Thursday, September 30, 2010
free read reading review
I just finished another one of my free reads......shocking, I know. Hahaha... This one was the second book to Leaving Paradise, called Return to Paradise. If you like books that are romantic, but adventurous at the same time, then this book is for you. Well, of coarse you have to read the first book first, but you can look forward to this one :). I don't want to give too much information out since this is the second book, but basically it is about a girl who got hit by a car and is trying to get through her bad memory by going to a RE- start program. The boy that supposibly hit her actually had a fling with her, but left (first book), he thought that if he left then everyone would be better off. Boy, was he wrong! He was living on his own, but happened to be spending the night with the wrong crowd, drug deelers. To make sure he didn't have to go to juvie again, he had to join the RE-start program. You probably know what happens next... the girl(maggie) and boy(caleb) reunit, but it isn't as tearfull as you may think. I am not going to say anything else, or I will be giving the book away. Let me just say that the relationship between these two people isn't the most realistic relationship compared to everyday boy-girl relationships, but it is certainly a book that can't be put down!
Friday, September 24, 2010
One of my choice reads
What my choice read was and I just finished was called Impossible. To tell you the truth, it wasn't the best book for me, but maybe those who read this might find intrest. It all starts out with this girl named lucy who lives a semi normal life with her foster parents. What's not normal is that her crazy mother who lives on the streets named Miranda keeps popping up in her life. Lucy doesn't know why and its driving her crazy because every time Miranda makes an appearance, it brings her whole family down. This is because her parents were once friends with Miranda before she went crazy. All Lucy knows is the folk song that Miranda always sings and Miranda told Lucy's Dad, before she went crazy, that she wanted Lucy to know the song too. The song tells of nearly impossible tasks a woman must do for a man and if she doesn't then "she and all of her daughters will be treasures of mine". One day Lucy finds Miranda's diary and everything falls into place. The song that has haunted her from birth is a curse that each daughter that is a scaterbourgough (not sure if I spelled her last name right) has. Every daughter gets pregnant at 17 and if she doesn't perform the tasks she too will go crazy. This story tells of the struggles, and new truths of this one girl and when her old friend Zach comes to live with them from college..It just adds a whole knew level of realization for Lucy . For me, I didn't like the whole crazy Mom part, it kind of made me sad. But I have to tell those who might look into this book, it gets better by the end, I swear!
Friday, September 10, 2010
The Reading Roller Coaster
Reading was never in my vocabulary growing up. I used to cringe away when someone pulled out a book, or go crazy when I HAD to read something for school. I remember in fourth grade reading a book on the couch and calling to my mom, "Moooommmm, I just finished two pages, can I stop now." I guess you could of called me the biggest anti- reader in the world. Well, I was until seventh grade.
In seventh grade my whole world changed when I had to read Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief. Technically it was the summer of seventh grade, and having the experience I've had with other books, I was looking at this one just the same. I was saying to myself, I am going to agonize and suffer my way through the next 200 pages, or so, until I want to kill myself (not literally). I was proven wrong, as I opened that book and started to read, I was hooked. I was in the story for the first time. My mom was always an avid reader and tried to tell me that you go away to another world, and now I finally understood what she meant. I wasn't reading for school anymore, I was reading to find out how Percy Jackson fights the monsters, his crush on Annabel, and about his buddy Grover. Then all of a sudden there were no more pages left. I was crushed. So, I said to myself, what do I do now. Well, I did what any hooked reader would do, run to the book store.
I kept reading the Percy Jackson series till I had to keep waiting for the books to come out. Don't get me wrong, I eventually finished the series, but it was taking FOREVER, and I am an impatient teenager. I started to read the book, The Outsiders, with teenage boys who were in gangs, but I soon flew through that one too.
Now I knew I had a problem, and the only way to fix this problem was to get another book. To fill the emptiness that I felt, on vacation I happened to stumble by a book store. I thought, what the heck, and went to the teen section. There on the shelf stood the one book that has curved my reading habits until now, Twilight. This was before it became popular. I heard about it from one of my friends and decided to check it out. When I got to the house that night I started reading, and reading, and reading. All of a sudden I'm like 80 pages in. I didn't want to do any more activities outside, (water tubing, fishing and water skiing), all I wanted to do was read. It was romantic, adventurous, thrilling and I had it all in the palm of my hands.
From then on, I have been reading those action fiction romances for teens. Also with reading Twilight, I grew to love books about vampires. As my reading desire intensified, it also expanded. I started reading books about witches and immortal beings as well. I was just spell bound by these teen romance novels, and I still stand in that position today.
I want to keep reading all of my life. I want to travel the world without leaving my house. Reading has truly changed my life and my friend's as well when I showed her Twilight. We love reading so much that sometimes when we hang out we just read. Aren't we exiting people? Hahaha. I guess my goal in life for reading is to have a huge library in my house with all of the books that I have read, and more that have to be read. I would refill it every month so the adventures live on, because I don't read a book more than once. You are probably saying, "WHAT!! You don't read a book more than once?" Yes, I don't. This is only because I feel like I already know what is going to happen, so I want a new adventure.
Right now I am currently book less, and am slowly withering away inside, I guess that's my problem kicking in. You know what that means :) BOOK STORE!!!!!
In seventh grade my whole world changed when I had to read Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief. Technically it was the summer of seventh grade, and having the experience I've had with other books, I was looking at this one just the same. I was saying to myself, I am going to agonize and suffer my way through the next 200 pages, or so, until I want to kill myself (not literally). I was proven wrong, as I opened that book and started to read, I was hooked. I was in the story for the first time. My mom was always an avid reader and tried to tell me that you go away to another world, and now I finally understood what she meant. I wasn't reading for school anymore, I was reading to find out how Percy Jackson fights the monsters, his crush on Annabel, and about his buddy Grover. Then all of a sudden there were no more pages left. I was crushed. So, I said to myself, what do I do now. Well, I did what any hooked reader would do, run to the book store.
I kept reading the Percy Jackson series till I had to keep waiting for the books to come out. Don't get me wrong, I eventually finished the series, but it was taking FOREVER, and I am an impatient teenager. I started to read the book, The Outsiders, with teenage boys who were in gangs, but I soon flew through that one too.
Now I knew I had a problem, and the only way to fix this problem was to get another book. To fill the emptiness that I felt, on vacation I happened to stumble by a book store. I thought, what the heck, and went to the teen section. There on the shelf stood the one book that has curved my reading habits until now, Twilight. This was before it became popular. I heard about it from one of my friends and decided to check it out. When I got to the house that night I started reading, and reading, and reading. All of a sudden I'm like 80 pages in. I didn't want to do any more activities outside, (water tubing, fishing and water skiing), all I wanted to do was read. It was romantic, adventurous, thrilling and I had it all in the palm of my hands.
From then on, I have been reading those action fiction romances for teens. Also with reading Twilight, I grew to love books about vampires. As my reading desire intensified, it also expanded. I started reading books about witches and immortal beings as well. I was just spell bound by these teen romance novels, and I still stand in that position today.
I want to keep reading all of my life. I want to travel the world without leaving my house. Reading has truly changed my life and my friend's as well when I showed her Twilight. We love reading so much that sometimes when we hang out we just read. Aren't we exiting people? Hahaha. I guess my goal in life for reading is to have a huge library in my house with all of the books that I have read, and more that have to be read. I would refill it every month so the adventures live on, because I don't read a book more than once. You are probably saying, "WHAT!! You don't read a book more than once?" Yes, I don't. This is only because I feel like I already know what is going to happen, so I want a new adventure.
Right now I am currently book less, and am slowly withering away inside, I guess that's my problem kicking in. You know what that means :) BOOK STORE!!!!!
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