50 Books Challenge 2011 - # 56: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

Title: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Author: J.K. Rowling
Story: Harry, Ron, and Hermione are on the run from Lord Voldemort, whose minions of Death Eaters have not only taken control of the Minister of Magic but have begun to systematically - and forcibly - change the entire culture of the magic community: Muggle-born wizards, for example, are being rounded up and questioned, and all "blood traitors" are being imprisoned. But as Voldemort and his followers ruthlessly pursue the fugitive with the lightning bolt scar on his forehead, Potter finally uncovers the jaw-dropping truth of his existence.
Start: november 8th 2011
End: november 20th 2011
Comment: This book took me more time to read than usual. But when I read the series the first time, the same happened. It's the last book and I just don't want it to end, so I tried to absorb every inch of the book. It has been an amazing journey, that we all took with Harry and his best friends Ron and Hermione. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" is far out the most emotional book. Not only because we have to deal with some losses, but also because of some joyfull happenings. With that last one I off course mean Harry finally beating Voldemort, which gave me the chills and made me take a little leap of joy. My favorite part was where we see young Snape and Lily. Why he hated James Potter so much and in the beginning also Harry. The other favorite part is without a doubt Ron and Hermione's kiss. That just had to happen. The epilogue was good as well. I liked reading about them 19 years later and having kids themselves. Like the first time, the only thing I hated about this series is when it ended. And I will definitely reread the series again sometime.
Rating: 5/ 5

Movie Trailer Sunday (12)

This week was a very good week for new trailers. They are about the Hunger Games, a son finding his absent father, memory loss, Margaret Thatcher and Snow White (another one, different from last weeks movie about Snow White).

The Hunger Games
Description: Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the evil Capitol of the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. A twisted punishment for a past uprising and an ongoing government intimidation tactic, The Hunger Games are a nationally televised event in which "Tributes" must fight with one another until one survivor remains.
Pitted against highly-trained Tributes who have prepared for these Games their entire lives, Katniss is forced to rely upon her sharp instincts as well as the mentorship of drunken former victor Haymitch Abernathy. If she's ever to return home to District 12, Katniss must make impossible choices in the arena that weigh survival against humanity and life against love.
Director: Gary Ross
Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Elizabeth Banks, Woody Harrelson, Stanley Tucci, Lenny Kravitz and Donald Sutherland
Trailer: Trailer "The Hunger Games"
Comment: I was so excited to finally see this trailer. We've been waiting for it so long. I think it looks great. Can't wait for it to come out.

Being Flynn
Description: Nick (Paul Dano) takes a job at a homeless shelter - where one night he discovers his long - absent father Jonathan (Robert De Niro) seeking a bed.
Director: Paul Weitz
Starring: Robert De Niro, Paul Dano, Julianne Moore,Olivia Thirlby and Lily Taylor
Trailer: Trailer "Being Flynn"

The Vow
Description: A newlywed couple (Rachel McAdams en Channing Tatum) recovers from a car accident that puts the wife in a coma. Waking up with severe memory loss, her husband endeavors to win her heart again.
Director: Michael Sucsy
Starring: Rachel McAdams, Channing Tatum, Sam Neill, Jessica Lange and Scott Speedman
Trailer: Trailer "The Vow"
Comment: Aaaw....

The Iron Lady
Description: Margaret Thatcher (Meryl Streep) is the first and only female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. One of the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male dominated world
Director: Phyllida Lloyd
Starring: Meryl Streep and Jim Broadbent
Trailer: Trailer "The Iron Lady"
Comment: Probably another Oscar nomination vor Meryl Streep.

Mirror Mirror
Description: The wicked enchantress (Julia Roberts) schemes and scrambles for control of a spirited orphan's (Lilly Collins) throne and the attention of a charming prince (Armie Hammer). When Snow White's beauty wins the heart of the prince that she desperately pursues, the Queen banishes her to the forest, where a ravening man-eating beast hungrily awaits. Rescued by a band of diminutive highway robbers, Snow White grows into an indomitable young woman determined to take back her realm from the treacherous Queen
Director: Tarsem Singh
Starring: Lily Collins, Julia Roberts, Nathan Lane, Armie Hammer and Sean Bean
Trailer: Trailer "Mirror Mirror"

In My Mailbox (13)

After a very nice day of shopping in Oberhausen, Germany I was really happy to return home and find a postcard. It's been a while since my last card. It came from Japan and the handwriting alone was beautiful. The back was nicely decorated and I loved the picture on the postcard. Oh yeah, it was adressed to Miss Joyce, haha.

Sent on: november 13th 2011
Received on: november 19th 2011
Distance: 9,369 km (5,822 miles)
Travel time: 6 days

Top 5 Thursday: "Sons of Anarchy" Characters

It's really a show for guys, but I love this show. I already showed my love for "Sons of Anarchy" once on my blog and now I will share with you my favorite characters of the show.

5. Jackson “Jax” Teller
He’s the main character, but he has never been my absolute favorite. I think Jax is much smarter than Clay and I also think that he would make a better president. I love him with Tara and his boys and his friendship with Opie.

4. Tara Knowles
My favorite female on the show. Tara didn’t really fit in in the beginning, but everyone could see she still had feelings for Jax. She is very brave, risking so much for the love of her life and actually adapting to the lifestyle. Tara is a great mother to Abel and Thomas and her relationship with Gemma got stronger. She now fits the group perfectly.

3. Harry “Opie” Winston
He was my second favorite, but got demoted. I still like Opie. He doesn’t really say much and when he does, he sticks with short and simple sentences. I like the fact that although he’s a tough guy, he cant’t deal with Lyla’s job.

2. Jean Carlos “Juice” Ortiz
He became more interesting for me and he has a bigger role in season 4. Juice’s character gets more depth. There is more to him than a lot of people think and I really like him. I also like him in combination with Chibs, somehow I see that they have a good bond. Juice is very good with technology, but an idiot when it comes to social skills. Definitely the hottest guy on the show.

1. Filip “Chibs” Telford
I liked him from the beginning. Chibs is a loyal man and someone the team can always rely on. Plus he has a great sense of humor and I love the accent (and the way he says Clay…) . My favorite moment, how cruel it may sound, is when he killed Jimmy O. He finally got his vengeance. Oh yeah, and the two-men-hugging-in-a-bathroom-scene with Juice. Loved it.

They almost made the top 5: Gemma Teller, Robert “Bobby Elvis” Munson and Piermon “Piney” Winston

Movie Moments: "Wimbledon"

I know a lot of people didn't really like this movie. Well, I'm not most people and I really love this film. "Wimbledon" is such a fun film, with an origianl theme because I don't know that many movies about tennis. Because I like this movie so much, I decided to share my favorite scenes from the movie.
Here they are.

Moment # 1: Room 1221
Peter gets his room key, but he thinks they gave him the wrong room. When he enters the room he sees a woman in the shower, which proves he actually is in the wrong room.

Moment # 2: Peter and Lizzie meet properly
While at practice Peter sees the woman he saw in the shower and she introduces herself as Lizzie. They start hitting targets with their serve and Peter bets she can’t do it again. She does and than it’s his turn. When he hits it, they will have fish and chips together. When Peter hits the target, he tries it again. While serving Lizzie tells him if he hits it again, she’ll sleep with him. Peter misses.

Moment # 3: Peter plays Dragomir
Peter is totally worn off during his match against Dragomir. In his mind he’d allready given up, untill he hears Lizzie cheering for him. From that moment on his game improves and he wins the second round.

Moment # 4: Sauna
Peter just defeated his best friend Dieter. They are relaxing in the sauna and Dieter asks him what happened to him. He thinks it has something to do with Lizzie. Peter tries to convince Dieter that getting involved with a woman while on a winning streak isn’t something he would do. Dieter tells him that’s exactly something he would do.

Moment # 5: Peter punches Jake Hammond
Hammond is coming on to Lizzie, when she clearly isn't interested in him. He starts insulting Peter, but when he tells Lizzie she’s cheap Peter really gets mad and punches Hammond. Lizzie and Peter flee together.

Moment # 6: Work out
After spending the night together, Peter and Lizzie are going for a run. They discover an abandoned tenniscourt, the place Peter learned how to play tennis. Peter tells Lizzie that this is going to be his last tournament. They start pretending to play a tennis match, when they see the comet again and kiss.

Moment # 7: Peter climbs through Lizzie’s window
Lizzie is staying somewhere else and Peter found out where. He wants to visit her so Peter climbs through the window. First he enters her dads room, but when he finally finds Lizzie’s room he tells her he can’t be away from her for 24 hours.

Moment # 8: Lizzie sees Peter on TV
Lizzie’s at the airport and she tries to avoid watching Peter on TV. When she can't anymore, Lizzie hears him talking about her and how she’s the reason he’s in the final.

Moment # 9: Lizzie shows up
Peter is in the final and he goes to his dressing room because of the rain. Lizzie is waiting for him there. She tells him she loves him and gives him a peptalk, because Jake Hammond is beating him. When they start playing again, Lizzie’s takes place in the audience.

Moment # 10: Peter wins Wimbledon
After a five set match, Peter beats Jake Hammond in the final and wins Wimbledon. He gives his tennis racket to the ball boy who supported him and goes to his family. Finally he starts looking for Lizzie, picks her up and kisses her. We later see that the two of them got married, had two kids, he teaches tennis to children and she won Wimbledon twice.

Favorite Moment: Moment # 10: Peter wins Wimbledon

Coolest Chick of the Moment

I discovered her in "Zombieland" and ever since I absolutely adore Emma Stone. She hosted "Saturday Night Live" for the second time this weekend. She is without a doubt the most kick ass chick of the moment. I made a new wallpaper featuring Emma.

I hope you like it and as always: feel free to use it on your own computer.

Movie Trailer Sunday (11)

This weeks trailers are about a double-crossed agent, Snow White, intercepting a drug shipment, a mysterious island and a former agent protecting a 10-year-old girl.

Haywire
Description: a female covert ops specialist (Gina Carano), who works in the deadly world of international operatives, strikes back after discovering she's been double-crossed by someone close to her in the agency.
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Starring: Gina Carano, Channing Tatum, Ewan McGregor, Michael Fassbender, Antonio Banderas, Bill Paxton and Michael Douglas
Trailer: Trailer "Haywire"
Comment: i love movies about kick-ass women.

Snow White and the Huntsman
Description: Snow White (Kristen Stewart) is the only person in the land fairer than the evil queen (Charlize Theron) who is out to destroy her. But what the wicked ruler never imagined is that the young woman threatening her reign has been training in the art of war with a huntsman (Chris Hemsworth) who was dispatched to kill her.
Director: Rupert Sanders
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Charlize Theron, Chris Hemsworth, Ray Winstone, Ian McShane, Eddie Izzard, Bob Hoskins, Toby Jones, Eddie Marsan and Ray Winstone
Trailer: Trailer "Snow White and the Huntsman"
Comment: I'm really looking forward to seeing Charlize Theron as the evil queen.

Catch 44
Description: For Tes (Malin Akerman) and her two cohorts Kara (Nikki Reed) and Tara (Deborah Ann Woll), the job sounded simple enough: intercept a double-cross drug shipment for their crime boss Mel (Bruce Willis) at an isolated diner. But when an unstoppable chain of events unfolds, everyone soon realizes no one is who they seem and the job may be something other than eliminating the competition. What started as simple instructions has now turned into a deadly cat-and-mouse game with large guns pointed at everyone.
Director: Aaron Harvey
Starring: Bruce Willis, Forest Whitaker, Malin Akerman, Nikki Reed, Deborah Ann Woll and Michael Rosenbaum
Trailer: Trailer "Catch 44"

Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
Description: The new journey begins when young adventurer Sean (Josh Hutcherson) receives a coded distress signal from a mysterious island where no island should exist--a place of strange life forms, mountains of gold, deadly volcanoes, and more than one astonishing secret. Unable to stop him from going, Sean's new stepfather (Dwayne Johnson) joins the quest. Together with a helicopter pilot (Luis Guzman) and his beautiful, strong-willed daughter (Vanessa Hudgens), they set out to find the island, rescue its lone inhabitant and escape before seismic shockwaves force the island under the sea and bury its treasures forever.
Director: Brad Peyton
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Josh Hutcherson, Vanessa Hudgens, Michael Caine, Luis Guzman and Kristen Davis
Trailer: Trailer "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island"

Safe
Description: A former elite agent (Jason Statham) takes on a two-tier mission: rescue a Chinese girl (Catherine Chan) who's been abducted by the Triads, then use a safe combination to outwit the Russian Mafia, corrupt NYC officials, and the Triads themselves.
Director: Boaz Yakin
Starring: Jason Statham, Catherine Chan, James Hong, Reggie Lee and Robert John Burke
Trailer: Trailer "Safe"