No Liquor Past 9 P.M. For Little Rock!

Okay, get this. The Little Rock Board of Directors is set to vote on a new ordinance that will require all restaurants and bars whose primary income is liquor to close their restaurants at 7 P.M. and their bars at 9 P.M. All bars and clubs will be required to close at 2 A.M. instead of their normal 5 A.M. WHAT?!?! Whose brilliant plan was that?! I know we're in the Bible Belt but really, this is just pushing it to the extreme. What about the people who don't get off work until really late and want to go out for a drink? Now they'll have to go home to have a drink instead of going out and relaxing and socializing. What does everyone think of this possible new ordinance? Do you think that it's a good idea? A bad idea? Are you indifferent and don't care what the outcome of the vote is? Tell me what your thoughts are.

The Frustrating Fact

Okay, let me ask you this question. How many people out there have someone in their life that they love more than anything, be it a boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, wife, brother, sister, friend, anyone at all, but there is something that they do that you sometimes want to strangle them for it? For instance, my husband plays this online game called Arcane Legends and when I say he plays it, he PLAYS it. he is always on that stupid game. When he's not playing the actual game, he's in the chat room forum or whatever it's called. People in the Philippines talk to him more a day then I do! And this so called "free" online game is far from free. While you can play the actual game for free, if you want to get anywhere in the game at all you have to buy platinum, with real money, so that you can open these things called locks in the hope that you can get some cool, bad ass weapons and other assorted gear. And of course in order to get a good deal on the platinum, you have to buy a lot of it. For example, you can get 25 platinum for $9.99 or you can get 100 for $15.00. I honestly have no idea if that's how much the platinum costs; I stopped paying attention to those kinds of details a long time ago.

Now, I'm probably one of the few lucky ones when it comes to spouses or significant others playing video games non-stop. My husband is madly in love with me; every now and then, he randomly looks over at me and says, "God, I just love you so much." Then he leans over and kisses me and sets his game down and focuses completely, 100% on me. I know, that sounds so cute that it's almost disgusting, but just bear with me. I know that he's not doing that just because he thinks I'm getting frustrated with his game playing; he did things like that long before he discovered that game. I know that if I told him that I wanted him to put the game down for good and never pick it up again, he would. He'd definitely mumble and grumble and pout about it, but I'm 100% sure that he would quit playing the game. Okay, maybe not 100% sure. Probably closer to 90%. But he would definitely stop playing it for awhile! I don't think that I would ever tell him to stop playing it, though. He gets so happy when he's playing it that it would break my heart to make him stop. But it would be nice if he would put the game down and focus completely on me every now and then.

So, now it's your turn. Tell me about the person in your life that does that one thing that drives you absolutely crazy and tell me what that thing is. I want to know I'm not alone and that there's other people out there in this boat with me! Solidarity, strength in numbers, etc. etc.

Review of An Armadillo in Paris By Julie Kraulis

I received this book via Netgalley in exchange for a review. It's publication date is October 14, 2014.


Okay, I know. It's a kids book. But a lot of kids books are adorable and contain beautiful illustrations! Now since this was an ARC, it was an uncorrected copy and therefore very difficult to read. Some of the words for one sentence were mixed in with a different sentence and because of that, it was sometimes hard to tell what I was reading, but, being a kids book, I was able to catch the gist of it.

An Armadillo in Paris is about an young armadillo named Arlo who has grown up listening to the stories his uncle told him about all of his travels all over the world. His uncle wrote down all of the stories so that one day, Arlo could visit all of those places and so that he would know exactly what to see when he was there. In this book, Arlo visits Paris, but the way the author sets it up with his uncle's journals opens up the possibility for future books with Arlo visiting numerous other places. His uncle wrote about la Dame de Fer, or the Iron Lady. Every place that the uncle tells Arlo to visit is a buildup to meeting the Iron Lady. At the end of the book, Arlo finally gets to meet her. The author then writes a short history about the Iron Lady, which I think would be a great thing to do for numerous other famous landmarks in possible future Arlo books. It's a fun and interesting way to teach kids the history of numerous famous locations while at the same time teaching them about different countries and cities. I definitely give this a five star rating.

About Me

My full name is Savannah Lee Stell Santilli. Quite the mouthful, but what are you gonna do? I was born Savannah Lee Stell, and no, I was not born in Savannah, Georgia, or in Georgia period. I was born in Memphis, Tennessee. My father's side of the family is from Georgia and we are all Southern to the bone, hence the name. I have two wonderful parents who are still married, which in this day and age I find very impressive. I have an older sister who has 2 beautiful boys, the oldest of which starts middle school next year. If that doesn't make you feel old, I don't know what will. She married a great guy who, despite not being my nephew's biological father, treats them with all the love and kindness they deserve, which definitely makes him their real father. Their biological father was killed in Iraq in 2008. (RIP Chad.)

I live in Arkansas, the hottest, stickiest, most boring state in the union, but it's where I met my wonderful husband, so that definitely puts it up there in my top ten favorite states. We've been married since September 5, 2011 and we're still going strong. He's from Providence, Rhode Island and when he gets really excited about something, his accent slips out, which is awesome. He's extremely Italian, as is his entire family. Think The Sopranos meets The Family Guy. (I just read this to him, and he told me to just keep writing my blog and now he's ignoring me. He's just in denial.) We don't have any kids, but we do have two fantastic dogs named Apollo and Julius who think they're human, so close enough. My best friend is Aliya Dame and although I haven't seen her in awhile, I still absolutely adore her!  

So, now to what I want the focus of this blog to be about. I love books. I love everything about them. My husband thinks we might go broke if we buy all the ones that I want, but he adores me, so he does it anyway. My main genre is YA fantasy, fairytale retellings, mythology, both fiction and nonfiction (if mythology can be nonfiction), history, both fiction and nonfiction, and the occasional romance. Now, while these are my favorites, if it looks good, I'll read it. My hope is that this blog might get people to turn off their TVs and find books that they might want to read. If it helps even one person do that, then I've done my job.