My e-portfolio is eating my brain

I have been sooooo bad about posting on here. This is my final semester in grad school and I am about halfway through the completion of my e-portfolio, the capstone project for the program. Having a wonderful e-portfolio advisor has been a big help. Even with that, my brain feels like Swiss Cheese. I also have two other classes that I have to remind myself about constantly!

I try and do some leisure reading before bed to quiet my thoughts and find my evening escape vicariously through the perfect men of the romantic suspense genre. Perhaps someday a brooding ex-Navy SEAL will come sweep me off my feet..... Yeah, right...

Not all my reading is frivolous in nature. I am currently reading The Submission by Amy Waldman. This timely novel centers around the backlash when a 9/11 memorial committee discovers that the design they chose was the creation of an American Muslim. While fictional, it makes some very poignant statements. I am just now a little over halfway through an I would highly recommend it!

I hope that you are all well and will try and do a better job of keeping in touch....

Happy Reading!

Book tracker

Hello Everyone!

I have added a tracker so my friends can keep up with the book count for the year....

Another top 10 for 2010

So I realized after seeing the post from Legos Liberos that I never listed my top ten for the year 2010 so here goes:

1. The Passage   Justin Cronin
2. Shiver   Maggie Stiefvater
3. The Art of Racing in the Rain   Garth Stein
4. Full Dark, No Stars   Stephen King
5. You Suck   Christopher Moore
6. Guilty Pleasures   Laurell K. Hamilton
7. Need   Carrie Jones
8. Fallen   Lauren Kate
9. Ghost Road Blues   Jonathan Mayberry
10. Faithful Place   Tana French

Lego Liberos' Top 10 for 2010

Bibliophilecic invited me to occasionally share some of what I'm reading on this blog. I read around 70 books in 2010, which is probably the most books I've ever read in a year. At the moment, I mostly read stuff in the fantasy or history/political/biographical genre. I do read young adult novels, some popular fiction, classics, and stuff relating to the English language or writing (which is usually for professional development). I really just read whatever catches my attention and looks interesting. I am looking to getting into science fiction, so if anyone knows some good novels in that genre, let me know in the comments!

So my Top 10 for 2010, in no particular order, would be:

1. The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw
2. The Sword of Truth Series by Terry Goodkind
3. Dewey: The Small Town Library Cat that Changed the World by Vicky Myron
4. The Time Travelor's Wife by Audrey Niffeneger
5. Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold Story of English by John McHorter
6. Going Rogue: An American Life by Sarah Palin
7. Broke: The Plan to Restore of Trust, Truth, and Treasure by Glenn Beck
8. Ragged Dick by Horatio Alger
9. The Roots of Obama's Rage by Dinesh D'Souza
10. Outliers  by Malcolm Gladwell

Watch for additional authors!!!

I have extended invites to a few friends who are also interested in sharing their reading lists, adventures, etc.... Watch the blog for new posts!

Chiller TV's 13 scariest movie moments...

So I was channel flipping this evening and came across the Chiller TV special showing their 13 scariest movie moments of the last decade. Sounds interesting to a horror fan like me! So far, it seems that it is more the scariest movies, as there is no ONE moment they have shown. They also all appear to be mainstream, which may leave out some awesome possibilities. Anyway....here are the 13 scariest movie(s)or movie moments of the last decade:

13. Drag Me to Hell

12. The Strangers

11. Final Destination

10. Orphan (the little girl in this movie (Isabelle Fuhrman) is AMAZING!!!!!)

9. The Descent

8. Hostel

7. 30 Days of Night

6. Cloverfield

5. 28 Days Later

4. The Mist (really???????)

3. Saw

2. Paranormal Activity (didn't live up to the hype for me....however, I give kudos to the marketing reps!)

1. The Ring