Jacksprat Gets Lost in Fiction

Since it was around Christmas time when family was visiting us I was unable to watch the newest episodes of these two shows Doctor Who and The Librarians, but I finally watched both today on onDemand.  Here is my review of The Doctor Who Christmas Special.      Doctor Who takes a look at the superhero storyline in science fiction, and puts a spin on it.  The story takes place after the 24 years he was on Delirium with River, just thinking about it makes me sad, and goes back and forth between the other protagonists childhood and his present life.  The Doctor meets a little boy, Grant,  the other protagonist, who likes comics, while saving Earth, and the boy accidentally swallows this stone of the Doctor's that gives him super powers.  As an adult, Grant becomes a superhero, but on the side he is a Nanny for a woman, whom  he went to school with and had a crush on. She had a baby with his college roommate, but Grant's roommate abandoned's her and the baby, so Grant volunte

Top 5 Wednesday: Characters I’d invite to NYE Party Magnus Bane.  Magnus Bane is an exceptionally fun warlock who knows how to have a good time.  He could use his magical skills to entertain the guests and he has an infectious personality that could over anyone, unless you’re a Scoorge. Celaena Sardothian.  She loves to have a good time and go to parties.  She would also be an exciting person to converse with being well read, an assassin, and Fae.  Of course, I don’t know how she would feel about me and my friends. I know she doesn’t trust easily.  I’m going with only knowledge from the first books, but I have heard she isn’t as likable in the most recent books as a character. The Weasley Twins.  Just like Magnus they are magical and would be able to keep the guests entertain with jokes and pranks. Alice Cullen.  She knows how to throw a party.  She’ll be able to help me prepare before the guests arrived, and I would love to just hang out with her.  She’s really the only characte

  I am normally not a reader of middle grade level books, because of the writing style, but this one is really good.  It tells the story of two friends, Sophie and Agatha, who live in a village where the children are kidnapped, sent to a school for Good and Evil training, and then are placed into fairytales to live out the rest of their lives as these characters.  Sophie is pretty, blonde, charitable as long as it shows she's good, and vain. Agatha is plain. wears black, prefers isolation, and only has Sophie as a friend.  Sophie believes she'll go to the Good school for princess training and finding her prince, and tells Agatha she'll go to the Evil school, because she's different and a witch.  When they're taken they end up in the opposite schools, even the students and teachers are surprised, and both try to get back to the schools they believe they belong in.  Unfortunately, the girls, not meaning to, to continue to prove why they belong in the schools they were

Here's my Top 5 Wednesday:  A Tardis.  I would give this my friend Terri, so she can go back in to ancient Egypt or possibly my friends Carol, who is a big Whovian, and I think she would enjoy the a trip with the Doctor on his Tardis.  My friend Kristen Weeks would probably enjoy traveling on the Tardis as well. A wand. I think I could give almost anyone a wand and they would enjoy it.  My mom could probably use it to help her clean and my dad to help with all his projects. A direwolf.  I don't know who I would give this....I think...Ter'race.  Her Baby passed away and I think she would love a new dog, granted its a wolf, but they're so cute and loyal.  She might have to move to a colder climate, so they're not the most practical gift, but I'm not one for practicality. Stele.  Laurissa hasn't gotten into Cassie Clare's books, but I think this would be very helpful to her.  She can have cool tattoo like marks on her skin that offer her great skills,

   I used to love Once Upon a Time and got even more excited when I watched Robert Carlyle's performance as Rumplestiltskin.  That first moment of RC's performance just gave him chills.   I intrigue by the plot, because who doesn't love fantasy and fairytales?!  Well, maybe some don't, but even my mom been interested as I watched every week.  Season one was great.  It was off to an amazing start, not perfect, but great.  That should have been the first sign.     The premise for the first season was great, but the writer's made a risky choice by having Emma Swan, the savior break the curse by the end of the season.   At the time, I was curious to see what they would do next, where would they go from there, and if the second season would have been better.  It wasn't better, at least not to me, but it was decent.  After all, a lot of shows have Sophomore Season Slumps, but season two was when it all started to go bad.   The over-used amnesic plot that's consta

It's top 5 Wednesday time!  I know it's a day early but I won't be able to get on all day tomorrow. This is a goodreads group created by Ginger Reads Lainey and now hosted by Sam on Thoughts on Tomes.  Here are my books series/T.V. Series that got worse.  This is just my opinion. Twilight series.  I have mixed feelings about this series. I have a soft spot for it, but I do agree it started to not be as good, though, I did like the different vampire types that were introduced in Breaking Dawn.   House of Night series.  The protagonist Zoey Redbird was really annoying me as the series progress, and there were too many books, I was getting bored.  They could have stopped the antagonist a lot sooner. I had to DNF the series.    Glee.  It got repetitive and the new cast storyline felt like a repeat of the original storyline.  I only like the singing.   Once Upon a Time.  There is so much I could say about this show and how bad the writing got.  The writers seeme

The top 5 books I want to finally read in 2017 are..... Out of Oz by Gregory MaGuire.  I want to reread the other 3 books, so if they have them in the library I'll just borrow them, until I get a job.  I loved that series and still have not read the last book.   Inheritance by Christopher Paolini.  I'll have to do the same thing with this series and reread the first three books, which I still have, and it will give me a chance to determine if the movie truly was bad.   The Grisha Trilogy by Leigh Bardugo.  Ever since I heard Samantha from Thoughts on Tome talk about this I've been obsessing over reading this trilogy.  This might be a library book, but I will probably end up buying him.  

Tome Topple ended last night at 11:59 PM.  At the time of tome topple we were transitioning into in our new house, and I was only able to read to the tome that I had, which was Dragonfly in Amber.  I had been hoping to read Game of Thrones, but it was among the books that were still in storage.  In Dragonfly in Amber I got as far as page 632.  I'm so excited that I am able to get this far in a book that is over 500 pages, and not a YA.  I think there are some YA books that I have read and finished that are over  500 pages. 1Q84 # of Pages: 897 ElfQuest # of Pages: 242 I started a tome TBR inspired by the tome topple readathon. Tome TBR ·          Voyager (by Diana Gabaldon) ·          The Name of the Wind (by Patrick Rothfuss) ·          Game of Thrones(Reread) (G.R.R. Martin) I will be adding more to this list.  The Name of the Wind is a book I am asking for Christmas so hopefully I will receive it. I got my new mattress and was able to place my bedding on i