Introductions: In a nut shell…

[Lisarenee]

Chelsea I'll have to check out Lisa Unger since we seem to have similar tastes. :)

[Lisarenee]

Ash wrote,"My Favorite Book(s): Way too many to pick just one."

The sign of a true book addict. Welcome.

[*Ash*]

Thanks Lisarenee. :-)

[Sarah]

My Favorite Book(s): Persuasion by Jane Austen and Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
My Favorite Movie(s): Riding in Cars with Boys
My Favorite Celebrity: Sandra Bullock, Drew Berrymore, and Ellen Paige
My Favorite Author: Jane Austen
My Favorite Music: I go through phases right now it's country
Sign: Virgo
Day Job: Student
If I could live anywhere in the world it would be: Scotland or England
Weird stuff I’m into: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Magic the Gathering (I can't believe I'm even mentioning it!)
Why I read: I get to exercise my mind and I enjoy stories. I love everything involved in the production of a novel not just the end result.

[Rachel]

Country is good for the most part!

I have always wanted to get into Magic, but I just don't have the time. :( I cannot believe I am mentioning that either. Haha.

[Sashana]

I was on a major country kick a few weeks ago. I love Lady Antebellum, Miranda Lambert, Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood. Now I'm in my Brit chicks phase, Adele, Lily Allen, and La Roux.

[Rachel]

Check out Portishead...British through and through. Beautiful. In fact, I am putting her in now.

[Rachel]

on* We don't put music IN anymore...CD players? What? :D

[Sashana]

Rachel wrote: "Check out Portishead...British through and through. Beautiful. In fact, I am putting her in now."

Sure Rachel, any song suggestions?

[Rachel]

Wandering Star, Mysterons, Glory Box, and Only You are the more well known ones. However, they are all good!

Her music is very, very chill and some quite mellow. However, that is mainly what I listen to. Let me know what you think. It does grow on you eventually.

[Sashana]

Okay, I'll have a listen.

[Sarah]

Rachel wrote: "Country is good for the most part!

I have always wanted to get into Magic, but I just don't have the time. :( I cannot believe I am mentioning that either. Haha."

I didn't really know what it was until my fiancee got me into it. It's really fun actually. We only really play each other and his siblings. I've never done a tournament or anything.

[Sashana]

Erm, inquiring minds would like to know what exactly is Magic the Gathering?

[Rachel]

Yeah, I don't know about all the tournament stuff. I think that is a little too hardcore and serious for me! When things start to get that serious, I feel like it is a job or obligation and it stops being fun.

[Rachel]

*GASP* WHAT? Lol. Jk. :)

It is a fantasy card game...complex and time consuming. Card collection and the actual game play takes awhile. Sort of like a role video game, but with playing cards. You are given "life points" at the beginning of the game which is similar to HP in a video game. There is a virtual version of Magic also.

I could keep going for a long time, but I will stop there.

Think Dungeons and Dragons, but in my opinion, better.

Sarah, anything you want to add to that?

[Sarah]

@Rachel - Yeah I know what you mean about that. I don't want to be so hardcore like that. I just want to have fun.

@Sashana - Magic the Gathering is a card game. It's really nerdy haha. You can check it out at magicthegathering.com :)

[Rachel]

Oh yeah, and you lose life points by other players casting the magic cards. Hence the name Magic. Different colors of magic do different things.

[Sarah]

@Rachel - You pretty much covered it. Plus, it's not just a boys game! There are plenty of girls that play it. You can design your own deck of cards that revolves around a universal theme. For example, I have a deck that is based on Angels. Most - if not all of the cards in my deck have to do with angels.

[Sarah]

There are creature cards you use to attack with that also take down your opponents life or takes out their creatures so they have no defense.

[Sashana]

*backs slowly away from Sarah and Rachel* lol

[Rachel]

I did not know that. I have never really sat down and played. I have watched on and off at parties and such and what I know is what I have concluded from simply observing. Never had the whold game explained to me, logistics and all.

[Rachel]

I would base my deck off of bands. Could I do that or does it have to be mythical/supernatural/etc?

[Rachel]

LMAO. Sashana, you just made my day. Now you know why we said that we could not believe we admitted to liking/playing it. ;)

[Sarah]

Poor Sashana. You should probably run far far away. :D

Rachel - they're based on mythical creatures (goblins, elves, giants, merfolk, etc.)plus humans or concepts or if you find that two or more cards work really well together that would work. (wow lots of ors there haha) It's complicated at first but then once you've played a few times you catch on quick.

[Rachel]

Haha. Gotcha. I really should st down and play one day.

[Sarah]

Haha you should try it, it's fun once you get into it :)

[Sans]

Sarah, I love that you're into Magic. I didn't have enough patience for RPG. Or voddie. ^o^

[Sarah]

haha thanks Sans, you make me feel better about my weirdness! :D

[Kristina]

My Favorite Book(s): Harry Potter, Where the Heart Is, almost all Nicholas Sparks, Water for Elephants
My Favorite Movie(s): Harry Potter! Titanic, King Arthur, Disney, musicals - Mamma Mia, RENT, Grease, Pearl Harbor, Armageddon, Star Trek
My Favorite Celebrity: Blake Lively, Emma Watson, Johnny Depp, Amanda Seyfried
My Favorite Author: JK Rowling, Nicholas Sparks, Jodi Picoult
My Favorite Music: Maroon 5
Sign: Aries
Day Job: no job!
If I could live anywhere in the world it would be: I like living in the Midwest but I'd love to live somewhere exotic like Greece, if all my friends and family could come too :)
Weird stuff I’m into: Archie comics, Disney World, bookmarks, video games
Why I read: I read because I love it! I've always loved it, will always love it. I like reading about things that interest me and re-reading favorites from when I was little

[Lisarenee]

Welcome to the group Kristina. That's a nice list of favorite books.

[Kristina]

Thanks Lisaerenee! I love this group!!

[Rachel]

Wow! I think I found someone that could be my twin. I love everything you listed Kristina, except maybe the music choice but that's ok. We cannot totally be the same person. :) Welcome to the group!

[Kristina]

Haha thanks Rachel!! I love it when that happens :)

[Teresa Jo]

My Favorite Book(s):
My Favorite Movie(s): The American President, Under the Tuscan Sun, Three Musketeers
My Favorite Celebrity: Sandra Bullock, Julia Roberts
My Favorite Author: Kristin Hannah, Jude Deveraux
My Favorite Music: Country is my personal preference, but I will listen to most anything
Sign: Leo
Day Job: Retired, Prior to that I worked in Purchasing and Legislative Analysis
If I could live anywhere in the world it would be: Texas; wait I already live here
If I could travel anywhere it would be: Italy, Greece
Stuff I’m into: Sims 3, World of Warcraft, Lord of the Rings Online, Star Trek Online, Wizards101, and Books
Why I read: I love getting absorbed into a new world, meeting new people and losing myself in their story.

[whimsicalmeerkat]

Hey, someone else who plays WoW! xD

[Shadow Jubilee]

My Favorite Book(s): A favorite would be Pride and Prejudice
My Favorite Movie(s): A favorite would be Sound and Fury
My Favorite Celebrity: don't have
My Favorite Author: A favorite would be Jane Austen
My Favorite Music: A favorite would be New Age
Sign: Pisces
Day Job: Student
If I could live anywhere in the world it would be: U.S. mountains
Weird stuff I’m into: collecting things
Why I read: Compulsion, really.

[Sashana]

We're going to read Pride and Prejudice in AP Lit after we get done with Frankenstein (insert sigh here). I can't wait to read it because I love the movie...I hope our teacher lets us watch it after the book.

[Shadow Jubilee]

I hope you enjoy it, Sashana. I remember my English teacher in junior year would let us watch Jane Eyre after reading that. Unfortunately, I didn't really care for that because I don't really enjoy watching things and because when she turned the lights off, I started falling asleep. lol.

[Sashana]

But the falling apart is the best part! :p...JK, I only fall asleep when my econ teacher shows boring stock martet movies or when my 11th grade teacher showed us the movie version of Animal Farm. I'm looking forward to P&P since it's the first non-tragedy that we'll be reading.

[Shadow Jubilee]

lol, Sashana. For some reason, I was always sleepy that period. I guess I'm lucky I passed junior English. hehe.

[Rachel]

I have never been able to fall asleep in class. Always wanted to, but no matter how tired I was it just didn't happen!

[Sashana]

I have to be really really bored and tired to fall asleep in class. And Instead of reading Frankenstein we'll be reading The Great Gatsby. Yay!

[whimsicalmeerkat]

I love both of those :/

[Kristina]

I liked The Great Gatsby a lot but I feel like if I hadn't read it in a class where we discussed it and looked for themes, and I just read it on my own, I wouldn't have liked it as much. I feel that way with a lot of the required reading books from HS. Reading them on my own probably wouldn't have been as beneficial

[whimsicalmeerkat]

See, I did just the opposite and maybe that's why I like it so much. Even books I enjoyed when I read them previously were tarnished when we read them in school. I think that would have been different with decent teachers though. Mind kind of all sucked.

[Sans]

Put me in the "not a Gatsby fan" camp. I think I was the only person in my senior year English class who liked The Stranger though.

[Fhal]

Hey guys!
I don't know if some of you still remember me. How are all of you? :D

[Sashana]

I remember you :D. Where have you been, Fhalin? And I'm great, thanks for asking.

[Fhal]

I just came from the confinements of school. It's already summer here so I was so excited to be able to talk with you guys again :D

[Sashana]

OMG! You don't live in the states do you? Because it's pretty early for summer. I get to leave in 9 weeks ):)