Weekly Dose of Crafts!

Last Friday afternoon my second ever online yarn order arrived and boy was I excited!!!!!!!!!! Here it is right after I opened the top!

Here is all the yarn laid out. It might look like a lot (or maybe not) but I didn't pay over $3 for any of it and a lot of it was $1 or $1.50. I've already used up almost all of the red for a scarf you will see below. I made sure to get enough yarn to complete a project, so these are all attached to projects, mostly hats, scarves and a pair of mittens!

Remember that heart hat I started last week for my Knitting class? Well I really got going on it and realized I didn't even need any help! It was really fun to make and it fits!!! It's maybe a bit snug in one spot and it's a little longer than I would normally wear but I really like it!

Here is the scarf I made with those 8 balls of red yarn pictured above. It was the first project in either knit or crochet that I made using 2 pieces of yarn at a time! It came together really fast! The pattern was in the first issue of Crochet Today I ever got last spring, it was actually on the cover so I will attribute it to getting me interested in the magazine! 

Yarn used:

8 skeins Filati Cervinia 1616 

 

As I've been doing every week I picked and started a new project to get help with in Knitting class tonight. This week I picked this hat from 60 Quick Knits. I had some yarn I was just going to use and then decided I really really really wanted to use the yarn from the pattern (Cascade 220 Amethyst Heather) I checked 3 yarn stores and nada, but luckily at my last stop the woman working there (who had been my crochet teacher!) suggested another yarn that had a similar look and I'm rather happy with it!

Yarn used:

Plymouth Yarn Encore Worsted 2426

I'm still on a magazine kick, earlier in the week I had tried to find something new to get without any luck and then yesterday when I stopped at a new yarn store they had 2 issues I had missed in Summer when I wasn't really working on my Knitting skills which I was sad I had missed so I snatched those right up and also the new Interweave Crochet Accessories issue that I've practically been haunting stores looking for it!

Today I also picked up a skein of Bernat Mosaic in Ambrosia (one of the magazines had an ad for it and a beautiful free pattern!)

For more crafty goodness be sure to stop over at WIP Wednesday! And find me on Raverly as mint910.

Hardcover vs Paperback 103

This One is Mine by Maria Semple

Hardcover

Paperback

Amazon.com:

Violet Parry is living the quintessential life of luxury in the Hollywood Hills with David, her rock-and-roll manager husband, and her darling toddler, Dot. She has the perfect life--except that she's deeply unhappy. David expects the world of Violet but gives little of himself in return. When she meets Teddy, a roguish small-time bass player, Violet comes alive, and soon she's risking everything for the chance to find herself again. Also in the picture are David's hilariously high-strung sister, Sally, on the prowl for a successful husband, and Jeremy, the ESPN sportscaster savant who falls into her trap. For all their recklessness, Violet and Sally will discover that David and Jeremy have a few surprises of their own. THIS ONE IS MINE is a compassionate and wickedly funny satire about our need for more--and the often disastrous choices we make in the name of happiness. 

 

I always appreciated the hardcover, the painting seems like something wonderful you would see from the 1940s or something. But I could see with it being rather original that maybe some people wouldn't pick it up for maybe fear of it not being contemporary or even fiction. So I understand the switch to the paperback, but really I feel like I've seen that cover a zillion times. I like covers like that but it doesn't really separate this book from the crowd. Sort of one extreme to the other.

 

Thanks to Bermudaonion who also noticed this H vs. P!

 

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This Week In Books and a Book Festival!

 Yesterday (Saturday) I went to a local book festival! I had heard about it the last 2 years but somehow didn't make it, but this year I did and I'm glad I went! More below.


Monday:

Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing a Lord by Sarah MacLean (Just Showed Up Review Copy) YES!!!!

Tuesday:

Across the Universe by Beth Revis (Requested Review Copy) YES!!!!!
Bright Young Things by Anna Godbersen (Purchased at Borders)
Trash by Andy Mulligan (Just Showed Up Review Copy)
The Defense of Thaddeus A. Ledbetter by John Gosselink (Just Showed Up Review Copy)
Violet in Bloom by Lauren Myracle (Just Showed Up Review Copy)

Wednesday: nothing

Thursday: nothing

Friday: nothing

Saturday:

So Saturday I went to my first local Book Festival finally! There were author signings, booths, panels and all sorts of other fun things! I started my morning off meeting a few bloggers at a nearby coffeeshop (I'm not going to name names because well, I'm feeling lazy!) So here is a little recap from me!

We headed over to the Festival and there was Alexander McCall Smith right when we walked in! I figured there was going to be a giant line but only a few people were waiting so I got a book signed, I totally freaked out! I checked out most of the booths said Hi to a few people I had met before, petted a cover of a book I had done with was on display in one of the booths and ran into another blogging friend.

Then started the panels. I went to 3 panels which were:

The Changing World of Publishing which Sheila of Book Journey (who I met that morning) was on the panel for. I enjoyed the discussion between the authors and publishing people and Sheila the resident blogger!

Jeffrey Zaslow and 2 of the Girls from Ames. I really enjoyed his talk, he was rather funny. I remember seeing The Girls From Ames when it first came out and I finally got it!

Local Comics, this was the first panel I saw that I had wanted to go to, we have a great comics scene around here I think so this was another great panel!

My friend joined me for the comics panel and then we browsed around some more, had a sit down with a snack and then I was on my way home!


The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith (Purchased at Book Festival and signed by author)
Lutefisk Sushi Vol D (Purchased at Book Festival)
The Last Good Place of Lily Odilon by Sara Beitia (Purchased at Book Festival)
The Sky Always Hears Me and the Hills Don't Mind by Kirstin Cronn- Mills (Free at Book Festival)

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow (Purchased at Book Festival and signed by co-author)
The Girls from Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow (Purchased at Book Festival and signed by author and 1 of the girls)
Fables: Legends in Exile by Bill Willingham (Purchased at Book Festival and signed by author)
Fingerprints by Will Dinski (Purchased at Book Festival and signed by author)
Modern Day Gypsy by Gypsy Brown (Purchased at Book Festival)


Dark Water by Laura McNeal (Just Showed Up Review Copy)

Lookalikes 123

 Kindred by Tammar Stein

Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment by James Patterson

Hmmm. I'm not really a fan of this picture but I do appreciate a aged looking cover every once in awhile like in Kindred. I do not like that font though.

Thanks to Kelsey who suggested this lookalike!

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The DUFF by Kody Keplinger

Amazon.com:

Seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper is cynical and loyal, and she doesn't think she's the prettiest of her friends by a long shot. She's also way too smart to fall for the charms of man-slut and slimy school hottie Wesley Rush. In fact, Bianca hates him. And when he nicknames her "Duffy," she throws her Coke in his face.

But things aren't so great at home right now. Desperate for a distraction, Bianca ends up kissing Wesley. And likes it. Eager for escape, she throws herself into a closeted enemies-with-benefits relationship with Wesley.

Until it all goes horribly awry. It turns out that Wesley isn't such a bad listener, and his life is pretty screwed up, too. Suddenly Bianca realizes with absolute horror that she's falling for the guy she thought she hated more than anyone.

I really loved and appreciated The DUFF. In a sea of Young Adult Literature it really comes off as authentic and real to me. I loved the storyline, a girl falling for the guy she she cannot stand, I mean how does that happen and once it does what do you do!

I adored Bianca she's a rather average and normal girl but she's not boring or someone that fades into the background, she's a real person with real problems and I loved seeing her story unfold on the page. And Wesley, who doesn't know someone that comes off slimy like that! All the characters in the book were great!

I know a lot of people have commented on the language and the sex in this book. This is my take on it, the language didn't bother me one bit, I actually liked that it was written that way, it made the dialogue seem a hell of a lot more real that way. And the sex, while there was a lot, it didn't happen without explanation and I found the book to really flesh out and explain everything, nothing was meaningless.

Overall this was a breath of fresh air and I can't wait to read more from this author!

The DUFF was released on September 7th 2010
Genre: Young Adult
4.5/5 Stars
Picked up at BEA

Recent Giveaway Winners

The winner of Last Night's Scandal is:

Erin L.

The winners of Bloodthirsty are:

Danna W.

Throuthehaze

Mary D.

I have emailed you all, please respond back by Saturday the 16th with your full name and mailing address to claim your prize!

Weekly Dose of Crafts!

Thanks to everyone that voted in my African Flower Hexagon Motif blanket poll! I'm going to officially call Almost Random the winner, and good thing too because that's what I think I've decided to go with!

Last Wednesday night I went to Knitting class determined to start a pair of mittens (Gauntlet Mittens from the book Speed Knitting) knit in the round, knitting in the round and double pointed needles scare the heck out of me though. But with the help of my teacher I got going and it wasn't so bad. I tried to make the thumb on my mitten, it turned out horribly (3 times!) so I decided to get the second mitten all the way done except for the thumb and hope to get some help in class with it tonight.

Yarn used: 

Lion Brand Yarn Tweed Stripes Orchid

With the confidence those mittens gave me (even though they aren't a success just yet) I decided to tackle a simple knit hat pattern I had gotten and started in my Knitting 101 class last winter. It was a breeze minus trying to work with the last few stitches at the top and I'm really happy with how I turned out, I couldn't believe I did it without really any help! 

Yarn used:

Cascade Lana Grande 6039

 Last Friday me and Tami took a peek at Smiley's Yarn and decided we must have some. I woke up on Saturday determined to use up some of my yarn to make room for what was the come and I decided to make these fingerless mittens, based on Attic24's pattern. Well it didn't use up that much yarn (duh!) but they were still fun to make! I ended up using 3 of the Comfort DK colors I decided not to use for the African Flower Hexagon Motifs. I got my sister to model them for me! 

Yarn used:

Berroco Comfort DK
2730
2721
2744

Thanks to everyone for the input on the yarn used for the Isar Scarf, I decided to rip it out and try my second choice of yarn, it worked up a lot faster and I ended up finishing it earlier this week. I've given it to my mom and sister who really liked the colors so I think I'll be making myself another one with different yarn sometime in the future. 

Yarn used: 

Premier Deborah Norville Serenity Garden Yarn Sea (2 + a little skeins)

Last week I pulled out this scarf I had started knitting for my sister like last March, I decided it was time for it to be finished. And so I took care of that! It was just a simple garter stitch scarf that was made a little more interesting by the texture of the yarn.

Yarn Used: 

Lion Brand Yarn Homespun Apple Green

 After looking at patterns for several days trying to figure out what I could tackle next in Knitting class I decided to just go with this pattern I had been holding onto, at first I thought it was going to be too hard, but I think I can do it! Check out the From Norway With Love Winter Accessories pattern here, I'm starting with the hat but got enough yarn to do the entire set! It was a lot of fun heading over to my LYS and getting a little help choosing my yarn and having 3 different people give their opinion on colors and having a nice chat while they made my hanks into cakes!

I started the pattern last night and hope to get up to the color change on my own before class today, if I'm feeling brave I might just start myself and see what happens! 

Yarns used: 

Berroco Ultra Alpaca Light

4201
4282
4288
4275
4294
4268

Since I'm progressing on my Knitting I thought it might be fun to check out some Knitting magazines, here are two current ones that looked fun, if you reading Knitting magazines what are your favorites? 

For more crafty goodness be sure to stop over at WIP Wednesday! And find me on Raverly as mint910.

"Waiting On" Wednesday 100

The Big Crunch by Pete Hautman

Amazon.com:

A funny, clear-eyed view of the realities of teenage love from National Book Award winner Pete Hautman. 

Jen and Wes do not "meet cute." They do not fall in love at first sight. They do not swoon with scorching desire. They do not believe that they are instant soul mates destined to be together forever. 

This is not that kind of love story. 

Instead, they just hang around in each other's orbits...until eventually they collide. And even after that happens, they're still not sure where it will go. Especially when Jen starts to pity-date one of Wes's friends, and Wes makes some choices that he immediately regrets. 

From National Book Award winner Pete Hautman, this is a love story for people not particularly biased toward romance. But it is romantic, in the same way that truth can be romantic and uncertainty can be the biggest certainty of all.

Released January 1st 2011

What instantly attracted me to this book was it's cover, I haven't seen a cover this fantastic in a long LONGGGGGGG time! And the story sounds really really awesome as well, for some reason it's giving off a 500 Days of Summer vibe, with the whole seasonal thing. I can't wait to check it out!

What can't you wait for to be released?

"Waiting On" Wednesday is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine!

Hardcover vs Paperback 102

The Recipe Club by Andrea Israel & Nancy Garfinkel

Hardcover (Used by two publishers)

Paperback

Amazon.com:

Loyalty, loss, and the ties that bind: These are the ingredients of The Recipe Club, a "novel cookbook" that combines an authentic story of friendship with more than eighty delicious recipes.
Lifelong friends Lilly and Val are united as much by their differences as by their similarities. In childhood, "LillyPad" and "ValPal" form an exclusive two-person club, writing intimate letters in which they share hopes, fears, deepest secrets . . . and recipes—from Lilly's "Lovelorn Lasagna" to Valerie's "Forgiveness Tapenade." The Recipe Club sustains Lilly and Val's bond across the decades: through the challenges of independence, the joys and heartbreaks of first love, and the emotional complexities of family relationships, identity, mortality, and goals deferred—until the fateful day when an act of kindness becomes an unforgivable betrayal. 

Here's another one I've read! I rather like the coloration of the paperback and the detail in the pots and pans, definitely more memorable so that is where my vote will go! 

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This Week In Books or Go Ahead And Laugh

Why yes that is Vampire Knits the book I made fun off just a few months ago. I gave it a few looks in the store over the past week and decided besides the horrible horrible concept and some of the horrible patterns there are actually some really pretty things in here.  Also decided to go low-tech tonight with the picture, for a camera phone picture that's not bad though! 

Monday:

Violence 101 by Denis Wright (Just Showed Up Review Copy)


Tuesday:

Witch Craft compiled by Margaret McGuire and Alicia Kachmar (Purchased at Borders)

Case File: Canyon Creek, Wyoming  (Harlequin Ambassadors)

Wednesday:

Jumpstart the World by Catherine Ryan Hyde (Just Showed Up Review Copy)

Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King (Just Showed Up Review Copy)


Thursday: nothing

Friday: 

The Sugar Mother by Elizabeth Jolley (Just Showed Up Review Copy)

Foxybaby by Elizabeth Jolley (Just Showed Up Review Copy)


Saturday:

Banished by Sophie Litttlefield (Just Showed Up Review Copy)

The Other Girl by Sarah Miller (Just Showed Up Review Copy)



Vampire Knits by Genevieve Miller (Purchased at Borders)

Lookalikes 122

 Best Bet by Laura Pedersen

 Sophomore Switch by Abby McDonald (paperback)

What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen

While the first two definitely share photos from the same shoot the third and newest is also rather similar. The only thing that makes me think it might be from a different shoot is the coloration of the clothes, what do you think? I'm thinking it's from the same shoot and some photoshop magic was performed.

Thanks to GreenBeanTeenQueen who suggested the first two!

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iDrakula by Bekka Black

Amazon.com:

The classic vampire story that started it all gets new life for a generation of connected teens

18-year-old Jonathan Harker is diagnosed with a rare blood disorder after visiting a Romanian Count. His girlfriend Mina and a pre-med student named Van Helsing team up to investigate the source of the disease. The teenagers discover a horrifying truth: the Count is a vampire. The harrowing events unfold through emails, text messages, web pages, Twitter feeds, and instant messaging-the natural modernization of Bram Stoker's original Dracula, which was written in letters, diary entries, and news clippings.

While I've sort of been put off paranormal lately, iDrakula called to me, with it's unique way of storytelling and I'm so glad I picked it up!  Not having read the original of even seen a movie version of Dracula (which I did so afterward and of the two iDrakula wins) it was fun to experience the story in one of my favorite ways, through emails, text messages, web pages etc. I've heard that the original is told in letters and diaries, so I think it's really fun to see how that was modernized in this book too!

It really sucked me in and I finished it in about 2 sittings which never happens for me. I definitely thought it was creepy and mysterious. But at the same time I felt sort of removed from the situation, but I think that is just the case with this story because of the way it's told, even the original. One thing I would have liked was just more, the story moves at such a quick pace it's over like THAT. So maybe a little bit more detail would have been nice!

Reading iDrakula has opened me up to exploring other versions of the story and that I'm definitely excited about!

iDrakula was released on October 1st 2010
Genre: Young Adult
3.5/5 Stars
Picked up at BEA

Weekly Dose of Crafts!

As some of you may know, last Wednesday was the first session of a Knitting class I was trying to get into, I ended up going to the first session (because when I called they didn't have an answer) and turns out I was allowed to join the class! So in preparation for my class tonight I made two dishcloths from patterns I had. The heart one was the pattern I left my last knitting class with, the practice increases and decreases and had never completed.

As you can see I had a few issues with the bottom portion of the heart (it's totally not right!) and some of the edges but as I worked my way up the cloth it all went well from there on out. And that was after like 5 other false starts with 3 different types of yarn and 2 different sets of needles. Ugh! I'm glad it's done though!

Yarns used: 

Pink Dishcloth:

Lily Sugar’ n Cream Strawberry

Heart Dishcloth:

Lion Cotton Poppy Red

And because you can never have too many projects going at the same time I decided to start another scarf, the Isar Scarf to be more specific! This is my first time using a fingering or sock weight for a project! I think next time I would pick a yarn with less colors in it, maybe 2 total. This is looking kind of muddy to me. What do you think? Should I rip it out and pick a new yarn?

Yarn used: 

Berroco Comfort Sock 1818

And finally, I decided what to do with my 20-something skeins of Comfort DK (after changing my mind several times)! I'm going to make an African Flower Hexagon Motif Blanket!  I ended up not using 3 of the colors I had purchased for either being too similar to other colors or in one case for just being ugly in the end. I tried a variety of color palettes and this is what I ended up with, I really like them!

Yarn used:

2705 Pretty Pink
2704 Peach
2706 Limone
2709 Menthe
2707 Boy Blue
2708 Grape Fizz
2742 Pimpernel
2731 Kidz Orange
2719 Sunshine
2740 Seedling
2761 Lovage
2733 Teal/Turquoise
2758 Crypto Crystaline
2747 Cadet
2753 Agean Sea
2726 Cornflower
2739 Grape Jelly
2722 Purple
2723 Rosebud
2734 Liquorice

So now the question is how am I going to arrange these motifs. I decided I wanted to make a chart and really plot it out this time unlike my Summer Garden Granny Square blanket that's still being put together. So I made 6 charts and really can't make up my mind, none of them are really calling to me. So I would love your help in deciding, please feel free to vote in my poll and help me decide!

I also got a few books in the last week. Seriously someone has to buy Witch Craft and do a project with me! I really want to make something with someone else! There are some really cute things in there!

For more crafty goodness be sure to stop over at WIP Wednesday! And find me on Raverly as mint910.

Hardcover vs Paperback 101

Once a Witch by Carolyn MacCullough

Hardcover

Paperback

Amazon.com:

Tamsin Greene comes from a long line of witches, and she was supposed to be one of the most Talented among them. But Tamsin's magic never showed up. Now seventeen, Tamsin attends boarding school in Manhattan, far from her family. But when a handsome young professor mistakes her for her very Talented sister, Tamsin agrees to find a lost family heirloom for him. The search—and the stranger—will prove to be more sinister than they first appeared, ultimately sending Tamsin on a treasure hunt through time that will unlock the secret of her true identity, unearth the sins of her family, and unleash a power so vengeful that it could destroy them all. This is a spellbinding display of storytelling that will exhilarate, enthrall, and thoroughly enchant.

It's always strange to me when I cover is completely redone for a book yet the concept stays mostly the same, why redo it? The hardcover is much more dynamite, colorful and focused where as the paperback, because the girl (a lot less the focus of the book) is beginning to get lost in the background, and the monochromic color scheme isn't making it pop off any shelves I don't think compared to the hardcover. Whyyyy! I will say I do like the wispy hair though.


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Scott Pilgrim Vol 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life by Bryan Lee O'Malley

Amazon.com:

Scott Pilgrim's life is so awesome. He's 23 years old, in a rock band, "between jobs," and dating a cute high school girl. Everything's fantastic until a seriously mind-blowing, dangerously fashionable, rollerblading delivery girl named Ramona Flowers starts cruising through his dreams and sailing by him at parties. But the path to Ms Flowers isn't covered in rose petals. Ramona's seven evil ex-boyfriends stand in the way between Scott and true happiness. Can Scott beat the bad guys and get the girl without turning his precious little life upside-down?

I'd always been interested in checking out the Scott Pilgrim graphic novels. And then the movie came out, so of course I went to that first. I ended up adoring the movie, probably my favorite so far of 2010, and left with my face hurting from laughing so hard. I then finally decided to give the graphic novels a whirl. I'm sort of under the impression that the movie spans all the books but we will find out if that is true!

I liked the illustration style of the book, because of the size and shape of the book, I was worried that it might be too manga for my taste (I haven't read a manga yet because I don't really like the style of art I've seen in the ones I've flipped through) but I turned out to be completely wrong and thought the illustrations were great, I especially liked the big eyes.

I couldn't help, and can't help here talking about how the graphic novel and movie are the same. You can definitely tell they stayed as close as they could for the movie to the graphic novel. I had to laugh at the fact that this weird hat that Scott wears in the movie originated in the graphic novel, and how close they got the people in the movie to look like the kids in the graphic novel.

And of course, I adore the story, it's cute, hilarious and just awesome. Can't wait to read the rest of the series!

Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life was released on August 18th 2004
Genre: Graphic Novel
4/5 Stars
Borrowed from Local Library

This Week In Books

Monday:

Enchanted Ivy by Sarah Beth Durst (Accepted Review Copy)

Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly (Just Showed Up Review Copy)


Tuesday:

Brain Jack by Brian Falkner (Just Showed Up Review Copy)

I Was Jane Austen's Best Friend by Cora Harrison (Just Showed Up Review Copy)


Wednesday: nothing

Thursday:

Nerds: M is for Mama's Boy by Michael Buckley (Just Showed Up Review Copy)

Sphinx's Queen by Esther Friesner (Just Showed Up Review Copy)


Friday:

Knitting Klutz by Anne Akers Johnson (Purchased at Half Price Books)
I Can't Believe I'm Knitting (Purchased at Joann's)

60 Quick Knits (Purchased at Joann's)
Gone by Michael Grant (Purchased at Borders for $1.16 - yay Borders Bucks & Coupon!)

Saturday:

The Fledgling Handbook 101 by P.C. Cast with Kim Doner (Just Showed Up Review Copy)

Giveaway: Bloodthirsty by Flynn Meaney

While most paranormal books are making me shudder right now here is one I'm really excited about! A fake vampire, hilarious!

Amazon.com:

Some vampires are good. Some are evil. Some are faking it to get girls.

Awkward and allergic to the sun, sixteen-year-old Finbar Frame never gets the girl. But when he notices that all the female students at his school are obsessed with a vampire romance novel called Bloodthirsty, Finbar decides to boldly go where no sane guy has gone before-he becomes a vampire, minus the whole blood sucking part. 

With his brooding nature and weirdly pale skin, it's surprisingly easy for Finbar to pretend to be paranormal. But, when he meets the one girl who just might like him for who he really is, he discovers that his life as a pseudo-vampire is more complicated than he expected.

This hilarious debut novel is for anyone who believes that sometimes even nice guys-without sharp teeth or sparkly skin-- can get the girl.

Here's how to enter to be one of three winners of Bloodthirsty and an iron-on badge that reads "Vampires: Faking it to get girls since 1897."

Fill out the giveaway entry form here.

The giveaway is open to addresses within the U.S. and Canada only, non-P.O. Box addresses please. 

The giveaway will end October 12th at 6:59 pm Central Time.

Entries left in the comments of this blog post will not be counted, please fill out the giveaway entry form.

**Prize provided by the publisher**

Lookalikes 121

 Lost and Found by Carolyn Parkhurst

Faith, Hope, and Ivy June by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

What I find interesting about these covers is, even though they are different images, in each, one of the girl's has her arm out in the air. Lost and Found gives off a more contemporary feel so that's my pick! 

Thanks to Kelsey who suggested this lookalike!

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UPDATE: Thanks to Pirate Penguin who added this one in the comments! 

The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker

This Year In Movies: September

I didn't think I had watched much in September but apparently I did! 8 tv seasons and 12 movies. 

Degrassi: TNG Season 8 - It feels like forever ago that I finished catching up on Degrassi but it was actually just the beginning of this month! New episodes actually start next week!

Degrassi Goes Hollywood - I love how Seasons 8 & 9 of Degrassi had movies! Nice way to tie up some of the characters and see them off the show.

Degrassi: TNG Season 9 - A lot of the regular characters were gone by this season yet it was still good!

Degrassi Takes Manhattan - Anything with NYC rules.

Gossip Girl Season 3 - I got all caught up so for the first time since the first season I can watch the episodes as they air!

Wake - This was kind of a weird but cute movie.

My Boys Season 1 - I've heard a lot about this show and finally decided to watch it only to find out after I finished Season 3 it got canceled :(

Bart Got A Room - Really weird, I think I'll have to watch this again to figure it out.

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World - I think this is the best movie of 2010 so far for me. Finally decided to check out the graphic novels too, this movie was hilarious.

Management - Quirky.

2 Days in Paris - I feel like I've seen this before but I don't think I have. Also, I'm pretty sure if you don't turn on the English subtitles you might miss some of the French translation as well.

Fantastic Mr. Fox - Re-watch. Adore!

Kabluey - This movie was strange, I loved it. If you like indies this might be one for you.

Dead Like Me: Life After Death - Nice wrap up to the tv show, sad they had to replace one of the actresses with someone else though.

My Boys Season 2 - Seasons 2 and 3 are a lot shorter than the first but I still really liked it, I liked how the episodes revolved less around baseball references after season 1.

My Boys Season 3 - After Season 3 I ended up being able to catch Season 4 on the network's website, yay, still bummed it got canceled though.

The Guild Season 3 - This show is so clever/great. There were some great special features for Season 3 too.

Penelope - Re-watch <3

Community Season 1 - Oh dear god this show is HILARIOUS! I'm so glad I finally watched it. Definitely will be buying the dvd at some point!

Mystery Team - Hehe. This stars Donald Glover from Community and some of his friends who wrote, and starred in the movie. Strange mix of innocence and nastiness.