Once upon a midnight dreary...

If you're not familiar with the title of this post, it is the opening line of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven." This is my last semester of college and since I'm an English major we are required to do a Capstone project and after choosing to work with Jane Austen I realized that just wasn't my cup of tea and I switched to Poe. I have no idea why I didn't think of Poe before but I am so happy I decided to change. I will be spending the next 15 weeks of my life working on this project so I had to pick something I was interested in. I've read a lot of Poe and I really love his work so I'm very excited to research some of the lesser known stories. I'm planning on looking at between three and five of his short stories and looking at how they work in terms of Gothic Fiction and also the role Poe had in creating the Detective/Horror genre (which, if you've read any of his stuff, you know he was pretty messed up). I will also be looking at different ways he portrayed narration and just the overall creepiness of his text. I seriously can't wait! If you've read my blog before you know how much I love the horror genre so this is totally up my alley. I will also get to incorporate Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones into my project in terms of how it works with Gothic fiction and narration so I'm really excited about that because it's one of my favorite books! As you can tell, I'm pretty excited about this whole thing!!!

Friends With Kids. Another Piece of My Heart.

Friends With Kids (2011)

Here's another one that I've been waiting to get from the library for quite a while and I was definitely happy with the results. It's similar to your average romantic comedy in that it's obviously a comedy with romance but Friends With Kids had more substance then others. The movie centers around two friends who want to have kids but don't want to ruin a romantic relationship by having them so they decide to have a child together without the romantic ties. Four of their closest friends have children and they don't seem to be very happy and they are bound and determined not to end up like them. The main reason I wanted to see this movie was because I love Adam Scott (Jason) and I've loved him since his time on Boy Meets World (which apparently he hated so that's a bummer). He was really great in the lead role of Jason and I'm glad he finally got to play the lead in something. The movie had a really solid cast, including Maya Rudolph, Chris O'Dowd, Megan Fox, Kristin Wiig, Jon Hamm, Ed Burns and Jennifer Westfeld (who wrote and directed it) and they all did a really solid job and I liked that they all played a part in the way the movie flowed. If you like a good romantic comedy with a little bit of drama, I would definitely recommend this, & even if you don't like that type of movie I would still recommend it because it was just a really good movie.

Another Piece of My Heart (2012)

Just got done reading this the other day and I absolutely loved it! I randomly grabbed it off the shelf at the library one day and after the first few pages I totally fell in love with it. The main plot of the story is about a woman's relationship with her stepdaughter (they basically hate each other) and I feel like I was actually kind of drawn to this book. I'm currently going through a little something with my own stepmother so I was able to relate to this book right off the bat. The story really changes throughout the book but it stays amazing throughout. I've never read anything by Jane Green before but I will definitely be reading more by her. I highly recommend picking this up the next time you're at the library or bookstore.