Rainbow Stew/the CFS Fairy

Hi. As you know I am a huge fan of movies. I love Romantic books and Romantic movies. I have to say I have an immature taste in Romance tastes. I love watching people fall in love, that breathless moment when they stumble into a wall as they kiss and the butterflies from that moment when their eyes meet. Of course there is also a time for the raunchy stuff but most of these will be the sweet loving moments. these are not in order of preference Teen Romance Before I fall - Goes from silly to poignant. the Duff - Mae Whitman is brilliant. I love an actress who can't laugh at herself. And a very cute male lead. Easy A - Hardly a teen drama. Its too good to be. the Spectacular Now - Sad but powerful Any Twilight Movie - I am a sucker for the supernatural. Clueless - another classic the Hunger Games movies - are good but the books are better. the Space Between Us - I really enjoyed this. Sweet. the Fault in our Stars and Paper Towns - both John Green books beautifully brou...

This is the first movie list dedicated to my sleep sister. For those of us that have our health challenges and spend a lot of time with our pillows and TVs to keep us company. The F Word, The Fundamental of Caring, Bad Mom's, and the Other Woman - My favorite Easy A - I love Emma Stone Swiss Army Man - This on is a little weird but made me laugh. One Fine Day - Good but George Clooney. Need I say more. The Intern - Very Cute The Big Wedding - Great Cast It's Kind of a Funny Story - an odd concept but I liked it Love Actually - Great Cast Scott Pilgrim vs the World - Comic book come to life Priscilla Queen of the dessert - Australian original drag queen travel movie/American version is Too Wong Foo, thanks for everything Julie Newmar - Not as good but still worth the time. Stranger than Fiction - Best Will Ferrell movie The Family - Very dark comedy GFB - Gay teenager comedy The Full Monty - British Comedy Picture Perfect - Jennifer Aniston cutesy Wedding Crashe...

I have never been a good reader. I have tried for years to read especially after I had children to be a good example. I wanted to raise kids who loved to rea   It did get easier once ereading was invented but I was still really slow. I felt dumb. I think because I was so slow and I had a hard time processing the written word that I was attracted to simpler books written for teenagers. I also like a sweet love story. This is where I developed my love of stories of Utopian society or more accurately the failure of Utopian society, lol and my favorite love stories involving vampires and other magical characters. A year ago I lost the ability to read due to depression and CFS. I still wanted to read so my friend suggested audiobooks. I started finding a selection of unabridged audio books on the website of my public library using the OneClick, Overdrive apps and when the library didn't have something I wanted to read I went to Audible. Now I have a book going all the time and...

I have never been a good reader. I have tried for years to read especially after I had children to be a good example. I wanted to raise kids who loved to rea   It did get easier once ereading was invented but I was still really slow. I felt dumb. I think because I was so slow and I had a hard time processing the written word that I was attracted to simpler books written for teenagers. I also like a sweet love story. This is where I developed my love of stories of Utopian society or more accurately the failure of Utopian society, lol and my favorite love stories involving vampires and other magical characters. A year ago I lost the ability to read due to depression and CFS. I still wanted to read so my friend suggested audiobooks. I started finding a selection of unabridged audio books on the website of my public library using the OneClick, Overdrive apps and when the library didn't have something I wanted to read I went to Audible. Now I have a book going all the time and...

the Longest Ride - Nicholas Sparks The story starts with Ira, an elderly man, who accidentally ran his car off the road on the way to revisit an long closed art college. He carries with him a box of letters from his deceased wife, Ruth. The story of their historic romance is intertwined with the story of Sophia, a fine arts major in college and Luke, bull rider who meet by chance at a rodeo.  The story is told from the point of view of Ira, Sophia and Luke. You may have seen the movie and Britt Robertson, Alan Alda and Scott Eastwood is a stand alone lovely movie but as usual with Nicholas Sparks books to movies the movie is almost a different sorry than the actual book.  The book is better! I really love the narrator of Ira. Opinion rating: 9/10

the Black Dagger Brotherhood Books 1-10 by J.R. Ward I have read books 1-9 and am currently reading book 10. I would consider this series soft erotica fantasy. It revolves around an ancient line of Vampire warriors that live in the world to protect the vampire race from their soulless counterparts created by the Omega, a fickle, vindictive character. They all come from a god bloodline, named the Scribe Virgin. All the books continue the story line from book to book so none of the books can stand on their own and cannot be read out of order. I find the 'Warriors' a little self-loathing and pessimistic but I guess that makes them brooding and sexy. The sex is quite graphic but tasteful. I can't say I have liked one more than the others because the same recipe repeats book after book so it does get a bit boring but still has kept me interested for months. Each book is about one of the brothers falling in love with their 'Shellon' and it continues the story of t...

Wife 22 by Melanie Gideon I audiobooked this but it does not make a good audiobook. The narrator reads out every email address and there are a lot of them since the main character, Wife 22 and the researcher email back and forth the WHOLE book. When you are reading that you can skip over it with your eyes but when someone is reading it, it is annoying. A unsatisfied wife and mother signs up for a marriage research project and starts to fall for her assigned researcher. Interesting dialogue and story. Pretty good book. Neat ending. Opinion Rating for book 7/10. Opinion Rating for Audiobook 5/10.

the Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards This is one of my adult reads, though older teens may enjoy. The story starts with the birth of Dr. David Henry and his wife, Norah's twins in 1964. Paul, a healthy boy and Phoebe, a health baby girl with down syndrome.  While his wife is under anesthetic he makes a decision to put his daughter in a home and asks his nurse, Caroline, to take Phoebe there. Caroline goes with the baby but in the end cannot leave her there and raises her with the help of Al, a truck driver she also meets that night.  David tells Norah the baby died and the loss of their daughter is a haunting absence in there life that ends up affecting the family and eventually tearing it apart.  The story is told from David, Caroline, Norah and Paul's point of view. This is a story that will stay with you for a long time as it is told so much depth you feel how this split second decision caused so much pain for these characters. I...

Well it turns out that Rainbow Rowell is a woman. Fooled me, lol. She has written more books but these are the 2 that I have read. Eleanor and Park  Set back in 1986. Two really neat, well written, unique characters fall in love in high school.  I would really like a follow-up novel but it doesn't look like Rainbow Rowell does that. Too Bad!  That is why I only give it an 8/10 because I really didn't feel like their story was done. Very good read. Opinion rating 8/10 Fangirl Follows Cath and her twin sister, Wren to college. Cath is a blogger and huge Simon Snow fan (think Harry Potter). Cath is a loner and her sister was freedom and wants to party. Lots of well developed characters but the story is from Cath's point of view.  Very well written and again very well developed characters. I liked how it ended.  Opinion rating 9/10

Wondrous Strange Series by Lesley Livingston The series centers around Kelly, a 18 yr old Fairy Princess who was kidnapped as a baby and raised in the mortal world. And Sonny, a defender in King Auberon, the Winter Fairy's, guard. Lots of magical characters weaving in and out of different worlds and a sweet love story. Opinion rating 7/10 . Didn't leave me wanting more. This can mean the author wrapped up any lose ends or I enjoyed it but ready to move onto something else. Can't remember, sorry. But a good read.