Krista

Thanks for liking the characters and the story. Family dynamics are always interesting to me. I like writing about family (dys)function.

Aww, I'm sorry! I've been dealing with a lot of time dependent things in my life lately.. and First Person Romance isn't holding my attention much either these days. I'll try to be good about writing more, but my track record isn't all that nice. Thank you for taking the time to post a review though! I am thankful that people do put up with me and my stories.

Aww. I'm sorry! But at least I am working on it. And I'm glad you liked it! I enjoy hearing that my characters are fleshed out, that's what I like doing with my writing.

SIS 21 The next morning I rolled over to find a warm body next to me. I heard him grunt before I opened my eyes. When I did he smirked over a bite of buttered toast and jam. I had draped my arm over his leg, my hand landing squarely in his lap. “Sorry,” I groaned sitting up on the bed, pulling his white cover over my morning wood. I rubbed the sleepiness out of my eyes before turning towards him. “Want some toast?” He asked and I glanced down at the plate. He had only one slice

Overall though, they have not butchered either book like most book to movie adaptations do. I still didn't see that Harrelson? Guy being a good Haymitch, he kind of sucked in the first movie, that was the only character downer for me as far as casting. I knew Gale didn't have that large of a part, so Liam's limitations didn't bother me much. I did feel that Effie's "screen time" was a bit limited as well, but she still had some good lines in the first. The second, her story arch was a lot better, I liked every interaction she had with the others. A lot of people that I've talked to said that Finnick was too subdued as well, but it didn't really take anything away from his character. At least the actor pulled it off. The Arena in the second book was always a bigger "threat" in the second book... and honestly, the only 'real' time we saw the "Careers" in the first movie was when they were working with Peeta under that tree. The other times they were fight scenes that led to their deaths. So I'm not surprised we got to see more of the "Careers" in the second movie. I know they cut out Cinna's entourage in the first and now the second. They were a lot more colorful and unique in both books. I kind of wished they were brought on more. They were the only true view point of how Capital people felt about 'The Hunger Games,' and the Tributes and how the Capital people as a whole act. So we don't really see all that, just glimpses. It's done more visually in the movie, brighter, more open, with the finery.. but eh, if they had included the boisterous entourage, it wouldn't have seemed as skeletal to me.

Shut it, sock-crotch.

Been many nights that Sophie has let Bubbles out of the crate and by the end of it, I'll have Sophie, the twins, and the dog in the bed with me and poor Aaron snoring on the couch. I doubt a doggy bed would fix that though, but it does look pretty fancy. Straighten up a bit and Santa might bring you one.

Or.. I'm good at judging when my eyes wander. Sock? Cock? Lighting? Thick Material around the zipper?

If Hardees can get away with two girls having a threesome with thick burgers, I don't see how everyone gets offended when a bunch of guys are shaking their hips to jingle bells.

Happy Birthday, Mikie.

Huh.. Kentucky is really low on that list... I must have been a size queen, because I don't remember anything small. But then again, I wasn't all that slutty either and only have a small sampling. I'd hate to think I hit a home run every time I stepped up to bat though.

Happy Birthday Louis!

Happy Birthday!! Hope you have a great one!

Ladies do not fart, we simply toot. And umm.. no. I would rather explode than to do that in front of another living soul.

Of course it is still important. I have always hated the term, "open-relationship." IF there isn't a common trust, commitment, honesty with one another, then I really don't see the relationship and bond being a strong one. I've seen too many people give their significant others, "get out of jail free" cards, for cheating, lies, what have you. There isn't a "get out of jail free" card with me. If you are willing to go there with someone that isn't your partner, husband, wife, what have you... then the commitment isn't really there either. If you are willing, then that bond has broken to some extent. It doesn't mean that you can't go back and mend it, but usually people just don't want to at that point. It just seems like, once that part is damaged in a relationship, then everything else: the trust, the honesty, the bond is too. A relationship's strength is that commitment to the other person. As soon as that begins to falter you better begin to mend it or end it there. Don't go out of your way to find what's lacking somewhere else. Don't go looking for happiness in the colder and tougher times. Once you decide to make a commitment to someone else, close the other doors that are open to you and keep them closed.

I didn't really either of the first two books, but read them anyway. The way the second one ended, I was confused as it seemed completely disjointed. I agree with you that there isn't any real and true character development. They are what they were from Book 1 Page 1. Bombshell after bombshell didn't change them in some fundamental way that lasted.... Not a Roth fan.

We all like to think that every human being is wired to want to be around other human beings. Have a face to face interaction with the world around them. Not everyone is like that though. So I don't mind if people get involved in some sort of hobby that provides an outlet for social interaction, like video games. Back in the day where Books were most if not all people had, people would say, "she always has her nose in a book," and stuff like that. It's really no difference, we've just become more advanced. People that are 'shutting' themselves in and away from the outside world with a book Vs. Those that do the same thing with a video game? I don't put a lot of weight against one or the other. I like my Video games with a lot of reading and of course I read as well.

I knew as soon as I said anything, I would be screwing over the Boston Redsox. The Cardinals should pay me for helping them out a bit.

Maybe it is because I am a parent, but I thought the Truck, the orange 'monster' they called it... provided one of the largest plot holes in the first book. After the 'villains' are introduced, Bella and Edward decide that it is better to run. Seven against two, but I guess since one has a higher prey drive, the odds are against them. Anyway, Bella arrives at her home in the truck, screams at her father, like she planned. She pretends to break up with Edward and convinces Charlie to let her drive back home to Phoenix. Of course he tries to stop her, make her wait until Morning, give it a few days. Like a nice father should (actually if it were my daughter, I would have put her under house arrest until she calmed her ass down) but in the end he lets her leave after his feelings gets hurt and he has a good shot to his memory. She leaves in that rusty old truck. That same rusty old truck never went to Phoenix though. Like it was supposed to. It ended up in Cullen's garage. She instead rides to Phoenix with Alice and Jasper in a black, tinted windowed sports car. She then runs from her now two protectors and is hunted down, tricked, and attacked, nearly killed. She ends up in the hospital with horrendous injuries, blamed on her clumsiness as she fell down stairs and out a hotel window. A freak accident and the only witnesses to that accident are members of the Cullen family (I believe Edward and Carlisle), the estranged ex-boyfriend that she was fleeing to Phoenix to get away from. And the truck, is in his Garage. So that would mean, and would easily become a glaring problem in Bella's and Edward's plan. Charlie should have been able to figure out, that 1. Bella left for Phoenix with some of the Cullen family, not necessarily Edward, but with Edward being there, that it was likely that he was with her at some point in the trip. 2. That they really weren't that broken up, not broken up enough for her to run off to Phoenix, banishing herself from his life. 3. That it could be possible that something else happened other than what either of them were telling the people around them. 4. All is forgiven, she wants to return to Forks, be with Edward, and live with her father, no matter what happened a mere few days ago. So, in the end, when they would have had to retrieve the truck from the Cullen's house, so that she could drive it again, as we all know she does drive it again, then he should have seen that SOMETHING was wrong. Being an investigative police chief, even of a small town, would see these things. And honestly, if one of my children was with someone else and didn't return to me whole, I'd think long and hard about letting them go back and be around those people again. But then again, maybe I'm reading way too far into it.

Aww.. Cardinals had a bit of a.. meltdown didn't they? Maybe the fact that they are in the World Series will smack them in the face before game two.... I bet Molina wanted to knock that 6'7" tall pitcher right on his ass when he called everyone off AND didn't make a move for that pop-up. Shew, that was terrible. It was nice though, to see the Umpires come together and get a call right.

I do agree though, we do censor ourselves a lot. People probably think I should censor my mouth a bit more, since I have the tendency of saying things that are abrasive and a bit mean. I hardly ever do though. In my writing, I don't really do a lot of censoring either, for the protection of my readers. I censor myself because I am just unwilling to go there for myself.. Some of them probably wished I went farther, especially in my sex scenes, they are always bordering between fade to black and erotica. But I don't wish to push the envelope, I am a strict romance/comedy/drama writer for the most part and it is what I like. In writing, if you do anything taboo with little or no conviction behind it, it just becomes an eyesore. You have to be at least comfortable to go there and do it some sort of justice or you won't be believable. You will get negative criticism from those that shoot off about the story having it there in the first place AND the ones that are ok with it being there, but NOT doing it smoothly and on par with the rest of the story. If you're doing it for shock and awe, you probably need to rethink it. Having a scene or a portion of the story that doesn't fit with the rest is like having a square peg and a round hole. IT will annoy everyone. An author wants an audience. You have to be comfortable with that audience and the audience has to be comfortable with the story you give them. I'm not saying, 'don't do that,' I'm saying, 'know what you are doing, before you do it.'

Hmm, named my daughter Sophia. And another daughter named Ashlyn, which really is a play on Ashley and Lynn. Interesting to see how names seemed to catch on and spread through the country. I like older names. Once upon a time, some of my favorite names were Addison, Kathryn, Sara, Abegail, Sebastian, Anna, Alice, Luke, Mitchell etc.. I'd take a guess if they did the Boy's naming list through the decades it will switch from some of the names like, Richard, Henry, Samuel, to more common biblical names like, Matthew, Luke, Johnathon, Michael. Then get into the Andrew, Drew, Cody, Christian, they were all commonly used and popular. Then Collin, Aiden, Cayden, Hayden. But I think Micheal and Andrew never really have relinquished their spots in the top five? Where as the female names lose favor in big ways and them come back in big ways again..

Absolutely NOT. The Reds on the other hand...

Shew, Kentucky had something nice. Horse Racing, I knew it would be something like that.. because of the Kentucky Derby. I did squint to make sure I didn't see something like, Red Neck Log Rolling or Hillbilly Hand Fishin' something like that..

Happy Birthday!!! Have a great one!