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I Failed, Temporarily

So I'm terrible and haven't updated in months but I am back and ready to rumble. Read tons of books and am super ready to read more. I think I might do a book challenge this year...

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I'm running behind, of course

I'm running super behind in posting my readings of course, I'm also running behind in writing my class essays so its definitely a theme in my life right now. I'm going to list the books I've read lately and then as soon as my essays and school slows down I will definitely catch up with what I need to post.

so lately I have read:

-The Perks of Being a Wallflower

-I reread The Selection by Kiera Cass

-The Prince (a Selection Novella)

-Lies Beneath by Anne Greenwood Brown

-Paper Valentine by Brenna Yovannoff

-The Ruining by Anna Collomore

-All These Lives by Sarah Wylie

and currently I am reading Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

as you can see despite my lack of posting I am keeping up with my reading, I wish I was so dedicated to my school readings.... 

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March 6th

Yesterday was a very busy day for me, I actually read the second half of Requiem by Lauren Oliver as well as reading both If I Stay and Where She Went by Gayle Foreman instead of doing anything else all day.

I could not put any of these three books down! I'll be posting a more in depth recommendation later today for the Gayle Foreman books!

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Requiem by Lauren Oliver

Just finished it!!! I am sad to see the end of the Delirium Trilogy, I do regularly desire for books to keep going and going and going, I want to know the ending of the characters that I devote hours to (looking at you J.K. Rowling).

Anyway, this book was quite action packed, dramatic, and touching in many ways. I found the character of Lena to be as entrancing as the past two books, but personally found the new insight into to Hana to be a little frustrating, lacking in the emotion that I would expect, but then again thats probably the point as she is cured.

Overall I loved it, and actually yelled aloud when it came to an ending. I believe that this is a brilliant trilogy to read, and I know that I will be buying the box set to add to my collection.

“But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.” - Lauren Oliver, Requiem

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Requiem

The third installment in the Delirium series by Lauren Oliver is out today! I am reading starting it right meow!!!

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New Opportunities For Moi!

I have recently been hired onto my University paper, which is definitely exciting and I'm looking forward to getting some experience in the actual publishing field! But I'm still reading like a true bookworm.

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Dreamland by Sarah Dessen

My roommate gave me this book to read and I finally got to it, and I liked it... I wouldn't say I absolutely loved it as I have read so many great books lately but I did enjoy. While being slow in the beginning it definitely picked up and emphasized a feeling I think a lot of people go through in their own lives of feeling not completely present, and having someone who makes these feelings stronger by abusing you in somewhere or other. This book made me feel some feminist womens' rights feelings, which I don't feel that often to be honest.

This book approaches some sensitive subject matter and I am not going to wholeheartedly recommend this one but I will say that it is decent and it is one of my roommates favourite books.

“I had this wild thought that he was the only one in all this chaos who was just like me, and that was comforting and profound all at once.”  ― Sarah Dessen, Dreamland

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Just One Day

I read this book last night, and I was pleasantly surprised by the contents. The idea that some girl, plain and reserved can let go of her reservations and go on an actual adventure with a stranger that changes her, allows her to find herself and pass what she had been formed as in the past. She falls in love and has her heart broken, but that's the beauty in it, she fell headfirst into love and is forced to catch herself in the aftermath. 

I just cannot wait for the sequel, as of course, I read for hours straight only to find a cliff hanger waiting for me at the end.

so of course... recommending this book for anyone looking for a comfy read that puts the reader through the rope of love at first sight.

“Part of me knows one more day won't do anything except postpone the heartbreak. But another part of me believes differently. We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.”  -Just One Day, Gayle Forman

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Sisters In Sanity

This book was a very comfortable read, and by comfortable I mean I couldn't put it down but it also didn't blow my brains all over the room like a spectacular book can do to me. Great for someone looking for a quick read that will keep you interested until the end.

Recommending this one :)

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Twelfth Night

As a current English Major, I do have to read a lot of books that may not be ones that I would choose, but they are classics, and they are usually quite good in their own way. Currently I'm studying for a midterm on William's Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. A classic comedy that I had to read in grade nine, but it is entertaining and some of the sexual innuendos really do traverse time and space. Although many people struggle with reading Shakespeare's language and choose simply not too, I would recommend trying this play if one is interested in trying out one of his plays. This play now has plenty of new takes on it, She's the Man starring Amanda Bynes for instance, but the original is simply hilarious... If one is interested in the play but knows they cannot read it, I would recommend learning the story in the way it was originally intended, watch it. Many acting companies have put on this play and their are plenty of movies of it out there. I would recommend Kenneth Branagh's as it is quite entertaining and he has a movie for pretty much every popular play by Shakespeare. Also it helps that he played Gilderoy Lockhart in Harry Potter.

If music be the food of love, play on - Duke Orsino

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'When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible"... they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail'

John Green, Looking for Alaska 

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John Green

I am all about everything John Green lately since I heard about Looking For Alaska, went to the bookstore near me and found a whole shelf dedicated to him. I read The Fault in Our Stars first and I was so caught up in the book and the characters I actually shed tears throughout the novel. I then read Looking For Alaska and once again I was moved by the book. I wish I was able to put words to a page like John Green does. 

As of last month John Green is one of my favourite authors and I look forward to reading the 3 other books I have of his. 

needless to say: RECOMMENDED AND I INSIST YOU READ THESE TWO NOVELS.

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The Selection is a book I read in the period of a couple of hours over the holiday break. I found it enjoyable, and it drew me in so that I could not put the book down. The character of America Singer is relatable, comforting, and infuriating all at once... pretty much a real person. Once again, this is another book that I find my self eagerly awaiting the sequel The Elite coming out in April. I will definitely will be purchasing it upon release. The book is currently being turned into a tv movie which is slightly disapointing because I believe it could be turned into a blockbuster buttt William Mosely is in it, and he is quite attractive.

 I recommend and hope that if you do give this book a chance, you enjoy it like I did.

"... true love is usually the most inconvenient kind." - Kiera Cass, The Selection 

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Ok so I read the first book by Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, last year and I was intrigued by the book to continue on reading the trilogy as each book came out. The second book in the trilogy The Evolution of Mara Dyer was very good, and I must say, I was afraid to read this book in my room alone and started to try and sit with other while reading it. It is not often that I am significantly creeped out while reading a novel but this book succeeded. The twists, turns, and freaky moments of the novel coming from the perspective of a ptsd patient kept me reading and I am waiting not so patiently for the final installment in the trilogy...

Michelle Hodkin seems to excel at leaving a reader with a mind blowing cliff hanger, so while I recommend the books for a reader, I would also recommend not reading them until the next book comes out in the trilogy unless you want to be yelling at yourself after finishing the books like I was in both cases. 

“I'll walk forever with stories inside me that the people I love the most can never hear.” - Michelle Hodkin, The Evolution of Mara Dyer