This book was so sweet! I L-O-V-E-D Dec, and Neilly wasn't too bitchy (well, a little bit). Anyway, Dec's character was fun and sweet and edgy, and he really needed a girlfriend, and his sense of humor was so awesome, even thought I wasn't really a fan of the metal.
Their friendship is so sweet and even though I think she shoulda dated him... (Come on! He had like no romance.).
Okay, I just woke up, but if I think of anything else I'll let y'all know. ^.^ Great read! Fast too.
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Monday, September 24, 2012
The Help
This book was really good! The beginning was a bit slow, but it was almost peaceful and relaxing in a way, which I normally HATE in books (my dad loves though. It was his reasoning behind liking the guy who wrote Of Mice and Men.), but it was also intriguing. Maybe I love lady gossip? Frightening thought.
Anyways! I loved the element of mystery in Minny's life with Celia (and the result!), and I want Skeeter's life. Even though it was sad. And Aibileen and Mae Mobley (MAY MOE!) were the most endearing ever. And Miss Hilly, and the way they talked, and I love these girls!
Anyway, can't wait to see the movie. I guess that's all I really wanted to say. Definitely recommended!!
Anyways! I loved the element of mystery in Minny's life with Celia (and the result!), and I want Skeeter's life. Even though it was sad. And Aibileen and Mae Mobley (MAY MOE!) were the most endearing ever. And Miss Hilly, and the way they talked, and I love these girls!
Anyway, can't wait to see the movie. I guess that's all I really wanted to say. Definitely recommended!!
Saturday, September 22, 2012
My Reading List
No book here, just a list of books I have to keep straight.
UPDATED 11/25
The Help
Notes From the Blender (gotta go back to Niles by the 29)
Lost Hero (optional)
Son of Neptune (Mark of Athena comes out 10/2)
Divergent
Insurgent (on its way)
Wintergirls (next enriched by books, must be unfinished)
Inside Out (been out for a looong time)
City of Bones
Timeless (by December)
Beautiful Creatures
Yeah... I hope I can finish.
Oh and that Warm Bodies movie looks good... if really cheesy.... hehehe
I can't believe it's almost December!
Oh hell i haven't written about like any of these... Insurgent... I thought I did? Hmm... It's too hard to remember now really... Sorry, guys. It was really good though :) Kinda desperate for the third...
UPDATED 11/25
Inside Out (been out for a looong time)
City of Bones
Timeless (by December)
Beautiful Creatures
Yeah... I hope I can finish.
Oh and that Warm Bodies movie looks good... if really cheesy.... hehehe
I can't believe it's almost December!
Oh hell i haven't written about like any of these... Insurgent... I thought I did? Hmm... It's too hard to remember now really... Sorry, guys. It was really good though :) Kinda desperate for the third...
Friday, September 14, 2012
The Ask and The Answer
I'd better start writing quotes:
"The only crime, the only crime is to take a life. There is nothing else" (215)
"Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss. Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?" (364)
These are the ones that ring with me, even though I could have used ones more essential to the meaning of the story (the obvious "we are the choices we make. And have to make. We aren't anything else" (377) just doesn't sound as perfect to me.)
Okay, and the title itself. I literally thought that phrase like 5 times without THINKING of the title, then I'd turn the book to the cover and be like WHOA. I don't know why these things just click to me.
Anyway. I really like how it leaves romanticness to the last book, or even leaves it out entirely (not sure yet!). It's really sweet how innocent their love is. And I love love love how Todd just dies inside for parts of it. These books... they just click with me. Just all of it (except the endings). This ending was better, though I'm not entirely sure why he let out Mayor Prentiss. What was he going to do to stop the Spackle? I wish they'd turned out to be his friends. I guess this lends itself to the unexpected though...
I hate the manipulation, but I also kind of love how cleverly both leaders were corrupt in their own ways, yet they were so similar. I also love/hate how the two of them are all alone with no one else to really trust, except unhelpful people like Davy and Lee(? the boy who likes Viola).
OH! and did I mention I LOVED the Professor Layton, this town has a ghostly secret factor in the first book!!!
That's all I remember I think... I'm certain there's more I could say, but nothing I feel like writing now. Maybe later ;)
"The only crime, the only crime is to take a life. There is nothing else" (215)
"Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss. Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?" (364)
These are the ones that ring with me, even though I could have used ones more essential to the meaning of the story (the obvious "we are the choices we make. And have to make. We aren't anything else" (377) just doesn't sound as perfect to me.)
Okay, and the title itself. I literally thought that phrase like 5 times without THINKING of the title, then I'd turn the book to the cover and be like WHOA. I don't know why these things just click to me.
Anyway. I really like how it leaves romanticness to the last book, or even leaves it out entirely (not sure yet!). It's really sweet how innocent their love is. And I love love love how Todd just dies inside for parts of it. These books... they just click with me. Just all of it (except the endings). This ending was better, though I'm not entirely sure why he let out Mayor Prentiss. What was he going to do to stop the Spackle? I wish they'd turned out to be his friends. I guess this lends itself to the unexpected though...
I hate the manipulation, but I also kind of love how cleverly both leaders were corrupt in their own ways, yet they were so similar. I also love/hate how the two of them are all alone with no one else to really trust, except unhelpful people like Davy and Lee(? the boy who likes Viola).
OH! and did I mention I LOVED the Professor Layton, this town has a ghostly secret factor in the first book!!!
That's all I remember I think... I'm certain there's more I could say, but nothing I feel like writing now. Maybe later ;)
Friday, September 7, 2012
The Knife of Never Letting Go
Ok, not sure where to start (as usual), so I guess I'll just section it off.
1: The Ending Need I say SPOILER?
So, I've noticed I've been getting less and less happy with endings? See, when I read a book, I've expected there to be a happy ending. Instead of asking myself, will the ending be happy? I ask, how will they complete this mission or live with themselves not completing it. I think authors have found the same problem, so they've been ending them unhappily, which really leaves them incomplete. It's basically a selling point for the sequel. This one, is just like that. I mean, they leave it so you don't even know whether she DIES or not or what New Haven IS. How could you ever read this by itself and be like, ok, I can live with this ending. Some endings end unsatisfactorily and it's good, I understand, you can't answer everything. But this book basically leaves nothing answered except the secret of Prentisstown. I would have been able to live with it if they had ended it after they killed Aaron. Alright, maybe they reach the town, maybe they don't but mission accomplished. But he completely SELLS OUT when he just is like, oh she gets shot, surprise, I'm not telling if she lives. Like what the hell? The best way to tell if a book will end this way is if there's a big "END OF BOOK ONE" or "CONTINUES IN BOOK TWO: THE BLABLA OF BLABLA". Honestly. Finish a book. End it. THEN write another. Don't start the second book at the end of the first. It would have been genius if that was the first chapter of the second book, even if he had put it in the first as a preview, but it just doesn't fit in this book.
2: Epic Quotes
Alright, that's all I really didn't like about this book (besides the spelling, but that was a minor peeve, and we'll get to it later. Er, I'll get to it later. Unless someone reads this. (Think I should show it to Chris? I think not.) So, epic quotes. This book was full of the most emotional life lessons that made sense and made my life feel all.... It made me want to go post it all on Facebook (which I should have, because even now, I know I've forgotten some). I guess the most memorable one is where Ben leaves and he's screaming about how life isn't worth it. It isn't. That's the only conclusion I can really come to. You live because you find it fun, and when that ends.... why not die? (Heads up for Wintergirls. I will add to this point.) But in his case, I liked it. It was very Harry Potter ish because he had to live because of a sacrifice some loving family member made (Yes, I know Ben isn't his kin. Shut up, he was more than close enough.), which I really kind of admire and like. It's a good reason to live. The other one I remember (Notice how these are near the end? I have an awful memory.) is where they're sitting on the cliff, looking out, and they're knowing each other (or something of the sort). That was beautifully done, I loved the innocent lack of sexual romance (kissing, folks, I mean kissing) because it drove the beauty in innocence/naiveté point home. I really wish that could happen to me. So, I'm REALLY impressed with his epicness factor, especially since he was writing with simple spelling and such, which I think would be really hindering in epicness.
3: Screaminess
AAITE!!!!! Here we go!!! This book was so ACTION PACKED and GRUESOME and WOW... I would literally have been screaming if I was allowed. As it happened, my mouth was wide and I was silently "screaming" into my hand during these gruesome, sad, actionful... JUST ALL OF THE WOW PARTS!!!! This was a great great heart stopping thriller, and it was so cool OMFG.
That's all I guess. Maybe I'll add more about spelling but the "Screaminess" section really set my heart beating too fast :D Wow. Definitely worth the read folks. It made cheap into epic and meaningful.
1: The Ending Need I say SPOILER?
So, I've noticed I've been getting less and less happy with endings? See, when I read a book, I've expected there to be a happy ending. Instead of asking myself, will the ending be happy? I ask, how will they complete this mission or live with themselves not completing it. I think authors have found the same problem, so they've been ending them unhappily, which really leaves them incomplete. It's basically a selling point for the sequel. This one, is just like that. I mean, they leave it so you don't even know whether she DIES or not or what New Haven IS. How could you ever read this by itself and be like, ok, I can live with this ending. Some endings end unsatisfactorily and it's good, I understand, you can't answer everything. But this book basically leaves nothing answered except the secret of Prentisstown. I would have been able to live with it if they had ended it after they killed Aaron. Alright, maybe they reach the town, maybe they don't but mission accomplished. But he completely SELLS OUT when he just is like, oh she gets shot, surprise, I'm not telling if she lives. Like what the hell? The best way to tell if a book will end this way is if there's a big "END OF BOOK ONE" or "CONTINUES IN BOOK TWO: THE BLABLA OF BLABLA". Honestly. Finish a book. End it. THEN write another. Don't start the second book at the end of the first. It would have been genius if that was the first chapter of the second book, even if he had put it in the first as a preview, but it just doesn't fit in this book.
2: Epic Quotes
Alright, that's all I really didn't like about this book (besides the spelling, but that was a minor peeve, and we'll get to it later. Er, I'll get to it later. Unless someone reads this. (Think I should show it to Chris? I think not.) So, epic quotes. This book was full of the most emotional life lessons that made sense and made my life feel all.... It made me want to go post it all on Facebook (which I should have, because even now, I know I've forgotten some). I guess the most memorable one is where Ben leaves and he's screaming about how life isn't worth it. It isn't. That's the only conclusion I can really come to. You live because you find it fun, and when that ends.... why not die? (Heads up for Wintergirls. I will add to this point.) But in his case, I liked it. It was very Harry Potter ish because he had to live because of a sacrifice some loving family member made (Yes, I know Ben isn't his kin. Shut up, he was more than close enough.), which I really kind of admire and like. It's a good reason to live. The other one I remember (Notice how these are near the end? I have an awful memory.) is where they're sitting on the cliff, looking out, and they're knowing each other (or something of the sort). That was beautifully done, I loved the innocent lack of sexual romance (kissing, folks, I mean kissing) because it drove the beauty in innocence/naiveté point home. I really wish that could happen to me. So, I'm REALLY impressed with his epicness factor, especially since he was writing with simple spelling and such, which I think would be really hindering in epicness.
3: Screaminess
AAITE!!!!! Here we go!!! This book was so ACTION PACKED and GRUESOME and WOW... I would literally have been screaming if I was allowed. As it happened, my mouth was wide and I was silently "screaming" into my hand during these gruesome, sad, actionful... JUST ALL OF THE WOW PARTS!!!! This was a great great heart stopping thriller, and it was so cool OMFG.
That's all I guess. Maybe I'll add more about spelling but the "Screaminess" section really set my heart beating too fast :D Wow. Definitely worth the read folks. It made cheap into epic and meaningful.
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Nevermore
It's better to die for what's right, than live because you can.
That's what I think the moral of Nevermore was. Well all of Max Ride. The ending was heart-stoppingly epic, but I hate how he cheated it by writing an ending where she died, that was epic and I could live with (not amazing, just epic and a decent ending), then fucking writing ANOTHER ending in which they all live and are somehow alright? I mean come on, that's doing something epic, but in a way that anyone can do it. It's just... arrggggg noooo. And it was pointless that they lived too because come on, if they had gone to the tunnels, the outcome would have been the same. They would have LIVED just because they were SPECIAL. The point was even if you're special, it's not right to use that when no one else can. "I'm not going to apologize for surviving." I'm not sure I even understand what that message really means, but it seems so contradicting.
And what about that stupid virus? How did that fit in to the big bomb? Like what the hell? Ok, the virus wasn't stupid, the virus was genius because it was a horrible way for the human race to go extinct out of suicide that made her choice legitimate. And fine, add the bomb too, that made it more dramatic. But at least write some EXPLANATION as to why the BOMB was used and not the VIRUS the ENTIRE BOOK WAS ABOUT.
Did I miss something completely? I'm left thinking I have.
The part I absolutely loved was the twisted love story with Fang and Dylan and how Dylan went crazy and I was nearly crying because of it and o.m.g. That was the masochistic love story I crave. Ok, there's something wrong with me... I don't think I could ever show anyone this blog now xD.
I guess that's a wrap. Sucky ending, good love story, epic message that the second ending ruined. If you're going to let her live, at least explain what happened to the virus part. Sheesh.
-Stella*
PS oh and did I mention SO addicting? Like every other Max Ride story <3
That's what I think the moral of Nevermore was. Well all of Max Ride. The ending was heart-stoppingly epic, but I hate how he cheated it by writing an ending where she died, that was epic and I could live with (not amazing, just epic and a decent ending), then fucking writing ANOTHER ending in which they all live and are somehow alright? I mean come on, that's doing something epic, but in a way that anyone can do it. It's just... arrggggg noooo. And it was pointless that they lived too because come on, if they had gone to the tunnels, the outcome would have been the same. They would have LIVED just because they were SPECIAL. The point was even if you're special, it's not right to use that when no one else can. "I'm not going to apologize for surviving." I'm not sure I even understand what that message really means, but it seems so contradicting.
And what about that stupid virus? How did that fit in to the big bomb? Like what the hell? Ok, the virus wasn't stupid, the virus was genius because it was a horrible way for the human race to go extinct out of suicide that made her choice legitimate. And fine, add the bomb too, that made it more dramatic. But at least write some EXPLANATION as to why the BOMB was used and not the VIRUS the ENTIRE BOOK WAS ABOUT.
Did I miss something completely? I'm left thinking I have.
The part I absolutely loved was the twisted love story with Fang and Dylan and how Dylan went crazy and I was nearly crying because of it and o.m.g. That was the masochistic love story I crave. Ok, there's something wrong with me... I don't think I could ever show anyone this blog now xD.
I guess that's a wrap. Sucky ending, good love story, epic message that the second ending ruined. If you're going to let her live, at least explain what happened to the virus part. Sheesh.
-Stella*
PS oh and did I mention SO addicting? Like every other Max Ride story <3
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