Living Life As Me

This episode, called A Misunderstanding aired yesterday January 20, 2016. A quick background of this episode; Abby(a fifteen year old coed from a local high school) accuses another teenager, Chris(he's eighteen) of rape at a school dance. A he said-she said erupts from the case, and it's further compromised when Abby texts Chris, asking if the two are still friends. ADA Rafael Barba urges Chris to take a deal, pleading to sexual misconduct, which would put him on the sex offenders registry, but also would keep him out of prison. Chris refuses the deal, and they head to trial. Defense attorney John Buchanan upon crossing Abby, finds out that she too is confused to whether or not she said yes. Chris says the same thing, that he didn't hear a no, but he also did not hear a yes. In the end, the jury finds Chris guilty or sexual misconduct, and he goes on the registry for twenty years. This episode gets three out of five stars from me, mainly because of the boring in it. It seem...

Townhouse Incident aired on NBC January 13, 2016.  This episode could quite possibly qualify as one of the worst SVU episodes that I've ever seen. A quick background of this episode; Olivia's regular babysitter Lucy, is having a problem with her family, and was complaining to Olivia. Being the good person that she is, she heads for the townhouse, only to be taken hostage along with two children and their mom. This is evidently traumatizing to her, as she wasn't able to stop the sixteen year old girl from being raped by Joe, one of the hostage takers. In the end, the snipers take out Joe as he exits the townhouse with the intent of running off with Benson. It gets one out of five stars from me, and here's why.  The producers of SVU are overplaying the "Olivia Benson in trouble" and my guess is that they are responding to the rave reviews that they received out of the William Lewis season, where Benson is taken hostage twice in season fifteen. This episode also ...

I've read Sarah Dessen for a long time. She was recommended to me by my middle school librarian in seventh grade. I've loved just about every book that I've read by her, and  Just Listen  was no disappointment. Just Listen is another "love wrapped around tragedy" book, and while I usually steer clear of teenage love stories, I absolutely loved this one. It gets 4.5 out of 5 stars for me. In this book, the protagonist is Annabelle Greene, and life seems play games with her, liking her for a few weeks, then turning her whole world upside down again, then liking her, ruining her, repeat. Something I enjoyed a lot about this book was Sarah Dessen's emphasis on Annabelle's "perfect"(not so perfect) family. She explains how their house is "glass" so everyone driving by can see in and they see the perfect family, having dinner or doing whatever. Annabelle's older sister, Whitney, struggles with an eating disorder for much of the book. This...

This episode was released on Wednesday, January 6, so this is late, but better late than never. Catfishing Teacher was a good episode, although it had it's flaws. It gets four out of five stars from me, mainly because while it does have a good plot line, I hated the non-suspense and the character choice. A quick background of this episode, a teacher has sex with her students while promising them higher grades, and sexts with them as well. Zach(an "uncool" student") receives an explicit text message from her(supposedly), he crafts a plan to tell his mother that he's spending Christmas break with his father. SVU gets the case when his mother loses contact with her. The teacher, Phoebe Burnap, is arrested, but is not the guilty one. It turns out that the boys wrestling coach has Zach, and they turn to another, older victim to find where Zach was taken. They find him, arrest the wresting coach only to find out that Zach won't testify. Dead end reached, they try t...

I actually read My Sister's Keeper  for the first time when I was in seventh grade, at recommendation of my English teacher. I ended up loving it, but I decided to reread it this year, because I didn't really remember it and also, I wanted to review it. This book gets five out of five stars from me. Here's the quick background: Anna Fitzgerald sues her parents for medical emancipation, because she was being forced to donate her body parts to her sister Kate, who had leukemia. Her parents, Sarah and Brian, had Anna through invitro fertilization to ensure her to be a genetic match for Kate, so she could be a donor. Anna's lawyer is Campell Alexander, her guardian ad litem is Julia Romano. I loved this book even more when I read it the second time, because of the format and flow of the story. My favorite character was Anna, because of her fighting spirit and also her ability to stand up for herself. She forced her parents to hear what she had to say, when all her life, the...

I read Faking Normal a few weeks ago upon recommendation of my best friend, Sofia. Her blog is called Loving the Language of Literacy, if you would like to connect with her. Faking Normal was a book about a girl, Alexi Littrell, who is suppressing trauma. Like many books, she meets a guy, Body Lennox and he is healing from tragedy as well. In an interesting turn of events, the two become close and share a bond that is rare between friends, eventually both helping each other handle and eventually conquer the pain of their pasts. This book gets 5 out of 5 stars from me, due the the impeccable writing style and flow. The story was not at all predictable, except for the fact that it was very clear that Bodee and Alexi were going to become very close friends and maybe even fall in love. Faking Normal  also was unique in the way that it made me angry at the characters who were supposed to be good. For example, Alexi's sister, Kayla accused her of cheating on her with Craig, Kayla's ...

This episode was released on November 11, 2015, so this review is obviously late, but better late than never. A quick recap of this episode; missing child case turned into a murder investigation, and then a DNA hunt across the streets of NYC. This episode was hooking, because of the many different characters, but a little confusing because of the DNA chasing. Lab results of Lily(the girl who was missing, then murdered) showed that her killer was likely to be a relative, so the detectives question Brandon, a partial family member who's DNA is in the system. He refuses to give detectives a list of his male family members, stating that he was adopted. His birth father, who we later find out is Ray Marino, turns out to have been dead for five years, and was quite busy with women when he was alive. Dodds and Carisi question his two sons from a second mother, but their DNA doesn't match. The detectives, with no leads and no information, have Ray's body exhumed and it is turned ou...

Hello. Welcome to Living Life As Me. My name is Ailin Liebler-Bendix, and here on this blog, you'll get song covers, TV show reviews, tech reviews, book reviews, current event rants, music reviews ect. Excited now? Probably not. But you will be soon. Enjoy the blogging! I'll make my first post a TV show review. I've watched Law and Order: Special Victims Unit for about three years now. I started watching it when I was in China for a year, and my older sister loved crime TV. The show revolves around a squad of detectives working the NYC Special Victims Unit, and it shows the trials and tribulations of patrolling and solving crimes on NYC turf. The last episode that I watched fully was Patrimonial Burden, episode 6 of season 17. A quick overview of this episode: there's a reality TV show called The Bakers, one of the young daughters of the family starred becomes pregnant and she's thirteen. The family initially doesn't cooperate with the investigation, stating tha...