Blog Hop

"Do you ever wish you would have named your blog something different?"
Well their are some really good blog names out their, but I dont think i would ever change mine. I like it, and it fits me perfectly.

Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

This week my teaser comes from the book Stolen Innocene by Elissa Wall

My Teaser

I felt Allen get up beside me, and turning to look at him, I was shocked by what I saw: Allen stood in front of me exposing himself. " What are you doing put that away!" I demanded, closing my eyes tightly.

One Lovely Blog Award

Okay well I have just been awarded the One Lovely Blog Award from Hannah at Paper Back Treasueres I would like to thank you again for this! Thank you!

However their are some rules for this award

- Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award and his or her blog link.

- Pass the award to 15 other blogs that you've newly discovered.

- Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.

 

 

I will be passing this award to..

Saveatunities

Annettes Book Spot

Lovely lil Book Worm

All Of Everything

Ya Book Queen

Best writing Options

Scattered Book Shelf

The Crazy Book Worm

The Book Geek

Red Hot Reviews

Red Headed Book Child

Ottilie Weber

Librarian Lee

Good Golly Miss Holly Books

Musings By Maureen

Follow Friday

Todays question from parajunkee is..

If you are a fan of Science Fiction what is your favorite book? If you haven't read Science Fiction before...any inkling to? Anything catch your eye?

I am not a fan of science fiction. Nothing about it catches my eye. I would rather read something more realisitic.

 

 

 

Review: Before I Die by Jenny Downham

Summary from Goodreads

Tessa has just months to live. Fighting back against hospital visits, endless tests, drugs with excruciating side-effects, Tessa compiles a list. It’s her To Do Before I Die list. And number one is Sex. Released from the constraints of ‘normal’ life, Tessa tastes new experiences to make her feel alive while her failing body struggles to keep up. Tessa’s feelings, her relationships with her father and brother, her estranged mother, her best friend, and her new boyfriend, all are painfully crystallised in the precious weeks before Tessa’s time finally runs out

My Review

Imagine your body is infected with cancer. You only have weeks left to live. You live every day knowing you will never get married, have kids or live another year. All of your friends will grow up and have lives and you wont. How do you prepair yourself for this? What do you do in your last weeks? That is exactly what Tessa feels during the course of this book. Her body is infected with cancer and their is no way of helping her anymore. All she can do is wait for the end. Tessa decides she is going to make a list of 10 things she wants to do before she dies. Some of them being sex, drugs and breaking as many rules as possible in one day. Her friend Zoey, her boyfriend Adam and her father helps her achieve some of these 10 things. Tessa does not have the greatest relationship with her mom, her dad mostly takes her for her check ups and watches over her. She adds reuniting her parents to her list. During this book Tessa has feelings I could never imagine myself having. I found this book pretty emotional at parts. One part near the end did actually make me tear up. This book was beautifully written. I suggest that everyone add this book to their list! Also! this book does not take place in America so some of the terminology is off. But its still easy to understand.

My Rating

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5 out of 5 stars

Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page 
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!) 
• Share the Title & Author, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they
• like your teasers!

 My Teaser

Its as if my heart springs up and marries my soul, as my whole body implodes. Like a stone falling in a pond, circles and circles of love ripple through me.


This week my teaser came from Before I die by Jenny Downham

Sunday Confessions

This is a weekly meme started by To Read Or Not To Read as a way to get to share a bit about myself and also learning more about you. Sometimes its about books and book related topics and sometimes it's not. This is all in good fun and I would love it if you would participate. 

 

This weeks question is..

What do you love most about reading?

 

Well, what I love most about reading is escaping out of every day life into someone Else's. You can go back in time or into the future. Or you can read about people like yourself. I like seeing how other people life and think even if it is only a fiction book.

Review: Forge by Laurie Halse Anderson

Summary

In this compelling sequel to Chains, a National Book Award Finalist and winner of the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction, acclaimed author Laurie Halse Anderson shifts perspective from Isabel to Curzon and brings to the page the tale of what it takes for runaway slaves to forge their own paths in a world of obstacles—and in the midst of the American Revolution.
The Patriot Army was shaped and strengthened by the desperate circumstances of the Valley Forge winter. This is where Curzon the boy becomes Curzon the young man. In addition to the hardships of soldiering, he lives with the fear of discovery, for he is an escaped slave passing for free. And then there is Isabel, who is also at Valley Forge—against her will. She and Curzon have to sort out the tangled threads of their friendship while figuring out what stands between the two of them and true freedom.

My Take

                                                        Okay well, to start off this book is the sequel to a book called Chains. This is book number two. I really liked this book. It tells the story of an African boy named Curzon. Curzon is enlisted into the American Army to fight at Valley Forge. the story tells how their was little comfort at Valley Forge. Their was no food, warmth, clothes or great leadership. The soldiers were dying off slowly from the the lack of food and the frigid cold. The story tells how the soldiers had to march through ice and snow and mud with no shoes on, because their wasn't any. I cant even imagine that. Eventually Curzon is sent back into slavery. Him and an old friend make plans to run away and escape their master. when they finally plan to escape a horrific event happens that may or may not stop them. This was a fast paced story. The end of the book makes me want to read the third book Ashes right away. I found this book very easy to relate to. The author did a wonderful job describing events and keeping true to the facts.

My Rating

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5 out of 5 stars

Blog Hop and Follow Friday

Its time for the Blog Hop by http://www.crazy-for-books.com/

 

Today's Question..

 

 "Tell us about one of your posts from this week and give us a link so we can read it (review or otherwise)!"

 

Well, my recent book review is about a book called If I Stay by Gayle Forman. It is a great book and I would love to hear your thoughts about it=)

http://breathingbooks.blogspot.com/2011/02/review-if-i-stay-by-gayle-forman.html

 

Follow Friday

 

 

Today's Question..

What is your favorite romance hero-type? Stereotype wise. Do you like the strong silent type or the brute macho man?

 

Hmmm I really like the romance character you find in western novels. Where the guy is real sweet, strong and handsome!

 

Review: If I stay by Gayle Forman

Summary

In a single moment, everything changes. Seventeen-year-old Mia has no memory of the accident; she can only recall riding along the snow-wet Oregon road with her family. Then, in a blink, she finds herself watching as her own damaged body is taken from the wreck...

A sophisticated, layered, and heartachingly beautiful story about the power of family and friends, the choices we all make—and the ultimate choice Mia commands. (Summary from goodreads.com)

My Take

Well, to start off I really liked this book and I can not wait to read the sequel Where She Went. The story is about a a girl named Mia. One snowy day her and her family were driving on a wet road and it resulted in an accident, leaving her life forever different. Mia is not sure what happened. She just knows she is outside her family watching her famiy bestfriend and boyfriend try to break in and see her. The story goes back and forth to Mia talking about her life before the accident. She talks about her love of music, her family and all of her feelings. Then Mia talkes about how she is watching life outside her body. Mia has to watch her wrecked body be treated and cared for. She watches her family boyfriend and friends worrying about her. And she watches her bestfriend ab boyfriend break in to see her. During the story Mia must decide if she wants to stay which means living, or go wich means living. The end of this book is cery suspensfull and makes me want the sequel right this instance. I would recommend this book to anyone who has a love of  young adult books.

My Rating

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5 out of 5 stars

Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesday is weekly meme hosted by Mizb at Should be Reading

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! 
• (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!  

This week my teaser comes from If I Stay by Gayle Forman

"Your starting to act like one of those girls. Do you need to get me a gun?

So far this book is very good!

Stylish Blogger Award

Alright well I have just recieved this award from http://deeas-journal.blogspot.com/ I would like to thank her so much. This award was definitly unexpected. But I am so happy to recieve it!! So thank you so much Deea!

The rules of this award is to
1. Thank the person you gave you the award.
2. Share 7 things about you.
3. Pass the award to 15 other bloggers you recently discovered and like.
4. Contact the bloggers and let them know that they have won.

so first I will start with the 7 facts.

1.) I am still in high school
2.) I love my boyfriend of over 2 years
3.) I have read 10 books since 2011 began
4.) I listen to country music
5.) I live by the Jersey shore
6.) I am afraid actually books will not exist soon because they will be taken over by Ereaders
7.) I love history

The next 15 bloggers to get this award will be..

Paperback Treasures 
A Journey In Reading
Bewitched Bookworms
Simply Me, a.. Book Addict
Book Chick City
Brittany's Fantasy
Crazy-For-Books
Amber in Blunderland
Forever Young Adult
YA Book Queen
The Prairie Library
Saveatunities
Reading Lark
Locket Stories
Happily Forever After

Review: Annexed by Sharon Dogar

 Summary

Everyone knows about Anne Frank and her life hidden in the secret annex – but what about the boy who was also trapped there with her?

In this powerful and gripping novel, Sharon Dogar explores what this might have been like from Peter’s point of view.  What was it like to be forced into hiding with Anne Frank, first to hate her and then to find yourself falling in love with her?   Especially with your parents and her parents all watching almost everything you do together.   To know you’re being written about in Anne’s diary, day after day?   What’s it like to start questioning your religion, wondering why simply being Jewish inspires such hatred and persecution?  Or to just sit and wait and watch while others die, and wish you were fighting.

As Peter and Anne become closer and closer in their confined quarters, how can they make sense of what they see happening around them?

Anne’s diary ends on August 4, 1944, but Peter’s story takes us on, beyond their betrayal and into the Nazi death camps.  He details with accuracy, clarity and compassion the reality of day to day survival in Auschwitz – and ultimately the horrific fates of the Annex’s occupants (from goodreads.com)

My Take

Well to start off, I'm not sure what all the controversy of this book is about. People feel that Sharon Dogar is changing the events that actually took place. That's ridicules because the author states more then once that she is not trying to change the facts. She is just telling Peters story from her point of view.

The story Annexed tells Peter's life from when he first went into hiding with the Franks, until his death at the time of liberation. I felt like this story really captured Peter's true emotions and feelings. The story was very real and relatable. During the book Peter tells about how he doesn't know who he is anymore. He just wants to be Peter without and labels such as Jew. Him and Anne often argue over this because she puts her faith and trust in god. But through the time in the annex, Peter and Anne learn to love each other. Peter and Anne must learn to have a relationship in a small space living with eight other people, providing no privacy at all. They must learn to live in a world where they don't know if they are going to die today or tomorrow. They live through fear, hope, uncertainty and desperation. I found this book very well written. The author did an excellent job capturing evey detail. It is also a very emotional read. I would recommend this book to anyone who has read The Diary Of Anne Frank.

Mr Rating

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5 out of 5 stars

Sunday Confessions

This meme was started by Marcie @ To Read or Not To Read. She started it as a way to share a little about herself, but to learn about the rest of us as well. She says, "Sometimes its about books and book related topics and sometimes it's not. This is all in good fun and I would love it if you would participate."

This week's question is

"What do you like to do when you are sick?"

When I am sick I usually like to just catch up on some reading or I sleep most of the time. I like the feeling of having nothing to do for a whole day!

Follow Friday and Blog Hop

The Book Blogger Hop is a weekly meme hosted by Jennifer at Crazy-For-Books (visit her by clicking the hop logo). This hop is a fun time for bloggers to find new followers and readers to find new bloggers! Each week a new question is asked and you can hop from blog to blog on the linky list to see how each person answered. This week's question is....
What are you reading now, and why are you reading it?

Well right now I am reading Annexed by Sharon Dogar. Im reading this because it is a controversal book, because it is about the boy who loved Anne Frank. So far it is very good. I just had to read this book because nothing like it has come out in a while.

Review: The Dead-Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan

Summary

Gabry lives a quiet life. As safe a life as is possible in a town trapped between a forest and the ocean, in a world teeming with the dead, who constantly hunger for those still living. She’s content on her side of the Barrier, happy to let her friends dream of the Dark City up the coast while she watches from the top of her lighthouse. But there are threats the Barrier cannot hold back. Threats like the secrets Gabry’s mother thought she left behind when she escaped from the Sisterhood and the Forest of Hands and Teeth. Like the cult of religious zealots who worship the dead. Like the stranger from the forest who seems to know Gabry. And suddenly, everything is changing. One reckless moment, and half of Gabry’s generation is dead, the other half imprisoned. Now Gabry only knows one thing: she must face the forest of her mother’s past in order to save herself and the one she loves.

My Take

To start off I did not even finish this book. Their is 404 pages in this book and i only read 230

Well this book wasnt really for me, or this trilogy. I wasnt relating to the charectors and over all Sci-Fi Fantasy isnt for me. I just wasnt able to get into all the action parts. Dont get me wrong i did like some parts. But it wasnt enough to continue the book. The book is better then the first one I must say. This book is about Mary's daughter Gabry. This book holds some things that will shock you. Gabry's whole life has been a lie, now she must find it in herself to continue and build a new world. Gabry sees some things that i could never imagine in a life time. I would recommend this book to any one who likes to read about vampires,monsters or zombies. Those things just arn't for me. However I did find I liked the way that Carrie Ryan was able to add so muc hdetail into certain parts of the book. It really created suspense.

My Rating

* *

2 out of 5 stars

Sorry guys!

So I apologize for not putting up a review recently. Currently I am reading the sequel to The Forest Of Hands And Teeth which is The Dead-Tossed waves. It is taking me forever to get through it. I'm not really that interested in it but I don't like not finishing a book.. I have already lost one follower I'm not sure if it is because of my lack of reviews but I will be putting some great ones up like If I Stay. Annexed, Before I Die and Forge. If you have any idea about what I can do to make my blog more improved I would love to hear them.

Thank you and happy blogging!

Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

* Grab your current read
* Open to a random page
* Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
* BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)* Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

This week my teaser comes from the book The Dead-Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan

Summary:

Gabry lives a quiet life. As safe a life as is possible in a town trapped between a forest and the ocean, in a world teeming with the dead, who constantly hunger for those still living. She’s content on her side of the Barrier, happy to let her friends dream of the Dark City up the coast while she watches from the top of her lighthouse. But there are threats the Barrier cannot hold back. Threats like the secrets Gabry’s mother thought she left behind when she escaped from the Sisterhood and the Forest of Hands and Teeth. Like the cult of religious zealots who worship the dead. Like the stranger from the forest who seems to know Gabry. And suddenly, everything is changing. One reckless moment, and half of Gabry’s generation is dead, the other half imprisoned. Now Gabry only knows one thing: she must face the forest of her mother’s past in order to save herself and the one she loves.

My Teaser:

The world that seemed so still is now moving in the moonlight. Around me mudo drag themselves from the dunes, all of them between me and the seawall. Im trapped between them and the waves without a weapon.