I found an article that is related to my nano story.  I thought I would post it here to save it for reference.

The party was so great.  Highlights of the evening - seeing my dog so happy, making smores over an open flame, Barbara's yeti cake, Sara'sTruffle, Sara's encouraging cards, Shay retelling the yeti history, Buffy vs. Edward Callen, Bob, an of course Apples to Apples.   I love all my yeti friends.  You are welcome over anytime.  It's going to be a great NaNo.

For anyone who missed it here's the Buffy vs.  Edward Cullen:

I came across a book site that lists detailed reviews and elements about a certain type of book.  It's a good site if you want to see what types of books are already out there that might be similar to a story you are writing for NaNo and what elements they include.  Here is the link.

I did a search for stories similar to my own NaNo story and some of  the results that I thought were interesting were:

Nancy Drew books
Series of Unfortunate Events
The Ledgend of Sleepy Hollow
A Ghost In The House
The Talisman
The Eyre Affair (A Thursday Next Story)
'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman'
Inkheart

I made a list of books I want to read this summer.  I've been doing a good job of actually sitting down to read some of them.   So far I have read books in adult fiction,  young adult fiction, and nonfiction. 

For my adult fiction I read The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue. 


It's about a boy who is taken and replaced by a changeling.  One grows up, one doesn't.  It goes back and forth between the two boys lives with elements intertwining in a Slaughterhouse Five kind of way.   The middle is slow.  it picks up pace and comes to a satisfying conclusion but the children growing older in time and doing adult things but staying in children's bodies is kinda creepy.  :\ 

My young adult fiction was The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. 



His family murdered, a baby wanders into a graveyard and finds the pity of the ghosts there.  They raise him as one of their own.  Gaiman was inspired by The Jungle Book.  It's good, it's Gaiman.  :)

For my nonfiction I picked up the CD version of The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch at the library.



The author, a professor, finds out he has cancer and only months to live.  The book was a supplement to the final speech he gave at the university.   It's got a few little tidbits about living life with hope when facing death but he's making plans to die.  Not the best choice for light hearted summer reading.  :P

The next books on my list are The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet by Reif Larsen, and Assasination Vacation by Sarah Vowell. 

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"It's like getting hit by a bus full of cool!"  I came across an article about a joke some college kids have started withamazon's Three Wolf Shirt.  They started giving the shirt five star reviews with hilarious testimonies of how the shirt changed their life.  You have to check this out. XD

I was at Walmart and passed by a fruit I had never seen before.  You can buy Uniq Ugli Fruit for $0.97

 
It's supposed to be a cross between a grapefruit and tangerine.  Has anyone tried this fruit before?  I'm curious.

On facebook there is an application to hunt easter eggs.  While using the application I noticed these little pop ups:


Yes! Go my dinosaur minion and attack!  Wait, what?  You have tiny arms and a tiny brain.  Maybe I hadn't thought this through.

The concert was great! There wasn't a large crowd but that's what made it fun. :)  After the concert, he came out and I got his autograph.

I just watched Fireproof.  It's a very good faith based movie.  A church in Georgia also did two other movies - Facing the Giants and Flywheel.  I haven't seen Facing the Giants yet.  My parents bought all three and let me borrow Flywheel.  I watched it the other day.  It was the first movie the church did but it's still very good.  It's about how God changes a used car salesman and turns things around for his family and business.  I liked it too. 

Nazi Zombies in Texas and raptors in Indiana, oh my!

It's here!  Fan's have waited all year in anticipation of this great event.  No, I'm not talking about the Super Bowl.  I'm talking about Animal Planet's Puppy Bowl.  :D  I even saw some kitties too.  How cute. :)