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Black Friday Book Deals

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Black Friday is the time for lots of great deals from all of your favorite places – larger chains to smaller independent stores. I generally don’t like to support massive businesses because it can hurt smaller ones, but as a college student I don’t have tons of money to throw around.

So I generally turn to Amazon for a lot of things. Especially books!

There’s some fantastic deals going on over there today, such as 80% off books!

I’m here drooling over tons of them and I could so easily spend all my savings on these kinds of days!

There’s some great deals on books for the little bookworm in your life, so you could get some of your holiday shopping done now!

I know I’ll be shopping. Will you?

Letter from Santa Clause [Christmas Surprise]

I’m really happy to announce that this year I will be producing and selling Letters from Santa Clause for you to purchase for your little Munchkins!

Currently it is only open to the United States but if you’re an international reader and are interested in one, please email me and I can work something out. Shipping just will be much higher!

It’s fully customizeable for your little one, which is perfect to bring some magic!

To view the full listing and purchase one, please click here!

Feel free to share around if you don’t personally need one because some little one may need a little extra magic this year!

Aladdin (2019) Movie Review

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*Header image from IMDB.com

Summary

“A street rat frees a genie from a lamp, granting all of his wishes and transforming himself into a charming prince in order to marry a beautiful princess. But soon, an evil sorcerer becomes hell-bent on securing the lamp for his own sinister purposes.”

-From Amazon.com

Review

I was pretty disappointed with this movie to be blunt. When I saw the first trailer for it I was a little iffy already but because it looked, visually, beautiful I hoped that it would get better. Then the movie came out and I didn’t hear much about it anywhere. Some of the soundtrack songs came up on Spotify at some point and I was cringing at the auto-tuning. It hurt my musical soul.

Visually, it was gorgeous.

Something about this movie was gorgeous. I mean it was colorful and lots of fantastical elements. It was based on a animation so that’s expected but it really did have some gorgeous moments. But to me, that was the only thing that it had that was good.

The music was….painful.

The songs are classic. I grew up with Aladdin and all of the other classic Disney animations and then this just destroyed it. Will Smith doesn’t really sing and they autotuned the hell out of him and everyone else. It just killed it honestly. I’m sure a lot of people wouldn’t really notice it because music producers have gotten much better at autotuning but if you really know what you look for you can’t miss it. So that just killed the soundtrack for me.

The story-line was cringy as live action.

I’m not sure what it was about it because as far as I remember the story line was pretty much the same, but it was quite cringy to watch as live action. There was nothing new, just rehashing the old story as live action. And to me it was just awkward to watch. Not awkward as in inappropriate but it just seemed like the directors were trying to make the live action as the animation and it didn’t work.

Disney needs to stop with this live action stuff.

I love animations and I love live action as well. Some of these live action movies have been fantastic but with so many of the classics being made into live action now they’re doing it too fast. They’re making these movies for the sake of making them and to get more money.

The movie felt rushed. The animations were meh, the story was meh, the music was meh, the cast was meh. Honestly, I’m glad I watched it on my computer because I was able to skip through parts because it was just…crap.

I know that some people really liked it and it’s one to add to the collection, but I just couldn’t get into it and enjoy it.

Happy Watching!

NaNoWriMo 2019

November is rapidly approaching and you know what that means!

NaNoWriMo!

What is NaNoWriMo you may be asking? It’s National Novel Writing Month which is in November. This is a month dedicated to writing.

You don’t have to have any skills or talents when it comes to writing. You just have to have passion and an interest.

You got that? Then head over to NaNoWriMo.org!

It’s completely FREE and so much fun.

From NaNoWriMo.org

What do I do?

You create a log in and a profile. You can add as little or as much as you want about yourself.

Find your regional group. There are real-life meet ups where you can go to meet with fellow WriMo’s.

If you don’t feel comfortable about that, fear not! There’s tons of online writing sessions which are tons of fun! You do word dashes, follow prompts from bots and friends and have a blast.

Your profile has your story on it and all the info to do with your goals.

The overall goal is 50,000 words which is the length of the average book, but no worries if you can’t reach it. I never do.

You write to have fun! Not be stressed.

You can meet up with people, make online friends and just have an incredible time. I’ve been part of it for 9+ years now. I’m not always as active as I am in other years but I join in the fun!

If you choose to join in, add me on there! I’d love to see your progress!

It’s a darn fun time and I highly recommend it if you’re interested in writing.

There’s tons of forums to find writing suggestions and you can ask questions to the whole NaNoWriMo community if you get stuck. It’s super supporting.

I hope to see you there and that you’re as excited to get writing as I am!

Good luck!

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