Might've read some books.

First of all, I drank a cup of coffee today and after a couple of hours, I felt like I drank 5 glasses of wine. Yup. Never. Again.
Second of all, I read about 4-5 books this month! Why 4-5? Because I read three thirds of Delirium but then I had to borrow it to my cousin, so I hadn't finished it yet >XD But soon, mon petit, soon!!
The fist three books that I read and already wrote a review on are the following: Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan, Where She Went by Gayle Forman and I am Number Four by Pittacus Lore. You can find the reviews here!
The other (last) book that I read is Insurgent which I don't really need to talk about because it's a re-read. I can't say how much I adore this book!
But this next month I have two weeks at the beginning which are mostly free, because they're my spring break. But of course, spring failed to come, so it's not really a spring break. It's more like a sprinter. Or winting. Yup. Shut up brain.
The books that I would kinda love to read are the following:

Delirium      Before I fall      A study in Scarlet

Shatter Me

Colin Fischer

Maus

I probably won't read them all mostly because this always happens. I lend books from the library and never read them all. Only one. Yurp.
I got Colin Fisher last week and this happened:

I got a voucher for wine and a bookmark with calories on it. I LOVE BOOK DEPOSITORY!!
Anywho, I have to go!
Goodbye,
J.

3 in 1

Before I start blabbering, I would like to say that I feel a cold coming up. My mum has the worse cold ever, and I think I caught it from her. I DON'T WANT A COLD!

So I finished three books the last few weeks. Those three books are Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan, I am Number Four by Pittacus Lore and Where She Went by Gayle Forman. All in reverse order. I also wanted to review them all.

Buy it!

This is the book I started somewhere in February but didn't finish because of reasons. I somehow liked it. It was pretty good.
I really wanted to read this book because my brother said the movie is awesome. I saw the movie and I loved it so so much! I was hard starting the book because the prologue thingie confused me, but then I started the first chapter and I started liking it.
The simplest synopsis I can give you is this: nine children had been send to earth along with their cēpan from their planet which has been destroyed by another alien species. They have special powers and they are killed by the Mogadorians so that they can stop them from joining their forces agains the Mogadorians and get their planet back.

Characters:

The first character I want to talk about is John Smith aka. Number Four. I had a love-hate relationship with him. I liked him at times, he's lovely, but he is a bit dumb. Y U NO KEEP LOW KEY!! Also, I didn't like the relationship development between him and Sarah. I thought it was a tiny bit rushed, and I was used to romances being built up, not like love-at-first-sight-y. I loved every parts when he and Bernie were in them! I love that dog so much!
Now a bit about Henri, which everyone knows that is his father, but in fact is his cēpan. A cēpan is a person that keeps an eye on someone or something (old english. Dayum I love wikipedia!!) He seemed like the nicest person alive. I liked him more than I liked John. He was a complex character. Even if he wasn't John's father, I loved the way he looked after him, never giving up, and always trying his best to protect him. He was also really smart. I loved the way the writers described his first meeting with John and his grandfather.

Plot:

As I said before, I didn't like the way they begun the book. They could at least have name the chapter differently. Something like the location and the date of the happenings. I liked the when the first chapter started, I could paint a picture in my head of the back story and everything. I loved that the action started right at the beginning of the book, and it didn't take multiple chapters to lead you to the action.I loved that John explained so many things, like why they had to move so often and why he had to keep it low key. Even though he was a little fuck and didn't do it.
It was a good read. It had it's flaws, but in the end, I do want to continue the series, even though I don't want it to happen right now.

Buy it!

Probably one of the best books I've ever read. I read it in three days on my cousins' laptop. I was really really bored and I didn't know what to do and I just started reeading it. Even if I should've read Warm Bodies.
I don't want to make a synopsis of it because I'm going to spoil the book for you. If you want to read the book, and haven't yet, please don't read any more.
So three years after Mia's accident, Adam is in New York, with his band, living a famous life, having a famous girlfriend. Mia got accepted in Julliard. Her and Adam's paths have been changed and they think that they will never meet again. But their paths will cross again, when they less expect it.

Characters:

This book isn't narrated by Mia, it's narrated by Adam, her ex-boyfriend.
The thing I like most about this book is the fact that Adam is narrating it. I love the fact that we learn SO much about him and you somehow start being very fond of him. You might doubt his decisions at some points, but I think that you will connect with him rapidly.
The other character in the story that is very important is Mia. She is the narrator of the first book, and in the first book you connect with her and her thoughts. WHen she comes into the story of the second book, you just want to read more and more! It's exactly what happened to me! I couldn't disconnect from the story. I really liked Mia because she was really kind with Adam and did not judge him when he asked her why she left him behind and everything else.
Plot:
Both the first and second books have some kind of a pattern: one chapter is about the thing that is happening at that moment, and the next chapter is about a story from the past. It kind of makes you want to read more. For me it was a motivator for me to finish that chapter so I can reach the next chapter to see what happens. It was a really well written book. I think that it wasn't enough. I wanted so much more after that! I do think that the ending was really good. Usually last books in series are really bad *cough*mockingjay*cough*, however, this one was really really good!
This is one of my favourite parts of the book. I also loved the book because it was really funny at times, and Mia is hilarious sometimes!

“Lady Liberty’s going commando,” I say. “That is so

French!”

Mia cracks up at that. “Do you think she ever flashes

the tourists?”

“No way! Why do you think she has that private little

look on her face? All those red-state puritans coming by

the boatload, never once suspecting that Old Libs hasn’t

got panties on. She’s probably sporting a Brazilian.”

“Okay, I need to lose that visual,” Mia groans. “And

might I remind you that we’re from a red state—

sort of.”

“Oregon’s a divided state,” I reply. “Rednecks to the

east, hippies to the west.”

“Speaking of hippies, and going commando . . .”

“Oh, no. Now that’s a visual I really don’t need.”

I recommend this book to absolutely everyone. But only read this book if you finished the first. I just loved it!

Buy it!

This has been the last book I read and I really loved it. I really wanted to read a book only by David because I read Will Grayson, Will Grayson, which he co-wrote with John Green and it was just amazing!
This book is about a guy named Paul that is gay and he meets another guy at a library at which a friend of his played, called Noah, and he instantly knows that there's something he likes at him.

Characters: 

The main character in this book is, obviously, Paul. He is a really lovable and adorable! He doesn't run around hallways or streets shouting the fact that he's gay. I have a classmate that keeps being very dramatic about everything, and abuses the gayness in him. He's not even gay! He's bisexual! Anyhow, Paul is really adorable and I love his relationship with his best friend Tony! Even if his parents are asses (Tony's).
Another significant character is Noah. He is an artist and paints music as a hobby. His parents made him and his sister move a lot because of their jobs, but they settled in this new city where Paul lives and he goes to the same school as he does. So their parents go to work where they are needed, and they are barely at home. He is a really lovely person and I love him so much! I love the fact that he's an artist. I tried imagining his paintings and they seemed like the best things ever!

Plot:

The plot of this book is really simple: a love between two people sparks and then it sets on fire later. I didn't noticed this like I did at Delirium, but the flame between Paul and Noah didn't seem to spread like wildfire. By that I mean that after they got together they didn't look as though they knew each other for a lifetime and knew every dirty little secret about each other. The sparks beautifully developed into flames and the flames kept burning until Paul did a stupid thing. I really enjoyed the pace of the book. It wasn't fast paced, nor slow paced. I know this has been David Levithan's first book, and I understand that there are some things that aren't really logical, so I'm not going to be too judge-y about it.


I hope you enjoyed this ginormous blog post and that you read these books with the same enjoyment as mine!

Goodbye,
Jae.

Short

Everything is short. Life is short, I'm short and even my hair is short! But there's nothing more annoying than a short book. In my opinion, obviously. Some girls find it annoying when a guy has a short pen15, so please.

  I have a pen-name now. Pen-names are cool. It's J. Miller. J. comes from Jae. I think it's read as Jay? I'm not sure. I hope I can use it sometime, because I really really want to publish a book sometime. I already have a fuckload of ideas and I want to take part of NaNoWriMo this year, and I really can't wait! I'll have to plot everything and stuff.
I have a really awesome idea of a 9 year old called Tommy Baker, which lives with his father in a small English town and one night he wakes up on something cold and sandy. When he straightens up he faces a full-grown man with fur all over him. His name is Lyall and he's a werewolf. Tommy then sees something big, round, with white, blue and green blotches all over it at the horizon. Then he realises he's on the moon. I'll have to plan everything up and stuff, but I won't start writing but until November, which is a shame, because I really really want to write it :\

In other news, I  will start jogging as soon as the weather gets better because it's a bit cold now and I really don't want to get a flu.
Also, I finished almost 3 books this month! I have about 80 pages from Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan. I finished Where She Went by Gayle Forman last week and it was really good! Dayum! I might do a review on it, because I really liked it. I finished I Am Number Four last week as well, and it was nice. I like Boy Meets Boy a lot so far. It's a really really short book, so I think I'll finish it fast.


Well, I think that was enough for now. The post is called Short not Longer-Than-A-Harry-Potter-Book.

Goodbye,
J.

Cărți tari traduse în Română

Săptămânile trecute am aflat niște noutăți despre cărți pe care le-am citit sau nu le-am citit dar aș dori să le citesc cât de repede posibil. Sper să pot scrie postarea asta toată în Romănâ. O să fie greu...

Deci, am văzut ca multe cărți care sunt destul de populare în alte țări se vor traduce și la noi.
Printre cărțile care am văzut că se vor traduce se află și astea:

Nume original: Anna and the French Kiss

De la primul la ultimul rând, cartea este pur şi simplu cuceritoare. E amuzantă, plină de suspans, de neprevăzut şi, bineînţeles – în Paris, cel mai romantic oraş al lumii – de dragoste.


Anna este o americancă exilată la Paris (fireşte că în pofida voinţei sale) pentru ultimul an de liceu. Totul e nou, necunoscut şi potenţial de neînţeles, inclusiv şi mai ales limba, iar ea trebuie să-şi măsoare de două ori toate gesturile, toate cuvintele, confuză şi disperată să nu facă vreo gafă. Singură n-ar reuşi, dar, vorba colegei ei din vecini: „de aceea sunt prieteni pe lume”.

Cu grupul de noi prieteni, totul se schimbă radical. Şi mai ales cu St. Claire – hei, care fată ar rămâne insensibilă la o asemenea combinaţie de însuşiri „extra”: bine-făcut, frumos, inteligent, vorbăreţ şi cu un ucigător simţ al umorului? Cu o singură problemă: „St. Claire e deja luat”, are o iubită. Anna îşi repetă „suntem doar buni prieteni, suntem doar buni prieteni”, dar sentimentele, reciproce, devin de neînlăturat.

Ezitări, îndrăzneli, îndoieli, interpretări greşite, întâmplări vesele şi triste, reacţii-surpriză şi un îndelung amânat sărut – tot arsenalul seducţiei şi tot jocul dragostei, bine dozat şi excelent temporizat. Cum mărturisea o cititoare vrăjită: „E una din acele cărţi pe care le citeşti şi îţi spui: Sper să mi se întâmple şi mie asta! Sper să întâlnesc şi eu pe cineva aşa! Sper să am şi eu prieteni ca aceştia!”

Am citit deja cartea în Septembrie și am citit și Lola and the Boy Next Door și mi-au plăcut ambele foarte foarte mult! Abia aștept să apară și la noi pentru că vreau să o recitesc. Din 25 Martie se va putea cumpăra din librării.

Nume original: Ten Things We Did
(and Probably Shouldn't Have)

Dacă i se oferă ocazia, care fată de șaisprezece ani n-ar profita de șansa de a se muta acasă la o prietenă și de a trăi amândouă fără supravegherea părinților? Cu toate că „ocazie” poate să nu fie termenul potrivit, din moment ce April a trebuit să-i spună tatălui ei un foarte mărunt neadevăr, ca s-o facă să devină posibilă (vezi #1: Ne-am mințit părinții). Însă ea și colocatara ei, Vi, sunt pe deplin responsabile și capabile să-și poarte singure de grijă. Cum de-au ajuns la „Am chiulit de la școală” (#3), „Am dat o petrecere trăsnită” (#8), „Am cumpărat un jacuzzi” (#4), și, hm, „Am adăpostit o fugară” (#7), cam este un mister până și pentru ele.
În această amuzantă și dulce-amăruie poveste, Sarah Mlynowski sondează mintea și sufletul unei fete care rămâne pentru prima oară pe cont propriu. Ca să ajungă cu bine la capătul anului școlar, April va fi nevoită să jongleze cu un triunghi amoros, să învețe să se descurce singură și să accepte faptul că lumea ei, cu atâta grijă construită, s-ar putea nărui pur și simplu… odată cu fiecare lucru pe care n-ar fi trebuit să-l facă.

Am găsit prima dată cartea pe Goodreads și am zis că pare o carte interesantă și aș fi vrut să o cumpăr, dar cțnd am văzut că v-a apărea și la noi, m-am bucurat, pentru că aș putea să o cumpar sau să o împrumut de la biblioteca județeană.

Nume original: The Statistical Probability
of Love at First Sight

Cine şi-ar fi închipuit că patru minute ar putea schimba totul?

Pentru tânăra de şaptesprezece ani, Hadley Sullivan, această zi pare să fie una dintre cele mai rele de până acum…
Tocmai a pierdut avionul, este blocată în aeroportul JFK din New York şi e pe cale să întârzie la nunta propriului ei tată, care se căsătoreşte, pentru a doua oară, la Londra, cu o femeie pe care n-a văzut-o în viaţa ei.
Apoi, aşteptând să se îmbarce în următorul avion, îl întâlneşte pe Oliver. E britanic. Şi e foarte drăguţ. Şi o va însoţi în noul ei zbor.
Călătoria de-o noapte trece cât ai clipi, iar Hadley şi Oliver se pierd unul de altul în aglomeraţia din aeroport, la sosire.
Îi va aduce oare soarta din nou împreună?

Desfăşurată pe parcursul a douăzeci şi patru de ore, povestea lui Hadley şi a lui Oliver ne vorbeşte despre relaţiile de familie, despre a doua şansă şi despre dragostea la prima vedere.

Am citit cartea asta tot în septembrie, și abia aștept să o cumpăr și să o recitesc pentru că ador cartea asta din toată inima! Probabil că nararea la persoana a 3-a nu prea imi place mie, dar e scrisă incredibil de bine! Abia aștept să apară în magazine, și sper să o găsesc mâine într-o librărie, doar să o văd.

Statul pe marginea scenei vieții.. îți oferă o perspectivă unică. Dar vine un moment în care trebuie să vezi cum e să fii pe ”ringul de dans”.
Acest roman despre dilema pasivității versus a pasiunii, care te va bântui, uimitorul debut a unei noi voci provocatoare în ficțiunea contemporană: ”The Perks of Being a Wallflower”.
Aceasta este povestea despre cum e să crești în timpul liceului. Mai intime decât un jurnal, scrisorile lui Charlie sunt neobișnuite și unice, amuzante și devastatoare. Poate nu știm unde locuiește el. Poate nu vom ști cui îi scrie. Tot ce știm e lumea pe care o împărtășește cu noi. Prins între a încerca să își trăiască viața și să fugă în același timp de ea, este pus pe un drum ciudat, printr-un teritoriu fără o hartă.
Lumea primelor întâlniri și a primelor casete mixate, a dramelor de familie și a noilor prieteni. Lumea sexului, a drogurilor, a show-lui The Rocky Horror Picture, când tot ce avea nevoie cineva era de acel cântec perfect în acea călătorie perfectă care să te facă să te simți infinit.
Prin intermediul lui Charlie, Stephen Chbosky a creat o poveste extrem de profundă, un roman puternic care îți va întoarce spiritul înapoi în acel sălbatic și sfâșietor roller coaster al zilelor cunoscute ca ”cele în care te-ai maturizat”.

Am aflat asta de pe blogul traducătorului Român Shauki Al-Gareeb și abia aștept să fie tradusă. Din câte am înțeles de pe blogul lui, v-a fi publicată doar anul viitor. Mă bucur foarte tare pentru că vor traduce cartea. Nu știu ce titlu v-a avea, dar sper să fie bun.

Diagnosticată cu cancer tiroidian stagiul IV la vârsta de 13 ani, Hazel a fost pregătită să moară până când, la 14 ani, un miracol medical îi ține în frâu tumoarea din plămâni..pentru moment.
Doi ani după miracol, adolescenta de șaisprezece ani Hazel este în urma tuturor lucrurilor, de asemenea; în urmă la liceu, în urma prietenilor, și în urma normalului. Și deși crede că ar putea trăi pentru o lungă perioadă de timp (cât o fi asta), Hazel trăiește legată la un tub de oxigen și tumoarea e ținută sub control de asaltul constant al medicamentelor.
În scenă intră Augustus Waters, care face parte dintr-un grup care sprijină copiii cu cancer. Augustus e fermecător, într-o misiune de corectare a greșelilor și, șocant pentru ea, interesat de Hazel. Să fie cu Augustus e o destinație neașteptată și o călătorie lungă și necesară, care o împinge pe Hazel să re-examineze cum boala și sănătatea, viața și moartea, o vor defini pe ea și ceea ce va lasa în urma ei..

Fiind cartea mea preferată, m-am bucurat nespus când am aflat că va fi tradusă. Cartea va fi publicată de Editura Trei, și din informatiile celor de la editură, va apărea în magazine în Mai-Iunie anul acesta. Abia aștept să apară. Chiar dacă o am deja în engleză, vreau să o am și în Română.

The flooded coast of former Los Angeles. Two warring nations of North America—the Republic and the Colonies.
Born into an elite family in one of the Republic’s wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a prodigy. Obedient, passionate, and committed to her country, she is being groomed for success in the Republic’s highest military circles.
Born into the slums of the Republic’s Lake Sector, fifteen-year-old Day is the country’s most wanted criminal. But his motives may not be as malicious as they seem.
From different worlds, June and Day have no reason to cross paths—until the day June’s brother is murdered. And Day becomes the prime suspect. Now, caught in the ultimate game of cat and mouse, Day is in a race for his family’s survival while June tries desperately to avenge her brother’s death. But in a shocking turn of events, the two uncover the truth of what has really brought them together and the sinister lengths their country will go to in order to keep its secrets.

Am auzit multe lucruri incredibile despre cartea asta. Mulți video-bloggeri și cititori de rând. Abia aștept să se publice. Nu știu când se va publica, pe blogul traducătorului nu scria nimic, iar cei de la Editura Leda nu mi-au răspuns la mail. Naisss!!

Acestea fiind scrise, sper că aceste cuvinte v-au ajutat ca să faceti rost de noi lecturi.

Goodbye,
M.

Frustration.

frustration [frʌˈstreɪʃən]
n
1. the condition of being frustrated
2. something that frustrates
3. (Psychology) Psychol
a. the prevention or hindering of a potentially satisfying activity
b. the emotional reaction to such prevention that may involve aggression

This word describes my state right now.
I just wanna kick my own ass. I wanna clone myself and kick my ass. Seriously!
There are so many things that frustrate me right now! For example, I don't know why I don't do things I plan on doing! I know I am o full-time procrastinator, and I am really really annoyed by it.
This is how I imagine my future: me going to nursing school at at my aunts', in the other side of the country, living with her, my brother and my cousin. Me going to school and being really good at it. I imagine me starting to learn the human anatomy for my university exam and psychology for my final high school exam. Also, I want to take a part-time job this summer so I can buy myself a laptop and other stuff. But I have this thing that every time I imagine something that I really want to happen, it will not happen, and I can vividly imagine going there and doing all that stuff and it's quite annoying. So I wanna motivate myself to do all the shit I wanna do! Like finish high school with flying colours and take all my exams. But I'm not feeling my best, so I'll do all of the things I imagine happening just so I can prove to myself that I can do anything I want to do.

So, because I wanna feel a bit better about myself, I'm gonna list 5 things I'm really proud of.

1. I have  double jointed thumb! It's my left thumb.
2. I have uneven legs. May or may not be that interesting, and it does affect my life in a bad way, I think it's awesome.
3. I have a pretty good memory. But if I have a calcium deficiency, my memory goes bonkers.
4. I read a lot.
5. I can sing.

Well, I hope I can stop procrastinating from no on. Yup.
I'm just gonna leave you with this pretty kewl song.



Goodbye,
M.

Try a little tenderness.

I didn't finish a book this past month. Except for Emerald Green... This is so sad... I've been reading I am Number Four all month... Emerald Green has left a huge hole in my life and I can't fill it with anything. I tried reading The Maze Runner but nope! I couldn't read it then. But I will, at some point. So I thought, why not read The Fault in Our Stars, it might help. I didn't want to read it because of no reason, but I don't care...
But I've been filling my life with I am Number Four which is pretty kewl right now. Sarah just came back from the trip to Colorado and Henri almost caught them making out. In bed. Yup...
Furthermore, I've been translating The Fault in Our Stars in Romanian and I'm kinda proud of it. I'm willing to translate it before June because by the end of June, a Romanian publisher will release the book in Romanian. This might be illegal, but I won't post it anywhere. Just gonna give it to a few of my best friends to read. Yup! Also, I want to translate a book from Romanian to English this summer and I want to translate The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

I'll make a post in Romanian in a couple of days because of reasons. So goodbye, now. I have a ''Meet and Greet'' with my books coming up but Windows Movie Makers takes a fuckload of time to save. Like, days! Not even kidding!

Anywhore, I have to go now. I'z got to translate, bitches!!!