The Sneaker Coloring Book

I bought the Sneaker Coloring Book (16.36) on Amazon recently. Why doesn't like a good wholesome colouring book, and such a novel topic at that.

I'm no sneaker fanatic, but I do like looking at the pictures and making up cooler combinations that whats usually in stores.

In the corner of each drawing is information of the model, company and year released. It also has a spot for the colourist's name and the date it was finished.

13 Reasons Why Movie

I recently went to the teen lit conference in Denver and Jay Asher was one of the keynote speakers. (Side note, he's  really cool and I liked him) During his speech he said he was talking to Selina Gomez about adapting his book 13 Reasons Why (or Th1rteen R3asons Why) into a movie (with Gomez as Hanah). I'm not interested to see any book as a movie, I just don't see is as necessary, but I'm really pessimistic about this one. The story telling style is what makes the book so great, how would they translate that? The shift between Clay and Hanah is signified by italics and normal. How would they show this in the movie? I guess some pro director could figure it out, but it could easily be messed up. Its also a really emotional novel, which is easy to portray in the written format; you just tell the readers how to feel, but if you watch a person, the viewer may not see all the emotions. 

Weekend Plans

I totally stole this idea from One Sheepish Girl. Mine is different because I used an overly decorative filter and I'm not as good at staging.
 I'm on spring break now so really I have many plans for the entire week, but whatever. Hopefully I will be able to blog about the interesting ones next week.

1. I'm going to the teen lit conference (in Denver) next weekend. The keynote speakers are Lauren Oliver and Jay Asher. I've read all of Asher's but I have yet to read Oliver's 4 thick books. So far I don't really like the writing style of Before I Fall but I'll finish it.
2. I really need to stop eves dropping on other kid's conversations about college. One girl I heard said she already has a list of her top 4 colleges. I just have hand outs and random lists. Colleges are still mailing me, so I'll sort through the stack this weekend.
3. I still don't have film so I want to look at Wallgreens this weekend. I admit I'm kind of scared to use this camera. I kind of abuse the fact that you can take hundreds of bad photos on digital cameras, then save one. I don't know how good I would be, not being able to see how my pictures turn out until I pay for them.
4. I think this pattern is from How to Sew Stuffed animals. You may be able to guess the shape now, but I want to surprise you when I finish.

Frankenstein

Prometheus a Titan tortured by Zeus for stealing lightning and giving it to man
Ascribed to credit as a cause or source
Excultation exulting lively or triumphant joy
Epithets a word or phrase applied to a person to describe an attributed quality
Machinations crafty schemes, plots
Deposed to testify under oath
Physiognomy the face or countenance

a church yard to me was merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life (46)

Summer Reading List

Okay I realize summer is half way over, but I created a summer reading list:

       Lord of the Flies

       Emma/ Jane Austin

 Conrad, Joseph, Heart of Darkness

       Forster, E.M., A Passage to India

      Wilde, Oscar, Picture of Dorian Gray

      Woolf, Virginia, A Room of One's Own

       One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey

       Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

   Hugo: Les Miserables

   Adams: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

   Geeks by Jon Katz

   Bless Me, Ultima by Rudofo Anaya

  The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

  One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Life of Pi by Yann Martel 

 Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt

(Excuse the horrible format, lets just blame bloggers new editor.)
I'm reading Lord of the Flies for school, but I found all the other books on recommended summer reading lists. I'm making a tentative goal to be on the computer less and read more, so wish me luck.

Hunger Games (Fantasy) Casting

Katniss- Vanessa Marano

I don't know that many actresses so I had to google "Olive skin actress" and I find a lot of hunger game and casting things. Like this is the first time any one has looked for an olive skinned actress? So this one may be the lames on the list. Any way she is badass.
Prim- Elle Fanning

 The younger of the Fanning sisters though she is now 13, she comes to mind when I think "young blond actress" (I don't know that many actors)

(their mom)

Gale

Peta

Haymich- Brendan Gleeson

I always imagined Haymich as a large Irish guy.

Effie

Okay I give up. Link me to your lists and show me up.

Friday Favourites #1

I've seen this on several blogs and I thought I'd give it a try.

I think matching tattoos are so cute if they actually make scene. 

(Via ...here!)

 I truly intend to make this

(Tutorial here)

I am also organizing my books this week like the rainbow one at the bottom.

(Low on this page)

I will steal this idea, this person draws everything they eat for a week.

(sorry this only links to Fliker but here)