shall I ramble on...

01^st Jan 2011

Saturday // 12am // 2 years ago

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acciocupcakehead replied to your post:in every direction, all she saw were wide-eyed, snarling coyotes charging toward her

CONGRATULATIONS!

Thank you! :)

31^st Dec 2010

Friday // 3pm // 2 years ago

in every direction, all she saw were wide-eyed, snarling coyotes charging toward her

(a.k.a. Fifty Books Challenge Update)
Last one!
Grand Total:

1. Dearly Devoted Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
2. Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane
3. Who’s to Blame? (A Literary Comedy) - Jeffery S. Williams
4. A Little Friendly Advice - Siobhan Vivian
5. Wuthering High - Cara Lockwood
6. Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
7. Crank - Ellen Hopkins
8. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
9. Burned - Ellen Hopkins
10. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
11. Glass - Ellen Hopkins
12. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
13. My Sister’s Keeper - Jodi Picoult
14. A Study in Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
15. The Sign of Four - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
16. A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray
17. Someone Like You - Sarah Dessen
18. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan
19. Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris
20. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
21. Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie
22. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone - J.K. Rowling
23. The Heavenstone Secrets - V.C. Andrews
24. Impulse - Ellen Hopkins
25. Identical - Ellen Hopkins
26. Gone - Michael Grant
27. Innocence - Jane Mendelsohn
28. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
29. The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud - Ben Sherwood
30. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters - Rick Riordan
31. The Fallen - Thomas E. Sniegoski
32. Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment - James Patterson
33. Hush, Hush - Becca Fitzpatrick
34. Belinda - Anne Rice as Anne Rampling 
35. Angels in America - Tony Kushner
36. Blue Bloods - Melissa De La Cruz 
37. The Last Vampire - Christopher Pike
38. Avalon High - Meg Cabot
39. The Dangerous Days of Daniel X - James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge 
40. Hooking Up - Randi Reisfeld
41. The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
42. Same Difference - Siobhan Vivian
43. Heat Wave - Richard Castle
44. Angel Time - Anne Rice
45. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Titan’s Curse - Rick Riordan
46. Maximum Ride: School’s Out Forever - James Patterson
47. Daniel X: Watch the Skies - James Patterson & Ned Rust
48. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
49. Wish - Alexandra Bullen
50. Coyote Moon - John Vornholt 

This was the first book in the first volume of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer books. Well, the thing about these books is they’re obviously not the greatest written books in the history of the world. In fact, the writing was almost laughable in parts. However, I did enjoy reading the book. Sure it wasn’t great writing, but it’s about Buffy and the Scoobies and all that jazz which automatically makes up for it. 

A carnival has come to Sunnydale, but they haven’t come alone. A very unusual and out of character pack of coyotes has also arrived. Buffy seems to be the only one who finds this an unusual coincidence. Xander and Willow are too caught up with two carnies that have suddenly taken interest in them. It plays out just the way an episode of Buffy does.

The main complaint was that the ending was kind of anti-climactic. It switches to Xander and Willow’s point of view, they think “Buffy was wrong about these guys, this date is great” and then suddenly “Crap, we were wrong, where’s Buffy when you need her” and then there’s Buffy, she stabs the bad guy, he goes poof, the end. I was like, seriously? It’s over? But alas, that’s how that goes. Maybe the other books will be better. I won’t get my hopes up though. 

Anyway, that’s my 50 books for the year 2010. I actually think I will do it again for 2011, it will force me to finish reading all the books I bought last year. Plus, my Nook will make it easier to finish them faster.

This was fun. But I’m done for now. Until tomorrow. Happy New Year. 

(title is a quote from the book)

31^st Dec 2010

Friday // 2pm // 2 years ago

she hadn’t known what her wish would be, but she knew she was ready to make it.

(a.k.a. Fifty Books Challenge Update)

And another:

1. Dearly Devoted Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
2. Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane
3. Who’s to Blame? (A Literary Comedy) - Jeffery S. Williams
4. A Little Friendly Advice - Siobhan Vivian
5. Wuthering High - Cara Lockwood
6. Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
7. Crank - Ellen Hopkins
8. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
9. Burned - Ellen Hopkins
10. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
11. Glass - Ellen Hopkins
12. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
13. My Sister’s Keeper - Jodi Picoult
14. A Study in Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
15. The Sign of Four - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
16. A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray
17. Someone Like You - Sarah Dessen
18. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan
19. Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris
20. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
21. Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie
22. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone - J.K. Rowling
23. The Heavenstone Secrets - V.C. Andrews
24. Impulse - Ellen Hopkins
25. Identical - Ellen Hopkins
26. Gone - Michael Grant
27. Innocence - Jane Mendelsohn
28. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
29. The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud - Ben Sherwood
30. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters - Rick Riordan
31. The Fallen - Thomas E. Sniegoski
32. Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment - James Patterson
33. Hush, Hush - Becca Fitzpatrick
34. Belinda - Anne Rice as Anne Rampling 
35. Angels in America - Tony Kushner
36. Blue Bloods - Melissa De La Cruz 
37. The Last Vampire - Christopher Pike
38. Avalon High - Meg Cabot
39. The Dangerous Days of Daniel X - James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge 
40. Hooking Up - Randi Reisfeld
41. The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
42. Same Difference - Siobhan Vivian
43. Heat Wave - Richard Castle
44. Angel Time - Anne Rice
45. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Titan’s Curse - Rick Riordan
46. Maximum Ride: School’s Out Forever - James Patterson
47. Daniel X: Watch the Skies - James Patterson & Ned Rust
48. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
49. Wish - Alexandra Bullen

I got this book for free on my Nook. I was really surprised that it didn’t cost anything and since I wanted to buy it anyway, I figured this one would be good to keep stored there to read later. But then I started reading the first few pages and i was hooked.

Olivia is offered the opportunity to make three wishes on three magical dresses. Her first wish, the only wish she had in her heart, was to have her twin sister back. The next day, her sister Violet, who had been dead for almost a year, appears for only Olivia to see or hear. 

It’s a book that gives substantial meaning to be careful what you wish for. I also discovered that this too is part of a series. While the characters change in the second book, the three wishes with the three dresses made by a girl named Posey, is consistent. I guess I’m going to have to get that one as well.

Last up, Coyote Moon.

(title is a quote from the book)

31^st Dec 2010

Friday // 2pm // 2 years ago

we’re all mad here. I’m mad. you’re mad.

(a.k.a. Fifty Books Challenge Update)

And another one down:

1. Dearly Devoted Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
2. Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane
3. Who’s to Blame? (A Literary Comedy) - Jeffery S. Williams
4. A Little Friendly Advice - Siobhan Vivian
5. Wuthering High - Cara Lockwood
6. Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
7. Crank - Ellen Hopkins
8. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
9. Burned - Ellen Hopkins
10. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
11. Glass - Ellen Hopkins
12. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
13. My Sister’s Keeper - Jodi Picoult
14. A Study in Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
15. The Sign of Four - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
16. A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray
17. Someone Like You - Sarah Dessen
18. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan
19. Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris
20. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
21. Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie
22. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone - J.K. Rowling
23. The Heavenstone Secrets - V.C. Andrews
24. Impulse - Ellen Hopkins
25. Identical - Ellen Hopkins
26. Gone - Michael Grant
27. Innocence - Jane Mendelsohn
28. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
29. The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud - Ben Sherwood
30. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters - Rick Riordan
31. The Fallen - Thomas E. Sniegoski
32. Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment - James Patterson
33. Hush, Hush - Becca Fitzpatrick
34. Belinda - Anne Rice as Anne Rampling 
35. Angels in America - Tony Kushner
36. Blue Bloods - Melissa De La Cruz 
37. The Last Vampire - Christopher Pike
38. Avalon High - Meg Cabot
39. The Dangerous Days of Daniel X - James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge 
40. Hooking Up - Randi Reisfeld
41. The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
42. Same Difference - Siobhan Vivian
43. Heat Wave - Richard Castle
44. Angel Time - Anne Rice
45. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Titan’s Curse - Rick Riordan
46. Maximum Ride: School’s Out Forever - James Patterson
47. Daniel X: Watch the Skies - James Patterson & Ned Rust
48. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

Everyone knows the story of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: the little girls falls down the rabbit hole into a strange land where there are disappearing cats with wide grins, mad hatters and march hares that have endless tea parties with a door mouse, a hookah smoking catepillar, a queen with a tendency of trying to behead her kingdom of playing cards, and cakes and drinks and mushrooms that make her grow larger and smaller. 

I’ve always known that story, but I’ve never actually read it. So, since it was only ninety-nine cents for the Nook, I figured it would be a good choice as one of my last books. I really enjoyed recognizing all the aspects of the story I already knew and reading about some of the things I didn’t know about the story.

Next up, Wish and Coyote Moon. 

(title is a quote from the book)

31^st Dec 2010

Friday // 2pm // 2 years ago

the hottest new entertainment phenomenon we’re calling endertainment. watch the skies for more episodes—and a sizzling premiere that’ll leave you dying for more.

(a.k.a. Fifty Books Challenge Update)

And a quick spam of my last four books shall commence.

Here we go:

1. Dearly Devoted Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
2. Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane
3. Who’s to Blame? (A Literary Comedy) - Jeffery S. Williams
4. A Little Friendly Advice - Siobhan Vivian
5. Wuthering High - Cara Lockwood
6. Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
7. Crank - Ellen Hopkins
8. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
9. Burned - Ellen Hopkins
10. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
11. Glass - Ellen Hopkins
12. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
13. My Sister’s Keeper - Jodi Picoult
14. A Study in Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
15. The Sign of Four - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
16. A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray
17. Someone Like You - Sarah Dessen
18. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan
19. Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris
20. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
21. Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie
22. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone - J.K. Rowling
23. The Heavenstone Secrets - V.C. Andrews
24. Impulse - Ellen Hopkins
25. Identical - Ellen Hopkins
26. Gone - Michael Grant
27. Innocence - Jane Mendelsohn
28. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
29. The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud - Ben Sherwood
30. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters - Rick Riordan
31. The Fallen - Thomas E. Sniegoski
32. Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment - James Patterson
33. Hush, Hush - Becca Fitzpatrick
34. Belinda - Anne Rice as Anne Rampling 
35. Angels in America - Tony Kushner
36. Blue Bloods - Melissa De La Cruz 
37. The Last Vampire - Christopher Pike
38. Avalon High - Meg Cabot
39. The Dangerous Days of Daniel X - James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge 
40. Hooking Up - Randi Reisfeld
41. The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
42. Same Difference - Siobhan Vivian
43. Heat Wave - Richard Castle
44. Angel Time - Anne Rice
45. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Titan’s Curse - Rick Riordan
46. Maximum Ride: School’s Out Forever - James Patterson
47. Daniel X: Watch the Skies - James Patterson & Ned Rust

So this was the first book I read on my new Nook. I figured since it was far cheaper than it would have been if I bought the physical copy, I would read this one as one of my last four books instead of one of the other books I could have gotten. 

So Daniel X and his band of imaginary friends are back in the second installment of the series. This time he’s going after Number 5 on the list of bad aliens on Earth (or Terra Firma). Number 5 is an Outer Worlds TV producer who travels to planets to use the inhabitants to cast his reality endertainment programs, and then destroy the planet in the finale. Daniel’s creating powers are put to the test once again. 

I really enjoy this series and. along with the Maximum Ride series, I would definitely recommend it for people who want an entertaining book series that doesn’t take too much time to wade through. 

I’m trying to talk myself out of splurging and buying the third Daniel X book for my Nook. 

Next up, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

(title is a quote from the book)

27^th Dec 2010

Monday // 5pm // 2 years ago

my invite must have gotten lost in the mail but I don’t mind crashing this party

(a.k.a. Fifty Books Challenge Update)

I actually only have one book left to read! I just have to catch up on my updates. 

Grand Total:

1. Dearly Devoted Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
2. Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane
3. Who’s to Blame? (A Literary Comedy) - Jeffery S. Williams
4. A Little Friendly Advice - Siobhan Vivian
5. Wuthering High - Cara Lockwood
6. Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
7. Crank - Ellen Hopkins
8. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
9. Burned - Ellen Hopkins
10. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
11. Glass - Ellen Hopkins
12. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
13. My Sister’s Keeper - Jodi Picoult
14. A Study in Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
15. The Sign of Four - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
16. A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray
17. Someone Like You - Sarah Dessen
18. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan
19. Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris
20. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
21. Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie
22. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone - J.K. Rowling
23. The Heavenstone Secrets - V.C. Andrews
24. Impulse - Ellen Hopkins
25. Identical - Ellen Hopkins
26. Gone - Michael Grant
27. Innocence - Jane Mendelsohn
28. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
29. The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud - Ben Sherwood
30. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters - Rick Riordan
31. The Fallen - Thomas E. Sniegoski
32. Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment - James Patterson
33. Hush, Hush - Becca Fitzpatrick
34. Belinda - Anne Rice as Anne Rampling 
35. Angels in America - Tony Kushner
36. Blue Bloods - Melissa De La Cruz 
37. The Last Vampire - Christopher Pike
38. Avalon High - Meg Cabot
39. The Dangerous Days of Daniel X - James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge 
40. Hooking Up - Randi Reisfeld
41. The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
42. Same Difference - Siobhan Vivian
43. Heat Wave - Richard Castle
44. Angel Time - Anne Rice
45. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Titan’s Curse - Rick Riordan
46. Maximum Ride: School’s Out Forever - James Patterson

So I finally got a hold of every released Maximum Ride book. From The Angel Experiment to Fang. Now I just need to get Angel when it comes out soon. I have enjoyed the first two installments of the series, as we follow the flock on their run from the School, Jeb, Ari and the Erasers. 

School’s Out Forever gives the Flock a chance, albeit brief, to experience normal life. They move in with Anne, a supposed FBI agent, who wants to help keep them safe. They are enrolled in school, and Fang, Max and Iggy all seem to have possible high-school romances on their hands (although there is a development in the possible relationship between Max and Fang outside of that). 

The Flock continue their search for the biological parents, all the while trying to overcome the obstacles of a school that seems to have been a mental hospital prior to two years before, Angel’s new mind-control ability (which she uses on the President of the United States at one point), Erasers that now have wings of their own, and a second Max. Not to mention having a mutant talking dog as a pet. 

I suppose I will be reading the rest of the series next year as part of my 2011 challenge. 

Next up, Daniel X: Watch the Skies. 

(title is from the book)

27^th Dec 2010

Monday // 1am // 2 years ago

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 mywaytocollege replied to your post:I choose the prophecy. it will be about me.

Nice List, I’ve read some of the ones you have here and I must say that I loved them.

I think I got a nice variety in over this year. I’ve got a few new favorites and I’ve loved quite a few off the list. :)

26^th Dec 2010

Sunday // 6pm // 2 years ago

I choose the prophecy. it will be about me.

(a.k.a. Fifty Books Challenge Update)

5/5

I’m getting close now. Only have a few more days, but I think I’ll be able to manage it. 

Grand Total:

1. Dearly Devoted Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
2. Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane
3. Who’s to Blame? (A Literary Comedy) - Jeffery S. Williams
4. A Little Friendly Advice - Siobhan Vivian
5. Wuthering High - Cara Lockwood
6. Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
7. Crank - Ellen Hopkins
8. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
9. Burned - Ellen Hopkins
10. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
11. Glass - Ellen Hopkins
12. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
13. My Sister’s Keeper - Jodi Picoult
14. A Study in Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
15. The Sign of Four - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
16. A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray
17. Someone Like You - Sarah Dessen
18. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan
19. Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris
20. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
21. Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie
22. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone - J.K. Rowling
23. The Heavenstone Secrets - V.C. Andrews
24. Impulse - Ellen Hopkins
25. Identical - Ellen Hopkins
26. Gone - Michael Grant
27. Innocence - Jane Mendelsohn
28. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
29. The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud - Ben Sherwood
30. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters - Rick Riordan
31. The Fallen - Thomas E. Sniegoski
32. Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment - James Patterson
33. Hush, Hush - Becca Fitzpatrick
34. Belinda - Anne Rice as Anne Rampling 
35. Angels in America - Tony Kushner
36. Blue Bloods - Melissa De La Cruz 
37. The Last Vampire - Christopher Pike
38. Avalon High - Meg Cabot
39. The Dangerous Days of Daniel X - James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge 
40. Hooking Up - Randi Reisfeld
41. The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
42. Same Difference - Siobhan Vivian
43. Heat Wave - Richard Castle
44. Angel Time - Anne Rice
45. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Titan’s Curse - Rick Riordan

Finished the third book of the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. Same kind of stuff as the other two, a very fast read full of kiddie humor and predictability. Although, there was a development in the Percy x Annabeth department. You could say Percy and company are growing up. 

I find this series interesting because it incorporates aspects of nearly every myth regarding the gods in some manner. We also get a funny little insight to how each God or Godess would be depicted in modern times. I personally enjoyed the descriptions of the forms of Apollo and Aphrodite in this book. Apollo’s haiku obsession was particularly entertaining. 

Other than that I don’t have much else to say about the books. I’m working on getting the last two books of the series to read for my 2011 fifty book challenge, because I’m going to try it out once again. 

Next up, Maximum Ride: School’s Out Forever. Then maybe the next Daniel X. 

(title is a quote from the book)

22^nd Dec 2010

Wednesday // 4pm // 2 years ago

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regenerateexterminate replied to your post: if a body catch a body comin’ through the rye

I loved shutter island. and I’m reading pride and prejudice now :)

Shutter Island has become one of my favorites. I’ve read Pride and Prejudice a few times. Enjoy it! :)

21^st Dec 2010

Tuesday // 5pm // 2 years ago

dear lord, forgive me that i ever separated myself from you

(a.k.a. Fifty Books Challenge Update)

4/5

This book got me preached to on my campus. Two girls walked up to me while I was reading, waiting outside my class for the class before ours to let out (and I had headphones in mind you), and they started talking to me about what was missing in my life: Jesus. 

Grand total is:

1. Dearly Devoted Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
2. Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane
3. Who’s to Blame? (A Literary Comedy) - Jeffery S. Williams
4. A Little Friendly Advice - Siobhan Vivian
5. Wuthering High - Cara Lockwood
6. Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
7. Crank - Ellen Hopkins
8. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
9. Burned - Ellen Hopkins
10. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
11. Glass - Ellen Hopkins
12. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
13. My Sister’s Keeper - Jodi Picoult
14. A Study in Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
15. The Sign of Four - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
16. A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray
17. Someone Like You - Sarah Dessen
18. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan
19. Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris
20. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
21. Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie
22. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone - J.K. Rowling
23. The Heavenstone Secrets - V.C. Andrews
24. Impulse - Ellen Hopkins
25. Identical - Ellen Hopkins
26. Gone - Michael Grant
27. Innocence - Jane Mendelsohn
28. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
29. The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud - Ben Sherwood
30. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters - Rick Riordan
31. The Fallen - Thomas E. Sniegoski
32. Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment - James Patterson
33. Hush, Hush - Becca Fitzpatrick
34. Belinda - Anne Rice as Anne Rampling 
35. Angels in America - Tony Kushner
36. Blue Bloods - Melissa De La Cruz 
37. The Last Vampire - Christopher Pike
38. Avalon High - Meg Cabot
39. The Dangerous Days of Daniel X - James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge 
40. Hooking Up - Randi Reisfeld
41. The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
42. Same Difference - Siobhan Vivian
43. Heat Wave - Richard Castle
44. Angel Time - Anne Rice

I’ve been a big fan of the Anne Rice books I’ve read so far. I really enjoyed this one as well. It’s the newest one to hit paperback, and there’s already a sequel to it out in hardback (which I really want to get). 

It’s about, as you can guess, Angels. Leaving behind the dark tones of the Vampire Chronicles and the Mayfair Witches, this book is about Toby O’Dare a contract killer, who is called upon by the angels on a mission that will lead to his salvation. It is a journey in search of forgiveness and redemption. 

I blew through this book in a couple days, and while there is closure for the mission that Toby completes, the book is left open ended (on a bit of a cliffhanger) for Toby himself. I get that it’s the start of a series, but I was definitely in the “THERE IS NO WAY IT’S ALREADY OVER, COME ON, TELL ME MORE” phase when I finished the book. I guess that’s a hint to get the second book. Hmm. I’m going to enjoy reading The Songs of Seraphim series.

Next up, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Titan’s Curse. 

(title is a quote from the book)

21^st Dec 2010

Tuesday // 3pm // 2 years ago

the heat wave broke late that night, and it did not go quietly.

(a.k.a. Fifty Books Challenge Update)

3/5

Oh I loved this one.

Grand total:

1. Dearly Devoted Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
2. Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane
3. Who’s to Blame? (A Literary Comedy) - Jeffery S. Williams
4. A Little Friendly Advice - Siobhan Vivian
5. Wuthering High - Cara Lockwood
6. Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
7. Crank - Ellen Hopkins
8. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
9. Burned - Ellen Hopkins
10. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
11. Glass - Ellen Hopkins
12. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
13. My Sister’s Keeper - Jodi Picoult
14. A Study in Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
15. The Sign of Four - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
16. A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray
17. Someone Like You - Sarah Dessen
18. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan
19. Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris
20. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
21. Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie
22. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone - J.K. Rowling
23. The Heavenstone Secrets - V.C. Andrews
24. Impulse - Ellen Hopkins
25. Identical - Ellen Hopkins
26. Gone - Michael Grant
27. Innocence - Jane Mendelsohn
28. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
29. The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud - Ben Sherwood
30. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters - Rick Riordan
31. The Fallen - Thomas E. Sniegoski
32. Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment - James Patterson
33. Hush, Hush - Becca Fitzpatrick
34. Belinda - Anne Rice as Anne Rampling 
35. Angels in America - Tony Kushner
36. Blue Bloods - Melissa De La Cruz 
37. The Last Vampire - Christopher Pike
38. Avalon High - Meg Cabot
39. The Dangerous Days of Daniel X - James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge 
40. Hooking Up - Randi Reisfeld
41. The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
42. Same Difference - Siobhan Vivian
43. Heat Wave - Richard Castle

Let me preface this with a declaration of my love for the show Castle. Nathan Fillion as a best selling author of detective novels? That’s a win in my book. There’s also the intense sexual tension between Castle and Beckett,

and the antics of lovable partners Ryan and Esposito.

Anyway, reading Heat Wave was like watching a marathon of Castle episode. Raley and Ochoa (a.k.a. Roach) are fictional duplicates of Ryan and Esposito. Nikki Heat, while obviously altered to fit Castle’s imagination of the character, is definitely a perfect rendition of Beckett. And then there’s Rook, the embodiment of Castle, who’s only difference is that he’s a journalist not a novelist (haha, Rook, Castle, get it?). 

The only difference between the book and the show, is the will-they-won’t-they dynamic Castle and Beckett have going on is non existent in the book…there’s just a very descriptive they did toward the middle of the book. 

My love for the show amplified my love for this little tie-in, promotional book. 

Next Up, Angel Time by Anne Rice, already read. 

(title is a quote from the book)

21^st Dec 2010

Tuesday // 2pm // 2 years ago

i still feel undeserving. maybe i always will. maybe i just have to learn to accept that.

(a.k.a. Fifty Books Challenge Update)

2/5 

And another one down, another one down, another one bites the dust.

Total:

1. Dearly Devoted Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
2. Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane
3. Who’s to Blame? (A Literary Comedy) - Jeffery S. Williams
4. A Little Friendly Advice - Siobhan Vivian
5. Wuthering High - Cara Lockwood
6. Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
7. Crank - Ellen Hopkins
8. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
9. Burned - Ellen Hopkins
10. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
11. Glass - Ellen Hopkins
12. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
13. My Sister’s Keeper - Jodi Picoult
14. A Study in Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
15. The Sign of Four - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
16. A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray
17. Someone Like You - Sarah Dessen
18. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan
19. Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris
20. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
21. Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie
22. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone - J.K. Rowling
23. The Heavenstone Secrets - V.C. Andrews
24. Impulse - Ellen Hopkins
25. Identical - Ellen Hopkins
26. Gone - Michael Grant
27. Innocence - Jane Mendelsohn
28. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
29. The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud - Ben Sherwood
30. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters - Rick Riordan
31. The Fallen - Thomas E. Sniegoski
32. Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment - James Patterson
33. Hush, Hush - Becca Fitzpatrick
34. Belinda - Anne Rice as Anne Rampling 
35. Angels in America - Tony Kushner
36. Blue Bloods - Melissa De La Cruz 
37. The Last Vampire - Christopher Pike
38. Avalon High - Meg Cabot
39. The Dangerous Days of Daniel X - James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge 
40. Hooking Up - Randi Reisfeld
41. The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
42. Same Difference - Siobhan Vivian

Same Difference follows Emily through her summer before her senior year of high school. She is attending a very prestigious summer art program and completely out of her element. She comes from generic suburbia where everything looks the same, everyone acts the same, and everything stays the same. Thrown into a world where creativity and being different is required, she learns to adjust and eventually learns to find her true self.

Siobhan Vivian writes stories that chronicle the lives of young girls, taking a look at friendships, relationships, and understanding yourself. These kinds of stories are my favorite to read, because they’re likely to be the kinds of stories I will write. 

Next up, Heat Wave, already read. 

(title is a quote from the book)

21^st Dec 2010

Tuesday // 1pm // 2 years ago

if a body catch a body comin’ through the rye

(a.k.a. Fifty Books Challenge Update) 

1/5 Updates

So I’m trying to steam through my last ten or so. I’m doing a swell job so far.

Here we go:

1. Dearly Devoted Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
2. Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane
3. Who’s to Blame? (A Literary Comedy) - Jeffery S. Williams
4. A Little Friendly Advice - Siobhan Vivian
5. Wuthering High - Cara Lockwood
6. Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
7. Crank - Ellen Hopkins
8. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
9. Burned - Ellen Hopkins
10. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
11. Glass - Ellen Hopkins
12. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
13. My Sister’s Keeper - Jodi Picoult
14. A Study in Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
15. The Sign of Four - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
16. A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray
17. Someone Like You - Sarah Dessen
18. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan
19. Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris
20. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
21. Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie
22. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone - J.K. Rowling
23. The Heavenstone Secrets - V.C. Andrews
24. Impulse - Ellen Hopkins
25. Identical - Ellen Hopkins
26. Gone - Michael Grant
27. Innocence - Jane Mendelsohn
28. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
29. The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud - Ben Sherwood
30. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters - Rick Riordan
31. The Fallen - Thomas E. Sniegoski
32. Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment - James Patterson
33. Hush, Hush - Becca Fitzpatrick
34. Belinda - Anne Rice as Anne Rampling 
35. Angels in America - Tony Kushner
36. Blue Bloods - Melissa De La Cruz 
37. The Last Vampire - Christopher Pike
38. Avalon High - Meg Cabot
39. The Dangerous Days of Daniel X - James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge 
40. Hooking Up - Randi Reisfeld
41. The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger

I told one of my friends that I had never read Catcher in the Rye, and she was surprised that I hadn’t, since I had read a lot of the “classic” novels. The books we had to read for classes in school, but I read for fun. So I had to go buy it and read it just to say I did. Besides, a lot of people I know have called it there favorite book ever.

Now, I won’t say it’s my favorite book ever, cause it’s not. Even though I don’t really have a favorite book ever…hmm. I really enjoyed reading it. It was a wonderful look into Holden’s life, with it’s themes of retaining childhood innocence and rebellion. It was also a quick read, and the narration style was a perfect driving force through the novel. Though I have to say, its kind of strange trying to read a book not having any idea what it’s about. It’s only with the older books that you have that problem. Most of the recently published books come with a neatly written summary on the back or inside the book jacket, with the older books you’re expected to just know what they’re about because if they’ve endured this long it should be common knowledge. But really, if you’re young then the only way you would know is if you have read the book yourself, or had to study in school, or take the time to look it up, but if you look it up then the whole plot may be spoiled. So I went into Catcher in the Rye with no idea what it was about except that the main character’s name was Holden Caulfield (turns out that was what it was about lol).

Anyway, that’s another one down. I still have four other books that I have already finished reading and need to post about. Look out for those. 

Next up, Same Difference by Siobhan Vivian, already read. Next up to read, Maximum Ride: School’s Out Forever. 

(title is quote from the book)

17^th Dec 2010

Friday // 3pm // 2 years ago

i have six books left to read for my 50 book challenge

i have to squeeze them into the next two weeks. 

I’ll be posting updates for the last few books I’ve read sometime in the next couple days. 

25^th Nov 2010

Thursday // 3pm // 2 years ago

they were the girls. secrets would stay with them.

(a.k.a. Fifty Book Challenge Update)

I’m behind again. damn.

Grand total: 

1. Dearly Devoted Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
2. Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane
3. Who’s to Blame? (A Literary Comedy) - Jeffery S. Williams
4. A Little Friendly Advice - Siobhan Vivian
5. Wuthering High - Cara Lockwood
6. Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
7. Crank - Ellen Hopkins
8. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
9. Burned - Ellen Hopkins
10. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
11. Glass - Ellen Hopkins
12. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
13. My Sister’s Keeper - Jodi Picoult
14. A Study in Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
15. The Sign of Four - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
16. A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray
17. Someone Like You - Sarah Dessen
18. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan
19. Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris
20. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
21. Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie
22. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone - J.K. Rowling
23. The Heavenstone Secrets - V.C. Andrews
24. Impulse - Ellen Hopkins
25. Identical - Ellen Hopkins
26. Gone - Michael Grant
27. Innocence - Jane Mendelsohn
28. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
29. The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud - Ben Sherwood
30. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters - Rick Riordan
31. The Fallen - Thomas E. Sniegoski
32. Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment - James Patterson
33. Hush, Hush - Becca Fitzpatrick
34. Belinda - Anne Rice as Anne Rampling 
35. Angels in America - Tony Kushner
36. Blue Bloods - Melissa De La Cruz 
37. The Last Vampire - Christopher Pike
38. Avalon High - Meg Cabot
39. The Dangerous Days of Daniel X - James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge 
40. Hooking Up - Randi Reisfeld

So, this is another random book I picked up at Book Off for a dollar. It was your typical young adult book. It was all about The Girls, four teenage girls of the Las Vegas elite—“rich, famous and shameless” as the front cover tagline describes them. They are four very different girls, living out four very different situations when it comes to romance, hooking up, fashion and their futures. I don’t have brilliant things to say about this book. I liked it, I enjoyed reading it, I figured out the “surprise” revelation two chapters in, and it was a fast read. I basically read it because, well, I knew I could finish it fast and I need to catch up on my last ten books. 

Next up, I don’t know, but I better finish it fast lol.

(title is the last line of the book).