone

10. Take pictures

C. Now rewrite the sentences above about yourself. How often do you perform them without your partner? Use the following expressions:

Once - Twice - Three, Four, or More Times

A

Day - Week - Month - Year - In a life time

Ex: 1. I ride a bike three times a week.

2. ...........................................

3. ..........................................

4. ..........................................

5. ..........................................













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MOVIE SEGMENT DOWNLOAD - COUPLES RETREAT

Answers will vary

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 Reading level: Young Adult

Hardcover: 368 pages

Publisher: Feiwel & Friends

To Be Released Date: September 13, 2011

SUMMARY (click here)

I... Love... This... COVER! They have always been good, but this one is the BOMB! The white hair, the white dress, it's magical!! The faeries!! The drawing is fantastic, my compliments to the artist. When I do my Best Covers poll for September I bet this one will win!!

The other covers for this series:

Reading level: Young Adult

Hardcover: 336 pages

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

To Be Released Date: June 7, 2011

SUMMARY (click here)

This is the final installment of The Immortals series. They have always had pretty sweet covers, and this one is no ugly duckling. To be totally honest I haven't even read the previous book, just not up up in my pile, but I plan to finish this series!

So which cover wins? Which is the prettiest girl at the ball? ;)

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BMW 3.0 CSL

Brian Redman & Peter Gregg

winners Daytona 24h 1976

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Lotus 23

Carol Quiniou

Brands Hatch

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On sale July 12, 2011.

...So, what do you think? Isn't bad enough that the original series has no end? Or are you glad that they are making even more House of Night books with side characters? Are they doing this because they have a legitimate reason, or are they doing this because many other authors (Richelle Mead, Jeaniene Frost, etc.) have decided to take this route?

I like the cover of the book, but more House of Night? I don't know, it seems a bit too much. It's like more Twilight, only Twilight, in my opinion, is better so I would actually be glad to read it. Speaking of when is Stephenie Meyer going to release the stupid Midnight Sun book? She is being petty I swear to god. RELEASE IT WOMAN, make money, make us happy, be human. Also when is she ever going to write the second installment to The Host? Did her writing brain cells die? I swear sometimes some writers piss me off.

Lots of questions on my part, should make for an interesting debate ;)

Ps; Last day to sign up for the Goodbye 2010 Contest here at Bloody Bookaholic. With over 30 books, what are you waiting for?

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This is sort of a reminder that my last contest will be ending shortly, like tomorrow at midnight. As I said there will be 4 winners. 3 of these winners will win 10 books each and the fourth winner... well it's a surprise! Adds a bit of mystery, ya?

This is  some of the titles that I will be shipping off...

1. The Lost Saint by Bree Despain

2. Desired of the Dead by Kimberly Derting

3. Firelight by Sophie Jordan

4. My Soul to Keep by Rachel Vincent

5. The Ivy by Lauren Kunze & Rina Onur

6. Changeless by Gail Carriger

7. Hero by Mike Lupica

8. Very Valentine by Adriana Trigiani

9. Brava, Valentine by Adriana Trigiani

10. Dead Beautiful by Yvonne Woon

11. Guardian of the Gate by Michelle Zink

12. Suite Scarlett by Maureen Johnson

13. Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard

14. The Season of Risks by Susan Hubbard

15. Splendor by Anna Godbersen

16. The Gift, Witch & Wizard by James Patterson

17. You by Charles Benoit

18. The Enemy by Charlie Higson

19. I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore

20. The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff

21. Vordak the Incomprehensible: How to Grow Up and Rule the World

22. The Steps Across the Water by Adam Copnik

23. Vampires: The Occult Truth

24. Ask Amy Green Boy Trouble by Sarah Webb

25. I'll Get There. It Better Be worth the Trip. by John Donovan

26. Virgin Territory by James Lecesne

27. Dangerous Neighbors by Beth Kephart

28. Plain Kate by Erin Bow

29. Murder Afloat by Jane Leslie Conly

30. Scumble by Ingrid Law

...there will be more. But I won't say names till the contest ends. Buahahahaha *insert evil laugh sound here*

Good luck, and may the force be with you.

PS; yes I'm a dork, what did you expect?

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there is only one JPS Lotus...

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Graham Hill

Ferrari 250 GTO

Goodwood 1964

Cheers Barry!

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