For the love of Paisley and Timberlake.

So I really do hope you love my ramblings of my favorite two cds at the moment. But check out what everyone has been up to at Kathe with an E. So like my taste in books I have an eclectic taste in Music. You see when I was growing up their were three types of Music I could listen too Christian, Country, and Oldies. I grew up in a sheltered house hold and when I was younger that was fine. Because of this I have an Un-natural love of the Beach Boys, Beatles, Abba and many more I can't seem to remember at this moment. When my third grade teacher bribed us to learn our times tables I asked for an Amy Grant tape...I loved that tape. I couldn't tell you who Tu-pac was until I was in the 7th grade and by then he had already passed away. It wasn't until Hanson that I learned the amazingness of top 40 music. I adored Hanson, I once almost got my mom to drive 5 freakin hours to go see Hanson on Oprah... obviously you see the almost...she didn't but I had her seriously considering it. It was around this time where I found Kiss Fm on the radio. I had to listen to it quietly in the room, which was torture for a teenager, but I did it. When I was 15 I met my best friend, and he introduced me to rap and r&b. How I fell in love with Joe, and Guinuwine, Ja-Rule, and Ludacris. When I was 18 I found Rock, well more like punk rock and alternative Rock. I still to this day will buy every album that Nickelback puts out. So you see Music was another way for me to leave the world I didn't feel I belonged. I grew up in this overbearing, strict, cruel Christian world where if you didn't believe the exact same way as everyone else you were going to Hell. Now I've moved passed that and work on a Relationship with my Mother every day. But books, and movies and music...were a way for me too take a silent stand without taking a stand. I read, and watched, and listened to things my Mom would never agree with. And I loved it.

Now on to my first music review.. It's actually two reviews in one. The last two cds I've bought. Yes, I'm stuck in the stone age and still by cds, sue me. My car doesn't have a handy dandy plug to plug my android in it only a cd player, so I buy cds.

The first one goes back to one of my first Loves in Music Country. This CD has actually had a lot of controversy because of one of the songs on it. Growing up in a suburb of Dallas/Fort Worth I don't really get it. I mean I know I'm from the South, and I know what happened 150 years ago, but really people its just a song with a good message in the lyrics, a story with a good moral to it. Isn't that what country music is all about.

Yes I realize this isn't from his new cd, but it descibes what I was talking about above.

This has to be one of my favorite country albums right now. It is everything I remember about Brad Paisley and more. One of the many reasons I love Brad Paisley so much is that he writes about just about anything. Now #2 and #3 of the album have already got tons of radio play so you will recognize them. From the down home feel of Southern Comfort Zone, to the memories that you get trapped in when listening to Beat this summer you will be so happy Brad has new music. Now the next song on the cd isn't my favorite but it will most definitely be one of the singles released on to radio. Firstly because it has Walker Hayes and Deirks Bently on it, and Secondly because it is a country party song if I ever heard one. Of all the songs on this cd the two that are my favorite are ones most people won't like. #8 on this cd is called Karate, and it makes me smile every time I hear it. It's about a girl who is being abused by her boyfriend/husband/db of a man and has finally had a enough and is taking Karate so she can one day soon have a belt to match her eye. It is so Brad Paisley through and through. It's quirky and so real, and it makes me want to sing along. Now my second favorite song on this cd is #16 Those Crazy Christians. This song moves me because I was raised Christian, and while my beliefs have changed from what my parents and family thinks, to what I believe. I am Christian. And this song moves me because my friend base is mostly pagan, very few Christians and I wonder if they look at me the way this song portrays. I hope they do because I think every word is truly what a Christian is, from forgiveness to that casserole you bring to someone's house when they are mourning. So I give this cd an amazing review. Because in reality brad is a story writer with a good voice. Everybody may not like what his stories say, but they listen because its hard not to. 

Now onto my dirty secret. Ladies and Gentlemen you should sit down. I have to be honest with you, it may shock you, but if you are going to get to know me you have to know this side too. I am a teeny bopper in a almost thirty year old's body. I know what your thinking, really, is it really that bad. It is ask anyone. I have all the cds of Backstreet boys, Nsync, 98 degrees, Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears. I've even grown to love the Jonas Brothers and Justin Beiber. Don't look at me like that!!! I'm not crazy, I just Love what I Love. So that is why I bring you a review of....

That's right, you aren't seeing things. I love Justin Timberlake. He's #1 on my top ten list. You know the list. The elevator list. I would totally jump him, if I met him on an elevator, no lie...true story... But to tell you the truth I was a little disappointed when I first heard "suit and tie" I did not like it...at all. But like "sexy back" it grew on me. I now love it. One of my favorite songs on the cd actually. But my most favorite song on this cd is "Pusher Love Girl"

This song is amazing. Even if mentions every drug I've ever done and then some. (Yes I was a bad girl once...leave me alone) It and Mirrors are the reason I still love Justin after all these years. He has this sound to his voice. He is my Frank Sinatra. He is so pretty and his voice OMG, all he would have to is sing to me and I would be gone. He always comes out with something different and amazing. And this is a reason after all these years he is at the top of the fuckin freakin' charts. Love him, love his music, I even love most of the movies he's been in. Okay maybe you should ignore my review of this cd. I think it might be biased.=)

Review of Beautiful Creatures

Amazon Synopsis:

There were no surprises in Gatlin County.
We were pretty much the epicenter of the middle of nowhere.
At least, that's what I thought.
Turns out, I couldn't have been more wrong.
There was a curse.
There was a girl.
And in the end, there was a grave.

Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever.

Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town's oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them.

In a town with no surprises, one secret could change everything.

It took me forever to read this book. Mostly because like I said in a previous post I saw the movie when I was about half way through. And let me tell the movie is butchers the book. This book I would put in the genre of YA Paranormal fiction. But it is so different then any other paranormal fiction I've ever read. Lena is so strong, yet so fragile. She has so much anger and hurt built up from all the years of torture and belittling she got for being different. I connected with her on a level I never saw coming. Now obviously I can not change the weather by my emotions. But when I was younger I was one angry girl, and did things that not only hurt myself but every one around me. Ethan is the boy/ man that we all wanted when we were in High school. That popular guy, who would throw his popularity in the crapper just because he loved a girl. Man I want to Marry and have the children of a fictional character. Every character was believable, every thought and action understood. This was a beautiful written book. My only let down... I hate books that don't really end. I want to be able to read a book and for it to have some sort of finality even if its the first of the series.

My Favorite Character: Ridley

As much as I am like Lena. I am more like Ridley. I have felt alone and abandoned by the people that are supposed to love me the most, because of choices I have made. It angers me that the family just shut her out. While I understand she is of the dark now. I feel like that no one thought to fight it until Lena.

" I Just Want To Pee Alone“ Review

If you knew me, you would know I have the most horrible sense of humor. And by horrible I mean perveted, sadist, nobody else is laughing and I look like an idiot sense of humor. That being said when Kelley from http://www.kelleysbreakroomblog.com/ posted on Facebook that she was giving away a few digital copies of her collaboration with other Mom Bloggers, I was the first to sign up:)

From Amazon:
Motherhood is the toughest – and funniest – job you'll ever love. Raising kids is hard work. The pay sucks, your boss is a tyrant, and the working conditions are pitiful – you can't even take a bathroom break without being interrupted with another outrageous demand. Hasn't every mother said it before? “I just want to pee alone!” I Just Want to Pee Alone is a collection of hilarious essays from 37 of the most kick ass mom bloggers on the web.

Motherhood is the toughest – and funniest – job you'll ever love. Raising kids is hard work. The pay sucks, your boss is a tyrant, and the working conditions are pitiful – you can't even take a bathroom break without being interrupted with another outrageous demand. Hasn't every mother said it before? “I just want to pee alone!” I Just Want to Pee Alone is a collection of hilarious essays from 37 of the most kick ass mom bloggers on the web.

I can honestly tell you that I have find long lost sister friends in these bloggers. They had Me laughing so hard my nine year old came to see what all the fuss was about. The subjects range from funerals to sex. And I will never ever forget reading, "Come to wash Mom off?" If you are a Mom...of any kind...read this book. If you are a Dad and want to figure out was is going on in that sleep deprived head of your co-parent, read this book. If you are a teenager and want to know why your mom always seems on the verge of a killing spree, read this book. Now it is not for the easily offended. This book is for hard core...damn it all to hell... this shit just got serious in mommy world readers. Be prepared for cussing, sexy talk, on contraceptive discussions. Be also be prepared to laugh your ass off. This book is hilarious, unnerving, uncomfortable, and down right cruel at  times..and I think that's why it's right up my alley.

 So thanks again Kelley from the aforementioned break room for the much needed break from the mundane. And I to feel like a Carnie when I move:)

First Book, First Post

So I have been avid reader since I first read the words "See Jane Sit“...Okay those probably weren't the first words I read, but you get the idea. From Arthur to Amelia Bedelia, from The Little House In The Big Woods to The Baby Sitters Club, from Fear Street to Anne Frank. I loved them all. Every word, Every page, Every twist and turn, Every joke, Every heart breaking moment. Until I turned 18 and hung out with the wrong people books were my drug, my escape from reality. See I was the first pancake, the one you could mess up, because you had two more you could do it right with... so for most of my teenage years, books were my life. So when I thought about what I wanted to write about reviews were the obvious answer. So this is Me, I have a big mouth with no filter, I tell it how it is even when it sucks. I'll probably do Not just book reviews, but movie and music reviews as well seeing as they are my other two loves. So bare with me, most days I'll be writing from my kindle for since I an constantly on the go, so expect a few mistakes while i figure this out... Here goes nothing....

Amazon synopsis:

If Eden doesn’t kill you, the Park Service will.

In the post-apocalyptic future, a fifteen-year old boy stumbles on a paradise where the few remaining humans live on the run from deadly drones controlled by a mysterious Park Service. Now this boy must learn to survive in a world he never dreamed existed while searching for answers to why everything he was taught is a lie.

Now I first saw this book on an advertisement on Facebook. The ad proclaimed it was the next hunger games... I laughed at their lying... Sorta skimmed through it's amazon page and then forgot about it..until yesterday. Yesterday I found for $3.99 and thought what the heck...how bad could it be.

This is the first I've ever heard of Ryan Winfield, and having read some of the reviews for his book" Bixby bridge" and it must be pretty good...now on to the nitty gritty.

I finished this book today disappointed and unwilling to buy the next book in the trilogy when it comes  out. The main character Aubrey is boring and very wishy washy. I found myself wanting more depth to the character he created. Jimmy “Aubrey's nomadic best friend" was supposed this young man who had lived like the early Native Americans all of his young life, yet he comes across as a overly sensitive school girl. I wanted adventure and heart break. Guts and Gore. Yet felt let down when the scenes, that could have been that and more, were written like you were reading it straight out of a text book. I wanted more than flashes of greatness... because there were flashes...but seldom and hard to find. At Times it seemed like it would never end...yet when it ended I felt like there should have been more. 

And so I leave you with an inspiring quote from a sometimes uninspiring book. "These aren't just books, they are windows into a mind“ (please excuse my paraphrasing)