Jacksprat Gets Lost in Fiction

This is my top 5 jobs from fiction I would like to have.  This mostly consists of jobs from television show, but of course some jobs from books too. Top 5 Fictional Jobs 1.      A Timelady like the Doctor.   To have all that knowledge and be able to travel through time and space would be such an awesome job.   And I would get my own Tardis.   What more can could you want? 2.      A Magician like in the Magicians trilogy.   I wouldn’t want to be the human that ends up having to rule Fillory—too much pressure--, but would love to have magic and visit Fillory.   I just realized this isn’t technically a job, but I’m going to count it. 3.      A Hogwarts professor.   I’m not sure if I could be a professor, but to work at Hogwarts would be so fun.   This is basically being a magician, but under a different name, and being a teacher at a school from preteens to adults.   Brakebil...

Top 5 ‘Non-Written’ Novels I have only “read” two audio books that I barely remember, so it wouldn’t be fair to mentioned them, but I have read a few graphic novels.   I’m also a fan of fanfiction, but most of those aren’t finished, so most of these might be fanfiction.   I’ll post the links to the authors of the FF’s I mention. 1.       I used to  love the show Once Upon a Time, but the direction it has taken has disappointed me greatly, but I still love reading and writing fanfiction for it.   I have several friends who write amazing Fanfictions that gives fans the quality writing they deserve in the show, but don't get.   Number One for me would be “The Unexpected Saga”.  "This Doesn't Have to be Love" and "Unexpected Surprise" are the first two  this of Fanfictions. This is basically an AU story about the characters and the curse.   Belle becomes Baelfire’s caretaker and teacher, there’s still the Rumbelle romance, and Be...

The one thing I can't stand is book snobbery!  People who think that because they read the book they're a better fan, or because they have read classics, like Shakespeare, they're a superior reader.  Now, I'm reading classics, because some of them I really love, but the writing style is a lot to read and sometimes hard to understand.   Sometimes I read them because I feel obligated to read the classics outside of a school lesson plan, but only a handful I enjoy.  Screen adaptations often make it easier to get the basics of the plot and make it easier to understand.  In the 19th century (1800s), the writers were paid by the word so they wrote a lot of descriptions and now it's just too much to read. Also just because George RR Martin's series has vulgar language and sex doesn't mean Tolkien's work is superior to Martin's.  It just means Martin is blunt and not as poetic as Tolkien, and plot is NOT just the vulgar language and the sex.  It's poli...

This weeks top 5 is trends you're tired of in books.  Top 5 Wednesday was created by Lainey from Ginger Reads Lainey and is now hosted by Sam from Thoughts on Tomes. Goodreads link: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/118368-top-5-wednesday Top 5 Trends You’re Tired of Seeing in Books (This is just my opinion) There are so many books about the misunderstood or monstrous vampire.  Don’t get me I wrong I used to love those plots too like Twilight, which I still have a soft spot for, and House of Night series.  I still love Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but every time I see book with a title like Thirst, Seduced by Darkness, or something like that I’m immediately turned off, though I do read the back just to see.  To me it’s all the same: mortal woman, rarely a man, is seduce by mysterious sexy vampire, or another variation being the vampire school.   She may be a vampire too, but she still falls for the sexy older male vampire.  The plot, to me is over use...

This topic is about your favorite things (*Sings* These are a few of my favorite things) that aren't books.  Top 5 Wednesday was created by Ginger Reads Lainey and is now hosted by Sam on Thoughts on Tomes.  Here's the link to the Goodreads group:   https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/118368-top-5-wednesday 1. My favorite activity to do other than reading is writing.  Writing has been a favorite hobby of mine since fifth grade when I came up with this detective story, but I never finished it.  The papers I wrote it on are nowhere to be found, but I remember the one scene that I came up with to start the book.  Since then I have been thinking up evolving stories, including Fanfiction, which I didn't realize I was thinking about even in middle school but didn't know what it was. 2.  My two favorite Broadway shows are Wicked and Les Miserables.  I didn't like the book Les Miserables, but the songs in the musical give me tingles hearing them ...

   I just finished watching The Magicians season 2, episode 1 on onDemand.  We begin the episode right from where we left off in last year's finale: Alice, Margo, and Eliot might be dead; Penny has lost his hands (that's simplifying it), and Julia has gone with The Beast aka Martin Chatwin to make a deal.  Quintin has gone on a desperate search for help.  He comes across a witch who gives the impression of the witch in Hansel & Gretel.  The good news: she doesn't eat children.  The bad news: She won't help for nothing.  I imagine Quintin giving her a vial of his blood will have consequences later, but obviously his priorities aren't on that, though he tries to get it back, because her help ends up not being needed.  "I still had to walk here." Alice still has her God like powers she got from Ember, and uses them to restore the others, but unfortunately not heal Penny's hands.    The gang must come up with a plan to stop The Bea...

Top 5 Books Underrated Books 1Q84 by Haruki Marukami.  This is a book I just finished last year, which was a pleasant relief, because it has taken me a few years to finish, and I have only heard two people mention it on Booktube. Despite a few things I didn’t like about it I thought this book was compelling and intriguing, and I am surprise no one talks about it.  I think it’s a book worth and talking about it.  I’m not saying it’s my favorite or the best book ever, but I think it’s worth a read. The 13th Tale by Diana Setterfield.  I absolutely loved this book!  This was a story within a story, which is one of my favorite concepts.  A woman becomes fascinated by this author, who wrote a set of fairytales.  There are 12 stories published, but a 13th was written, not published.  She wants to find about this story.  Sadly enough, I can’t recall the details, but like 1Q84 I want to hear people’s thoughts on it. This isn’t a specific book, b...