tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-148655002024-03-07T20:42:34.238-06:00I Can Kick Your Ass at Trivial PursuitAnd other excuses for why I suck at math...Queen Kandishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03909692150599777819noreply@blogger.comBlogger601125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14865500.post-78869847670339967662013-01-03T15:47:00.005-06:002013-01-03T15:49:07.526-06:0040 Books for 2012: Roundup<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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margin-bottom:.Queen Kandishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03909692150599777819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14865500.post-67365142798235487612012-03-07T10:48:00.021-06:002012-03-08T10:42:17.493-06:00February Reads: 40 Books for 2012"According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation and when I forgive him for writing a character as pathetic as Oliver Twist, I’ll thank him for the advice."-Jellicoe RoadYes, my reading list is still pretty heavy with the YA selections. The Young Adult genre has simply produced some of the most amazing stories in the last ten years. It’s so different than how I remember Queen Kandishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03909692150599777819noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14865500.post-5806835661643073702012-02-23T11:53:00.002-06:002012-06-21T14:15:22.068-05:00Why aren't you watching The Vampire Diaries?
“There’s no such thing as a bad idea, just poorly executed awesome ones.”
-Damon SalvatoreQueen Kandishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03909692150599777819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14865500.post-49423099748491481232012-02-22T12:59:00.005-06:002012-06-21T14:16:27.202-05:00Something to keep in mind when making your Oscar picks.Via Lindy West:
A Los Angeles Times study found that academy voters are markedly less diverse than the moviegoing public, and even more monolithic than many in the film industry may suspect. Oscar voters are nearly 94% Caucasian and 77% male, the Times found. Blacks are about 2% of the academy, and Latinos are less than 2%. Oscar voters have a median age of 62, the study showed. People younger Queen Kandishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03909692150599777819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14865500.post-17449413448658683192012-02-10T15:18:00.017-06:002012-06-21T14:16:07.596-05:00My Oscar Predictions 2012Geez, when did the Best Picture category get so glutted? I think I agree with most of Roger Ebert's predictions this year. (Though you'll note that I also predict the possible upset where applicable.) Ebert predicts The Artist for Best Picture, which is a perfectly rational guess, based on it's performance at the preceeding award shows. However, I do not have that much faith in the Academy. I Queen Kandishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03909692150599777819noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14865500.post-65210125337054740642012-02-09T14:21:00.006-06:002012-02-09T14:32:37.567-06:00January Reads: 40 Books for 2012#1: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart – Fifteen year-old Frankie is a sophomore at a prestigious prep school who went from ugly duckling to swan over the Summer. She’s acquired a hot senior boyfriend Matthew, and been accepted into his group of friends - except for the secret meetings that Matthew doesn’t tell her about. Frankie manages to infiltrate the secret club Queen Kandishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03909692150599777819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14865500.post-8811984465943854752012-01-19T12:39:00.008-06:002012-01-19T12:59:44.157-06:00December Reads: 50 Books for 201137 books. Sadly, I did not reach my goal of 50 new books for 2011. It’s very likely that I did read 50 books last year, just due to the fact that I’m a re-reading nerd. There are a handful of books that I read over again every single year (the entire Twilight saga – to my utter shame, the first few books of the In Death series, Jennifer Crusie’s Bet Me and Jude Deveraux’s Sweet Liar – just to Queen Kandishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03909692150599777819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14865500.post-59278075529076623662012-01-05T10:03:00.001-06:002012-01-05T10:07:38.945-06:00November Reads: 50 Books for 2011#32: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling - This book is adorable and hilarious, much like Mindy herself. It has excellent advice for how to be a good friend and how to be a hot dude. So basically, it's the best gift book of all time.#33: Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen - I have started this book a dozen times over the years and finally made it over the Queen Kandishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03909692150599777819noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14865500.post-82643309746323051742011-12-28T11:10:00.003-06:002012-06-21T14:22:48.540-05:00This is my ouch face.I poked a hole in my nose. Happy birthday Sally! Now it's your turn!
Queen Kandishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03909692150599777819noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14865500.post-25602761983386487482011-12-14T10:43:00.003-06:002012-06-21T14:22:48.522-05:00A Letter to SantaCooper's Christmas wish list as dictated to his 11 year-old aunt. God forbid Santa leave some non-shiny coins in his stocking.
Queen Kandishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03909692150599777819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14865500.post-5558854489487514142011-11-17T17:30:00.010-06:002011-11-23T12:14:27.809-06:00October Reads: 50 Books for 2011It was a YA-tastic October! For no reason at all, and completely by accident, all of the books I finished in October were from the Young Adult genre. Okay, it wasn’t completely by accident as two of the selections were for the Forever YA book club I joined.#28: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak - Is a 576 page tome about an orphan, her foster family, and the Jew hidden in their basement in Nazi Queen Kandishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03909692150599777819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14865500.post-71581805986124000612011-11-17T08:53:00.002-06:002012-06-21T14:17:13.337-05:00It happened to me.Queen Kandishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03909692150599777819noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14865500.post-45166412554343846952011-10-26T10:19:00.006-05:002011-10-26T10:39:25.170-05:00“You're dead, dude. Get over it.”So my current obsession is vampires. And you’re like “You? No! That’s crazy talk.” But no, REALLY, YOU GUYS. The Vampire Diaries is currently in its third season, and it is so insanely good, that I can’t even stop talking about it. The energy and pacing is amazing. They throw so many huge plot twists and new developments into every single episode, that it’s like sweeps week all the time.In the Queen Kandishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03909692150599777819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14865500.post-31047318614126012092011-10-12T11:08:00.003-05:002011-10-26T10:35:41.519-05:00September Reads: 50 Books for 2011Okay, I can promise I read more than one book in the month of September. I did a bit of a re-reading and then also read a big chunk of The Book Thief for Forever Young Adult book club, but that post will be in the October round-up.#27: Succubus Revealed by Richelle Mead - They finally get the cover art right and it's the last damn book in the series. Succubus Georgina Kincaid finally finds what Queen Kandishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03909692150599777819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14865500.post-539268853661046892011-10-12T10:54:00.012-05:002011-11-30T11:41:29.000-06:00August Reads: 50 Books for 2011#22: Eye of the Tempest by Nicole Peeler – I was SO excited for this fourth installment in the Jane True series. I’ve been dying for Jane to get together with the big hulking barghest that she has a thing for, but epic forces of good and evil keep getting in the way. Jane basically gets sent on a quest for the holy grail (substitute: powerful relic) and has to decide whether she really wants to Queen Kandishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03909692150599777819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14865500.post-79982051478438441652011-09-28T15:10:00.001-05:002012-06-21T14:22:48.534-05:00Having a bad day?This makes everything better.
Queen Kandishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03909692150599777819noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14865500.post-3274816573669079392011-09-12T17:42:00.017-05:002012-06-21T14:22:00.481-05:00The Little MissusI've been giving some thought to weddings and marriage since this week I celebrate my eleventh wedding anniversary (I may even let Rob celebrate too). And then this post by Andrea Grimes got me thinking (and okay, a little bit defensive) about the long-held, and somewhat outdated tradition of women taking their husband's name when marrying. I made my decision a long time ago, and have Queen Kandishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03909692150599777819noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14865500.post-16437418362242499242011-09-08T12:04:00.020-05:002011-10-26T10:35:26.297-05:00July Reads: 50 Books for 2011I was an urban fantasy devouring fiend in July.#15: Tracking the Tempest by Nicole Peeler – The second book in the Jane True series takes adorable Jane out of her small coastal Maine town and into the big city to visit her vampire boyfriend and fight big bad evil. (While cracking jokes and sporting Converse of course.)#16: Tempest’s Legacy by Nicole Peeler – The third book in the Jane True seriesQueen Kandishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03909692150599777819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14865500.post-19999518806274600792011-07-21T09:57:00.010-05:002011-10-26T10:36:50.111-05:00June Reads: 50 Books for 2011For some reason my reading picks up in the Summer. So I managed three new books in June (and some re-reads of course) and July is looking even better. Yay! My credit card bill? Not looking so good.#12: Spoiled by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan - The fug girls wrote a book! The best celebrity fashion bloggers on the internet wrote a young adult novel, and it's fantastic. Brooke and Molly, who Queen Kandishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03909692150599777819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14865500.post-47215550905187707592011-07-21T09:48:00.005-05:002013-04-08T11:21:22.643-05:00Life List (100 Things I Want to Do)Vacation in Hawaii
Take a photography class
Meet John Prine
Travel Scotland
See castles
Eat an In-N-Out burger
Have dinner in Little Italy
Go shopping at the Alight store in NYC
Have a Nathan’s hot dog on Coney Island
Visit Bremerton, Washington
Go on a cruise
Pay off all of our credit cards
Have my kitchen remodeled
Buy a Volkswagen Beetle
Have a swimming pool
Write a novel
Drive across the U.S.Queen Kandishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03909692150599777819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14865500.post-71949108004756783442011-07-05T17:31:00.003-05:002011-10-26T10:29:24.972-05:00"Eulogy on the Flapper"I've never gotten around to reading any Zelda Fitzgerald, but after reading this quote from an article she wrote in Metropolitan Magazine, I think I must.The Flapper awoke from her lethargy of sub-deb-ism, bobbed her hair, put on her choicest pair of earrings and a great deal of audacity and rouge and went into the battle. She flirted because it was fun to flirt and wore a one-piece bathing suit Queen Kandishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03909692150599777819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14865500.post-14387558027304025252011-06-15T17:27:00.004-05:002011-10-26T10:34:02.354-05:00May Reads: 50 Books for 2011May was another slow month as far as my book list. I'm very irriated with myself. Luckily I'm already making a lot more progress in June.#11: Indulgence in Death by J.D. Robb (Nora Roberts) - This is the 31st novel of the In Death series. Honest to God. 31 books. And the main character, Eve Dallas, who is mostly a kick-ass homicide cop in futuristic New York City, is finally learning how to deal Queen Kandishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03909692150599777819noreply@blogger.com0