Watched- Sharde Richardson

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Watched
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Mikayla has never been completely normal and sheunderstands that,a weird Q-tip addiction and a stutter makes it harder and so does seeing those dark auras around people. She just wants to be as normal as possible.Turns out that it is impossible because after a traumatizing incident she is thrown into a world completly new to her. A world that has always been there but that she can't remember because she was adopted when she was thirteen and can't remember anything before then. This whole new world comes at her and she has to learn if she can keep the demons away and how she is going to fit into this new shape-shifter world that she has just learned she belongs to. 

What We Think
Reviewed by ShoreWhisperer
Number of Pages: 345
This book is a very easy read but it deals with more mature topics. There are mature elements in it, but the writing is aimed at more a 9-14 age range. So just keep that in mind. I read this book in a day and it was not bad. It was interesting and  kept me entertained. It was comical and the writing was very unique. I didn't know that someone could have a Q-tip addiction but apparently you can, to tell the truth I found it a little disturbing. Mikayla was very comical, as she is the narrator, I found myself laughing out loud at many parts. Up until Mikayla starts to train, I liked it. Once she started to train I thought that it resembled the Mortal Instrument series profoundly. This is not particularly bad but I want the upcoming books in the series to be a little more unique in developing this world. Now, in any good YA book you need romance, and there is plenty of that. Lucas is the charming boy in this book. The love story in this book is more mysterious and really comes out at the end and it leaves off for the next book to clear up. I will say that that the whole dream sequences she has when she is in Lucas's head were intriguing and I can't wait to see more of that because I really haven't seen anything like that since Twilight and I think that the way this book is approaching it will be more realistic and interesting. This books has many ups and downs.  It's an easy, entertaining book to read in one day and  leaves you wanting more, but it's not extremly unique, at least not in a way that stands out alot. This is definitly not one of the best books I have read but it is not the worst either.


Real Teen Rating~C+ : ...Well I guess it was good...

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Dolphin Tale - Harry Connick Jr., Morgan Freeman, Nathan Gamble

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Dolphin Tale
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Based on the true story about the dolphin Winter who washed up on shore after being caught in a crab fishing box. The cuts and wounds from the accident were so bad that her tail had to be amputated. Dolphin's can't swim without their tale, so she gets a prosthetic one. The movie follows Sawyer, a troubled little boy who is no good in school and doesn't have many friends except his one cousin Kyle, who is going off to the navy. He finds Winter washed up on shore and calls for help. Throughout the movie Sawyer becomes happier and gets friends while we get the true story of Winter and her battle at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium. The movie also incorporates the moving moments when people with disabilities get to meet the happy, social Winter and play with her.

What We Think
Reviewed by ShoreWhisperer
Run Time: 112 Minutes 
Rating: PG
This movie is one of those that is just trying to be emotional at every turn. It is striving to make you cry at every point. So, word of advice, if you do go to see this movie, please bring a tissue box. I cried, grudingly I will admit, but I got choked up many times. Winter is played by Winter herself. She is a very cute dolphin and the life of the movie. The story line, although very different from what actually happened does have bits of truth. In reality Winter was only found by the fisherman that is seen in the movie and instead of being found in Clearwater she was found on the opposite coast and was driven to Clearwater Marine Aquarium and treated there. Of course, you need a story line and the story is cliche but it works with the movie and it advertizes what Winter is all about. Kyle (Sawyer's injured cousin) represents every one army survivors and children that have gone and visted Winter. Kevin Carroll is the prosthetic doctor who actually helped because he is a doctor who has made prosthetics for animals before. So the movie took their artistic license with the story line and made something much more emotional than needed I think. On the plus side, it definitly sends a very optimistic message. 
Of course, Morgan Freeman just has an outstanding performance. He plays the prosthetic doctor and plays it wonderfully, he is the mentor, of course, in the movie and sends little pieces of advice to whoever will listen. I was also impressed with Nathan Gamble, he played Sawyer's part well. He got the troubled little kid down perfectly and he made me cry a couple times during the movie. Those were the two parts that stuck out the most to me. All in all, it was an ok. It is definitly a family movie and feel happy movie. There isn't anything extremly spectacular in it, except for the truth that Winter is still alive and can swim with a prosthetic tail. I wish that they wouldn't have blown the story up as much as they did because it is a powerful story in the first place, it does not need all the bells and whistles of hollywood's magic writers. Although it was a feel good, "empowering" movie, I was not extremly impressed with the outcome, because I know the whole story of Winter. I would suggest doing some research on Winter, because her story is truly remarkable and Dolphin Tale is certainly not her true story.


Real Teen Rating~ B- : Well...I guess you should see this...

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Spotify-App

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Spotify is an application for your computer, iPod or really anything that lets you listen to all of your favorite music for free.  You can make playlists, share music with your friends, find new songs related to artists that you like and so much more.  


What We Think
Reviewed by The North Star
I first heard about Spotify from my mom when she told me about this application that was HUGE in Europe that was coming over to the USA. When I got home I looked it up and you had to be invited to try it because it wasn't open to the public yet.  I requested to get an account and it was granted.  Ever since then Spotify has basically taken over my life.  Spotify is an ingenious mixture between iTunes, Pandora and GrooveShark.  Spotify is actually an app like iTunes you download to your computer and keep there forever.  Then once you have set up an account and password you type in the search bar the song that you would like and make a playlist and then simply drag and drop.  Like Pandora, once you look up a song in the search bar you can click on the artist's name and then there is a little biography on the artist/band and it tells you their top hits, albums, singles and where they appear.  From there you can click related artists at the top and it will tell you artists that you will most likely like because they are similar to that artist.  Then you can also click Artist Radio where (like Pandora) Spotify will pick songs that are similar to the artist you looked up and they will also tell you what artists they will play so you can look up related artists that way as well.

One of the things that I like the most about Spotify is that you can either pay for it or you can use it as free.  If you pay for it Spotify basically becomes your new iTunes but for cheaper.  You can also get it for free which means you have to "suffer" through some ads but most of the time it is no more than a min or 2 for about 30-45min (which isn't bad if you ask me).  The good thing about paying is that if you had to travel everyday on a train, subway or bus it would be perfect because you just download the app to your phone and then you have all the songs you could possibly ever want and no boredom on your way to work or wherever!  But, for people that don't need to buy the full version can enjoy the free version at their leisure.

One other great thing about Spotify is that it connects with Facebook so you can follow your friend's playlists.  This feature makes sharing great music with your friends just that much easier because you can also "e-mail" your friends new songs that you find or old songs that you rediscovered.  This is a great tool because you can share within Spotify to one or a few or your friends, you can post it to Facebook share or you can tweet it to twitter and let all of your followers know of a great song.  I really tip my hat to the creators of this site because they truly thought of everything and made this site reach its full potential and they are still creating new features that no one has ever thought of before.  There are many more things that I love about Spotify but this post would end up being waaaay to long.  In short, just get an account I guarantee you will love it after the first couple days of using it!

Real Teen Rating~ A++++++: The second after you read this, go make an account....seriously! 

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Hanna - Saorise Ronan, Eric Bana, Cate Blanchett

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Hanna
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Hanna Heller has been training all her life for one thing.  To be the perfect assassin.  Living with her father in the wilds of Finland since she was very young, Hanna has been honing her skills as a killer for sixteen years, and is ready for her mission.  Pressing a button on the tracking device her father has had with him since he escaped the CIA, Hanna jumps into the world of military intelligence to track down Marissa Viegler, a CIA member who handled her father's work.  As she travels across Europe trying to kill Marissa and find her father again, Hanna discovers things she never wanted to know.

What We Think

Reviewed by Living Destiny

Run Time: 111 Minutes

Rating: PG-13

When Dream, North and I went to the movies a while ago, we couldn't decide exactly what we wanted to see.  We were caught between seeing Beastly, Hanna, and Limitless.  After trying desperately to leave the decision to fate, the iPod-shuffle-method of invoking fate told us that we should see Hanna.  It turns out fate was playing a cruel joke on us, and we should have watched one of the other two movies instead.  

I literally don't even know where to begin.  I've been sitting here staring at the screen of my laptop for twenty minutes without typing anything.  Hum. Putting it off like a boss.  Ok.  So the beginning of the movie was kind of like a short film.  It was all artsy, with her running and hunting and taking out a deer.  Then it said the title really big.  And right there, it could have ended and been a pretty decent short film.  But noooo it had to be feature length.  And that is where the trouble began.  


This should have been a short film.  There were whole scenes that could have been cut out.  For example, there's one scene where it's literally just Marissa brushing her teeth until her gums bleed. Like the audience wants to see bleeding gums.  Gross.  There was so much material that didn't add anything to the story, and just served to make the movie longer.  If you could call it a movie.  I don't even know what genre I would classify it in.  It was like it tried to combine a ton of different genres in one.  An action-adventure, thriller, comedy, romance, feel-good, finding-yourself movie with some intrigue thrown in for color.  Try mixing all of your favorite foods together and then eating that concoction.  Sound appealing?  That's this movie.  If I wanted seven different genres, I'd look for seven different movies.  Seven good movies, not movies like this.  I was either confused or bored the whole time.  


The characters were so...blech.  Hanna, the main character, was just irritating.  I know she was raised to be lethal, and without any technology, and blah blah blah.  But I didn't care.  Shouldn't you care about the main character?  I think so.  She was so cold and unfeeling.  Generally if you're going for an apathetic character, they have some sort of weak spot that comes out in the movie.  An unintentional spot of love or hope or compassion.  Something.  Not with this movie.  Hanna was a stone-cold killer, and while that was what she was supposed to be, it made her unlikable.  Her dad wasn't much better.  He tried to be passionate and all hung-ho good guy, but he came off as a little obsessive and crazy.  Marissa was just...Marissa.  She was the bad guy.  She did bad things.  But not in a way that made her an awesome bad guy.  Meh.  Then there was this family.  They were minor characters that only had two real purposes, but were stretched to try and be meaningful (which didn't work).  Ick.  


It was so not enjoyable.  I liked nothing about it at all.  Well, that's not necessarily true.  I did like the first few shots before it showed the title.  After that, I liked nothing about it at all.  The plot took way too many unnecessary twists, the characters were bland, and I was so bored.  When you start hoping all the characters kill each other off at the same time, so the movie can be over with, you know it's not a good one.


Real Teen Rating ~ D+ : It passes time...barely...

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Delirium (Delirium #1) - Lauren Oliver

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Delirium
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Lena Haloway lives in a world where love is a disease. An infection. She lives in a world where love has a cure. On her eighteenth birthday she, like everyone else, will get the Procedure. She will be cured of ever getting the disease. The deadliest of all deadly things. This is something everyone accepts. They believe love should be avoided and are glad for the procedure. Lena never really believed that. Until her mother died for love. Now? She can't wait for her procedure. She counts down the days until she can forget the pain of losing her mother and all the other pains love brings into life. But when her best friend Hana gets a little rebellious, Lena is forced to confront the underground world she never wanted to be a part of; forbidden music, forbidden parties, forbidden conversations. Along with that comes Alex. A boy. A handsome, mysterious, forbidden boy who takes an interest in her. But Lena wants no part of that either. The last thing she would ever want is to contract the deliria. The illegal, dangerous disease she's waited her entire life to be safe from. The delirium. It kills you both when you have it and when you don't.

 What We Think

Reviewed by Dream Catcher

Number of Pages: 441

I'd heard about this book a bit before I read it. You know, the usual thing a blogger tends to hear about a book; it's amazing. Every book has a least one fan that thinks it's absolutely fantastic - no matter how bad the book is. I wasn't sure what to think. Until I heard exactly what the book was about. A world without love. A fascinating concept. So the book immediately went to the top of my to-read list. And I kept hearing good things. So I took a chance and read it. Were all those fans gushing about Delirium right about it? WAS it amazing? YES.
As cheesy as that introduction may have been, it's true.  Starting with characters. Lena: our main character extraordinaire. Magdalena Ella Haloway. Frankly, she was a great main character. She is the exact product of growing up in a society like that. A strict rule-follower and proud of it. But then the deliria changes her. I loved her character completely. Usually main characters kind of get on my nerves. They complain too much, or they make ridiculously idiotic decisions (leading to their untimely downfall which they somehow survive past despite the fact they haven't changed at all), or they're too quick-to-judge, or too clueless. Lena wasn't this way. Lena never annoyed me. She complained, but not extensively. She make some not-too-smart decisions, but they weren't laughably stupid, just the-human-mistake type of decisions you can kind of understand. She was scared, but never TOO scared. I guess you understand my point by now. Everything in moderation. What was great was that the Lauren Oliver used character development. Lena grew throughout the story, and it made her more of a three-dimensional character, which is harder and harder to come by these days. So Lena was great. Alex. Equal part serious, determined, and all-around-likable. As the love-interest, these qualities are extremely important. It seems some authors somehow forget that, while you want love-interests to be "mysterious" (or whatever), you don't want to lose them completely in the thick fog of what's unknown. And there's always the book where you don't understand why the main character's in love with the guy. Nothing's more annoying than that. Obviously, that wasn't a problem in Delirium. I understood why she'd fall for him. He was what she needed and she was what he needed. Viola. The perfect match. I guess that's my roundabout way of saying his character was good, too. Hana. I wasn't sure whether or not I would like her at first. I thought she was going to be the practically-perfect-in-every-way, beautiful best friend character. To be honest, she turned out to be exactly that. But better than I expected. Because along with being practically perfect, she was a great friend to Lena and was always very supportive and unafraid. Loyal to the bitter end. Her bossiness was funny and her charm was, well, charming. Bet you didn't see that coming. She turned out to be an important character in the book, and she was a good one. A lot of the remaining characters were the same. I didn't mention them in the gist because they're really not worth mentioning in any gist. Rachel (Lena's older sister), Aunt Carol (Lena's aunt and guardian), Uncle William (Carol's husband) - all the same. They're all cured, you see. They're supposed to be the same. Bland. Unfeeling. Blank. They were obnoxious. But, of course, they were supposed to be. Along with being annoyed, though, I somehow felt bad for them. They had to live this monotonous life. Kind of sad. So the fact that I felt any sympathy at all shows they were all very well written. Two more people I have yet to mention are Jenny and Grace - Lena's cousins. Jenny was annoying but she was supposed to be. Grace was quiet and innocent. I loved her character, even if she wasn't in much of the book. The final, very important character in Lena's mom. You never actually meet her in the story, but she's described so much you feel like you know her. She was different from the other cured people;  strong and fearless. She was a character this book couldn't do without. So, as you've probably guessed, I thought the characters were fantastic. 
Briefly: Setting. PORTLAND. Loved that it was in Portland. I've been to Portland. Saw a Sea Dogs game a while ago. Anyways, I've been to Portland. It's cool to have gone to where this story takes place. Cool that it's not something as overused as NYC (though I can never resist NYC) but at the same time not some made-up town in the middle of the-author-conveniently-left-that-detail-out. It made the whole story seem more real. Like the government might declare love a disease at any moment. Really made me feel a part of the story.
Okay. First line. Here it is. "It has been sixty-four years since the president and the Consortium identified love as a disease, and forty-three since the scientists perfected a cure." This is a pretty good beginning line, I'd say. Really gets the point of the book across. No beating around the bush. At the same time it's a little detailed. Eh. I won't be nit-picky. It's a perfectly good beginning sentence. Ending line: AWESOME. Seriously. It's great. The perfect way to end the book. On that note, this book isn't really the end...two more books to come. I'm excited. The next one's called Pandemonium. Sounds intense. I cannot wait for it to come out. 
Don't worry. I'm almost done. Title. Delirium is the perfect name for the book. You might be getting tired of me saying how perfect everything in this book is, and I know I never really believe it when reviewers say this and that and everything was just dandy. But this book really was dandy. Read it. You'll see. So anyways, title was great. Cover. I really don't have much to say about it. It wasn't the worst cover ever, but it wasn't the greatest. I know they recently reprinted the book with a new cover (this of a girl staring dramatically at you) but I have the one that's blue with the author's name and the book title revealing the face of a girl. I think it's pretty good. It wouldn't get me to read it, but it certainly wouldn't drive me away. 
Moving on (finally) to writing. It was amazing. Poetic and beautiful. There were tons of similes, but never too many. She always just made everything sound graceful with them. They weren't humdrum, overused similes. They were different and special.  I dunno. Half of what made this book so great was that the writing wasn't boring or dull. It had a sort of sparkle. A Lauren Oliver sparkle, maybe. I don't know. But the writing was fantastic and I wish every book could be written in this style. I feel the need to include my favorite line. It's the type of thing that stays with you. Sticks in your memory. Makes you think. "I love you. Remember. They cannot take it."


Real Teen Rating ~ A+ : Why are you still reading this, go buy this book now!

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Crazy, Stupid, Love- Steve Carrell and Emma Stone

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Crazy, Stupid, Love
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Cal has an extremely normal life.  He works in cubical, has two kids and a beautiful wife.  Jacob has the life of every man's dreams.  He has a one night stand with a different girl every night and NEVER has to worry about falling in love.  Cal's life is shattered when one night at a dinner date with his wife when she announces that she would like to get a divorce. After hearing the news Cal spends the rest of his night at the bar that Jacob mostly spends his nights picking up girls.  The whole night Cal complains about his wife and he makes sure that everyone in the bar is able to hear what he is saying even if they don't care.  After a couple of hours Jacob decides to go over and talk to Cal and decides to see if he can help him.  Jacob offers to make Cal attractive to women so that he can start dating again and begin to get over the pain caused in his heart by his wife.  Cal quickly takes up on the offer and wants nothing more than to forget about his wife.  Meanwhile, Jacob has found the first girl to ever reject him from a good night out (Hannah) and her answer astounds him.  He tries everything in the book and she still won't budge to go out with him. As Jacob grows closer to Hannah he feels that he may be falling in love with her so he goes to Cal with love questions.  Together the two guys form an...interesting friendship and try to help each other through the problems and figure out how love exactly works.

What We Think
Reviewed by The North Star
Run Time: 118 Minutes
Rating: PG-13
This was one of those movies that seemed to be advertised on TV forever and built up a lot of hype and in people's head thought it was going to be amazing.  I also saw this movie to have potential to show all of its good jokes in the commercials.  Soon after the movie came out it got rave reviews and everyone was talking about how funny it was and in my head the expectations kept rising.  The next time that I went to the movies this was the one that we had decided on and I couldn't have been happier at the end.  This movie was extremely entertaining a definitely lived up the the high ratings that it was getting.  Ryan Gosling and Steve Carrell made the best team and I give major props to the casting director because everyone fit there roles perfectly.

Characters. Cal was a very lovable guy and the whole time I was rooting for him to win and kept cheering in my head keep going Cal things will get better.  The thing that I really liked about his character was the fact that he never gave up on things that he started.  Most people would have given up the second something happened but he kept trying to get the few things that he wanted in life.  Although Steve Carrell did play a character extremely close to Michael Scott (from the Office) he made things different and I didn't see him as Michael Scott, which was something I was scared of going into the movie.  Ryan Gosling was surprisingly good as his character and always had me laughing at something that he said.  The only other time that I have seen Ryan Gosling in a movie was in the Notebook and that was a cheesy romance movie so it was really cool to see him in a completely different element.  I didn't root for his character as much as Cal but I still rooted for him in this weird sort of way but all in all he did a good job playing a womanizer.  Emily, the wife was one of my least favorite characters in the movie.  The arguments that she tried to make made no sense but it was probably a good thing that I didn't like her because I don't think that you were supposed to like her character anyways.  The acting was good but I just didn't care for the character or think anything that she said was funny.  The final real main character was Emma Stone (Hannah) and I loved her character.  Hannah was a very witty character and I think I really liked her because she seemed like a regular college girl.  She was a character that a lot of girls could relate to.  The great thing about this movie that everyone could relate in some way to one of the main characters.

The one bad thing about this movie was the fact that in the end they tried to pull this big twist that didn't need to be pulled and although it was funny at the time, looking back on it, it wasn't needed.  That was really the only BIG thing that went wrong with the movie.  Besides that, this movie was hilarious and is a movie to see on a Friday night with a bunch of friends.  Most comedies that have come out lately haven't been that good or that funny but this one changed it up and was funny! Just go see it :)

Real Teen Rating~ A-: See it with some friends!

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Frost - Marianna Baer

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Frost
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Now that Leena Thomas is a senior she gets to choose where she rooms at her boarding school, and she and her friends choose Frost House: the cozy Victorian house usually reserved for boys.  But she certainly didn't choose head case Celeste Lazar to live there with them.  Celeste is assigned to live with them for the first semester, and there's no way to change that, so they all have to move on.  As the school year starts up, weird things start to happen in Frost House.  Little things, like pictures falling and doors locking.  Celeste blames her roommates, and the other girls all blame Celeste, with Leena trying to act as mediator between the groups to get into Celeste's brother David's good graces.  With all these new scares and changes, Leena doesn't know if she can handle it.  Is she crazy, is her roommate crazy, or is there really something strange about their new life?

What We Think
Reviewed by Living Destiny
Number of Pages: 402
The first thing that comes to mind when I think of this book is: huh?  It was a little confusing.  The beginning was like a cheesy teen book.  All about dorm life at boarding school and the cute new guy and the weird roommate.  Nothing too bizarre, just very giggly and cliche.  The sort of book that makes me want to tear my hair out and then cry for all of humanity.  That sort of thing.  Then it starts to get strange, but it still isn't very spooky.  Slightly out of the ordinary, but not bad.  Then it gets really weird, then it resolves very quickly.  That's not very good pacing if you ask me (which evidently you did, if you're reading this).  The action isn't spread out very well.  Not that it was a bad book.  It wasn't, really.  It just...I don't know.  I didn't not like.  But I didn't really like it either.  It was very meh.  I didn't like the main character, Leena.  She was super stressed about everything, and she had this one character flaw that I hated.  It's kind of a big thing, so I won't give it away, but it made me angry.  It wasn't pointless per se, but I doubt it was necessary for the advancement of the story line.  I didn't like Leena's friends either.  They were so blah I can't even remember their names, but I remember one was really harsh and mean and unforgiving, and one had no backbone and just did what the other one did until the very end.  I liked Celeste and David.  They were both good characters.  Celeste seemed a little too crazy to actually be crazy, which is what she was supposed to be.  She was a strong minded girl who believed in herself, which was nice to see, but it was also interesting to see her slow decline as her mind was twisted and turned.  David was loyal and kind.  He knew what he was doing most of the time.  He got annoying, but then, doesn't everyone?  I do have to say, I really didn't like the ending of this book. At all.  It feels...lame.  Half-hearted.  Almost like the author stopped caring about what happened, so everything that did happen was mediocre and unsatisfying.  I was not pleased.  Bad wrap up to the climax and adventure, bad wrap up to the relationships within the book.  Not.  Pleased.  The first line of the book sounds like it's trying too hard to be spooky.  The whole book is told in past tense, and the first line mentions "before any of this happened".  Guess who wants to sound mysterious?  This book does.  The last line holds a lot more power.  While I didn't like the ending, I did like the very last chapter.  The end of the end, I guess.  It was much more final than the few chapters before it that tried to hold the resolution.  The last line was definitive, and it was well done.  There wasn't anything really wrong with this book, but I can't think of many awesome things to say about it either.  That's really it.
Real Teen Rating~ C+: Well, I guess it was good.

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Edinburgh Fringe Festival / AHSTF

Reviewed by Living Destiny


For two weeks in August, from the 2nd to the 15th, I had the honor of attending the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.  The Fringe is an enormous festival dedicated entirely to performance.  It's the biggest festival in the world for performers, and people of all ages and cultures converge on one single city to throw what feels to me the greatest party of all time.  I got to go with my school group through a high school program that works in tandem with the Fringe, called AHSTF (American High School Theatre Festival).  We actually got to perform and be a part of all the fun!  It's incredible.  First of all, Scotland is gorgeous.  Why don't we have nice houses and cities like this back here in the States?  Second, the air practically reeks with talent.  I mean, I was sitting there in my dorm room at the University of Edinburgh, and all around me were the kids who will grow up to be the biggest names in show business.  I get excited just thinking about it!  There were at least 30 schools there with AHSTF from around tons of different states, and everyone was so nice.  It's totally one big family, and it's hard not to love each other.  In fact, photo cred to one of my new friends from another school that I met there!  Then there are the actual performances.  Each school performed four times for other high schools and the general public.  There were people there watching my acting who live in Scotland.  And have cool accents.  And appreciated what we were doing (unlike most of the people in my town back here). How cool is that???  I made so many friends there, from all across the country.  It's weird to think how connected I became to my new friends in only two weeks, but in that atmosphere, it's hard not to become closer than peanut butter and jelly ever were.  It's infectious!  It rained the whole time, and I never stopped smiling.  I'll gladly slog through the rain if it means doing what I love with people I love and admire, in a place so stunning it makes you stop and stare.  Going to the Fringe was the most incredible experience of my life.  Ever.  Words like these don't begin to describe it.  Basically, if you're a drama kid, I have one word for you.  Go.  Go, go, go.  It's so beyond worth it.  


Real Teen Rating ~ The best thing that has ever happened to me <3

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