Glee: The Beginning by Sophia Lowell

Find out the story that happened before the first episode of Glee.  How Rachel became involved with show choir, Quinn and Puck's attraction and how Quinn and Finn became a couple in this prequel to the television series.

No offense, but it turns out Glee is less charming without the music and the actors to pull it off.  Not that the book was bad.  It was well written.  I think that the book just lack some of the charm that the TV had when it first came on.  It was interesting to see the dynamics of the group before the show started.  I hadn't had the impression that Mercedes, Kurt, Artie and Tina were in the glee club before Mr. Schuester took over, but apparently they were.  And Puck and Quinn had their attraction even before she decided to start dating Finn.  So the dynamics were different than the ones explored in the show.  But I don't know.  Maybe it is because it took me forever to finish the damn thing, but I was less than enthralled.  I rarely read based on a (fill in the blank) books so that might have been it.  Still it is a pretty cute book, especially if you are a big Gleek.

4 hours, 58 minutes

Emma Galvin is the reader and I like her voice a lot.  I need to see what else she has narrated because she adds this sort of sarcastic tone to the story.  She is a clear and crisp reader and I like what she adds to the story.

Whisper in my Ear
Alphabet Challenge

The Lying Game on ABC Family!

Having never read The Pretty Little Liars series by Sara Shepard, I never got into the show.  But I have read The Lying Game by the same author and now it is going to be a TV series on ABC Family, just like PLL!  I am pretty excited about this since the book was fairly awesome.  Definitely adding this to my must-watch list.   I thought I'd share trailer with y'all.

Sleuthing Sundays - Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries ( TV show)

I discovered the 1978/1979 Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries TV series a few years back when my library bought them on DVD.  Since I like old stuff, I took them home.  And honestly I didn't watch any of the Hardy Boys mysteries.  I"m sure they are fine and all, but having never read the books I wasn't particularly interested in their episodes.  I DID, however, watch the Nancy Drew episodes.  And I really liked them.  Pamela Sue Martin does a great job with Nancy and the first season is really very good.  The mysteries are standard Nancy Drew.  Nancy's main friends are George and Ned and Bess isn't really involved.  Subsequently, George takes on qualities ascribed to both girls and it balances out the character more.

The second season is a little weird though.  Most of the mysteries are Hardy Boys mysteries and Nancy only helps out.  I wasn't too fond of this, but it seems they were phasing out Nancy Drew since Martin was leaving the show as in the third season it is all Hardy Boys episodes.  So I don't really care for those two seasons.  The first is by far the best for Nancy Drew fans.  All the season are available on DVD and Netflix even streams them so now I have them available all the time!