The tag: summer reading tag! Saw it on youtube, and WHY NOT!
The books: 7 books I have to read this summer. Cuz it's summer = free time!
The review: a review for Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi (FINALLY, A REVIEW!)
The tag:
1. It's morning and a hint of sunshine is in the sky. What book has had a great start for you?
I think a book that's got me hooked right from the beginning is any Harry Potter book. They're all so amazing that I think you can read them any time.
2.You go outside with a good book in hand. What book do you choose?
This is the most difficult question n the world. I think I would go with Divergent by Veronica Roth. It's an amazing book and you
3. You decide to fetch an ice-cream to cool down. Name a chilled out/cool read.
A really easy book to read is The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. Really. You can flip through it in a day!
4. The sun gets trapped behind a cloud. How annoying. What book has annoyed you recently?
The book that annoyed me recently is The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight. When I first read it I loved it soo much! But now, I tried to reread it, and it disappointed me. Couldn't even finish it.
5. It's later in the day and the sun has moved. Time to re-locate. What book has moved you?
The Fault in Our Stars. 'Nuff said.
6. The day is almost over and it's been fantastic 'til the end. What book has amazed you to the finish?
My reading "repertoire" is quite short but I think the book that amazed me from beginning to end is the Ruby Red trilogy. I literally couldn't put it down!
The books:
Here are ze books that I have to read this summer!
When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock.
Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war.
Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils ... Pagford is not what it first seems.
And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations?
Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires...
The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning ... along with the houses in which they were hidden.
Guy Montag enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs nor the joy of watching pages consumed by flames... never questioned anything until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid.
Then he met a professor who told him of a future in which people could think... and Guy Montag suddenly realized what he had to do!
Before. Miles "Pudge" Halter's whole existence has been one big nonevent, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave the "Great Perhaps" (François Rabelais, poet) even more. Then he heads off to the sometimes crazy, possibly unstable, and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed-up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young, who is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart.
After. Nothing is ever the same.
Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde’s story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author’s most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray’s moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel’s corrupting influence, he responded that there is, in fact, “a terrible moral in Dorian Gray.” Just a few years later, the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wilde’s homosexual liaisons, which resulted in his imprisonment. Of Dorian Gray’s relationship to autobiography, Wilde noted in a letter, “Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be—in other ages, perhaps.”
In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.
Perfect for the fans of Shatter Me who are desperately awaiting the release of Unravel Me, this novella-length digital original will bridge the gap between these two novels from the perspective of the villain we all love to hate, Warner, the ruthless leader of Sector 45.
In Tahereh Mafi’s Shatter Me, Juliette escaped from The Reestablishment by seducing Warner—and then putting a bullet in his shoulder. But as she’ll learn in Destroy Me, Warner is not that easy to get rid of. . .
Back at the base and recovering from his near-fatal wound, Warner must do everything in his power to keep his soldiers in check and suppress any mention of a rebellion in the sector. Still as obsessed with Juliette as ever, his first priority is to find her, bring her back, and dispose of Adam and Kenji, the two traitors who helped her escape. But when Warner’s father, The Supreme Commander of The Reestablishment, arrives to correct his son’s mistakes, it’s clear that he has much different plans for Juliette. Plans Warner simply cannot allow.
Set after Shatter Me and before its forthcoming sequel, Unravel Me, Destroy Me is a novella told from the perspective of Warner, the ruthless leader of Sector 45.
SOLVING CRIME, ONE FACIAL EXPRESSION AT A TIME
Colin Fischer cannot stand to be touched. He does not like the color blue. He needs index cards to recognize facial expressions.
But when a gun is found in the school cafeteria, interrupting a female classmate's birthday celebration, Colin is the only for the investigation. It's up to him to prove that Wayne Connelly, the school bully and Colin's frequent tormenter, didn't bring the gun to school. After all, Wayne didn't have frosting on his hands, and there was white chocolate frosting found on the grip of the smoking gun...
Colin Fischer is a modern-day Sherlock Holmes, and his story--as told by the screenwriters of X-Men: First Class and Thor--is perfect for readers who have graduated from Encyclopedia Brown and who are ready to consider the greatest mystery of all: what other people are thinking and feeling.
Why read these exact books? REASONS AFTER REASONS AFTER REASONS!
The review:
No one knows why Juliette's touch is fatal, but The Reestablishment has plans for her. Plans to use her as a weapon. But Juliette has plans of her own. After a lifetime without freedom, she's finally discovering a strength to fight back for the very first time—and to find a future with the one boy she thought she'd lost forever.
This was a really different book from what I am used to. This book is good in it's own way, as all other books are, but this one has something special; the writing is incredibly new to me and I have never read something this interesting, writing wise.
The first few chapters kind of bored me. I put it down when I got to chapter 10 and because I was reading Divergent at the time as well, and I just couldn't read it then. I took it back to the library and this year I lent it again and I just read it! I loved the way things progressed. I loved Warner because, c'mon, what girl doesn't like a bad boy? I really am looking forward to reading Destroy Me because it's written from Warners' perspective. This will be interesting!
Back to the review. When I took it back from the library I just jumped into it and I was a bit afraid that I will read it too fast and probably hate myself after that. So I read a bit at a time so I can enjoy the book! And I truly did! I loved the world building! I loved the characters. Didn't like Juliette a bit because even if she went through soo many things, she could've brought her shit together without being so dramatic.
I just had to give the book 4 stars out of 5 because this book has SOOO much potential, so many things could happen, and it's really interesting and awesome, and what it was at the end could've been from the beginning or more. Also, a thing that seemed to bother a LOT of people were the metaphors. This thing didn't really bother me, but sometimes the metaphors seemed a bit too cheesy. I think that the metaphors made this book what it is and that makes really intriguing and different from every other book in the stores. Even the love triangle, I don't like love triangles, but this one was soo well made! Also, I love Kenji. He's incredibly funny and awesome!
All in all, I think this book is pretty good, but could've been a lot better. I cannot wait to read the next books (lets hope I can get the money on my birthday to buy an iPod, for gods' sake!). I will definitely read the next books. Even if they're bad. Well, not really. If they pull me a Mockingjay or a Matched, I will set that fucker on fire!
Now that I'm feeling really proud of this review, I will probably post in the next few days reviews for the following books:
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
Delirium by Lauren Oliver
A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith.
Also, I have changed my pen-name because I really disliked the other one. It's pretty similar, but this one is really kewl! I shall call myself Ellie J. Miller from now on! Of course, as an author.
Anyway, hope you enjoyed this summer welcoming post.
Thank you,
Goodbye,
E.
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