Something Borrowed (A Novel) by Emily Giffin📑

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In these book, was Emily Giffin's bestselling novel back at 2005 (and the sequel Something Blue)  that centers through the story of two girls about the strength of friendship and romance when suddenly everything falls suddenly into place. 

So okay,  my POV?  This book was a gift from my 18th birthday and since I'd started reading this, I'm a bit curious  about how will the story will going to continue because it tells how a long-time friendship will be destroyed because of "SOMETHING" that happens unexpectedly. So to shorten my review of the book,  let me say that this was a greatly written book that teaches readers that it's not too late to fall in love with someone you are destined to be with. 

My Rate: 5/5⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 

P.S. My next feature of the book will focus on the characters, settings and the great past and future relationships of the two main characters: Rachel and Darcy.)

WTFacts! (A Clash of Kings Infos 📝) (Part 2)

So, it'[s been a while since I'm updated my blog about the Game of Thrones Facts because of schoolworks but hopefully I found my time to do this and since time has past, and I'm done reading Book 2, I gathered a lot of facts about the sequel. So I hope, I'm not too late and I wish you can still acknowledge me through my work. So... here goes nothing.

GAME OF THRONES FACTS 

(CLASH OF KINGS BOOK 2)

A

  * A Tale of Targaryen's🐲

    - Prince Aemon the Dragonknight cried the day Princess Naerys wed his brother Aegon Targaryen.

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D

 * Dany's Ships🐲

      - they were named VHAGAR, MERAXES AND BALERION.
      - she ordered this to Arstan in which the names will be painted on the ships hulls in golden letters for 3 feet.

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  *Joffrey's Ships on the Battle of Blackwater Rush ⛵( * This indicate the ships captured by Stannis Baratheon)

- Stag of the Sea (from Lord Steffon)                  -Princess Rhaenys
- Brightfish                                                           -Dog's Nose                
-Lady Harra                                                           - Sceptre *
-Laughing Lord                                                     - Faithful *
-Sea Demon                                                           - Red Raven
- Horned Honor                                                     - Queen Alysanne
-Ragged Jenna                                                       - Cat
-Trident Three                                                       - Courageous *
-Swift Sword                                                         - Loyal Man  *
- Dragonsbane                                                       - Black Betha *
- Wraith                                                                 - Bold Laughter
- Lady Marya (from Allard)                                - Harridan
-Fury (Robert Baratheon's 300 ship oars) *      - Seahorse
-Pride of Driftmark (from Lord Velaryon)         - Swordfish
- Red Claw (from Lord Celtigar)
- Pretty, Prayer and Devotion (from Lord Sunglass) *

Joffrey's toy ships

- Godsgrace *
- Prince Aemon
- Lady of silk and Lady's Shame (sister ships)
- Wildwind
-Kingslander *
-White Hart
-Lance
-Seaflower
-Lionstar (gone missing)
-Lady Lyanna
-Hammer

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  *Karstark Sigil🌞
- The white sun on the black sun

  *King Robert's Hammer (or Rob's Hammer) 
     - a great war gallery of four hundred oars

 *Kingsguard of Brandon Stark
       - Ethan Glover was Brandon Stark's squire
       - Jeffroy Mallister
       -Kyle Royce
       -Elbert Arryn

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* Myrcella Baratheon's escort to Dorne
 -Lionstar
 -Bold Wind
 -Lady Lyanna
 -Seaswift

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*Qarth's story
- was one of the World's Great Ports. It's harbor combines a riot of color and clangor and strange smells.
-Winesinks,  warehouses and gaming dens lined the streets while cutpurses,  cutthroats, spellsellers and moneychangers mingled every crowd.
-THE WATERFRONT was one great marketplace where the buying and selling went on all day and night.
- Wizened old women bent like hunchback sold flavored waters and goat's milk from glazed ceramic jugs strapped to their shoulders.

*Qarth's famous Thirteen Ships and it's functions. 
  1. Vermilion Kiss
  2. Bride in Azure- sails at the evening tide.
  3. Sunblaze- a silver galley that bid on slaves.
  4. Ardent Friend
  5. Trumpetter
  6. Silken Spirit- a Myrish Galley
  7. Lord Faro's Belly
  8. Quicksilver and Greyhound -sister ships
  9. Pinchbottom Petto
  10. sloe-Eyed Maid
  11. Bravo- bound for Jade Sea
  12. Magister Manolo

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*Sansa's Prayer
          "Gentle mother, font of mercy,
       save our sons from war, we pray,
      stay the swords and stay the arrows,
       let them know a better day.
           Gentle mother,  strength of women,
        help our daughters through this fray,
       soothe the wrath and tame the fury,
          teach us all a kinder way."

* SIGILS OF THE OTHER HOUSES🚩
 - Piper (Dancing Maiden)
 - Sorry (Plowman)
 -Paeges (Twining red-and-white snakes) 🐍

*Swanns
    -were Marcher Lords, proud, powerful and cautious.

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*The Sept
    - had seven aspects, and the Sept is a single bundling with seven walls

*The Seven God's of the Sept
    1. The Father- Bearded
    2. The Mother- always smiling, loving  and protective
    3. The Warrior- had his sword sketched beneath his face
    4. The Smith- with his hammer
    5. The Maid- was beautiful
    6. The Crone-wizened and wise
    7. The Stranger- neither male or female or both,  the outcast, the wanderer from far places, less or more than human, unknown or unknowable.

   *The Story of Bael-The-Bard,  the Daughterless
      -He sang the song of the Winter Rose
      - King-Beyond-The-Wall a long time back
      - All free folk know his songs
      - a brave black crow and a raider
      - Sygerrik of Skagos (a deceiver)

   *The Theory of the Three-Headed Dragon
      - the three heads were Aegon and his sisters Visenya and Rhaenys
      - Dany's brother Rhaegar played a hard with silver strings
      -IN THEORY,  there was a woman in a bed with a babe at her breast. And that was the prince that was promised and told him to name him Aegon.
     
   *The Song of Bloody Meadow of Lord Deremond
           "And there he stood with a sword in hand,
          the last of Darry's ten...
         And red the grass beneath his feet,
           and red his banners bright,
         and red the glow of setting sun
          that bathed him in its light
      "Come on,  come on,"the great lord called,
        "My sword is hungry still."
           And with a cry of savage rage,
            They swarmed across the rill.

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 *Varys Story
        -He was an orphaned boy apprenticed to a travelling folly. His master owned a fat little cog and both of them performed in the Free Cities, Old Town and King's Landing.
        -One day at Myr, a certain man watched our performance and he made an offer to Varys. And by then,  after the show he offered him to drink a potion that will make him feel powerless to move or speak and Varys doesn't realize that he sliced his parts and throw it into a blazer. And afterwards, a voice called him to the flames saying about death but Varys refused saying that he wanted to live.


P.S. (This is the last update from this book.  Hope that you enjoy!)
 

The Characters 👲👳👮👷💂 (Part 7)

A Clash of Kings

(Book 2 Characters)

(Chapters 28-36)

A

   *Alfyn Crowkiller

        - bloodrest of wildling raiders.

   *Aeron Damphair

        -

   *Aurane
        - the bastard of Driftmark

B

  *Brienne

       - of Tarth

       - daughter to Lord Selwyn the Evenstar

       - also called as Brienne the Beauty

       - the victor of great melee at Bitterbridge

       - had given a place at Renly's RAINBOW GUARD.

      - had a twelve foot lance.

  *Black Lorren 

      -

C

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D

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E

   *Egon Emeros

       - The Exquisite

F

  *

G

  *Guyard The Green

       - 

  *Gevin Harlaw

      - 

H

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 I

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J

  *Jaqen H' Ghar

        - 

  *Josmyn Peckledon
      -  a downy,-checked squire
      - killed 2 knights, wounded 3, 2 captured.

  *Jojen Reed

       - brother of Meera Reed

       - had green dreams that can happen anything.

       - had knew that Bran had three-eyes to look beyond the past and the future.

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L

  *Lady Whent

      - held at the castle as bannerman to House Tully, but had lower thirds of two of the five towers.

  *Lord Caswell

      - 

  *Lord Crakehall

     - (DECEASED)

  *Lord Estermont
     - more ancient than Celtigar

  *Lord Jast

     - (DECEASED)

  *Lord Lefford

    - mock ghosts but he was scared of it by keeping a candle by his bed.

  *Lord MathisRowan

    - stouter and florid

    - had a snowy doublet with a great tree worked upon breast on gold thread

  *Lord Meadows

     - a green boy of twenty

  *Lord Randyll Tarly

    - lean and bald

    - have a greatsword across his back in jeweled scabbard

    -from Hornhill

    - had a great sword "HEARTSBANE"

  *Lord Staedmon
    - known as PENNYLOVER

  *Lord Vargo Hoat

    - the goat helm's captain of the Bloody Mummers

  *Lord Varner

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  *Lord Willum

   - had sons Josua and Elyas

M
   *Maester Ballabar
      - the one who cured Tyrion Lannister

  *Maester Tothmure

     - 

  *Margaery Tyrell

    - the young queen of Renly Baratheon

    - daughter to Lord Mace Tyrell

*Martyn Lannister

   - Tyrion's nephew

*Matthos Malarawan

  - 

*Meera Reed

  - almost sixteen and older than Bran

  - sister to Jojen Reed

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  Parmer Crane
   - 

  *Pinkeye
   - his real name is Mebble but he called them that because of runny eyes.
   - each morning he broke his fast with ale and at night he fell into drunken sleep after supper, wine- colored spit running down his chin.

  *Poxy Tym
    - Died with an axe on his face.

 *Pretty Pia
  - from the buttery
  - a slut,  had a child either from Ser Alyn  Stackspear or the singer called Whitesmile Wat.

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   *RattleShirt
       - The Crows' Lord of Bones.

   *Red Crab
       -  A knight

   *Red Ronnet
      - from Griffin Roast

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 *Sandor Clegane
   - The Hound
   -  the dog of King Joffrey
   - his father was a kennelmaster at the Rock.

 *Ser Aron Santagar
   - (DECEASED)
   - 4 common men killed him bashing his head with a cobblestone.

 *Ser Bonifer the Good
   - a knight

 *Ser Colen
   - from Greenpools

 *Ser Dermot
    - from Rainwood

 *Ser Dunaver
  - a squire (Jodge)
  - always wet his bed

 *Ser Harys Swyft
   - had no taste and always spit his food

 *Ser Jon Fossoway

 *Ser Loras Tyrell
   - Knight of the Flowers

 *Ser Lymond Vikary
    - (DECEASED)

 *Ser Mark Mullendore
    -

 *Ser Osmund Kettleback
   - six feet, sinew and muscly, have a hook nose, a bushy eyebrows, and spade shaped brown beard
   - had brothers Osney and Osfryd, peas in a small pod,
   - tall men with hooked noses
   - have dark hair and cruel smiles.
   - Osney is clean shaven, BTW

*Ser Perwyn Frey
   - Catelyn Stark's companion to Highgarden

*Ser Rubert Brax
  -(DECEASED)

*Ser Tantos
  - of the red-apple Fossoways

*Ser Timon
  - from Scrapesword

*Ser Wendel Manderly
  - Catelyn Stark's companion to Highgarden

*Shadd
 - was one of the Winterfell men

*Stygg
 -

*Symon Silver
  - a player, singer, taleteller
  - he was in Shae's brothrel

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  *Tymor
  -

*Tyrek
  - 

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  *Urzen

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  *Wendello
   -

  *Werlag
  - 

Every Song

Every Song

by

Federico Garcia Lorca

Every song

is the 

remains

of love.

Every light 

the remains 

of time.

A knot of time.

And every sign 

that remains 

a cry.

The Flash... zooooommmmmmm!⚡⚡⚡

From ordinary to extraordinary

My Rate: 4/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐

My Review:

            How about this? At first, your life is so simple, sometimes miserable and nonunderstandable and sometimes your past hunts you down on how you live every single day in your present.

And everyday you are looking for some solutions to make things right because you thought it was. Well, for starters (just like me, who finished the 1st season... it felt like that.)

And of course that's how Barry Allen's life was. Or also known as The Flash.

Portrayed or played by Grant Gustin (Barry Allen/The Flash.)

A young man who works at Central City Police Department as a Forensic Scientist became as the Flash when one night the S.T.A.R. Labs (at Central City) exploded which activated the particle accelerator that gaves him the power to gain such super speed to become the hero and also to do multitasking activities like fighting crime and traveling back time.)

(S.T.A.R. Labs also known as  Scientific and Technological Advanced Research Laboratories for sorts👌)

Although it was never his intention to became the Flash himself, it's like destiny made his life to heroin he was meant to beand to choose what he should do with the power he had for himself. It may be difficult for him to choose, but of course it was never been impossible because he had family and friends to help him with.

     Like:

•Joe West (Barry's adapted father)

•Iris West (Barry's adapted sister and friend)

•Caitlyn Snow/Danielle Panabaker (a scientist who works at STAR Labs)

•Cisco Ramon/Carlos Valdes (also a scientist who works at STAR Labs)

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Harrison Wells (owner and creator of STAR Labs)

•Ronnie Raymond (Caitlyn's fiancee)

•Eddie Thawne (Iris boyfriend, a detective and Joe's partner)

•Eobard Thawne (Eddie's family relative and also the real enemy of The Flash)

And it maybe so hard for Barry to tell his secret but it's for the best of all things. To protect the ones he loved and also to bring justice to the death of his mother's and also to the imprisonment of his father's from Iron Heights.

Although the story goes around and around to get his mother's killer, his job cannot be done because he also fighting 

"META-HUMANS" people who had gained powers because of the particle accelerator explosion.

And secure them to safety and from harm's way at all means. 

Well, basically my review is simple.

Just like the series itself. Barry's life is simple but he got to download extraordinary things. With or without powers.

And for some, it did really help me to learn something. That even though you are simply human, you can get to do great and awesome things that which not also develop yourself but also to help others too. In a simpler way. And you got to learn every battles you fought, every mistake you do and every choice you make as long as you do good things.

And that's why The Flash is so great. It's story is great. It maybe simple for others, but me... nahhhhh 😏😏😏

It is truly heroic and super. It really do.

So I guess this was it, my review for my 4th TV Series this Summer of 2016.

The Flash.⚡

-theintrovertoptimist

The Characters 👲👳👮👷💂 (Part 6)

A Clash of Kings
(Book 2 Characters)
Chapters 19-27)

*A-Z*

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B

  •Brown Bernarr

        - 

C

  •Craster (a bastard)

       - Dywen said he was a kinslayer, a liar, raper and craven and hinted that he trafficked with slavers and demons

       - his mother is a wildling woman who had slept with a Night's Watch ranger

       - he knows about the Others as well.

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   •Dancy (a whore)
       - a pug-nosed, bouncy, with freckles,  with a mane of thick red hair that tumbled down past her waist.

   •Dunsen
      - a part of The Mountain's knights
      - the one who stole Gendry's helm.

E
   •Eldiss
      - 

F
   •

G
   •Gilly
      - she knows also about the Others just like his father and husband Craster.
      - she called them as the cold gods, the ones in the night, The White Shadows.

   •Goodwife Anabel
       -

   •Goodwife Harra
       - 

H
    •Hake
        - 

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K
    •Kevan Lannister 🐯
        - 

L
    •Lark (the sisterman)
        - a ranger mean as cur

    •Lady Meera Reed
        - had a brother named Jojen
        -they had come from Greywater's Watch.

M
    •Marei ( a whore)
        - cool, pale delicate girl with green eyes and porcelain skin, long straight silverly hair, very lovely but solemn in half.

N
   •Nella 
        - 

O
   •Old Chiswyk (DECEASED)
       - He fell and his neck broke but in truth, Jaqen killed him as Arya's intention to clear her list off

P
   •Polliver
      - the one who'd stole Arya's Needle.

Q
   •Qarl
      - 

   •Quhuro Mo
      - a black man who is captain of the Cinnamon Wind out of Tall Trees Town

R
   •Raff the Sweetling
      - softspoken
      - the one who killed Lommy Greenhands

   •Rymolf
      - 

S
    •Ser Amory Lorch
      - had killed Yoren

    •Ser Arthur Dayne☀
      - the finest knight in the Seven Kingdoms
      - he had a blade named Dawn, forged from the heart of a fallen star.
      - he is also called as the Sword of the Morning.

   •Ser Lancel Lannister 🐯
      - a knight and a singer
      - had thick Sandy hair, green Lannister eyes, and a line of soft blond fuzz on his upper lip.
       - was cursed of certainty of youth, unleavened, trace of humor and self doubt
      - almost sixteen
      - killed Robert Baratheon with the used of wine in order of Tywin Lannister but still this had no proofs.

   •Ser Meryn Trant
      - killed Syrio Forel

   •Shitmouth
      - have the foulest tounge in the army of the Hound and the Lannisters.

   •Stormdrunk
      - 

T
   •Trystane Martell ☀
      - son of the Prince of Dorne, Doran Martell

U
   •Uller
      - 

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W
    •Wex
      - a baseborn son of one of the Lord Botley's half brothers

    •Weese (DECEASED)
     - he died sprawled against the cobbles, his red eyes in ruin, the dog he had beside him were ripping his chest and were having a mouthful of flesh in its pets' mouth.
    - but he died because of Arya's list.
 

I was already like that.😞

If I were a poem 

If I were a poem 

I'd ask you to fold me up

and put me in your pocket,

then at the end of the week,

toss me in the wash 

with the rest of the clothes

And when you find me there 

smudged and smeared,

ripped and tattered into

little unrecognizable pieces 

don't worry about it,

I was already like that.

   -stephan