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TV Show Ashley Iaconetti has a boyfriend! And he looks like Mark Wahlberg! And loves Tom Brady! If its not meant to be then nothing in my life makes sense. But for real I think that this was the perfect show for the Bachelor franchise. I have often said I don't really like the Bachelor and Bachelorette shows but I watch them to get to know the people who will be on Bachelor in Paradise because it seems like more fun. On the spin-offs we get to see the actual friendships that were formed in the Bachelor mansion and on the show. This is the best of that because there wasn't weird people coming and going all the time. Don't get me wrong, people left but it wasn't so obnoxious. Claire is back too! She is so pretty and nice and found some hot men to play with, even if one of them did remind me of Juan Pablo... But she didn't end up with him either so its ok. I loved the people from Australia and New Zealand! I love accents... especially Australian and Ireland... And

TV show I started watching Nikita when it was first on because of Shane West but I was in college and couldn't keep up. I probably only watched 3 episodes but I knew as soon as I saw it on Netflix I had to watch the whole thing. Shane West did not disappoint either, I even had my husband go as Michael to my Nikita for Halloween last year. I watched the season so fast because I thought about it even when I wasn't watching. I wanted to be Nikita! Not the spy Nikita, just the loyalty that she shows to her friends. I loved the first season because it was all about beating the bad guy (who is also the worst, ok the second worst from Walking Dead.) Percy had practically taken over the US government and then used it to make money from other countries and companies and making Percy more money. But I didn't like the second season because it just felt like everyone was lost. But the second season was them finding their way and the last 2 seasons were so intense and so full of f

Movie The movie does not follow the book but that is because they had to cut for timing reasons. The book very much follows the original Pride and Prejudice but the movie cut out the whole part about Charlotte after she marries Mr Collins and when Jane and Lizzy travel with their aunts and uncles. Don't get me wrong the movie is probably better than the book because the book is predictable. The whole Darcy-Lizzy relationship happens so fast in the movie and they barely fight at all. They spend the movie rescuing each other. Bingley doesn't know how to fight at his ball but at the end he is in-charge of the military when Darcy runs off to save Lydia. Lady Catherine is played by Lena Headey of Game of Thrones, so obviously she's a bad-ass! But she also agrees to take in the Bennets during the fall of London... That doesn't seem like her. And weirdest of all Mr Wickham asks Lizzie to run away with him and when she refuses him, he decides to get the zombies all riled up

Book I started reading this book almost 2 years ago when I would go sit in my car at a park while on lunch breaks from work. Eventually I quit taking actual lunch breaks at work and just went in an hour late, and my reading time was taken away. This book has been to Ireland and it isn't even my book! (Thanks Sarah, I'm sorry) But it is also kind of hard to read because it is still in old English. It's written just like the original but Seth Grahame-Smith added his quirk around the original writing. That part is fun but still not an easy read. "Mr Darcy watched Elizabeth and her sisters work their way outward, beheading zombie after zombie as they went" This happens at Mr Bingley's ball! The Bennet sisters studied swordsmanship in China where Lady Catherine and Mr Darcy studied in Japan, just another way the Bennets are lower in stature. They also call the zombies unmentionables because zombie is too crude of a term. "One of her kicks found it's

Podcast Georgia native and filmmaker Payne Lindsey decided he wanted to tell a story of another Georgia native Tara Grinstead. Payne watched Making a Murderer and listened to Serial and decided that he could do that too. He could tell a story that mattered. So he googled Georgia cold cases and found Tara's case. Tara was a beauty queen turned high school English teacher who disappeared from her house on a Saturday night in October 2005. The town that Tara lived in was small and therefore close to each other and quiet, I pictured Sweet Home Alabama when Melanie's divorce attorney comes looking for her and the people in the diner ask "what business do you have with her" and he can't tell them and they say "then we can't help you." It's about protecting your own. With the anti outsider perspective in Ocilla, Payne couldn't get anyone to talk to him until he talked to his Grandma and found out that she had a friend who knew Tara. Grandma conn

Books... I have this habit of going on iBooks and just searching for free books that catch my eye. Most of the ones that catch my eye are cheesy YA books, and I know they are full of cheesy romantic gestures that don't happen in real life (thank goodness.) The latest of these that I found turned out to be a prequel to another book that I've never heard of but the intro said it could be read as a stand alone so I did just that. Except like I always do I get caught up in series' and I had to read the next book and the next book. The problem is that the next books are never free... This book is called We Were Here and it is about a group of 7 college students from the early 90's that meet and become best friends freshman year and were practically inseparable for the next 4 years. It also has songs to listen to for every chapter. I love that part the most, if I ever wrote a book about myself I would steal this. The story starts with Maggie (the over thinker) telling ab