La La Land Review!

Guys I saw La La Land three days ago and it was so beautiful!

I don't think I have described another movie as beautiful but this movie is. I love the way that this movie was filmed. 

I love that the movie showed real life issues, getting a job and figuring out what you want to do with your life. It made the movie to me feel more real but I also love the non realistic parts in the movie. The scene where they are in the Planetarium and they just started to float. They were dancing in the stars. It was great. 

I made a list of my favorite scenes:

-The Planetarium

-The background was black and white polka dots and they were dancing.

-The pool scene where she asked him to sing I Ran. (I was laughing so loud.)

-The alternate ending

I love everything about this movie. I did not particularly like the ending but I enjoyed the fact that it was something that I could see happening in real life. 

I really love the songs and dancing. (I am listening to the soundtrack while writing this.) I can't wait until it comes out on dvd so I can watch it again.

If you have seen La La Land let me know what you thought.

Thank you for reading.

I hope you have a great day!

~Mariah

Brooklyn Movie Review

Oh My Gosh! I just finished the movie Brooklyn. It is currently 2:30 in the morning and all I want to do is gush about this movie!!!

If you haven't seen this movie stop what you are doing and go watch it. You won't regret it, I promise. 

For those of you who haven't heard about this movie it is about a girl, Eilish, from Ireland who decides to move to Brooklyn. Her sister Rose knows a priest who sets her up with a job and a place to stay. When she is in Brooklyn she meets people, specifically a boy, and it all takes off from there.

This movie had me smiling and in tears. I kind of want to watch it again. I don't think I have ever wanted to watch a movie again right after I just finished it.

Things that I love about this movie:

1. The time period, I believe it is set in the 1950s. I love the the dances, the atmosphere, everything. 

2. That this movie takes place in two different countries, the USA and Ireland.

3. The romance

Things that I didn't like:

1. The romance, I have this on here twice because I loved the relationship between Eilis and Tony but I think that it progressed quickly. I think that he told her he loved her after a few weeks and they were married within a year of knowing each other.

I want a Brooklyn two. Can someone please get on that?! I want to see if they do what they talked about doing. I just want more.

I'm sorry that this post is scattered but I just want to talk about this amazing movie. If I were going to rate it I would give it a 4.5/5 stars. This movie deserved all of its awards and praise. 

I am going to go and watch Brooklyn again.

I will talk to you guys soon!

Thank you for reading. 

I hope you have a wonderful day.

~Mariah

The Choice Movie Discussion (Spoilers)!

Hello everyone!
Before I get into todays blog post I just wanted to tell you a few things.
1. I am very sorry that I have not been publishing blog post like I should. I just started a new job so I have been a little all over the place.
2. I will not be making a TBR for this month. If you want to see the books that I will try to get to this month you can see last months TBR.
3. I will not be making a wrap up on what I did in my personal life for this month because I have talked about what I have been doing over the month in Instagram posts and blog posts.
4. My book wrap up for the month might be up on Tuesday. :)

Now onto what I am going to be talking about today!! Last night I watched the movie The Choice. The Choice is a book to movie adaptation and I have not read the book. The book was written by Nicholas Sparks and I have a love/hate relationship with the books that he writes. If you have read or watched a book/movie about a Nicholas Sparks story you will probably know that they follow pretty much the same storyline.

But...

Even though this movie followed his usual plot I enjoyed it. I didn't love it but I thought it was okay. I would give it a B. 

Things that I enjoyed about this story: 

• This is one of Nicholas Sparks movie that I think showed two people growing, as people and a family, together. 
• I liked that dogs brought these two people together. (Which might sound odd.) I thought that it was nice that they didn't immediately start going out. I liked that she rejected him and then their dogs were the reason they started talking. To me it was refreshing that they were not head over heels for each other right off the bat. 
• This next reason is going to be a spoiler so if you do not want to read about any spoilers I suggest that you scroll down now!                                                                                              The last thing that I liked in the movie was that no one died. I get that dying is a part of life but someone dies in almost every Nicholas Sparks based movie. It was nice to see that everyone lived.

Things I didn't like:

• The one thing that really bothered me was the cheating in this movie. I don't like books or movies that deal with someone cheating on another person. The cheating aspect won't ruin the movie/book for me it will just lower the rating because the whole entire movie/book I can't help but think of the other person.
• This is another spoiler so if you don't want to read any spoilers I would go away now.                    This reason goes against one of the reasons that I liked the movie and the reason that I am talking about is that no one died. I like that Gabby lived but I wish that they could have portrayed her coming off the ventilator and not dying a bit better. I thought that scene was lacking. I am not sure how I would improve it but to me it wasn't realistic. I realize that this is a movie and not real life but I just wanted something more believable than she just woke up.

Well I think that is all I have to say about this movie. Let me know if you have watched this movie. If you have what did you think? Also let me know, do you have the same issue with Nicholas Sparks as I do? 

Thanks reading!

I hope you have a good day!

~Mariah

A Night Out!

Hello everyone!
Today I wanted to discuss what I thought about a movie I saw recently and I want to show you some of my recent purchases. 

Last weekend I saw The Huntsman: Winter's War with a friend. I thought that the movie was okay. It didn't really add anything to the Snow White story. 

I do want to warn you that this movie is violent, obviously it has the word war in the title. I wouldn't recommend that you bring your kids with you. I also think that there was a sex scene. You don't see anything but I just wanted to warn the parents out there.

I thought that the special effects were really neat.

There was one part in the movie that I thought was funny and that part was when the dwarf lady told Chris Hemsworth that she would be happy if he walked around without a shirt on. 

There was only one thing that really annoyed me during the movie and that was that it took the main character the whole movie to figure out something that the audience knew the whole time. 

Overall I would give the movie a 4.5-5 stars. Didn't blow me away also didn't bore me to sleep.




After we finished watching the movie we went to Walmart. I found a black backpack and a floral wallet. These are going to be my spring bag and wallet. I know that the backpack isn't very summery but I thought I could add some summer colors by adding a scarf and maybe some keychains. 

This backpack may not look very big but it is. It fits my 13" MacBook. There is a zipper pocket on inside and on the outside. There is also a magnetic pocket in the front. The backpack stays shut through a turnable clasp.

I love this wallet! I don't think you can really tell in this picture but the colors on this wallet, especially the coral, look neon. There is a pocket in the front of the wallet. On the inside of the wallet it is coral and checkered print. I didn't want to put a picture of the inside because all of my cards are in there.

One thing that I really love about this wallet is the gold zipper. This wallet is the first item that I own that has some gold in it.

Next week I will post my April Wrap-up, so look out for that. I'm sorry that I didn't post this yesterday. I started a new job recently and my schedule is still up in the air. I still plan on posting once a week but it might not always be on Tuesday/Wednesday. To know when I post follow me on Instagram and on Twitter. I always post on those social media sites to let people know that I published a blog post. 

Also guys I made a new Instagram that is going to be centered around books and my blog posts. So if you want to check that out here is the link: https://www.instagram.com/plethoraofnonsense/

Let me know in the comments if you have seen The Huntsman: Winter's War and if you did let me what you thought.

Thanks for reading!
I hope you have a good day!
~Mariah