Lyndsey's Guys

It's a well known fact that I have no love life. My prudish ways, intense dislike of physical contact (even my parents and friends are not always allowed to hug me), as well as my natural distrust of the male gender leads to this life of being single.
However, there are guys that make even ME, the stone-hearted stoic, go weak at the knees. Let's list these future hubbies, in no particular order of course.

Tim Curry:
Ah, Curry. What would I do without you? Whether you are a sweet transvestite or a spooky clown, a wacky butler or a swashbuckling pirate, you still retain your enjoyable charm and over-the-top personality. Gotta love the Curry.



 

Alton Brown: This guy is great. He's a nerd, he's a nut, and he's a chef with a sense of humor. I LOVE nerdy guys, so whenever I see this nerd-of-all-nerds, it's not really so surprising that my teenage heart goes a-pitter patter I would SO marry this guy in a heartbeat.

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Alan Rickman: What do I say? He's ALAN RICKMAN. Every time I see him, I turn into a drooling, incomprehensible mess of fan-girly-ness. He's just SOOO so so so... (what, Lyndsey, what? Talented? Successful? Hot?) ALL THREE, but that's not all. It's all in the voice. THE VOICE!!! *drools* Don't believe me? Then click on this link.

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OK, those are the real life guys I love. Now it's time for ANIME GUYS!!! WOO-hoo!!!

Zero Kiryuu, from Vampire Knight: He's brooding, he's sullen. He's (dare I say it) a little bit emo. AND tragic, AND dramatic, and HOT. And a vampire. *drools* Yes, his counterpart, Kaname Kuran, is also hot, but for me it was always Team Zero.

 

Alucard, from Hellsing: There seems to be a trend with me and anime vampire guys. This guy... he's something else. Deadly, dangerous, SCARY... and irresistible. so alluring and mysterious. But the real seller for me is the gasping/sighing sound he makes before he bites people. So spooky, so evil... so attractive. And we mustn't forget that Alucard is really Dracula spelled backwards. (I was so proud of myself when I figured that one out...)

L from Death Note: Yes, yes, I know. EVERYBODY loves L. But there's a reason! L IS AWESOME! He's socially awkward, he never wears shoes, he constantly eats sugar, he's a genius, he's a TOTAL NERD... and he's simply perfect. For me, quirky=wonderful, and this monkey of a guy is just that: Mr. Wonderful.

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And now time for other characters! (Hey, not all romances you have NEED to be non-fictional...)

Dustfinger from Inkheart: I've loved this guy since I was a little kid. He's scrappy, tough, and definitely out of his element. One thing's for sure: This is not his world. A fire dancer AND an animal lover, this guy melted my heart.

I've already mentioned Alan Rickman, so I suppose it's not necessary to mention that I've loved Snape since I was eleven years old. Let us move on to...

And finally, last but certainly not least, my fictional romance with  Zack Addy from Bones: This guy is great. He's adorable, smart, young, and a troublemaker.

    


  

And those are all the guys I love. Stick around; my review for A Great and Terrible Beauty should be up by tomorrow, if not sooner. 

About Me

Today I am sick (I get sick a lot) with a fever of 102.7 degrees. So I guess I'll just make a blog post about my favorite topic-- myself!

My Life

Name: Lyndsey Nicole Adler

Height: 5 feet, 6 ½ inches.

Family: 1 mom,

 1 dad, 1 sister, 1 Brother-in-law, 2 nephews, 1 niece 2 Grandma’s, Another sister, another Brother-in-law another niece-or-nephew on the way.

Friends: Two school friends,

Two Church Friends:

And one other friend (sorry-- I hardly ever get to see her so I don't have any pictures of her besides the ones I steal. ^^) 

Pets: Two pugs (I have pictures but the flash makes their eyes look weird.)

Dress: Nice, “put-together” inexpensive clothing. I like necklaces. I’m almost always barefoot, even at school. Sometimes I look girly in skirts and dresses but the majority of the time I prefer jeans.

My Favorite

 Drink: I love Coco-cola Classic.

Food: Apricot Chicken from Olive Garden

Dessert: Red Velvet Cake from California Pizza Kitchen

Music: This is gonna sound weird, but I don’t listen to music. I don’t dislike it; I just don’t particularly like it. I have an old iPod… somewhere.  Haven’t seen (or missed!) it for a couple of months.

Movies:  Nancy Drew, the Prestige, Wallace and Grommet the Curse of the Were Rabbit, the Princess Bride, Coraline, Dead Poet Society.

Books I like NOW: Harry Potter (of course), Lord of the Rings, A Time of Angels, The Secret Life of Bees, Beautiful Creatures, Love, Stargirl, etc.

Books I loved as a kid: My Big Sister Is So Bossy She Says You Can't Read This Book, Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters, the Pure Dead series, ANYTHING by Shel Silverstein, or Cornelia Funke, the Moffats

Color: Pepto-Bismol Pink.

Lyndsey Reviews White Cat

White Cat, by Holly Black.

I've had my eye on this book for quite some time, ever since I stumbled upon it's cool looking trailer online. Click here to watch it.

And yeah, I love Holly Black. She wrote Spiderwick! I grew up on those books! This book's intended audience was for older teens, and when this copy finally arrived at the library I was THRILLED. I was sort of assuming it to be all about the magic. I was incorrect.

Cassel Sharpe lives in New Jersey at his boarding school. He is haunted at his memories of killing his best friend Lila. He doesn't remember actually doing the killing, all he remembers is opening his eyes and seeing her bloody body on the ground underneath him, her blood on his hands, holding a knife. In this world, "Workers" are the underground, the con artists, the mobsters, the gang members, whatever you want to call them. They influence, or "work" people by touching them with their bare hands. Being a Worker is fairly rare; it is inherited through genetics and only about one in every 1,000 people has it.

Types of Workers:

Luck Workers (the most commen. They usually make anti-curse amulets with their powers to sell)

Memory Workers (Can alter or even completely remove memories)

Emotion Workers (Can completely change somebody's emotions)

Death Workers (Can kill people by touching them)

and Transformation Workers (REALLY rare. Can turn people into anything.)

Every time a curse is Worked, the Worker feels an intense BlowBack. For example, if a Death Worker kills somebody, then the finger they used to touch the person will blacken and shrivel, Memory Worker removes a memory from somebody, then one of his memories will be removed as well.

Cassel's brothers, mother, grandfather, and father are all Workers. His mother is in jail for getting caught conning somebody with her Emotion Working. In this world, Working is illegal and it is a social crime to go anywhere without wearing gloves-- it'd be like walking around with a switchblade fully out and extended.

The story starts with Cassel waking on the school roof after dreaming of a white cat. He is escorted down by the f ire department after the Principal calls them, but then is kicked out of the school, considered potentially suicidal (they don't believe he was only sleep walking) and don't want him back until they can get a note from his doctor. So Cassel stays with his older brother Philip, Philip's wife Maura, and her infant son for a day or so but then goes to live with his Grandad.

And here are where all the plot twists start. This story is filled with plot twists. Ok, fine, I like them well enough. But Holly Black, what were you thinking?! She foreshadowed them so dang much that I  pretty much had the entire story figured out by chapter five. I won't spoil any of the twists, because Black pretty much did that all by herself. I liked this book well enough but I have to say it now: I dont like first-person writing. I think it's irritating. But I tolerated that, and Holly Black spoiling her own story, because it was a good story. It really was; I definately enjoyed it. Clever, dangerous, and sneaky? Yup. Surprising? Eh, not so much.

I reccomend this book to anyone who likes fantasy-crime stories. I heard that there will be two sequels, and I'll read them if I get my hands on a copy.

I give this story 3.5 hearts.

You can get your own copy here

Lyndsey Reviews Bleeding Violet

Bleeding Violet, by Dia Reeves. Spoilers Ahead!

Yes, if you couldn't tell, this picture is of the copy I got from the library. What? I can't possibly afford to buy EVERY book I want, and even if I could, where would I keep them all?

Anyway, before I begin, let me just say this: I am sometimes not very bright. This is the FIRST BOOK Dia Reeves wrote, meaning she wrote this BEFORE she wrote Slice of Cherry. And yeah, I read Slice of Cherry first. *facepalm* Very good, Lyndsey, way to do your research. No wonder you were so confused last time. So after reading THIS book, I have to say that Slice of Cherry makes WAY more sense. No, they are not sequels or anything, but they are set in the same place the same time... So if you're going to read this author's books, I suggest you read them in the order that she wrote them. Duh.

Alright; on to the review.

The main character of this book is Hanna. Her story starts as she finishes a hitch-hiking journey halfway around the world to Portero, where her mother lives. The voice of her father is constantly in her head and it quickly becomes clear that Hanna is not normal. Beautiful, but with hallucinations, depression, and an unhealthy obsession with the color purple (hence the title). Apparently her father is recently dead, and she has possibly just killed her Aunt Ulla, and she has run away to her Mom (Rosalee)'s place. Hanna has never met her mother before and Rosalee is a little less than pleased to see her. It turns out that Aunt Ulla is not, in fact, dead, merely injured and (understandably) unwilling to take Hanna back. Rosalee eventually agrees to take Hanna in under the condition that if, after two weeks, she does not fit in, that she will leave her mother's town. Hanna agrees.

Hanna is sent to the Portero High School where, although at first she does not fit in, her beauty and courage, as well as a few lucky moments, eventually do get her into the 'in' crowd. If you'll remember from my last review, Portero is not a normal town; it is a town with monsters and monster-slayers, and where murder, mutilation, and all things gory are not at all uncommon. At first Hanna is terrified beyond all belief at this, her strong determination manages to pull her through the shock and horror and she is actually able to make friends and even a boyfriend.

I'll say this now; I thought the romance in this book was MUCH more realistic than the romance in Slice of Cherry. In fact, I thought this was an altogether better book than Slice of Cherry. Everything felt more flowing and natural, and although sometimes unlikeable I thought Hanna made a pretty relateable narrator. Once again, the main theme of Dia's book was family, particularly Hanna's determination to win her mother's love at all costs after sixteen years without a mother.

However, once things seem to be turning out alright for Hanna, tragedy strikes and it quickly becomes evident that Rosalee is possessed. I will not spoil what is truly an exhilarating climax, but I will say that it is definitely worth reading. The third half of the book is by far the best; I couldn't tear my eyes away from the pages I grew so involved.

All in all, Bleeding Violet is the best book this author has written so far and it is definitely worth looking into. Warnings include some gore (not as much as Slice of Cherry) but there was definitely graphic violence, swearing, sex, and drug use. A good story for those who love a fast-paced, exciting read.

I give this book five hearts.

Alles Gute zum Geburtstag!

So today is my birthday-- I am seventeen! Woo-hoo! I was born January Fourth, 1994, at 10:00 pm. Everybody's been so nice to me today; first my neighbor Dylan gave me brownies (yum), then in Psychology everybody sang to me and my teacher gave me an avacado (weirdest gift ever? Yes, but I like avacados, so it's all good. ^^) It was also my seminary teacher's birthday so his kids came in during class and sprayed everybody with silly string before running out again. Good times. :D
Later the fam and I are going to Olive Garden for birthday dinner. Yummmm... Oooolive Garden... *drools* And possibly presents. I wonder if I'll get a potato to go with my avacado.

Review Time

I went to Barnes and Noble  yesterday and bought an interesting-looking book. Being a major bookworm, I had it finished in a couple of hours and I thought to myself that it would be kind of fun to review it. So without further ado, here's my take on the book Slice of Cherry by Dia Reeves. Spoilers ahead!

Ah, yes. Where to begin? I really did like this book, and I thought it was well-written. The details were great, the characters were realistic, and it was what I would call "delightfully spooky". The main character of this story is Fancy Cordelle, who, along with her sister Kit, live in a Texas town by the name of Portero with their mother (who they refer to as 'Madda'.) Their father, an infamous serial killer known as 'The Bonesaw Killer' is in jail soon to be put to death for his crimes (torturing fifteen people to death in the family basement.) It quickly becomes clear that this is no ordinary town; monsters are common and they do terrible things such as ripping innocent people to shreds. This isn't really considered a problem in this town and is mostly shrugged off. Also, ghosts are real, and sometimes corpses rise.

These girls seem normal... for the first three sentences of chapter one. A prowler breaks into their bedroom while they're sleeping and proceeds to gently snip a lock of Fancy's hair off. She calmly contemplates jabbing a pencil into his eye but then decides against it and, when he turn away advances on him, intending to smash him in the head with a paperweight. Kit is quicker to the draw and stabs him in the gut with a switchblade. They happily push his body into the cellar where their father once did his torturing, and proceed to slice his body open with knives, constantly stitching him back up so that he remains alive for more torture.

I was a little alarmed at this but thought, OK, so they're psychopaths. That's interesting, I guess. Wonder if it's genetic. I was all settled for a gore-fest, where these fifteen-year-old girls are no better than monsters. But I was surprised; throughout the book they show themselves to be realistic and, dare I say it, relateable people. Yes, throughout the entire story they keep killing people in progressively disturbing and graphic ways, but they seemed like real people as well. They had crushes, flaws, and emotions. Fancy is able to create a magical world, her "happy place", in which she and her sister are able to kill and not get caught, Soon everybody in the town is queueing up, asking the duo to murder people for them that they want out of their lives for one reason or another and Kit and Fancy of course, accept, but there is usually a twist in their scheming.

This book was very good, but it was not perfect. Several things about it bothered me,such as the fact that the FREAKING MAYOR knows about this. He KNOWS that two of his citizens are MURDERERS and he doesn't even stop it, he instead encourages it as long as they don't kill "good people" as their father had done. And to me the sex felt thrown in; Fancy hates this boy named Ilan for the good majority of the book but by the end she can't get his pants off fast enough. Why, Fancy, why?! And the magic of this town felt sort of tossed in. I felt as if the girls were monsters enough; were the fairy rings and demons and rising corpses really necessary? To me, it felt as if the magic cluttered up an otherwise good story and I personally think it would have been better without it.

Some things I really liked about this book included the focus on family. The relationship between Kit and Fancy and their mother was complicated at best. Madda must have known that her daughters were murderous sociopaths. There's no way she could not know. For heaven's sake they decorated their bedroom with preserved squirrel organs in jars! And the fact that she caught them coming home drenched in blood more often than not? Sure, she was a very busy woman; with Daddy in jail she had to provide entirely for the family. My guess is that she didn't want to know what her daughters did when she wasn't home, that she knew subconsciously to protect her conscious mind from the truth because if she knew the truth beyond a shadow of a doubt she'd be forced to turn them in. This provides some really interesting, thought provoking questions, such as "If I thought somebody I loved was doing terrible things, what would I do about it? Would I even be able to turn them in?" And the girls are often attacked by sad feelings that they can't be their real selves around their mother; they are constantly wishing that she was "like them". This is also interesting; I suppose even really bad people like these girls must feel love for some people and just wish to be understood.

Also, I liked how the author never really gives this story a time setting. The girls listen to phonographs, but they also shop on EBay. They wear Mary Jane's and play Jacks, but they use cell phones. What time setting could this possibly be? It's very intriguing. And that's a word I could use to describe the entire story: intriguing.

I give this book four and a half hearts and I reccomend it to any reader with a strong enough stomach to handle gore and violence. There's some really good plot and character development here, don't worry; it's not ALL gore,