I wish I could say the same thing about a book I read recently, We Were Liars by E. Lockhart. It is not that it was bad - I just feel that all the excitement and all of the hype that was being placed on it last summer was not entirely warranted.
Hello, everyone! I hope that the last two weeks for you have been just as great as they have been for me - because that would mean that they have been fantastic! I'm sure that you remember Elizabeth's announcement from not too long ago, how she got a scholarship to Germany for a school year. Well, I too had applied for the scholarship, and just over a week ago my family got a call saying that I also had gotten the scholarship - meaning we are both going to Germany for the school year next year! I am over the moon with excitement, and couldn't be happier.
I wish I could say the same thing about a book I read recently, We Were Liars by E. Lockhart. It is not that it was bad - I just feel that all the excitement and all of the hype that was being placed on it last summer was not entirely warranted.
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Hey everyone! Jason's got some exciting news, but I'll let him tell you all about it next week. I'm aware that this isn't a review post, which means that this is the second week in a row where you are going to just read our rambling, but that's okay. Rambling is fun. Today I'm going to ramble on about libraries, in no particular order. My first point is simply going to be that libraries are absolutely wonderful places. I love them, which isn't entirely because they are full of books, although that is the majority of the reason. We're just going to assume that, we all know that that's a huge piece of it, so I'm not even going to bother. Well maybe. But for now, I'm going to go over all the other pluses. Cool? Cool. Hey guys! It has been a long time since I have had some quality one on one time with you, just to chat, and since I honestly have not finished any books in the last two weeks (and I think I might have given up on the Lord of the Rings), right now is the perfect time for a post like this. A post where anything can, and anything will, happen.
There is not much new with me, although the blurb about me on the 'About' page is getting more and more accurate by the day - I am very much broke, and my (slight) book obsession isn't really helping in that department. Because of this, I put myself on a bit of a book buying ban - and now the list of books that I want to read is growing exponentially. It seems as though all of the books that seem interesting and that I want to read get released in the spring. I don't know if that is on purpose by publishers or if things just work out that way. My school library has a fantastically large library book selection, but I have already read all of the books that interest me. All of this combined was leaving me with no books to read, except for rereads. But then last Sunday I went to church, and there was this announcement that they had a ton of books that they wanted to get rid of. After the service I practically ran to the table that was set up with the books they were getting rid of, and proceeded to get sixteen books. I might have a book hoarding problem; I might just be alright with that. I don't know though. Overall my reading has been a little thrown off recently - I have only read just over thirty pages in the last week. What am I supposed do, though? I will just have to sit it out and hope that I'll get back on track soon. What do you all do to get out of a reading slump - it would be cool to know, so please feel free to leave a comment about it! On one last note, I am currently in an Art class at my school, and we had to take this thing called scraffito paper and put a design of our creation onto the paper - and this is what I made: Hey everybody! Happy Easter! I'm just going to skip straight to the review today, my capacity for small talk is completely gone. Sorry. Unless, of course, you don't like my babbling, in which case, yay for you (also, why are you even here?). So this is sort of a first for my reviews, I'm fairly sure. I'm going to review a book that I didn't finish. As a rule, I generally avoid doing that, because what if the rest of the book turned out to be okay, right? First, here's Goodreads' synopsis (because I can't really make up one for it): A princess must find her place in a reborn world. She flees on her wedding day. She steals ancient documents from the Chancellor's secret collection. She is pursued by bounty hunters sent by her own father. She is Princess Lia, seventeen, First Daughter of the House of Morrighan. The Kingdom of Morrighan is steeped in tradition and the stories of a bygone world, but some traditions Lia can't abide. Like having to marry someone she's never met to secure a political alliance. Fed up and ready for a new life, Lia flees to a distant village on the morning of her wedding. She settles in among the common folk, intrigued when two mysterious and handsome strangers arrive—and unaware that one is the jilted prince and the other an assassin sent to kill her. Deceptions swirl and Lia finds herself on the brink of unlocking perilous secrets—secrets that may unravel her world—even as she feels herself falling in love. |
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