Downton Abbey has (unfortunately) come to an end

It's been a week ago since Downton Abbey ended. It was one of my favorite tv shows ever! How I enjoyed this series. I know how I started watching as if it was yesterday.

5 years and a bit ago Downton Abbey started airing on ITV. Because I live in the Netherlands we don't have ITV. luckily I saw people on twitter talking about the new show and I just had to give it a go. It really was the show that changed my life completely.
because I love history I enjoyed the show a lot as well. The whole Mary and Matthew story was so amazing and also Branson's and Sybil's one was great! Also downstairs there was the perfect amount of drama going on and immediately fell in love with Bates & Anna.
It was really sad Sybil and Matthew died so early in the show, would have loved to see more of them.

Many things happened during the years the show has runned. The actors and Actresses became very famous and soon the series became one of the best series the Brits have had in years!"

During the show they showed us life during the early 1900s and showed us the effect of the Titanic sinking in England. They showed us world war 1 and how the family was coping with it and also gave us a splendid ending of the women having more to say & being independant during the 20s.

Because of the show I met many people. I was very active on twitter back in the days and learned to know people over the internet. I even met 2 in real life as well. and both were huge Downton fans. One of the girls, Isis I visited in France about 3.5 years ago and we immediately became very good frieds in real life as well and the 2nd girl I met because of Downton was Louise, whome I met recently (October 31st) in Bruges, Belgium. And again, this girl was the sweetest person on the planet!

Because I was/am such a fan I also got the autographs from all series 1 actors of the show! even Maggie Smith (Dowages countess)! and back in Series 1 I wrote Allen Leech (Branson) a letter if he could send me an autograph to add to my Downton collection he even wrote back a letter to me! he was so sweet and thanked me for the support towards him and the show and that he never believed he would create fans. I have to say, everyone of the cast are really nice people and many became very well known during their Downton years.

this last series, series 5 was a very good one! It had it's portion of drama and the Dowager again had the best one-liners you can imagine! I was shocked that lord Grantham almost died though and that Mr. Talbot almost died in a car accident, (poor Mary!). Still can't believe Mary ruined Edith's engagement and Mary has married again. Series 5 really was one of my fav seasons.

I can't believe the show is over just yet. those 5 years went really fast and it all came as a total suprise when Julian Fellowes (the show writer) announced series 5 would be the last series. It was a shock! I have to say I'm still incredibly sad about it, the show meant a lot to me and always will!

The last episode is going to be this year's christmas special. Rose is returning and maybe Edith is going to have her happy end after all.

I want to wish all the actors best! and wanted to thank them for the great adventure as well.
Maybe one day (hopefully), Downton will come back in cinemas and make us fans excited again!


I know this post had nothing to do with books, I just had to share this emotional moment :)

Mockingjay part 2

Hello everyone!

it's november, which means it's the month the last hunger games film is to come out, Mockingjay part 2. I have read all the hunger games books and loved them all a lot! also I can't believe it's going to be the last film. I've seen them all so far and although they don't really follow the books, the films are pretty great :) 

here's the promotion poster!

and of course here's the trailer as well!

Is any of you as excited as I am?

Review: Doctor Proctors fart powder by Jo Nesbo

Title/author: Doctor Proctors fart powder by Jo Nesbo

Originally published/ year published: December 2009 by Simon & Schuster's Alladin

Genre: adventurous, children's, humor

How I got this book: library

Why I read this book: the book was recommended to me by a teacher

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

eleven year old Nilly is new to the neighbourhood, but is quick to make friends: DoctorProctor who is an eccentric professor who invents wacky potions and powders, and brainy Lisa who is always teased by the twin terrors Twyn and Truls.All is good farty fun when Nilly and Lisa help doctor Proctor develop his latest invention,a powder that makes you fart. The powder makes Nilly and Lisa very popular at school when they sell it for 50 cents a bag.

but when doctor Proctors creates an industrial-strenght version that can send people outer space, the kids must go to great lenghts to protect the invention and keep it out of the hands of the neighbors, who want to use the powder for evil purpouses

Review:

the blur already says a lot about the story of the book! I never knew before this book Jo Nesbo also wrote children's books, so this one came as a total suprise. I know he writes adult thrillers but as I said this one was quite the suprise. although he focuses on the adult books he wrote this one pretty well. I even heard there were more books in this series and that it has been translated into many languages.

In the book Nesbo's character comes to front, he writes very funny passages between the kids and the professor and has great one liners! the character of the kids is very curious. they want to be involved in everything and they love to find out new things. that's exactly what kids are these days! I can imagine that children will relate to the charachters in the book.

then we have Doctor Proctor, he is a very funny and insecure man who just wants to put his ideas into reality. He likes to make the weirdest potions and powder and he loves it! As a kid, I would have found this the most perfect dad in the world! :P although in the book the man is a Professor.
The book takes place in a city in Norway (the country Nesbo is from) and several Norwegian customs have been put into the book by him.

The book was quite easy to read and didn't have that many pages, which makes it the perfect evening read for kids. once you start the book you'll be sucked in from the start.

although I enjoyed the book very much I kinda felt that it wasn't the read I would recommend every kid. It had some quite rude words in it and some passages were maybe a little too hard to read for certain ages. In the end Nesbo is a thriller writer and not a childrens book writer. But however, I think Nesbo did a great job on writing this very exciting and funny book!

I gave the book 3 out of 5 stars, just because the book wasn't quite my cup of tea. 

#FridayReads 06-11

Happy weekend everyone!

this friday i'm back with a new fridayreads post. 

I'm still not finished with 'life and death' by Stephanie Meyer and I still need to start 'Mees kees- a naughty class' by Mirjam Oldenhave. 

Last week I luckily did finish 'waiting for winter' by Sebastian Meschenmoser (which I loooooved!) 

This weekend and coming week I'll hopefully finish the books of past week :) and maybe i'll choose a new picture book, but I'm not sure yet which one and if I'll have time for it :) 

Which books will you be reading? 

Fantastic beasts and where to find them photos!

So, yesterday I came home from school and was pretty busy for most of the day. after getting a text of having failed my exam I went on facebook. And guess what? I saw an article by Entertainment weekly showing some pictures from Fantastic beasts and where to find them!

Look at Eddie Redmayne! He's so fab!

Basically, J.K Rowling herself wrote parts of the film! The Film will be inspired by Harry Potters textbook of the same name and will feature the book's fictuous author, Newt Scamander. In the book Professor Dumbledore has written the introduction but the rest of it will be written by 'Newt Scamander'.

I just think this new film will be an amazing addition to the die-hard Harry Potter fans, and maybe also will inspire young kids to start watching the Harry Potter movies and read the books. A triggering new introduction to the new generation!

Of course I'll show you the rest of the photo's showed in the Entertainment weekly article as well :)