A dozen things you learn from your favorite supernatural/ paranormal books and shows

A dozen things you learn from your favorite supernatural/ paranormal books and shows

• Love is powerful, but no matter what you do you gonna end dead, supernatural or both.
• If you are supernatural don’t worry about getting a job because... Being a Supe is your Job! Cars will be available, gas, money... you mention it and it will materialize spontaneously.
• High School is not a once in a lifetime experience anymore.   
• There are schools that specializes on your dark arts or in providing for the necessities any Supernatural being needs like: a balanced diet of blood bags and  human blood bags snacks, magic curriculum.
• That enigmatic guy that for some reason you know you love, beware for he can be your brother
• Your supernatural condition makes you sexy.  Why? you ask.  Obviously because you are supernatural and a weird allure exudes from every pore on your body. Are there any fat vamps?  If you are fat, you lose all the extra weight?
• You will be the chosen one, the most powerful, the most talented for your age or at least something never seen before in your species.
• Life will be a rollercoaster.  You will be faster and amazing now, but know that a plethora of danger will be intrinsic to your Supernatural status.  If you are not the Supe but you friend are, it is worst because you will probably end up dead and probably revived quite frequently.
• Better have a cool name.  A vampire named Lestat makes and impact.  A vampire name Hank, not so much.  So, the name gives you rep.  The only ones who can get away with it are Bill and Eric because they have southern and viking charm respectively.
• Sometime hunters will be following your every step and sometimes they will forget all about you.  Maybe they have a quota?
• If you would write your memoirs, at least a trilogy will be needed.
• Prepare yourself for some kind of battle or at least to mark your territory in some way.
• Remember some martial arts would be a plus and since you are a supernatural being, they are already included.  You don’t have to learn how to fight!
• Hydration is always good whether you are going to mark your territory or having a deathly fight.
• There is a 99.99% probability you will be in a situation where the world will depend on your actions.  

What have you learned so far?

Beat The Heat Readathon Progress

This is the 2nd BTH Readathon and I have made progress... well, some progress.  This is what I am suppose to read these weeks:

	Book	Author	Format
1	Kindred	J.A, Redmerski	e-book
2	Cerulean	Anna Kyss	audio
3	Blood Orange Soda	James Michael Larranaga	ebook
4	Flowers in the Attic	V.C. Andrews	ebook
5	Torn	Amanda Hocking	paperback
6	?	?	paperback

Week #1 Summary

Total pages read: 

• 229 pages from Kindred (Darkwoods Trilogy #2)
• 10 pages from Torn (Trylle # 2)
• 3 hrs 47 mins 55 secs from Cerulean: One Thousand Blues

Books completed:

• Cerulean: One Thousands Blues 

Highlights of the Week: Cerulean was a great audio.   Soon, I will be sharing my review.

For Week # 2 I have achieved:

	Book	Author	Format
1	Kindred	J.A, Redmerski	e-book
2	Cerulean	Anna Kyss	audio
3	Blood Orange Soda	James Michael Larranaga	ebook
4	Flowers in the Attic	V.C. Andrews	ebook
5	Torn	Amanda Hocking	paperback
6	?	?	paperback

Total pages read:

• I finished Kindred: Darkwoods Trilogy (346 pages)
• 31 pages from Torn (Trylle #2)

Books completed: Kindred: Darkwoods Trilogy

Highlights of the week: Kindred had a surprising twist.  The heroine of the story is now on her 2.0 version. 

Beat The Heat Readathon Sign Up

My reading has been needing a lot of help lately. My available time for reading and wandering inside literary worlds has been reduced drastically over the past months.  I don't like to measure my time nor I like to keep up with a Calendar when reading.  I used to read everyday and know I can't.  Although I can't read everyday I try to make it work and read everytime I can.

Audiobooks are a lot of help.  I listen to a story on my commute, which is great, but sometimes I don't want audio, I don't want ebooks because I just want plain old books. So, I use the formats available to bring some diversity to my reading and maximize my available time.

So all that explaining is for you to know why you will see that my list is a mix of audio, e-format and books. Readathons are a motivational thing for me, so I will read as much as I can and try to participate as much as I can. Let's grab some fiction! 

My goals for this Beat the Heat Readathon:

	Book	Author	Format
1	Kindred	J.A, Redmerski	e-book
2	Cerulean	Anna Kyss	audio
3	Blood Orange Soda	James Michael Larranaga	ebook
4	Flowers in the Attic	V.C. Andrews	ebook
5	Torn	Amanda Hocking	paperback
6	?	?	paperback

Feature and Follow : Favorite tv series you watch on Netflix

What is your favorite tv series that you can watch over and over again on Netflix?

I love Netflix.  My favorite thing about Netflix is that I have a lot of options.  I can watch my favorites over and over again and relax. 

What do you watch?

Review Carter Finally Gets It by Brent Crawford

Carter Finally Gets It by Brent Crawford
Narrated by Nick Podehl
Publish: Brilliance Audio / April, 2009
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Unabridged recording : 9 hours
Look for this book at goodreads / Audible 
Source:
*Book from audiobook sync Summer 2013 free downloads.*

As Carter would say... This book is awesome!

Carter is a teen with a head full the worries of a pubescent. Also, he can be an idiot. What makes him interesting is his hilarious point of view. Carter is transitioning into high school. Everything is complicated for him because he is simply clueless until he finally understands what self discovery and individuality are all about. I do not consider Carter a complex character with a pecul iar way to analyze. It is his decision making process that makes things complicated for him. Carter is a MC with pizzazz.

The author Brent Crawford elevates the concept of the hormonal adolescent by making Carter interesting, dynamic and vital for the story to be fun. Sincerely, I look forward to read more books on this series. This kid and his idiosyncrasies make for a good story anytime.

Those of us who listen to audio books love to listen to them while we commute, so we look for a good narrator. Nick Podehl is such a good narrator. His voice is clear and with a good tone. The narration is enthusiastic which is great because Carter is constantly pumped up. Carter shows enthusiasm in every project he puts his head on. Podehl, as a narrator always captures that. I think that this narrator is one of the pillars that makes this audio book so good. I can assure you that Podehl's narration made me enjoy the book amazingly.

This book was meant to be an audio. I can't picture myself reading Carter's experiences because his daily happenings are meant to be told by him. The narrator Nick Podehl became Carter. But also, he became every character because his narration style made it possible. Genders can be differentiated in the book which is great.

I couldn't stop listening to this audio.

I want to listen to more audiobooks performed by Nick Podehl.  You can browse a list of his works here. You can visit author Brent Crawford at his site or look for him at twitter @brentcraw

About Carter Finally Gets It . Add this book to your goodreads!

Meet Will Carter, but feel free to call him Carter. (Yes, he knows it's a lazy nickname, but he didn't have much say in the matter.)
Here are five things you should know about him:

1. He has a stuttering problem, particularly around boobs and belly buttons.

2. He battles Attention Deficit Disorder every minute of every day unless he gets distracted.

3. He's a virgin, mostly because he's no good at talking to girls (see number 1).

4. He's about to start high school.

5. He's totally not ready.

Join Carter for his freshman year, where he'll search for sex, love, and acceptance anywhere he can find it. In the process, he'll almost kill a trombone player, face off with his greatest nemesis, suffer a lot of blood loss, narrowly escape death, run from the cops (not once, but twice), get caught up in a messy love triangle, meet his match in the form of a curvy drill teamer, and surprise the hell out of everyone, including himself.

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Graphic Saturday: Y The Last Man

Y: The Last Man #1 by Brian K. Vaughan
Art: J.G. Jones, Pia Guerra, Jose Marzan
Published: September 2002 / Vertigo
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Source: Purchased
Look for this at goodreads / Amazon / Comixology

One of the things that is relevant in this title is how the storyline is organized. The storyline is done using a sequence of events occurring in different parts of the world. By creating the story this way we can understand the real global impact of the situation formulated in this title.

Y: The Last Man presents as a premise males around the world dying spontaneously, leaving females as the only gender populating the earth. It caused an impact on me as a reader because massive deaths in males in all species would be catastrophic for the evolution and continuity of the species. It would bring the end.

There are so many reasons for me to recommend this graphic novel series to you. Y: The last man has great art on its cover which depicts the evolutionary element intrinsic in the story by including the monkey and the DNA. Colors complement the cover so well. Art inside is good and enhances the narrative. The author created enough mystery around the main character to make me want to return to the series. Why is he surviving? Is he special? I will stop writing about the goodness of this series because it is time for you to look it up and see for yourselves.

You want to know more about artist Pia Guerra visit her at Hellkitty.

For J.G Jones visit Comic Vine 

Find writer Brian K.Vaughan at Panel Syndicate 

Visit Jose Marzan at his Jose Marzan Jr.

About Y: The Last Man

"Unmanned (Part I of V)"

Written by Brian K. Vaughan (Lost, EX MACHINA), this is the saga of Yorick Brown - the only human survivor of a planet-wide plague that instantly kills every mammal with a Y chromosome. Accompanied by his pet monkey, Yorick searches for his lost love...and the answer to why he's the last man on earth.

What have you been reading?  Have you read other works created by this talented group of people?  Did you know that Vaughan created Saga?

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Children Playground: Blucy by Julia Dweck

Blucy: The Blue Cat by Julia Dweck
Illustrations: Erika Lebarre
Published: August 2013/ Xist Publishing
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Source: Purchased
Look for this at goodreads / Amazon

Blucy has really beautiful illustrations. The shades of blue used by the artist bring the cat to live, plus the illustrations look cute. The story written is rhythmic and perfect for kids to enjoy. The concept of this storybook is interesting, a cat who changes color and who loves the color blue. The character is created with these interesting details so a lesson can be imparted to the readers.

Kids learn about patience and caring with the girl but, what do they learn with the cat? The cat as a character I wasn't crazy about. The cat keeps doing a lot of things without been explained that his behavior was inadequate. It seems like he is awarded with a free license to do everything he wants. When I was reading it to one of my girls she told me: "That's a bad cat". Well, h

One thing I truly loved about the book is the section at the end where we can find Cat Facts and Hidden Pictures. These have a high fun factor for kid readers. My kids liked the book and these sections a lot.

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