Book Fanatic

Breaking Dawn

2011-03-24T18:36:00.000-07:00

im so glad to finally finish "Breaking Dawn" of the Twilight Saga..

Through audio book..

I remember One night when I fell asleep listening to it, I dreamed of vampires and wolf..hehehe though the dream is confusing coz I don't know if I am a vampire or a wolf.. hahaha its a bit scary..but I can't remember the entire dream... so when I woke up, I laugh at my dream and never listen to it at night...hehehe

Anyway, Breaking Dawn is great..though I expect a little more actions..hehe

what they really focus there is the family ties..the family bond..and it's nice..sticking with your family..defend your family and friends..the values..
two thumbs up for Ms. Meyer..

Tuesdays with Morrie

2010-08-20T19:28:00.000-07:00

by Youtube..

Harry Potter Series

2010-08-14T20:06:00.000-07:00

Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows..The seventh and the Final book of the Harry Potter Novel Series of J.K. Rowling.

I'm planning to read again the book to refresh my memory...hehe i actually bought and read the book, almost 3 years ago..that's the only hard bound harry potter book that i have..all other 6 copies are soft bound only...

Still, up to this moment, I'm a Number 1 fan of Harry Potter series...

A recap of the 7 Harry Potter Series

1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

It is sad that it's gonna end soon...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

2010-08-13T14:01:00.000-07:00

Excited for these Part 1...Enjoy the trailer..

- Youtube

Tuesdays with Morrie

2010-08-05T04:12:00.000-07:00

I already finished the book, “Tuesdays with Morrie”, 3 weeks ago..But due to lack of time, hmm the review has been delayed..hehe

For the whole book, it is really an inspirational one. You will learn so many lessons in life. You will be enlightened in some points of your life. The wisdom, understanding and insights of Morrie on life are so deep. That if you just did what he did, you will live your life with so much meaning and delight.

Vampire Diaries

2010-08-01T19:07:00.000-07:00

wew...i just finished watching Vampire Diaries Season 1...it's awesome...I can't wait to see and watch Season 2..

HIV and Aids

2010-07-25T14:00:00.000-07:00

Aids is Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, which was first recognized in Los Angeles, USA in 1981. The causal agent was identified in 1983 and designated the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, or HIV. Recently, in Britain at least, it has dropped out of the limelight to a certain extent because of the advent of the BSE/CID crisis. This may be party due to the fact that although the numbers of people affected have been distressingly high, the early doomsday predictions of deaths on an apocalyptic scale have not been fulfilled.

However, there is no room for complacency - the virus is the cause of enormous human suffering and premature death on a huge scale throughout the world. It affects people of both sexes, all ages and in every walk of life, and there were over 100,000 deaths from HIV infections and Aids in 1990 alone. At the present time, there is no cure and the expected outcome for those who develop Aids is premature death.

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS

HIV is a ribonucleic acid (RNA) retrovirus that is able to introduce its genetic material into the DNA of body cells. The virus is found in blood fluids such as semen and vaginal secretions. It is transmitted mainly by sexual intercourse containing HIV re transferred to the body of a non-infected person. HIV affects white blood cells, known as T-lymphocyte, which are vital to the effective operation of the immune system. Natural immunity declines, leaving the person increasingly vulnerable to the development of certain opportunistic infections and tumors. Hence the parts of the body initially involved in HIV and Aids are the immune system, including T-lymphocytes, lymph nodes and glands, bone marrow, the spleen and also the liver.

Tuesdays with Morie

2010-07-13T04:29:00.000-07:00

"Tuesdays with Morie"

ever heard of the book??well, a very close to me handed me that book, she recommended the book to me to read...according to her, the book contains so many lessons in life...and it is worthy to be read...

im just starting to read the book,..and later on, i'll be posting some info,...my opinion, or reactions...

Pre-Birthday Giveaway Contest by Housemom77

2010-07-09T05:19:00.000-07:00

Nice, isn't it? Well, i wish i could have this beautiful jewelries... :) So, that's why, i am participating again in a contest...where in these jewelries will be the prize...

Oh, i can't imagine myself wearing these jewelries,..hehe seems like i can't think of any of my dress that will suit this jewelries...haha (really am thinking)...but, oops...i think, its easier to find a dress than to have this...

So, im taking my luck by joining the "Pre-Birthday Giveaway contest"...

By the way, these jewelries costs $40.00.. :)

So, for all the bloggers out there, feel free to join the contest...you can check all the details/mechanics by clicking this badge.....

Contest open July 8, 2010 and will last August 15, 2010...

Wishing us all luck!!

God Bless!

ECLIPSE Now Showing

2010-07-08T19:23:00.001-07:00

ECLIPSE is now showing!!

but apparently, i haven't still watched it.. :(

sad part, i don't have enough budget to go to cinema...and i don't have companion...plus time...hays

and it's a bit awkward if i watch the movie alone...hehehe

wel, i hope i will find time and have money before the last day of showing...

hope you guys enjoy the movie...

New Moon Trailer

2009-11-20T17:12:00.000-08:00

Source: www.youtube.com

I wish i can watch this on wide screen.. :(

Busy

2009-10-15T05:20:00.000-07:00

wow..its been awhile since my last post..

I've been busy with my work..and don't have time to update my blog..huhu

I have so many books that i haven't read yet...

I hope that I could find time to read and be back in the bloggers world...

have a nice day guys...

2009-07-04T18:10:00.000-07:00

I have this book, actually a compilation of Health and Home for the whole year 2008...
The cover was entitled "Beauty with a Mission"..

The book contains topic about life, family, GOD, health..actually anything and everything under the sun..but surely, every topic that was discussed in the book was educational..you will learn...

For the January-February issue, the topic that really caught my attention was "Face-off with the Family Teen".

It discusses about a teenager in her adolescence and how her mom deal with her with GOD between them..

2009-06-03T07:23:00.000-07:00

New Moon, coming soon this NOVEMBER....
weee, im excited to watch the movie..,
i watched the trailer, and its so beautiful..
the effects are great,...especially the transformation..
and Bella is much beautiful now than twilight...and even Alice... :)
and wew, Jacob is also something here..hehehe

wish to watch it sooner....ehehe

ANGELS & DEMONS (TEASER)

2009-05-15T19:48:00.000-07:00

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
NOW SHOWING!!!!

Angels & Demons

2009-05-15T18:08:00.000-07:00

When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol -- seared into the chest of a murdered physicist -- he discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati... the most powerful underground organization ever to walk the earth.

The Illuminati has surfaced from the shadows to carry out the final phase of its legendary vendetta against its most hated enemy... the Catholic Church.

Langdon's worst fears are confirmed on the eve of the Vatican's holy conclave, when a messenger of the Illuminati announces he has hidden an unstoppable time bomb at the very heart of Vatican City. With the countdown under way, Langdon jets to Rome to join forces with Vittoria Vetra, a beautiful and mysterious Italian scientist, to assist the Vatican in a desperate bid for survival.

Embarking on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and even to the heart of the most secretive vault on earth, Langdon and Vetra follow a 400-year old trail of ancient symbols that snakes across Rome toward the long-forgotten Illuminati lair... a secret location that contains the only hope for Vatican salvation.

An explosive international thriller, ANGELS & DEMONS careens from enlightening epiphanies to dark truths as the battle between science and religion turns to war...

(from the Official Website of Dan Brown)

im back!!!

2009-03-17T05:23:00.000-07:00

helo guys...i'm back!!!

its been, what?? 1 1/2 months since my last post..its just that my laptop had been damaged and i was really sad... :( imagine, i can't drop entrecards and can't update my blog also..i tried to rent a pc outside but their connections are too slow that it costs me much but haven't done anything at all...

so i am very happy now coz i have my laptop back..ehehehe
and i am back in the blogger's world...

Seize the Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon

2009-03-16T07:28:00.000-07:00

I was born the noble son of a legendary Roman senator. I walked through the ancient world as a general, admired and supreme until a bbrutal betrayal caused me to bargain my soul. Now I'm an immortal Dark-Hunter, bound to protect mankind from the evill scourge that hunts it. Over the centuries, I've seen many frightening thing: plagues, pertilence, disco musiics....

And now Tabitha Devereaux. A human, she has trained herself to fight vampires every but as capably as any Dark-Hunter. Idiosyncratic and off-beat, she is my personal bane - and yet she beguiled me. There are only two small problems. She happens to be the twin of my mortal enemy's wife. More than that, Tabitha and her sister are being stalked by a power that will not rest until everyone she olds dear is dead.

Unlike my Dark-Hunter brethen, I rely on no one but myself. They spurned me and I turned my back on them. But the ony way to save Tabitha and her family is to find some way to bridge a two-thousand-year-old feud.

They say opposites attract, but they can stay together when eve the Fates conspire to keep them apart? Then again, the Fates have never dealt with the likes of Tabitha Devereaux before. They're going to be in for quite a fight....

--Valerius Magnus

My experience

2009-01-20T23:26:00.000-08:00

I first read the Harry Potter book series way back in college. Actually, I just borrowed it from a friend (Hi, Lordy). She's also the person who introduced me to this book series. And I as a book lover, it is so hard to stop when I started reading. 'Coz All i want is to finish the book right away. But it took me a week for every book to finish (i need to study also :p)....
At that time, i can't afford to buy this book for myself but once I have the means (money), I will surely buy all the books I loved, and I will start to collect books.
This book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was the first book I bought from my first salary... :-) Then afterward, the book 1-5 of Harry Potter.

Anyway....again, Rowling did a job well done in this Harry Potter series. In her last series which is Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the actions is almost heart stopping but this series of Rowling is truly a heart stopping. Especially the death of Albus Dumbledore.

This book really captured my full attention and it was hard to stop.

This are my favorite parts in the book.

* The Half-Blood Prince book issue...I was really intrigued by the person behind the Half-Blood Prince. It crossed my mind that the owner of the book is a Dark wizard because of the dangerous spells and potions embedded in the book. But it didn't crossed my mind that it was Severus Snape. It's like, ows? the owner of the book is Snape?? and his a half-wizard and half-muggle...

* and wew, Harry used the most dangerous spell to Malfoy..(serves him right in trying to hurt Harry first)

* another one is the journey of Dumbledore and Harry through the Pensieve. Because this journey shows the past of Voldemort..How Voldemort turned into a powerful Dark wizard.

* and also Harry's romance..not toward Cho Chang but towards Ginny Wesley (Ron's sister). yes, at last he sees Ginny as a lady not a little sister. of course there's Ron and Hermione's romance...

* their encounter with third Horcruxes. The sacrifice Dumbledore made, results of him being weak..

* and last, the fight between the Death Eater and Dumledore (Hogwarts). While Harry in his invisibility cloak, Dumbledore face Draco. But because Draco can't kill Dumbledore (he has still conscience, to my surprise) Snape immediately take the responsibility of killing Dumbledore. Yes, in front of Harry, Snape kill Dumbledore.

After that scene, I really can't accept the fact that Dumbledore is dead. Is he really dead? I wish it was a only a joke, a trick. That after that, I will be surprised that Dumbledore is still alive. But I already finished the book without him being alive again.
So, I waited for the seventh or the last book to know my answer. And there in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, all the questions that is hanging in my mind was answered.
So grab the book and start reading..have fun!!!

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

2009-01-19T20:52:00.000-08:00

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As the 6th year of Harry Potter begun in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, an old book of Advance potions was found by Harry that gives a helpful potion tips and spells, and also contains a extremely dangerous spell. The book is property of the so-called Half Blood Prince. Horace Slughorn as their new potion teacher. While Snape (old potion teacher) is now the new Defense Against Dark Arts teacher.

The book helps Harry on all his activity in potion class. Though Hermione disagrees on him of using the book. She thinks that the book is owned by a dark wizard. They even search the name on the library but they can't find anything about the Half Blood Prince. But eventually, they will discover who is the Half Blood Prince. That the Half Blood refers to being a muggle and the Prince part refers to his mother's maiden name.

At the that instance, Harry started to feel something romantic towards Ginny Weasley (Ron's sister). Ron goes out with Lavender Brown, and Hermione gets very jealous. They fight a lot, but only because they like each other.

Dumbledore and Harry explore Voldemort's past through Dumbledore's pensive (a collection of Dumbledore's memory). They also learned about the seven Horcruxes, which is the division of Voldemort's soul. They made him immortal until such time that all of them are distroyed. Two of his soul was destroyed, including the one in Voldemort. They tried to get rid of another one but the aftermath leaves Dumbledore weak.

While Harry learned all of this, his suspicious about Draco Malfoy as Death Eater has been right. Because Draco manages to sneak Death Eaters into Hogwarts using a pair of vanishing cabinets in the room of requirements. It is well planned. And Draco's main job was to kill Dumbledore. Dumbledore being weak after their encounter in one of Voldemort's Horcrux, was easily captured by the Death Eater while Harry is being hidden in the invisible cloak. Snape turns up after Draco cannot kill Dumbledore and afterward kills Dumbledore. Draco, Snape, and the Death Eaters escape afterwards.

The death of Dumbledore resulted in Hogwarts of probably going to be closed. But Harry announces he won't be returning anyway; he will attempt to finish the work he and Dumbledore started, destroying Horcruxes so Voldemort can be destroyed.

2009-01-18T13:00:00.000-08:00

Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince will be shown on July 17, 2009.

J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter Book Series (1-7)

2009-01-16T19:00:00.000-08:00

About the Author

Joanne Rowling was born in Yate, near Bristol, a few miles south of a town called Dursley ("Harry Potter"'s Muggle-family). Her father Peter Rowling was an engineer for Rolls Royce in Bristol at this time. Her mother, Anne, was half-French and half-Scottish. They met on a train as it left King's Cross Station in London. Her sister Diana is about 2 years younger than Joanne. In 1971, Peter Rowling moved his family to the nearby village of Winterbourne (still in the Bristol vicinity). During the family's residence in Winterbourne, Jo and Di Rowling were friends with neighborhood children, Ian and Vikki Potter. In 1974, the Rowling family moved yet again, this time to Tutshill, near the Welsh border-town of Chepstow in the Forest of Dean and across the Severn River from the greater Bristol area. Rowling admits to having been a bit of a daydreamer as a child and began writing stories at the age of six. After leaving Exeter University, where she read French and Classics, she started work as a teacher but daydreamed about becoming a writer. One day, stuck on a delayed train for four hours between Manchester and London, she dreamed up a boy called "Harry Potter". That was in 1990. It took her six years to write the book. In the meantime, she went to teach in Portugal, married a Portuguese television journalist, had her daughter, Jessica, divorced her husband and returned to Britain when Jessica was just three months old. She went to live in Edinburgh to be near her sister, Di. Her sudden penury made her realize that it was "back-against-the-wall time" and she decided to finish her "Harry Potter" book. She sent the manuscript to two agents and one publisher, looking up likely prospects in the library. One of these agents that she picked at random based on the fact that she liked his name, Christopher Little, was immediately captivated by the manuscript and signed her on as his client within three days. During the 1995-1996 time-frame, while hoping to get the manuscript for "Harry Potter & The Philosopher's Stone" published, Rowling worked as a French teacher in Edinburgh. Several publishers turned down the manuscript before Bloomsbury agreed to purchase it in 1996.

*from imdb.com

Hello, Darkness

2009-01-15T06:10:00.000-08:00

Sandra Brown, one of the world's bestselling author of sophisticated suspense, raises the stakes with her startlingly vivid new novel---a supercharged thriller electric with sexual tension.

Since moving to Austin to ease the pain of tragic mistakes, Paris Gibson has led a life of virtual isolation, coming alive only at night when she host her popular radio show. Then one listener -- who identifies him as "Valentino" --tells Paris that the girl he loves jilted him because of Paris's on-air advice. He intends to exact revenge by killing the girl and them coming after Paris. In a race against time, Paris is thrust back into the public eye and allied with the police --including crime psychologist Dean MAlloy, the very man she had mmoved to Austin to avoid. Desperate to stop the sinister Valentino from carrying out his terrible threats, Paris must also confront her own demons....

(from the book itself)

The Tales of Beedle the Bard

2009-01-06T22:32:00.000-08:00

The Tales of Beedle the Bard, a Wizarding classic, first came to Muggle readers’ attention in the book known as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Now, thanks to Hermione Granger’s new translation from the ancient runes, we present this stunning edition with an introduction, notes, and illustrations by J. K. Rowling, and extensive commentary by Albus Dumbledore. Never before have Muggles been privy to these richly imaginative tales: “The Wizard and the Hopping Pot,” “The Fountain of Fair Fortune,” “The Warlock’s Hairy Heart,” “Babbitty Rabbitty and Her Cackling Stump,” and of course, “The Tale of the Three Brothers.” But not only are they the equal of fairy tales we now know and love, reading them gives new insight into the world of Harry Potter.

------I am currently reading this book..

*from scholastics.com
**picture from Amazon.com

Dan Brown

2008-12-29T17:42:00.000-08:00

About the Author

Dan Brown is the author of numerous bestselling novels, including the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Da Vinci Code -- one of the best selling novels of all time. In early 2004, all four of Dan Brown's novels held spots on the New York Times bestseller list during the same week.

Recently named one of the World's 100 Most Influential People by TIME Magazine, Dan Brown has made appearances on CNN, The Today Show, National Public Radio, Voice of America, as well as in the pages of Newsweek, Forbes, People, GQ, The New Yorker, and others. His novels have been translated and published in more than 40 languages around the world.

Dan is a graduate of Amherst College and Phillips Exeter Academy, where he spent time as an English teacher before turning his efforts fully to writing. In 1996, his interest in code-breaking and covert government agencies led him to write his first novel, Digital Fortress, which quickly became a #1 national bestselling eBook. Set within the clandestine National Security Agency, the novel explores the fine line between civilian privacy and national security. Brown’s follow-up techno-thriller, Deception Point, centered on similar issues of morality in politics, national security, and classified technology.

The son of a Presidential Award winning math professor and of a professional sacred musician, Dan grew up surrounded by the paradoxical philosophies of science and religion. These complementary perspectives served as inspiration for his acclaimed novel Angels & Demons—a science vs. religion thriller set within a Swiss physics lab and Vatican City. Recently, he has begun work on a series of symbology thrillers featuring his popular protagonist Robert Langdon, a Harvard professor of iconography and religious art. The upcoming series will include books set in Paris, London, and Washington D.C.

*from the official website of Dan Brown

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

2008-12-26T04:52:00.000-08:00

A young Bella Swan (at 17) decided to live with her father in Forks, where mist and rain was constant.

Bella, a young girl at 17 from Phoenix, decided to live with her dad, Charlie in a small and gloomy Pacific North-West town of Forks. Forks where she doesn't expect to like it, does have her a new set of friends and settle into a new school.

As she starts the day in Forks, she was immediately intrigued by a set of students. Those students are the Cullen. Adopted children of Dr. Cullen. They are all attractive and almost inhumanly beautiful. But what she caught most of her attention was Edward Cullen. For she can't take off her eyes on him.

At first Edward is aloof, sometimes it almost seems like he can’t stand to be in the same room as her, but eventually they strike up an unlikely friendship. Even as Bella falls hopelessly and irrevocably in love with Edward, she still can’t work out exactly what makes him so different to everyone else.

Bella's friends have invited her in a trip to the beach where she was told by Jacob, a family friend, about the "cold ones". A local legend that was about a group of blood drinkers who have sworn off hunting humans but are still welcome on Indian land because vampires are not to be trusted. Realising Edward is vampire changes nothing for Bella, she knows that she still loves him even if he’s not human.

She eventually told Edward that she knows that he and his family are vampires but still she was not afraid of him and was deeply inlove with him. And she is willing to become a vampire for him.

But Edward refuses her and tell her about their stories. For Edward his love for Bella is both a delight and a torment. A delight because she is the first person he has loved since he was made a vampire. A torment because although he has sworn off human blood and only hunts animals the craving for human blood never truly leaves him and the very scent of her also stirs his hunger for blood. And the fear to loose her when a set of vampires, "the hunters", came to their town and started to hunt for bloods.

Twilight Trailer

2008-12-19T04:58:00.000-08:00

by: www.youtube.com

Stephenie Meyer - Twilight Series

2008-12-18T01:46:00.000-08:00

About the Author

Stephenie born in Connecticut in 1973. Her family was settled in Phoenix by the time she was four. The unusual spelling of her name came from her father, Stephen ( + ie).

Stephenie went to high school in Scottsdale, Arizona. She was awarded a National Merit Scholarship, and she used it to pay her way to Brigham Young University, in Provo, Utah. She majored in English.

Stephenie met her husband, Pancho, when she was four, but they only saw each other weekly through church activities. When they finally got around to exchanging words, sixteen years after their first meeting, it only took nine months from the first "hello" to the wedding.

They have been married for ten and a half years now, and have three boys. Gabe is eight, Seth is five, and Eli is three.

Twilight is her very first novel. New Moon is the second book in the series, Eclipse the third. The fourth book Breaking Dawn will be released this August.

*from imdb.com

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

2008-12-14T23:45:00.000-08:00