Don't push your books on me!

It may sound weird, but I don't think they should force kids to read in school. At least they shouldn't tell them what they can and can't read.

When I was a youngin (just to make me sound older) the teacher would tell us to read a book. We all took our turns reading out loud, which everyone hated, and everntually we would finnish the book and everyone would talk about it or do a report about it. 

Boring!

Eventually, in high school, we got to pick our own books to do reports on. Well, from the selection that the teacher brought. So instead of broadening our minds by letting us fall in love with reading by picking our own books, we were forced to read one of the books from the teachers moldy old box (Don't think about it that way).

I fell in love with reading after high school. Mostly because I discovered books that I actually found interesting. And not books we had to read for school. That one about the time traveling cat, or the one about the fairies and those BASTERD Pixies. The grave! Lots of good books and plenty of authors to choose from. I wish I would have fell in love with reading a long time ago.

That's why, if my kids ever come home from school and says "teacher said we have to read this book for school." I'm going to give them a book from my own collection to take the teacher with a note attached saying "I'd like an 8 page essay about this book by the end of the month. Thank you!" 

But I'd homeschool my kids so I wouldn't have that problem. I'll try and make them fall in love with reading earlier than I did. But then they wouldn't have the same mind as me. Less imaginative maybe. Would that be such a good thing? In some aspect yes. I would actually hope that my kids end up nothing like me. Which is why adoption is so great. All the care with none of the genes!

To quite Pippy Longstocking

"children need a little order in their lives, especially if they can order it themselves!"

Nameless hipster girl

Blurb for the Book Tour

J.Kahele was quoted in an interview with "elitebookpromotions.com" that new writers should "Write with honesty. Don't write to please others."

I might be paraphrasing a bit, but I believe these words are true. In fact, most authors will give similar advice, and it's very wise. Because if I aimed to please everyone, I would end up pleasing no one in the long run. If you write with passion, and you write what you like, others will like it too. Not everyone mind you, but hey! That's life.

That's why I love writing Fan Fiction. It's taking some else's world and adding your own flavour to it. Making it a new world in itself. It's not the best if you're trying to write a novel, but it's a start.

I mostly use writing Fan Fiction as a way to get the creative juices flowing. I'll write a few pages of Fan Fiction, and realize that the characteristics of one character that I'm writing would work great in a new story. A story I can make up all myself. No one else's ideas. After spending a few hours each night typing out a story about classic characters from books I've read a million times over, I start to piece together new ideas for new stories.

One day I'll be writing "Harry Potter Fan Fiction" and the next day I'll have half of an original story made up. A short story, but everybody's got to start somewhere.

I'm not saying writing Fan Fiction will one day make me into a great author, I'm also not saying it won't. I've been writing Fan Fiction sense I could write. I loved writing myself into my favourite TV show when I was a kid, or coming up with alternate endings to movies I would watch. Creativity is in everything.

"[the most rewarding thing about writing is] Being able to share your words and thoughts and [have] other's appreciate them." - J. Kahele

Personally, I don't care if others appreciate my work. As long as I'm proud of it, I don't care what others think. That's probably why I write Fan Fiction more than anything else.

Reference :
http://www.elitebookpromotions.com/interview-with-author-j-kahele/

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Nameless hipster girl

Inappropriate songs I would sing to my children... Part one

I don't know any classic songs you sing to your children. And when they're so young that they can't understand words or context you may as well just sing whatever you want to them. So, much like. Ross and Rachel from "friends" (90's flashback, OH MY GOD) I would sing something not necessarily "Kid friendly"

Crazy train by Ozzy Osborn

Big girl you are beautiful by Mika (which, isn't really inappropriate, but it's not traditional)

2000 light years away but Green Day

Sugar by System of a down

Courtesy call by Sixx: AM

Diamond Eyes by Rishloo

every morning by Sugar Ray (wow, another 90's flashback!)

run Around Sue... Probably redun by a lot of different people

Oh what's that song... Theme song for "charmed" ... Such a depressing song...

These are just to name a few. I'll post links to music videos on my twitter when I get the chance, but you get the point. It doesn't matter what you sing, as long as it comes from the heart.

Book update!

Still reading the mortal instruments, city of bones and I'm hating it more and more. Every once in a while I get caught up in it, but most of the time I'm just thinking "yes! Get on with it!"

Right now they seem to be building some kind of will they/won't they/who's she gonna pick drama... Like she has to choose between her best friend, who's a bit of a prik, who she's know her whole life, but obviously has never thought of him as anything other than a friend or else why wouldn't they have started dateing a long time ago (sorry for the run on sentence), or she could choose the "hot" douch who, on occation can be nice but is more often than not a douch with a capital BAG.

Women of the world know this! There's no shame in being alone! If your stuck between a rock and a hard place (or a douch and a hard ass in this case) take a lesson from fleetwood Mac 

You can go your own waaaaaaay!

Go your own waayyyyyy!

Nameless hipster girl

Gather around children! It's time for another boring book review!

By boring book review, I mean boring book, review. The book is boring, not the review...

Anyway! I bought and started to read "the mortal insterments: city of bones" it first caught my eye because it's about demon hunting or some such and I love books in that nature, because it's so true to real life. You know, right? Not really. In all seriousness I don't perticularly like fiction novels, but I heard good things about this book, which it turns out is an entire series of books (god I hope I don't have to read them all just to find out that what I thought at the beginning was true turns out to be the surprise ending, (that's happened before with the series of unfortunate events))

For a book about fallen angels battling evil spirits from the underworld this book is sooooo boooooring. I keep waiting for it to get better, but it never does! I'm half way through it and I realize now that nothing has happened yet. Sure little things here and there; 

girl finds out secrets about her family, 

guy is a "hot douch" type, not sure if I'm supposed to love or hate this character at this point (I'm more or less indifferent at this point).

Girl is jelious of other girl

Guy hits on guy

It's all in the liner notes...

I could stop reading now, but that wouldn't be fair to this book review! So no matter how long it takes, and how boring this book is I will continue to read it! Even if it kills me...

On a happier note! I started watching supernatural! I'm a fan, I'm only on episode 18  or so but I like it. It has all the elements of a good show;

Hot guys

Cool car

Demon hunting

Revenge

Hot guys

And most important

Hot demon hunting guys! (Who drive a cool car) 

"For REVENGE!"

That's enough for now lads.

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Nameless hipster girl