Book 26: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

It took me a long time to get to this book, but I've finally finished it! I expected to get hooked sooner based on what people said, but it took me almost 200 pages to really get into the story. Once I did it was great—well thought out and suspenseful.

Now I just have to decide whether to continue on and read the next book in the series, or start the Game of Thrones book. Decisions, decisions!

First Quilting Lesson

Well, technically we were just sewing—quilting is the last step of the process. Yesterday I spent several hours with a wonderful girl named Hillary—the quilting/sewing/knitting guru. She had me choose a pattern (I picked Ports and Starboard, I think), pick out three pieces of fabric from her stash (light, medium, and dark), iron it all, cut my squares, and begin to sew them together.

I really enjoyed my first day, and love it already!

Here are some pictures from my first lesson, I can't wait to go back and finish up this square (which I plan to make into a pillow), then pick out fabric to start my first quilt.

Book 25: The Help

The Help was such a good book!

The characters were so well written, and the story was great. I saw the trailer for the movie before I started the book, and while I'm interested to see how Emma Stone will pull of the role of Skeeter, I have to say that Bryce Dallas Howard seems like she'll be a perfect Hilly.

I'm really looking forward to seeing the movie now, but am so glad that I read the book first.


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Movie 28: Bridesmaids

Bridesmaids was cute, too—nothing to rave about, but it was entertaining. There were definitely some funny parts.

Movie 27: Hangover II

We decided to take a trip to the drive-in last night, so we got to see two movies for less than the price of one at a regular theater!

Hangover II was good--I wasn't expecting much, but it kept me interested. I'd like to see it again when it comes out on DVD because I think we probably missed a lot of the small details.

Book 24: If I Stay

I chose If I Stay on a whim—I was wandering in Barnes and Noble hoping that something that would catch my eye—and the "Will appeal to fans of Stephenie Meyer's TWILIGHT" on the cover of this book did the trick.

After reading the book, the only similarity I found was that this book was picked up by Summit Studios and will be directed by Catherine Hardwick, the director of the Twilight movie.

All in all it wasn't bad—but I can't say that I've been raving about it either.

Book 23: The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner

I'd lent this book to a friend, and when she returned it last weekend I realized that I'd read it since I started my blog and forgotten to post!

The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner is a novella about a character that is only briefly in the third Twilight book/movie, and describes the events of Eclipse from her point of view.

It was a quick read and I was happy to have more background on the character before I saw the Eclipse last fall.