All We Know of Heaven

So this book is really good for the first half, but the end is a little disappointing. It is drawn out way too long. The story is about two best friends who look almost identical. When they get in a car accident the hospital mixes them up because they are so badly damaged. They thought one girl had died when it was really the other. In a story of mistaken identity one family rejoices and the other weeps. The life of Maureen will never be the same.

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Bridget Flannery and Maureen O'Malley have been BFFs since forever. Then a brief moment of inattention on an icy road leaves one girl dead and the other in a coma, battered beyond recognition. Family and friends mourn one friend's loss and pray for the other's recovery. Then the doctors discover they have made a terrible mistake. The girl who lived is the one who everyone thought had died.

The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter was an ok book, of course it's an American classic and has an intersting point about society. It is a little hard to get interested in, but Hester Prynne is a character you want to be happy. Even though she was charged with adultery she doesn't give up, she raises her daughter to a hypocritcal society in which they are outcast. To get the whole story you have to read the book it's really too much information to try and explain.

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Roger Chillingworth, an aging scholar, arrives in New England after two years' separation from his wife Hester to find her on trial for adultery. For refusing to reveal her lover's identity, she is condemned to wear a letter 'A' sewn onto her clothes. Roger resolves to discover and destroy the man who has stolen his honor.For the next seven years the participants in this bizarre love triangle privately suffer the consequences of betrayal, cowardice, and humiliation. Slowly but surely, the need for redemption grows in each as the story hastens toward its dramatic close.

Pride and Prejudice

This was an excelent book. It takes awhile to get used to the language and it starts off a little slow, but it's totally worth it in the end. The movie is also really good, although not as good as the book. Mr. Bennet was one of my favorite characters, along with Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy. Truely Mr. Darcy is a wonderful person once he got past his pride, which takes him over half the book to accomplish. I really suggest you read this book if you like love stories.

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This novel tells the tale of the convoluted romance of Mister Fitzwilliam Darcy and Miss Elizabeth `Lizzy? Bennet. Basically, Darcy?s pride prevents him from showing his true feelings for Elizabeth, and Lizzy?s prejudice against men keeps her from truly falling in love. The protagonists of the story are Charles Bingley, Fitzwilliam Darcy, and the Bennet family. The leaders of the Bennet family are rational Mr. Bennet and foolish Mrs. Bennet, who thinks only of finding wealthy men for her daughters to marry. This is the tale of the courtships of the Bennet girls: beautiful and gentle Jane, clever Lizzy, reclusive Mary, silly Kitty, and headstrong Lydia. The story begins with the incorrigible Mrs. Bennet demanding that her husband introduce the family to wealthy Mr. Bingley, who has just moved to Netherfield Park, in the village of Longbourn, where the Bennet residence can also be found. Mrs. Bennet hopes that Bingley will marry one of her daughters. The Bennet family forms a friendship with Mr. Bingley, his sister Caroline, and their friend, Mr. Darcy. In the mean time, the Bennets also become acquainted with one George Wickham, Darcy?s estranged childhood friend.

Fahrenheit 451

So I had to read this book for English class, but it was good. It was about a society where books were burned if they were found. The ending is a little depressing but if fits the story. It has a lot of good characters but leaves a few unanswered questions about what happens to Clarice. I would suggest if you had to do a paper for English class this would be a good book to choose.

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Nowadays firemen start fires. Fireman Guy Montag loves to rush to a fire and watch books burn up. Then he met a seventeen-year old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid, and a professor who told him of a future where people could think. And Guy Montag knew what he had to do....

The God of Animals

Talk about a serious reality check. This story seems so real it could be the life of your neighbor. Most books have happy endings, well not this one. It's all about broken promises and dreams that don't come true, the real hardships of life. Not full of fairytales and princesses. Set in the life of a preteen girl living on her family's horse stable. The ending wasn't to be admirered but that was just because it ended like real life story not one out of a story book. Everyone has reasons to lie and lives that get torn apart, nothing is ever what it seems.

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When her older sister runs away to marry a rodeo cowboy, Alice Winston is left to bear the brunt of her family's troubles -- a depressed, bedridden mother; a reticent, overworked father; and a run-down horse ranch. As the hottest summer in fifteen years unfolds and bills pile up, Alice is torn between dreams of escaping the loneliness of her duty-filled life and a longing to help her father mend their family and the ranch. To make ends meet, the Winstons board the pampered horses of rich neighbors, and for the first time Alice confronts the power and security that class and wealth provide. As her family and their well-being become intertwined with the lives of their clients, Alice is drawn into an adult world of secrets and hard truths, and soon discovers that people -- including herself -- can be cruel, can lie and cheat, and every once in a while, can do something heartbreaking and selfless. Ultimately, Alice and her family must weather a devastating betrayal and a shocking, violent series of events that will test their love and prove the power of forgiveness.

Story of a Girl

Story of a Girl was surprisingly good. It was about a girl trying to overcome a past mistake that fro three years was controlling how her life and her family's was developing. She makes quite a few more mistakes during the course of the book, but eventually she resolves those and the one big mistake that was controlling her life. In learning to forgive and overcome, she finally takes control of her life. The ending was ok it left off a little abruptly though.

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When she is caught in the backseat of a car with her older brother's best friend - Deanna Lambert's teenage life is changed forever. Struggling to overcome the lasting repercussions and the stifling role of "school slut," she longs to escape a life defined by her past.

Untamed

Untmamed was the fourth book in the House of Night series. Personally, I think the authors are sort of drawing out the series a little bit. They basically resolved everything that happened in the last book in the first fifty pages, it as a bit too easy. Zoey even got involved with another guy.Then, something totally different basically happened than what was set up in the last book. It was ok towards the end and it left off setting up for the next book. That I hope will be better.

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Life sucks when your friends are pissed at you. Just ask Zoey Redbird – she’s become an expert on suckiness. In one week she has gone from having three boyfriends to having none, and from having a close group of friends who trusted and supported her, to being an outcast. Speaking of friends, the only two Zoey has left are undead and unMarked. And Neferet has declared war on humans, which Zoey knows in her heart is wrong. But will anyone listen to her? Zoey's adventures at vampyre finishing school take a wild and dangerous turn as loyalties are tested, shocking true intentions come to light, and an ancient evil is awakened in PC and Kristin Cast's spellbinding fourth House of Night novel.

Body Surfing

Body Surfing was pretty goo, it was very surprising and written well. The main woman of the sstory has a hard time with love and life, being once divorced and once widowed. The ending fit the story pretty well, it was sad at times and funny at others. It was a more adult type romance novel,but not graphic or anything. At times it was a bit confusing. It makes you want to go to the ocean and try body surfing. It teaches you a lesson that sometimes people aren't really who you think they are and you shouldn't make assumptions.

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At the age of 29, Sydney has already been once divorced and once widowed. Trying to regain her footing, she has signed on to tutor the teenage daughter of a well-to-do couple as they spend a sultry summer in their oceanfront New Hampshire cottage. But when the Edwardses' two grown sons arrive at the beach house, Sydney finds herself caught up in a destructive web of old tensions and bitter divisions. As the brothers vie for her affections, the fragile existence Sydney has rebuilt is threatened.

Deep Down Popular

Deep Down Popular was ok when I bought it I didn't know it was about sixth graders. It was written kind of simply, not alot of big words. The feel of the book was very down home in the south kind of book. Since it was based in Virginia, they say Ya'll alot. True friendship and childhood love is the main point in thi story. Bascially enjoying life and realizing what deep down popular truly means.

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6th-grader Jessie Lou is deeply, madly, passionately in love with Conrad Parker Smith. Too bad she's a tomboy with only one on-again, off-again friend, and hair so short you can't spit on it. Too bad he's the most popular boy in their small-town school. But then Conrad hurts his leg and suddenly can't keep up with his old pursuits anymore. Jessie Lou and Conrad start spending a lot more time together, but she can't help wonder -- is she just a substitute friend? And will Conrad forget her when his leg brace comes off and he's king of the school once again?

This I Believe...

This I believe was ok. It's a collection of essays about what people believe in, their opinions, and their ways of life. Some of the essays were really interesting, while others not so much. if you like to see how other people look at life this is a good book for you to read. The first half of the book wesn;t that great, there were alot of stories about religion. You might read this book if you had to write an essay yourself, it would be good inspiration. The only problem is the essasy are mostly from famous people, professors, or jounalists. Few teenagers.

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An inspiring collection of the personal philosophies of a group of remarkable men and women
Based on the National Public Radio series of the same name, This I Believe features eighty essayists-from the famous to the unknown-completing the thought that begins the book's title. Each piece compels readers to rethink not only how they have arrived at their own personal beliefs but also the extent to which they share them with others.
Featuring a well-known list of contributors-including Isabel Allende, Colin Powell, Gloria Steinem, William F. Buckley Jr., Penn Jillette, Bill Gates, and John Updike-the collection also contains essays by a Brooklyn lawyer; a part-time hospital clerk from Rehoboth, Massachusetts; a woman who sells Yellow Pages advertising in Fort Worth, Texas; and a man who serves on the state of Rhode Island's parole board.
The result is a stirring and provocative trip inside the minds and hearts of a diverse group of people whose beliefs-and the incredibly varied ways in which they choose to express them-reveal the American spirit at its best.

Thirteen Reasons Why

Th1rteen R3eaons Why was a really good book. It shows how alot of little things add up to alot. And how no matter how big you think something is anothere person could take it totally different. People are contected to each othere by their actions. Throughout this whole story people see the connections that wouldn't have really been noticed if they weren't pointed out. It makes you think twice about how you treat people. The ending could have been better, it wasn' quite what i wanted to happen.

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Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker–his classmate and crush–who committed suicide two weeks earlier. On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out how he made the list.

When it Happens

This was a decent book. It was a true teenage romance kind of book. With soulmates and finding something real. The story ispredictable, you know what is basically going to happen, but it was good anyway. The characters were realistic and very easy to like, or not like. It was a good book to read if you like books about finding the person for you, even if there are a little different than you imagine. Also a girl learns to be herself and a boy learns to work harder. It has a happy ending.

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Sara and Tobey couldn't be more different. She is focused on getting into her first-choice college; he wants to win Battle of the Bands. Sara's other goal is to find true love, so when Dave, a popular jock, asks her out, she's thrilled. But then there's Tobey. His amazing blue eyes and quirky wit always creep into her thoughts. It just so happens that one of Tobey's goals is also to make Sara fall in love with him. Told in alternating points of view, Sara and Tobey's real connection will have everyone rooting for them from the minute they meet!

Blood and Chocolate

So Blood and Chocolate surprised me. I had seen the movie, but the book is totally different. The basics are the same and everything, but the ending of the book is actually opposite of the movie. Personally I like the book better than the movie. Most books usually are better than there movies, although there are some exceptions. This book is good to read if you like werewolves or supernatural things. It ends up like the movie in being a romance except she ends up with a different person. It was a decent book to read.

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Vivian Gandillon relishes the change, the sweet, fierce ache that carries her from girl to wolf. At sixteen, she is beautiful and strong, and all the young wolves are on her tail. But Vivian still grieves for her dead father; her pack remains leaderless and in disarray, and she feels lost in the suburbs of Maryland. She longs for a normal life. But what is normal for a werewolf?Then Vivian falls in love with a human, a meat-boy. Aiden is kind and gentle, a welcome relief from the squabbling pack. He's fascinated by magic, and Vivian longs to reveal herself to him. Surely he would understand her and delight in the wonder of her dual nature, not fear her as an ordinary human would.Vivian's divided loyalties are strained further when a brutal murder threatens to expose the pack. Moving between two worlds, she does not seem to belong in either. What is she really--human or beast? Which tastes sweeter--blood or chocolate?

Hidden

This book in my opinion was really good. It was a love story, that was really touching, but it didn't take up the whole story. It was about a woman who runs away from her abusive boyfriend and seeks refuge with her old friend, who is Amish. I recommend this book very highly. I can't wait to read the second book when it comes out.

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When Anna decides it's time to leave her abusive boyfriend, she doesn't know where to turn. Rob has completely won over her parents, and the entire community, with his good looks and smooth charm. Only Anna has seen his dark side.
Desperate, she runs to the only place she's ever felt completely safe—the Amish Brenneman Bed and Breakfast, where Anna met life-long friend Katie Brenneman. The family welcomes her in, and with few questions asked allows her to stay, dressed in Plain clothing, and help around the inn.
Katie's older brother Henry is the only one who doesn't take too kindly to the intrusion. He tries to ignore Anna, knowing no good would ever come from caring for an Englisher like her. But as he gets to know Anna, he discovers her good heart and is surprised with her readiness to accept their lifestyle.
The more time Anna spends with the Amish, the more she feels she's found a true home. But how can she deny the life she left behind? And will her chance for happiness be stolen away by the man from her past?

Breaking Dawn

Ok so the final book in the Twilight series. It was not what I expected it to be. I mean if you have any ideas of what you think this book is going to be about then you're wrong. I was totally surprised. Personally this wasn't as good as the other three books. It just seemed different for some reason. The ending was good though and if it wasn't for the ending I would have been supremely ticked off. It was a little strange in some parts, but good in others. Jacob was hilarious! His sense of humor is awesome. I really like his portion of the book. In a way it was good that the series ended, but then again I'm a little disappointed.

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It might seem redundant to dismiss the fourth and final Twilight novel as escapist fantasy—but how else could anyone look at a romance about an ordinary, even clumsy teenager torn between a vampire and a werewolf, both of whom are willing to sacrifice their happiness for hers? Flaws and all, however, Meyer’s first three novels touched on something powerful in their weird refraction of our culture’s paradoxical messages about sex and sexuality. The conclusion is much thinner, despite its interminable length. Everygirl Bella achieves her wishes quickly (marriage and sex, in that order, are two, and becoming an immortal is another), and once she becomes a vampire it’s almost impossible to identify with her. But that’s not the main problem. Essentially, everyone gets everything they want, even if their desires necessitate an about-face in characterization or the messy introduction of some back story. Nobody has to renounce anything or suffer more than temporarily—in other words, grandeur is out. This isn’t about happy endings; it’s about gratification.

Truth About Forever

Ok so I have read all of Sarah Dessens Books except for one. This book tied with Just Listen as one of my favorites. It had a good story and was interesting. I really liked the main guy in the story. It was a romance sort of book much like the others. Macy was all about perfection, until she meets the Wish crew who love imperfections. It really holds the point that everything happens for a reason and a little chaos never hurt anyone. I recommend this book to anyone.

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Sixteen-year-old Macy Queen is looking forward to a long, boring summer. Her boyfriend is going away. She’s stuck with a dull-asdishwater job at the library. And she’ll spend all of her free time studying for the SATs or grieving silently with her mother over her father’s recent unexpected death. But everything changes when Macy is corralled into helping out at one of her mother’s open house events, and she meets the chaotic Wish Catering crew. Before long, Macy joins the Wish team. She loves everything about the work and the people. But the best thing about Wish is Wes—artistic, insightful, and understanding Wes—who gets Macy to look at life in a whole new way, and really start living it….

Dreamland

Dreamlnad actually surprised me by being pretty good. It reminds me alot of Breathing Underwater which was also a book about a controlling and abusive realtionship. Except Dreamland was about the victim of the abuse instead of the one being abusive. It helps you undestand what someone goes through and what it does to them emotionally and physically. The girl still loved the guy even after he hurt her. She couldn't see how this awesesome guy could be so mean. Throughout most of the book she talked about how she felt she was underwater, not really there (which again reminds me of Breathing Underwater). In the end though she goes to rehab, after she conseaved a drug problem, and makes her way to the surface.

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After her older sister runs away, sixteen-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life and begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant, and dangerous. Rogerson Biscoe, with his green eyes and dark curly hair, is absolutely seductive. Before long, sixteen-year-old Caitlin finds herself under his spell. And when he starts to abuse her, she finds she's in too deep to get herself out...

Someone Like You

This book was pretty good. It wasn't really what I was expecting. Friendship Played a main role in this book. And how friends are there with you through everything, good times and bad. In theis book the times are mostly bad. Someone Like You and That Summer were the basics for the movie How to Deal starring Mandy Moore. Personally I think the movie had a better story than both the books.

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Halley and Scarlett have been friend for years. People know Scarlett as the popular, flamboyant one; Halley's just the quiet sidekick, but she doesn't mind. The two of them balance each other perfectly–until the beginning of their junior year, when Scarlett's boyfriend is killed in a motorcycle accident. Soon afterward, she learns that she is carrying his baby. For the first time, Scarlett really needs Halley. Their friendship may bend under the weight of these struggles, but it will never break–because a true friendship is a promise you keep forever.

That Summer

This book wasn't reallyy interesting. Not much happened except that the main character stopped taking crap from everyone and became more herself. I wasn't impressed with it at all. It was one of the bokos that the movie How To Deal was based on. It ended up not being romantic at all which disappointed me .You might read it if your bored but besides that there isn't much point.

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For fifteen-year-old Haven, life is changing too quickly. She's nearly six feet tall, her father is getting remarried, and her sister the always perfect Ashley is planning a wedding of her own. Haven wishes things could just go back to the way they were. Then an old boyfriend of Ashley's reenters the picture, and through him, Haven sees the past for what it really was, and comes to grips with the future.

The Host

ok I have one thing to say this book was.....Extemely Awesome! Almost close to Twilight which of course is understandable since it was a Stephenie Meyer book also. I startewd this book thinking how awful it was going to be since I didn't understand anything going on until after the first hundred pages. So if your confused don't give up it gets better. The characters remind me of some of the Twilight people especially Jamie he reminds me of Jacob. This book had me crying and laughing because of Wanderer, I really liked her. I definetely recommend that you read this book.

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Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed.Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body, knew about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, the too vivid memories. But there was one difficulty Wanderer didn't expect: the former tenant of her body refusing to relinquish possession of her mind.Melanie fills Wanderer's thoughts with visions of the man Melanie loves-Jared, a human who still lives in hiding. Unable to separate herself from her body's desires, Wanderer yearns for a man she's never met. As outside forces make Wanderer and Melanie unwilling allies, they set off to search for the man they both love.

Fell

Ok this book was alot better than the first one in my opinion. It was the sequel to the book The Sight. It ened alot better as well. It finished off where the first book left off and tied up most of the loose ends. It left open the future for Fell and it least it gave him a happy future. This book was more involved with humans and a human girl (Alina) was one of the main characters. I liked her alot along with Catalin her somewhat boyfriend. It really made the impact if humans in the world a big issue.

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The sequel to The Sight (2002) is another mesmerizing page-turner set in Transylvania, in which the author again draws on old legends and tales, including those about Baba Yaga and Dracula. Fell, the black wolf who wanders without a pack, and Alina, a 15-year-old human, are both gifted with the Sight, which enables them to communicate, and both haunted by frightening visions, dreams, and inner demons. The companions join forces to fulfill a prophecy indicating that Alina willrescue nature itself from doom. Their trek is fraught with perils introduced by the evil Lord Vladeran, who tried to have Alina killed asa very little girl and has recently learned that she still lives. Vladeran's arsenal includes the spirit of the cunning wolf Morgra, called up to exert dark powers over Fell. Despite some minor discrepancies and an ending that feels way too pat, this book will be deemed worth the trip by returning readers as well as some newcomers, who will find sufficient back story to illuminate this adventure and to pique interest in the earlier one.

The Sight

I love wolves so of course when I saw this book in the store I was like OMG. So I got it and finally read it. I liked it but someone who doesn't like wolves might not. It kind of reminded me of the anime Wolf's Rain. The ending really made me mad. Besides that it was pretty good. It talked about the struggle betweeen wolves and man. Which I find really interesting. Now I have to read the sequel. I don't know if it's going to be good or not.

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In the shadow of an abandoned castle, a wolf pack seeks shelter. the she-wolf ’s pups will not be able to survive the harsh transylvanian winter. And they are being stalked by a lone wolf, Morgra, possessed of a mysterious and terrifying power known as the sight. Morgra knows that one of the pups born beneath the castle holds a key to power even stronger than her own—power that could give her control of this world and the next. but the pack she hunts will do anything to protect their own, even if it means setting in motion a battle that will involve all of nature, including the creature the wolves fear the most—Man.

Valiant

I really like this book and my interest in faerie books is growing extremely. It ened up being slightly romantic which actually surprised me but made me like the book even more. It wasbasedon faeries but this time the faeries are even more evilo than before and Val gets caught up in the struggle. After she finds her boyfriend and her mom together which is really sick, she runs away and right into the world of the faeries. Thanx Night for giving me this awesome book.

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When seventeen-year-old Valerie Russell runs away to New York City, she’s trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city’s labyrinthine subway system.
But there’s something eerily beguiling about Val’s new friends. Impulsive Lolli talks of monsters in the subway tunnels they call home and shoots up a shimmery amber-colored powder that makes the shadows around her dance. Severe Luis claims he can make deals with creatures that no one else can see. And then there’s Luis’s brother, timid and sensitive Dave, who makes the mistake of letting Val tag along as he makes a delivery to a woman who turns out to have goat hooves instead of feet.
When a bewildered Val allows Lolli to talk her into tracking down the hidden lair of the creature for whom Luis and Dave have been dealing, Val finds herself bound into service by a troll named Ravus. He is as hideous as he is honorable. And as Val grows to know him, she finds herself torn between her affection for an honorable monster and her fear of what her new friends are becoming.

The Silver Kiss

This book was better than I expected it to be. It was somewhat tragic and I almost cried through out the whole book especially in the end. It was truly alovestory between a human and a vampire, ofcourse not nearly as good as Twilight, but if you liked Twilight you should like this book.I do suggest you read it if you like vampires.

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Zoe is wary when, in the dead of night, the beautiful yet frightening Simon comes to her house. Simon seems to understand the pain of loneliness and death and Zoe's brooding thoughts of her dying mother.

Simon is one of the undead, a vampire, seeking revenge for the gruesome death of his mother three hundred years before. Does Simon dare ask Zoe to help free him from this lifeless chase and its insufferable loneliness?

Uninvited

He'll enter at her own risk...

This book was ok I really didn't think it was that interesting. It wasn't a very gopod vampire book either. The vampire was really generic and not really the main point of the book. I just don't like books that much when the main vampire is evil probably a side effect of reading Twilight. The only reason I read it was because the main characters name was Jordan and her life sucked so I was intrigued. Her boyfriend turns into a vampire after he dies and comes back to haunt her so I guess of course her life would suck. I guess if your bored this would be a good book to read but besides that it's not.

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Jordan's life sucks. Her boyfriend, Michael, dumped her, slept his way through half the student body, and then killed himself. But now, somehow, he appears at her window every night, begging her to let him in.

Jordan can't understand why he wants her, but she feels her resistance wearing down. After all, her life -- once a broken record of boring parties, meaningless hookups, and friends she couldn't relate to -- now consists of her drinking alone in her room as she waits for the sun to go down.

Michael needs to be invited in before he can enter. All Jordan has to do is say the words....

Wicked Lovely

This book was actually really good, far better than I expected. It was about faeries. This girl named Aislinn who has the *sight* meaning she can see the faeries. She already hated her ability and it totally controlled her life. It became even more annoying when she maent Keenan and after that her whole life changed. This guy named Seth in the book is absolutely awesome. It takes about 30 pages for the book to get interesting. The beginning is slightly boring and hard to understand, but way worth it in the long run. I highly recommend it unless you don't like faerie books then your out of luck.

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Rule #3: Don't stare at invisible faeries.

Aislinn has always seen faeries. Powerful and dangerous, they walk hidden in mortal world. Aislinn fears their cruelty—especially if they learn of her Sight—and wishes she were as blind to their presence as other teens.

Rule #2: Don't speak to invisible faeries.

Now faeries are stalking her. One of them, Keenan, who is equal parts terrifying and alluring, is trying to talk to her, asking questions Aislinn is afraid to answer.

Rule #1: Don't ever attract their attention.

But it's too late. Keenan is the Summer King who has sought his queen for nine centuries. Without her, summer itself will perish. He is determined that Aislinn will become the Summer Queen at any cost—regardless of her plans or desires.

Suddenly none of the rules that have kept Aislinn safe are working anymore, and everything is on the line: her freedom; her best friend, Seth; her life; everything.

But Inside I'm Screaming

This book had the typical mental institution setting. And told the story of a woman trying to get her life back together and to get out of Three Breezes. Mental Institutions always have names like that. I enjoyed this book. It wasn't all that interesting but it was a good story. That's basically all it was was telling the story of an overstressed woman who couldn't deal with her life anymore. She tried to kill herself and failed. It seemed like she failed at everything though her eyed. She kept getting into controlling and abusive relationships who also influenced her opinion of herself. This book described how she came to love herself and accept that she wasn't perfect.

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But inside I'm screaming is one woman's unforgettable story about what it is to lose control as the world watches, to figure out what went so very wrong and to accept an imperfect life in a world that demands perfection.

While breaking the hottest news story of the year, broadcast journalist Isabel Murphy falls apart on live television in front of an audience of millions. She lands at Three Breezes, a four-star psychiatric hospital nicknamed the "nut hut," where she begins the painful process of recovering the life everyone thought she had.

But accepting her place among her fellow patients proves difficult. Isabel struggles to reconcile the fact that she is, indeed, one of them, and faces the reality that in order to mend her painfully fractured life she must rely solely on herself.

The Shining by Stephen King

I finally finished it!!! There are about 683 pages including the epilogue. The Shining was phenominal. I highly recommend it. The book is almost NOTHING like the movie. The ending was COMPLETELY different and the events throughout the story were way different too. Oh, and the dog-mask-thingy does have a little importance in the book. Basically, it's about the Torrance family-Jack, Wendy, and Danny. Danny has a special gift (shining) which allows him to see things that have or will happen. Jack has a drinking problem and loses his job... He snags a job at the Overlook hotel as the caretaker and lives in the hotel with his family. As the days pass, the hotel tightens its grip on Jack... I can't give away too much cuz I want you guys to read it! Stephen King has a REALLY good writing style; he actually puts the characters' thoughts in between some of the lines. DO NOT BELIEVE THE MOVIE AT ALL!!! IT LIES!!! IT DIDN'T RUIN THE BOOK AT ALL!


The Greatest Haunted Hotel Story Ever Written!!, June 17, 2004
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Robert J. Schneider (Tacoma, WA USA) - See all my reviews Throughout the last century, there were many authors who wrote haunted house stories. In 1977, Stephen King beat 'em all with a haunted hotel story. You see, this is not just *any* haunted hotel story; this is THE SHINING.
THE SHINING is about several things, all tied up into one complex and multilayered whole. It is about a five-year-old boy who is impossibly mature and wise beyond his years, and who has a terrifying gift that seems as much a curse. It is about his father, a recovering alcoholic with demons in his soul and skeletons in his closet, who is battling both in order to keep his family financially afloat. It is about his wife, a doting mother who has braved the ups & downs of her husband's turbulence, who loves him, and who wants to trust him beyond his past mistakes but is just on this side of being unable to do so. It is about a classic, Art Deco hotel tucked deep within the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, whose name is respected but nevertheless has a mysteriously chequered past. It is about the ghosts that occupy this hotel, that wish to possess the above family but can only be seen by the boy and the head cook. It is about the head cook, an older black man who shares the same gift with the boy, and who develops a special friendship with him as a result. It is about a family who begin at their last chance for hope & unity, who end up fighting for their last chance at survival. This is THE SHINING.
THE SHINING is a true gestalt entity: it is more than the sum of its parts. Stephen King masterly intertwines all of the above elements, plus some truly frightening imagery, to create a novel of several hundred compulsively-turning pages that add up to one of the greatest experiences that I've ever had as a reader of fiction.
MOST RECOMMENDED; AGES 15 & UP

Cirque Du Freak book 1 (A Living Nightmare)

Okay, so I've seen these "Cirque du Freak" books everywhere... So I decided to pick up the first book and try it out... It's about a boy named Darren Shan (also the name of the author...) who loves spiders. His friend scores tickets to a freak show where he sees all kinds of stuff. He decides to steal a spider from this one performer (later, we find out he's a vampire...muhaha) and one of his friends gets bitten. Darrent has to find the vampire to get the cure for his friend... What he pays in return? I can't say. It was a decent book...if you're bored. It's mainly aimed for 10 year old ish boys... so yeah, it's a read if you wanna thing... I'm not gonna get the review off Amazon cuz this book doesn't deserve it... but I may read the second just cuz I'mma geek :P


PS: I saw 27 Dresses... I liked it!

Looking for Alaska

This was actually a really good book. I started reading it and was like this isn't going to be very good, but in the middle it got interesting and it ended good. It was about this boy who meets this girl called Alaska and she changes his life. It talks about his life while he new her before she died and then what it was like after she died. About page 100 I figured out Alaska was going to die. It actually proved a good point about life after death. That we never are really born or die because energy can never be destroyed.

Review/Description

Before.Miles "pudge" Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole xsistence has been one nonevent, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave the "Great Perhaps" even more. He heads off to sometimes crazy, poossibly unstable, and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alska Young. The gorgeous, clever, sexy, self-destructive,screwed-up, and utterly fascinating Alska Young, who is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart.

After. Nothing is ever the same.

Phantom of the Opera

Sorry I haven't checked back in a while...I'm a bad person :(...jk . Well, this is off-topic, but I finally watched Phantom of the Opera (POO...I could've called it PO or PTO...but POO sounds so much funnier). I thought POO was brilliant! I, of course, cried cuz I cry at anything sad-ish. I had to watch it twice to understand it... I felt so sorry for the Phantom at the end... I wanted to give him a hug or something... I thought Christine looked like she was 14...so it was kinda creepy watching her make out with 30 year old looking dudes. but anyways, the setting was so pretty... I would love to see an opera house like that... Christine is getting singing lessons from a mysterious tutor...who later reveals himself to her as the POO. Well, the Phantom later falls in love with her...but Christine is in love with a childhood sweetheart that later comes back into her life...his name is Raoul... The Phantom is basically driven mad due to his childhood and from seeing Christine being in love with Raoul... I can't give away too much, but it's definately a Must-Watch.


Thank you for allowing me to waste a moment of two of your life... Now go read something productive :P

Sound of Silence lyrics

Hello darkness, my old friend,Ive come to talk with you again,Because a vision softly creeping,Left its seeds while I was sleeping,And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains Within the sound of silence.In restless dreams I walked alone Narrow streets of cobblestone,neath the halo of a street lamp,I turned my collar to the cold and damp When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of A neon light That split the night And touched the sound of silence.And in the naked light I saw Ten thousand people, maybe more.People talking without speaking,People hearing without listening,People writing songs that voices never share And no one deared Disturb the sound of silence.Fools said i,you do not know Silence like a cancer grows.Hear my words that I might teach you,Take my arms that I might reach you.But my words like silent raindrops fell,And echoed In the wells of silence And the people bowed and prayed To the neon God they made.And the sign flashed out its warning,In the words that it was forming.And the signs said, the words of the prophets Are written on the subway walls And tenement halls.And whisperd in the sounds of silence.

TAD( HERE THEY ARE WOLF)

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

I liked this book it wasn't really action packed or anything but it taught a lesson and made you think about life and heaven. It was semi-God related. It talked about Heaven in a different view. That it teaches you what your life was for basically. In the end I actually started to believe that all lives are connected in a way. That when one person dies another person is spared and in turn when that person dies another person will be affected. I recommend it to anyone.

Review/Description
"At the time of his death, Eddie was an old man with a barrel chest and a torso as squat as a soup can," writes Albom, author of the bestselling phenomenon Tuesdays with Morrie, in a brief first novel that is going to make a huge impact on many hearts and minds. Wearing a work shirt with a patch on the chest that reads "Eddie" over "Maintenance," limping around with a cane thanks to an old war injury, Eddie was the kind of guy everybody, including Eddie himself, tended to write off as one of life's minor characters, a gruff bit of background color. He spent most of his life maintaining the rides at Ruby Pier, a seaside amusement park, greasing tracks and tightening bolts and listening for strange sounds, "keeping them safe." The children who visited the pier were drawn to Eddie "like cold hands to a fire." Yet Eddie believed that he lived a "nothing" life-gone nowhere he "wasn't shipped to with a rifle," doing work that "required no more brains than washing a dish." On his 83rd birthday, however, Eddie dies trying to save a little girl. He wakes up in heaven, where a succession of five people are waiting to show him the true meaning and value of his life. One by one, these mostly unexpected characters remind him that we all live in a vast web of interconnection with other lives; that all our stories overlap; that acts of sacrifice seemingly small or fruitless do affect others; and that loyalty and love matter to a degree we can never fathom. Simply told, sentimental and profoundly true, this is a contemporary American fable that will be cherished by a vast readership. Bringing into the spotlight the anonymous Eddies of the world, the men and women who get lost in our cultural obsession with fame and fortune, this slim tale, like Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, reminds us of what really matters here on earth, of what our lives are given to us for.

Crank

This book was pretty good. I like her style of writing and love all her books so far. I still need to read the sequel to this book, but I bet it will be good too. The book mainly focuses on drugs and addiction and a person's life involved with them. The ending I can't say much about because there is a sequel, but it ended well enough there really wasn't a whole lot of need for a sequel. I will say this book is a good read but still not my favorite of hers.

Review/Description
Seventeen-year-old Kristina Snow is introduced to crank on a trip to visit her wayward father. Caught up in a fast-paced, frightening, and unfamiliar world, she morphs into "Bree" after she "shakes hands with the monster." Her fearless, risk-taking alter ego grows stronger, "convincing me to be someone I never dreamed I'd want to be." When Kristina goes home, things don't return to normal. Although she tries to reconnect with her mother and her former life as a good student, her drug use soon takes over, leaving her "starving for speed" and for boys who will soon leave her scarred and pregnant. Hopkins writes in free-verse poems that paint painfully sharp images of Kristina/Bree and those around her, detailing how powerful the "monster" can be. The poems are masterpieces of word, shape, and pacing, compelling readers on to the next chapter in Kristina's spiraling world.

AN ANOTHER TAD UPDATE!

Sorry been busy. Add new books soon. Loved Edward Kayla! Wolf, Kayla, and TAD survived a bus wreck. We can say "I survived State of '08"!
TAD

Poetry Blog

This is the link to my poetry blog:

http://thelanguageofpoetry.blogspot.com/

A sketch of Edward Cullen

Hey you guys! I found this awesome sketch of Edward!


here's the link:


http://testriffic.com/art/smighter2/74116

Covenant Child

Beautiful, three-year-old twins Kara and Lizzie Holbrooke live a charmed life with their widowed but doting father, Jack. When Jack finds love and marries again, it seems all their lives will finally be "happy ever after." That new life shatters when Jack and his wealthy parents are killed in a plane crash. Jack's new wife, Amanda, inherits the family's estate but fails to gain custody of the twins.

Devastated but bound by her covenant to care for the girls, Amanda manages the estate, hopeful she'll be able to return it to Kara and Lizzie one day. Meanwhile, the twins grow up in an abysmal home environment with distant family members and become hard-drinking, shoplifting, promiscuous teenagers.

After years of trying to reach them, Amanda is finally able to offer them love, comfort, wealth--the life they have always wanted. But when all you've known is deprivation, how can you believe a gift of grace? When you've been lied to for so long, how can you ever know the truth?

This book was ok, I thought it was going to be more interesting though. The story is kind of hard to explain without taking up a lot of space. Basically these twins get taken away from their step-mother when they were three and grow up in poverty when they are supposed to be “million dollar babies”. The ending was good, but the story altogether wasn’t that great to me. It was still an ok book to read though.

Review/Description
In a contemporary spin on the concept of biblical "covenant" that also functions as a parable of accepting and rejecting faith, Blackstock offers a smooth though somewhat improbable tale of one woman's promise to her husband to care for her stepchildren. Kara Holbrooke and her twin sister, Lizzie, lived a middle-class existence with their doting father, Jack, who nixed a life of moneyed pleasure despite his father's wealth. Shortly after their birth, the twins' mother, Sherry, died in a car accident. When the girls were three, Jack married Amanda, but six months after the wedding, he and his parents were killed in a plane crash. The twins are easy prey maybe too easy for Sherry's redneck parents, Eloise and Deke Krebbs, who smell money and go to court to claim the girls as their own. Amanda is the beneficiary of her in-laws' billion-dollar-plus estate, but she loses custody of the twins. Bound by her promise to Jack, she manages the estate with an eye to returning it to the girls. But brought up in the ghastly home environment of the Krebbs, the twins grow into hard-drinking, shoplifting, promiscuous teenagers who are taught to hate Amanda. At age 18, the girls must decide if they will accept or reject an offer from Amanda that could change the course of their lives.

Keeper of the Night

This book started out really boring and it bounced around from topic to topic. It was basically about a girl's life in Guam and her family after her mother killed herself. Around the middle it got more interesting and it ended decently. It still wasn't that great of a book and I don't recommend it.

Review/Description
In a fascinating departure from her usual folksy Southern fiction, award-winning author Kimberly Willis Holt transports her readers to the island of present-day Guam, where thirteen-year-old Isabel’s family is broken by her mother’s suicide. Numbed by her mother‘s death, Isabel grimly plods through each day, while scribbling in her ever-present notebook. But existence on the colorful, richly cultured island hasn’t ended, and life keeps interrupting Isabel’s sorrow. Her best friend Terecita needs help in becoming the best female cock-fighter on Guam, her father’s fishing assistant, Roman, appears to be flirting with her, and Auntie Bernadette, the local healer, keeps trying to school her in the art of herbs. Meanwhile, Isabel is disturbed by the fact that her father has practically stopped speaking, and her brother Frank is beginning to cut himself when he thinks no one is looking. But Isabel sees, and her heart is hardened: "I may look like my mother, but I’m not like her...I’m not like my mother at all. I am here." Isabel’s challenge will be to learn how to heal, and with the help of her vibrant community, she will. Holt is a masterful plotter--each strand of Isabel’s story comes together beautifully. But that doesn’t mean Holt sacrifices description or character for storyline. Every nuance of the Guam landscape and culture is seen and heard, from the quirky native "eyebrow language," to the illegal thrill of cock fighting.

Light Years

This was a really good book.It was about an Israeli girl who loses her boyfriend to a suicide bomber and her life coming to deal with it. The chapters jump back and forth between her past life in Israel and her present life in Virginia. It was a really good book for anyone to read. I recommend it highly.

Review/Description
Maya, 20, blames herself for the death of her boyfriend, who is killed by a suicide bomber in a Tel Aviv restaurant. Haunted by grief and guilt, she leaves Israel for college in the U.S., but although she makes friends, studies, and even begins to fall in love and have sex again, she can't forget. The first-person narrative moves eloquently back and forth between Maya's American present and her Israeli past: growing up in Israel, serving in the army, working in a Tel Aviv office, falling in love, and finally, losing someone in a shocking bombing. Most characters in this novel, one of the first about a contemporary Israeli young woman in a high-tech, secular world, are drawn with some complexity. Maya's "healing" seems a little preachy, but there's depth to her character: she's needy and angry, sarcastic and warm. She also loves her country, yet she doesn't talk politics. Though she considers the Palestinians as "those" people over the border ("They hated us"), she doesn't always focus on herself as living in a war-torn place.

Just Listen

I really like this book. I have started reading Sara Dessen books and I lie them alot. This book was very interesting through the whole book, or it seemed that was to me. It deals with alot of different drama's including rape and eating disorders. Sometimes it went a little too into detail with some things that were kind of boring and unimportant to me, but otherwise it was really good. One of the main characters, Owen, was really into music just like me. Except I don't listen to some of the weird stuff he does.

Review/Description
Annabel Greene seemingly had everything: cool friends, close family, good grades, and a part-time modeling career in town. But it all came crashing down, and Annabel has spent the summer in shaky, self-imposed exile. She finds herself dreading the new school term and facing, well, everyone again. The last thing she wants to do is revisit old friendships while the losses are painful, the secrets behind the rifts are almost unbearable. Her solid family seems fragile, too. What happened to cause the stiff silences and palpable resentments between her two older sisters? Why is no one in her loving but determinedly cheerful family talking about her middle sister's eating disorder? Annabel's devastating secret is revealed in bits and snatches, as readers see her go to amazing lengths to avoid confrontation. Caught between wanting to protect her family and her own struggles to face a devastating experience, Annabel finds comfort in an unlikely friendship with the school's most notorious loner. Owen has his own issues with anger, but has learned to control it and helps her realize the dangers of holding in her emotions. Dessen explores the interior and exterior lives of her characters and shows their flaws, humanity, struggles, and incremental successes.

Prey

I thought this book was actually pretty good.Being that it was about a female teacher who has an affair with a male student. I was surprised how well I liked it. I had heard that the ending wasn't very good, but I actually thought it ended pretty decent. Even though the the ending was a little weird but so was the whole book considering the topic. This book wouldn't be appropriate for young or immature readers though because sometimes it gets alittle graphic.

Breathing Underwater

This book wasn't as good as I thought i was going to be, I really didn't like the topic and the writing style was a below my level.The end kind of made up for the rest of the book though. It talked alot about controlling relationship and abuse, which made me understand a little bit better why people act that way.

Prey by Lurlene McDaniel

I though this book was pretty good. It's less than 200 pages. I think there should have been just a little more exposition in the beginning...because a teacher's not just gonna invite you over on the fly. I really like the writing style. It shows you Honey, Ryan, and Lori's perspective. Over the course of the book, they expose many secrets. This book makes you put two and two together. It's got some sex in it...but that's probably a given because it's a book about a teacher and student who get involved in a sexual relationship. I feel really sorry for Honey. Every girl can relate to her and probably would've done the same thing she did in her position. It's a great read and I reccomend it to everyone. The ending isn't good or bad, it's really just all about how YOU see it.





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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Courtesy of Teens Read Too, February 12, 2008
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TeensReadToo.com "Eat. Drink. Read. Be Merrier." (All Over the US & Canada) - See all my reviewsBestselling author Lurlene McDaniel has taken a turn from her normally heartbreaking inspirational novels to write something completely different with PREY. This time around, she tackles a once taboo subject head-on -- that of the skewed relationship between a female teacher and her young male student. Ryan Piccoli is a typical teen. He's fifteen, a freshman in high school, has a close knit group of friends that include Joel and Honey, and a fairly average student. Although his mother died when he was still a toddler, he has a father that, although gone most of the time as part of his job, still tries to connect with him as much as he can. Things are going pretty well; he's hoping for a car for Christmas for his sixteenth birthday, he's both excited and anxious to be starting high school, he's wondering if he'll get a girlfriend. And then the unthinkable happens: he meets Miss Lori Settles, the knew World History teacher. Miss Settles is an immediate hit at McAllister High School, at least with the male population (you'd probably get a different response from the females). She's young, she's gorgeous, she seems to understand teenagers, and she has the most important attribute that any normal male can ask for -- she's got a body to die for, and she dresses for school each day in a way that will show it to its best advantage. Suddenly, every guy in the building, from students to faculty, wants to find a way to spend time with Miss Settles. Only Ryan gets to spend time with her in a way that no one else would ever expect. What starts off innocently enough as a request to help his teacher move furniture soon evolves into trips to a coffee shop late at night. And when those trips then turn into visits at her apartment, Ryan figures it's only right, since they obviously are in love with each other. What follows is a sexual affair that, although high in intensity, might end up burning them both in the end. Ms. McDaniel has written a real page-turner with PREY. Once you start reading, you'll not want to stop until the last word is read. This is a book that has no clear-cut answers and, actually, has no clear sense of who has done right and who has done wrong. Pick up a copy -- you'll be glad you did.

A TAD UPDATE!

What's up? I know it has been awhile. I have been busy Stock show, Easter, and reading new books. I read The Pigman's Legacy, Speak, and Chosen. I also added something to my posts. I now have a rated system. I rate a book 1-10(with 10 being the highest) based on my opinion. That way you can see how well I think a book is!
Chow! TAD

The Pigman's Legacy: Paul Zindel

This is the sequel to The Pigman. I kinda liked it better. It was a little more romantic. I would rate it as a 8. TAD


Four months after the Pigman died, John and Lorraine are passing by their old friend's empty house when they receive the shock of their lives: An elderly man has taken up residence in the abandoned home. Convinced this down-and-out recluse is a sign from beyond the grave, John and Lorraine decide they've been given a chance to make up for what happened to the Pigman -- a chance to make things right, once and for all.

Keeping The Moon

This book was pretty good, alot better than I expected. The main character reminded me kind of myself just a little. It made me want to get my lip pierced. The ending was good, it left me wondering things but all books do. Like what happens in the future , but no book could tell something all the way to the end. I would reccomend this book to anyone. It doesn't have anything bad in it at all. And over all it was interesting.

Review/Description
Because her aerobics-star mother is taking her famous weight-loss program to Europe, 15-year-old Colie leaves her home in Charlotte to spend the summer with her endearing but uncompromisingly unusual Aunt Mira in coastal Colby, NC. Colie has recently dropped 45 pounds, but unlike her positive-thinking mother, the teen has not succeeded in shedding her negative self-image. With this change of scene, she hopes to escape her role as social victim. Unfortunately, Mira attracts lots of negative gossip. Worse still is the reappearance of Colie's hometown nemesis who continues to spread slanderous rumors about her. Colie feels hopeless until she accepts a job in a restaurant, where two fellow waitresses, both past their high school angst, share their beauty, boy, and life-management secrets with her. Sincere, perfectionist Morgan and the more flamboyant Isabel are great characters and the workings of their friendship is smooth, insightful, and just fun to read. The nifty and not-so-nifty relationships between men and women are observed through the eyes of a teen just on the verge of exploring such things on her own level. The love interests are varied, from a deceitful professional athlete for Morgan to a sincere artist surviving as a short-order cook for Colie.

This Lullaby

"I had no illusions about love... It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be together forever, regardless of what the songs say."


This book was alright it wasn't really what I was expecting. I guess I thought it was going to be more romantic or something. It did involve a good deal of realtionships stuff but not so much real romance. The ending kind of left it open. I thought in the last 50 pages the ending was going to make me really mad, but it changed alittle so I didn't get that dissapointed. It would be an ok read since it was kind of interesting. The characters reminded me of my friends though.

Review/Description
Remy doesn't believe in love. And why should she? Her romance novelist mother is working on her fifth marriage, and her father, a '70s hippie singer, left her with only a one-hit wonder song to remember him by. Every time Remy hears "This Lullaby," it feels like "a bruise that never quite healed right." "Wherever you may go / I will let you down / But this lullaby plays on..." Never without a boyfriend, Remy is a compulsive dater, but before a guy can go all "Ken" on her (as in "ultra boyfriend behavior") she cuts him off, without ever getting close or getting hurt. That's why she's stunned when klutzy, quirky, alterna-band boy Dexter inserts himself into her life and refuses to leave. Remy's been accepted to Stanford, and she plans on having her usual summer fling before tying up the loose ends of her pre-college life and heading for the coast. Except Dexter's not following Remy's tried-and-true rules of break-up protocol. And for the first time, Remy's questioning whether or not she wants him to.

Head Above Water

This book really surprised me. i ended up really liking it. I think it was the only book I've ever actually cried in the end and not because it was sad ,but because it was so touching. The story is about a girl who has to deal with her life and trying to take care of her older brother Sunny who has downsyndrome. In the end she realizes that her life is better off with Sunny in it even though he's hard to deal with sometimes.

Review/Description
A high school junior from a single-parent home, is largely responsible for the care of her older brother Sunny, who has Down's syndrome. She strives to maintain a straight-A average in her schoolwork and is determined to qualify for "States," the statewide swim competition. When the school's football star, Mike Banner, deems her worthy to date, Skye's already complex world becomes almost overwhelming. Responding to pressure from him to spend more time together, she ditches her brother and uses her newfound freedom to meet with her boyfriend. Predictably, he pressures her into sex and finally forces himself on her. She narrowly escapes, but the angry boyfriend continues to badger her and the confrontation between the two ultimately costs her the opportunity to go to States. In the end, Skye begins to mature and to think for herself. Unfortunately, the conclusion is a little too neat. Although the protagonist faces myriad problems, they are all resolved happily.

Vampire Academy

I really enjoyed this book. Well, that is, after reading the first 200 pages. The last hundred or so pages was really good. The first 200 are just eh. It's well worth it though. I liked the ending. I love Rose, the main character. She's really in-your-face. I really didn't like the fact that they were um, close. Not sexually, but even still, they seemed kinda lesbian-ish. Enough of my rambling, lets get down to business.
The book starts out as the two girls being captured and taken back to their old school, which they ran away from. Rose does lots of guardian work and Lissa becomes popular again, with a little help from her powers. I can't really say much, because the book has a lot of secrets that I can't give away (it ruins the story. its all about finding out secrets and putting two and two together). Anyway, it's a good read...after the first 200 pages.


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From BooklistAfter two years on the run, best friends Rose, half-human/half-vampire, and Lissa, a mortal vampire princess, are caught and returned to St. Vladimir's Academy. Up until then, Rose had kept Lissa safe from her enemies; school, however, brings both girls additional challenges and responsibilities. How they handle peer pressure, nasty gossip, new relationships, and anonymous threats may mean life or death. Likable narrator Rose hides doubts about her friend behind a tough exterior; orphan Lissa, while coping with difficult emotional issues such as depression and survivor's guilt, uses her emerging gifts for good. Mead's absorbing, debut YA novel, the first in a new series, blends intricately detailed fantasy with a contemporary setting, teen-relevant issues, and a diverse, if sometimes sterotyped, cast of supporting characters. Occasional steamy sex and a scattering of vulgar language demand mature readers, but teens able to handle the edgy elements will speed through this vamp story and anticipate the next installment. Rosenfeld, Shelle

Impulse

Impulse reminded me alot of sut except that Impulse had a little romance in it and cut really didn't. This book wasn't as depressing as Burned, but it did deal with suicide.It left off like Burned, in that you pretty much know the furute it just didn't make it definite.Ellen Hopkins is a good writer and I like her style, now I need to read Crank and Glass. I think Impulse was a really good boosk for anyone to read, unless you don't like books about suicide,then I'm not so sure.

Reveiw/Description
Three teens tell their stories, in free verse, from a psychiatric hospital after failed suicide attempts. Their lives unfold in alternating chapters, revealing emotionally scarred family relationships. An absent father, a bipolar mother, and a secret abortion have caused Vanessa to slash her wrists. As a compulsive cutter, she hides a paper clip to dig into her skin. Tony's drug overdose was triggered by an addiction in which he exchanged sex for money. Abused as a child, he is confused about his sexuality. Connor is the son of rich, controlling parents, and he survives a self-inflicted gunshot wound after a doomed affair with a female teacher. Initially, the narrators are inwardly focused, having arrived at "level zero," the beginning of their treatment. As they become acquainted with one another, the story, told in spare verse and colorful imagery, becomes more plot-driven and filled with witty dialogue. Both boys value Vanessa's friendship and there is an inkling of competition for her affection, although she assumes that Tony is gay. During a wilderness camping trip with other patients and staff, which would graduate the trio to the final level of treatment, it becomes apparent that one of them is mentally backsliding at the thought of returning home and has stopped taking meds. The consequences are played out, leaving the others to grapple with an additional loss and a newfound appreciation for life.

Chosen

This book was in following with Marked and Betrayed, meaning it was awesome. I can't wait for Untamed the fourth book to come out in the fall. Zoey is still High priestess in training even though her mentor is a total B word. And her life basically sucked really bad by the end of the book. The only good was she brought back one of her friends from being unded but besides that everythingthat could possibly go go went wrong. She went from having four really good friendsto them all being mad at her. Also she went from having three boyfriends to having none. The next book is going to be really interesting. I'm so pysched!

Review/Description
Dark forces are at work at the House of Night and fledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird’s adventures at the school take a mysterious turn. Those who appear to be friends are turning out to be enemies. And oddly enough, sworn enemies are also turning into friends. So begins the gripping third installment of this “highly addictive series” (Romantic Times), in which Zoey’s mettle will be tested like never before. Her best friend, Stevie Rae, is undead and struggling to maintain a grip on her humanity. Zoey doesn’t have a clue how to help her, but she does know that anything she and Stevie Rae discover must be kept secret from everyone else at the House of Night, where trust has become a rare commodity. Speaking of rare: Zoey finds herself in the very unexpected and rare position of having three boyfriends. Mix a little bloodlust into the equation and the situation has the potential to spell social disaster. Just when it seems things couldn’t get any tougher, vampyres start turning up dead. Really dead. It looks like the People of Faith, and Zoey’s horrid step-father in particular, are tired of living side-by-side with vampyres. But, as Zoey and her friends so often find out, how things appear rarely reflects the truth…

Breathing Underwater

Breathing Underwater was pretty good. It's about a boy that beat his girlfriend and ends up in a helping place thing. (its 7 am. give me a break) He meets all kinds of guys that are like him-abusive, hurt, emotionally struggling, and that have problems at home. Over all, the book was a good read.





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E. R. Bird "Ramseelbird" (Manhattan, NY) - See all my reviews Nick Andreas has just been served a restraining order from the person he loves the most in the world. After beating his girlfriend, the sixteen-year-old offender finds himself attending group therapy and writing in a journal about the things he's done. He's the son of an abuser, and it looks like that abuse has surfaced within himself. The question is, can Nick recognize what he's done? More importantly, can he change?
The premise is a complex one. Author Alex Flinn set out to write about an abusive relationship from the abuser's point of view. Now how do you go about doing that, exactly? How do you write a story in which the reader has to simultaneously empathize with and abhor the protagonist? The fact of the matter is, Flinn is so adept with her writing skills that she gets away with it. The result is phenomenal.
The real strength of this story is the way in which the plot arcs and fools the reader. Nick is hardly a reliable narrator (a fact that becomes painfully clear by the end of the story). Yet when he writes in his journal, he feels unaccountably unable to lie about anything that happened. Flinn slowly brings the plot in the journal, and the story of how Nick lives in the aftermath of his own violence, together by the book's end. She does not compromise her position either. As a woman who served as a lawyer trying domestic violence cases and as a volunteer at the Inn Transition facility for battered women and their kids, she knows from whence she speaks. This isn't an author who is speculating on what violence does to families and friends. She knows. Better still, she can write about it.
This isn't a perfect book, I suppose. Some jumps in the plot are implausible. Some characters inconsistent. But what flaws it has only serve to show how strong the story itself is. There is no book on how abusers feel that is as available and accessible to young adults as "Breathing Underwater". You will never regret having read it.

Burned

I really like this book up until the last like 15 pages, then it got all depressing. It's written in a relly weird format. The main character is Mormon and struggles with her reiligion throughout the book. The ending kind of leaves of but you know what's going to happen it just doesn't state it. I think it would be a good book for someone to read thought. I plan on reading some of her other books.

Review/Description

Full of anger at her father, an alcoholic who abuses her mother, Pattyn begins to question her Mormon religion and her preordained, subservient role within it. She is confused by her mother's acceptance of the brutal abuse, and although she is furious at and terrified of her father, she still longs for his love and approval. As the consequences of her anger become more dramatic, her parents send her to spend the summer with her aunt on a Nevada ranch. There she finds the love and acceptance she craves, both from her aunt and from a college-age neighbor, Ethan. Told in elegant free verse, Burned envelopes the reader in Pattyn's highs and lows, her gradual opening to love, and her bouts of rage, confusion, and doubt.

aww you guys!

Aww thanks for all the love...You both are wonderful :). And I really wanna read Speak and Chosen soon...and spring break's comming up so I'll probably read em then ;)

I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

This book almost sucked. I said almost because after the first half of the book it kind of gets better. There is a second book, but I don't know if I'm going to read it or not. I wouldn't really recommend it unlessyour really really bored. It is a spy book, but it's not very action packed and by the description you think it would be a good book.

Review/Description

Cammie Morgan, 15, is a student at Gallagher Academy, a top-secret boarding school for girls who are spies-in-training. She studies covert operations, culture and assimilation, and advanced encryption, and has learned to speak 14 languages. Her troubles begin when she falls for Josh, a local boy who has no clue about her real identity. Keeping her training secret forces her to lie to her new love, which leads to comic complications. Subplots include Cammie's relationship with her mother–the headmistress at Gallagher–and her grief over the loss of her father, who died while on a spying assignment. The teen's double life leads to some amusing one-liners, and the invented history of the Gallagher Girls is also entertaining, but the story is short on suspense. The stakes never seem very high since there are no real villains, and the cutesy dialogue quickly becomes grating. However, the novel has been optioned for a film and will likely attract readers who enjoy lighthearted, frothy tales and squeaky-clean romances.

OMG

You actually posted it. Oh my could you get any dorkier.

Jello's Ode

Jell-o's Ode

Fruit-flavored lights!

Shivering, quivering, edible sights!

Spooned up suns of chewable mood-Plasmic, prismic, rhythmic, food.

Cool-jeweled pools of swimming sliced fruits:

Crisp apple crayfish and mandarin newts.

Mellifluous, drift-through-us, cubical, spherical,

Sinuous swallows of transparent miracle.

Percy Dovetonsils

I love this poem!

TAD

Welcome Kayla!

I meant to do this the other day, but I had
summaries to do. I'm very glad Kayla joined us.
She is one of the smartest, prettiest, most awesomest,
coolest, and funniest people I know. So , welcome
Kayla! I heart you!

TAD
P.S. I loved your poem!

Thanx Kayla!

Thanx so much for the really awesome poem kayla(night). If you didn't read the comment I left on it, I really liked it. It's my feelings exactly. If you haven't yet you might check out my other blog about my life. I posted a sort of tribute to my friends.