26 April 2015

How I Spent My April Vacation

I've been neglecting this blog for a while now. My apologies to any of you who missed it. All three of you.

This past week was our school district's April vacation break. I had full intentions of being productive. Instead, I created a Buzzfeed account in order to submit a joke quiz, purely for the purpose of making my sister laugh. The quiz succeeded in making her laugh. It also managed to piss off about 50% of the Anne of Green Gables fans in the world. Maybe 75%.

You can take the quiz for yourself here: www.buzzfeed.com/fids12/which-anne-of-green-gables-character-are-you.

You're probably not an Anne with an "E".

Sorry.

It's a bit late in 2015 to try and do the fifty-fifty challenge right...but we'll see. I'll have to try and remember what I've read and seen over the past five months. Wish me luck.

The Specialist: The Costa Rica Job
Book 4/50

book cover for "the specialist: the costa rica job"
A disclaimer: This book was a gift. Thank you, Hoffmenn. Thank you.

And now, on to the review...

First of all, if you are not familiar with Phillip Sheppard, this book's existence will make little sense to you. He was a contestent on Survivor: Redemption Island and Survivor: Caramoan where his "performance" cannot be easily put into words. So instead, I give to you this YouTube video collection summing up Phillip in roughly four and a half minutes. Trust me. It's important to know these things about him before reading this book or this review.

And for those of you who do know Phillip but were unaware of this book, here is another video where Phillip and his brother explain how this book was conceived. It also provides important insight necessary for this book's "enjoyment?".

Yes. The question mark was intentional.

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Note: I just discovered this draft sitting in Blogger-Limbo. I've lost track of my intentions for the review, but I'm sure it could be summed up with "It sucked." My apologies for the delay in posting. With this post or any post. It's been a long school year.