July 2011
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“Strangely enough, when you get older, the things you didn’t understand...”
– Ayame Sohma, Fruits Basket by Natsuki Takaya
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11.Book Haul
This is what I got from the Library today.
Kimi ni Todoke vol 9(From Me to you.) by Karuho Shiina
Black Butler vol 6 by Yana Toboso
Kobato vol 4 by Clamp
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63.Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
I finished Pretties today XD, so here are my thoughts on it. Also I’m going to post previews of the manga version.
Summer Reading List!!!
Summary:Finally surgically transformed into a “pretty,” sixteen-year-old Tally, now gorgeous and programmed to think only happy thoughts, is plagued by tangled memories of living in the Smoke, a rebel colony of “ugly” runaways...
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“Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by...”
– Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
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62.The Good Neighbors volume 1-2 by Holly Black &...
This is my first graphic novel I’ve read that has faeries in it, and first Holly black novel.So here are my thoughts on The Good Neighbors.
Summary
Kin:Sixteen-year-old Rue Silver, whose mother disappeared weeks ago, believes she is going crazy until she learns that the strange things she has been seeing are real, and that she is one of the faerie creatures, or Good Neighbors, that...
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“Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless.”
– The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin
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61.Generation Dead by Daniel Waters
Generation Dead was by far the best book I’ve read this week. So here are my thoughts on it.
Summary:When dead teenagers who have come back to life start showing up at her high school, Phoebe, a goth girl, becomes interested in the phenomenon, and when she starts dating a “living impaired” boy, they encounter prejudice, fear, and hatred.
Review:At first when I started reading...
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“When people die, you always are going to wonder what they went through, you...”
– Margi, Generation Dead by Daniel Waters
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“I’d rather live with the consequences of my choices than live with the...”
– Phoebe, Generation Dead by Daniel Waters
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“Harvest moon
Above
The dead boy on the field
Trying to show us
What it means...”
– Generation Dead by Daniel Waters
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10.Book Haul
This is what I got from the library today.
Last Sacrifice by Rachelle Mead
The Good Neighbors Volume 1 and 2 by Holly black & Ted Naifeh
Natsume’s Book of Friends volume 2 by Yuki Midorikawa
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60.Balefire series by Cate Tiernan
I finally got to finish this short series, Balefire. So here are my thoughts on it.
Summary
A Chalice of Wind:Separated since birth, seventeen-year-old twins Thais and Clio unexpectedly meet in New Orleans where they seem to be pursued by a coven of witches who want to harness the twins’ magickal powers for its own ends.
A Circle of Ashes:While Daedalus schemes to use the coven’s...
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“Darkness is a choice, a path. Every day we all have to make the choice to choose...”
– Luc, Balefire by Cate Tiernan
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“I’d spent my whole life obeying rules, following directions, trying to do...”
– Thais, Balefire by Cate Tiernan
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“You’re not honey. Your’e wine. You’re the deepest, darkest...”
– Balefire by Cate Tiernan
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“Anytime you feel love for anything, be it stone, tree, lover, or child, you are...”
– Sweep:Book of Shadows Cate Tiernan
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Books I can't wait to be release!
Beautiful Chaos by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
Drink, Slay, Love by Sarah Beth Durst
Crossed by Ally Condie
Perfect by Ellen Hopkins
Never Have I Ever by Sara Shepard
The Future of us by Jay Asher
The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
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59.Reborn! volumes 1-2 by Akira Amano
I just started reading reborn again. I read the first volume last year, and also saw like 7 episodes of the anime. So yeah here are my thoughts on this series.
Summary:Junior high schooler Tsuna is a failure at just about everything, so imagine his surprise when Reborn, a gun-toting toddler, arrives and informs him that he has come to groom Tsuna to become the future boss of an Italian...
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9.Book Haul
So this is what I got from the Library.
One Piece Volume 38-39 by Eiichiro Oda
D.N.Angel Volume 6 by Yukiru Sugisaki
Angel: After the Fall Volume 3 by Joss Whedon
Kekkaishi Volume 15 by Yellow Tanabe
Reborn! Volume 2 by Akira Amano
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58.Twelve Long Months by Brian Malloy
Today I read a book about a girl who is in love with a guy who likes guys. So here are my thoughts.
Summary:From the end of her senior year at Minnesota’s Le Seur High School through her first year as a physics major at Columbia University, Molly Swain finds the inner strength and good friends to help her cope with huge challenges, including learning that the boy she loves is gay.
...
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“Man, you are so lucky to be a girl. You make out with guys and nobody cares! If...”
– Mark, Twelve Long Months by Brian Malloy
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“I am gay, but I don’t understand how you’re supposed to be gay.”
– Mark, Twelve Long Months by Brian Malloy
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“Gay guys and straight guys may be attracted to opposite sexes, but in the end of...”
– Molly, Twelve Long Months by Brian Malloy
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“I am a fool for possibilities”
– Molly, Twelve Long Months by Brian Malloy
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57.Natsume's Book of Friends volume 1 by Yuki...
So I read natsume’s book of friend yestday, and I don’t know whether I liked it or hated.
Summary:Takashi Natsume is a troubled high school student that is able to see spirits and demons, and has inherited a “book of friends” that contains the bound names of enslaved spirits and demons that are willing to do anything to get their names back.
Thoughts:I have mix feeling...
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56.Sweep:Origins by Cate Tiernan
Review:It’s been a while since I’ve read a book from the Sweep series. So I decided to read Origins yesterday.
Origins is really good, it was so different from previous books in the series. The way the characters interacted, and spoke was way different, the time period was different(took place 1682 in Scotland.) it just felt different.
I really enjoyed this prequel, I think it...
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“I fell into deep darkness. I greeted death. I tore the velvet darkness of...”
– Rose, Sweep:Origins by Cate Tiernan
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“At the moment all I wanted was a place to rest and a pitcher of water to wash...”
– Rose, Sweep:Origins by Cate Tiernan
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“Often we say words we do not comprehend.”
– Diarmuid, Sweep:Origins by Cate Tiernan
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8.Book Haul
This what I got from the library today
1.Natsume’s Book of Friends volume 1 by Yuki Midorikawa
2.Twelve Long Months by Brian Malloy
3.Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
4.Kobato volume 3 by Clamp
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“Rose? Like the rose on the bush, gentle and sweet, yet ready to prick a finger...”
– Dairmuid, Sweep:Origins by Cate Tiernan
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“Sweep, sweep this circle for me,
By powers of wind, so mote it be.
Light,...”
– Rose MacEwan, Sweep:Origins by Cate Tiernan
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55.Lord of Misrule by Rachel Caine
Review:Just finished the 5th book in The Morganville Vampires, Lord of Misrule.So the 5th book picks up right where Feast for Fools Left of. Bishop’s arrival has caused total chaos for the inhabited of Morganville, loyalties are being chosen, vampires and humans working together, and tensions are building up.
It was a quick read, still had that satire I love, and by the end of this book...
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54.Fear Hall:The Beginning by R.L. Stine
Review:So when I was reading Fear Hall I kind of expected to be a thriller, which wasn’t. It felt like I was watching a horrible horror movie trying to be scary/suspenseful, it tried, but failed. The whole plot was…bad(yeah that’s a nice word.)
Characters were not likable, I found them to be really,really annoying especially Hope.
The pace felt really rushed, not really...
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Top 5 Gay Characters in Literature
This is my list of gay characters in literature that have made a good impression, I have admired, and just really stood out.
5.Damien from The House of Night series by Kristen & P.C. Cast
4.Steven from Absolutely, Positively Not… by David Larochelle
3.Mr. Vidas from Bait by Alex Sanchez
2.will grayson from Will Grayson, will grayson by John Green & David Levithan
1.Magnus Bane...
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53.Absolutely, Positively Not...Gay by David...
Review:I just finished David Larochelle’s Absolutely, Positively Not… The novel very inspirational, pleasing, funny, and just amazing.
The main character(Steven Denarski.) was really easy to relate to, I found him to be a likable character and also unique/awkward in a funny way. As he deals with his sexuality, trying to be into something he’s not, and finally admitting to...
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“My mother smiled:Steven, just because you took a dog to school dance...”
– Steven, Absolutely, Positively Not… by David Larochelle
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“I was feeling absolutely, positively gay.”
– Steven, Absolutely, Positively Not… by David Larochelle
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“Life always comes to a fight, and peace always come to an end.”
– Amelie, The Morganville Vampires:Lord of Misrule by Rachel Caine
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“Things to do today:
1) Breathe in.
2) Breathe out.”
– It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
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“regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.”
– It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
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“People are screwed up in this world. I’d rather be with someone screwed up...”
– It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
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52.It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
Review:It’s Kind of a Funny Story was actually good. The pace was quick, the story was not at all depressing, and dark.
I found it really easy to relate to the main character Craig, while he was going through stress, depression, and whether he will be someone in the future.
I’d Enjoyed all the insane/eccentric characters in this book which were, Jimmy, Bobby, Humble, Solomon, and...
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“If you’re worried about me finding your porn stash, old news man. Also you...”
– Eve, The Morganville Vampires:Lord of Misrule by Rachel Caine
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“I’m not afraid of dying; I’m just afraid of living.”
– Humble, It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
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“Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”
– Albus Dumbledore in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. (via thelonelytraveller)
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“The children’s wing was painted a cheerful blue and pink, but Joanna...”
– Witches of East End by Melissa De La Cruz
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51.Witches of East End by Melissa De La Cruz
Review:Okay so I didn’t expect this to be an adult novel, only because Freya was introduce in Bloody Valentine which is YA, also because characters from The Blue blood series(also YA.) was going to appear in this book. (it’s been a while since i’ve read an adult novel.)
So the beginning of the story I thought it was a it slow, but then it picked pace after few chapters of...
