Naomi's Five Favorite Books

My cousin Naomi sent me her top 5 books for my blog, so here they are!

1. Harry Potter (the whole series) - J.K. Rowling 

2. The Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins

3. The Key to Extraordinary - Natalie Lloyd

4. The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis

5. The Watsons Go to Birmingham - Christopher Paul Curtis

If you would be interested in having your 5 favorite books listed on one of my posts, like Willa and Naomi, just email me or leave a comment saying you'd be interested. I hope you found a new book to read!

Chocolate Peanut Butter No-Bake Cookies

Here is a quick recipe for Chocolate Peanut Butter No-Bake Cookies that's fun and easy to make for a dessert or snack.

Ingredients:

2 cups Sugar
1/2 cup Milk
1 stick (8 tbs) Unsalted Butter
1/4 cup Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
3 cups Old-Fashioned Rolled Oats
1 cup Smooth Peanut Butter
1 Tbsp pure Vanilla Extract
Pinch of Kosher Salt

Directions:

1. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper

2. Bring the sugar, milk, butter, and cocoa powder to a boil in a medium saucepan over medium heat, stirring occasionally, then let the mixture boil for a minute. Then, turn off the heat and add the oats, peanut butter, vanilla, and salt, stirring to combine.

3. Drop tablespoonfuls of the mixture onto the baking sheet, letting it sit at room remperature until cool and hardened. You can refrigerate them in a air-tight container. Best within three days.

Enjoy these homeade treats!

SpaceX Launch

Today at 4:33, SpaceX is launching astronauts into space! Check out this link to learn more!

Quarantine Photo

Okay... Quarantine has been hard on us all. We all want to see our friends and family. This fun quarantine photo can make it seem like you are together again. First, go to Zoom. (I think you could also do it on any other video call app that you can have a virtual background) Then invite one of your friends to the call. Have one of you take a screenshot of the other person on one half of their screen while they are in active speaker view, like this. We used our stuffed animals.

Now, have the other person (the owl, in this example) go in front of a solid colored background and set your virtual background to the photo of the other person. Arrange yourself in front of the camera so you take up the other half of the screen, making sure you are the same size (change this by backing up or getting closer) and that you look like you are next to each other. Have one of you double tap on the person with the virtual background so they are fullscreened, it can be either of you, and take a screenshot. You can then crop the screenshot until it doesn't look like it was taken in zoom. Make sure you send it to the other person! In the end, it should look something like this:

Have fun with it! You can try as many different poses and faces as you want, and you could maybe even try more than two people in it! Hopefully this was a fun thing to try, and made you less bored and lonely.

Seed Update

Hi again! I recently showed you how to plant seeds in egg cartons, and if you remember, I planted chamomile and fringed pinks. So, I thought I'd give you an update on how they are doing. Both of them are sprouting!

Here is the chamomile:

And the fringed pinks!

Willa's Five Favorite Books

Hello! My friend Willa sent me her Five Favorite Books, so here they are!!

In no apparent order:

1. Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan

2. Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

3. The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

4. Merci Suarez Changes Gears by Meg Medina

5. The Bookwanderers by Anna James

I hope you found something to read on this list! I have read the first three, and Echo is one of my personal favorites. I look forward to reading the rest of them!

Egg Carton Planting

Hello again! Spring has sprung, so it is time for some gardening. My mom and I planted these great egg carton plants. You plant the seeds directly in the carton, so they don't have to be outside well they sprout, you reuse the egg carton, and you can move them wherever! After they are all planted, make sure the soil is always moist. You can do this by checking on them every day, and watering them when needed. They dry out very quickly because there is not much soil in each hole. Then, wait for sprouts!

Here are the steps that I took:

1.  Have your egg carton(s) ready

2. Fill all the holes with soil

3. Get your seeds out, I choose Fringed Pinks and Chamomile

4. Plant your seeds

5. Water them with a spray bottle or pitcher

6. Label them

7. Put them in the sun

Top 5 Series for Fantasy Lovers like me

I have ranked 5 amazing fantasy book series below!! I highly recommend all of these books. I think they would be best for anyone over 4th grade. I have read all of these except the 4th and 5th of The School for Good and Evil, which I am still trying to access. Please comment if you took my suggestions to heart, and you are currently reading one of these series. I just finished re-reading the third book in the Land of Stories series, and I was reminded about how good they are!

1. Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling (7 books)
2. Keeper of the Lost Cities by Shannon Messenger (8 books)
3. Land of Stories by Chris Colfer (6 books)
4. Wings of Fire by Tui T. Sutherland (19 books)
5. The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani (5 books)

Some of these authors are still writing new books for their series, so forgive me if the book count is not up to date. Please email me or comment below on the next genre or subject to rate.

The Sound of Butterflies

Click the Link below to listen to the amazing sound of butterflies flying!! Another one of Nature's amazing phenomenons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7SSt0hqu6Y  

Chocolate Mug Cakes

Hi Guys!!

One of my favorite recipes of all time is a chocolate mug cake. It is a single serving brownie like cake, and is soooo good. This recipe makes 2 at a time, and only takes 5 minutes.

Ingredients

2 tbs of butter

2 oz of chocolate chips

4 tbs of sugar

2 tbs of flour

1 egg

1. Put one tablespoon of butter and one ounce of chocolate chips in each 12oz mug and microwave each one separately for 45 seconds and stir until melted

2. Add 2 tablespoons of sugar to each mug and stir until blended. In a separate small bowl, crack the egg and scramble it with a fork. Then, split the egg evenly between the mugs.

3. Mix a tablespoon of flour into both mugs, until the batter is well blended. Then microwave each one separately for one minute. Enjoy!

Hello Readers!!

Hello Readers, my name is Lily. On this blog, I discuss books, give suggestions, come up with cool recipes and crafts, and cheer you up during this pandemic! If you want to email me things you'd like to see on here, just email me or comment below that you have an idea, and I will try to read them and put them on the blog! Let's start with some facts about my blog.

1. I got the idea from my cousin's blog, Live Life Random, so go check it out!! It's really cool.

2. The initials of the blog name, JKR, are the initials of my favorite author, J.K. Rowling, who wrote my favorite books -- the Harry Potter series.

3. My friend Willa actually came up with the name. (Just Keep Reading)

Keep Reading!!

-Lily