Also, I need to rededicate the picture of a trophy that I posted a while ago for the most views by a single person in one day. It is now for whoever visited our site 116 times on January 24. Thanks to whoever you are!
The book store messed up and I got sent this book early by something like two weeks (the power of pre-ordering!), and I was insanely excited. I've only gotten to read it once so far, which isn't normal for me when there's a new Ally Carter book out. When United We Spy came out, I must've read it at least four times in the first month I owned it. I plan on fixing that at some point this week, after my English exam on Tuesday.
Also, I need to rededicate the picture of a trophy that I posted a while ago for the most views by a single person in one day. It is now for whoever visited our site 116 times on January 24. Thanks to whoever you are!
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Lately in English class I have been reading a lot of Shakespeare. I'm not complaining - although sometimes difficult to get the meaning out of, his plays can be quite interesting to read. I recently read with my class 'Julius Caesar', and we started (and just within the last week finished) the Scottish play, 'Macbeth'. I hope you are not reading this review out loud inside a theater. Anyways, in one of Lady Macbeth's famous speeches she says something along the lines of "screw your courage to the sticking point", which must have been one of the first times - if not the first - that line had ever been said. It is now a fairly common phrase, but it got me thinking about it, and I realized that screwing your courage to the sticking place does not make much sense, does it? If your courage is up against the sticking place. would it not stay there without any screws? It just seems a tad excessive - and like a waste of screws - if you ask me. Although no one did. I am not saying that the legendary Shakespeare is wrong - I'm sure he knows his carpentry - I'm just saying it doesn't make too much sense to me. Hey everyone! I'm not doing a review this week, rather, I'm adding to the arsenal of 'book related stuff' that I'm fairly sure is advertised in our blog description. If you really wanted a review from me this week, then I'm sorry. Next time, I promise that I will do a re view for you, but right now you get a post about (mostly) book related thoughts, and that's exciting too, right? Right. For each book mentioned, there will be a link to the review of it.
Elizabeth: Hi! My Top Three books for the year aren’t going to be in any particular order, and I will probably be mentally replacing some of them within seconds of posting this, but then, we all know that I can’t choose between my books! Here we go: -Steel by Carrie Vaughn -Narnia by CS Lewis -Skullduggery Pleasant (the first one) by Derek Landy Now I need to add a fourth book that might be one of my favourites of all time (well, the series really), but I have no words for it, so I can’t review it. The series is The Gallagher Girls by Ally Carter. It grew up with its audience, so the first book or two are a little bit young, but they are so good. Jason: Hello! I am going to pick the top three books that I read in 2014 (that I reviewed), which is going to be difficult, but I will try, and I will succeed. Somehow. My first book that really stands out to me is one that I just posted the review for about 25 seconds ago. Not because I just read it and reviewed it, but because it is so good. And that book is: -The Help, by Kathryn Stockett. I promise I won’t write a mini review on each book, otherwise I will probably keep you here all day. -Elizabeth is Missing, by Emma Healey. Alright, I lied, but I’ll keep it brisk. I was never good at keeping promises like those anyways. This book had a unique perspective that I had never read before. I bugged my mom to read it for half a year straight (I am not kidding) and when she read it she agreed with me that it was really good. -the Flavia de Luce series by Alan Bradley. As Elizabeth said earlier, I have no words for this one. I reviewed it, and that is probably all that you will ever get from me on this series that is not blubbering geek-out nonsense, because I like this series a lot. My sister says that Flavia is annoying, but I say that she is special. (Haters gonna hate.) Well, that is all for this post! Have a good start to your New Year, and Stay Addicted! -Elizabeth and Jason A few years ago, there was a huge commotion about this book. Everywhere I went that sold or loaned books, there was a few prized copies displayed prominently on a shelf where everyone could see them. Chapters stores had tables dedicated to this book (and, it became a ‘Heather’s Pick’), local Costco’s had mounds of this books piled sky-high in their book section. Everyone talked about it; this book had really made quite a splash. To be honest, I am not even really sure why I am reviewing this book – you have probably read it already. And if you haven’t, why have you not read this book yet? My guess is that you are probably like me, late to get onto the popular book bandwagon, and that’s alright, there’s no shame here. I do it every single time a book gets popular. For example, the Hunger Games came out, what, in 2008? Didn’t read any of them until last year, didn’t even finish the series until the end of this summer. Percy Jackson? Came out in 2005/2006, I did not even look at them until a few years ago. And I know these are all children’s books and Young Adult examples (although the Hunger Games is much too violent in my opinion for any child), you probably get my point, because it is not only these books, but multiple others as well. My other problem is getting on the book bandwagon too early, reading books before they are popular, but that is a whole new can of worms that I do not intend on opening today. The Help was stunning. If you need to leave and want a quick summary of what I thought of the book, that is it right there. This book was stunning. It was good-stunning; it was bad-stunning (but not in a bad way); it was attention grabbing stunning; it took the whole wide range of stunning and packed it into a 522 page book, as though with no trouble at all. Hello everyone, Happy New Year!!! I hope that you all have a wonderful 2015, and that 2014 was great too. Watch this next week for special posts coming up because of the new year. In other News, we turn 1 in 3 days! That's right, on January 4th, it is our blog's birthday! Cue the birthday music! Is there such thing as birthday music? I know that there's Happy Birthday (did you know that someone copyrighted Happy Birthday? I don't know who, but they did, which is why they don't sing it on TV shows very often anymore.), but I'm not sure about anything else. So, Yay! After the review, I'm going to give you guys my very own version of A Short Guide to Staying Warm in the Winter By a Canadian. http://picturesimagesclipart.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/top-beautiful-disney-happy-new-year-clipart-1.jpg
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