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This will be my last post on Blogger because --drum roll please --

I'M MOVING TO TUMBLR!!!

Recently got a tumblr and I like it a lot more than Blogger. So all my posts are there and I will be posting on there from now on.

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Wow..It's Been A While

I didn't realize it's been three months since I last posted.  Well I finished Behemoth (Westerfeild) and needless to say, it ended in a cliff-hanger.  But really good.  It's really entertaining because the young girl Daren who is pretending to be a guy names Dylan is head over heels in love with the prince, but the prince doesn't know it.  I am really looking forward to reading Goliath to finish the trilogy.

Over vacation I finished Two Towers and read The Return of the King.  That series is so amazing. Even though Tolkien's writing is sometimes hard to follow, it is still a great story, and very well written.  And when you read it, make sure you read the appendixes in the back of Return of the King.  They give a lot of background to the series and characters, it clears up a lot of questions.

For school, the first book I had to read was The Great Brain.  It was an easy read, but I really enjoyed it.  It's by John D. Fitzgerald, and written in first person.  it's about a little boy and his older brother, T.D, who says he has a great brain.  His older brother never does anything unless he can get money out of it somehow.  Like one of the stories is that the younger brother wanted to mate his dog with a neighbors dog and T. D. gets it arranged. But when the neighbors and their dog get missing in a cave, T.T. sets his "great brain" to get them out. But what everyone didn't know was that they only reason he did it was so that the dogs could be mated so he could pick two pups from the litter and sell them for two bucks a pup. It was a really cute story and I really enjoyed it.  I would say the age group it was written for was late elementary age.

I am now reading The Road From Home about being an Armenian living in Turkey during World War I. So far I like it, but not really far enough into it to get the plot yet.

Also kinda re-reading The City of Bones.  But not much other than that.

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What Happens When I Spend Four Hours At A Library....

So in just over a month I have finished 8 books and finishing another. I read Insurgent (book two from the Divergent Trilogy by Veronica Roth) and it was just as good as the first. She opened up really well for the third and I can't wait for it to come out.
Well about four weeks ago I had nothing to do so I spent four hours at the library. I read That Summer by Sarah Dessen. I've been wanting to read one of her books for a while since I see a lot of them on the shelf at the library and that one was the shortest and I knew I could finish in a couple hours. It was really good, it was about a girl who is basically going through everything at once. Her dad marrying the woman he had an affair with and left their mom for, her older sister getting married, her mom planning on a trip to Europe and leaving her home. And through that she runs into one of her sisters ex-boyfriends, her favorite one. She becomes friends with him and it kinda helps with her dealing with everything, but she finds out later that he wasn't the same guy she thought he was. It was a cute story and I really enjoyed it.
After I finished that I picked up Blue Bloods by Melissa De La Cruz. It's about Vampires, but another twist on them. It is too confusing to put all information into a post, but it's interesting. The story follows Schuyler, Bliss and Mimi all of whom are vampires but all very different. Schuyler is very pretty, but hides behind dark baggy layered clothing. Bliss is originally from Texas, big hair and everything, but now in New York City she is having the strangest "transformation." And Mimi basically runs the private school they all attend, seeing her "dad" is the Regis the New York Coven of Vampires and she is extremely vain and basically a complete jerk. The story gets really interesting when another vampire gets murdered and they only suspects have to be vampires because she was drained of blood. When Schuyler finds out she tries her hardest to find out with the help of her best friend Oliver and Jack, Mimi's betrothed. But it turns out Schuyler is not a full vampire and that changes things between her and Jack. Needless to say, I got into it really fast and have basically read nothing else for the last month. So far there are 7 books in the series and I just finished the latest one yesterday. The 8th and final one comes out in January...so I got a while to finish the series. Looking forward to it so much!!!!
Right now I'm reading Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld and I will be finishing it soon.

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Ending Series and Starting New Ones...

So, within the last month and a half I've read 8 books. Mostly from this new series I found called The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare. The first one, City of Bones, introduces Clary a normal girl who starts seeing things not so normal; Jace, a Shadowhunter and extremely attractive and obnoxiously self-centered , all around a real jerk, and several other people who are less important. It follows them as Clary and her friend Simon learn about angels who created the Shadowhunters, demons, who the Shadowhunters protect the earth from, and the downworlders (vampires, fairies, werewolves, ect.). Awesome story, I loved all of them. As of the beginning of May there are five book. Originally there was only going to be three, because she advertised it as a trilogy. The third did end it, but then she decided to do another plot line with the same characters so then came The City of Fallen Angels and The City of Lost Souls. The fifth ended with a real cliff hanger and Clare already plans for the sixth to come out in the fall. Really excited about that, I am totally addicted to this series. I was awake till 3 am on a regular bases reading this series, loved them.
Also, finished Screwtape Letters. Awesome in a really creepy and disturbing way. Makes you think really hard about why people do things and how easily we are influenced. Good read, C.S. Lewis is an amazing author.
Another series I found is The Divergent Trilogy by Veronica Roth. It is really similar to Hunger Games but totally different at the same time. It is based in the future, and the city is split into five "factions": Dauntless (the fearless and brave), Abnegation (the selfless), Amity (the peaceful), Candor (the truthful) and Erudite (the intelligent). They each have roles in society and each person is born into their faction. At 16 they take a test to see where they should be and they can choose to remain in their faction or change to another one. The main character Tris is form Abnegation, but is tired of everything that they are supposed to do. It's a good story. I like it alot. The second book, Insurgent just recently come out, but I haven't gotten a hold of a copy yet to read it. Hope to soon though.
So, just tonight I finished Inheritance. I have mixed emotions about. I'm not the biggest fan of the series or author, or most of the characters, but Paolini did manage to make it an interesting book half way through. The first half was slow, then it went really fast up till the last fifth of the book when it should of ended, but he kept it going tying up all the loose ends really slowly. Like any other book or series, I'm kinda depressed it's over, but I'm not sure how much more I could take of Eragon and his crazy plans or Nasuada being all self-centered and what not. It's over and I know how it ended. I'm good.

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Hunger Games!!

So really all I have been reading lately is the Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins. I loved them, an amazing story. Though her writing technique is not the best (I mean several typos and added words to make the sentence make no sense at all!), Collins can write a really good story. The three books, Hunger Games, Catching Fire and Mockingjay, are written from main character Katniss's point of view. It's all present tense, which makes some sentences a little awkward, but it works. It is based in the future North America Continent, and the Capital has total control over the surrounding 12 districts. The Capital is evil. Period. about 75 years before the first book there was a rebellion against the Capital, which the capital won, destroying District 13 in the process. Now the Capital holds annual Hunger Games to remind the people that they are in control. The Hunger Games are a fight to the death between 24 children between the age 12-18. Last one standing wins. It's horrible and the story follows Katniss and her new friend Peeta through the games. Between all three books, there is not any good ending, to the books to the chapters, until Mockingjay. The story never stops it just goes and goes and goes. Awesome story, highly recommended, a great read!

Well, that's pretty much it.

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Jane Eyre and More...

So I've gotten a lot of nooks read. Finished Trumpeter of Krakow. Weird book. I didn't quite understand it which made it harder to follow.
Also read Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare. That was entertaining. I think my favorite character was the clown. He was always there and new exactly what to say it was great.
Finished Jane Eyre as well. I loved that book. I felt so bad for Jane as everything was going to bad for her and then when it looked it was getting better it got even worse. But all good books have happy endings so all turns out right in the end, but still was depressing in parts.
Earlier this week I read A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. I didn't like it. Scrooge was a weird character who was kind of inconsistent and the whole story was so unbelievable to be placed in England in that time period. I wasn't to fond of it but I'm glad I read it just to say I did.
Just started Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis. I love it.  It's an amazing book. It really makes you think about why we do some things and how we get taken advantage of.
Next book is Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan. Excited to read that.

Well that's the update.

Mlpanichelle

The Son Of Neptune

Well, finished The Son Of Neptune yesterday. It was really good. Percy lost his memory just like Jason in the first and he ends up at Camp Jupiter, the Roman Half-Blood camp. He learns all kinds of stuff about Rome and the Roman gods. He becomes friends with Hazel, daughter of Pluto (Hades) and Frank, son of unknown god. Frank hopes it's Apollo because of his love of archery, but he ends up with a big surprise. The quest they set out on his to release Death from the clutches of a giant in Alaska, beyond the reach of the gods.  As they go on their quest, Frank and Hazel come clean of their deepest secrets and Percy drinks some magical blood that heals anything and starts getting his memory back. By the end of the book, Percy remembers everything, they save camp Jupiter and they begin to realize that in order to win this war is for both camps to unite and fight along side the gods. The book ends with a huge cliff hanger, so I can't wait for the next one to come out this fall!
Started Inheritance. Kinda confused because I can't remember exactly where Brisingr ended, but I think I figured it out.

That's all folks!!

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