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Alex wrote: "My Favorite Book(s): 2010: Odyssey Two, Rendezvous With RamaMy Favorite Movie(s): The Departed
My Favorite Celebrity: Hmm...Tom Hanks?
My Favorite Author: Arthur C. Clarke, that's probably obvious..."
Ditto with music. I listen to all sorts of stuff, including classical, Broadway, folk, rock, and more, but I just can't get into country music.
Melissa wrote: "I have a real hard time with "fave" stuff but I will give it a try :)My Favorite Book(s): Bible, Rebecca, Tara Road
My Favorite Movie(s): Anything with Mark Wahlberg (I love him!) LOL. Not a big..."
Love Rebecca. :-)
Alyssa wrote: "My Favorite Book(s): Harry Potter series (got me started on reading)My Favorite Movie(s): The Notebook, Titanic, Pearl Harbor, The Avengers, Lord of The Rings, etc
My Favorite Celebrity: Johnny De..."
Ooh, Venice! I agree, Tuscany sounds a great place to live.
Hi guys :-)My Favorite Book(s):Alice in Wonderland
My Favorite Movie(s): Dolls, Agora, Before sunset
My Favorite Author: Stephen King
My Favorite Music: Jazz and movie soundtracks
Day Job: currently a nanny/English teacher
If I could live anywhere in the world it would be: a Spanish island
Weird stuff I’m into: I'm seriously addicted to those documentary shows about flight catastrophies
Why I read: because it's fun!
Cheers from Poland!
Aqueda wrote: "Hi guys :-)My Favorite Book(s):Alice in Wonderland
My Favorite Movie(s): Dolls, Agora, Before sunset
My Favorite Author: Stephen King
My Favorite Music: Jazz and movie soundtracks
Day Job: curren..."
Love movie soundtracks! Do you have a favorite? I'm always looking for recommendations.
I love movie soundtracks, too! I'm always buying them. ☺
Lisa Kay wrote: "I love movie soundtracks, too! I'm always buying them. ☺"So do I! They always seem to pick the perfect song for the perfect moment. You know which movies have an awesome soundtrack? Twilight! Horrible acting, great music.
Sashana wrote: "Lisa Kay wrote: "I love movie soundtracks, too! I'm always buying them. ☺"So do I! They always seem to pick the perfect song for the perfect moment. You know which movies have an awesome soundt..."
Really? I've actually never seen the movies, but I'll have to check out the music.
How in the world did you manage to get by without seeing even one of them? You are unbelievably lucky! lol
Sashana wrote: "How in the world did you manage to get by without seeing even one of them? You are unbelievably lucky! lol"My sisters went to the premiere of the first one and told me I would hate it, so I stayed away. I tend to be pretty critical of movies adapted from books I've read, even if I shouldn't be. For instance, I didn't really enjoy the Hunger Games movie, though everyone around me did.
Did you like the Harry Potter movies?
Sashana wrote: "Did you like the Harry Potter movies?"For the most part, yes. I had to try really hard to see them as separate from the books, though. I didn't like the fourth film, but I can watch it now without cringing and griping about everything they left out and changed. I've only seen the last one once, so I can't really give my opinion on it too well, but I remember enjoying it.
Sashana wrote: "They always seem to pick the perfect song for the perfect moment."They do! And then I can recall the scene in my mind. I'll have to check out Twilight's soundtrack. Though, I have no desire to see the movie again...or any of the rest in the series.
I'm trying to think of my favorite movie soundtrack...it is hard to choose. So, I'll just have to go with what I've listened to recently:
Forest Gump
Little Shop of Horrors
Working Girl
My Favorite Book(s): Harry Potter books. I loved them all for different reasons. I also love the Hunger Games series and the Twilight Saga.My Favorite Movie(s): Harry Potter, Die Hard
My Favorite Celebrity:Alan Rickman, Daniel Radcliffe, Bruce Willis
My Favorite Author: J.K. Rowling, Mary Higgins Clark, Johanna Lindsey
My Favorite Music: Ricky Martin, I Love Music
Sign: Aries
Day Job: Secretary, Mother
If I could live anywhere in the world it would be:??
Weird stuff I’m into: Christmas Music, Dancing
Why I read: For fun, to escape to wonderful places, and to use my imagination
Monica wrote: "My Favorite Book(s): Harry Potter books. I loved them all for different reasons. I also love the Hunger Games series and the Twilight Saga.My Favorite Movie(s): Harry Potter, Die Hard
My Favorit..."
Love your list! I'm a huge Harry Potter fan, too. I'm planning to reread them all fairly soon on audiobook. Also, love Alan Rickman. :-)
My Favorite Book(s): Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter novels, Discworld, His Dark Materials,The Name of the Wind, Wise Man's Fear and many more :)My Favorite Movie(s): hahahha - Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, How to train your dragon, Little Mermaid, Moulin Rouge...
My Favorite Celebrity: James Hatfield \m/
My Favorite Author: Tolkien, Pulman, Pratchett, Gaiman, Rothfuss, Rowling
My Favorite Music: heavy, nu, symphonic and trash metal
Sign: Taurus
Day Job: Student of Archaeology
If I could live anywhere in the world it would be: Rome or Firenza
Weird stuff I’m into:Bones, as in human bones. I wanna be a phorensic anthropologist when I grow up. I just love working in anthropologic laboratory. I also like to dig, but being an archaeologist, that's not too wierd, right?
Why I read: Because it's the ultimate advnature. You get to enjoy anything you can possibly think of. And if you don't like some plot twist or what-not, you can always do it your way. :)
Neat, Marie...and not too weird. ☺ BTW, I just saw How to Train Your Dragon for the first time. Loved it.
Lisa Kay wrote: "Neat, Marie...and not too weird. ☺ BTW, I just saw How to Train Your Dragon for the first time. Loved it."Thanks :) When I saw it for the first time with my boyfriend (home DVD version) we enjoyed it so much that as soon as it finished we played it again. Note that both of us are 22..:)
Yeah, it was so good, I bought it. Cute.
My Favorite Book(s): eragonMy Favorite Movie(s): August Rush, X-men first class, Tangled
My Favorite Celebrity: Dicaprio OR McAvoy
My Favorite Author: Rilke
My Favorite Music: inspirational
Sign: Aquarius
Day Job: Student
If I could live anywhere in the world it would be: somewhere peaceful and quiet and serene
Weird stuff I’m into: the wind?
Why I read: As an escape
I read
years ago, Remmy. Did you go on with the series?
Hi everyone ;)Fave books: Uhm... HP, Mistborn, Discworld (quite a lot of them), Extremely loud & incredible close, The Book Thief, ... I give up :D
Fave Movies: Lord of the Rings (all three of them.)
Favorite Celebrity: Johnny Depp, Viggo Mortensen, Rea Garvey
Fave Author: Gngh. JKR, Pterry, Brandon Sanderson, Patrick Rothfuss, ...
Fave music: Soundtracks. (Howard Shore...^^)
Sign: Scorpion
Day Job: pupil
If I could live anywhere...: Newsealand. I think.
Weird stuff I'm into: Weird for whom? I guess (trying to write) writing and worldbuilding stuff.
Why I read: Because. Why do we breathe?
I like that "why do we breathe" comment, Wendelin. ☺
Wendelin wrote: "Hi everyone ;)Fave books: Uhm... HP, Mistborn, Discworld (quite a lot of them), Extremely loud & incredible close, The Book Thief, ... I give up :D
Fave Movies: Lord of the Rings (all three of t..."
Love The Book Thief! I started the Mistborn series a while back but I haven't finished it. I've been meaning to pick it back up again, though. I loved the first book. I love your last comment, too. :)
Thanks, you two (does that even work in english?) Well, if there was some dark journey into Mordorlands and we'd just escaped The Big Bad Evil's dungeon to proceed further without food and water.. I'd still pull a book from somewhere ;D
@Mary: <3 This book. Every read is so incredible emotional, that's just... Hans Hubermann <3. Now I'm planting <3 everywhere, for they shall grow and grow to be one day some epic heart...Or something like that. Plus, I'm a sucker for books with dead (or DEAD).
Read it, read it, read it *chants* It's getting better and better and Awww! Now I want to get all spoilery :P
Wendelin wrote: "Thanks, you two (does that even work in english?) Well, if there was some dark journey into Mordorlands and we'd just escaped The Big Bad Evil's dungeon to proceed further without food and water...."
Hans! I know. Ahh. Okay, I'll get back into Mistborn. You've convinced me. I'll have to reread the first one, since it's been a while and I have a bad memory.
My Favorite Book(s): The Bell Jar and City of BonesMy Favorite Movie(s): Mean Girls, Bridesmaids, Girl Interrupted, The Silence of the Lambs, Steel Magnolias
My Favorite Celebrity: Blake Lively (gossip girl and the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants)
My Favorite Author: Sylvia Plath and Cassandra Clare
My Favorite Music: Acoustic and female Indie vocals (ingrid michaelson)
Sign: Aries
Day Job: Student
If I could live anywhere in the world it would be: Anywhere but the USA
Weird stuff I’m into: psychology, serial killers, basically human behavior at its worst
Why I read: To escape
Great list, Michelle! LOVE Ingrid Michaelson. Have you ever seen her live? She's so funny.
I never heard of her, Michelle & Mary. I'll have to do an Internet search.
Oh, found something neat on Ingrid Michaelson called "Blood Brothers". Pinned it to our Chatting About" Pinterest board.
My favorite songs of Ingrid's are "Sort Of," "Die Alone," "Overboard," "Keep Breathing," and off her new album, "End of the World"...but really, I love all her songs.
My Favorite Book(s): Tough one - it keeps changing My Favorite Movie(s): Apollo 13.
My Favorite Celebrity: Chris Martin, Gene Kranz, Jim Lovell
My Favorite Author: Clive Cussler,
My Favorite Music: At the moment I'm into Coldplay, Panic! At The Disco, Example and the Apollo 13 Soundtrack
Sign: Scorpio
Day Job: Postgraduate student studying ageing and health
If I could live anywhere in the world it would be: England, preferably East Anglia area near my parents
Weird stuff I’m into: I'm involved with St John Ambulance and get to help cover shifts on ambulances. I also like crochet, pilates, cross stitch, cooking, science!
Why I read: Escapism, relaxation, enjoyment. Some combination of those and other things!
Oh, I've had Clive Cussler on my radar for awhile now, Claire. Need to get to his books. I keep picking them up at the library, but Real Life gets in the way.
My Favorite Book(s): Harry Potter (always), Mark of Athena, The Fault In Our Stars
My Favorite Movie(s): The Princess Bride, The Avengers, various Disney/Pixar/Dreamworks movies
My Favorite Celebrity: uh...
My Favorite Author: JK Rowling, Neil Gaiman, and Rick Riordan
My Favorite Music: Whatever
Sign: Gemini
Day Job: High School
If I could live anywhere in the world it would be: Probably England or Australia or Japan
Weird stuff I’m into: Lolita (as in the style of clothes, not the book), comics and manga
Why I read: because it's fun. Like living another life, and doing things you'd never get to do.
My Favorite Movie(s): The Princess Bride, The Avengers, various Disney/Pixar/Dreamworks movies
My Favorite Celebrity: uh...
My Favorite Author: JK Rowling, Neil Gaiman, and Rick Riordan
My Favorite Music: Whatever
Sign: Gemini
Day Job: High School
If I could live anywhere in the world it would be: Probably England or Australia or Japan
Weird stuff I’m into: Lolita (as in the style of clothes, not the book), comics and manga
Why I read: because it's fun. Like living another life, and doing things you'd never get to do.
Lisa Kay wrote: "Oh, I've had Clive Cussler on my radar for awhile now, Claire. Need to get to his books. I keep picking them up at the library, but Real Life gets in the way."I prefere the Dirk Pitt ones and the Oregon Files. The NUMA files are good too but I'm not so keen on the The Fargo ones or the Issac Bell ones as they're not based on the sea as much.
I'd love to read them in the right order but we've lost our copy of the first book (although there is some debate as to whether we actually ever had it!!) and my local library doesn't have it. I'm looking out for a really cheap copy so I can get started.
Claire wrote: "My Favorite Book(s): Tough one - it keeps changing My Favorite Movie(s): Apollo 13.
My Favorite Celebrity: Chris Martin, Gene Kranz, Jim Lovell
My Favorite Author: Clive Cussler,
My Favorite Mu..."
Love Coldplay, Claire! Apollo 13, too! Great list. :-)
Hi I've been a member of this group for a while but have not really participated much. I'm coming out of lurkerdom this year.My Favorite Book(s):
this is hard to narrow down. Iced by Karen Marie Moning, Garden
Spell, Friday by Robert Heinlein, Storm Front
My Favorite Movie(s): Young Frankenstein, Magic Mike and not for its plot LOL
My Favorite Celebrity: Richard Gere, Tom Sellek, Anthony Stewart Head.
My Favorite Author: This is really hard I like so many. JD Robb, Robert Heinlein, Karen Marie Moning.
My Favorite Music: Richard Marx, Elton John, Carrie Underwood
Sign: Aries
Day Job: Medical Transcriptionist
If I could live anywhere in the world it would be: Hawaii house on the beach.
Weird stuff I’m into: Anything related to Buffy the vampire slayer, Thunderstorms (love them)
Stuff that isn't weird is crochet, cats, computers and reading
Why I read: To escape for a bit into someone else's world.Probably the reason I don't read alot of nonfiction and stick to paranormal for the most part.
TheButterflyEffect wrote: "My Favorite Book(s): Harry Potter (always), Mark of Athena, The Fault In Our StarsMy Favorite Movie(s): The Princess Bride, The Avengers, various Disney/Pixar/Dreamworks movies
My Favorite Celebri..."
The Princess Bride is my favorite, too! I can quote it all day long. :-D
Remmy wrote: "My Favorite Book(s): eragonMy Favorite Movie(s): August Rush, X-men first class, Tangled
My Favorite Celebrity: Dicaprio OR McAvoy
My Favorite Author: Rilke
My Favorite Music: inspirational
Sign: ..."
oh I forgot that I love wind too. I love a windy day.
Joyce wrote: "Hi I've been a member of this group for a while but have not really participated much. I'm coming out of lurkerdom this year.My Favorite Book(s):
this is hard to narrow down. Iced by Karen Marie..."
Just saw this, Joyce! I'm a huge Buffy fan, too. I love that Anthony Stewart Head is one of your favorite celebrities. My boyfriend gave me a CD of his that he put out a while back. I love his voice. :-)
Mary wrote: "Joyce wrote: "Hi I've been a member of this group for a while but have not really participated much. I'm coming out of lurkerdom this year.My Favorite Book(s):
this is hard to narrow down. Iced ..."
His voice makes me melt. I wish he would put out another album.
Joyce wrote: "Mary wrote: "Joyce wrote: "Hi I've been a member of this group for a while but have not really participated much. I'm coming out of lurkerdom this year.My Favorite Book(s):
this is hard to narro..."
Me too!
My Favorite Book(s): Harry Potter, Twilight seriesMy Favorite Movie(s): Breakfast in Tiffany's, The Breakfast Club
My Favorite Celebrity: Emma Watson
My Favorite Author: JK Rowling
My Favorite Music: Different kinds of genre
Sign: Taurus
Day Job: Marketer
If I could live anywhere in the world it would be: Italy
Weird stuff I’m into: I like to eat breakfast foods for meals all day.
Why I read: I like the escape it brings me.
Christen, I love breakfast food! I could eat it all day long as well.
Me too! Mmm. I wouldn't mind moving to Italy, either. Love your list, Christen!
My Favorite Book(s): To Kill a Mockingbird, Room, Defending Jacob, anything by Michael Connelly, Hunger Games...and many more!My Favorite Movie(s): Sleepless in Seattle, Good Will Hunting, Toy Story, Titanic, The Help, Star Trek movies, the Dark Knight movies
My Favorite Celebrity: Don't really have one.
My Favorite Author: too hard to pick just one...love Michael Connelly, David Baldacci, Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Weiner, James Patterson, Patricia Cornwell, Anne Tyler, Chris Bohjalian, Lee Child, Tess Gerritsen and many more!
My Favorite Music: I have eclectic taste...everything from classical to hard rock. Some of my favorite artists/bands are - Chopin, Debussy, Billy Joel, Gary Allan, David Cook, My Chemical Romance, Muse, and Green Day.
Sign: Scorpio
Day Job: Piano Teacher
If I could live anywhere in the world it would be: Hawaii
Weird stuff I’m into: I'm addicted to pumpkin seeds in the shell. I think I'm part squirrel, lol. Also, if I find an author I like, I absolutely *have* to read all of their books in order of publication. Not that weird, but I also love Pinterest and ICHC.
Why I read: I read every night before I go to sleep. I don't think I can fall asleep without reading SOMETHING. I've been doing that every night for as long as I can remember. My idea of the perfect afternoon is curling up on the sofa with a cup of coffee and a good book!
Love your list, Valerie! To Kill a Mockingbird is my favorite book. I have yet to read Room, but I've heard wonderful things about it. Debussy and Chopin are two of my go-to composers, too - especially when I'm reading.
Thanks, Mary! I was surprised at how long it took me to fill out that list...so hard to choose!
Love your list Valerie! That is why I haven't filled this section out. I simply can't choose favorites in all of these catagories.
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