THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY

(this photo looks like it was made by a five-year-old)

I posted a comic review before the show aired and it's one of my most viewed posts, you can check it out HERE. I've put off watching the series because I wasn't a fan of the comic, I said I wasn't going to, and I didn't have a Netflix account. What's the point of me watching it if I hated it? After hearing my friends rave about the series, and getting my friend's Netflix account, I wanted to. 

Predictions before watching:

1) I'll probably hate Luther, Allison, and Vanya in the show because I hated them in the series.

2) I'll probably love Klaus because he was my favorite character in the series. Plus, Robert Sheehan!
3) I don't think I'll like it much until the end of the series.

TORTURE DOWN TEEN ROMANCE LANE I

I distinctly remember reading Hush, Hush on PulseIt, now RivetedLit, years ago; I fell in love with the book, and I went to B&N to buy the entire series. As I continued with it, I hated it more and more: it dragged, there was petty drama, and I didn't understand the point of it. In middle school, I met some friends who also loved to read, and they liked this series... Is there something wrong with me? Am I the only outlier? 

MUSIC MONDAYS

After that K-pop filled Music Monday, I needed to listen to music with non-Korean lyrics. I cleared my Youtube watch history, and it recommended weird music, which I am thankful for because I found some gems, but also scarred... 

SUMMER BIRD BLUE

Summer Bird Blue
by Akemi Dawn Bowman
Simon Pulse | September 11, 2018

     Rumi Seto spends a lot of time worrying she doesn’t have the answers to everything. What to eat, where to go, whom to love. But there is one thing she is absolutely sure of—she wants to spend the rest of her life writing music with her younger sister, Lea.
     Then Lea dies in a car accident, and her mother sends her away to live with her aunt in Hawaii while she deals with her own grief. Now thousands of miles from home, Rumi struggles to navigate the loss of her sister, being abandoned by her mother, and the absence of music in her life. With the help of the “boys next door”—a teenage surfer named Kai, who smiles too much and doesn’t take anything seriously, and an eighty-year-old named George Watanabe, who succumbed to his own grief years ago—Rumi attempts to find her way back to her music, to write the song she and Lea never had the chance to finish.