Watch it now, before Warner Bros. takes it off of YouTube [Read more...]
Voices Soft, Words Inviting: Going Digital Won’t Be the Death of Print
My books 
“And their voices were soft,
And their words inviting…I dreamed a dream in time gone by,
When hope was high and life, worth living.
I dreamed that love would never die…”
- Les Misérables
I love books.
I blog about them and I think words are these powerful objects that make the world turn around and around.
When I blogged about the e-book being the death of print, a little piece of me died inside. When I tweeted and tweeted about how amazing the new Nook from Barnes & Noble was looking, a little bit more of me died inside and then I read “Beyond Borders: The Future Of Bookselling†and I felt like I got a little bit of my own back.
I concur; I support; I most certainly agree – shopping for books is like shopping for a good husband or that snug fitting dress to make the opposite sex’s jaw drop. It takes time, patience, concentration and yes, you’ll know it when [Read more...]
REVIEW: Twilight Saga’s New Moon Lives Up to Novel
By: Cydia Matos, guest blogger
It is finally time to breath easy.
The Twilight Saga: New Moon finally lives up to Stephanie Meyer’s book. Director Chris Weitz barely steered away from what Meyer wanted readers to feel from the story.
It was all covered: sadness, jealousy, funny, anger, and joy. [Read more...]
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince’s DVD Deleted Scenes More Like Novel
In a deleted scene from the sixth Harry Potter film installment, Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince, released by the WB Italy, audiences get a deeper glimpse into the calm before the storm that is the first Battle of Hogwarts.
The eerie scene, set to an even eerier sounding choir, gives audiences the look and feel of darkness as it descends upon the Hogwarts Castle.
I got goosebumps [Read more...]
High Res. New Moon Pictures: Bella Gets Snuggly With Jacob & Edward
Below are a few new photos released by Summit Entertainment from New Moon. They are mixed High Resolution and non-High Res., but each of them is rather decent enough to use for good digital fan art: wallpapers, photo manips etc.
Yes, they include shirtless Taylor Lautner and excellent quality close-ups of Robert Pattinson in full Edward makeup etc.
***Right-click each image to download. Also the images are NOT squished. That’s just the formatting of my blog for the images that have not been shrunk or re-sized to it’s margins — hence, they’ll look normal once you “save as.”***
THIS POST IS IMAGE HEAVY.
Also, if you haven’t already, check out Volvo’s “What Drives Edward” campaign and share your thoughts here.
Enjoy
All images [Read more...]
Volvo’s What Drives Edward Cullen: On Point or Missing Target?
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Update:
November 17, 2009 11:50 p.m. ET
Since I am taking part in this contest, I have decided to blog any changes in my POV as the contest progresses. All of my updates will be below the original posting, with the date & time stampped.
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Update no.2
November 22, 2009 3:30 p.m. ET
Complete and final thoughts on everything, including some re-evaluations of original ideas.
SCROLL down for all of my finals thoughts, hints on the phases and more/new images.
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Original post below:-
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Have you ever seen something that seemed really cool, but it really made you cringe, then quickly say to yourself, “WTF?”
That was me recently when I read about Volvo’s “What Drives Edward Cullen” campaign aimed at Gen-Y.
This super advertising blunder seriously makes me laugh and ask myself, “What were they thinking?”
This is because [Read more...]
Harry Potter Costume Ideas
Bellatrix 'battling' Hermione at the HBP midnight show
You get one guess about where/what I’m going to be for Halloween this year…and if you can’t figure it out, then *ahem* go get some ginkgo biloba.
According to LIFE, CNN, Squidoo and a few other folks, Harry Potter costumes [Read more...]
{Harry Potter: A History} Something Wicked This Way Comes: Harry Potter…for Twitter
Catching on the Twitter craze, Warner Bros. has done it. Oh no? Oh yes, yes, yes!
Capitalizing [Read more...]
{Harry Potter: A History} Potter 6 Review – Trio Power: to Love, Hate and Amuse
(*This review DOES, in fact, contain spoilers of the film and the seventh book*)
UPDATE: “A Severe Severusly Amendment” at bottom July 16, 2009 – Why the Half-Blood Prince was not full of the Half-Blood Prince.
A ‘trio’ set of reviews for Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince film: to love, to hate and to amuse.
To love:-
It is called the Half-Blood Prince for a reason [Read more...]
{Harry Potter: a History} Early Half-Blood Prince Reviews Are In
By: Cydia Matos, guest blogger
Monday July 13 I was privileged enough to get an early viewing of the new Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. My biggest complaint? I wish the damn movie was [Read more...]
{Harry Potter: A History} 100 Ways You Know You Are Obsessed with Harry Potter
Bella Bella tricks le Strange
More Pink Book Potterness Supremo! *wheee*
1. You know you have never read too much Harry Potter.
2. You compare all other fantasy, action, mystic, love, comedy, adventure everything to Harry Potter.
3. A little piece of you died with Severus Snape.
     a. Actually, you cried for Dumbledore, Sirius, Cedric, Hedwig, Dobby, Fred, Tonks, Lupin, and all the rest.
           i. You actually hold it against J.K. Rowling for breaking part of your heart.
4. You consider Severus Snape a contemporary [Read more...]
{Harry Potter: A History} Harry Potter v Twilight
Half-Blood Prince Movie Poster (L-R, Hermione, Dumbledore, Harry, Ron)
Recently the Wallstreet Journal suggested that Harry Potter was following in the footsteps of Twilight in terms of marketing and a few other things. WRONG. No, seriously, FACT ERROR major.
It’s a set of some of the most convoluted and delusional [Read more...]
The Lost Symbol revealed
Have you seen it?
Today Random House Publishing revealed the new jacket cover to the Dan Brown novel The Lost Symbol. This sequel to Angels & Demons and The Da Vinci Code is due out September 15.
So why is this important and what does it tell us?
First of all, as with most authors who spout [Read more...]
Howl if you must, again, Jacob & Edward’s New Moon promos revealed
On the heels of Howl if Must are the two latest New Moon posters to be revealed.
They look like two completely different film promos, take your pick Misses’.
Werewolf?
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Or Vampire?
NOTE:
According to Twilight Anonymous, these are fakes. What say you Twilighters? Real? Not Real?
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