I Won a Goodreads Giveaway

Book Description:

"Young Elwood Pitch is only thirteen years old when he finds himself entrusted with a sacred mission to restore peace in the far-off world of Winnitok. The land's immortal protector, Granashon, has disappeared and her power that protects the land is fading fast. Elwood, his dog Slukee, and their newfound traveling companions, warrior Drallah Wehr and her talking raven Booj, set out on a dangerous quest to find the missing immortal. Elwood soon has a mysterious dream about the Eye of Ogin, an ancient turtle shell with the power to find Granashon. Elwood is determined to find the Eye, which was lost centuries before in the great swamp Migdowsh. The Great Swamp is riddled with quicksand, snakes, and monsters, but that does not deter the brave group. Along the way they must navigate an astonishing array of supernatural creatures–yugs, woogans, truans, graycloaks, and a terrible frog demon. Will they find the Eye and restore Granashon's divine power to the land? Will Elwood be able to handle the terrible truth the swamp reveals to him? Patrick Doud brings memorable characters, poetic language, and a driving narrative to this timeless tale that recalls classic epic adventure stories."

This is my 3rd time winning a book from goodreads and I'm excited to get it.

First Reads Winner

Book description:
"Archaeologist Nina Wilde believes she knows how to find the lost civilization of Atlantis. She wants to prove her theory. But the sinister Giovanni Qobras wants her dead!
Accompanied by beautiful heiress Kari Frost and ex-SAS bodyguard Eddie Chase, Nina begins a breakneck race around the world to find the clues that will lead to the legendary city, pursued at every step by the agents of the mysterious - and murderous - Brotherhood of Selasphoros. For Atlantis holds a secret hidden for over 11,000 years that in the wrong hands could destroy civilization as we know it..."

I won this book from a book giveaway on Goodreads and this is the 2nd time I have won a book giveaway from Goodreads. The first book I won was Evermore by Alyson Noel and I was just so excited to just win a book. I'm excited this time too. I got the book in the mail on Monday, but haven't started to read it yet. I'm going to start reading it once I finish all the InuYasha mangas from the library. Well, once I read this book I'll write a review and post it on here.

Talk About A Bringer Downer!

On my other blog I made a post about a Sega amusement park -- it really looks awesome, check it out here: Sega Amusement Park Opens in Dubai Mall -- I thought it looked really cool and wish it were closer to me because I would love to go. I'm a big fan of Sega. Anyway, I asked at the end of the post "If you had the chance, would you go to a Sega Amusement park?"

I got a few replies saying yes and I wasn't surprised. I mean, who doesn't like amusement parks, or Sega? Come on, you know all that Sonic is awesome :)

But, the last comment I got was:

"No.

Can't stand amusement or theme parks. I'd rather look for something 'real' to do in the area."

I was thinking to myself "Okay....I'm not even going to reply back because I have no idea what I'm supposed to say to that!"

The person who left that comment is on my friends list on Xanga and I found her Xanga on Goodreads. On Goodreads she seemed really nice, I never saw her leave comments like that to anyone. So, I thought why not add her? It's always nice to make more friends on Xanga.
That was a few months ago and this was the first time she ever commented on one of my posts, and it's not that I thought her comment was rude exactly, but it was kind of negative.

What is 'real' anyway?

I'm not trying to be hard on the person though, and I understand she's been going through a lot, her mother died recently. She posted about it on her blog that her mother died and a psychic contacted her to tell her that her mother loves her very much and is looking out for her. To me, I thought this was nice, but then again I believe in psychics and all that stuff, but she got mad. I mean, angry and thought the woman was rude for what she did. I never said anything to her, I just thought if that's how she feels about it that she feels about it.

But, even before her mother died I noticed that her posts on Xanga were really negative, never about anything happy, only bad things happening to her and after that I didn't read her blogs as much because I'm not into all the negative things. But, really to leave a comment like she did really shows she'll take anything and turn it into something negative. Which I wish she wouldn't. I'm sure she can be a really nice person if she wouldn't be so negative and I am not saying she is a bad person, but people like that find something negative about everything and try to bring everyone else down and I don't like that. I just hope one day she can see how negative she is being.