Blog set 12 Lessons Learned

In the story, “The Premature Burial” by Edgar Allan Poe, shows insight into what the narrator is infatuated with due to his near death experiences and his medical condition, catalepsy. Speaking of these premature burials and trying to understand what was the feeling these unfortunate souls endured because they were presumed dead is horrifying.  These incidents must have been a serious issue in the medical field in the 1800’s. The narrator became so fixated into being prepared if he was ever buried alive in his family tomb that he went to the extremes to make sure he would be able to open the vault doors from the inside. Imagine having to live in constant fear of being buried alive is no way of living at all especially for the narrator and his medical condition. He makes sure that his loved ones know of his condition and all that they must do.  One of the quotes from the story that stayed with me was “There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad Humanity may assume the semblance of a hell”. What do you all think the narrator was speaking of in this quote? 

The author of “The Monkey’s Paw” W.W. Jacobs, did a good job in keeping me intrigued about what would happen next every time I turned the pages of the story. This would be a typical feature in a horror film, a magical monkey paw that came make all your wishes come true, but with consequences of course. The family should have listened to the Sergeant about his warnings and they would have not been in the predicament that they were in towards the end. It is how the saying goes for curious people, “curiosity kills”, and indeed in the story, it did kill someone and it was tragic. It seems that towards the end I am assuming the father wished his son dead again since the mother opens the door and no one was there, or did I assume wrong?

Blog set 11 Madness and Lost Love

When I read “The Furnished room” by O. Henry, it showed how one of this week’s theme was set into this ordinary yet supernatural story about lost love. How ironic it must have been to die in the same room of your lost love in which you have been looking for. Was it fate that brought him to that room or was it a place he was supposed to be with his undoing brought upon him? This story shows the true meaning of what it meant for coincidences and fate to be combined together.  The truth being told towards the end gave it a completely different view on this story.

As always, Edgar Allan Poe leaves us in a trance of mixed emotions in his stories. In his story Berenice, it is full with darkness and madness. The narrator becomes obsessed with wanting to take Berenice teeth out and that is exactly what he did. There is no love in this story, as we would see before in other stories or poems of Poe’s. Marrying your cousin to us may seem like biting from the forbidden fruit but back in the old day’s people would do so to keep their family bloodlines pure, in this case, he just marries his cousin for she is the only one in the home. There is envy in the story with Egaeus towards Berenice, she is beautiful and is fascinated to be able to look at someone so pure and filled with beauty, is that why he marries her?

The Boarded Window by Ambrose Bierce was an interesting story. The way the author made the narrator start the story one way and then dive into the story in a completely different way was a good touch. It made it seem, as the old man was heartless and did not care that his wife died, but he did not know how to feel or let his emotions set in. Towards the end when he was scared for his life and did not know what was in his home, it showed that what he feared the most was burying his wife and she still being alive. I felt sorry for the old man and was not scared but wanted to know more of why he was the way he was and the true meaning behind that boarded window.

Blog set 10 Hauntings

As I read “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe, I saw characteristics that make this literature a horror story. The eerie beginning and the narrator sounding very frightful is to show that there is something going on in “the house of Usher”. The house being a manifest of a supernatural place in which this family is bound to it with fear is one of the main parts in the story that gives it that paranoid, terrifying element to it. The narrator sees how his childhood friend has changed drastically from a face you could not ever forget to someone who looks dead yet still alive is a part in which shows that his friend is dying and the cause is fear. Now on to other things that happened in the story such as the sister being buried alive in a sense and comes back to life, who is to say she was never dead, it probably was her illness that they had mistaking her death for. Overall this story reminded me a little of the film “Rose Red” by Stephen King and maybe it is because of the feel of the house and what happens to the house in the end. As always Edgar never misses the beat to anything he writes, it shows is perfection in what he truly loved to do and that shows in all his work no matter how dark or gloomy they are.

As I read “Afterwards” by Edith Wharton, the similarities in which both these stories have is uncanny. The house is one of the biggest parts we see in both these stories exceptions are that in the first story, the family are bound by the house and the second one , a couple who want a ghost in their home. I am intrigued by this story and how surreal it is  about a couple who find a whom in which they think is what they have wanted and so far until the saying goes be careful for what you wish for or more or less want is exactly what you shall receive regardless in the way it comes. Which is the ghost they wanted in their home has actually been with them the whole time but sadly they did not find this out until it was too late. The mystery of her husband death was not figured out until long afterwards as everyone kept saying about the ghost and that was a terrifying yet intriguing way of ending the story.

Viewing Blog set 2

As I watched Lord of the Rings the fellowship of the ring, it was fascinating and a captivating film. To think that this was a book one of many, the director made this film come to life. I did not read the books but heard very good things from it, however, I cannot compare if the adaption to this book was a very good one from a readers point of view. Which comes to one of my questions to you my fellow classmates, have anyone of you read the books and seen the movies? Was it a good adaptation? In the film what captivating me the most was the scenes and the elves, they were beautiful creatures. The places they journeyed to were eye openers, the places were amazing, I would want to visit them especially Lothlorien which reminded me of Avatar how the people lived in the big tree. In the beginning, we learn about the 19 rings plus one of the most powerful rings of them all. The rings were split up as this, three rings to the elves, seven rings to the dark lords, and nine rings to man. The last ring was fought over because everyone wanted the power to all the domains and they could not resist the temptation of having the ring. There were many beings in the movie such as the hobbits, wizards, elves, dwarves, and man. There were also crossbreeds of these beings such as Orcs, which were a mix between dwarves and elves with the powers of each of the two. This movie can be seen to have many fantasy elements. Between magic and beings you would only hear about in folklores and the scenes in which your imagination can unfold into anything you can imagine. I will continue to watch the rest of the movies and see how this whole series truly unfolds. Below I added pictures from the film I liked the most.

Blog set 9 Edgar Allan Poe

     In the Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, is about a man who is up late at night, depressed, mourning over his lost love “Lenore” and then he gets a visit from a raven, and that is when things start to become dark. This poem is one of Edgar’s famous poem, it is known by many when you mention his name. One of my favorite lines in this poem is, “dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before.” That line is used by many in songs or on shows, but what fascinates me about it is how bad of a dream is it? There are so many different symbols in this poem from the raven, which usually means death or a bad omen and he also uses roman mythology such as with the god of the underworld, “Plutonian” also known as, Pluto. The line that speaks of Plutonian is “tell me what thy lordly name is on the Nights Plutonian shore!” what do you all think of this poem? Did anyone else notice the symbols I referred to? On the other hand, did you find symbols of your own within this poem?

        In Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe, is another great but very sad and maybe somewhat crazy poem, let us just say that is the theme here. I feel like in the beginning I was about to read a fairy tale because of how he starts it off, “it was many and many a tear ago,” it sounds to be as if it could have been as they all, “start once upon a time in a far, far away land...”. Throughout the story he is professing his love for Annabel Lee, even though he mentions they are both children, is it puppy love or a crush? In both stories, the other theme I see is he speaks of heaven and hell for it is to describe his pain but also maybe is blaming the angels, which he refers to in both stories. This poem was more simpler to decipher than “The Raven” was but overall they are two poems that if you are interested in poetry as I am especially dark ones as these two are I suggest you look more into them.

Blog set 8 Gender and Sexuality

This short story "Day Million," by Frederik Pohl is a straight to the point kind of story. It seems that we have some kind of strange cyborgs or robots in the story playing Don and Dora is not a girl genetically speaking. I find that the author played with many different things in this story such as not keeping to the normal love stories as we all would read about. Taking this so called love story into a whole other dimension, the future. In this future sexuality and gender does not mean anything because it can be modified anyway that they want it to be. The way that these characters lives are it seems that sex is a big factor in this story but not in the way we think. Their jobs as I might assume is that Dora is an exotic dancer, maybe at a futuristic strip club and Don job seems as if he is either a prostitute or a sex slave or some sort. These are things that would horrify some people in our world but this is something that is normal in this future. What do you guys think about this future they live in? Are there any humans left? Is there more to the story than what I found?

“When it Changed” by Joanna Russ just blew my mind when I figured out that the earth men that came to Whileaway were the only men there in “thirty generations.” This story was very interesting to find that genetics could be used to achieve a new colony of just women to keep on surviving. The way that they act some of the women is what you would see in a man. They our married the main characters, wives, and these earth men want to give them something they think is missing in their world but they are happily content. There is a big component in the story about sexual equality, so I to assume that this world they lived in was for only woman to finally live and love who they wanted to and not be judged for it. I enjoyed this story. What was a part in this story that interested you?

Blog set 7 Philip K. Dick

    

In “We Can Remember You Wholesale” by Philip K. Dick and the adaptation movie of the story “Total Recall” Directed by Paul Verhoeven, have similarities but as always movies that are adapted from stories usually do not stick with all the details. As I read the story it had a different aspect it to it compared to the movie, but it had a unique ending as well. The beginning of the story and the movie were kept similar as for the main character’s name was kept the same but his wife’s role in the story was way more different than in the movie. It seemed no matter how much they tried to erase his memory and implant something else, and that something else already existed in his mind. The story is short and of course in the movie they had to add a lot more to give it a good viewing appeal it related somewhat to the story but did not continue on the same path the story did. On that note adaptation has a positive and negative impact to the story they are adapted from.  I think that the casting decision for Douglas Quail as played by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the movie adaptation was a good casting even though they made Arnold play Douglas a lot more tougher than in the story but it still worked. For example in the story he is a clerk and in the movie he is a construction worker. It seems that in most cases movie adaptations take a different look at the story to show a better picture or sometimes a worse one, in this case it was a good visual to the story. Some questions that I think would have changed the outcome in both movie and story is if the wife acted the same in both such as how she did in the movie sort of to not give away anything or maybe the whole dream about going to mars or being on mars. Either way they both turned out interesting in both cases and I think the adaptation had more action than the story does but of course did you see who was playing the main actor.

Blog set 6 Computers and Virtual Reality

This story was interesting with all the hacker language being used and its view on everything. So as I got from the story was that two war veterans became hackers, and they were good at it. They intended to take Chrome down, but were scared of the mob that it was connected to. This story was a little hard to understand at first with all the technology lingo they use but towards the middle when they meet Rikki, it starts to show what’s going on. Bobby is basically obsessed with this matrix world they are always working in but he has his down falls and the only way up for him is falling for someone new to be his luck. Towards the end they get to their goal of “icing” chrome and becoming rich even though it never was for the money, I think it became about the love triangle that neither of them could admit to. There was a price for Rikki to get the eyes she always wanted but that would be 3 hours of something to never happen or be spoken of again. In the end all three are alone again and even with Jack and Bobby being rich, they just wanted the girl in the end.

     Reading this story “Computer Friendly,” by Eileen Gunn, was a very good one. It was intriguing to find out what they were doing this to these children and why. I found it to be horrifying when they were going to euthanize children who did not pass the personality test as they wanted them to, as if a child with some character is dangerous.  Elizabeth wanting to help her friends out was an amazing thing to see, to have been so brave to journey into dangerous territory where she could be caught and never questioned or seen again. Towards the end I really liked how even Elizabeth wanted to be with her friends and her dog and not want to be different from them. It is a weird place that you have a child that must take tests just to show how influential and intelligent they are to show that they deserve to be a part of this society in which I feel they are all slaves to computer systems. Imagine as the dad who leaves work gets his memory wiped  from what he was doing at work and it takes time to remember who he is all you receive back from your memories are the important parts. The question I have is what they are really hiding, that they must erase your memory every day from work?

Viewing Blog Set 1 "Deep Impact"

   Deep Impact where Earth is doomed to be destroyed by a comet, unless someone stops it (IMDb). This movie came out around 1998 (Mimi Leder) and is 2 hours long. This movie might be old but fits perfectly in the Sci-Fi era that we have spoken and read about in class. This movie can show how people that are in higher authority get the first pick to being able to find shelter and being taken care of during a major crisis.  After they think that the astronauts have failed their mission to destroy the comet, the President of the United States, “declares Marshall Law” (Morgan Freeman). Imagine being one of the people that gets chosen for the lottery that they have commenced to live under ground for 2 years, but there is a price not everyone can go only a million people and that excludes anyone over the age of 50. This means that your grandparents or even your parents if they are of that age would not have the opportunity to live through this horrendous time. As always chaos comes about and it seems that all is doomed. There is tear-jerking moments and there is intense ones as well. I like how the movie shows each characters reactions and all they go through in those devastating moments. As we go towards the end of the movie hope becomes available and heroes come to the rescue as which is one of the tropes we talk about in class, there is always a hero/heroes to conquer the day and save us all, well in this case most of us. I do not want to give anymore spoilers away so here is a trailer of the movie, I hope if you have not seen it, go check it out you might like it.

Blog set 5 Artificial/Posthuman life- forms

  

   Part I of The Culling shows, desperation, admiration, betrayal, and hate. All these combined is crucial pieces to the story and why things are happening how they did. I see how many others look at it that a higher position in society can really change a person especially someone you once knew and not always for the better. It is very inhumane having to put five 16 year olds together to fight to defend their loved ones and if they lose their loved ones die now that is harsh. This story so far reminds me of Hunger games somewhat, such as the hierarchy of the people and the way they live and what they have to do to survive. Overall the story got intense towards the ending of part I and I’m waiting to see what is next for Lucky and Digory.

To think that a Robot you build yourself could take over your ship and treat you as if you were nothing is insane but interesting as well. The technology and scientific happenings in  Reason,  went well with each other. It was interesting at one point when the earthmen were about to give up, they seemed to start to kind of to believe what Cutie was saying that earth was not real. I for one would not have wanted to be in their shoes at that time but when it was time to go I was anticipating their relief to have never come but it did. I feel bad for the Prussian guy that they left with Cutie since he would be there for a couple of weeks they did not tell him how Cutie really was and he was in for a rude awakening. What would you have done if robots took over your command center and did not believe you for anything you say?

Intriguing story this was and reminded me of the movie that was made an adaptation of this story, A.I. It is fascinating and scary as well to know that this advanced technology can one day maybe be possible. Synthank has come up with many different “synthetic life-forms,” (pg.445). Always finding ways to advance humanity by helping them with these A.I. that they built from overcoming obesity to figuring out a way to take away loneliness. It seems that this is only for the privileged, people with money, because at one point in the story Henry says during his speech, “though three-quarters of the overcrowded world are starving, we are lucky here to have more than enough, thanks to population control.” Now we see that David does not know if he is real or not and that means he is truly indeed an A.I. I’m wondering if the story continues on and if the movie takes on from there or the movie does not go along with the story itself, besides those questions I enjoyed the story even though I was expecting a longer story.

Blog set 4 Apocalypse and Post-apocalypse

                       H.G. Wells “The Star” (1897)

As I read this story at first I had to get used to the way Wells wrote this story and it took me a while to comprehend what he was trying to say. As I reach towards the last couple of pages is when I finally started to understand what was happening to these people on earth. The story started out slow and it did not catch my interest much but after I read it a second time around I begun to visualize what was happening and it was quite frustrating and scary. To see these people not have any idea of what was happening as we would of known because of our knowledge of these things, you can see how astonished they were by this strange bright light getting closer and closer and not knowing what it was or what to do. As one of the characters in the story the Mathematician warned the world no one took him seriously until it was too late. The end came and not everyone survived and as that star got closer and brought hell to earth there was not one soul to hide from the devastation that was about to happen. Towards the last page we see what another species the Martian astronomers that were on Mars saw from their viewpoint and to them what was happening to us on earth did not look that bad to them and then it ends with “Which only shows how small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem, at a distance of a few million miles.”  

                                                    

Octavia E. Butler “Speech Sounds” (1983)

In the beginning of the story you can see how it already starts in a fight, then the main character Rye said “buses were so rare and irregular now,” so I automatically came up with post-apocalypse era. To have lost something we use to communicate physically and verbally with throughout our lives is an eye opener and curiosity does stricken you but same time imagining living without being able to read, write, or even speak because of such a vicious virus it shows how dangerous and scary life would be. The way Obsidian and Rye communicate throughout the story intrigues me, because even though they both are impaired differently they still find ways to communicate and that shows hope to me in some way for them. To think that parentless children would become scavengers to survive and then just become wild because that is what their future looked like is a very upsetting and saddening thing to imagine. The ending was surprising because I thought Rye wasn’t able to speak or understand the children until she did speak and that’s when I knew even though this story was in a post-apocalypse era the ending did not fully end in a sad note but it left me wanting to know more of what happens next, does she find her brother in Pasadena? Leaves me with questions for someone who enjoyed the story.

UPDATE:

    Day 1

          My name is Alice, I'm 21 and I am a computer hacker. These past two years have been a nightmare for me, losing my family in a Tsunami on a trip to Asia and then I left the fire academy. I felt that I no longer belonged there. I couldn't save my family, how can I save strangers at that. I left my lifetime goal of being a Firefighter and turned to being someone I thought I left behind a long time ago ,a criminal. I'm hot-headed and have a bad temper at times but my boss deals with me because I make him good money and I am really good at my job. I've been stuck in this small dark office for months since I can no longer be at use in the real world. Let's just say the FBI was not to happy when I leaked some TOP SECRET stuff on the internet but they won't ever find me not in this place. I have been hearing rumors about some weather anomalies happening around the world but what really caught my interest and turned me ice cold was the word Tsunami. After I did some digging, I come to find out that no one knew about the Tsunami that killed my family because it was covered up. Why would this horrific news not have been known and why cover it up? This was one of the first anomalies that occurred and NASA knew about it, they let thousands die that day. So I have been tracking down these anomalies myself and there seems to be a pattern going on and next one is heading straight for us. I need to warn everyone about this, maybe this time I can save people, but how will I get out this place I am a prisoner? No, I will find a way! If someone finds this and I'm no longer around it means they finally found me. Alice here logging off.

Blog Set 3 Radiation and Global Terrorism

Two stories, different outlooks on life with the happenings of post war and global terrorism.

We come to terms with a mother who looked passed her child imperfections and saw nothing but a perfect baby but it is not what it seems. In this story That Only a Mother by Judith Merril (1948) shows the outcomes of radiation and conception. Margaret, who is alone at home expecting a child and going through a psychological battle with her thoughts is consumed by her thoughts about her child, if she will become a mutant as other children that have been born due to their partners working around radiation. There is some change of location that we usually do not see much in the Sci-Fi genre which is a home as many of us live in except it has technology related enhancements such as “On the way to the kitchenette, she pressed the button that would start breakfast cooking” (pg.212) now we all know we do not have a button that automatically starts cooking our breakfast for us only in the sense you would see this in a Sci-Fi story. Throughout the story Margaret is oblivious to the truth about her child until the end when her husband finally meets their baby and sees that the child does not have any limbs at all and goes into a “bitter spasm of hysteria.” I’m assuming that as the other fathers who had mutant babies did was being called “infanticides,” which is the mutant-children being killed by the fathers but none have been convicted for it so at the end it seems the husband, Hank, killed the child, “His fingers tightened on his child- oh god, she didn’t know…” come to find out that while he was on duty his wife was making up this perfect child up in her mind and writes to him about it. The only person in the world that can see through all your imperfections and love you more than anything is your mother and that is what we see here, she forgets the war, the radiation-mutations and finds herself humble with the limbless child she has and throughout the story when she reads about the mutations in Hiroshima she keeps repeating to herself, “but my baby’s all right.” It was an interesting take on this genre due to it did not have much science fiction tropes but you can tell for its time it was in a future-like place.

In We See Things Differently by Bruce Sterling(1989), you see how the Arabs look at us in their eyes and it is not a pretty sight, “the land of ignorance. This was America. The Great Satan, the Arsenal of Imperialism, the Bankroller of Zionism, the Bastion of Neo-Colonialism” (pg.612). This is how the Arab in the story thought about us when he landed in Miami. To see how America is portrayed in this story is horrifying but is it not where many people see us going? Now this story shows many different things that we can all relate to seeing such as, the greed for money that we can see in our society today, “It is very easy to buy Americans. The mention of money brightens them like a shot of drugs” (pg.613). Sexuality is depicted in this story as to show that the Arabs see us American women as sex symbols for the American men, as he says “Like all American women, she was dressed in a way intended to provoke lust.” It is a sad truth but is that not how some women get what they want? like we say here in America “sex sells.”  There is some hostility between the Americans and foreigners in this story but as long as there is something in it for them they throw that issue to the side. They speak of how America always was giving away money and helping other countries out then they get the blame when Moscow was blown up by some “Afghani terrorists,” Charlie persisted that the Americans had something to do with Moscow.  Towards the end of the story Charlie basically sets up Boston by sharing some lethal cocaine that was laced with a virus. In the story towards the end Charlie shows that religion is why he did what he did to Boston and to himself he killed a man for god. Now tell me what you think about this story it has more depth into it than I can write about but I have my reasons for believing some of this as well as other things but I am only human, so did this story really end on a religious note or did it all come down terrorism?

UPDATE:
       In class we went over these stories and our professor gave us an insight to the story "We See Things Differently" and she was telling us that Boston might have been the President in this time where politics and everything else is no longer standing but a Rocker who is well protected as a President would be as well as looked upon by the people the same way. If this is true than we see why Charlie shared the cocaine with him and basically killed him and it was all to keep America down when they were finally starting to get back on their feet slowly. The title of "That Only a Mother" is very ironic to the story because as the saying goes "he/she has a face that only a mother could love, in the story you see the denial that the mother has towards her daughter's mutation and still thinks she is perfect. These stories became more revealing when we discussed them more and depth and it is always interesting to see how my classmates perceive of the story and what they find that others did not notice.

Blog set 2

Alien or Human? As I read “Passengers” by Robert Silverberg and “Out of All Them Bright Stars” by Nancy Kress, I asked myself what makes these so called encounters different from how we as humans are? So as I continue to read on I see that these two stories has differences in why these “passengers” or “blue men” are here on earth for. In Passengers the aliens are these beings that come out of the sky and take over our body, which I find disturbing, and in Out of All Them Bright Stars they are not sure why these “blue” aliens are here on earth. Aliens as some of us have read or heard about over the years are always trying to take over earth or trying to make so called peace with us and yet in each story we humans are at war automatically due to the unknown which I assume many people are afraid of the unknown so are flight or fight instincts kick into high gear and we don’t know what to do with the unknowns that have invaded our earth but prepare for war.

There was a quote that had me thinking while I read the story Passengers and it was more of a question the main character Charles Roth said which was “leaving me the illusion of freedom,” (pg.434) and as I read that part it stuck with me imagine walking around not knowing if you are free or have a “passenger” inside and never feeling free. The thought of someone just letting you have that “illusion of freedom” is cruel in many ways, the main character Charles Roth is pretty strong minded to my viewing because in many other cases if that was to happen to you or someone you know you would think they would have gone mad by now and I would not blame them these “passengers” have no pity for humans and enjoy using them for their own pleasures.

The second story Out of All Them Bright Stars by Nancy Kress is shorter than the first story but leaves you with many questions such as “why are these blue beings here on earth” or “why does the blue guy want to eat a salad” and so many more but to answer some of those questions I would need more details I feel that the story was vague to some degree. There was that last sentence in the story where Sally Gourley the main character in the story was thinking back to what the blue guy said to her before he left which was “I seldom have the chance to show our friendliness to an ordinary Earth person. I make so little difference!” she makes inferences in what he says that she believes he is lying when he said “I make so little difference!” I was more curious in why they do not let him express that he is friendly and just trying to get to know us “ordinary earth persons”. Maybe the government knows that they are friendly and maybe just really do come in peace but they probably want the public to be on edge and scared of these “beings” on earth and to not trust them for fear that we will welcome them if we truly knew what they were here for.

These two stories combine and make a statement in what I call seeing through our eyes and not knowing what “they” see through their eyes. Who knows maybe they are friendly or just want to inhabit our bodies until then we may never know.

UPDATE:
   In class we discussed the previous stories and it actually gave me more insight to them such as in Out of All Them Bright Stars there was details in which depict things still going on in our country today such as racism and feminist, even though that is in the past there are people who still feel that way. When we spoke as a class I got more of the meaning behind the story than when  I had read it alone. We also spoke about if we thought the stories are a mirror to our world or a window? I think that in the Passengers, that it is a window because that has never happen to me or have I heard of such thing besides in the story, I think that as a person we would not tolerate what was happening to us as the characters in the story were doing. Overall after the class discussion it has changed my view on the stories making them more clearer to me as the reader what the author is trying to get at in the story.

Introduction

    Hey Everyone!!! My name is Priscilla and I am glad to have met you all on our first day of class. I picked this class because the theme of it intrigues me and I wanted to know more about it. I am an open-minded person, I love to read books and sometimes I read comics, as well as manga. The genres that I am mostly interested in are supernatural, fantasy,and some Sci-Fi. If it sounds interesting or peaks my interest I will read it no matter the genre, so you can say I enjoy a little bit of everything when it comes to books. I am also a cosplayer, if some of you are wondering what is cosplaying? well in brief detail it is when you dress-up as a character from an anime,comic book, movie, or TV show and you go to conventions and can act out the part of your character or just have fun being someone else for a day or two. It is fun for those who are open-minded about things like that. As for favorite TV shows or anime, my latest top list are Orphan Black, American Horror Story, and I just finished sadly Sons of Anarchy which I will miss. As you can see my liking of TV shows ranges from different genres. I can't wait to read everyone's blogs, and see what you guys are interested in as well, hey who knows we all might have something in common, probably not but that's what makes us all unique. So this is a little piece of who I am, I hope it gave you some insight into what I like and also what I wish to receive from this class will be to find more authors to read more of and to see all the interesting things we will get into during discussions or activities in class.