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Today is May 4th!
For Star Wars fans, today is “May the Fourth Be With You” Day!
Here’s some information from starwars.com: Star Wars Day: May The 4th Be With You
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Since my hair is super-short now, I can’t put it into the Princess Lea buns. However, I did do it for Star Wars Day in 2011!
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And, tomorrow is “Revenge of the Fifth.”
HAHAHAHA!
Are you doing anything to celebrate May The Fourth Be With You?
Until the next headline, Laura Beth 🙂
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Let’s keep the Harry Potter theme going, shall we?
I found this awesome tag on Perfectly Tolerable.
Here’s the link to her post:
Guidelines:Â
Do the quizzes and answer the questions! All of the quizzes can be found on Pottermore.
Questions:
Answers:
What is your Patronus? (Pottermore quiz)
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What is your wand? (Pottermore quiz)
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What would your Boggart be?
Hmmmm. Tough question.
Losing all hope.
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What position would you play in Quidditch?
Keeper!
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Would you be pure-blood, half-blood, or Muggle-born?
Half-blood.
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What job would you want once you left Hogwarts?
An Auror.
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Which of the Deathly Hallows would you choose?
The Invisibility Cloak.
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Favorite book?
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
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Least favorite book?
None.
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Favorite film?
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
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Least favorite film?
None.
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Favorite character?
Hermione Granger.
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Least favorite character?
Dolores Umbridge (shudders at even writing her name).
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Favorite teacher?
Minerva McGonagall.
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Least favorite teacher?
Tie between Gilderoy Lockhart, and Dolores Umbridge (shudders again).
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Do you have an unpopular opinion about the series?
Nope. I love it all.
That’s it for this tag! I had a lot of fun with the questions.
What about you? Do you like Harry Potter?
Until the next headline, Laura Beth 🙂
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Thrice Read did this awesome post at the end of March.
Some of you know how much I adore Harry Potter, so I knew I had to write a post about this!
Hogwarts House
Hufflepuff
Traits:Â Loyal, patient, fair, hard-working, true.
You probably know that some of Hufflepuff’’s most renowned members include Nymphadora Tonks and Cedric Diggory. But did you know that Hufflepuff’s house ghost, the Fat Friar, still resents the fact he was never made a cardinal? Or that Hufflepuff has produced the fewest Dark wizards of any house at Hogwarts?
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Hufflepuff Welcome Message:
Congratulations! I’m Prefect Gabriel Truman, and I’m delighted to welcome you to HUFFLEPUFF HOUSE. Our emblem is the badger, an animal that is often underestimated, because it lives quietly until attacked, but which, when provoked, can fight off animals much larger than itself, including wolves. Our house colours are yellow and black, and our common room lies one floor below the ground, on the same corridor as the kitchens.
Hufflepuff is certainly the least boastful house, but we’ve produced just as many brilliant witches and wizards as any other. Want proof? Look up Grogan Stump, one of the most popular Ministers for Magic of all time. He was a Hufflepuff – as were the successful Ministers Artemesia Lufkin and Dugald McPhail. Then there’s the world authority on magical creatures, Newt Scamander; Bridget Wenlock, the famous thirteenth-century Arithmancer who first discovered the magical properties of the number seven, and Hengist of Woodcroft, who founded the all-wizarding village of Hogsmeade, which lies very near Hogwarts School. Hufflepuffs all.
Hufflepuffs are trustworthy and loyal. We don’t shoot our mouths off, but cross us at your peril; like our emblem, the badger, we will protect ourselves, our friends and our families against all-comers. Nobody intimidates us.
Like badgers, we know exactly how to lie low – and how to defend ourselves.
I think that’s nearly everything. I must say, I hope some of you are good Quidditch players. Hufflepuff hasn’t done as well as I’d like in the Quidditch tournament lately.
You should sleep comfortably. We’re protected from storms and wind down in our dormitories; we never have the disturbed nights those in the towers sometimes experience.
And once again: congratulations on becoming a member of the friendliest, most decent and most tenacious house of them all.
pottermore.com
Ilvermorny House
Thunderbird
Named by Chadwick Boot after his favourite magical beast, the Thunderbird, a beast that can create storms as it flies. Thunderbird house is sometimes considered to represent the soul of a witch or wizard. It is also said that Thunderbird favours adventurers.
pottermore.com
Wand
Not the best photo, but there it is!
pottermore.com
Patronus
A Stoat. Cool!
So, that’s it for me!
What is your House, your Wand, your Patronus?
Comment below!
Until the next headline, Laura Beth 🙂
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The Rules
Here’s my quote for Day 3!
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Tag – You’re It!
That’s it for this tag!
Thanks again to Thrice Read for tagging me. It was fun to do it again.
Until the next headline, Laura Beth 🙂
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The Rules
Here’s my quote for Day 2!
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Tag – You’re It!
Come back tomorrow for Day 3!
Until the next headline, Laura Beth 🙂
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This is the second time I’ve been tagged for the “3 Quotes in 3 Days” tag.
Here are the links to my first round, from August 2016:
This time, I was tagged by Thrice Read!
Here’s the post where I was tagged:
The Rules
Here’s my quote for Day 1!
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Tag – You’re It!
Come back tomorrow for Day 2!
Until the next headline, Laura Beth 🙂
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Thrice Read did this awesome tag!
Here’s the link to their post:
The Rules:
Red
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Orange
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Yellow
Image Credit: Goodreads
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Green
Image Credit: Book Revels
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Blue
Image Credit: LitReactor
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Turquoise
Image Credit: Amazon
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Purple
Image Credit: Adazing
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Pink
Image Credit: Fab Lexile
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Brown
Image Credit: Amazon
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White
Image Credit: Savvy Book Writers
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Black
Image Credit: Stephenie Meyer
Tag – You’re It!
This was a fun tag! I love color, and I love the different covers that books have!
Until the next headline, Laura Beth 🙂
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Thrice Read came up with an intriguing tag post!
Here’s the link to their post:
What is the Listicle Tag?
Listicle means a piece of writing or other content presented wholly or partly in the form of a list.
In this case, it’s a prompt for a particular top five related to books.
The Rules:
The prompt I was given: Top Five Favorite Fantasy Novels
Laura Beth’s Top Five Favorite Fantasy Novels (in no particular order)
I have a much greater appreciation for Madeline L’Engle now – I want to read all of her books!
At this point, most people know my love for / obsession with Harry Potter! I love re-reading them every so often. It’s a great kick of nostalgia. And the movies are awesome, too. Can’t wait to see the new Fantastic Beasts movie!
I don’t talk about C.S. Lewis very often, but I loved all his works. Like L’Engle, I’ve gained a greater appreciation for him over the last several years. And the movies based on some of his books are well done, at least in my opinion. If you haven’t checked them out, I recommend doing both.
Stephen King is one of my favorite authors. I want to watch the The Green Mile movie adaptation again soon – Tom Hanks and Michael Clarke Duncan. What a combo!
The Princess Bride is best known for the movie adaptation, but the book is really good, too.
Tag – You’re It!
Your listicle prompt: Top Five Favorite Books Published in the 21st Century
This was so fun, and challenging! I need to read more fantasy, apparently. It was hard to come up with five!
Until the next headline, Laura Beth 🙂
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This looked like a really interesting tag – I saw it on Jenna’s blog, Bookmark Your Thoughts.
Here’s the link to Jenna’s post:
The Rules:
Cheddar
The traditional cheese: Name your favorite classic novel.
Although I’m very tempted to pick The Great Gatsby, I’m actually going to choose Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I’ve loved everything Austen has written, although I haven’t read everything (See my TBR!). I first fell in love with her books when I was watching Wishbone as a kid!
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Swiss
The hole-y cheese: Name an emotional roller coaster.
Looking for Alaska by John Green. This was the first of Green’s books I read, in 2011, and I had no idea how much emotion he packs into every book he writes!
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Blue Cheese
The controversial cheese: Name an unpopular book opinion you have.
I despise dog-earing pages. I will use any scrap of paper as a bookmark before I fold a corner of a page. Also, I really don’t like love triangles!
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Brie
The favorite cheese: Name an author you always want more of.
Tie between Suzanne Collins and J.K. Rowling! These two women, between Harry Potter and The Hunger Games, have shaped so many years of my life!
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Gouda
The Dutch cheese: Name a book that makes you want to travel.
The Vacationers by Emma Straub. Take me away!
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American
The fake cheese: Name your least favorite book / a book you love to hate on.
Many of my regular readers know the hate that I give to Allegiant, the third book in the Divergent trilogy. Ugh!
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Colby Jack
The mixed cheese: Name your favorite ship.
I can’t pick just one!
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Mozzarella
The simple cheese: Name an old favorite you’ll never stop loving.
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
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Pepper Jack
The spicy cheese: Name a book you can’t judge by its cover.
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain.
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Muenster
The monster cheese: Name a villain that you wish never had the joy of eating cheese again.
Many people who have done this tag already have agreed with my sentiment. I loathe Dolores Umbridge from Harry Potter. *shudders*
Tag – You’re It!
This was such a fun tag, and really different from the other tags I’ve done (so far). I loved it! Thanks again, Jenna!
Until the next headline, Laura Beth 🙂
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The ladies at Thrice Read did another awesome book tag that spoke to my nostalgic heart!
Ready to travel back to the 1990s?
Here’s the link to the original post:
The Rules:
Pokemon
A GBA game and trading card game where you battled pocket monsters and strived to catch them all. Back in the day, there were only 150 Pokemon.
The author you need every book from.
John Grisham. He’s the author I give credit to for peaking my interest in law, so I want all his books!
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AIM
AOL Instant Messaging – how 90s kids communicated with their friends after school before everyone had a cell phone.
Book that connected you with your best friend.
Melissa will laugh when she reads this – Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, by Ellen Emerson White. I had never heard of the Dear America series before the sixth grade. Although we were basically best friends at that point, Melissa noticing that I was checking out the book from the Western Branch Middle School library, and mentioning that she owned all of them, that solidified our friendship for sure.
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Furby
Creepy needy robots you could teach to talk and were probably demon possessed. Somehow these made a comeback?
Book that seemed like a good idea but was actually a monster.
Ugh. I didn’t even get more than five pages into Fifty Shades of Grey. No thanks!
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N’SYNC
90s quintessential boy band. You may have heard of Justin Timberlake?
A book you hated to say Bye, Bye, Bye to.
The end of the Harry Potter series. I cried!
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Slimed!
Getting green slime thrown on you, courtesy of the show Figure it Out. Also apparently still a thing at the Kids’ Choice Awards?
A book everyone loved but you hated.
The Twilight series.
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Oregon Trail
90s computer game you could usually play at school, which was great. It taught us people used to die a lot of gruesome, messy deaths.
A book that made you wish you died of dysentery.
Allegiant.
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Mixtape / CD
Back before everyone had music on their phones (remember, we didn’t have cell phones!) folks would rip their CDs and make mixes for each other.
Three (3) books you recommend to anyone, anywhere, no matter what.
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Dial-Up Internet
You know how it’s annoying when you aren’t on LTE? IMAGING WAITING 10 MINUTES FOR INTERNET TO START AND ANOTHER 20 MINUTES FOR GOOGLE TO LOAD!
A book that took FOR FREAKING EVER to read.
Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins. I loved it, but it took me a while to get through it.
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Keenan Thompson
He’s that guy who’s been on SNL forever. Also Mighty Ducks. Good Burger. Keenan and Kel. All That. Everything.
That book that you see referenced everywhere and is in everything, but that’s okay because it’s awesome.
The Wizard of Oz.
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Thumbs Up, Seven Up
A game where most the class closed their eyes and seven people tapped someone’s thumb and you had to guess who did it without peeking.
Book where you peeked just REAL quick at the ending because you don’t like guessing game.
I don’t remember ever doing this. I like to be surprised!
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Dunkaroos
These were basically just Teddy Grahams dipped in frosting, which is still a wonderful snack idea.
Your ideal bookish snack.
Nothing. Not even water.
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Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark
Collections of short stories that would scare any sensible kid! Plus, there were illustrations…
A book that kept you up all night.
The Hunger Games.
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Bill Nye The Science Guy
Basically the coolest thing you got to do in science class was watch Bill Nye. He has a Netflix show again!
A book that taught you something new.
On My Honor, Marion Dane Bauer. This was one of the first books that taught me how important honesty was.
Tag – You’re It!
This tag filled me with so much nostalgia! I had or experienced nearly everything on this list, except for a Furby. Those things were like creepy Gremlins! Yuck.
Until the next headline, Laura Beth 🙂
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