In the Doctor's Bed

Book - In the Doctor's Bed - Brenda Jackson
Where I got it - I belong to a website - tellharlequin.com - and they send you free books about once every two or three months. All you have to do is fill out the occasional survey and they will keep sending them to you, this was one of them
Why I never read it before - I am truly not into Harlequin romance novels, I just can't say no to free books.
My Rating - 2/5

Review -

This book was mostly plotless, what plot there was in it was ok, but not great. Basically it is a love story between an intern in a hospital and her boss. The hospital has a nonfraternization policy, so the two of them are not allowed to be together.
I had looked forward to the medical part of the story, unfortunately there wasn't much. You see them in the hospital a couple of times, but not much happens there. Most of the story is the two characters, Lucian and Jaclyn, sneaking off to have sex and meet in places that no one from the hospital will see them.
The most interesting part of the plot is the fact that the hospital has a lawsuit up against it because Lucien fired an intern because Jaclyn caught him stealing drugs. The two main characters spend a lot of the book worrying about said lawsuit and then...none of that is resolved at the end of the novel.
The romance is alright...some of the lines that Lucien says are painful. Whenever he opened his mouth to say something 'sexy' I couldn't help but think how ridiculous it would sound if someone said that in real life.
The story has a happy ending, Lucien switches to the ER so that the two can be together since he won't be her boss again. I wouldn't say that I hated this book. I enjoyed it enough as a quick, fluffy and pointless read :)

Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

Book - Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Where I got it - My dad once brought me a home a box-set of classic novels, this was one of the ones in the set.
Why I never read it before - Like Pride and Prejudice, it was hard for me to get into. The old language made it seem boring and it is also a pretty big book.
My Rating - 1/5

Review -

Honestly, I found this book to be pretty boring. I felt that it just went on and on forever and that the story went all over the place into places that it didn't really need to go. The beginning had certain parts that I almost wanted to skip through because I didn't see the point of them. I actually did skim through the whole Christmas Night Play thing at the beginning. Can you say boring? Also, the parts in the beginning where they have their story club? It's nice for kids to have a story club but do we need to have seven pages worth of their actual stories in this novel?
Also, considering this book is part of my series called "Romantic Classics" there really isn't much romance in it, maybe that's why I was disappointed. Jo spends a good chunk of the book hanging out with her neighbour and best friend, Laurie. Was I the only one who expected these two to actually get together by the end of the book? Laurie was soooo in love with Jo and then we he found out that she wouldn't have him he turned around and married her youngest sister. Hello? What? That came pretty much out of nowhere for me. There were a couple of chapters to show them getting close, but the first 3/4s of the book show Laurie seeing Amy as nothing but a (kind of annoying) little sister.
I mean sure, Jo did find love at the end of the novel, she married the old Professor guy. Same thing, they show them falling in love at the end of the book, but when the Professor is first introduced I don't think Jo had any feelings like that for him at all. She even said to her mother 'he's forty so there's nothing to worry about'. He was just this cool older guy that she really admired, like as a mentor, not as someone that she wanted to marry.
Also, Meg marries so tutor guy and they have kids and then become the most boring characters in the whole book.
Other than that...no romance! Most of this book was pretty childish stuff. There were a few parts that were interesting and a couple of sections that I enjoyed. For example, I like the part with Jo and Amy fighting and then Amy falling through the ice. I enjoyed the parts about Beth going to visit that poor family and then catching Scarlet Fever from their baby (which ultimately killed her like six years later). The times of hardship and struggle were the only parts in this book that actually seemed real to me, the rest of it I honestly think just took off and went into such far off places of reality that it ruined this book for me.

Oh, one last thing, don't even buy the 'Romantic Classics' box set. I have only read two of the books that are in it but they are riddled with so many typos and spelling mistakes that it makes it difficult to read them. Pride and Prejudice wasn't as bad, there would be sections with lots of typos and then none for a while. Little Women....it was painful, there were periods and quotation marks in the wrong spot on almost every page and the word 'he' was almost always replaced with the word 'her', it was like reading a really bad translation of the book.

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

Book - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Where I got it - My dad once brought me a home a box-set of classic novels, this was one of the ones in the set.
Why I never read it before - When it was given to me, I was definitely too young to appreciate it. I could never get into it, the old language threw me off.
My Rating - 5/5

Review -

Considering the fact that I must have started this book five times before and not been able to get into it, I never expected that it would get a 5/5 from me. Once you get past the slow beginning and the old-fashioned language, this book it awesome.

The characters are great. You love the ones that are good with your whole heart and the hate the ones that are bad with everything you have. There are some characters that are just so ridiculous but you can't help but love and hate them and laugh at them the whole way through.

This story is a great love story. I think that is what I like the most about it. I've read a lot of love stories that are so full of "I love you so much'"s and "you're the best thing that ever happened to me"s that you begin to wonder why the main character is so in love with the guy. I mean, this girl is so in love with this guy, yet the reader is left feeling that they don't know him at all. This book is the total opposite of that. Darcy's character is so defined that you can't help but know him and know every reason why Elizabeth comes to love him. You want their relationship to happen because you really want it too, not just because you want the two characters to be together.

I loved this book and I can't believe that it has taken me this long to read it!

The Soul Thief - Cecelia Holland

Book - The Soul Thief - Cecelia Holland
Where I got it - Have you ever gone into a store that has really cheap books? Like books that are already only $4 and then are 50% off? When this happens to me, I can't help myself from buying at least one - even if I don't want it. When stores are practically giving away books, I have to buy them and that is how I got this book.
Why I never read it before - This book starts off very slow, it took me a while to get into it. I think that when I bought it I was too young to appreciate it and just didn't have the patience to wait for it to get interesting.
My Rating - 4/5

Review -

This book is great. It takes place in the feudal age with Vikings and a young Irish man. It is about a young man who is cast away by his father and then returns home to find his whole family has been murdered and his twin sister has been taken by the vikings.

Corban starts a quest to try and find his sister. He gets caught up on the way, making friends and money and falling in love. Eventually he finds his sister but is not able to take her until completing even more difficult tasks.

The characters in the book really grow on you. At first I couldn't stand the main character, he was a bit of a wimp and didn't care much about anything besides himself. As the story progresses, he really grows into a very strong person. Another character, Grod, starts out as a bit of a greedy old man. He is at first, Corban's mentor but is soon getting more out of the young man than he could offer him.

There are characters in this book who are 'witches' and this gives it just enough of a touch of fantasy to keep it interesting for me. It has a historical feel that just appeals to me.

My biggest problem with this book is that it is the first of a series and nothing about the appearance of the book would suggest that to you. There is no series title, nothing proclaiming 'book #1', there is no excerpt from the next book, nothing to suggest that it isn't a stand-alone novel. Nothing drives me crazy more than getting into a book and expecting it to end with all of it's loose ends tied up and then to realize that it doesn't end on the last page. I had to google the author when I was finished to find out that no, this story isn't over yet.

I loved this book, I am just really frustrated now that I won't find out what happens to all of my favourite characters for a very long time!

Ever After - Wendy Loggia

Book - Ever After by Wendy Loggia
Where I got it - I'm pretty sure that this book was in a box of things that my sister was getting rid of. As a book hoarder, I have trouble seeing books go, so of course I grabbed it.
Why I never read it before - This book is based on a movie. Who writes books that are based on movies, that's just sad.
My Rating - 3/5

Review -
I love the movie Ever After, I have since I was little. It is a great Cinderella story. The book is almost exactly the same as the movie. Most of the scenes and almost all of the dialog are straight from the movie.
One thing that was interesting, you get to see a few scenes in the book that you don't see in the movie. You see more da Vinci in the book. There is a good scene with him and the king and you also get to read about him making Danielle over for the ball. Other than that, there isn't much that is original.
You might as well just watch the movie.

A Million Little Pieces - James Frey

This will be the first of many blogs to come. I am going to document and review all of the books on my list 'Books I Need to Read'.



Book - A Million Little Pieces - James Frey
Where I got it - Value Village
Why I never read it before - Shortly after I bought this book, an old lady in a book store told me that it was all fake. That James Frey had claimed it was a memoir but that it really wasn't, that he had made all of it up. After I heard this I lost my desire to read it.
My rating - 4/5

Review -

I really enjoyed this book a lot. I've done some research now that I've finished the book and I've learned that not all of it was fake. James was an addict and he was in rehab. His criminal record was almost completely fabricated to make the book more interesting. I suspect that other parts of the novel were exaggerated to make it more entertaining.

Besides that, it was great. I've always had a bit of a soft spot for books about people with messed up lives. When I was younger I loved this author who wrote books about teens who were dying. As I got older, that fascination began to develop into a love of books about people who are criminals and drug addicts.

I will say that this book is the most graphic 'drug addict' book I have ever read (and I have read quite a few). The word vomit must be in it 200 times. James throws up at least 40 times and describes it in great detail every time. There is lots of gross stuff in this book and if they ever make it into a movie, I'm not sure that I'll be able to watch it.

This book gives you the most messed up person you can imagine, a crack addict, alcoholic criminal who is wanted in three states, and walks you through his recovery (every brutal and disgusting step). I could not put this book down.

The characters seemed so real to me, their struggles were painful for me to read. I'd like to think that this is because they were real people, but even if they weren't, the book still makes you feel for them.

I would recommend this book to anyone who likes this kind of novel. The only reason that I didn't give it 5/5 is because of the author's dishonesty.

Books I Need to Read

So, I own 349 and I've come to the conclusion that I haven't read a startling amount of them. 74 to be exact. I have made the decision not to buy any more books until I have read all of these books that I've never read before. (Another startling fact is that I have gained 67 more books since I moved out a year and a half ago, which seems impossible because I must have read at least 100 on my ereader since I got it.)

It is going to be quite a challenge, there is a reason that I haven't read most of these books. Most of these books, I have started and then found them to be boring. But, the challenge will be to read them and if I can't get through them then I am going to get rid of them.

This is a big step for me. I would almost consider myself a book hoarder. I am proud of my collection and don't like to get rid of books. On the other hand, if I'm never going to read them, I really shouldn't keep them. Who knows, one of these books could be a new favourite and I would never know.

So here is the list (in no particular order but how they are sitting on my shelves).

1. Double Cross - Norah McClintock
2. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants - Ann Brashares
3. The Second Summer of the Sisterhood - Ann Brashares
4. Blue Haven - CJ Box
5. The First Patient - Michael Palmer
6. The Sugar Queen - Sara Addison Addler
7. Dead Heat - Felix Francis
8. Sunday at Tiffany's - James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet
9. Lady Killer - Lisa Scottoline
10. The Christmas Promise - Donna VanLiere
11. Final Theory - Mark Alpert
12. The Anniversary - Amy Gutman
13. Flirting With Pete - Barbara Delinsky
14. Avenger - Frederick Forsyth
15. Waterloo Station - Emily Grayson
16. Interview With the Vampire - Anne Rice
17. The Vampire Lestat - Anne Rice
18. The Queen of the Damned - Anne Rice
19. The Mummy - Anne Rice
20. The Feast of All Saints - Anne Rice
21. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty - Anne Rice
22. Lasher - Anne Rice
23. The Witching Hour - Anne Rice
24. Fire, Water, Earth and Air - Deborah I. Mahy
25. The Soul Thief - Cecelia Holland
26. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
27. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
28. A Million Little Pieces - James Frey
29. Healing Tides - Lois Richer
30. The Healer - Greg Hollingshead
31. The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien
32. The Two Towers - J.R.R Tolkien
33. The Return of the King - J.R.R. Tolkien
34. Push - Sapphire
35. Sweet Blood - Pat Graverson
36. In the Doctor's Bed - Brenda Jackson
37. The Proposal - Brenda Jackson
38. Solid Soul - Brenda Jackson
39. 1st to Die - James Patterson
40. 2nd Chance - James Patterson
41. 3rd Degree - James Patterson
42. 4th of July - James Patterson
43. The 6th Target - James Patterson
44. The Big Bad Wolf - James Patterson
45. Swimsuit - James Patterson
46. Deception Point - Dan Brown
47. A Cold Creek Secret - RaeAnne Thayne
48. Heart of Valor - L.J. Smith
49. The Guest List - Fern Michaels
50. Fool Me Once - Fern Michaels
51. The Glass Lake - Maeve Binchy
52. Hamlet - Shakespeare
53. Adam Bead - George Eliot
54. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
55. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
56. Emma - Jane Austen
57. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
58. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
59. Be Mine - Jane McFann
60. The Name of the Game Was Murder - Joan Lowery Nixon
61. Dog Days - John Levitt
62. The Comeback Cowboy - Cathy McDavid
63. Ever After - Wendy Loggia
64. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
65. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
66. Hothouse Orchid - Stuart Woods
67. The Innocent Man - John Grisham
68. Springwater Wedding - Linda Lael Miller
69. Carnal Innocence - Nora Roberts
70. The Partner - John Grisham
71. The Black Donnellys - Thomas P. Kelley
72. Impossible to Resist - Janice Maynard
73. More Than Expected - Andrea Laurence
74. The Boy Next Door - Josie Lloyd and Emilyn Rees


It's a frightening list to say the least. Also, I have no idea how I ended up with so many Anne Rice books that I haven't read. I hope to find that she is a kindred spirit since her name is spelt with an E.

This I think will be the first blog of many as I begin this journey through literature.

I will make the titles bold as I read them.

Also, a scary thing? Books #64 and on are ones that I have gotten since I originally made this list. People just like to give me books!

Memory of September 11th

Ten years since the terrorist attack on America. I can't believe it's been that long already. There have been all kinds of documentaries and specials on over the last few days and I have tried to watch as many as possible.

Sometimes it is so easy to just remember 9/11 as a terrible day when America was attacked and the world was changed forever. And it was.

Every year, around the anniversary, I watch all of these shows and remember. I remember that it was so much more than that. Nearly 3000 people died that day, many of them heroes.

I watched a show yesterday about two construction workers who rescued seventy people who were trapped. These courageous men, Frank and Pablo, ended up losing their own lives in the fall of the tower.

Another man, Orio Palmer, died heroically that day. I didn't know this before, but for some reason the firefighters' radios weren't working. Orio managed to fix his so that he speak with his crew. He also single-handedly fixed an elevator and managed to ride it to the 40th floor. He then ran up the stairs to the 78th floor: the site of the impact.

The tower collapsed just seven minutes after he got there. He didn't manage to save any of the lives up there but I can only imagine the hope that he brought to those people in their final moments, just by being there.

Not to be forgotten are the passengers of Flight 93. This plane was suspected of targeting the White House. The passengers fought back so hard that the hijackers crash-landed in a field. There were no survivors.

Usually on September 11th, people want to share their memories of the day: where they were, how they felt. Today, as I watch that horrifying news footage over and over, I don't want to think of my own memories. I instead want to honour the memories of the heroes and the innocent that died that day.

Not Enough Hours in the Day

Sometimes I really feel like there just isn't enough time to get everything done that I need to do. I know I have blogged about this before, but lately I just find myself feeling overwhelmed with all of the things that I need and want to get done, and I just don't feel like I have enough time or energy to get it all done.

Going to work is one thing, that's my job and I need to do it in order to have money to live. I've even taken on a second job now at the bowling alley where my sister works and I'm glad for it. I think it will be nice to have a change of scenery and have some new faces in my life. It's when I get home that the trouble starts.

Don't get me wrong, Tyler is a big help around the apartment, he helps out whenever I ask him too, but he works long hours too. He almost always starts work at 7 in the morning and I can't blame him if he wants to take a nap when he gets home from work. I like to relax too. But it seems like, by the time we're done eating and doing the dishes there just isn't any time. It is constant work to keep this apartment tidy and I just don't really understand why.

I feel like I pick up after myself as I go, but there always seems to be more work to do. I'm wiping crumbs off the counter, or picking up dirty laundry, cleaning out the litter box or emptying the ashtrays. How do people keep their homes clean and still have time to do the things they want to do?

On top of that, I really wanted to finish my last credit and graduate by my birthday. I've been puttering away at it, I sat down for a couple of hours with it today. I just want to get it over and done with. Once I finish the work though, I'm going to have to find a way to get to Red Hill during the day to write my exam and then go to Hill Park and see if I can get my volunteer hours filled out. Is this something that needs to be done before I'm twenty-one? I don't know. I'm not sure if I will still be classified as a student when I'm twenty-one or if I will still be able to get my diploma from Hill Park. For now I guess I just need to finish my schoolwork and worry about the rest of it when that is all done.

Once all of those things are said and done, there is time left for the things that I want to do. I want to start working on my novel again. The problem is, I want to be able to have a good couple of hours to pound away at it. I don't want to try and pick up where I left off in November with only a few minutes in a day. I want to be able to put real effort into that. I especially need to be able to do that if I'm going to be able to get it finished and edited by the beginning of July so that I can order my free copy of it from CreateSpace.

The thing that sucks the most about all of this, is that I feel like I don't even have time to do all of those things. I find myself thinking "I'll do it later" "I'll just go on facebook for a minute" "I'll just watch one more video on youtube" "I'll just log on quick to check my email". I'm beginning to think that this would all be easier if I didn't have a computer to distract me from the stuff that I really need to be doing. But truthfully, sitting on my butt in front of the computer for a couple of hours, or curling up on the couch with Tyler to watch TV or sitting on the balcony smoking and reading a good book is what I would always rather be doing.

I think maybe what I need to start doing is rewarding myself with the stuff that I really want to do. I've always been the kind of person who would rather get everything done at once so that I can relax afterward, but this doesn't really work. I find myself getting worn out too quickly and just plopping down without finishing everything. Maybe I need to start telling myself "do the dishes before you go for a smoke" "do one hour of schoolwork before going back on facebook" "put the laundry away before you watch TV"

I'm not really sure, maybe I'm just moping and whining here. I just know that something needs to change if I'm going to make time do the things that I want to do as well as all of the unpleasant things that I need to do.

Thank God I don't have any kids! How the hell do people find the time to do all of these things and raise children?!

Day 31 - The End!/New Year's Eve

The apartment is clean, the dishes are done, the jello shots are in the fridge. I'm ready for 2011! This is my final post of 2010 and of BEDD! It will be short but sweet because I still need to get dressed (lol!)

I spent the day tidying the apartment, getting ready for tonight. Tyler and I are having a couple of friends over to ring in the New Year. No crazy party (not even close to how many people we had in here on Halloween), just a couple people getting together.

I'm relieved that BEDD is over. It wasn't the way I expected it to be. I'm planning on still blogging fairly regularly, but looking forward to not having to force myself to at the end of every day.

I have some ideas in mind for a couple of topical blogs, blogs that will be more thought out than the mess that has been this last month. I hope you all enjoy them.

Happy New Year and thanks to everyone for reading!

Day 30 - Goodbye 2010

Last year, around New Year's, I wrote a post called Goodbye 2009, it listed off some of the things that I did in 2009 and some goals for 2010. Looking back at it, it's shocking to realize that I actually accomplished some of these things!

"I'm going to be taking a sign language class with my friend Amy (hopefully - I have to make sure that they'll still let me register!). I plan on completely editing my novel (from nanowrimo) in the next few months. If I get it done by July 1st they will send me a free paperback copy of it."

I actually did those things! I finished my novel and ordered my free copy (it came out pretty cool looking too!). I finished levels one and two of ASL and had fun doing it. The next class is coming up soon (in the next few weeks). I don't think I really feel up to doing it, but I probably will end up going, just to get it over with.

Some of my other goals were: graduate, move out and start planning my wedding. I only did one of those things. I have made progress on the graduating part though, I am almost done and I'm hoping to finish it completely by my birthday at the end of January. Tyler and I moved out on October first into an awesome apartment. It has been great but definitely an adjustment to what we were used to before. And the wedding...Obviously there were some setbacks on that this year, but I would like to start thinking about a date again soon.

So what have I accomplished this year?

I finished Holding Hands (my 2009 Nanowrimo novel)

I started another novel (tentatively titled Under Ground) and completed more than 50,000 words during the month of November

I completed levels one and two of ASL and got good grades :)

I moved out with Tyler

I flew to Georgia all by myself

Made the decision to take my cat back to my mom's house (and then somehow ended up taking in a kitten less than a week later)

Probably read even more books than the 90 that I estimated for last year

Hosted my first party on Halloween

It doesn't seem like much, but this was a good year. This year was the hardest year of my life. I went through some of the toughest stuff that I've ever dealt with before. But I got through it. I learned a lot about myself, how much I can take and how much I am willing to take. I realize now that I am a strong person.

I'm glad that I went through everything that I did this year though. It changed me and it changed my relationship with Tyler. For the better. Tyler and I are so good now, so strong and I am so so happy. I am so glad that I made the choices that I did and I have no regrets.

What do I want to do it 2011? I dunno, I think I'm just going to live it one day at a time and see where the wind takes me.

Day 29 - Repeat?

I think I accidentally wrote yesterday down as Day 29 as well, oh well!

So Tyler and I were tidying up the apartment tonight and decided to take all of the Christmas decorations down. I was going to wait until New Year's or after to do it, but since we're probably having people over on New Year's, I figured it was time for it to come down.

We set up our new microwave (which works perfectly! The plate spins so fast and smoothly! Thanks mom and Claudio!) and our new lamp. The lamp that Lisa and Matt got us...I don't know where they got it or how much it cost but it looks like a million bucks! I said to Tyler, now we have this fancy lamp and microwave, everything else in our apartment suddenly looks very shabby!

This lamp is seriously awesome though. It is a big tall lamp with the shade and lightbulb at the top, but it also has a small reading light that comes off the side. If we point it at the window, the reading light alone is enough to light up the whole balcony! I will be able to read outside so much easier from now on! Love it!

Surprisingly it's nice to have the Christmas tree and everything else down. The apartment suddenly seems bigger. It's awesome. I'm hoping that Tyler can get the Christmas stuff down to the storage locker tomorrow so we can get it out of the living room before Friday night.

Anyway, I'm outta here! G'night!

Day 28 - Ugh

I am so freaking sick of going to the dentist, you have no idea. I have seriously been there five or six times in the last few months. Every other week I have an appointment at the dentist. My next one is at the end of January, I'm supposed to be getting a crown put on one of my teeth. I am probably going to cancel it soon though because I can't really afford the almost four hundred bucks that it would cost me.

Today I had two cavities filled. The were both on the right side, one on the top and one on the bottom. They used so much freezing! I was seriously frozen for like five hours. I wasn't frozen nearly that long when I had my wisdom teeth out! On the other hand, I didn't feel a thing!

Before I went to the dentist, I finally went to Value Village to buy work pants. They didn't have much but I did manage to get a pair of black pants for work, a pair of jeans and two nice shirts.

After all that was done I went to my mom's for our Christmas get-together. I hope everyone liked what I got them, I know I like what I got! My mom gave us a microwave!!! She also gave us some casserole dishes and a circular glass dish for baking stuff in the oven (I don't know what it's called...). Lisa and Matt gave us a gorgeous pole lamp and she gave me a cool wrap sweater thingy.

The food was awesome (as always) even though I had to chew carefully and drink through a straw (the right side of my mouth and a good chunk of my face were still very frozen at this point). I love going to my mom's too so that I can see my Tiny. I miss her sometimes!

Anyway, I'm off to bed, have to work at 9!

Day 27 - Post Christmas Laziness

Does anyone else not feel like doing anything? Seriously, nothing at all? I don't know if it's because I had to work Christmas Eve and Boxing Day, but I just don't feel up to doing anything. Christmas is supposed to be a break from everything and I guess since it was only one day for me this year, it just didn't feel like that at all.

I didn't feel like being at work yesterday or today. I don't feel like doing laundry or making my bed. I didn't feel like putting the gift bags away or doing to dishes (but I at least did those two!). I don't feel like putting away all of the new stuff that we have now (I did put away at least half of it though). I don't feel like putting the board games back in the very top of the closet or cleaning out my old purse.

I'm looking around and there are a million things that I could be doing right now, but you know what I want to do? I want to sit down and watch I'll Be Home For Christmas with Jonathon Taylor Thomas, so that's what I'm going to do.

The rest of it can wait until tomorrow for once.

Day 26 - Risk

I bought Tyler the board game Risk for Christmas - awesome we love it! The only problem is, we were a little rusty on the rules and the instructions that came with the new version that we have now are very confusing and try to explain the three "new" ways to play all at the same time.

I googled more detailed rules and found a very interesting wikipedia article (linked to the title). I found the rules, most of which were familiar and some of which we didn't know existed. This wasn't the most interesting thing that I found. The most interesting part of the page was the list of all of the different versions of Risk.

The game came out in 1957 and was originally called La Conquête du Monde (The Conquest of the World) and since then there have been a whole lot of different limited edition and collectors versions. These include more than one Star Wars and Lord of the Rings versions. There is also one that is Ancient Greece where all of the territories are from Greek Mythology. There is one called "Castle Risk" where each player is guarding a castle rather than individual territories.

I think the coolest ones, and the ones that I would like to get are Risk Junior: Narnia and Risk 2210 AD. The Narnia one is based on the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The other one is a futuristic map that includes moon territories and water territories.

Tyler and I love this game and will definitely be looking into getting these other versions. If anyone has like...eight hours of spare time, feel free to come over and play!