BookTube-A-Thon Day 7 Instagram Pics!

Yesterday was the last day of BookTube-A-Thon 2016!  All in all, I'm happy with how I did:) 

I ended the challenge with 3 and a half books read, and one book related movie watched.  The books I completed were Sea Witch by Virginia Kantra, which I gave a solid 4 stars.  Mysteries and Legends Virginia by Emilee Hines got 3.5 stars. 1984 by George Orwell that I'm giving 5 stars, and my half finished book is Common Sense by Thomas Paine.  I won't rate that one.  But I will say it should be required reading in school! 

The movie I watched was Anna Karenina, the 2012 version with Keira Knightly.  I finished the book two weeks ago, and put off watching the movie, because watching a book to movie adaptation was one of the challenges.  I wasn't a huge fan of the book, well at least not of Anna.  She just might be my most hated character of all time!  The movie was visually stunning.  The stage, costumes, and cinematography were all outstanding.  All the scenes with Anna though were hard to watch, especially towards the end.  Watching her fall apart, and cry all the time just made me hate her even more.  I was also surprised at who they picked to play some of the characters.  Anna's husband and Levin were nothing like I had imagined them.  The movie reminded me a lot of Moulin Rouge, which I absolutely love.  It was very similar in the way it looked.  I was surprised to see the movie had low ratings.  It's obvious how much work went into it.  Even though I don't love the story, it was still worth it to watch.

Yesterday was also the last day for the Instagram challenges.  I'm pretty bummed about that.  It was a lot of fun:)  Here's the pics I took. 

I didn't have time to go anywhere special to take pics, so I just did them in my back yard.  The duck is Roxy, my 4 month old Mallard.  The dog is my pain in the butt Doberman Sonya.  Both were fantastic models and enjoyed their books very much;)  Here's my Instagram, check it out!  https://www.instagram.com/stac2277/
 

Getting back into Blogging!

The mood has struck, so here I am, back at the blog I've left two years ago.  You Tube has been my passion since I've left the blog, but I've been wanting to get back into it.  For little over a year, I've been working on my You Tube channel.  Here it is, if you're interested.  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOgPJOjEmcWHC1OhGfqJ_Vg . I plan on adding my videos to this blog as I make them! 

So here's what's going in my book world at the moment.  Today is the last day of the BookTube-A-Thon.  I've never done a book challenge before, and for same crazy reason, I felt like jumping into this one.  Even though it was scheduled for the same week that I'd be gone at summer camp with the kids.  Crazy right?  I knew going into this that I'd never read the seven book goal, but I have been able to get through much more then I normally would.  Apparently I like to be challenged, Who knew? 

Yesterday I even went out and took some pics for the BookTube-A-Thon Instagram photo contest.  The challenge was to take a pic of a second hand book.  I picked 3, and drove out to Leesylvania State Park.  The park was insane.  Everyone and their brother was there.  Parking was a nightmare, and I wasn't able to get two of the pics that I had planned on.  But I was able to get a few pics at the beach there, after I was able to find a sliver of beach that wasn't already occupied.  Here's a few shots that I took there!

With the park so packed, I wasn't able to get to the other two areas that I wanted to, so I left there and stopped by a wooded park by my house.  There I was able to get these shots of a book about mysteries in Virginia.  I had wanted to take the pics at an actual haunted place, but I was still happy with these shots in the woods.  It's kinda funny, because today's Instagram contest is pics taken outside.  I don't want to post the same ones I did yesterday, and I'm busy trying to read as much as possible today, so I doubt I'll be able to take pics for today:(  I wish the contest went on longer, I really like taking pics of books!  Here's what I took in the woods. 

And here's my vlog about my photo taking mission!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcZ2O_1QAeI

Thanks for taking the time to check out my blog!  More to come soon:)