Meanwhile, in Rivendell . . .

Hello, dear people! As some of you may know, I rarely write creatively.  At least, not fiction.  I LURVE writing analytically about fiction, and I like writing devotionally, but making up stories hasn't really been on my radar for a while.  When I was younger, I wrote short stories a LOT, and I enjoyed it.  But, due to various circumstances (and also just loss of interest/time, I suppose), my authorial inspiration sort of fizzled out as I got older.   However.   I think it may be coming back, which makes me excited.  :D  I've had a few vague ideas for potential stories to write "someday when I have time" (haha) for a while, but recently two have really been taking more shape and sticking in my mind more often.   So, not wanting to be behind the times, I decided to go out on a limb and make some Pinterest storyboards for The Ideas.  And soon after, having actually loved that process, I saw a post of  Hamlette's  ...

My dear friend  Miss March  recently nominated me for the Sunshine Blogger Award!  *huzzahs and confetti*  Do go and check out her blog, peeps -- she's awesome and she writes awesome posts.  Thank you for the award, Miss March!   1. What was the last book you read? The last book I read was a short story called A Flame Shall Spring from the Embers , written by none other than our very own Heidi Pekarek !!! *confetti* It was awesome :) 2. On a typical evening at home, what are you most often found doing -- reading a book, watching a movie, playing games with your siblings, twiddling your thumbs...what? Watching something with my parents. Lately we've been watching a lot of Leverage or  Andy Griffith or Inspiring Dramas. 3. You have the choice of being an only child or having twenty siblings. Which do you choose? *blinks*  Umm . . . (I seriously don't know.) 4. Do you prefer bike riding or walking? Walking, I guess. I ...

There are some hefty run-on sentences in this post.  So, y'know, prepare yourself. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  Some days, I'm productive. Some days I get up at a reasonable hour and I "have a good devo" (what a ridiculous phrase) and I eat a good breakfast and I attack my schoolwork and I help out around the house (and thereby actually move a bit, dontcha know) and I take my brother to sports practice and I get my music responsibilities done in a timely fashion and I respond to blogging comments and emails and I write a blog post and I comment on other people's blog posts and I catch up on Once Upon a Time while I'm at it because I'm super behind and Must Make Headway and I finally change my bedding to flannel sheets and I make crafts and laminate them and then later I watch something with my parents because #qualitytime and I read Peter Pan or The Help before bedtime because experts say that it's better for a screen to not be the last thing you do before going...

Hello, all!  I hope you're having a splendid Saturday <3 I really enjoyed writing  my previous "month in review" post , so I decided to try to keep a record of this past month's new cinematic experiences, too :) Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016) I actually quite enjoyed this one, which kind of surprised me since I have to be "in the right mood" for the first Alice movie, and I'm not a big Alice in Wonderland fan in general.  But this movie was really fun and clever :)  I especially loved the character of Time.  He was cool.  And there were so many familiar faces in the movie!  Richard Armitage and Hattie Morahan made appearances, and it was simultaneously exciting to see them and also a little . . . weird.  Like, "should they be playing in an Alice in Wonderland movie?"  It was also funny to see Sasha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter opposite each other, because Les Mis :-P Some of the lines were extremely quotable:  *...

*cringes*  This post should have been written a LOOOOOOOOONG time ago. Y'see, once upon a time I don't know how long ago, Bethany House let me have a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.  Clearly, that honest review didn't happen.  But today I shall try to mend my ways and explain myself. I didn't finish The Domino Effect.   However, that's not to say that the book wasn't good.  It's just . . . I probably shouldn't have requested it, since it's about economics and math and such, which, as we all know, are two subjects to which I'm not exactly passionately devoted.  Also, I think I somehow got the impression that it was going to be a sort of allegorical retelling of the Biblical Esther story?  I don't know where I got that idea, but it wasn't really the case.   However, aside from those subjective issues, I did like the characters, I think (it's honestly been a long time, so I don't remember much of...