The Friday 56

RULES:

* Grab a book, any book.

* Turn to page 56 or 56% on your ereader. If you have to improvise that is okay.

* Find a snippet, short and sweet.

*Post it and add the url to your post at Freda's Voice.

 Evil Librarian by Michelle Knudsen 

There is a new librarian is Cynthis Rothschild's school.  But there is something not quite right about him.  In fact, he's a demon.  And only Cyn seems to notice.  Now she has to not only save her school musical, Sweeney Todd, but her entire school.

My 56:

Before I can chicken out, I knock on the door and step inside.  The teacher turns to look at me, eyebrows raised.

Ok, so not the most exciting snippet.  But there is a lot more excitement in the book.  I promise.  It's a fun book.  You can read my review here.

 

 

The Tomorrow War Movie Review

The Tomorrow War with Chris Pratt

The Earth is invaded by aliens.  The Earth is losing a battle that could mean the complete eradication of the Human Race.  The few remaining humans go to the past to ask for help.

I am aware that you have to suspend your disbelief for science fiction and fantasy movies.  I am okay with that.  But for this one I had to suspend my sense of logic and I couldn't quite do it so I had a few problems with this one.  The first thing was mentioned in some synopsis's and is revealed very early in the film so I am not giving anything away so I will mention it to explain my issue.  So, the human race is being wiped out by alien invaders.  The remaining humans have found a way to send people 30 years into the past.  You can give the human race a 30 year warning about the war but the plan they come up with is to ferry people from the past into the future to fight the war.  Everyday people, teachers, hair dressers, lawyers, bus drivers, who know nothing of combat or guns are sent to the future to fight a war that the united militaries of the world couldn't win.  That is the best you can come up with?  Okay.  So I'll give them that.  And then you have really scary aliens and just a little humor and big fight scenes and those average humans stepping up and it's lots of sci-fi fun.  And then there some more stuff that can only happen if our hero is really stupid.  So that annoys me.  But then we go back to the action and get to see more of J.K. Simmons whos character is my favorite part of the movie.  Overall it is entertaining if you don't think about it.  But I found myself a little disappointed by a lackluster script.

The Friday 56

RULES:

* Grab a book, any book.

* Turn to page 56 or 56% on your ereader. If you have to improvise that is okay.

* Find a snippet, short and sweet.

*Post it and add the url to your post at Freda's Voice.

 

My book this week is Particulate Matter by Felicia Luna Lemus

My 56:

I should probably stop scowling at people so often.

It was not hard to pick my 56.  That sentence is all that is on page 56.  The book is about a year in Lemus's life where LA is burning and she is away from her spouse taking care of the house they used to share.  It is told with few words.  Sometimes just one word per page.  You can read the whole thing in less than half an hour.  It has the feel of poetry about it and it does manage to evoke emotions even with the limited text.  

World Elephant Day

 June 12th is World Elephant Day!!  

Who doesn't like elephants?  But of course elephant are are in danger.  So here are a few of the many places you can go to help.

World Wildlife Foundation

Never Forget Elephant Foundation

Wildlife SOS

Elephant Voices

David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust

The International Elephant Foundation

The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee

Save The Elephants

African Wildlife Foundation

Elephant Aid International

Save the Asian Elephant

The Nature Conservancy

Fighting Food Waste, And Getting Some Good Deals

I play a lot of games on my phone.  Which means I watch a lot of adds on my phone.  One of those adds was for an app called Too Good To Go.  It is all about fighting food waste.  I would like to say that is why I was interested.  But it isn't.  I was interested because I could get some good deals on all sorts of food.

The idea is all sorts of businesses that sell food - cafes, markets, restaurants - have food that does not sell and will soon have to be thrown out.  So instead of throwing it out, the businesses would rather sell it at a discount.  They put some goodies together for you and you get say, $12 of food for $5.  Different places have different prices and different amounts of food.  The trick is you never really know what you are going to get.  You may have an idea.  If you go to a pizza place you will probably get pizza.  But what kind of pizza is a mystery.  This is the part my husband does not get.  He does not understand buying something when you don't really know what it is you are paying for.  I think that is part of the fun.  Of course, sometimes you might be disappointed, or get something you don't really like.  But thems the risks.

The other catch is that you have a limited window in which to pick it up.  Some of the times are not the most convenient.  But that's understandable.  You don't want to sell it on Too Good To Go while there is still a chance someone will buy it at full price.  For two of my orders the place was actually closed when I went to pick up my food.  One of them hung my food on the door and the other one had their front grate pulled half way down but the guy inside saw me and brought my food out to me.  

I have had mostly good experiences with this app.  The very first time I tried to order something I reserved it at 7:00 AM to pick up at 3:00 PM.  About five minutes later I got a message saying my order had been canceled because they wouldn't have enough food left over for me.  So I struck out the first time.  And the only other bad experience was I showed up and they were not expecting me and had nothing ready to give me.  They had to scramble around to put something together since I had already paid.  I have my doubts that I saved any food that day but at least I didn't leave empty handed.  

Some of the things I have gotten from this app include:

I made three trips to Savenor's Market.  The first time it was all produce and a loaf of bread.  The second time it was some produce, a loaf of bread, some fresh pasta and some BBQ pulled chicken.  The third time it was some produce, a loaf of bread, some soup and some yogurt.  The food was all tasty.  Some of the produce had to be used right away and was a little banged up.  For example the outer leaves of the Brussel sprouts had to be peeled off.  But I did use it all.

I went to Render Coffee and got six bagels for $3.29.

I went to Herrera's Mexican Grill and got a chicken burrito.  It was rather small and had a lot of beans but it was very tasty.

I went to Finagle a Bagel and got 17(!) bagels for $4.99.

I went to Red Apple Farm and got a bag of yummy apple cider donuts.  I think some of them were rejects because they were not donut shaped so they couldn't sell them but they taste great so I didn't care.

South End Food Emporium is where they were not expecting me and threw something together.  What I ended up with was a loaf of bread and a bottle of orange juice.  I will give them another try before I write them off.  The people working there seemed surprised there was nothing waiting for me.  So maybe it was just a miscommunication somewhere.

APM Coffee was where a bag was left hanging on the handle of the door.  I'm still not sure how I feel about that.  But the selection of breads and bagels I got were good.

At Otto pizza I got three rather large slices of pizza.  A margarita and two bacon, mashed potato and chives (it works).

The Daily  gave me a bag of pastries.  Apple turnovers and such.

I like this service.  It is obviously not for picky eater or people with food allergies.  But I have gotten some good deals and a lot of good food. I will keep using it.  And if I wasn't so lazy that I didn't want to leave the house after I got home for the day I would probably use it a whole lot more.  But 9:00 PM pick up times are too late for me.  Download it.  See what offers are in your area.  I'm sure you'll find something that interests you.