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The Eclectic Reader is giving away some awesome books so go and pick the one you want and post a comment on her page...it is international (click on picture to get to it).
The Book Resort is giving away a copy of Hollow and this is also international...(click on picture to get to site)
It is the end of August and the end of my first ever Author Spotlight.
So much for Our Vati in Heaven. What on earth is the point of asking God for something if you don't get it? Decided to buy a Buddha tomorrow. page 19
Thank you, God. I will always believe in you. I was only pretending to become a Buddhist. page 42
Buddhism is the only way. I didn't try hard enough. I must meditate and be calm. page 50
I wonder how old he is? I must become more mature quickly. I'll start tomorrow. Georgia, page 50
Yes, I am the Queen and Georgia did a big poo this morning. Libby, page 64 (she said this in front of Georgia's crush)
Hmmm...more books this week. I can't help myself, especially when most of these were 80% off...
From the back cover of PS, I Love You, by Cecelia AhernHolly and Gerry are the kind of married couple that others envy. Then, at the age of 30, Gerry is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Holly doesn't know how she'll go on without him, and in truth, she doesn't want to. But Gerry has other plans for Holly. Months after Gerry's death, Holly receives a package of letters that he's left for her, instructing her to perform a series of unexpected tasks. With the help of the letters---and her fun, quick-witted girlfriends and a raucously endearing family that smothers, loves, and drives her crazy---Holly wobbles, weaves, and jokes her way toward a new life, even larger than the one that she'd been forced to leave behind.
From the back cover of Seek by Paul FleischmanAssigned to write his autobiography, high school senior Rob Radkovitz decides to "listen" back on his life. As he remembers the voices of his younger self, his quirky family, and his closest friends, one stands apart-the haunting voice of his long-absent father, left behind on a single tape from one of his radio shows.
From the back cover of You Know You Love Me a Gossip Girl Novel by Cecily von ZiegesarWelcome to New York City's Upper East Side, where my friends and I all live in huge fabulous apartments and go to exclusive single-sex private schools. We aren't always the nicest people in the world, but we make up for it in looks and taste.
It's time to fill out our college applications...Not applying to the Ivy Leagues is not an option, and not getting into them would be a total embarrassment....But I know a few girls who aren't going to let the pressure get them down. After all, no one really wants to to to college a virgin.
You know you love me,
gossip girl
There are some people who fall in love over and over. And there are others who can only seem to do it once. Lena, page 312
It was that old idea-better to put your heart out there and have it abused once in a while than to keep it hidden away.
Title: The Time Traveler's Wife
Title: The Last Summer (of You & Me)
Title: Go Ask Alice
Here are the books I bought this week...& the pile of books in my room continue to grow...
From the back cover of Boy Meets Boy by David LevithanLove is never easy. Especially if you're Paul. He's a sophomore at a high school like no other---and these are his friends: Infinite Darlene, the homecoming queen and star quarterback. Joni, Paul's best friend who may not be his best friend anymore. Tony, his other best friend, who can't leave the house unless his parents think he's going on a date...with a girl. Kyle, the ex-boyfriend who won't go away. Rip, the school bookie, who sets the odds...And Noah, The Boy. The one who changes everything. LOVE MEETS LOVE. CONFUSION MEETS CLARITY. BOY MEETS BOY.
From the back cover of Monster by Walter Dean MyersSteve Harmon's black. He's in jail, maybe forever. He's on trial for murder. And he's sixteen years old.
Fade in: Interior: Early morning in cell block D, Manhattan Detention Center.
Steve (voice-over) Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience. I'll call it what the lady prosecutor called me...MONSTER.
From the back cover of The Lightning Thief by Rick RiordanPercy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school...again. And that's the least of his troubles. Lately, mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy's Greek mythology textbook and into his life. And worse, he's angered a few of them. Zeus's master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect.
Now Percy and his friends have just ten days to find and return Zeus's stolen property and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus. But to succeed on his quest, Percy will have to do more than catch the true thief: he must come to terms with the father who abandoned him; solve the riddle of the Oracle, which warns him of betrayal by a friend; and unravel a treachery more powerful than the gods themselves.
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Title: The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnPersons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. By order of the author per G.G., Chief of Ordanance
The long, hot summers spent on Fire Island have always been the highlight of the year for sisters Riley and Alice. Not least because it is there that they always see Paul: their next-door neighbour, Riley's best friend in all the world, and the only boy Alice has ever loved. Then Paul goes to university, and he leaves them both behind him.
Three years later, as Alice in turn prepares to start college, Paul returns. The trick, he tells himself, is to have what he had without destroying it. But their world will change irresistibly, wonderfully and tragically, with every breath they take.
It was such a dorky thing to do, but at least Tibby was being the kind of dork she could feel good about. page 214
Any place at any time. If you are thinking of me, you can be sure that I am thinking of you. Kostos, page 256
[...] I mean putting myself out there in the way of overwhelming happiness and knowing you're also putting yourself in the way of terrible harm. I'm scared to be this happy. I'm scared to be this extreme. Lena, page 283
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Here are the books I bought this week...and the TBR gets even longer...
From the inside cover of You Know Where To Find Me by Rachel CohnFirst cousins Laura and Miles grew up like sisters. Miles thought of Laura as the golden one---smart, beautiful, rich, and popular---while Miles considered herself the unwanted one---an unattractive, underachieving outcast. Laura's suicide shatters Miles and leaves her feeling completely alone, and sets Miles on a dangerous downward spiral. But in the strength Miles finds in herself and in those she didn't believe cared about her, she is able to rebuild her life in unexpected ways.
From the back cover of This Lullaby by Sarah DessenRemy always knows when to give a guy "the speech"-right after the initial romantic rush, but before anything gets too serious. She's had her fair share of boyfriends, and she's learned all there is to learn from her mother, who's currently working on husband number five. So why is it that Remy can't seem to dump Dexter? It can't be his name. It can't be that he's messy and disorganized. And it certainly isn't that he's a musician-just like Remy's father, a man she never knew because he left before she was born. Could it be that Remy's romantic rules to live by don't apply anymore?
From the back cover of Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise RennisonGeorgia Nicolson's life is far from simple. Her cat, Angus, is the size of a small Labrador. Her three-year-old sister may have peed somewhere in her room. And her best friend, Jas, thinks she looks like an alien just because she accidentally shaved off her eyebrows. Enter the Sex God. This just might turn out to be the most fabbity fab year ever!HAPPY readings!!!
I'm afraid of time. I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgments and mistakes that everybody makes. you can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots instead of movies. Bailey Graffman, page 174
Maybe happiness didn't have to be about the big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place. Maybe it was about stringing together a bunch of small pleasures. Wearing slippers and watching the Miss Universe contest. Eating a brownie with vanilla ice cream. Getting to level seven in Dragon master and knowing there were twenty levels to go. [...] Maybe everybody had the same allotted measure of happiness within each day. Maybe it didn't matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn't matter if your friend was possibly dying. Maybe you just got through it. Maybe that was all you could ask for. Tibby Tomko-Rollins, page 282
My parents didn't raise me to be religious. The closest we come to worship is the Trinity of Visa, MasterCard, and American Express. Melinda, page 29
From the back cover of About a Boy, by Nick HornbyToo cool! At thirty-six, he's as hip as a teenager. He's single, child-free, goes to the right clubs and knows which trainers to wear. He's also found a great way to score with women: attend single parents' groups full of available (and grateful) mothers, all hoping to meet a Nice Guy. Which is how Will meets Marcus, the oldest twelve-year-old on the planet. Marcus is a bit strange: he listens to Joni Mitchell and Mozart, looks after his mum and has never owned a pair of trainers. But Marcus latches on to Will - and won't let go. Can Will teach Marcus how to grow up cool? And can Marcus help Will just to grow up?
From the back cover of A Mango-Shaped Space, by Wendy MassMia appears to be the most normal kid in her family. Her younger brother keeps a chart of all the hamburgers he's eaten. Her older sister dyes her hair a different color every week. But Mia knows she is far from ordinary. She is keeping something from everyone: sounds, numbers, and letters have color for her. When school trouble finally forces Mia to reveal her secret, she feels like a freak. She embarks on an intense journey of self-discovery, and by the time she realizes she has isolated herself from everyone who cares about her, it's almost too late. She has to lose something very special in order to find herself.
From the back cover of Peeps, by Scott WesterfeldAfter a chance encounter with a mysterious woman one night, Cal Thompson's life is changed forever. He's been infected with an insidious parasite. The good news: he's only a carrier-still sane, without the worst of the symptoms. The bad news: he's infected all his former girlfriends-and now they've turned into what Cal calls peeps. The rest of us call them vampires. And it's Cal's job to hunt them down before they create even more of their kind...
