The Magic of Life's Expirences and Memories.

A fish my Love a bird, Signore, but where would they live?

I thought I'd mention the 50 books thing, since I suppose I haven't mentioned it in a while. I have been picking up the pace it seems and I'm not caught up, I would be ahead if I could just bring myself to finish Brisngr. As I've said, I want to know how it ends. Its a great story it just seems to continue on and on as if I were sitting there through the months of waiting, weeks of traveling, and the hours of conversation. NOTHING is left out and much of it could easily be left behind. Though I suppose that each moment Eragon lives and breathes, goes on to further show his inexperience and his character... but COME ON! A confrontation here, Eragon learns something. A confrontation there, and Eragon doesn't agree but does it anyway. It is getting old.

So instead, I've breezed by 8 books since picking up Brisngr and 1 book not so breezily. I finished reading Ever After by Wendy Loggia(Gasp! A book based from the screenplay of a movie! I'm going to Bookworm hell in the end.) and I'm now reading The Last Unicorn by Peter Speagle. I'm quite surprised that I hadn't read it already. I grew up watching the animated movie (Click to view the movie trailer. AH, I love the Movie Voice Over Guy!) and I loved it then like I love it now. I am getting quite a bit more from the book though, but so far I think the movie entranced me a little more than the book it was inspired from. Its half nostalgia, part animation geek, part love the kind of magic that leaves your heart fluttering, with a dash of hopeless romantic.

I grew up in a house where stories of magic were as natural as breathing. Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit were names I knew long before I could read. I didn't know as much then as I do now, but I think knowing somehow take part of the magic and the happiness away. Everyday there was a song and everyday someone quoted a line from the book.

Chip the glasses and crack the plates!
Blunt the knives and bend the forks!
That's what Bilbo hates -
Smash the bottles and burn the corks!

Cut the cloth and tread on the fat!
Pour the milk on the pantry floor!
Leave the bones on the bedroom mat!
Splash the wine on every door!

Dump the crocks in a boiling bowl;
Pound them up with a thumping pole;
And when you've finished, if any are whole,
Send them down the hall to roll!

That's what Bilbo Baggins hates!
So, carefully! carefully! with the plates!

When my Uncle would put in The Hobbit(1977), everyone who was home sat to watch it and if they weren't singing along, they were humming (That's what my Grandmother did.) I think, having those memories and experiences growing up gave me the beliefs I have now. Magic is something we create. It lives in everything we desire it to. In Books, Artwork, Song, Grass, The Sky. The world is full of magic if you can only have the courage to see it that way. There were key figures in my life that made moments of my childhood magic and I hope to inspire the same emotions in others as they have given me.

If anything from just letting loose and writing this blog, I've learned that I'm a hopeless romantic and a lover of beautiful things. I'll have to add those things to the list of a thousand other things I seem to already know about myself. So much for being an "Enigma".

1.) Looking for Alaska- John Green
2.) Harry Potter: The Tales of Beedle the Bard - J.k. Rowling
3.) Brisngr - Chistopher Paolini (Currently Reading)
4.) Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
5.) Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colffer
6.) Artemis Fowl: The Artic Incident - Eion Colffer
7.) Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code - Eion Colfer
8.) Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception - Eion Colfer
9.) Maus: A Survior's Tale: My Father Bleeds History - Art Spiegelman
10.) Bone Crossed - Patrticia Briggs
11.) The BFG - Roald Dahl
12.) Ever After - Wendy Loggia
13.) The Last Unicorn - Peter Speagle (Currently Reading)