Vacation Reading

I went on vacation last week to Assateague Island. When I went I gave myself a challenge. Six books, one week. I brought with me, Flabbergasted, Eon, Flyte (Septimus Heap series #2), The Atlantis Complex (Artemis Fowl series #7), Leviathan and Mountain Pose. I finished Flabergasted, read The Atlantis Complex and Leviathan and began Flyte.
I began Flabergasted a while ago (written by Ray Blackston), but never really gotten into it. It was a book written from a 27-year-old guy's point of view. Not exactly what I'm into. But it was good and I got through it.
I gave up on Eon. It is written well, but it has the dumbest plot, I think. It just drones on and on and ON! I just can't seem to finish it.
The Alantis Complex was another amazing edition to the Artemis Fowl series. This one was a little weird though because Artemis gets a dual personality by the name of Orion who is in love with Holly. Weird, right? But it still was an Artemis Fowl book.
Leviathan was a really good book. I highly enjoyed it. It is written by Scott Westerfeild, best selling author Uglies. It has two main charactures, Alek and Deryn. It is placed in Austia-Hungry, Britain, and Switzerland right as World War I begins. It has a twist to it as Britain and her allies are called the Darwinists who have thier animal-crafts and Austia-Hungry, Germany and thier allies are called the Clankers and have metal walking machines. Unfortunatly, I have to wait for the sequal to come out in oder to finish the story.
I began Flyte the day before leaving on vacation. I haven't gotten that far into it, only the forth chapter, but already you know who one of the bad guys is. I am really looking forward to getting into that book.
But Flyte will have to wait a little while. Today, I was given a book written by a friend of mine's older brother. It isn't published yet, but he was a writting major in college and would like to get it published. His book is called Wingless and is about Faeries who get trapped in our world, adapt and become wingless, all the while hoping that their native people will come and rescue them. I am excited to begin it!
I have not read Mountain Pose at all. A friend of my sister's let me borrow it. I'm not sure how much I will like it, but we shall see.
That's all I have for now,

mlpanichelle

Stupid Mistake...

I am going to go CRAZY!!!!
I made a mistake in going to the camphalfblood website to read the preview to The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus series), and now I'm hooked and the book doesn't even come out till OCTOBER!!! It is killing me!!!
Well the next Artemis Fowl book is out and I'm waiting to read that. And the next Ranger's Apprentice book is coming out in October!
Well really I'm just waiting for books and trying to get through the ones I get from the library...right now my reading life is boring and annoying!!!!

mlpanichelle

The Percy Jackson series is officially finished!!!!! The Last Olympian was amazing, lots of battles. I was mostly satisfied with the ending, though it kind of left it open to another book. The Author is working on another series that is coming out soon about Camp Half-blood but different charectures. I will miss Percy and Annabeth, but hopefully they will be minor charectures AT LEAST!!
Started Eon, it is a good book, but would not recomend it for guys or children under 11. Has some references that does not need to be discussed with small children. But is interesting and put in an asian setting, which is amazing! Eon is already starting his adventures. We shall see how it ends, it seems to be taking longer to finish than I expected.
Also got Labryinth from the library. It is set in World War II and Labrynth is the name of the ship. Don't know much else.
Amazon is amazing!! Bought 8 books for just over 50 dollars!!! Thanks to my dad giving me gift cards. =) I bought the first 3 Artemis Fowl and the whole Percy Jackson series. Unfortunately they are all in paperback. And I also made the mistake in not checking all the books to make sure they were what I want. They second Artemis Fowl (The Artic Incident) was actually written in a comic book way instead of the actual book. Whoops. But I have decided not to return it but buy actual book and give the comic to my brother because he would enjoy that more than I would.
Reading more tonight..

mlpanichelle

Finally finished Magyk. It didn't take me as long as Inkdeath but it still seemed to take forever. It is a good book, I predicted the ending and (of course) I was right ;).
Tonight, I'm debating if I should finish The Last Olympian or start Eon. I think I will finish The Last Olympian. Eon can wait, hopefully....

mlpanichelle

Finally...I checked a book off =)

Okay, I have done a lot of reading since my last post. So... I finished The Battle of the Labyrinth. It made me mad at the end when Annabeth and Percy wouldn't talk to each other. It was good full of action and some humor. But I was sevearly depressed because Riordan ends it with it leading straight into the last book, The Last Olympian, with a horrible cliff hanger. Unfortunately, I didn't have the last book. =/
I went to the Library and got Magyk by Angie Sage. It's the first book of the Septimus Heap Series. I'm still reading it, though I am ALMOST done. It is really good, it through me off when I started predicting the ending and then she went a different way, but it is really good. I like the characters, very well written.
I also got Eon:Dragoneye Reborn. I haven't read it yet, but it looks really good. It's about a 12 year old boy training to be an apprentice of one of the great Dragoneyes. Turns out Eon, is actually Eona a 16 year old girl, hoping for the chance to become a dragoneye. Like I said, it's sounds good. =)
I also got The Last Olympian, finally. I started it, which was a bad idea. Percy is no longer "with" Annabeth. He is with Rachel, I like Rachel but I REALLY want him with Annabeth. I'm only 2 chapters into it and already I'm attached. It's killing me that I have to finish Magyk before I can read it again.
Well, I need to update my lists so, that's all. =)

mlpanichelle

List getting longer instead of shorter.....

Finished How To Be A Pirate yesterday afternoon. Luckily I went to the library to pick up The Battle of the Labyrinth. How To Train Your Dragon series, is definitely a children's series. It's a really really easy read and it's reasonably short. It's a cute series, the characters are funny, and it is well thought out. I can't wait to get the next one, How To Speak Dragonese.
So, I am now reading The Battle of the Labyrinth. Already there are new monsters and problems for Percy. He and Annabeth are "almost" dating, but their date was interupted by Percy almost getting killed (again). Now at camp they meet up with Grover. But everything is upside down even there. Grover loses his searcher's license, and Luke is sailing on his demon infested cruise ship. It should get even more intersting....
I'm having a major problem. I updated my summer reading list the other night. I didn't take any books off, but I added five. Last time I checked a reading list is suppposed to get shorter not longer. GRR. I frustrate myself sometimes. My list will hopefully be getting shorter now that I added the rest of the Percy Jackson series and How To Train Your Dragon series on there.

mlpanichelle

Camping with out my Books. ='(

I finished The Titan's Curse yesterday. Great book, still the same as the first two of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. It was funny and thrilling all in one. Now that Percy is now 14, he gets a little bit closer to his good friend Annabeth, so the last two should be interesting.
My only problem is, I am out of books to read. We are camping at a private campground and The Titan's Curse was the only book I brought with me. I guess that was a dumb move on my part, but oh well. Going home tomorrow and I will pick up How to be A Pirate (book 2 of How to Train Your Dragon). I'm not sure how much I will be reading though, I won't be home again till next Saturday (maybe) because of a camp I'm going to. But that's all for now.

mlpanichelle