NinjaKid

"Men aren’t stupid, and you don’t need a complicated set of rules to find a good one who loves you...."

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 01:58:43 -0500

“Men aren’t stupid, and you don’t need a complicated set of rules to find a good one who loves you. Here’s the only rule you need: if a man loves you, he will do anything he can to keep you around. Anything.”

- Kim Gruenenfelder, A Total Waste of Makeup (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)

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Sat, 26 Jan 2013 01:58:31 -0500

towintheline: eternal-bloom: THERE IS A POLAR BEAR QUICKLY...

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 01:52:50 -0500

towintheline:

eternal-bloom:

THERE IS A POLAR BEAR QUICKLY AMBLING TOWARDS ME OH MY HEART

this is the cutest thing i’ve ever seen :O

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Sun, 06 Jan 2013 20:41:03 -0500

passdebourre: SOMEBODY HAS THIS URL OMFG I DIDN’T KNOW THE...

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 20:40:21 -0500

passdebourre:

SOMEBODY HAS THIS URL OMFG I DIDN’T KNOW THE QUOTE EVERYTHING MAKES SENSE NOW

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Sun, 06 Jan 2013 15:44:22 -0500

lovequotesrus: EVERYTHING LOVE

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 15:44:17 -0500

lovequotesrus:

EVERYTHING LOVE

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Sun, 06 Jan 2013 15:40:16 -0500

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Sun, 06 Jan 2013 15:39:44 -0500

hplyrikz: The best quotes on Tumblr.

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:17:44 -0500

hplyrikz:

The best quotes on Tumblr.

beach day! @ninjyjd @lauraworley #relaxed #sohappy (Taken with...

Sat, 28 Jul 2012 13:28:20 -0400

beach day! @ninjyjd @lauraworley #relaxed #sohappy (Taken with Instagram at Beach Four Seasons)

short hair, don’t care(: #yayy #newhair (Taken with...

Fri, 20 Jul 2012 19:14:48 -0400

short hair, don’t care(: #yayy #newhair (Taken with Instagram)

short hair, don’t care(: #yayyy #newhair (Taken with...

Fri, 20 Jul 2012 19:11:18 -0400

short hair, don’t care(: #yayyy #newhair (Taken with Instagram)

#success #bucketlist #booyahh @makenzie_manning @scoutie44 ...

Sat, 14 Jul 2012 13:17:52 -0400

#success #bucketlist #booyahh @makenzie_manning @scoutie44 (Taken with Instagram)

even after all this time the sun never says to the earth,...

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 22:31:12 -0400

even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, “you owe me.” look what happens with a love like that. it lights the whole sky. (Taken with Instagram)

WHY?!?!? #gross #gross #gross (Taken with Instagram)

Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:18:19 -0400

WHY?!?!? #gross #gross #gross (Taken with Instagram)

the great gatsby: read-a-long

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:46:00 -0500

So I’ve decided that I’m going to join my mom, undercoverreader, in a read-a-long of The Great Gatsby with unputdownables. It looks like a pretty good book, but I’ve never read it before. There’s apparently a movie that’s going to come out soon which made me want to read it even more. I’m pretty pumped about this read-a-long!

Now, every Friday until the end of January, I’ll do a blog post of what I’ve read, and what I think of it so far. You can still sign up if you’d like! The website to sign up for the read-along is unputdownables, so go for it!

Here’s the reading schedule if you’re interested:

Schedule:

Beginning Thursday, December 29th and ending Friday, January 27th.

READING SCHEDULE:

Week #/ dates :: Place in which to STOP

Print Readers:

Week One/ December 29- January 5 :: page 45
Week Two/ January 6- 12 :: page 90
Week Three/ January 13- 19 :: page 135
Week Four/ January 20- 27 :: page 180 (The End)

E-Readers (Thank you to Ashley for figuring out the following):

“I’m using a Nook, and my ebook ends at 129 pages.
(I’m basing the hard copy off 180 pages)”

First break is in chapter 3 – page 37/129
Second break is in chapter 5 – page 68/129
Third break is in chapter 7 – page 97/129
Last break is just pages 98-129

POSTING SCHEDULE:

Post #/ date post should be up on blog:

Start up Post/ Today!
Week One/ January 6th
Week Two/ January 13th
Week Three/ January 20th
Week Four/ January 27th (Final Review)

Hope you join!

the night circus: book review

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 21:19:27 -0500

The Night Circus takes place between 1873 and 1903, mainly occurring in London and Concord, Massachusetts. The book takes place in a circus that is only open from dusk to dawn, and it is controlled by manipulation. The circus is enchanting, causing people to become unable to distinguish reality from circus. The patrons of the circus do not realize that it is controlled by magic, thinking it just strange and all an illusion.

Celia Bowen begins the story at six years old, brought to her father by a lawyer after her mother kills herself. Celia’s father is Hector Bowen, otherwise known as Prospero the Enchanter by the world. He performs in front of audiences who are ignorant to the fact that his magic shows are more than a pocket sewn into a jacket sleeve or a slight of hand. Hector finds out that Celia can manipulate objects, making them break or repair, similar to his own talents. He takes her in as his student to help her learn how to control the manipulation, and contacts his old friend to come and see her. His friend, the man in the grey suit, or Alexander, watches Celia carefully, regarding her skills after less than a year of study. Hector talks to Alexander, and convinces him to place Celia in a challenge with an opponent Alexander must choose and train himself. Alexander binds Celia to this game, leaving her with a scar on her right ring finger.

A few months later, Alexander arrives at an orphanage, looking to find a worthy player in the game. He finds a little boy named Marco, who is almost nine. He studies with Alexander, mostly reading and writing down symbols, occasionally attending magic shows at the theater. Afterward, the man in the grey suit binds Marco as well, leaving behind a scar very like Celia’s. Marco meets a young woman named Isobel by accident because he dropped his notebook of drawings and symbols and she finds it. He discovers that Isobel reads tarot cards, and they discuss the cards and talk about Marco’s notebook and its contents. Both Celia and Marco continue their training, Celia still with her father, Marco now on his own, until Alexander gets Marco a job as a book keeper for M. Chandresh Christophe Lefevre.

The reader is then introduced to Bailey Clarke, a ten year old boy who works on his family’s orchard farm, and dreams of being swept away by knights, taken far away from his dull life. He is dared by his older sister Caroline to sneak into the circus during the day, and to show he really did sneak in, he has to bring back something he found inside the circus. He sneaks in, and meets a red headed girl about his own age. She takes him to a place he can get out again, and she gives him her white glove so he can prove to Caroline he really snuck in.

As the book continues, the reader finds out how the circus came into existence, and follows Celia, Marco, and Bailey as their separate stories combine.

I thought this book was well written, yet at times too descriptive, to the point that I couldn’t picture the object being described. At times the book seemed to last forever and at the very beginning, I wasn’t sure how it was all going to fit together. As I read, however, the story line cleared up. Towards the end, I couldn’t put the book down because of the turn of events, but I feel like the ending was rushed, and I have many unanswered questions. Overall, it was a good book, and I would give it 4 out of 5 stars.