"and they all lived happily ever after...well, maybe not"

folklore collectors and con artists, jake and will grimm, travel from village to village pretending to protect townsfolk from enchanted creatures and performing exorcisms. They are put to the test, however, when they encounter a real magical curse in a haunted forest with real magical beings, requiring genuine courage. which they lack.

in 1811, in a french occupied germany, the crooks brothers grimm pretend to fight against evil witches and monsters to make money. however, they are arrested, with the chance to redeem themselves in the village of marbaden, where ten young girls have vanished. will and jacob are guided by a local through an enchanted forest where they face an evil queen that depends on the sacrifice of twelve girls in the eclipse to stay beautiful and young.

the are expected to save the day by performing the enchantments they were pretending to be experts in and saving the final two girls. 

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this movies touches on every fairy tale:)

really good...

matt damon and heath ledger...

halloween is the best for movies...

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me

i am not sure if i told you or not,
but i got a new mac book air laptop computer...

i love it so much...

the sales guy was very cute...

he had on lime green sperry topsiders...

i couldn't resist:)...

p.s....this is my 100th post:)
thank you all for reading!

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it's raining

it's raining, it's pouring...

:)

            we are preparing for ghost stories at
                  our house...

                                   more info on that later;)

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"life is the flower for which love is the honey"

grandma j's honey candy

we've been working on honey 'round these parts:)

the honey this year was beautiful...

i made this...

it reminded me so much of grandma...

i added cashews and it was truly delish!

try it...

i've got honey if you need it:)

(it's in our cookbooks)

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"take this kiss upon the brow"

 
The film opens in 19th century Maryland – where several Baltimore policemen are chasing after the screams of a woman in an 
apartment.

The police arrive at the apartment to discover a woman sprawled on the floor with her throat sliced open and the corpse of her daughter stuffed in the chimney. Detective Emmett Fields is called to assist in the investigation and discovers that the crime resembles a fictional murder in the short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", 
which is part of a collection of stories penned by the writer Edgar Allan Poe.

Poe has become a social pariah and penniless drunkard whose stories have not been circulated for some time. 
He has fallen in love with the beautiful young Emily Hamilton and desires to marry her but faces opposition from her father Captain Hamilton, a military man who loathes Poe and goes to the length of threatening physical violence. 
Poe is brought to see Fields for questioning and is horrified to learn someone is using his stories as the backdrop for a series of murders. Fields then proposes that Poe volunteer his services to help the police catch the killer and the writer agrees to the task.


this movie was another of my favorites for the year.
john cusack is fantastic in it...

Edgar Allan Poe: We loved with a love that was more than love.

edgar allan poe: the true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

click on the arrow below to watch the movie trailer

another great one for the halloween season...

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"watch your heads"

"the horseman comes.

and tonight he comes for you".

this film is like a scary lighted pumpkin on a foggy october night. perfect to get you in the spooky spirit of the season. plus, it’s tim burton and johnny depp.

sleepy hollow is dazzling. a delicious reworking of washington irving's “the legend of sleepy hollow”. dark and moody, the film is a thrilling ride back to the turn of the 19th century. johnny depp stars as ichabod crane, a seemingly hapless constable from new york city who is sent to the small town of sleepy hollow to solve the mystery of the decapitations that are plaguing the town. 

crane is a bumbling sort, with a tremendous faith in science over mysticism, and he comes up against town secrets, bewitching women, and a number of bodies missing heads. christina ricci, as beautiful as ever, is katrina van tassel, the offbeat love interest who alternately charms and frightens crane.

while a little gory, (as one should expect from a movie about a headless horseman), it is not too scary and very suspenseful and the cinematography is brilliant. 
both depp and ricci are at their best, and the art direction and production values give the village its harsh feel. 
toward the end, once the secrets are revealed, this stylistic horror film provides many tricks and even more treats.

so perfect for holloween.

if you like tim burton and johnny depp, you will love it:)

"you're just in time to have your head cut off"


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"little miss bronte'"

for the babies:)

since our book for the month is so 

"jane eyre esque"

i picked this one for the babes

http://www.babylit.com/

(i love this website. 

i want everything for my babes)

i give it 5 trees

(another counting book:))

the moon is just the moon

"some mysteries are simply irresistible"

The time is the present.

The place, the rugged coast of northern California. A bluff high above the Pacific. A grand mansion full of beauty and tantalizing history set against a towering redwood forest.

A young reporter on assignment from the San Francisco Observer. . . an older woman, welcoming him into her magnificent, historic family home that he has been sent to write about and that she must sell with some urgency . . . A chance encounter between two unlikely people . . . an idyllic night—shattered by horrific unimaginable violence. . .The young man inexplicably attacked—bitten—by a beast he cannot see in the rural darkness . . . A violent episode that sets in motion a terrifying yet seductive transformation as the young man, caught between ecstasy and horror, between embracing who he is evolving into and fearing who—what—he will become, soon experiences the thrill of the wolf gift.

from

goodreads

in honor of the book i decided to have a London Fog on this crisp fall columbus day and celebrate my day off...

you know, i enjoyed this book for lots of reasons...

i loved the descriptions of food and scenery and the rain...

oh, how i loved the rain...

the setting was really beautiful off the coast of san francisco and on the cliffs of northern california...

reminds of all the things i love about that area...

ie. pebble beach

the book itself was good but not great...

i did like it though...

“Oh, if the moon only had a secret, if the moon only held a truth. But the moon was just the moon.” 

― Anne Rice, The Wolf Gift

below is my review on

goodreads 

The Wolf Gift by Anne Rice
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

It was pretty fun for this time of year. i loved the descriptions of the food and the setting and i loved the house. I didn't love the book but i enjoyed and i am glad i read it.

View all my reviews

now, on the "the thirteenth tale"!

oh. my. gosh.

are you guys reading it?

it is so good!

bye...

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you are invited...

to read with me:)

a spooky, gothic tale...

Biographer Margaret Lea returns one night to her apartment above her father’s antiquarian bookshop. On her steps she finds a letter. 

It is a hand-written request from one of Britain’s most prolific and well-loved novelists. 

Vida Winter, gravely ill, wants to recount her life story before it is too late, and she wants Margaret to be the one to capture her history. 

The request takes Margaret by surprise—she doesn’t know the author, nor has she read any of Miss Winter’s dozens of novels.

  Late one night while pondering whether to accept the task of recording Miss Winter’s personal story, Margaret begins to read her father’s rare copy of Miss         Winter’s Thirteen Tales of Change and Desperation. 

She is spellbound by the stories and confused when she realizes the book only contains twelve stories. 

Where is the thirteenth tale? 

Intrigued, Margaret agrees to meet Miss Winter and act as her biographer.

As Vida Winter unfolds her story, she shares with Margaret the dark family secrets that she has long kept hidden as she remembers her days at Angelfield, the now burnt-out estate that was her childhood home. Margaret carefully records Miss Winter’s account and finds herself more and more deeply immersed in the strange and troubling story. In the end, both women have to confront their pasts and the weight of family secrets. 

As well as the ghosts that haunt them still.

from goodreads

the thirteenth tale

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