Musical Monday #12: A New Twist

Sure you all know about a version of Musical Monday. What song are you hooked on right now? What song could be your theme song, in general or just for the day? Grab the button above and share on your site or just let me know in the comments.

The new twist I am adding over here at Crazy Book Slut is I will only be using songs ( scores) from movies! I also do this meme over at Punky Monkey's. I will be keeping it the same on that blog, any song goes!

Today I bring you :

Shine Your Light

by Robbie Robertson

( Ladder 49)

I hope you dance your way through your Monday!

Until next time...

Happy Reading!

i heart: 11/26/09

Nely over at All About { N} is hosting i heart!

The thing you show could be anything you heart, and normally I keep it book related, but not today....

i heart ( and I am extremely thankful) for my handsome boys in my life. King Baboon and our Punky Monkey's.

From my family to yours, I hope you are having a blessed Thanksgiving!

Until next time...
Happy Reading!

$25.00 Gift Card to Barnes and Noble: Giveaway

I thought I would cross reference a giveaway I am hosting on my other blog, Punky Monkey's, because the giveaway is for an awesome package. Cheerios is giving one of my readers a huge package that includes the following:

* Big box of cheerios

* 5 kid books

* $25.00 gift card to Barnes and Noble

Awesome right?? RIGHT!

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Cheerios Spoonful of Stories: Review and Giveaway

Imagine the books you could buy with your $25 gift card, please head over there, it is for a good great cause!

Until next time...
Happy Reading!

Teaser Tuesday: 10/6/09

Teaser Tuesdays asks:

Grab your current read. Let the book fall open to a random page. Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.

Please no spoilers!!

Paradise Lost

by Kate Brian

" You can wipe the terrified look off your face, I'm no expecting anything in return. I just had the perfect idea for a gift, and it's so rare that I come up with something like this, so I just couldn't let the opportunity pass me by."

I have a great Live Giveaway going on right now over at Punky Monkey's. $50 Halloween Bundle from YouCanMakeThis.com. Don't miss out, click here!

Until next time...
Happy Reading!

The Haunted Queen Mary: Review

The Haunted Queen Mary

By Robert James Wlodarski

and

Anne Powell Wlodarski

" Welcome aboard the world's most haunted ship, the Queen mary, where you can step into the past, and easily imagine what it must have been like to sail aboard this luxurious ocean liner. Memories abount throughout the ship, and so do GHOSTS!

The Queen mary seems to be a gateway or door to another world where unexplainable things continue to happen with regularity. Whoever, or whatever lurks in the shadows, can be seen, heard, smelled and felt. For those who have witnessed the events, it is all too real. The ship represents a kind of "dead zone" that sends a shiver up people's spines, makes their hair stand on end, or causes themt o seek the safety of a well-lit room, and find comfort in other humans. These events continue to occur with regularity to people of all walks of life- skeptics and believers alike. As parapsychologists suggest, when there are so many memories and emotions, there is bound to be residual energy and a potential for hauntings".

Since I was born and raised, and continue to live here in Long Beach where the Queen Mary is docked, I have never known a time when I did not know about the ship and the stories that come along with it.

I remember once my mom took me, my brother and my Nena to the Queen Mary and we went on the haunted tour! No shame in my game, I cried, and my Nena laughed.

To this day I am not sure if I cried because I believed the stories or all the hype that was put into the stories. Would love to go back as an adult, of course the Punky Monkey's will be staying back.

A lot of the stories told in this book were ones I have heard before, but there was some new ones in it as well. I am still the most crept out when they talk about the nursery that was on the ship.

This book was a tad repetitive, but the pictures that they included in this book were amazing and eerie at the same time.

I am giving this book 4 stars. It is always fun to read up on the town you have been apart of your entire life.

The Haunted Queen Mary falls into these challenges....

*The 2009 Support Your Local Library Challenge

* The 2009 - 100+ Reading Challenge

* Paranormal 999 Challenge Book Challenge

Tell me about your hometown, or the town you live in now, anything believed to be haunted?

Until next time...
Happy Reading!

Aloha Friday #9: Your autobiography

Aloha Friday has you ask a question to your readers, nothing that takes much thinking, we are suppose to be hanging loose

Here is my question for the day:

What author would you want to have write a novel about your life?

Hands down for me it would be Nicholas Sparks, and I am sure there will be a few of you out there who will think the same.

For more Aloha Friday fun, head over to An Island Life

Until next time...
Happy Reading!

Aloha Friday #11: Book into a movie

Aloha Friday's asks you to ask your readers a simple question, nothing that makes them think to much, after all it's Friday, time to hang loose!

Today's question is:

What book would you like seen turned into a movie?

I hope you all have an awesome Friday and weekend!
Aloha!!!
Don't forget to head over to AN ISLAND LIFE for more Aloha Friday Fun!

P.S. Don't forget to enter my awesome giveaway for a pair of See Kai Run shoes for your little ones... enter here!

Until next time...
Happy Reading!

Special Day

It is a very special day in the house, baby M is two today! Hope you all will head over to Punky Monkey's and hear all about him, give him some birthday love, whether it be here or there!

Happy Birthday baby boy! We love you!

Until next time...
Happy Reading!

Beverly Hills Chihuahua: Movie Review

Synopsis

A pampered Chihuahua accustomed to the living the good life in glamorous Beverly Hills must rein in her heiress instincts and rely on the kindness of strangers in order to find her way back home after becoming hopelessly lost in Mexico. Chloe (voice of Drew Barrymore) is a diamond-clad toy dog who favors traveling in her wealthy owner's purse over frolicking in an open park, and Papi (voice of George Lopez) is the kind of independent pup that she doesn't afford a second glance. When a vacation mishap leaves Chloe stranded in Mexico, the Chihuahua who doesn't speak a lick of Spanish must rely on street-smart German shepherd Delgado (voice of Andy Garcia) to guide her back home before she wanders any further south. Meanwhile, brave Papi races to the border intent on proving his love for Chloe by tracking her down and escorting her home in style. Along the way, Papi is joined by an enthusiastic pack of helpful pooches (voices of Luis Guzman, Plácido Domingo, and Eddie "Piolin" Sotelo) a pair of concerned humans (Piper Perabo and Manolo Cardona), an anxious iguana (voice of Paul Rodriguez), and a crafty rat (voice of Cheech Marin). -

We rented this movie for family movie night. 'D' got to pick it out. We got all the kids their bowls of popcorn, their juice and a candy they got to pick out at the store. The second their snacks were gone, so were they! Turds!

King Baboon and I sat and watched the whole thing. It was cute, although also creepy. I have issues when they make animals start talking and movie their mouths, it's just not right!

I wish I could tell you the boys review on it, but they would not be honest because they didn't watch more than 1/2 of it! Therefore King Baboon and I give this movie 3 out of 5 stars!

Hey Punky Monkey's, I want my money back from the cost of this show, since you all flaked on your parents! Is this a sign of things to come?

Until next time...
Happy Reading!

Children's Books: A new Adventure, plus a trip down memory lane.

Tonight at bedtime, I will be taking the boys on a new adventure, while I take a trip down memory lane. How so, well let me introduce you to one of the all time best children's book series of all time, I am certain you have heard of them...

While cleaning out the garage a few weeks ago, I found my copy of this book, and just knew it needed to be bought back to life! No more dark, cold box for this book... oh no, this book is going to take my boys on a new adventure. One where things were not measured by the things we owned or processed, but by the love we had in our hearts!


I will have to get the other copies from the library when the time comes, I didn't see them in the box.


If you have kids, what series have you read with them from your childhood? If you don't have kids, what series from your childhood holds a special place in your heart?

P.S. I do have to laugh at the first sentence of this book...

"Once upon a time, sixty years ago....."

Lot longer than 60 years ago now!! HA HA HA

Until next time...
Happy Reading!

Tuesday Teaser: March 24,2009

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:Grab your current read.Let the book fall open to a random page. Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12. You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given! Please avoid spoilers!

If Mama Don't Laugh It Ain't Funny

by

Lucy Adams

" But what's up with orders like, " Thou shall not delete, thou shall forward to ten people, thou shall forward within seven minutes, thou shall be blessed for following directions," and " thou's children's children shall be cursed if you don not"?

Stay tuned for more talk on this book both here and over at Punky Monkey's

Until next time...
Happy Reading!

The Lady Elizabeth: Review

The Lady Elizabeth by Alison Weir

" The tale chronicles the life of Elizabeth I from her early childhood to her coronation, through the final years of her father, Henry VIII, and the brief reigns of her siblings, Edward VI and Queen Mary. Renowned for her "mercurial temperament" and "formidable intelligence," in Weir's account Elizabeth spends her childhood shuttling between royal estates and preparing for life as a "great lady" after she is stripped of her position as successor to the British throne following the execution of her mother, Anne Boleyn. As Elizabeth grows, her progressive views on women's roles, religion, and politics take shape-including her legendary vow never to marry, forged through observation of others' relationships as well as a painful first-hand brush with romance at age fourteen".

I loved this book, had me from the very beginning! I love reading historical books, they almost always have me hooked! If you are a history lover, you do not want to miss out on reading this book.

I am giving this book a solid 4 stars out of 5

This book falls into these two reading challenges, check them out to see my progress.
* The 2009 - 100+ Reading Challenge
* The 2009 Support Your Local Library Challenge

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Until next time...
Happy Reading!

Forever in Blue: Review

Forever in Blue by Ann Brashares

" In their latest episode, Bridget goes to Turkey on an archaeological excavation and Lena takes a painting class in Providence. Tibby stays in New York to take classes, and Carmen attends a theater festival in Vermont to work as backstage crew. There are new love interests, loss of virginity, and breakups and makeups. The themes are familiar, but fans who already identify with the characters will want to read more about their latest exploits. The pants pay a more prominent role than they did in the third book and a significant event takes place as each teen receives them. The possibilities and impossibilities of love are explored as Bridget is attracted to the married leader of the excavation team and Tibby fears she is pregnant. When Carmen auditions and lands a major role in the theater production, she worries that she cannot handle the part. Although squeamish at first, Lena becomes attracted to a fellow art student when they agree to pose in the nude for each other on weekends. Although the ending is a bit unrealistic, fans will surely suspend judgment as they delight in the story."

I am so so happy I finally got my butt in gear and read this series.

I am giving this book 4 stars out of 5

This book falls into these two reading challenges, check them out to see my progress.

* The 2009 - 100+ Reading Challenge
* 2009 Young Adult Book Challenge

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Happy Reading!

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Aloha Friday #7: Children's Character

My last Aloha question, a lot of you said you would write a children's book if given the chance, so this week's question is going to play off of that...

Today's question (s):

What would the main character be if you wrote a children's book? Would it be a person or an animal? Child or Adult? If it were an animal which would it be? Why?

For more Aloha Friday fun, head over to An Island Life
Aloha!! While you over here at the Crazy Book Slut, why not go check out my question over at Punky Monkey's

Until next time...
Happy Reading!

Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!: Review

I thought for today's post I would talk about my 3 year olds favorite book. 'J's face lights up, and he screams when I pull this book out to read him.

Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Williams.

By now, even though this blog is new, people should see how much books play a part in my life, and I want my kids to cherish books has much as I do. So, when I come across a book that captures the innocence of them, I have to add it to our collection.

'J' loves telling that pigeon "NOOOooooo".

This book won a 2003 Caldecott Honor.

I will be the first to admit that their are many, many books out there that my kids want me to read over and over again, and of course I do, but I do not enjoy the story. This is just not the case with this book, not only do I enjoy the story and that crazy little pigeon, I love the face my little boy has when he is read this book.

Many have probably heard of this book, if so... what is your take on it? If you haven't seen or read it, pick it up, it just might become a favorite in your house as well!

Happy Reading!