#moveitstheoncomingstorm

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moveitstheoncomingstorm replied to your photo:I went to go read Prisoner of Azkaban and…

So much sad :-(

I sewed it back together because I couldn't find the tape but I'm not sure how long it's going to last :/

[thought-fury]

moveitstheoncomingstorm replied to your post:are Meryl and Maks dating yet?

Well he said he wants to marry her and have big Russian babies, so…HERE’S HOPING

All I've been doing tonight is screaming "JUST MAKE OUT ALREADY!" because wow are they pretty together AND THAT CHEMISTRY!

[thought-fury]

The 'About Me' I would write about you is short. It reads "GIBBONS AND CHICKEN NUGGETS"

those two things seriously sum me up so perfectly it's not even funny

[destinypanics]

I'm not an ice dating fan, but even I can see that Scott and Tessa are TOTALLY IN LOVE WHY ARE THEY NOT MARRIED YET

THEY ARE IN DENIAL OF THE MOST OBVIOUS LOVE AFFAIR OF ALL TIME, IT'S THE ONLY EXPLANATION. IT'S LEO-AND-KATE LEVEL RIDICULOUSNESS. 

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

 THANK YOU, DUDE!

[tuukkasass]

You seem like a pretty awesome person, and anyone who randomly hates on you for being a Bruins fan needs to step to the left. :)

Thank you so much. This means the world to me even to hear it from anyone.

I wish there were more kind people like you out there!

[achtungkatie]

moveitstheoncomingstorm replied to your post: so what do you do when you’ve reached ...

start praying for your letter from Hogwarts so you can learn how to summon things.

accio pie

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i was tagged in this book meme by moveitstheoncomingstorm AGES ago but i'm only getting to it now HOORAY

rules: in a text post, list ten books that have stayed with you in some way. don’t take but a few minutes, and don’t think too hard — they don’t have to be the “right” or “great” works, just the ones that have touched you. tag ten friends, including me, so i’ll see your list. make sure you let your friends know you’ve tagged them! 

1) Patriot Hearts by John Furlong 

Furlong was the CEO of VANOC, the organizing committee of the Vancouver Olympics, and this book serves both as a brief autobiography for him, and the inside story of how those Games came to be. Given that Vancouver 2010 was the greatest time of my life - I've never felt so connected to my country - reading the inside story of those Games was just an extraordinary thing for me. 

2) Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand 

I admit it, I bought the book because it was included in Sid's Christmas basket for the Pens auction, and I was curious about a book he enjoyed enough for it to be included in a basket of stuff he loves. And it's just, holy crap, what an incredible story. My Dad read it before I did, and when I was about midway through it, I found myself going stomping up to him and demanding to know "does this guy's life begin to suck any less any time soon?" The answer ended up being that I had no idea, and truly, I didn't. It's a powerful survival story, really well written, and it stuck with me way after I finished it.  

3) A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali by Gil Couremanche 

Takes place during the events of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. I've never been more wrecked by a book. There's not much more I could say that would do the book justice. 

4) Harry Potter series by JK Rowling 

Flat out, the most brilliantly written series I've ever seen. I've read all the books at least ten times each, and every single time I do, I catch some new little detail or make a new connection that completely blows my mind. Just so intricate and complex and beautiful, and how she came up with half the things in it, I will never know. 

5) The Bride Quartet series by Nora Roberts 

I know it probably sounds ridiculous to name a series of four cheesy weddingy romances after rhyming off three brilliant pieces of literature, but this series makes me happy. Again, I've re-read them all so many times... I think for me they're like comfort food in book form. When I'm sad, these books make me smile. And more then the romances, what I really long for is the kind of friendship that's the heart of the stories. 

6) Angels and Demons by Dan Brown 

I know so many people are all BOO DAN BROWN HISTORICAL INACCURACIES ETC ETC BLAH, but all I know is I had to stay up until 3 in the morning to finish Angels and Demons the first time I ever read it, because there was no way in hell I was putting it down. 

7) Gold by Chris Cleave 

Some books just get you. This story of two women who are both best friends and rivals for one spot to make it to the London 2012 Olympic Games - and the story is way way more complicated than that - just had me frozen by the time I read the last page. 

8) The Fault in Our Stars by John Green 

I don't think anyone needs an explanation for this one. The number of times I had to stop, bookmark my page, and bawl my bloody eyes out was insane. 

9) Sidney Crosby: Taking the Game by Storm by Gare Joyce 

Most if not all of my Pens fans friends have probably already read this, and so you know what I'm talking about. I read this, the inside story of Sid's junior hockey story while sitting in my high school library. I'd just gotten into hockey, and I knew Sid was great, already one of the better players in the NHL even as a teenager. After reading this book? He would have been without question my favourite player in the sport if not for the fact that Mats Sundin was still hanging around at the time. There's just... there's no way not to love Sid when you know more about him beyond the 'Face of the NHL' that he's let himself become entirely because the game needed him to. Sid's extraordinary. We all know it. But the really incredible thing is how extraordinary he's always been, ever since he was a kid. 

10) The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins 

The first series that really got me interested (save for a brief regrettable time when I got caught up in the Twilight craze) since HP, this trilogy is obviously rather remarkable in its own right. Katniss is a hell of a heroine, but I think the real strength of the series is in how you root for so many of the minor characters just as much as you do Katniss. Which, I suppose makes the fact that Collins has Rowling's Here-let's-kill-off-this-character-FOR-REASONS syndrome all the more painful. 

This was fun! I'm not gonna tag anyone, I'll just say to all my lovely followers that I'd love to see what books matter to you, so yeah, DO IT.