tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85781459790475659362024-03-06T09:58:13.417+13:00 ad majorem dei gloriamBethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17996539581546622108noreply@blogger.comBlogger108125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578145979047565936.post-15169037315476849952015-04-18T14:09:00.001+12:002015-04-18T14:09:35.456+12:00hello<div style="text-align: center;">
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You know what? I've been neglecting this blog shamefully, so I've decided to take a break from it because life is too full to write the kind of posts I'd like to...you know, long rambly movie reviews and so on. But my <a href="http://musicandmnms.blogspot.co.nz/">other blog</a>, you will be pleased to know, will be fully operational. Posts will be more of the quick-update kind. Hope you all don't mind! Thanks for reading my blogs and commenting and all, I really appreciate it:) Adieu!</div>
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Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17996539581546622108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578145979047565936.post-88091773602244130442015-03-19T21:03:00.002+13:002015-03-19T21:03:30.947+13:00I'm still hereI know, I know, I haven't posted in a while. Sincerest apologies, but, well, life, you know. Also right now I'm watching the Return of the King.<br />
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~ reading<br />
a very interesting biography of Napoleon<br />
Micah<br />
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Les Mis<br />
Lord of the Rings<br />
Dolphin Tale 2<br />
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~ writing<br />
essays for school<br />
TLH when I have the time<br />
~ thinking<br />
about writing another book<br />
about how history repeats itself<br />
how to do vectors without having a fit<br />
how to do messy buns without getting terrible knots in my hair<br />
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that I could sing like Birdy<br />
that i had more time for writing<br />
that life was simpler<br />
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COFFEE!!!!<br />
chocolate<br />
singing anything and everything<br />
my high heeled ankle boots.....<br />
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~waiting<br />
for winter<br />
for Easter Youth camp!!<br />
for Mockingjay part 2 to come out.....<br />
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I received a letter from an amazing friend of mine the other day. It was long and scribbly and beautiful and it was so good to hear from her, I haven't seen her for <i>ages. </i>She encouraged me to do several things this year. Step out of my comfort zone. (I'm not known for taking risks.) Take every opportunity. Have adventures. Do you know what? I can do that because God gives me His strength. If you ask me, that's pretty awesome. Love you, C!</div>
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<br />Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17996539581546622108noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578145979047565936.post-21020182609909583482015-02-04T16:43:00.001+13:002015-02-04T16:43:15.296+13:00in which i prove that i am still alive<div>
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Guys. Guys. Guys. She got the Les Mis highlights soundtrack CD for her birthday!!!!</div>
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After all our schoolwork was done today we spent the afternoon having a karaoke party, speakers at full blast. We're idiots. But rather lovable ones, I hope:-)</div>
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She and I are no longer attending school. We shall be homeschooled forever.</div>
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I got a job, and I passed my exams!!</div>
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SW at A Free Mind<br />
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Naomi Bennet at Wonderland Creek<br />
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Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17996539581546622108noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578145979047565936.post-70822650442861217192015-01-05T15:52:00.000+13:002015-01-05T15:52:44.427+13:00new year tag...<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.6666660308838px;">I already did a new year's post, but I've noticed this new year's tag a few times and thought I'd finally give it a go even though it's terribly long:-)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.6666660308838px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What did you do in 2014 that you'd never done before?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.6666660308838px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Er. Lots. I spent a night in hospital and went to a youth camp and on a trip to Auckland and stuff....</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.6666660308838px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Did you keep your New Years' resolutions, and will you make one this year?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.6666660308838px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If I made any, I've forgotten them now:-D</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.6666660308838px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But I have thought about some goals this year:</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.6666660308838px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">~ Work really hard at school, pass my exams including piano.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.6666660308838px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">~ Make new friends and grow closer to old ones</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.6666660308838px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">~ Try new things, have adventures, be braver</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.6666660308838px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">~ Grow closer to God </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.6666660308838px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">~ Be more patient and think of others first</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.6666660308838px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">~ Go ice skating, just because.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.6666660308838px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Did anyone close to you give birth?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.6666660308838px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lots of ladies in my church. My best friend's mum had a baby girl. She's adorable:)</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.6666660308838px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Did anyone close to you die?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.6666660308838px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">No...unless you count Finnick Odair.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.6666660308838px;">hahaha. None. Except NZ and I already live here.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.6666660308838px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What would you like to have in 2015 that you lacked in 2014?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.6666660308838px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Maybe a job, my learners licence, more time and motivation to write, more time in general. I want 2015 to go very slowly...:-D More time to pray.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.6666660308838px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What date from 2014 will remain etched upon your memory?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.6666660308838px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh goodness. 25th July: friendship anniversary. 3rd Oct: I turned 16. 16th Nov: I professed my faith. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.6666660308838px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Nope!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.6666660308838px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What was your biggest achievement of the year?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.6666660308838px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I finished a book! </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.6666660308838px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What was your biggest failure?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.6666660308838px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ehhh....don't ask. There's not one huge thing but lots of little things I feel I failed in, chances I would like to have again to do something different.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.6666660308838px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Yep. Lots of colds/flu and knee surgery.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.6666660308838px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Maybe my Paris tote bag. I don't buy a lot of things...</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.6666660308838px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Whose behaviour merited celebration?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.6666660308838px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My parents have been awesome, they put up with a lot and they give really good advice. My friends and Bible teachers, people who come to our house group. They're amazing.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.6666660308838px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mine. And the human race's in general. :-/</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.6666660308838px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I went shopping a few times. I don't know, really. Stamps, candy, clothes...</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.6666660308838px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What did you get really, really, really excited about?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.6666660308838px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Camp. Sleepovers. Birthday celebrations and school this year.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.6666660308838px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Well, my mum and sister and I played in a concert with an official band and we stayed to watch the rest of the programme afterwards. They'r pretty good.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.6666660308838px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh, too many. Les Mis, Let Her Go by Passenger, Brooke Fraser's album Flags, Safe and Sound ( from the Hunger Games credits--Taylor Swift)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.6666660308838px;"> Maybe a little bit of both. I think that because of sadness, my happiness has had to come from inside and be deeper than just on the surface.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.6666660308838px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> I don't know, and I'd like to say I don't care, but hopefully thinner. I think I might have got thinner over being in hospital and stuff.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.6666660308838px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> About the same. Maybe richer. I've had a few babysitting jobs and things this year, and I'm rich in the things that count.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.6666660308838px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Study. Writing. Drawing. Exercise.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.6666660308838px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Arguing. Staying up late and browsing on Pinterest.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.6666660308838px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What was your greatest musical discovery?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.6666660308838px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Les Miserables. the end.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">How did you spend Christmas?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> We went to a service at church, had a barbecue at our friends' place, then went to my oma's in the evening and some aunties and uncles came over too.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">How are you spending New Year's?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"> Watched the extended version of the Fellowship of the Ring, ate olie bollen, counted down the seconds to the new year and introduced my parents to Studio C.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Who did you spend the most time on the phone with?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Probably Captain America and my amazing friend Caroline.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What was the best book you read?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Les Mis for theme and The Book Thief for style.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Did you fall in love in 2014?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Well, that's a little bit intense. Wouldn't you like to know?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Do fictional characters count? </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> According to Naomi, yes they do, but the list is too long for this post:-P</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What was your favourite TV show?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Err...The Block NZ or Masterchef Australia.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What did you want and get?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> A fat copy of Les Mis. To see Mockingjay. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What did you want and not get?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Er, I don't know. A trip to Europe.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What were your favourite films of this year?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> ~Les Mis</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">~THG</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">~Frozen</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">~Courageous</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">~Eragon</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">~Star Wars</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">That is, my favourite movies that I watched this year, not that came out.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Sixteen and had a party with a bunch of friends:)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2014?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">At home, anything goes. Blues and grays and lace, pink lip gloss....vintage-y and pretty but nothing over the top.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What kept you sane?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">The Lord. I mean, there was nothing so terrible that I felt <i>in</i>sane, but He certainly kept me calm.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy most?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> I don't know. :-/</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> I'm happy with the way it was but I would like to have done more writing.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What political issue stirred you the most?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> NZ government voting to legalize gay marriage. I guess. Was that last year?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Who did you miss?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> ~Katherine</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> ~Caroline</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"> ~Jessica</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"> ~various other people who live far from me for some reason...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Who was the best person you met?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> I don't know...</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tell a valuable life lesson you learned in 2014.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Focus on pleasing God first and don't stress about pleasing everyone else. Always be optimistic and find something to laugh at wherever you go. Keep an open mind but be careful of what people try to tell you. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> "The summers die one by one, how soon they fly on and on...."</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> ~ Bring Him Home/les miserables</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Five personally significant events of 2014:</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Oh dear.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Camp in June, Auckland trip at Easter, surgery in December, pof in November,......that's only four.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Five things I want to do in 2015:</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> ~Learn</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> ~Grow</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> ~Write</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> ~Run</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> ~Drive</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">People I'd like to know better in 2015:</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My friends, especially the ones who live far away.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> More boring stuff all about me:-) Feel free to do this tag. Hopefully I will be posting a review of Mockingjay part 1 soon, which may be my last post of the summer holidays. We'll see.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Have a blessed New Year!!</span></span><br />
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It's come around super fast and it's going to be one exciting year. I'm going to high school, and I've never set foot in a classroom before. And now I'm going to a school with 1400 students. Yikes. But I want to learn lots and grow in different ways and still make time for my hobbies and most importantly, grow in my relationship with God. He's shown and taught me so much this year and I know this year is going to be just as amazing. One thing I've learned is that people may let you down but God <i>never does.</i> He never changes. He is the same yesterday, today and forever. I've become more aware of His hand in my life and I believe He is testing me by throwing me these changes. And I'm really, really excited. I thought I'd post some photos not just from this year but from past years too. Always good for a laugh;-)</div>
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I did heaps of things last year that I've never done before. I went to a youth camp, I had my hair cut in a concave bob (it's grown out now), I did two exams over four days, had knee surgery, countless sleepovers with that blonde person and my sister (insane things. went to her place, then went out to another friend's party, got back to E's house and watched Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. At eleven o'clock.) Watched fireworks on Ems' birthday, Built a barricade in Bff's rumpus room and slept in it. Went stargazing and camped out, ate way too much candy. actually, I've eaten way too much candy this year. Went to the movies to celebrate the anniversary of our friendship. Turned 16, wrote a book, started two more. Changed my blog look. Discovered Studio C. Professed my faith before our congregation. Discovered and fell in love with Les Miserables and the Hunger Games, (books and movies) and consequently became less afraid of writing sad and scary. Performed at a brass band concert. Came up with silly nicknames for just about everyone I know. Ems is Elimelech. Lukie is Lucas Skywalker. BFF is Miss Flimsy, Captain America, Blondie and who knows what else. Oh yes, and we discovered Star Wars. Learned the art of fangirling and discovered Eragon. Not a lot of really exciting things, but I'm sure more are in the future.</div>
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I know it's not today, but I'm likely to be busy on Thursday, or whichever day it will be for all my foreign friends:-) Love you all and have a blessed Christmas!!!!</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">I started out blogging about my hobbies: reading, cooking, sewing, French, and so on. My blog was called An Accomplished Young Lady. But I soon ran out of ideas for posts so I decided on a new name and a new look and a new, more general purpose for my blog. It's now called Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam (for the greater glory of God) because that's what I want its purpose to be and it also means I can blog about everything I love:) Especially as my tastes and hobbies have changed a bit over the years. Anyways.</span></div>
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Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17996539581546622108noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578145979047565936.post-42668834679928127772014-12-13T15:47:00.003+13:002014-12-13T15:47:46.198+13:00The hunger games ~ a review<div style="text-align: center;">
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Sorry it took me so long to actually review this, but I wanted to watch it again so I could review it properly. Which I did, on the laptop at about nine o'clock at night, in bed with a bandaged knee. Just got home from hospital a couple of days before. :-) Watching this on your own is actually quite intimidating, especially when it's on your lap! I pushed it away a couple of times.</div>
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I was really keen to see this and see if it would <strike>not ruin</strike> do justice to one of my favourite modern book series ever. I devoured the books in about a week flat (read my review <a href="http://bethcreative.blogspot.co.nz/2014/06/the-hunger-games-review.html">here</a> ). So I'm sure we all know the basic synopsis ( if you don't, it's in my book review:)) so I might just focus on my impression of the movie. Shall we start with the things I didn't like?<br />
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They left out Madge. Madge Undersee, the mayor's daughter, owned the pin. It was passed down to her by her mother, and Madge gave it to Katniss to wear in the arena. Katniss did not find it in the Hob or give it to Prim telling her that it would protect her. I did notice, though, that Prim wore the pin at the reaping, which was kind of cool. I just wish they'd left Madge in, not just because I ship her and Gale;-)</div>
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What else did I not like? Nothing major. They left out things like the Avoxes. Peeta losing his leg. But some of the subtractions (can I put it like that) were actually good. Like Katniss was allowed to actually wear her robe when she met Cinna, and she didn't have to wash all of Peeta's clothes when he was sick in the arena. Anyway.</div>
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Right from the start, Jennifer Lawrence and Liam Hemsworth <i>were </i>Katniss and Gale. I could never imagine anyone else playing them ever. This first scene with them was really well done (except the shaky camera throughout the movie really annoyed me--maybe it's supposed to make you tense?) and it was really close to the book. I love how Gale refuses to conform to the Capitol. </div>
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At the beginning, Prim's nightmare about being chosen kind of gave it away that she <i>would</i> be chosen. Whereas in the book it's a total surprise. The reaping scene really made me think. Would I take my sister's place and choose death rather than have her killed?</div>
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I don't think Katniss stopped to think about it. Her natural impulse has always been to protect Prim.</div>
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Ah, Effie. One of the things about the movie that actually cheered me up. Her outfits and her hair......</div>
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I thought Katniss's flashbacks about Peeta giving her the bread would be confusing if you hadn't read the book. And he actually tossed her two loaves, not one. I'm so pedantic. </div>
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He looks so stunned when his name is called.</div>
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Josh Hutcherson <i>is</i> Peeta. Even though I'm not sure whether his eyes are blue and his hair certainly isn't wavy. He got his character spot-on. </div>
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Prim and Mrs. Everdeen. They look quite alike, as they do in the book, while Katniss resembles her father. Prim is so, so sweet in the goodbye scene.</div>
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"Maybe you can win. You can hunt."</div>
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Katniss tells her mother to take care of Prim and orders her not to do what she did when her father died. In a way, as she hugs her goodbye and tells her not to cry, you can tell that she really wants her mother to comfort her but she doesn't know how to let her. </div>
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They left out the part where Gale says, "Katniss, remember I--" and is then shut out. </div>
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Haymitch. I love Haymitch in an exasperated sort of way. He was a bit of comic relief, but under the drunkenness was a man who was damaged by the Games in his youth and has never been able to forget. He has been forced to mentor two kids every year and then watch them die.</div>
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Peeta: "We were just talking about how to find shelter."</div>
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Haymitch: "Which would come in handy if in fact you <i>were</i> still alive."</div>
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The Capitol people were pretty weird, like something out of Star Wars. Am I the only one who subconsciously calls the Peacekeepers stormtroopers?</div>
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See what I mean? Weird. That lady's eyelashes haunt me :-D</div>
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I think the parade was pretty good. I don't remember President Snow being there in the book for some reason, but I really loved the anthem. I have it on mp3 and it's really cool:-)</div>
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I loved Cinna! He was one of my favourite characters in the book, though I think he was a little older in the movie. He did have gold eyeliner though.The costumes were pretty amazing. </div>
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The first time Cato glared at her, it scared me. He was really brutal. Fighting someone in the Training Centre over a misplaced knife, and turns out Rue had it :-)</div>
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I was glad they showed Thresh smiling at Rue. It showed he actually did care about her even though he left her to fend for herself in the arena. The tributes didn't have identical training outfits in the book, but whatever. And Peeta didn't show the Careers that he could throw a weight in the book either, but I guess it helped explain why they chose him as an ally later on. I loved how each of the girls had her own hairstyle.<br />
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The interviews were nearly word-for-word. Katniss's interview gown was considerably different from the one in the book, which was covered in gems, but this one was still pretty gorgeous and the flames were amazing!<br />
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And then Peeta's unexpected announcement--which may or may not have been true....:-)<br />
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Was Katniss not the least bit flattered? No, she had to go and slam Peeta into a wall right after he professed his love for her. At least his hands didn't get cut on a broken vase like they did in the book. There are times when Katniss annoys me, but I guess if I was going to be killed in the Hunger Games I wouldn't be very convivial either. But how can you not like Peeta?<br />
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The roof scene was one of Peeta's best and one of my favourites. Peeta is worried that the Games will change him and he doesn't want that to happen. Katniss is only worried about surviving and getting home to Prim, but Peeta sees the bigger picture.<br />
"If I'm going to die, I want to still be me."<br />
The time leading up to the launch was tense. The hovercraft ride and the trackers injected into the tributes' arms. Ouch. I must say, when I was in hospital, that's what I thought about when they put the drip in:-D<br />
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I don't know why her mockingjay pin had to be a secret. I mean, in the book they were allowed to wear tokens from their district. I have to say, I was really nervous when she was in the tribute tube. It was neat how you got to see the Gamemakers at work, but it also showed how they didn't really care about the tributes. They could do anything to them at the touch of a button. Scary.<br />
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The bloodbath scene was scary. The Careers are so, so ruthless and I hate the part where Cato kills the tiny boy with curly blonde hair. He was so cute and young:-(<br />
Katniss escapes with a backpack (with Clove's knife stuck in it) and flees the Cornucopia. She manages to find water pretty quickly and soon traps a rabbit for dinner. When she hears the Careers coming she stamps it out and climbs a tree. Nearby a girl is making a fire so, of course, they find her and kill her. The scream:-(<br />
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Apparently Katniss gets too close to the edge of the arena so the Gamemakers manufacture a forest fire to bring her closer to the Careers, where the Capitol viewers will be guaranteed to an entertaining fight. Katniss gets badly burned but still manages to climb a tree to escape Cato, Clove, Glimmer, Marvel, and.......shock.horror. Peeta!<br />
A parachute comes from Haymitch containing burn cream for her leg and hands. I love how Haymitch always put notes with the parachutes e.g. "Drink up and stay alive."<br />
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She wakes to see Rue pointing to something above her head and realizes it is a nest of deadly tracker jacker wasps. She uses Clove's knife to cut it down and it bursts open in the middle of the sleeping Careers. This part was horrible, Glimmer dies and her body swells up from the bites. As much as I hate the bloodthirsty Careers, I couldn't help pitying them when they died. Katniss manages to get the coveted bow and arrows from Glimmer's hand and escapes when Peeta bursts through the trees yelling at her to go. She has startling hallucinations brought on by the tracker jacker venom and when she wakes she finds that Rue has been taking care of her for a couple of days.<br />
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The two girls form an alliance. They plan to destroy the Careers' food supply. The little girl who played Rue did an amazing job. She was exactly as I pictured her in the book and I really loved her:)<br />
Katniss figures out that the Careers have reactivated the mines around the Cornucopia and watches Foxface navigate them to steal food. The Careers have been distracted and drawn away by the green wood fires Rue built, so Katniss shoots down some apples and the mines blow one by one until all their supplies are destroyed. Cato, of course, is furious. "So people really do tear out their hair and bang the ground with their fists...."<br />
He didn't quite do that, but he did kill the boy from District 3. Cato really is a brute.<br />
Meanwhile, Katniss is worried about Rue, who she finally finds entangled in a net. In the book Rue had already been speared by Marvel before Katniss got there, and it was awful to watch it actually happen. Katniss shoots Marvel (thankfully he doesn't try to pull out the arrow like he did in the book. Not a good idea).<br />
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Isn't this perfect? A Little Fall of Rain/Hunger Games....:')<br />
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It was quite neat that they had Katniss sing the song to Prim in the beginning to comfort her after her nightmare. It made it twice as heartbreaking when she sang it to Rue because it wasn't just a dream. I loved the tune they put to it, and yes, I did cry.<br />
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Then comes the announcement that both tributes from the same district can win, which immediately sends Katniss off looking for Peeta, who is no longer with the Careers.<br />
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And she finds him in a riverbank. "Well, don't step on me."<br />
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Pretty amazing camouflage. Cato stabbed him in the leg with his sword and the wound has become infected. Peeta can barely walk so they find shelter in a cave. Peeta talks about how he loves her but neither of them can be sure whether it is true or just an act for the cameras, which are on them everywhere in the arena. Stubbornly, Peeta refuses to let Katniss go to the feast at the Cornucopia even though it means she can get medicine to save him. The broth they received in a parachute from Haymitch wasn't enough.<br />
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But when Peeta falls into a feverish sleep, Katniss goes anyway, because she knows he will die if the wound isn't treated. Foxface manages to get her backpack before anyone else but as soon as Katniss sets off running to get hers she is attacked by Clove.<br />
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Katniss is overpowered after she grabs her backpack and Clove is about to kill her when she is grabbed by Thresh, who heard her cruelly teasing Katniss about Rue. He kills Clove (quickly, thankfully, unlike the book....but I wish they'd shown Cato coming to her rescue and begging her to stay with him. That was a really sad part in the book:( Even though those two were horrible.) Thresh lets Katniss go, because of Rue, and she makes it back to the cave with a nasty gash in her forehead. She and Peeta apply the precious ointment(in the book it was a syringe of medicine) to their wounds and when in the morning they are almost fully healed, they begin to be optimistic about making it back home.<br />
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"What's that?"<br />
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Because the audience must have an entertaining fight to the death instead of watching tributes sneak around hunting in the woods. It gets dark very quickly (a trick of the Gamemakers) and suddenly a pack of wolf mutts (genetically altered animals made by the Capitol) is upon them, forcing all three to flee to the Cornucopia. Peeta's leg wound doesn't seem to be bothering him at all (it was much worse in the book.)<br />
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Pictures of this scene are astonishingly scarce (this is just a YouTube still) but that's okay because this scene was pretty gruesome. Cato is already there and tries to push them over the edge. He catches Peeta in a headlock, slowly choking him, while Katniss debates whether to shoot or not. They could both fall if she does. Then come some lines from Cato that actually mean something. "Go ahead, shoot. Then we both go down and you win. I'm dead anyway. I always was, right? I can still do this. Just one more kill. It's all I know how to do."<br />
Don't know if Cato felt any remorse for what he'd done, but he did know what he was. It was kind of sad. Peeta points to an unprotected spot on Cato's hand, signalling at Katniss to shoot. She does, and Cato falls down into the pack of wolf mutts. Katniss manages to catch Peeta before he falls and they huddle on the Cornucopia shivering and listening while Cato is dying. Eventually Katniss can't stand to listen anymore, and when Cato calls out "Please!" she shoots him to end his misery.<br />
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Morning comes and so does an announcement. The new rule about two tributes being allowed to live has been revoked, and now one of them must kill the other. Peeta is willing to die but of course neither of them will even think of killing the other. Katniss brings out the poisonous berries when Peeta says, "They have to have a victor."<br />
Katniss: "No they don't. Why should they?"<br />It's a bluff, pretending to eat the berries and commit suicide, but the frantic voice of the announcer stops them before they eat them. Both of them are proclaimed the victors, and the hovercraft comes to transport them back to the glamourous Capitol, where they are hailed as the winners.<br />
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Another interview with Caesar Flickerman. President Snow is angry at Katniss's supposed act of rebellion by getting out the berries, and Haymitch warns her that her only defence for her defiance of the Capitol is her madly-in-love-with-Peeta act, so that is how they have to act from now on. Problem is, on Peeta's side it isn't an act, so Haymitch doesn't need to coach him, and Katniss has been so traumatized by the Games that she doesn't know how she feels. She did what she did in order to survive and get back to her family, but it isn't that simple. In the book the interview scene was actually really sad, because that's when Katniss first finds out that Peeta has lost his leg.<br />
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When President Snow crowns them as victors, Katniss knows that he is going to be watching her from now on ever since her act of rebellion that nearly ruined his precious weapon, the Hunger Games.<br />
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Then they return home to District 12 where everyone celebrates their win. And President Snow starts thinking about how to punish her.<br />
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The following pictures are my favourite. They make me so happy:)<br />
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I love Gale and Prim's big-brother-little-sister relationship. It's so sweet.<br />
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So, what do you guys think of the Hunger Games? Thoughts and comments welcome!! I really loved this movie and thought it was a good adaptation even though The Book Is Always Better:)<br />
Oh, and I watched Catching Fire the other night........... it was amazing:) Review coming up in the near future (hopefully:-D)<br />
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Oh yes, the announcement. So I haven't posted in a wee while because this past week I had knee surgery (not fun), had a night in hospital and I just got home on Wednesday. But that's not the announcement. The announcement is that my sister and I are going off to school next year!!! Yes, I will be taking years 12 and 13 at high school. Scary. Exciting. So I will not be able to post as regularly (haha) as I normally do or as I'd like to. Don't worry, I still plan to keep up my blog, I will just be posting less frequently:-)</div>
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(I'm excited about school cause I get to do music. and sewing. and drama.:-D)</div>
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Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17996539581546622108noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578145979047565936.post-22447529604635393312014-11-28T15:20:00.001+13:002014-11-28T15:20:40.774+13:00Famous People Tag!!<div style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.7900009155273px; text-align: center;">
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My sister <a href="http://castleonnzcloud.blogspot.co.nz/">Ains</a> gave me the Famous People Tag!! It looks really fun:-) </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">-Tag the ten last people who commented on your blog (excluding anonymous or the person who tagged you)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">#1 Who's your favourite singer/group?</span></div>
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Brooke Fraser. Not just because she's a Kiwi:-)</div>
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These guys are my favourite singing group. And yes, they're better than One Direction.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">#2 If your favourite male actor was in the same room as you right now, what would your reaction be? </span></span></div>
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And get their autographs. </div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I don't think so....</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">#4 Name a famous person you like who's name starts with a V.</span></div>
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That would be Viggo Mortensen. Couldn't think of anyone else beginning with V that I actually liked.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">#5 What's one of your favourite red-carpet dresses?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Only one?</span></div>
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I love both of these....:-)</div>
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AnnaSophia Robb and Bethany Hamilton</div>
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The Queen. She's amazing.</div>
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And Princess Kate. I've been told that I have Kate Middleton hair. Which is quite a compliment because her hair is gorgeous!!</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">#7 Who's your favourite child actor/tress?</span></div>
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Abigail Breslin. She was super cute in Chestnut (above) and Nim's Island (below)</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">#8 Is there an actor/actress you actually like their private lives of? </span><span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">(Not sure if that last question was properly phrased.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">I was going to say Aaron Tveit but that's only because he is on no social media for privacy and I have no idea what his private life is like. I don't really know!</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">#9 Do you think that the actors/actresses have improved these last 100 years?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">#10 What's the weirdest famous-people name?</span></div>
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Fra Fee (a.k.a. Courfeyrac)</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I have no idea, guys. What do you think? Personally I think that I look just like me, but unfortunately I'm not famous yet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">I came across this one some time ago and while I don't really know much about Jennifer Lawrence except that she played Katniss in the Hunger Games (really well) I thought this quote was something people need to hear:-)</span></span></div>
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True:-)</div>
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Just for laughs.</div>
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Amen.</div>
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I love this one.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">#13 Who's your favourite dancer?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I'm not acquainted with many dancers. Any, actually. Sorry. Unless you count actors and actresses who have to learn country dances for period dramas:-D</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">#14 Why is your favourite actress your favourite one? When did you decide that she was your favourite?</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I don't know if I have a favourite actress, really. </span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">#15 Have you ever met/seen/been close to a famous person?</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Some Royals have been to NZ but I didn't see them:-( Apart from that, no. Unless you count the Prime Minister, and while he's been in our town several times, I've never met him.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So according to my comment file I am tagging:</span></span><br />
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Aibhilin(Evelyn)<br />
Zoe<br />
Naomi Bennet<br />
Danielle<br />
Abi<br />
Jess Rackley<br />
Jane Bennet<br />
Emily Blakeney<br />
Natalie<br />
Miss Elliott<br />
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Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17996539581546622108noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578145979047565936.post-25432757858810586222014-11-24T14:03:00.002+13:002014-11-24T14:03:48.092+13:00Of P&P, Palpatine and Jean Prouvaire........<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #fbb1b2;">Hey everyone! So here's the answer post, finally. Enjoy!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Okay. So I started reading P&P when I was about 10, and understandably I couldn't get very far;-) I watched the movie when I was about thirteen and fell in love with it, read P&P and all the other books as soon as I could get my hands on them. I also read a biography of Jane Austen by David Cecil. It was really good and I feel like I know her pretty well now. I would have loved to meet her!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #fbb1b2;">-How many siblings do you have? Brothers/sisters?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Soo, you've probably seen them before, but here they are. Three sisters and two brothers.</span><br />
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I saw the first episode of Season 2 at a friend's place. I love Lady Violet, detest Lavinia Swire, feel sorry for Matthew and Mary, and can't wait to see the rest of the series!</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #fbb1b2;">-What are you currently reading and watching?</span></span><br />
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This. Again. (I know, I know.)</div>
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Very good. Review coming up.:-)</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #fbb1b2;">And now... a question you'll probably hate me for:</span><br style="background-color: #fbb1b2;" /><span style="background-color: #fbb1b2;">-How can you love Les Miserables if everyone dies in it?</span></span><br />
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These two do. But I love it even though everyone else dies, or maybe even slightly because. Les Mis is the story of a man whose life was changed by God's love. It is the story of "les miserables," the wretched, the poor, the underdogs. It is the story of people fighting for freedom. It's gruesome and terribly sad but it's real life, and even though Victor Hugo killed off people I love, they died for a reason. :-)</div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">"So be it," added Enjolras. "A word more. ... In the future no man shall slay his fellow, the earth shall be radiant, the human race shall love. It will come, citizens, that day when all shall be concord, harmony, light, joy and life; it will come, and<b> it is that it may come that we are going to die.</b>"</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #fbb1b2;">What's the best thing about NZ?</span></span><br />
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Summer Christmases.</div>
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The fact that wherever you live in NZ, you're not that far from a beach.</div>
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The gorgeous landscapes, native trees, animals and flowers.</div>
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The fact that we have enormous cities not far from rural areas.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #fbb1b2;">Which is better Aus or NZ?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Yeeaaahh maybe. If I can avoid floods and droughts and bushfires and snakes and spiders.:-)</span><br />
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Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17996539581546622108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578145979047565936.post-30438283423275275022014-11-17T13:37:00.002+13:002014-11-17T13:45:08.948+13:00Birthday photos, more than a month later:-DHere they are guys! Enjoy:-) I didn't take these, all the credit goes to my amazing cousin Myra and her gorgeous camera.<br />
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Cheeky 8-year-old sister Ruby:-D</div>
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My 12-year-old sis Ainsley:-)</div>
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Beautiful cake made by Mum and Ems. </div>
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Fondant books. Les Mis and Pride and Prejudice among them. I ate LM. It was good:-D</div>
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I have renamed this movie "1001 Ways to Kill Orcs." And it literally is. You see them beheaded, stabbed, sliced, crushed, pinned to tree trunks, axed, drowned, shot with arrows....it got boring after a while. Needless to say, Orcs don't even belong in The Hobbit. I had to keep reminding myself, "This isn't the Hobbit. It's The Desolation of Smaug."</div>
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Pronounced Smorg, not Smowg. Thankyou very very much.</div>
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It began with a slightly confusing flashback of Thorin and Gandalf's first meeting at the Prancing Pony. (What even? The PP is not in The Hobbit.) Then twelve months later, the dwarves, the wizard and the hobbit are being simultaneously pursued by a colossal bear, and, you guessed it, multitudes of snarling Orcs mounted on salivating Wargs. After a night at Beorn's house/stable, the Company sets out for Mirkwood, but Galadriel telepathically tells Gandalf to go to Dol Guldur, so he changes his mind and leaves the dwarves and Bilbo to navigate the murky claustrophobic forest by themselves. Actually, in The Book, Gandalf had planned to leave them. Plus Dol Guldur isn't even mentioned in the Hobbit.</div>
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May I ask, what happened to the river crossing? Bombur's dreams? The mysterious Elvish feast that kept disappearing? And the butterflies were actually black, "black emperors," not blue. And while Bilbo is admiring them, the dwarves are being mummified by huge revolting spiders. Let's not even go there. You have confirmed my diagnosis as a chronic arachnophobe. When I saw all those cobwebs I kept telling myself, "It's only cotton candy..........."</div>
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Bilbo puts on the ring and dispatches several of the spiders (but where was the hilarious song he sang? "Lazy Lob, Crazy Cob," etc. I thought you liked songs. Maybe you only like epic and heroic war songs and mystical Elvish lays. Hmm?) and frees the dwarves with the help of a horde of Wood-elves who appear out of nowhere.</div>
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A feisty redhead named Tauriel saves Kili from death by giant spider. She wasn't in the book, Mr. Jackson. She was a great character but she wasn't Tolkien. And Legolas is there too! I suppose Aragorn will turn up next. But sadly, no.</div>
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The dwarves are imprisoned and Thorin is questioned by the Wood-elf King Thranduil. Who has interesting eyebrows, a crown that resembles deer antlers and a creepy way of contorting his posture. Chats to Tauriel about how she and Legolas can never marry. And considering she doesn't appear in LOTR, can we safely assume they don't end up marrying? That's what happens when you make fictional prequels, Mr. Jackson.</div>
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So Tauriel goes and talks to Fili in the dungeon. About magic rune rocks, missing mothers and so on. While Legolas is watching.<br />
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Bilbo, of course, didn't get caught by the elves. He sneaks into the fortress, filches the keys, frees the dwarves and lets them out by barrel. However, he inadvertently forgets to let himself out and jumps after them in the nick if time. (The barrels had lids on, Mr. Jackson. But that would be too boring, of course.) And suddenly they're floating down violent rapids with tons of lethal rocks while being chased and attacked by legions of both Orcs and Elves. Pretty confusing.<br />
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Kili gets wounded opening the water-gate. They manage to fend off most of the Orcs, but the elves capture, interrogate and then behead one of them.<br />
Tauriel: "You promised to free him."<br />
King Thranduil: "I did. I freed his miserable head from his miserable body."<br />
Well, King T is not well-known for keeping promises, is he?<br />
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Stranded on rocks, the dwarves are trying to tend to Kili's wound when Bard (Bard? Really?) appears, ready to shoot.<br />
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The dwarves and Bilbo get a ride into Lake-town on Bard's barge, in barrels covered in fish, make it past the snarky customs officer (who reminds me of Wormtongue in LOTR. Not very original.), and enter Bard's family abode by way of the water closet. Much to the detriment of Dwalin's dignity and to the shock horror of Bard's three (made-up) red-headed children.<br />
"Why are there dwarves coming out of our toilet?"<br />
"Will they bring us good luck?"<br />
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After getting on the Master of Lake-town's good side, the dwarves set sail to the Lonely Mountain. But they leave four behind. Fili because of his inconvenient wound, Fili because of fraternal stick-together-ness, Bofur and Oin. (I think. Still haven't got their names all right.)<br />
The dwarves and Bilbo arrive on the mountain and get all disappointed because the sun sets before they find the key-hole. (Did you know, P.J., that one normally reads moon-runes by the light of the moon?) Bilbo is the only one smart enough to figure it out and they enter the mountain.<br />
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Meanwhile, where did Gandalf go? To rescue Radagast and visit the tomb of the Nine, of course. Then it's off to Dol Guldur to fight Azog with white magical force-fields and see the Eye of Sauron, and get locked in a giant birdcage. Bofur strolls around Lake-town looking for pig-weed to heal Fili (his wound was poisoned. Morgul arrow, apparently) and then suddenly Orcs are prowling all over the roofs and Bard's eldest daughter goes outside, sees an Orc, and screams bloodcurdlingly. Which of course I would have done too. In horror at all the plot deviation.<br />
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The poor kids hide under the table while the dwarves try to fend off the bloodthirsty Orcs and look, it's Legolas and Tauriel to the rescue! Punch, kick, wham! The Orcs are dead. Tauriel takes the pigweed off Bofur. It's actually athelas, and she sings a song while putting it on Fili's ghastly leg wound. "Flower, gleam and glow. Let your power shine...."<br />
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"You can't be Tauriel. She is far away. She walks in starlight........."<br />
All I can say is, poor Legolas. Who, meanwhile, is fighting Orcs. He nearly gets squeezed to death by an overly affectionate one called Bolg (Azog's second-in-command whose favourite thing to do is kill good guys.) Bolg is defeated and Legolas realizes his nose is bleeding and he's like "Whaat? This is inconceivable!!" Well, not really, but it was sort of weird the way he looked at it like he'd never seen his own blood before.<br />
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Meanwhile, Bilbo ventures into the depths of the Mountain. Watson is going to pay Sherlock a visit and steal the Arkenstone while pretending he's not stealing the Arkenstone.:-]<br />
For some reason, the dragon's eye bears a striking resemblance to the Eye of Sauron, which zaps Bilbo and then he takes off the Ring. After giving Smaug a list of his aliases (Barrel-rider, Luckwearer, RRingwinner, etc.) This scene was well done.<br />
But Smaug is considerably smart and guesses that Thorin sent him. In a deep, gravelly, doomy-gloomy voice that only Buttersnitch Cucumberpatch could do, of course. He eventually gets mad and starts breathing (more like blasting) fire and Bilbo and the dwarves run all around the mountain halls trying to escape.<br />
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Thorin eventually ends up balancing on the edge of Smaug's mouth. That's precarious for you. But he escapes somehow and the dwarves start making something and heating up the furnaces. They make a hugs statue of Thrain in molten gold and it collapses all over Smaug. Then he flies away to attack Lake-town looking like a chocolate-coated dragon only it's gold not chocolate, and Bilbo says, "What have we done?"<br />
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And you're left hanging. What <i>have</i> you done, Peter Jackson? You literally ruined one of the best stories ever. I did like the movie, however. It was funny and epic and elvish and dwarvish and fantastical and it was made right here in NZ. But it wasn't The Hobbit. It was The Desolation of Smaug. So much for the things I didn't like. Believe it or not, there were some things I liked! :-)<br />
Martin Freeman's priceless facial expressions.<br />
Benedict Cumberbatch's epic dragon voice.<br />
Gandalf. Everything about Gandalf is always awesome and nobody but Sir Ian Mckellen could play him in a billion years.<br />
The sets were breathtaking and the music was perfect.<br />
And the little references to LOTR, like when Legolas is searching the Dwarves and finds a picture of Gloin's son Gimli. His future BFF:-)<br />
And when Smaug says to Bilbo, "You have something valuable on you, but it's not ordinary gold. It's something infinitely more.............precious." Chills.<br />
But I hope The Battle Of Five Armies ( still think you should have called it There and Back Again) will be better than this.<br />
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Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17996539581546622108noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578145979047565936.post-71913278214955966282014-11-07T16:50:00.002+13:002014-11-07T16:53:29.330+13:00I've already done the Janeite tag, but I couldn't resist.<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.4039993286133px;">So the lovely <a href="http://miss-dashwood.blogspot.co.nz/">Miss Dashwood</a> finally did the Janeite tag! Go read her post, it's great. And her questions sounded really fun, so I'm going to do them for lack of anything else to post about at the moment. (On a side note, has anyone else noticed that Blogger templates/layout are acting up lately? or is it just me?) I might have to capitulate and beg my readers for Questions so I can do an Answers post.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19.4039993286133px;">Ooh. Let me think. It seems kind of desecratory (is that a word?) to pair heroines with other heroes and so forth. I will not let that deter me. I'll go with Mr. Darcy and Emma. They're both rich and proud. And they're two of my favourites:-)</span><br />
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"That man is so full of himself I'm surprised he can stay on that horse."<br />
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It's the best. It's even got little gold leaves and flowers on the side, you can just see them in this picture. It's gorgeous:-)</div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.4039993286133px;">~Which Janeite-related location would you most want to visit-- London, Bath, Steventon Rectory or Chawton Cottage?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Chawton Cottage:-) Though of course I'd definitely want to see the others too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.4039993286133px;">~What's your favorite kind of tea? :D</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Wildberry. I detest black, green, milky, and chai tea. I can't stand coffee either. Or any other milky drink except for iced chocolate and smoothies. Yes, I am strange. Don't judge me, Miss Dashwood:-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.4039993286133px;">~Have you ever randomly stumbled across a fellow Janeite at a social event? Tell us about it!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Randomly, no. I don't think so. <br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.4039993286133px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.4039993286133px;">~Who's your favorite parent in a Jane Austen novel?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.4039993286133px;">Hmm. Most Austen parents are pretty meh. I like Mrs. Morland and Mr. Bennet....probably leaning toward Mr. Bennet because he's hilarious even if he isn't a perfect father, and Mrs. Morland is pretty nice:-)</span></span><br />
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That's all for today, folks! So remember to ask me some deep and not-so-meaningful questions if you are so inclined. They can literally be about anything as long as they're not too personal, like, "What's your phone number?" in which case I wouldn't even answer them:-P Anything related to my fandoms will be hugely appreciated:-) hopefully you know what those are!</div>
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Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17996539581546622108noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578145979047565936.post-5639543880313631652014-11-04T15:53:00.001+13:002014-11-04T15:53:48.278+13:00another one of my quick notes...So I was going to post pictures of the dance today, but they are not very good quality. And also, Blogger is being Very Bad and Annoying today which in a nutshell means I can't put the pictures on my blog. Hopefully they will be up sometime. Anyway, so it's about time for quote of the month isn't it? Here you go:<br />
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Love you all my amazing readers! Have a blessed week :-)</div>
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Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17996539581546622108noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578145979047565936.post-7919571840771287812014-10-29T10:44:00.002+13:002014-10-30T11:29:53.313+13:00What are my thoughts on Star Wars?<div style="text-align: center;">
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The short answer is ILOVESTARWARSTHEEND. But I promised a friend and fellow SW fan, the dear Miss Jane Bennet, that I'd write a nice long analytical post on 'em. You know, exploring the characters. Especially Anakin, because she loves Anakin. :-P</div>
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Anyway. Moving on. So I think the thing about the Star Wars movies is, you either love them or you hate them. But it's weird, because I was never into science fiction at all. I just stuck my nose deeper into Anne of Green Gables or whatever classic literature I was reading back then. So I wasn't expecting to like Star Wars. But I do!! Kind of surprised myself, actually. Now I warn you: this post is about my thoughts on Star Wars, not a plot summary. This is because a) I have only watched them once (saw #2 twice, however--should be an expert on that now :-D) and b) I was probably too preoccupied with the costumes and creatures and whatnot to follow the plots carefully. So this post is likely to be full of missing plot points. I need to watch these again.</div>
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I've heard a lot of people say the plot of Star Wars is predictable, but I don't think it detracts from them at all. Maybe they're predictable, but they're classic and funny and sad and epic and full of my (now) favourite fictional people. </div>
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Episode 1: The Phantom Menace</div>
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Return to a galaxy far, far away in the first chapter of the mythic Star Wars saga. Set over 30 years before the first film, EPISODE 1: THE PHANTOM MENACE introduces a young Anakin Skywalker, a boy with special powers, unaware that the journey he is beginning will transform him into Darth Vader. It is a time when Jedi Knights are guardians of peace in a turbulent galaxy and a young Queen fights to save her people, but in the shadows lurks an evil force waiting to strike.</div>
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Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic. The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute. Hoping to resolve the matter with a blockade of deadly battleships, the greedy Trade Federation has stopped all shipping to the small planet of Naboo. While the Congress of the Republic endlessly debates this alarming chain of events, the Supreme Chancellor has secretly dispatched two Jedi Knights, the guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy, to settle the conflict.........</div>
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This episode begins with <strike>Jean Valjean</strike> Jedi Master Qui Gon Jinn and <strike>Frank Churchill</strike> a young Obi Wan Kenobi, his Padawan apprentice, travelling to talk with the Trade Federation that has stopped trading with Naboo. I missed a few scenes because I was baking chocolate muffins, ahem, but I managed to get the general gist. On Naboo Qui Gon and Obi Wan meet Jar Jar Binks, a clumsy Gungan creature who joins them. </div>
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In order to protect the Queen of Naboo, Amidala, the Jedi must escort her to Coruscant, a different planet. Along the way their star ship crashes on the sandy planet of Tatooine. Disguised as peasants, Qui Gon and Amidala (Padme) search for someone who can fix their ship and come across a young slave boy named Anakin.</div>
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Qui Gon senses that the Force is strong with the boy, who also becomes friends with the disguised Queen. On a wager that Anakin can win a space pod race, Qui Gon barters with his owner Watto to take the boy with him. Anakin wins the race and goes with Qui Gon. That was where Anakin's downward spiral began, really. Being taken from his mother. However, his mother Shmi tells Qui Gon that Anakin has no father, and it seems that he was created by the Force. The dark side has the power to create life, so in a way you could say Anakin just returned to where he came from. Not that he didn't have a choice.</div>
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Back on Naboo, a battle ensues between the forces of the Federation and the Gungans, who at Padme's suggestion have joined forces with her people. Meanwhile, the two Jedi fight a Sith warrior, Darth Maul. Qui Gon is killed and Obi Wan kills the Sith. </div>
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After the battle is over Qui Gon's body is burned and after the funeral, the Queen and the Gungans celebrate the freedom they have won for their planet. Obi Wan resolves to train Anakin as a Jedi, although Yoda voices his fears that Anakin is too old to be trained. </div>
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Episode 2: Attack of the Clones</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">The film is set 10 years after the events in </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Episode_I:_The_Phantom_Menace" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace">Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace</a></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">, when </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_galaxy" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="Star Wars galaxy">the galaxy</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> is on the brink of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_Civil_War" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="Galactic Civil War">civil war</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">. Under the leadership of a renegade </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="Jedi">Jedi</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> named </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Dooku" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="Count Dooku">Count Dooku</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">, thousands of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_system" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" title="Planetary system">planetary systems</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> threaten to </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secession" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="Secession">secede</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> from the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_Republic_(Star_Wars)" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="Galactic Republic (Star Wars)">Galactic Republic</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">. 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Anakin has grown into a Padawan Jedi, trained by his master Obi Wan Kenobi. They arrive on Coruscant, assigned to protect Padme, now a Senator. When a bounty hunter attempts to kill Padme in the night, the Jedi pursue the assassin through Coruscant. She dies before she can reveal who is giving her orders. Obi Wan investigates the assassination attempt, discovering that an army of clones is in preparation on the distant planet of Kamino. He has his suspicions of the clone original, Jango Fett, who was in league with the assassin.</div>
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But because Anakin will be a Jedi and Padme is a Senator, their feelings are not their own and they reluctantly decide not to fall in love. Anakin has a dream that his mother is suffering on Tatooine and disobeys his master's orders to stay on Naboo. When they arrive they find that Shmi married a moisture farmer, and was captured by Tusken Raiders. In a fury Anakin goes after her and finds the Tusken camp.</div>
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Padme manages to free herself and as they are about to be attacked by strange vicious monsters whose names I can't even imagine, a huge battle sequence ensues. The Jedi arrive and Dooku escapes, pursued by the clone army, whom Yoda has recruited.<br />
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In spite of the problems they will face, Padme and Anakin marry against Anakin's Jedi code. His severed arm has been replaced by a mechanical one which foreshadows his descent to the dark side in Episode 3.<br />
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Anakin's skill as a pilot has increased and he is known in the galaxy as the hero without fear. He and Obi-Wan Kenobi are sent to destroy General Grievous. I missed this part but my siblings tell me the cyborg was killed, so yeah. Oh, and at this point we didn't know Anakin was going to become Darth Vader. Mum told us and we were like:<br />
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The Chancellor becomes friends with Anakin and gradually persuades him that the Jedi are no longer powerful, telling him that the dark side is "a path to many abilities some consider to be......unnatural."<br />
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The Jedi Council do not trust the Chancellor and tell Anakin to inform them of all he does. Anakin, furious that he has not been given the rank of Jedi Master and with growing distrust of the Jedi, is angry to find his friends disagreeing with one another.<br />
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Anakin is torn between saving Mace Windu and his new Sith Master. This part was terrible. Mace Windu is one of my favourite Jedi and he was killed by the Force lightning and Anakin cutting off his arm.<br />
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Anakin bows to his new master and is given a new name. "Henceforth you will be called Darth Vader."<br />
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The Chancellor convinces the Senate that the Jedi can no longer be trusted and proclaims himself Emperor. Padme looks on with horror. "So this is how liberty dies--with thunderous applause."<br />
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Anakin carries out Palpatine's orders to rid the planet of the Jedi.<br />
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Anakin has turned into a monster, executing every Jedi he comes across. Obi Wan visits Padme and asks her where Anakin is. Padme is hurt and confused when Obi Wan tells her what her husband has done.<br />
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She follows him to the fiery planet of Mustafar, unaware that Obi Wan has stowed away on her transport. Anakin is happy to see her at first, but when she confronts him and tries to persuade him to return to Coruscant with her, he becomes angry. He tries to tempt her to join him, saying, "We can rule the galaxy together." Padme's heart is breaking.<br />
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Obi Wan senses that Padme is in danger and reveals himself, but his appearance infuriates Anakin and he half-chokes Padme with the force. Obi Wan and his former apprentice begin a dangerous duel.<br />
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Anakin is defeated and lies burning in the lava, but Obi Wan is reluctant to kill him.<br />
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Palpatine finds the remains of Anakin's body, brings him to a medical centre and turns him into a cyborg with an artificial lung system and distinctive black body armour. His journey to the Dark Side is complete and he is Darth Vader.<br />
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Yoda's duel with Palpatine in the senate ends with the Sith escaping and the two remaining Jedi, Obi Wan and Yoda, must go into hiding. Meanwhile Padme gives birth to twins, Luke and Leia, but sadly she does not survive. Her last words to Obi Wan are , "There is good in him still..."<br />
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She is taken back to Naboo, buried with the good luck charm Anakin carved for her when he was a little boy. Obi Wan and Yoda agree that the twins must be separated and kept safe, and perhaps they will bring new hope to the galaxy in the future.<br />
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Meanwhile, Emperor Palpatine and his apprentice Darth Vader have plans to create a new and terrible weapon, the Death Star................<br />
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Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17996539581546622108noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578145979047565936.post-73769355244972436162014-10-15T12:09:00.002+13:002014-10-15T12:09:37.432+13:00War Horse ~ A Review<div style="text-align: center;">
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Hey everyone! So I watched War Horse last week and thought I'd do a review on it. I loved it:) So the basic storyline is:</div>
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Albert watches Joey grow from a foal to a beautiful horse. He learns to ride him. There's a funny scene where he overtakes the snobby landlord's son in his flash car......and ends up falling off.<br />
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Albert is a very determined and persevering boy. He trains Joey against all odds, so that his family can keep their farm and he wants to enlist as soon as Joey is sold to the army. He promises Joey that they will be together again. They are very close friends. Both go through incredible dangers and hardships on the battlefields of WW1.</div>
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Rosie, Albert's mother, is <strike>Rosa Hubermann</strike> <strike>Millie Warne</strike> amazing. She's a good mother and wife and worries about their future but she is incredibly strong and brave. Albert's father Ted drinks to forget his horrible experiences in the Boer War, and while Albert at first despises his father for this, after he stops Ted from shooting the (then useless) Joey, Rosie explains to Albert about his father's past.</div>
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Ted Narracott is addicted to buying things from auctions. I felt really sorry for him because he had to live with terrible memories from the war in Africa and refused to wear the medals he earned for bravery.<br />
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Oh and these two? They were amazing! And for the life of me I can't remember their names. I suppose I could look them up, but I'll just call them Tom and Benedict. Anyway, so Joey becomes Tom's horse and Benedict is the general, I think. I've only seen it once. Tom is very good at drawing and sends Albert some amazing drawings of Joey. So they go into battle, charging into a campful of Germans in the middle of their morning shaving sessions and chaos ensues. SPOILER Tom dies END OF SPOILER and SPOILER Benedict is taken prisoner and so is Joey, technically speaking. Since Joey has been trained as a farm horse and not an army mount he is used by the Germans to draw their hospital wagon instead of getting shot.<br />
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Then we get to a very sad part. Two of the Germans are brothers Gunther (left) and Michael (who is only 14 but lied about his age so he could join the army, and really, how could they not tell he was nowhere near 18? I mean, look at the part where Albert tries to join and Tom promptly says, "Ha, you can't you're not old enough..." and Albert looks waaay older than Michael. I don't know, whatever.)<br />
Anyway, Gunther is the one who is told to stay behind and take care of the horses while Michael marches off to battle with the rest of the soldiers. However, Gunther takes two horses (Joey is one of them) and quite literally pulls Michael out of the line and takes him away because he promised his mother he would keep his little brother safe. They hide in a windmill, get found by the soldiers, and SPOILER get shot END OF SPOILER.<br />
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Joey and Topthorn ( I think that's his name) are found the next day by a French girl named Emilie who brings them back to the house where she lives with her grandfather and convinces him to let her keep them, because she is the boss. She reminds me so much of Cosette from Les Miserables (the book). She renames the two horses after boys who broke her heart. On the surface she seems a little bit spoilt, but she suffers from a disease that makes her bones weak and her parents have been killed for some reason, so you can hardly blame her grandfather for spoiling her. She hides Joey and Topthorn in her room to prevent them being found by the Germans, but eventually the two horses are confiscated "to pull artillery until they die."<br />
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So Albert finally joins the army along with his friend Andrew and the landlord's son David. They are in the trenches at the Somme preparing for an attack. Albert keeps a picture of Joey in his pocket. Andrew is ordered to stay in the trench and shoot any soldier who turns back. Albert and the others charge into no-man's-land. When two cowards return to the trench, Andrew can't bring himself to shoot them and dashes after the others. They make it to an abandoned German trench where a gas bomb explodes. SPOILER Andrew dies END OF SPOILER and Albert is temporarily blinded but her survives.<br />
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Joey, on the Germans' side, is spooked and tries to run to safety but gets caught in barbed wire in no-man's-land. The next exchange between a German and a British soldier as they free the wounded horse is both funny and sad. Neither of them are bad men, They are simply fighting eachother because their countries are at war and neither had a choice. The Brit wins the coin toss for Joey. "That is the face of my Kaiser," says the German, "and I do not think he is pleased with me." The man and the horse return to the British camp. Albert, lying in the hospital with his eyes bandaged, hears Joey and gives an owl call he used to do to call him, and Joey comes to him.<br />
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He proves Joey is his by describing his markings and Joey is allowed to live and be treated for his barbed wire wounds. When the war end, the army horses are to be auctioned instead of returning to England. The men club their money together to help Albert buy Joey back, but Emilie's grandfather turns up and outbids him. Albert tries to but Joey from him. The old man tells him about Emilie and that she died. However, he gives Joey back to Albert and the pair return home.<br />
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The last scene,where Albert is reunited with his parents, is beautiful. But in the book it mentions that he got married, and I wish they'd put that in. I guess it was meant to be mainly about him and Joey though. So what did I think of this movie. I thought it was amazing, well scripted, beautifully acted, and any horse movie pleases me :-) I loved it. I definitely cried at some points. If you haven't watched War Horse, do so promptly. It's one of the best movies I've ever seen.<br />
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Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17996539581546622108noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578145979047565936.post-22299145153093226462014-10-07T15:36:00.001+13:002014-10-07T15:36:49.323+13:00I'm back:)Hello friends! Seems like ages since I've posted. Thankyou so much for your sweet comments on my birthday!! So hopefully there should be a few posts coming up:<br />
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~ Country Dance Post! Yay it's this weekend! I'm so excited! Just saying, our camera broke :-( so my post could potentially be photo-less.....unless I can bribe some obliging friends to send me some photos. I will do my best.<br />
~ War Horse movie review. Got it out of the library, hopefully I will watch it sometime this week and I'll post a review.<br />
~ Another Authors post, probably. I'm thinking of alternating classic/older authors with more 'modern ones'.....any ideas?<br />
~ I will hopefully be able to post some photos from my birthday party too. Had to recruit my cousin as official photographer, because as you already know, our camera was Mean and Stupid and had to break just when we really didn't want it to. It's all good though, because she's an amazing photographer. Anyways.<br />
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How have you guys spent your holidays?<br />
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Well, it isn't this copy. It has a picture from the 1998 movie on it and you all know what I think of that but it doesn't matter. I love, love love it! It's so lovely and thick :)</div>
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~ Watching; all six Star Wars movies, finally. Never saw them before. Now I can't wait for number 7 :-)</div>
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~ Studying: English because exams are looming up before me. Oh well, the sun will go on rising and setting, whether I fail in English or not.</div>
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Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17996539581546622108noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578145979047565936.post-23280608595755265302014-10-02T12:34:00.002+13:002014-10-02T12:35:33.310+13:00Mwahaha!Hellooooo! It's me - Emily, Elizabethany's sister!<br />
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It is Beth's birthday tomorrow!!!<br />
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<br />Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17996539581546622108noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578145979047565936.post-75899802283790351412014-09-30T16:47:00.001+13:002014-09-30T16:47:48.957+13:00Favourite Authors ~ Jane Austen<div style="text-align: center;">
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Hello readers! Time for another author post. Hope you're not disappointed it's not L.M. Montgomery, Naomi :) but I picked Jane Austen today. She's my #1 favourite classic fiction writer (beating Victor Hugo and Charles Dickens by a <i>tiny </i>bit) and I've researched her life quite a lot. I feel like I know her pretty well; that we would have been good friends if we lived in the same era. Anyway, here's a list of her major works (I won't talk about her juvenilia today, that deserves a post of its own). </div>
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Sense and Sensibility</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: start;">Jane Austen's first published work when it appeared in 1811 under the pseudonym "A Lady". A work of romantic fiction, better known as a comedy of manners, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: start;">Sense and Sensibility</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: start;"> is set </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: start;"> between 1792 and 1797,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: start;"> and portrays the life and loves of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: start;"> and Marianne.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: start;"> The novel follows the young ladies to their new home, a meagre cottage on a distant relative's property, where they experience love, romance and heartbreak. The philosophical resolution of the novel is ambiguous: the reader must decide whether sense and sensibility have truly merged. (wikipedia)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: start;"> was first published in 1813. The story follows the main character, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bennet" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none;" title="Elizabeth Bennet">E</a>lizabeth Bennet<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: start;">, as she deals with issues of m</span>anners<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: start;">, upbringing, m</span>orality<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: start;">, e</span>ducation<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: start;">, and marriage</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: start;"> in the society of the landed</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landed_gentry" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none;" title="Landed gentry"> </a>gentry<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: start;"> of early nineteenth-century England, El</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: start;">izabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire. (wikipedia)</span></span></div>
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Emma is the story of a clever, rich and handsome young woman with a habit of match-making that often gets her into trouble. Her efforts to match her friend Harriet with the two-faced Mr. Elton go disastrously wrong, and Emma herself does not realize that she is falling in love with family friend Mr. Knightley until it is too late.</div>
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Persuasion<br />This is the story of Anne Elliott, a twenty-seven-year-old woman who has remained unmarried since refusing to marry Captain Wentworth, persuaded by her aunt. Anne and Wentworth meet again and though Anne suspects he is in love with Louisa Musgrove until he writes to her reaffirming his attachment to her.</div>
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Northanger Abbey</div>
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Catherine Morland, young and naive, is about to embark on a trip to Bath with friends. There she meets the fashionable but deceitful Isabella Thorpe and the charming Henry Tilney. Isabella encourages her to read Gothic novels, and Catherine's imagination begins to run wild when she is invited to stay with Henry, his sister and father at their ancestral home, Northanger Abbey.</div>
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Jane Austen was born on the 16th December, 1775, at Steventon in Hampshire. She was the seventh child and one of two daughters. She was very close to her sister Cassandra: her brothers married and left home, and the two sisters lived with their widowed mother. She was very clever as a child, allowed the run of her father's library, was well educated, and had a quick wit. As a girl she wrote plays and stories, and her parents encouraged her in her writing. She never married, although she received several proposals. She was a devout Christian and critical of the social customs of her time. She died at the age of 41 in Winchester. While some of her works were published during her lifetime, she experienced little fame as she concealed her name, and several of her works were published posthumously.</div>
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Jane Austen was a brilliant and perceptive writer. What I love about her style is that it's fairly easy to read for a nineteenth-century writer. She has complete control over her characters. She successfully rounds them out as well, making them real and believable, and convincing the reader that her world wasn't so different from ours after all. She also has some really memorable quotes:)</div>
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If you've never read Jane Austen, you don't know what you're missing. All six of her books are sweet, funny, a little bit sad and practically perfect in every way. She has inspired me to write in a way that deals truthfully and impartially with the characters and that upholds good values. And there are certain words and old English spellings I've become addicted to too.. Anyway, enough of that. Just grab a copy of Pride and Prejudice and you'll see what I mean:)</div>
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