January 2012 ~ The Paige Turner

Talent by Zoey Dean

Read a synopsis here! Number of pages: 288 So, in this book there is a group of three friends (Mac, Coco, and Becks) and they are 8th graders so they're about 12 years old and they live in Hollywood. All of the girls parents are rich executives or agents, so the girls often name drop about stars and fashion labels and up scale stores. (Think Reese Witherspoon, Louis Vuitton, and Fred Segal) Mac, Coco, and Becks are the most popular girls at their school Bel-Air Middle School (commonly referred to as BAMS throughout the book) So they...

Bernard Pivot Tag

I haven't done a Tag in awhile and I think they're a cute way for you guys to get to know a little more about me! (This tag is explained really well here!) Question 1: What's your favorite word? ...You're asking a reader what their favorite word is? This one was really hard for me to choose but I have to say LOVE. It's so powerful and it changes people in so many ways and can be interpreted into so many things :) Spread the love! Question 2: What's your least favorite word? Haters. Not the word hate but the word haters. It's just disgusting, also I don't like the meaning of that word. Question 3: What's a sound or noise...

Update Re: Reading Challenge

Hello everyone! Hope all is well with you! I decided to lower my Reading Challenge for 2012. I had a wake up call and realized there's simply not enough time for me to read one book every day! So I'm the count to 150! By the time summer rolls around I might increase it by another 50 depending on how I'm progressing, but we'll see! Hope all your reading challenges are going well! See you soon! -Pai...

The Book of the Shadow by Carrie Asai

Read a synopsis here! Number of pages: 215 (I love how squat and square these books are!) This was a really good sequel to the first book. Tons of action and there was more romance integrated into this book! As I was reading through one part of the book, I felt that Heaven was beginning to become a little whiny but then again, her brother had been killed and she had been attacked multiple times. I got over that thought pretty quickly. The story plot seemed a tiny bit repetitive. There was various small fighting scenes, which lead to...

Unwind by Neal Shusterman

Read a synopsis here! Number of pages: 335 Let me just start by saying that this book is a dystopian novel. If I hadn't known that going in I don't think I would have really noticed. I wish there had been more development with the world/setting to make it seem more futuristic. There was one point where they were in an antique shop and there were iPods, but that was pretty much it. The book was great! It was a little tough getting into it but it became extremely intense towards the end and I couldn't put it down! The ending was a total...

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

Read a synopsis here! Number of pages: 97 So we just finished reading this book er..play in school and I loved it! The ending was a total surprise and I felt really sad!! Can I admit that I teared up a little on the inside? Anyways, I had my doubts going into this because we had to read it in school, but of course I was the odd child out who sat there the entire class period and read ahead while everyone else was still on scene one. It is sort of slow to get into but the ending is totally worth it. The conclusion makes this...

Dash and Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan

Read a synopsis here! Number of pages: 260 This book is amazing. Simply amazing. I loved the characters and all their quirks and flaws and the setting (gotta love New York!) Also they reference The Strand a lot (which is where I plan to go one day when I visit New York again.) If you don't know what The Strand is then you're not a true book lover. Sorry! I don't think I've ever laughed so hard over a book. This book is incredibly funny. Especially in the beginning. Normally, I don't share what I'm reading with people but I just had...

Diary of a Vampeen by Christin Lovell

Read a synopsis here! Number of pages: 270 So this was a free book that I found in the Amazon store for my Kindle and I had really high hopes for it. I really had hoped this ebook was going to be a quick short fun romance read about vampires but I only got through 63% of the book. (On Kindle ebooks, there isn't page numbers just percentages.) I really tried to get through this book. I would put it down for awhile and then come back, but I just got more and more disinterested and I finally realized that I can't be wasting my time trying...

The Book of the Sword by Carrie Asai

Read a synopsis here! Number of pages: 214 When I saw this book in my used bookstore I HAD to pick it up. I had read the back and I remembered watching a miniseries called Samurai Girl on ABC Family 2 or 3 years ago and this book is what that little series was based off of! (There's an entire series of like 6 books I found out!) So I grabbed the first two in the series because they were there and I might order the rest later. Anyways, the first book was great! The point of view is through Heaven, but you also get little snippets of...

The Storyteller's Daughter by Cameron Dokey

Read a synopsis here! Number of pages: 218 Out of all the OUT books that I've read, this is my least favorite. It wasn't as predictable as the others but it was so confusing in the beginning! The character names confused me so I didn't know who was who, and it wasn't until the end of the story that I started recognizing which character was which, when they were talked about. I also was confused by the line of events. Other stories are interwoven into some chapters and that really confused me because I wasn't sure what was real life...

Prom and Prejudice by Elizabeth Eulberg

Read a synopsis here! Number of pages: 227 This is definitely going on my Favorites Shelf, and mind you very, very few books make it there. I loved this book!! I loved the modern day twist with prom, I loved the way the story was tweaked for modern times too (sending emails instead of letters, riding in taxi's instead of carriages, etc.) and the whole light feel of the story was really cute. All of the characters from the original Pride and Prejudice were in the story at least once. Some didn't have as big of roles as they did in the...

To Catch a Pirate by Jade Parker

Read a synopsis here! Number of pages: 230 *Insert sigh of happy content here*...That's the reaction I had when I finished this book. It was such a cute love story that had a ton of action from the get-go! I was actually surprised how much action and fighting there was in this story but it totally worked and I loved every minute of it! Think of this book as Pirates of the Caribbean but amplify the romance by 75% Such a good book!!! I loved that the main character, Anna, was a captain of her own ship, because that was unheard of...

Something Like Fate by Susane Colasanti

Read a synopsis here! Number of pages: 268 This is the fourth Susane Colasanti book I've read and I just love her writing style! It's so blunt, but also funny and really captures the feelings of teenagers! This specific story was really cute, but I did think the ending was going to be a little more dramatic. I felt like it could have been more shocking or...something! It was just sort of what I predicted so maybe I'm too good of a predictor? It was a great story I just felt the ending was sort of weak... I actually plowed through this...

Snow by Tracy Lynn

Read a synopsis here! Number of pages: 259 I thought I had done a review on this book, but apparently I didn't! Probably because I read this before I started this blog. This was the first Once Upon a Time retelling book that I read, and as you might have been able to tell from the title, it's a retelling of Snow White and the Seven Dwarf's. This is most likely my favorite OUT (Once Upon a Time) retelling. Maybe it because it was the first I had read? I'm not sure but no matter this was so good! The story doesn't have the 7 dwarf's in...

The Rose Bride by Nancy Holder

Read a synopsis here! Number of pages: 245 This is the fourth book I've read in the Once Upon a Time retelling series and it was just as good as the other one's I've read! This is the retelling of "The White Bride and the Black Bride" and I had actually never heard of that fairy tale so I looked it up here. This retelling wasn't as predictable as the other stories that I've read, especially near the end. I was really surprised about that and it could have to do with the fact that this is a lesser known fairy tale so many people may...

Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan

Read a synopsis here! (I'm not going to do the how much it cost me anymore because you can check that out on my hauls tab) Number of pages: 230 Wow, wow, wow is all I can say about this book. Going into it I didn't like the style of the story but after the first like 30 pages I was in love. I felt extremely attached to this book because it was sort of personal for me. (I have a guy best friend-HE'S NOT GAY-and I don't know their relationship really reminded me of him.) Anyways, the story totally sucks you in and you can't stop reading....

December Haul!!

Okay wow this month is a huge book haul! Let's get started!! Scholastic Warehouse: Okay before I tell you what books I got let me explain something. The Scholastic Warehouse is literally a warehouse where Scholastic stores all their books and every half a year, teachers, librarians, and the general public (although it's really meant for teachers and librarians) can go in and buy books for half price! A great deal right!? I know! I used to go more when I was little but this is the first time I've gone in awhile. Most books were half price but the recently released books were like 20% or 30% off I think. Also they have discount...

Sentenced to Death by Lorna Barrett

Read a synopsis here! How much it cost me: $4.00 (used bookstore) Retail price: $7.99 Number of pages: 324 I have to say I was again, a little disappointed with this book. I don't think I'm going to read the rest of the series when it comes out because it's just not original anymore. All the ways that she solves the murders are pretty much the same. The murders themselves are different but the solving is just dragged out for sooo long that half way through the book I find myself losing interest. The characters need to become a little...

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