Cupertino resident releases her books online for free before publishing them in May 2009.

The Create your World book contest is promoting two books to make learning languages and travel be economical and fun!

Language is Music has 65 tips on how to use music, TV, radio, movies and low cost Internet resources to learn languages. Travel Happy, Budget Low contains 190 tips about budget travel.

Both books are written from my personal experiences. I speak seven languages, have traveled to 50 countries and have lived in nine countries.

Until April 5, 2009, I am offering my books to be read for free on the internet and encouraging readers to suggest content to improve the books before I publish in May 2009. Readers can contribute their best language learning and travel tips and stories in a contest for possible publication in the books. Contest winners will have their tips and stories published in my books in May 2009. They will receive an autographed copy of my books and prizes from contest co-sponsors.

Here are the links to my site, YouTube Channel and press release:

Website: www.createyourworldbooks.com
You Tube Channel: www.youtube.com/CreateYourWorldBooks
Press Release:http://www.prweb.com/releases/budgettravel...rweb2086974.htm

I think you will enjoy these freebies!

Sincerely,

SUSANNA

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Susanna Zaraysky
Kaleidomundi
"Create Your World" Books
createyourworldbooks@gmail.com
www.createyourworldbooks.com]]> Reviewed: Defiance
Starring: Daniel Craig · Year: 2008 ·

Description: Three Jewish brothers escape from Nazi-occupied Poland into the Belarussian forest, where they join Russian resistance fighters and endeavor to build a village in order to protect themselves and others in danger.
Review Title: very moving
My Rating: It's OK
My Opinion: This is based on a true story of three Jewish brothers who helped others during WWII escape from the Nazi's. They lived in the forest for 4yrs. Daniel Craig and the others did a good job with their characters. The accent and learning the language most of been hard but I guess it was an ok job.

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Rating: PG-13 · Year: 2008 ·

Description: There are heroes... there are superheroes... and then there's Hancock (Will Smith). With great power comes great responsibility -- everyone knows that -- everyone, that is, but Hancock. Edgy, conflicted, sarcastic, and misunderstood, Hancock's well-intentioned heroics might get the job done and save countless lives, but always seem to leave jaw-dropping damage in their wake.
Review Title: Ok movie
My Rating: It's OK
My Opinion: This was an ok movie. The story was silly. Will Smith did an ok job as an angry hero.

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Starring: Mike Myers, Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake · Year: 2008 ·

Description: Pitka an American raised outside of his country by gurus, returns to the States in order to break into the self-help business. His first challenge: To settle the romantic troubles and subsequent professional skid of a star hockey player whose wife left him for a rival athlete.
Review Title: really dumb
My Rating: Thumbs Down
My Opinion: This was a terrible movie. I think it is Mike Myers worst movie ever. He is pretty funny and has good comedic timing but this was just really bad. Gotta give him credit for basing it around hockey though.. I forgot that he is a hugh leafs fan. Some parts were funny but the rest was ridiculous.

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Starring: Jason Segel, Kristen Bell, Mila Kunis · Producer(s): Judd Apatow, Shauna Robertson · Year: 2008 ·

Description: Devastated Peter takes a Hawaii vacation in order to deal with recent break-up with his TV star girlfriend, Sarah. Little does he know Sarah's traveling to the same resort as her ex ... and she's bringing along her new boyfriend.
Review Title: Absolutely hilarious
My Rating: Thumbs Up!
My Opinion: These are the same guys that did "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" and "Knocked Up". If liked either of these movies, you will like this one. The story line is kind of obvious but some of the things that are said are hiliarious.



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Rating: PG-13 · Year: 2007 ·

Description: September Dawn is a dramatic take on the 1857 Mountains Meadow Massacre in Utah. Like all “based on” movies, SD has taken liberties in portraying key characters; however, many of the comments made by the actor portraying Brigham Young are accurate. As might be expected the most notable stretch of facts is in regards to the romantic interest (and all too-predictable outcome) between the young Mormon man and the fresh-as-a- daisy (despite weeks on the trail) young woman in the wagon train.
Review Title: September Dawn Review
My Rating: Thumbs Up!
My Opinion: What is most significant about the film is its accurate representation of the unquestioning obedience to authority among the LDS faithful that, unknown to many outside the LDS faith and culture, continues to this day. Those who state that the LDS church is a cult are not far off the mark. The “blood oaths” taken by the LDS faithful in their temple ceremony continued in various forms until the late 1980s and “enforcers” sanctioned by the church are a historical reality.

The stark and disturbing yet accurate portrayal of the LDS psychological and social collective is alone worth seeing this film.


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Author: Scott Rosenberg ·

Description: Two dozen progammers, three years, 4,732 bugs, and one quest for transcendent software. This is a true story of the misadventures of one programming team trying to change the world through software and making every mistake possible along the way.
Review Title: An Absolutely Cathartic Read for Anyone who Programs
My Rating: Thumbs Up!
My Opinion: If you're programer, you have to read this book. Maybe you'll learn something in it. Maybe you won't, but you'll feel a whole lot better about every programming screw up you've ever made after reading this because this book shows you how people who are probably smarter, richer, and more talented than you end up making the exact same mistakes you make and suffer from the same frustrations that you have with that bug that just wont go away.

To a programmer, this book reads like a slasher horror movie. You have moments when you think, "No don't open that door" fully knowing what's about to happen. When the inevitable carnage comes, I found myself chuckling with elation that I was far from the first person to ever make that mistake.

Perhaps because the product he was covering in the book never made it to completion in the time he had to write the book, Scott Rosenberg fills the pages with lots of programming anecdotes and aphorisms from the short history of computing. The result is a book that's informative, entertaining, and a easy read regardless of your degree of technical literacy. Although programmers may find this book especially entertaining, it's clearly written for a general audience to pose the questions: Why is software so hard to make and why are programmers and programming culture so odd?

He doesn't give a specific answer to these questions in the book, but in radio interviews with him to promote the book, he provides a very succinct answer. It's because good software is artwork, but unlike artwork, it's not enough for it to be beautiful or shocking. You have to turn it on and it has to work. It's a paradox of something that has to be abstract and literal at the same time.

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Rating: PG-13 · Year: 2007 ·

Description: On the July 4th holiday, an attack on the vulnerable United States infrastructure begins to shut down the entire nation. The mysterious figure behind the scheme has figured out every modern angle -- but he never figured on an old-school "analog" fly in the "digital" ointment: John McClane. No mask. No cape. No problem.
Review Title: AWESOME ACTION
My Rating: Thumbs Up!

My Opinion: I love these types of movies with all kinds of action and funny commentary. Bruce Willis maybe older than he was in the first ones but he did a great job with his own stunts.


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Author: Rick Steves ·

Description: Guide to hotels, restaurants, and areas of France.
Review Title: Awesome book
My Rating: Thumbs Up!
My Opinion: This book was very helpful to me on my recent trip to France. He gives great reviews and feedback on all the districts of Paris and he also gives you suggestions on restaurants and other things to do while traveling in France.

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Genre: rock/alternative/pop ·

Description: The band are sometimes labeled by media sources as, and take influences from, gothic rock, alternative rock, nu metal, piano rock, arena rock, and Wagnerian rock (the latter especially in the group's videos).
Review Title: First Album was better
My Rating: It's OK
My Opinion: The lead singer has an incredible voice and the music on the second album is decent but I really like the first album Fallen better.

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Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson · Rating: R · Year: 2006 ·

Description: 'The Departed' is set in South Boston, where the state police force is waging war on organized crime. Young undercover cop Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio) is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate run by gangland chief Costello (Jack Nicholson). While Billy is quickly gaining Costello's confidence, Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon), a hardened young criminal who has infiltrated the police department as an informer for the syndicate, is rising to a position of power in the Special Investigation Unit.
Review Title: Good Movie
My Rating: Thumbs Up!
My Opinion: You really have to pay attention to this story line. It can kind of get confusing if you do not follow the characters. I thought this was a good movie with a surprise ending.

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Rating: PG ·

Description: Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas in Disney Digital 3D
Review Title: It has been a while
My Rating: It's OK
My Opinion: I think the last time I saw a move in 3D was the last Nightmare on Elm street movie, where Freddy actually dies. I thought seeing Nightmare Before Christmas in 3D was nice. They made some upgrades to the movie and made it a little sharper than the original. If you are a Tim Burton fan this is a nice treat.

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Author: Alice Sebold ·

Description: On her way home from school on a snowy December day in 1973, 14-year-old Susie Salmon ("like the fish") is lured into a makeshift underground den in a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer--the man she knew as her neighbor, Mr. Harvey.

Review Title: An excellent read
My Rating: Thumbs Up!
My Opinion: Susie struggles to accept her death while still clinging to the lost world of the living, following her family's dramas over the years like an episode of My So-Called Afterlife. Her family disintegrates in their grief: her father becomes determined to find her killer, her mother withdraws, her little brother Buckley attempts to make sense of the new hole in his family, and her younger sister Lindsey moves through the milestone events of her teenage and young adult years with Susie riding spiritual shotgun. Random acts and missed opportunities run throughout the book--Susie recalls her sole kiss with a boy on Earth as "like an accident--a beautiful gasoline rainbow." Though sentimental at times, The Lovely Bones is a moving exploration of loss and mourning that ultimately puts its faith in the living and that is made even more powerful by a cast of convincing characters. Sebold orchestrates a big finish, and though things tend to wrap up a little too well for everyone in the end, one can only imagine (or hope) that heaven is indeed a place filled with such happy endings.


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Author: Lauren Weisberger ·

Description: A delightfully dishy novel about the all-time most impossible boss in the history of impossible bosses
Review Title: Book is great
My Rating: Thumbs Up!
My Opinion: I was not aware that this was a book before it was a movie. Most movies based on a book are not as good as reading the book, so I have heard from others. This is so true, after reading the book I thought they could have done a better job with the movie.



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Starring: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, · Rating: PG-13 · Year: 2006 ·

Description: In the dizzying world of New York fashion, where size zero is the new 2, six is the new 8, and a bad hair day can end a career, Runaway Magazine is the Holy Grail. Overseen with a finely manicured fist by Miranda Priestly--the most powerful woman in fashion--Runway is a fearsome gauntlet for anyone who wants to make it in the industry. To make Runway the fashion bible of New York and therefore the world, Miranda has let nothing stand in her way--including a long line of assistants that didn't make the cut. It's a job no self-respecting person can survive, yet it's an opportunity a million young women in New York would kill for.

Review Title: Good Movie · Overall Score: 1
(Overall Rating: 1, )

My Opinion:
I thought that characters and the storyline were good. The fashion I was not so sure about. I am no fashion expert but some of the outfits were questionable.

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Starring: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Halle Berry · Rating: PG-13 · Year: 2006 ·

Description: A "cure" for mutancy threatens to alter the course of history. For the first time, mutants have a choice: retain their uniqueness, though it isolates and alienates them, or give up their powers and become human. The opposing viewpoints of mutant leaders Charles Xavier, who preaches tolerance, and Magneto, who believes in the survival of the fittest, are put to the ultimate test--triggering the war to end all wars.

Review Title: Action was good · Overall Score: 6
(Overall Rating: 6, Casting / Acting: 6, Story: 6, )

My Opinion:
I really liked all the action in this movie but it seemed like the story line could have been a little better. Supposedly this is the last of the "X-Men" movies, though several spinoffs (including a "Wolverine" movie) are in the works.

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Starring: Owen Wilson, Paul Newman, Bonnie Hunt · Rating: G · Year: 2006 ·

Description: Lightning McQueen, a hotshot rookie race car driven to succeed, discovers that life is about the journey, not the finish line, when he finds himself unexpectedly detoured in the sleepy Route 66 town of Radiator Springs. On route across the country to the big Piston Cup Championship in California to compete against two seasoned pros, McQueen gets to know the town's offbeat characters--including Sally, a snazzy 2002 Porsche, Doc Hudson, a 1951 Hudson Hornet with a mysterious past, and Mater, a rusty but trusty tow truck, who help him realize that there are more important things than trophies, fame and sponsorship.

Review Title: Fun to watch · Overall Score: 6
(Overall Rating: 6, Casting / Acting: 6, Story: 6, )

My Opinion:
The movie is great to look at and a lot of fun, but somehow lacks the extra push of the other Pixar films. All of the character voices were good but the story line could have been better.

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Starring: Vince Vaughn, Jennifer Aniston · Rating: PG-13 · Year: 2006 ·

Description: What follows is a series of remedies, war tactics, overtures and underminings suggested by the former couple's friends, confidantes and the occasional total stranger. When neither ex is willing to move out of the condo they used to share, the only solution is to continue living as hostile roommates until somebody caves. But somewhere between protesting the pool table in the living room, the dirty clothes stacked in the kitchen cupboards and the sports played at sleep-killing volume in the middle of the night, Brooke begins to realize that what she may be really fighting for isn't so much the place but the person.

Review Title: Real issues · Overall Score: 6
(Overall Rating: 6, Casting / Acting: 6, Story: 8, )

My Opinion:
This movie had so so reviews from some of the critics but I do not really listen to critics half or most of the time. I thought this movie as funny half way through and then it got pretty serious towards the end. The thing I really liked about this movie is that it really showed the real issues couples have and that was great because most of the time you see the hollywood version.

Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn were great together. The other characters were good as well.

I would suggest seeing this as a matinee. I give it a C+ or B-.

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Starring: Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, · Rating: PG-13 · Year: 2006 ·

Description: Super-spy Ethan Hunt has retired from active duty to train new IMF agents. But he is called back into action to confront the toughest villain he's ever faced - Owen Davian, an international weapons and information provider with no remorse and no conscience. Hunt assembles his team - his old friend Luther Strickell, transportation expert Declan, background operative Zhen, and fresh recruit Lindsey- to travel the globe pursuing Davian and rescue Hunt's love, Julia.

Review Title: Action was good · Overall Score: 6
(Overall Rating: 6, Casting / Acting: 6, Story: 6, )

My Opinion:
The action and the toys were pretty good in this movie. The characters and the story line was ok. Typicaly action movie story line.

I give it a B-.

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Starring: Paul Walker, Jason Biggs, · Rating: PG · Year: 2006 ·

Description: Inspired by a true story, EIGHT BELOW is an action-adventure about loyalty and the bonds of friendship set in the extreme wilderness of Antarctica. The film tells the story of three members of a scientific expedition: Jerry Shepard, his best friend, Cooper, and a rugged American geologist, who are forced to leave behind their team of beloved sled dogs due to a sudden accident and perilous weather conditions in Antarctica. During the harsh, Antarctic winter, the dogs must struggle for survival alone in the intense frozen wilderness for over 6 months.

Review Title: True story · Overall Score: 7
(Overall Rating: 8, Casting / Acting: 6, Story: 8, )

My Opinion:
At first I was hesistant about watching this movie because it is a true story. As I followed the story you could get a sense how close this guy was to the dogs. You start feeling sorry for the dogs when you see them out in the freezing weather trying to survive and escape dangerous animals. It does kind of a happy ending but it does have its sad moments as well. If you do not like to watch animals get hurt or things like that than I would not suggest watching this movie.

I give this movie a B.

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