To Blog or not to blog?

02.15.13

Gosh?  To blog or not to blog?

I am not really sure if I should write a blog.  I do not know if I have enough stuff to write about or even if anyone would want to read about it.  The main things in my life are my English bullydogs.  I know that I would love to write about their day and hope that other people would want to read it.  I have always thought of writing down all the ‘bad customers’ as my mom puts it that I experience at work as a cashier.  I have also received some books for free with the hopes that I review them.  Since I love books and would like to continue receiving them for free I have no problem obliging them.  I will inevitably write about anything that comes to mind. 

Another reason to write or not write this blog would be after going over some of my sentences, I sound simple and do not use big words like I use to do when I was still in school.  I hope that people will ignore these good reasons for not writing a blog and read this.  I hope to share the joys of bully-dogs, the tribulations of being a cashier, and the love of books. 

I am sitting in my room procrastination cleaning it to write this blog.  My English bully, Tore, is sleeping on the floor next to the bed snoring.  I feel that my life is a mess; I still live at home, I work only a part-time minimum wage job; no college will accept me.   My room resembles my life in this fact; every time I clean it up I half way finish and start on some other project or just get lazy.  I try for something good like completing college, starting to clean my room, then through no fault of my own am unable to finish graduate school because lack of acceptance letters, getting sick so my room goes back to being a disheveled mess.

02.22.13

I really have no clue what I am doing or what I will write about; it could be how the snore of my bulldog puts me to sleep or how customers constantly abuse and disrespect customer service personal and swamp the web with complaints (mostly uncalled for).  I have a collection of books that I won for the intentions of posting reviews on the internet.  I just received another in the mail today.  I am so excited to start on this and delve in the world of publishers, authors, and reviewers.

So here goes my first review…

Kim Harrison’s Blood Work: an original Hollows graphic novel.

I had already read all of Kim Harrison’s Hollows novels and felt that I wanted to try her graphic novel as supplemental.  In this comic book  ahem..(graphic novel)  Ivy Tamwood is given a new partner; an up and coming witch named Rachel Morgan.  Ivy is struggling to understand her place in the world after a demotion while Rachel is fresh into the police force looking forward to bringing justice to the world and bad guys to their doom with a fresh view of the world.  Ivy pessimistic and wanting to keep the status quo and Rachel optimistic thinking she can change the world.  They are given their first case which Rachel investigates until she will solve her case; with Ivy following Rachel and keeping her out of harms way while trying not to kill Rachel herself.  The case is an introduction to the Hollows world and takes some twists and turns.  The graphic novel was long enough to show you each Rachel and Ivy’s personalities, clashes, and the world around them.  To me the novel ended abruptly, finishing the case a little too easy.  The pictures were decent sometimes I was unable to understand what the author was trying to get across.  Rachel was clear and could almost look like a real picture but, Ivy looked unpolished, with unnatural expressions and ragged edgings.  Harrison went into depth with an introduction and afterward showing her thought processes and steps in making the graphic novel which was an extra bonus. 

I would have to give this graphic novel a three out of five stars.  Three stars I would be willing to read another novel and give her a second change.  Inevitably I was unable to get over Ivy’s drawings and as a graphic novel is a major component so a star was taken away.  Since I felt that the story was second to getting to know the characters and was not an integral part of the novel I took another star away. ★★★☆☆