Killed off for Character Development

The False Prince Book Review I first heard about this book from my mom. It was a normal day, and I was just sitting around on the couch when my mom told me about this book. She had read this book nearly 5 years ago and had set a Google Calendar reminder to tell me about this book five years later. She was just trying to test if Google Calendar worked. But it worked! Now, I decided to read this book because of my mom's recommendation, and it was a pretty good book. False Prince is set in a fictional kingdom where the king has just died. A nobleman named Conner devises a plan to find an impersonator of the king's long-lost son and install him as a puppet prince to unify a discontented kingdom. He decides to train three candidates to impersonate the prince. This book follows one of the three people he decides to train, Sage, and his story.      I enjoyed False Prince a lot and it was very entertaining. Jennifer A. Nielsen has a unique way of bringing out each character's per...

 Hello Readers!      This is my review on the first book in the Hunger Games series.  I recently did a move marathon of all the Hunger Games movies with some friends of mine, but I left with a lot of questions that my friends were able to answer, but only the people that read the book. I took this as an opportunity to dig my nose into another great series!      I find that often times when there are book that are recreated into movie, people often prefer the books, which personally leads me to question, why? There might as well be a thousand reasons why the books are recommended to read first, but a few stand out to me. I find that often directors/screen writers feel as if they can make up for the lack of verbal communication because you we are now being provided with a visual element when in reality some of us can infer what is happening because we don't have that prior information. Another reason I find reading the books first is so that way I c...

Potentially Happy Readers, ‘tis I, Jemina, and it is almost spring break. (At the time of writing this, it was not yet spring break.) Let that comfort you, as it comforts me. (I hope you are now even more comforted.) This blog is about Act II of My Fair Lady, and since the production is over, there is basically no danger of spoiling! Unless, of course, you plan on seeing some other production… In any case, I will be speaking very specifically about details in the play, so beware, here be spoilers!                 As a humble makeup technician for this year’s spring musical, my role in the production was deemed undeserving of a personal script to use. Fair enough. For this show, tech only needed to be present for one rehearsal per week, as opposed to two per week, the usual amount. Okay, that’s fine. I missed a few weeks in the beginning for a number of different reasons! That’s not preposterous, is it? So by the time I went to rehearsals...

     Soft, friendly, pocket-sized little critters that love human companionship. Seems that we would love them back, right? They make great pets that are stupidly easy to care for and can be found all over the world. Yet, we use their name as an insult to call people liars and snitches. We’ve named them pests and compared them to trash. We set death traps in our own homes in attempts to murder them as quickly and efficiently as possible. This blog will look into how our society portrays rats, and uncover some facts about them that you might not have known.  I understand that some people genuinely feel uncomfortable with these animals (so read at your own risk), but hopefully, you will learn some surprising facts and gain a more positive mindset about rats! It could seem so, but I wasn’t trying to mislead you just now. Everything I said is true, and there’s much more you likely didn’t know about rats. For example, did you know that although we can’t hear it, rats rais...