Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Yet To Read: Last day of the month!
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Next for M -
One arining and episode - the time is - 120 min.
Don't miss it! More Info here is the link for the site- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/sharpesperil/index.html
The Plot is:
Colonel Richard Sharpe (Sean Bean, The Lord of the Rings) may have a nose for mischief, but his only interest now is returning to
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Open Book: Mermaids
BOStan
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Just Listen
Open Book: Just -
Yet To Read! The Education of Bet
When Will and Bet were four, tragic circumstances brought them to the same house, to be raised by a wealthy gentleman as brother and sister. Now sixteen, they’ve both enjoyed a privileged upbringing thus far. But not all is well in their household. Because she’s a girl, Bet’s world is contained within the walls of their grand home, her education limited to the rudiments of reading, writing, arithmetic, and sewing. Will’s world is much larger. He is allowed—forced, in his case—to go to school. Neither is happy.
So Bet comes up with a plan and persuades Will to give it a try: They’ll switch places. She’ll go to school as Will. Will can live as he chooses. But once Bet gets to school, she soon realizes living as a boy is going to be much more difficult than she imagined.
To the Right ->
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The Question is : "What is your favorite Johnny Depp and Tim Burton Movie?"
Lost episode 8 " Ab Aeterno"
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Friday, March 19, 2010
Through the Looking Glass
Author: Lewis Carroll
Pages: 155 (149-304)
My Copy: Hard Cover Junior Library - Grosset and Dunlap
Children's Literature, British Classic
Basic Rating: 5/5
Plot: 5/5
Setting: 5/5
Characters: 5/5
Cover: 4/5 ( I just love my copy!)
My Recommendation: For anyone who loves a good classic and a great story. A story that is a bit man makes it even better!
My Thoughts: Amazing! I loved this book, Lewis Carroll is wonderfully mad. He has an imagination that truly is great. I want to have his for as long as i live, to think of things as he does is incredible and to picture a place where anything unusual happens is a simple wonderland. Alice is one of the best characters ever written, she is so sweet and good natured, her way to accept what most people won't is one of the best things about being a child. I just really love her. I loved all of the characters in this book, from Tweedledee and Tweedledum to the Red and White Queens. There were so many laughs in this book and so much heart and imagination. I think everyone needs an escape like a wonderland. The land of Looking Glass is simply put as Nonsense and what a good nonsense it is. I loved the setting, it was fantastic and funny - fantastically funny. How their are bread and butter flies, Rocking Horses, and bee's as big as elephants. I just really enjoyed it and i will read it over and over again!
Plot: Alice steps into the land of Looking Glass where everything is not as it would seem. She travels through the land, exploring and experiencing curious things. A quote from Lewis Carroll: "If i had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?"
BOstan~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Books and more Books
Title: Fade
Author: Lisa McMann
Pages: 248
Science Fiction YA
My Copy: Paper Back
Plot: For Janie and Cabel, real life is getting tougher than the dreams. They're just trying to carve out a little (secret) time together, but no such luck. Disturbing things are happening at Fieldridge High, yet nobody's talking. When Janie taps into a classmate's violent nightmares, the case finally breaks open - but nothing goes as planned. Not even close. Janie's in way over her head, and Cabe's shocking behavior has grave consequences for them both. Worse yet, Janie learns the truth about herself and her ability - and it's bleak. Seriously, brutally bleak. Not only is her fate as a dream catcher sealed, but what's to come is way darker than she'd even feared. .
Author: Ally Carter
Pages: 366
YA
My Copy: Hard Cover
Plot: When Cammie "The Chameleon" Morgan visits her roommate Macey in
As her junior year begins, Cammie can't shake the memory of what happened in
Soon Cammie is joining Bex and Liz as Macey's private security team on the campaign trail. The girls must use their spy training at every turn as the stakes are raised, and Cammie gets closer and closer to the shocking truth..
Bostan~
Yet To Read: It's Thrusday But I Mean't it for Wednesday-
Title: a blue so dark
Author: Holly Schindler
Pages: 288
YA
To be published: May 1st 2010
Price: $ 9.95
Plot:
Fifteen-year-old Aura Ambrose has been hiding a secret. Her mother, a talented artist and art teacher, is slowly being consumed by schizophrenia, and Aura has been her sole caretaker ever since Aura's dad left them. Convinced that "creative" equals crazy, Aura shuns her own artistic talent. But as her mother sinks deeper into the darkness of mental illness, the hunger for a creative outlet draws Aura toward the depths of her imagination. Just as desperation threatens to swallow her whole, Aura discovers that art, love, and family are profoundly linked—and together may offer an escape from her fears.
Why? just found this book today and it sounded really good. The whole artistic side and the whole life changing facts of a mental disorder. I really want to read it.
Bostan ~
Open Book: Through Glass
Page: 198
Said by Tweedledee -
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."
Page: 221-222
Said by Alice and the White Queen -
"Alice Laughed. "There's no use in trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things." "I dare say you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age i always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!"
Page: 235
Said by Humpty Dumpty -
"If I'd meant that, I'd have said it," said Humpty Dumpty."
Thanks Bostan -
Lost this week
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Monday, March 15, 2010
Cross my heart and hope to spy
After staking out, obtaining, and then being forced to give up her first boyfriend, Josh, all Cammie Morgan wants is a peaceful semester. But that's easier said than done when you're a CIA legacy and go to the premier school in the world . . . for spies.
Cammie may have a genius I.Q., but there are still a lot of things she doesn't know. Like, will her ex-boyfriend even remember she exists? And how much trouble is she really in after what happened last semester? And most of all, why is her mother acting so strangely?
Despite Cammie's best intentions to be a normal student, danger seems to follow her. She and her friends learn that their school is going to play host to some mysterious guests--code name: Blackthorne. Then she's blamed for a security breach that leaves the school's top secret status at risk.
Soon, Cammie and her friends are crawling through walls and surveilling the school to learn the truth about Blackthorne and clear Cammie's name. Even though they have confidence in their spy skills, this time the targets are tougher (and hotter), and the stakes for Cammie's heart--and her beloved school--are higher than ever.
Open book: Hope to spy 2
Hey's for horses
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Open Book: Hope To Spy
"I felt like Barbie's less-then-perfect friend."
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Alice In Wonderland
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Yet To Read: Cross my heart and hope to spy
After staking out, obtaining, and then being forced to give up her first boyfriend, Josh, all Cammie Morgan wants is a peaceful semester. But that's easier said than done when you're a CIA legacy and go to the premier school in the world . . . for spies.
Cammie may have a genius I.Q., but there are still a lot of things she doesn't know. Like, will her ex-boyfriend even remember she exists? And how much trouble is she really in after what happened last semester? And most of all, why is her mother acting so strangely?
Despite Cammie's best intentions to be a normal student, danger seems to follow her. She and her friends learn that their school is going to play host to some mysterious guests--code name: Blackthorne. Then she's blamed for a security breach that leaves the school's top secret status at risk.
Soon, Cammie and her friends are crawling through walls and surveilling the school to learn the truth about Blackthorne and clear Cammie's name. Even though they have confidence in their spy skills, this time the targets are tougher (and hotter), and the stakes for Cammie's heart--and her beloved school--are higher than ever.
Open Book: Cayo Esqueleto (Skeleton Key)
Bostan :)
Lost season 6 episode 7
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Saturday, March 6, 2010
My New Book
Friday, March 5, 2010
I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
Author: Ally Carter
Pages: 284
YA
Basic Rating: 4/5
Plot: 4/5
Setting: 3/5
Characters: 4/5
Cover: 3/5
Following book: Cross my heart and hope to spy
My Recommendation: For girls who like girl power and a great friendship/teen crush story with great action and funny moments that only teen girl spy's can give you.
My Thoughts: Wow! I loved it! (well you can sort of tell that i do by my ratings.) I truly loved everything about this book. Let me start on the story and plot, i loved how everything worked and were we got to go in the story. I loved how it was all about girl power in being a spy. It's my first girl spy book! And it is really creative and put together. It wasn't about any world saving mission but more of spy training which i haven't read anying fully on the lines of that. I'm so into how its not only about the boy (i love how it is about he boy, but it does have other matters in it which is cool) and i like how some chapters were just about being a girl. I also am really really happy with the ending! It was great and a brilliant way to open a beginning for a sequel. I really liked how the characters were completely down to earth girls no matter what they can do. They are smart and brilliant, but they are real and not overdone in the way of being too brilliant. I loved Cammie, she is yeah the typical normal girl who is shy and blends in - people don't notice her to much - but she is a super spy and great at what she does. I love the relationship between her and Josh. It didn't happen to fast and it wasn't gooshy (which if it is and it happens to fast it is really not always real) but it was how i think a relationship like theirs would be. I also love how she takes her relationship with her friends. No boy is worth throwing away a great sisterhood over. Josh is a really cool guy, he is actually different from a lot of other YA boys that i have read in some books. He's a nervous guy around Cammie, i think that's cute! And he does talk the typical boy language that even if a girl knows 14 different languages sometimes can't even understand. I mean what do they mean when they say " See ya later." or stuff like that. (I need a translator) But i do think he mastered a great bf. I really loved Cammie's mom, she was great. And i can totally get the whole father thing - it made me teary. Cammie's girl friends were really cool! And the great thing is that they were totally real. I did feel a bit stand-off-ish to the character Macey - i felt what the characters did about her and I'm glad how everything worked out. In the book i was on an emotional ride; happy, excited, worried, sad, and surprised. Things did catch me off guard which was great. Their are other characters (all of them) that were great, but i should hop to another subject. The setting was really good and i won't say to much more about that other than it was just a nice small town, and it was funny in a way that the town thought the Gallagher Academy is just a school for rich heiresses. And my last thing to say is that i can't wait to read the following book! "Cross my heart and hope to spy".
Plot: (Book description that is on the back of the book.) Cammie Morgan is a student at the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women, a fairly typical all-girl school - typical, that is, if every school taught advanced martial arts in PE and the latest in chemical warfare in science, and students received extra credit for breaking CIA codes in computer class. The Gallagher Academy might claim to be a school for geniuses, but it's really a school for spies. Even though Cammie is fluent in fourteen languages and capable of killing a man seven different ways with her bare hands, she has no idea what to do when she meet an ordinary boy who thinks she's an ordinary girl. Sure, she can tap his phone, hack into his computer, or track him through town with the skill of a real "pavement artist" - but can she maneuver a relationship with someone who can never know the truth about her?
BOstan~
Open Book: Love again
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I found the cover
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
I Won A BOok!
To-Be Released
Down below is the information -
Title: The Wake of the Lorelei Lee (Bloody Jack Adventure)
Author: L.A Meyer
Pages: 416
YA Historical Fiction
Publisher: Harcourt Children's Book (September 13, 2010)
Well i can't wait! To bad i can't speed up time! I would if i could, but i can't!
Thanks BOstan~
Plot: (Its not really a spoiler but, I'm not going to read what it is about until i get to the book. It just would sort of Spoil it a little for me, and that's why don't read it if you don't want to.) I spaced it enough so you don't have to read it, if you really don't want to!
Plot: Jacky Faber, rich from her exploits diving for Spanish gold, has purchased the Lorelei Lee to carry passengers across the
Open Book: I love you -
Yet To Read: Jolly Roger, I can't wait!
Leaving
Lost - Season 6 Episode 6 "Sundown"
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Open Book: One for the boys
Love it! BOstan!
Monday, March 1, 2010
Masterpiece March -
Soldier-adventurer Richard Sharpe comes out of retirement to quash a rebellion in