Tuesday, September 25, 2012
What are you reading on Mondays?
I've been away a long time, so the books I've read are just the more recent ones:
Book(s) read lately:
Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
War Dances by Sherman Alexie
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Currently reading:
Adaptation by Malinda Lo
We'll Always Have Summer by Jenny Han
Upcoming read(s)
I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
Book(s) read lately:
Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
War Dances by Sherman Alexie
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Currently reading:
Adaptation by Malinda Lo
We'll Always Have Summer by Jenny Han
Upcoming read(s)
I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
Sunday, September 23, 2012
In My Mailbox 83
I'm pretty excited about all of these books. I loved (loved!) Scorpio Races, so I can't wait to read The Raven Boys. And I've already finished The Song of Achilles which was AMAZING!!
Monday, August 6, 2012
The Storyteller review
Goodreads: Anna and Abel couldn’t
be more different. They are both seventeen and in their last year of
school, but while Anna lives in a nice old town house and comes from a
well-to-do family, Abel, the school drug dealer, lives in a big,
prisonlike tower block at the edge of town. Anna is afraid of him until
she realizes that he is caring for his six-year-old sister on his own.
Fascinated, Anna follows the two and listens as Abel tells little Micha
the story of a tiny queen assailed by dark forces. It’s a beautiful
fairy tale that Anna comes to see has a basis in reality. Abel is in
real danger of losing Micha to their abusive father and to his own
inability to make ends meet. Anna gradually falls in love with Abel, but
when his “enemies” begin to turn up dead, she fears she has fallen for a
murderer. Has she?
Award-winning author Antonia Michaelis moves in a bold new direction with her latest novel: a dark, haunting, contemporary story that is part mystery, part romance, and part melodrama.
My thoughts: It’s been pretty hard to understand all the feelings I have for this book. The writing is fantastic, which seems to happen often when the author is not from the United States. And there was a story within a story, which should have made things difficult, but it actually made everything more appealing and exciting. Plus, I’m impressed that not only can this author write one story well, but two. The confusion as far as my feelings comes from all that happens in between all that wonderful writing. So many unthinkable things happen. Things I would have never imagined that left me with my jaw dropping to the ground.
Award-winning author Antonia Michaelis moves in a bold new direction with her latest novel: a dark, haunting, contemporary story that is part mystery, part romance, and part melodrama.
My thoughts: It’s been pretty hard to understand all the feelings I have for this book. The writing is fantastic, which seems to happen often when the author is not from the United States. And there was a story within a story, which should have made things difficult, but it actually made everything more appealing and exciting. Plus, I’m impressed that not only can this author write one story well, but two. The confusion as far as my feelings comes from all that happens in between all that wonderful writing. So many unthinkable things happen. Things I would have never imagined that left me with my jaw dropping to the ground.
I actually feel like a passage from the YA book Anna and the French Kiss expresses how I
had to look at this book. There’s a part in the book when a teacher is
discussing the meaning of words in a book, and specifically talks about foreign
books. The teacher says that “foreign novels are less action-oriented. They
have a different pace; they’re more reflective. They challenge us to look for the story, find the story within the story.” This is exactly what
I had to do, except I had to look for the story within the story within the
story (within the story). And all those stories meshed together almost impeccably,
but sometimes that meant heartbreaking moments were more… um… heartbreaking
because something similar happened in both stories. It was gritty, and
sometimes the characters did things I couldn’t believe happened. They did some
things I didn’t agree with on a personal level that bothered me to the point
that it once again made me reassess my feelings regarding the story. With that
said, it’s unique, deep, and thought provoking (obviously since I’m still
trying to figure some things out). And I’d actually be interested in seeing
what others thought about this novel.
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Top Ten Characters I would switch places with for 24 hours
Heist Society: I
feel bad, but I’ve always wanted to pull off a heist like they do in the movies
(and this book). Of course I wouldn’t do it in real life, unless I was Katarina Bishop for 24 hours. Plus,
when she steals it’s for something important.
Fragile Eternity:
I can be a little dark sometimes, so I’d really want to be Niall for 24 hours to see what it’d be like to be ruler of the dark
kingdom. I guess I’d be the emo queen.
Hunger: I’d want
to be Lisabeth, but after she’s
gotten the hang of things as Famine. Because I’d never want to deal with the demons
she had to deal with in this book. But I’d love to be famine one night and ride
across the earth on my black steed.
Spray: This book
was so fun! I’d just like to be any
character involved in the game. But I’m very competitive, so I’d compete to
win.
Vampire Academy:
I just want to be Rose for a day so
I can kick some butt.
Daughter of Smoke &
Bone: The writing is so beautiful that I’d want to be Karou for a day just to experience the world that the author
described.
Divergent: I want
to be a Dauntless because I want to do something daring. I think I’d like to be
Christina for a day.
Au Revoir Crazy
European Chick: I love those books that take place in one day but a million
things happen despite the lack of time. I’d want to be Gobi after she stops pretending to be the “mousy teenager” and
becomes the fierce assassin.
The Scorpio Races:
I’d definitely want to be Sean Kendrick
since he knows how to handle the horses. I want to be close enough that I can
see the horses. And even ride Corr, who is magnificent.
The Statistical
Probability of Love at First Sight: I guess I’d only have 24 hours to be Hadley Sullivan.
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
The Storyteller trailer
Book teaser
He was
laughing. He lifted the little girl up again and placed her on his bike carrier,
said something else, and got on the bike himself. Anna didn’t understand any of
his words, but his voice sounded different than it did at school. Somebody had
lit a flame between the sentences, warmed them with a bright, crackling fire.
Maybe, she thought, he was speaking a different language. Polish. If Polish
burned so brightly, she would learn it. Don’t fool yourself, Anna, Gitta said
from inside her head. You’d probably learn Serbo-Croatian if it helped you talk
to Tannatek.
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