Day of Delirium #362 - Gluten Free Expo

This Saturday May 19th in Oaks PA I will be attending the Gluten Free Expo.

I have been wanting to attend one of these expos for awhile now but always had conflicts with the dates and /or locations. So this year when we finally determined we would be around, I bought the tickets at Wegmans.

I am very excited to see all the amazing products that will be there and meet some awesome people. I am hopeful I will be able to meet with the owner of the blog Gluten Free Philly. He was one of the first blogs I followed and he has been extremely helpful in finding places to eat not only in Philly but when he posts about trips he has taken.

I plan to post a full review over on my gluten free blog, Gluten Free R U, but I will also cross post here just in case anyone is interested that doesn't follow that blog.

Is there anything you want me to look for while at this expo? If so, please let me know in the comments.

Day of Delirium #361 - Winner! Danika Stone

Last year at this time I was attending the RT Convention in Atlanta GA. It was a great convention and I met some amazing people. Including Danika Stone, a verstile author with books for YA and Adults.

So Danika recently had a contest to win two of her books. I rarely win things but I decided to enter because I was very interested in these books of hers. They are a mystery series and they are set in a town she has lived in, Waterton Alberta Canada. I think that is so fascinating and I have seen numerous photos from her of this town, so I was hopeful I would win so I could get to know this town and her stories about it.

The day of the drawing I had a really good feeling that I would win and when I received the Twitter notification, I knewit, I had won the books and a book bag!!

WOO HOO!!!

I have to point out a cool addition to the win... I LOVE the feel of the book covers. They are so soft and smooth, I LOVE that about books with these kinds of covers.


Check out Danika Stone, aka D.K. Stone and all her amazing books.

I have already read All The Feels and I need to do a post about it... but I might have to re-read the book as I read a few around the same time and I want to insure I review it all correctly ;) LOL

I started Internet Famous but my Mom ended up taking it to read, so I need to get back to that one.

Then I have these two new ones: Edge of Wild and The Dark Divide. I am so excited to read these. I’ll be sure to write all about them too.

Please check out Danika and her books. She is an incredible person and a fellow Comic Con attendee, so for sure she is awesome! :)

Day of Delirium #360 - Into the Wild movie

This post is also over on Bookended by Cats as a movie review

But really I think it is therapy for me...

Dangrdafne review

So I finally watched Into the Wild. Yes, it has been out there a loooong time. I for some reason never watched it, although I had wanted to since it came out. Perhaps I wasn’t meant to watch it when it came out, perhaps it was meant to be watched the day I saw it. One can never be too sure but I can tell you this, I am broken from this movie. Absolutely broken. I can not get the last moments of the movie out of my head. I can’t stop seeing two moments and I find myself crying still over it.

SPOILERS

Perhaps one of the reasons for my devastation is that I forgot it was a true story. That what happens actually happened to someone. Knowing that someone went through all that happened just breaks my heart. Also I had forgotten (or if I ever knew) how it would end.

He dies. And he dies from something really stupid. And only really stupid because he worked so hard to learn everything and do everything right that it just sucks that it was a mistake that makes him leave this world. And to make matters worse, people finally do come along.... just 20 days too late. I am not even sure I will be able to type up this post. My heart hurts just typing this paragraph.

Perhaps I am too emotional or sentimental. I just HATE that his whole life ended in abject loneliness and his realization that “Happiness is only real when shared.” Oh goodness gracious. A great learning point but with no way to then live that out... ouch.

He was a true philosopher and maybe if I researched philosophers I would find out that they all die alone and sad. I don’t know but actually there is no way I want to research that. My brain and heart hurt from this and while I learned a lot about myself while watching this movie, all that can not come to the front because I can’t get the end out of my mind. Sorry that this is more like a therapy session than a movie review but I think I need it. And maybe someone reading does too and that is why I am typing this.

Be sure to live your lives fully, engage with others no matter you introversion or extroversion, just find your people. Find your solace. Reach out when you need anything, there is always someone there. Basically don’t run off into the wild to live. I am not sure you can live there. And the evidence from Alex Supertramp supports my theory.

I am not sure I can recommend the movie but I still give it 4 paws because it made me pause. The soundtrack is incredible and the acting is impeccable. Hal Holbrook was a joy and Kristen Stewart was perfect. The whole cast brought their A games and I am glad because if they did not it would have made the movie even harder to process. I am sure most of you are not as emotional as I am, so if you have not seen it or if you have not seen in it awhile, check it out. Maybe it is a movie needed for these times.

If you find that you need to chat after watching, come find me in the comments.