favourite quotes from the books she's read. So I asked her if she wanted to make it into a meme and here we are, actually making it into a meme!
Owl Keeper
Airhead & Being NikkiPages:
337 (Airhead)
336 (Being Nikki)
Book Description:
Emerson Watts didn’t even want to go to the new SoHo Stark Megastore grand opening. But someone needed to look out for her sister, Frida, whose crush, British heartthrob Gabriel Luna, would be singing and signing autographs there - along with the newly appointed Face of Stark, teen supermodel sensation Nikki Howard.
How was Em to know that disaster would strike, changing her - and life as she’d known it - forever? One bizarre accident later, and Em Watts, always the tomboy, never the party princess, is no longer herself. Literally.
Now getting her best friend, Christopher, to notice that she’s actually a girl is the least of Em’s problems.
But what Em’s pretty sure she’ll never be able to accept might just turn out to be the one thing that’s going to make her dream come true...
(Airhead)
A quote:
Family was people who needed you. Family was people who had nothing when you had everything.
You had to do what was right by them. You had to, even if doing so broke your heart.- (Being Nikki)
Any thoughts:
A few minutes ago, I just finished reading the second book out of the series. I didn’t get to review the first one so what I’ll do is the same thing I did with The Vampire Diaries series. I’ll talk about them in general.
When I first read the summary, my first thought was, “Whaa..?” I was so confused! (Later I realized how dumb I was, haha.) But I knew I had to read it. I mean, it’s by Meg Cabot! She’s awesome! And the minute I finished Airhead, I knew I made the right choice because not only does it leave you questions that are just desperate to find its answers, but it makes you really think. There’s a deep message beneath the whole plot of the series. If you put science or technology and beauty or fame together, you’ll figure it out. That’s what makes it so special.
I love Em Watts as the heroine. She’s laugh-out-loud funny, intelligent and unselfish. And it’s pretty amusing how she adjusts herself with the new lifestyle. The other characters are really fun, as well. I often find that Meg Cabot’s characters are relatable and enjoyable so it’s easy to love them.
I’m guessing it’s mostly aimed at teens, though they do say quite a few swear words. So if you’re interested in reading something light and entertaining, then this is the book for you.
It's almost Christmas! 2 Days more to go, but before I move on to the 12 Blogs of Christmas...contests around the blogosphere!!!
My Invisible Boyfriend
Will Grayson, Will GraysonHilarious, poignant, and deeply insightful, John Green and David Levithan’s collaborative novel is brimming with a double helping of the heart and humor that have won both them legions of faithful fans.
His black eyes sliced into me, and the corners of his mouth tilted up. My heart fumbled a beat and in that pause, a feeling of gloomy darkness seemed to slide like a shadow over me.
~pg. 11 "Hush, Hush"
by Becca Fitzpatrick
By Ellen Hopkins
Pages:
565
Book Description:
Kaeleigh and Raeanne are identical down to the dimple. As daughters of a district-court judge father and a politician mother, they are an all-American family -- on the surface. Behind the facade each sister has her own dark secret, and that’s where their differences begin.
For Kaeleigh, she’s the misplaced focus of Daddy’s love, intended for a mother whose presence on the campaign trail means absence at home. All that Raeanne sees is Daddy playing a game of favourites -- and she is losing. If she has to lose, she will do it on her own terms, so she chooses drugs, alcohol, and sex.
Secrets like the ones the twins are harbouring are not meant to be kept -- from each other or anyone else. Pretty soon it’s obvious that neither sister can handle it alone, and one sister must step up to save the other, but the question is -- who?
A quote:
I stay, and for one I stay
long enough for the ice dam
to melt, warm into an easy
flow, burgeoning into
of need. My pulse picks up
speed and I lift my eyes to his,
have to look away or I might
go blind at the blaze
there.
Any thoughts:
When I first saw this book waiting for me at the library, I thought, “Whoa, it’s so thick! This will take me a while to read.” And when I opened it, all I saw were verses. You see, I’ve never read a book that contained poems throughout the whole thing so I was a bit uneasy. But that feeling quickly went away as soon as I became hooked!
Expect the unexpected for this one. The twist ending caught me by surprise and I had to flip a few pages back. I definitely didn’t see it coming, but it had me intrigued because I wanted answers to my curious questions.
From the beginning, I’ve always thought that the plot is sad and heavy with all the issues a teenager could possibly go through: drugs, alcohol, sex, abuse, eating disorders, metal illness, promiscuity, and so on. There were a lot of these and at certain times, it was difficult to continue reading. Sometimes it even disturbed me. But Ellen Hopkins’s writing kept me engaged in the story that it was so tough to stop. And since it’s written in verse, I didn’t know where to place the bookmark! So I ended up continuing, which is why it seemed like a quick read to me.
All I would have to say is that this book is real heavy. Be mindful of the issues that this book is based on because it surely made me cringe at least once. But I absolutely love Ellen Hopkins’s style, and I really look forward to read her other works.
I received this award a few weeks earlier from The Sweet Bonjour and My Tea Time is Book Time. Thank you both so much!
Day 7 is hosted at Luxury Reading. You can enter by clicking here. You can win an invisible bookshelf as well as other things such as: A hardcover copy of Secret Society by Tom Dolby, a paperback copy of Dear John by Nicholas Sparks (movie tie-in edition) and an audio book of The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. Open only to the US and Canada.
Beautiful Creatures
How joyous it is this time of the year! Everyone and everything is so bright. I love it :)
Sleepless
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