Showing posts with label Haunted Week. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Haunted Week. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Grave Mercy
"For while I am Death's daughter and walk in His dark shadow, surely the darkness can give way to light sometimes."
Shadow and Bone
"They are orphans again, with no true home but each other and whatever life they can make together on the other side of the sea."
Origin
"Because sooner or later, we must all face eternity."
What's Left of Me
"But I--I was Eva, Eva, Eva, all the way through."
Dearly Departed
"Like him-with him- I had to keep going."
Those are the fabulous endings to these fabulous books! Do any of them make you more excited to read them? Have you read any of them? What are some of your favorite last lines? I'd love to hear! Tune in tomorrow for the last day of Haunted Week and for a couple reviews for some creepy books! XOXO,
Monday, October 29, 2012
Hi guys. I had a nutty weekend and I wasn't able to get my posts up so here are the posts for today along with Sat and Sun!!! Enjoy.
Ooooh. Zombies. Eeek. Today I'm featuring 5 favorite books from the grave my childhood....
The Nancy Drew Books by Carolyn Keene
They. Are. Genius. So much fun. Mystery, humor, easy reading. I remember getting so hooked after my swim-teacher got me "Password to Larkspur Lane" for my birthday. Crazy awesome reads. So classic. You MUST read them. Or just one. It's terribly shameful if you haven't even cracked one open.
Fablehaven Series by Brandon Mull
This series has got to be one of my favorite fantasies. It's clever, snarky, fun, hilarious and all the books just leave you happy. I totally dig these books and would recommend them to anyone. I loved these books as a kid. :D
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
If you have never ever read this book and loved it as a kid, you aren't too late to start. This book is genius, classic and one of the first fariy-tale retellings I ever read. I LOVE IT. So clever and funny. The movie has nothing on the book.
Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
This was totally adorable. It was a really neat story, with great messages and fun parallels to food. I remember re-reading this book when I was a kid. It was adorbs and I still have my copy. XD
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So the real feature for today is all about spiders. Arachnophobia anyone? I'm going to share 5 blogs I love and recently found. PROBLEM. I don't keep track of finding new blogs. So this was really hard.But I do have 2 to show you. Onward with the arachnoblogia....
::Nuttier Reads::
I came across this adorably cute blog a couple weeks ago and love it! The style is pretty classy and Tillie, the nut behind the blog is lotsa fun! Wootness Extraordinaire.
This theme is a fun one, and not just because it's mascot is PUMPKINS. We get to talk about Candy! Eep! Book Candy! Be it good or bad, it's still Candy. So here are 5 books for me that were either a Treat-Pleasant Surprsie- or a Trick - nasty surprise!
Defiance = TREAT
Okay so going into this book I knew it was gonna be great. It looked and sounded amazing and I really excited about it. I just didn't know HOW awesome it was going to be. I ended up giving this book the Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Award, something new on my blog. It was amazing and totally Out of this world Treat!
Freshman Year and Other Unnatural Disaster = TRICK
Darn books that don't live up to your expectations. This book looked SO cute and funny. But some things in it just...didn't work for me. If you want to know deets you can find my mini-review HERE.
Divergent = TREAT
So. Right after this book came out my friend on Goodreads started FREAKING out about it. But I wasn't like that sure about it. I hardly knew anything about the book so I took the safe route and got it from the library. And then I learned the truth. This. Book. Will. Rock. Your. Socks. Off. It was amazing! So much more that I ever could have expected!!!!! Meep! This was totally a treat, and if you still haven't tried it......go trick or treating.
Tiger Lily = TRICK
Okay so this has already showed up a few times during this week. You know why. BORING. Tinker Bell was like a grandpa from the early 1900's and blah blah blah. Eeew yuck. So I for sure didn't get the reaction I wanted out of this book. Total trick.
Mistborn = TREAT!!!
Holy smacerol. So my friends were literally raving about this book. And I don't like to be left out of a hyperventilating book party so I started this book. I almost died of it's awesomeness. I can not recommend this book enough! I loved it and the two sequels. This was one of the best treats I've ever had in book form!!!
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There you have it! Favorite blogs, books from my childhood and some really great book surprises and disapointments. What about you? Found any fun blogs lately? Share them! I'd love to check them out. Any childhood faves? If so, what? Any nasty/pleasant surprises? What? I'd love to heard anything even if you aren't participating!! XOXO,
The Nancy Drew Books by Carolyn KeeneThey. Are. Genius. So much fun. Mystery, humor, easy reading. I remember getting so hooked after my swim-teacher got me "Password to Larkspur Lane" for my birthday. Crazy awesome reads. So classic. You MUST read them. Or just one. It's terribly shameful if you haven't even cracked one open.
Fablehaven Series by Brandon MullThis series has got to be one of my favorite fantasies. It's clever, snarky, fun, hilarious and all the books just leave you happy. I totally dig these books and would recommend them to anyone. I loved these books as a kid. :D
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson LevineIf you have never ever read this book and loved it as a kid, you aren't too late to start. This book is genius, classic and one of the first fariy-tale retellings I ever read. I LOVE IT. So clever and funny. The movie has nothing on the book.
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
Beautiful. Clever. Magical. Super Sweet. That's how I describe PA. I loved it as a pre-teen and I still love it! There's not much I can really say beyond that.
Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz RyanThis was totally adorable. It was a really neat story, with great messages and fun parallels to food. I remember re-reading this book when I was a kid. It was adorbs and I still have my copy. XD
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::Nuttier Reads::I came across this adorably cute blog a couple weeks ago and love it! The style is pretty classy and Tillie, the nut behind the blog is lotsa fun! Wootness Extraordinaire.
Hobbitsies
How I have never seen this blog before I do NOT know. I mean the name just screams Lord of the Rings! And if you know anything about me it's that LORD OF THE RINGS is my all-time favorite book....and movie! Eep! This blog is adorbs and the reivews are smash-bang! Totally check this one out.
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Defiance = TREATOkay so going into this book I knew it was gonna be great. It looked and sounded amazing and I really excited about it. I just didn't know HOW awesome it was going to be. I ended up giving this book the Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Award, something new on my blog. It was amazing and totally Out of this world Treat!
Freshman Year and Other Unnatural Disaster = TRICKDarn books that don't live up to your expectations. This book looked SO cute and funny. But some things in it just...didn't work for me. If you want to know deets you can find my mini-review HERE.
Divergent = TREATSo. Right after this book came out my friend on Goodreads started FREAKING out about it. But I wasn't like that sure about it. I hardly knew anything about the book so I took the safe route and got it from the library. And then I learned the truth. This. Book. Will. Rock. Your. Socks. Off. It was amazing! So much more that I ever could have expected!!!!! Meep! This was totally a treat, and if you still haven't tried it......go trick or treating.
Tiger Lily = TRICKOkay so this has already showed up a few times during this week. You know why. BORING. Tinker Bell was like a grandpa from the early 1900's and blah blah blah. Eeew yuck. So I for sure didn't get the reaction I wanted out of this book. Total trick.
Mistborn = TREAT!!!Holy smacerol. So my friends were literally raving about this book. And I don't like to be left out of a hyperventilating book party so I started this book. I almost died of it's awesomeness. I can not recommend this book enough! I loved it and the two sequels. This was one of the best treats I've ever had in book form!!!
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There you have it! Favorite blogs, books from my childhood and some really great book surprises and disapointments. What about you? Found any fun blogs lately? Share them! I'd love to check them out. Any childhood faves? If so, what? Any nasty/pleasant surprises? What? I'd love to heard anything even if you aren't participating!! XOXO,
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Insta-Love
I. Hate. Insta-love. It's idiotic and unrealistic. There's no way to connect with the feelings and emotions of the romance it's you look at a guy and love him. Plus it's not even LOVE! It's basically an I-See-A-Hot-Guy---OOOH! Look at those muscles---I-can't-breath-I-think-I'm-in-love--Oh-Romeo-I-love-you-I-need-you-I-can't-live-without-you situation. Ick. It's not love, it's lust.
Too-Much Description
If the book is huge from the story and lots of action filled pages, that's one thing. But if it's thick because every other word is an adjective, then it's a problem. I don't need statistics of the weather from twenty years ago, and how that affects yesterday's weather. I don't need to know how many cubits make up the magical table they are hiding under! I like to read description that advances the story in ways important, but if there are whole paragraphs of useless gunk that doesn't even add to the story, I get pretty ticked off.
No Plot
I HATE, absolutely HATE, synopsis's that lead you on about books full of action and suspense. Then you read the book and NOTHING happens till 20 pages from the end. What is this? That's not action filled. Or when nothing in general happens. The plot is focused on Romance drama and it ends with a cliff-hanger so that the real story can start in book 2. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh.
Contradicting Actions
So you love to read about kick-butt characters and you hear about this great book that has a kick-butt hero/ine. YAY! Then you get the book............whole different ball game. I really hate this kind of thing. When you play up an aspect of the book or some character characteristic and then something completely different happens? For example, Born Wicked. The main character is described as independent. I had trouble with this. She takes a while stressing over the situation and knowing she needs to do something, but NEVER going anything. And then she doesn't stand up for herself at the end. Also, going back to yesterday's, in Crescendo, I thought Nora was being an idiot. I thought she was smarter! They talk about how she knows what's right but she does the opposite anyway. Shut. Up. Be true to what you say. Or don't exaggerate your book.
Boring Characters
The characters, mainly the narrator are the LIFE of the story. If we hate them, your book goes out the window. I really hate when they aren't developed and they are just telling the story. You see the plot more than the character. You don't get in their head, to their thoughts. I want to feel the story from their head. Not just see the actions through their eyes. There's a difference. And then there is the fact that they need a unique, interesting VOICE. What makes them different from the book next door? Why should I care? I think we can all agree on this one.
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So. Those are the bats that like to haunt me, or at least the ones that get to me the most. What bats are in your pages? If you're participating in HW, link me to your post! If not, I'd still LOVE to hear about things that irritate you. Rant. I don't care! Happy Thursday! XOXO,
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
THE GHOSTS..........
#1 A Temptation Of Angels by Michelle Zink
Why? Cliche. Descriptiveness Bland Narrative voice. Cliche. Better books too read. No will-power to return to it. A shame with that interesting premise. Never mind.
#2 Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson
Why? BORING. Tinker Bell the narrator was an *cough*idiot*cough*. She didn't sparkle! She's Tink for goodness sakes. There was no Pixie Dust in this book. No reason to care for any of the characters except Peter.
#3 Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick
I liked HH, but in Crescendo it was all Nora's fault. She was so stupid it drove me insane. She directly disobeyed her promises, and what she knew she shouldn't do. And it was just...not so appealing. Oh well. I was probably only reading because of Patch.
#4 Unwind by Neil Shusterman
Huh. It was a great premise with lots of great blurb that that narration. So distracting and annoying that I couldn't focus on the story of the characters. It was like Omniscent+2nd+3rd POV all in one. Ugh. Never again. Alas alck, it sounded good.
#5 Legacy by Cayla Kluver
I like princesses. And hot princes. But I drowned in description before I even got to the hot boys. And because I was trying to save myself so I didn't turn into a ghost, I wasn't able to see the goodness in the MC. I couldn't connect. It was like I was in a Drowning-Sim Tank. :(
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So those are the scary little ghost that I never finished. They're very sad, but luckily they have enough fans and love their movies so they don't have to hate me. Yay! :D And that's day one of Haunted Week! Yay! Check back tomorrow for some Bats in the Book Pages. *mysterious eye-wiggle*
What books have you never finished for any reason? If you're participating in HW, leave me a link to yours! If not, I'd still love to hear! XOXO,
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