How to Worship a Goddess by Stephanie Julian

 My Rating : 3 / 5 


Publication Date : December 1, 2011

ARC provided by NetGalley

Lusna, the Entruscan Goddess of the Moon, or we have to call her now as a Forgotten Goddess of the Moon.
In this new modern world, she made herself called Lucy Aster, a Pub owner in a remote village.
Brandon Stevenson, a famous Hockey player, who is in his prime career.

As Lucy is a regular audience of the Hockey games, with Brand Stevenson as main focus, she involuntary builds her attraction to him to a much higer level than she ever think.
At one time,Brand also put some attention to a beautiful lady who always sit at the same spot during his games.

Finally met, in a bizarre condition, they got together.
But Brand end up lost his memory during their time together, as Lucy erase those memories in her defences by being a Goddess and all.

But the passion yhat live within them cannot be erase, they just got being together again.

As the story goes, we got more in line with the mix world of the ancient and the present.
Altough not much I could get the picture of the ancient world of Lucy's time, but I could get into that world by being intoduced to several other Goddesses and creatures.
I am not prepare for so much hot scenes (I mean alot) along the story, it almost cover up half of the book (maybe more).
Thankfully it doesn't less the story as whole.

Maybe I just have to read the former book of this series, to get more in tune to the whole story, even the books could stand alone just fine.

And I like the bizarre humor from Brand, which could appear in those akward moments.
As for Lucy, I kinda like the vulnerable side of a woman even she is a Goddess herself.

ALWAYS

I just watched this Korean movie, and it really touching..



Main cast :
So Ji Sub
Han Hyo Joo

The story is kinda simple, just a life of 2 different people met by fate which their past was connected somehow.

Chul Min (So Ji Sub) seems like an ordinary young man who is a hard worker, doing 2 jobs everyday, delivering waters at day and working at the parking lot at night. He is a very quite guy who had a very limited  social life. His life changed when one night, a blind woman come to his booth at the parking lot, which was a misunderstanding from her part, for the previous attendant. She is Jung Hwa, a bright and warm girl beside her inability to see from her accident in the past.
Almost every night she accompany him at the parking lot by watching drama with him.
Two lonely people met at an extraordinary circumstances, resulting a caring situation.

Finding a new love, a new hope to live a better life, Chul Min, start boxing again which part of his past life.
Unexpected, Chul Min finds out that he is the cause of her loss of eyesight, at her car accident, that also caused her her parents. That guilty feeling get stronger when he just told that Jung Hwa will loss her eyesight fully if she doesn't get a transplant immediately.

Getting Jung Hwa an eye transplant, Chul Min gets himself into a gambling fight to get a bigger amount of money. Considering his chance to win or his condition after the fight, he decide to leave Jung Hwa to get a better life without him.

At first I guess it will be a boring movie, but at the end it made me touched and the end was nice.

OST 49 Days

The Songs are remarkable and very easy listening..



Here is the Tracklist :

01. Can't Let Go (Of you) - Seo Young Eun
02. I Can Feel It - navi
03. There's Nothing - Brown Eyed Soul's Jung Yeop
04. The Scarecrow - Jung Il Woo
------ Download Here ------

01. Forever / Always - Park Bo Ram
02. Forever (Instrument)
03. Forever (Music Removed)
------ Download Here ------

01. It Can't Be Me -TIM
02. It Can;t Be Me (Harmonica Version)
------ Download Here -------

01. 49 Days (Title Prelude)
02. Can't Let Go (Of You) - Soe Young Eun
03. Tears Necklace (Instrument)
04. There's Nothing - Brown Eyed Soul's Jung Yeop
05. It Can't Be Me - TIM
06. Soul Change
07. I can Feel It - Navi
08. Silent Regrets
09. The Scarecrow - Jung Il Woo
10. Forever / Always - Park Bo Ram
11. A Demon's Tear
12. My Heart Was one - J-Symphony
13. The Circle of Life
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01. Even If I Live Just One Day - Jo Hyun Jae
02. Even If I Live Just One Day (Instrument)
03. Even If I Live Just One Day (MR)
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01. A Tears are Falling - Shin Jae
02. Three of the Tears - Jae Hee
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*Credit to AliceChen.Blogspot.com / avirtualvoyage.net for the List and Link

49 Days

I just finished this Korean Series - This one made me shred tears while watching it, really touching-
(I am just 'abandoned' my books for a while =D)





Cast :
Lee Yo Won - Song Yi Kyung (Shin Ji Min)
Nam Gyu Ri - Shin Ji Hyun
Jo Hyun Jae - Han Kang
Bae Soo Bin - Kang Min Ho
Soe Ji Hye - Shin In Jung
Bae Geu Rin - Park Seo Woo
Jung Il Woo - Song Yi Soo (Scheduler)
Check the rest here

It starting out about the life of Shin Ji Hyun (Nam Gyu Ri) the very loved and cherished girl in her perfect little life, with a great loving parents, adorable fiancé, bunch of best friends. Her life is so perfect in other way, she is a very happy person in her prime. she is a very god person, lots of humour, innocence, just full of life.

In a sudden, she got herself in car accident, which not her time to go, and come in state of brain dead and in coma. She got herself a second chance to live in 49 days of time by collecting 3 drops of tears from people who really love her with a pure heart.

This is where the journey begin.
She have to borrow the body whom responsible for her accident, Song Yi Kyung (Lee Yo Won) within 49 days without reveal herself to anyone she know about, even her beloved parents.

Her high school friend, Han Kang, is the one she really seek for comfort, although she did that unconsciously. the real thing is, Han Kang keep his feeling for Ji Hyun for so many years, it hurt.

As the story goes, finally Ji Hyun really see the life she'd been living all this time in a different perspective, in others eyes. At that time, so much things happen which subconsciously change her into a mature person.

Most people in her life not as pure heart as she thought they were.
In her precious time, Ji Hyun finds out her fiancé is her best friend's lover all these times, she just fooled because of revenge that really just one sided.

There is a strange relationship appear between Ji Hyun and the Scheduler (former life as Song Yi Soo - Jung Il Woo) and between Ji Hyun and Song Yi Kyung as her host.

So much story or we could call problems and events occur during that 49 days around Shin Ji Hyun spirit's Life, rally complicated her precious time, while she have to search all of people she thought will be the source of the pure tears she needed.

I really enjoy watching this series (almost all Korean series are).
The theme of this series is uncommon, strange in a good way, its a long time for me for watching something in a sad continuum almost all the episodes, I prefer watch something that makes me laugh.
Really got the feeling (My tears are falling down by its own in couple of scenes).
And Oh, one more thing.. the OST, that really just made me really in a swing mood.. sooooo touchy..*sigh*

Although this series is already airing last year, I just got the time to watch it now, and I don't regret it a bit, it was a blessed..

Freebies - nicky Charles (Bonded)

Just found another one, here is the link

 

So much to read too little time.. *sigh* My reading list keep getting longer by the time...