Disclaimer

Hey just so you all know, i am aware Miley Cyrus is in the movie and no, i do not care. She's not that annoying to me anymore. Also, there are a ton of typos in my last post. I apologize but i am on my little Net book and when you post pictures it adds all these words and numbers and stuff to what i have written and makes it really difficult to go back and make changes. :) I just wanted you all to know so you didn't think i didn't know how to type. I do. I just don't know how to use technology correctly. <3 love, Kaitlin

The Last Song

I'm sure you guys may have noticed (that is if you haven't given up on me and stopped reading my blog) that i have not posted a new book in the longest time. I am very sorry. I've been very distracted and truth be told, i haven't forgotten i just haven't actually finished any books in 6 months. That is right. So I decided i needed to just find a book that i could relate to. All the book about teen romances or magic just didn't seem relevant to me. It was like any time i read any of that stuff it just wasn't interesting. So after spending a lot of time looking i saw a trailer of The Last Song and in it they said "by Best Selling Author Nicolas Sparks" and i thought it might be worth looking into. Well i had no idea how relevant it would be for me.

The Last Song is about Ronnie who is 18 years old. She has had a rather difficult life because he parents split up a few years ago. Ronnie blames her dad for the split and because of it she quits playing piano (something she and her father shared a passion for) and became rebellious. She fights with her mom over everything and hates spending time with her little brother Jonah. Her mom decides to ship her and her brother off to live with their father for the summer and the idea of having to spend time with the man that walked out on them doesn't appeal to Ronnie. When she arrives she is distant and moody and even yells at him for playing piano thinking he was trying to get her to play again. Ronnie just sets out to have a bad summer
One day while at the beach a volleyball player knocks into her and makes her spill soda all down her shirt. The volleyball player apologizes but she dosnt even care, she's just mad. Later she runs into him again and introduces himself as Will. She really could care less about this guy because she can see she is clearly not his type. When Ronnie discovers a nest of turtle eggs outside her home she calls up the aquarium to have them protect it. Who does the aquarium send? Will. Will notices something special about Ronnie. She may look scary and rebellious on the outside but inside shes gentle and sweet and vulnerable and he soon begins to fall for her. She soon realizes he isn't the poor little rich boy who gets everything he every wanted handed to him on a silver platter like she thought he was. She realizes he was a sweet, caring guy who didn't date to have fun but dated only when he really could see being with someone for the rest of their lives.
Ronnie and Will start dating and create one of the best summers of their lives together. I wont say anything more cause i don't want to spoil it but stuff happens and i really want to get into all that because it deals with faith in God but if i go into that i spoil the whole thing and i don't want to do that. You just have to read it. Its incredible. I seriously sobbed through the whole end of the book. It was one of the most incredible stories i have ever read and i just opened my eyes to how our God is faithful in everything and how he never ever leaves us even when we go trough trials. God puts people in our lives to love us and to help us through stuff. I really really recommend this book. This was one of the best books i have ever read. Please, please! read it!

Fang!

Fang comes out in 5 days!!!! I am very excited! I shall now get no sleep for my driving test Saturday because i shall go out Friday and get the book and i will be up reading it all night. Also no one will be able to talk to me for the next few days as i read read read so if you have anything you wish to say to me now would be a good time :)

Mistake!

OK so Fang will not come out till March 5th. I was mistaken. I will be reading it after it comes out March 5th. Till then please enjoy this picture of a turtle.

Sorry!

Hey everyone. Sorry I havent updated in a while. To be truthful, i havent actually finished a book in months. I started a few but either the character in the story made me sick or the plot was too much like Twilight or it was so long and dull i had to take a nap and never read the book again. So i havent read a full book in a few months but i will finish one soon. I promise.
So GOOD NEWS! Fang, the next book in the Maximum Ride series has come out! So THAT shall be the next book i read! Cross my heart and hope to live to see tomorrow! :) In fact, if i got to get it tommorrow i promise i will give a reveiw in one week. :) If i don't you have full permission to call me an epic fail. :)

My book! It's here!

So my book has arrived! YAY! The book I won in that contest has arrived and i am pleased. I cant wait to start reading it! :)

Wings

So i caught the Swine Flu. Yuck. I am not having fun with this. I can not stop coughing! So because i am ill and i find myself without any books because I owe my library about $18 and i am not allowed to get new books till i pay the library which i havent gotten around to doing. :( So instead of reading i am going to tell you about some of the books I read this summer. The first is Wings by Aprilynne Pike.

Wings in about a girl named Laural who just moved to a new town with her parents. She has been home schooled her whole life and now having to go to a public school scares her a little bit. Laural is just a little different then the kids at her new school. She hates being inside. It makes her feel gloomy. She is a vegan because all other foods make her feel sick. Laural also looks a little different and acts a little different. She is graceful like a dancer and is slender and beautiful like a model.

When she starts her new school she makes a few friends and meets a guy she start to fall for, David. They start hanging out more and she finally starts to fit in. One day she notices she has a strange bump on her back between her shoulders. Days go by and it gets bigger. Then one day out of the bump sprouts petals! The look kinda like wings and Laural realizes she isn't human. She's a faerie!

With Davids help she starts to figure out what she is and why she is a faerie. I won't spoil the end but it was a pretty good book. I really liked reading it and i finished it in a day.

But i found out TRAGIC news. Disney has bought the rights to make it a movie and *sniff sniff* they have asked *sniff sniff* Miley Cyrus to play Laural. *throws up*. I hope that wont keep you from reading the book cause it really was pretty good. :)

Sorry!!

Hahah I'm sorry but I couldn't resist putting up the New Moon Movie count down clock. Don't worry, it will be down when the movie is released but i just had to put it up. :) All those wishing to conplain may do so in the comments section below. <3

I WON!

I won! What have I won? I have won a contest! There is a website called TeenReads.com and they have contests all the time and i entired this spacific contest wherei had to look at book covers an dchoose which cover was the best fo rth ebook and give my reasons why i did or did not like th ecover. Well i got an email today saying that i was selected as one of the lucky winners of the contest and my prize was DUH! A book!!! XD So in 2-4 weeks i will recive in the mail a paperback copy of The Book Thief!!! I'm very excited!!! I love winning contests!!! So be sure to look out for my review of The Book Thief coming in 2-4 weeks! :D

Rapture of the Deep

OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OK so i just put up a blog post a few weeks ago (OK maybe months) about a book series I love called The Adventures of Bloody Jack. Well randomly looking up my favorite book series online seeing if they are making a movie about any i just for the check of it check out the Bloody Jack website and saw that the newest book came out TODAY! * SCREAMS! * I love these books.! My second favorite series after The Hunger Games trilogy! :D So Anyway just wanted you all to know how crazy excited i am for this new book and i can't wait to read it! Maybe i can convnce my parents to take me to the book store tonight. If they do i am 99.9% sure you will be a post about it tomorrow! :D God Bless!!!

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

A while ago i told you all about a book that i LOVED. It was The Hunger Games. Apparently no one read it or wanted to read it. This made me quite sad. Sam turned down the book flat when i handed it to her months ago. Well it pleases me to say that after i bought the book and i retold Sam what the story was about she read it and LOVED IT! Also after telling other people about the book they really wanted to read it. The Hunger Games was AMAZING! But Catching Fire has really taken this trilogy to a whole new level. I was in shock when i read this sequel. I have never read ANYTHING remotely close to this book series. I really can't tell you much about the book because if you avent read the book before this then anything i say will be a spoiler but i will tell you this, you must read The Hunger Games. It is such a powerful book. I really loved this book. I read it in just a few hours. I couldn't put it down and now that i have i want to pick it up again! Books are the best addiction ever!

Back to School BLA!

OK well we are now well into September and yes unfortunately school as well. I have only 4 classes this semester so i have much time for reading but i have a dilemma! I need books! So if anyone has any book suggestions please share them in the comments section! I really need some new books! I read a lot this summer but i have to rack my brain to remember what i read!!! In a few days i should have at least 1 new post! Well hope everyones school year is a good one! God Bless and have a good day!!!!

Bloody Jack by L.A. Meyer

OK so I've been so busy and my computers been crappy so i haven't posted any reviews even though i have been reading but good news! My school wants our laptops back and they are sending us new ones! :D So yay! My computer wont even connect to Word anymore so I'm really happy about getting a new one. 

 OK! So in preparation for the cruise i took a week ago I wanted to read some ocean related books and i picked up one of my favorites. Bloody Jack. I found this book while in Jamestown, Virginia (old Jamestown) on vacation and in the gift shop they have a bunch of books about pirates and this one stuck out to me. I didn't know what it was about but i bought it and loved it. It's now my favorite series. 

  The book is about this girl named Mary Faber who is an orphan living in England like 25 years after the Revolution. She does not know how old she is but she guesses she is at least 12. She runs with a gang and one day when the gang leader dies she is so upset and scared about dyeing herself, she steals his clothes and dresses in them. Suddenly people think she is a boy. She sees that people treat her differently then they would if they knew she was a girl so she decides to do something she has wanted to do for a long time, leave the smelly streets of London for adventure on the High Seas. 

 She gets on a ship called the Dolphin and says she's 10 years old and that her name is Jacky and they take her on as a ships boy.  While she in on the ship she starts to fall for one of the other ships boys which is really bad for her because she is trying really hard to pretend to be a boy and that's not going to help. Lol 

  Jacky gets into a lot of trouble throughout the series. I really love the books but be warned. there are innuendos and she hang out around a bunch of sailors so expect crude humor and language.  There are 6 books so far but there are two more on the way and probably more. I rate this all 7 cupcakes!!!!!! :D 

p.s. Sorry the picture is so big! I'm on my moms Mac and I have no idea how to make the picture smaller! 

The Tales of Beedle The Barb

OK so If you have read the last Harry Potter book then the title of this post moslt likely looks familiar. If you haven't read the last Harry Potter book The Tales of Beedle The Bard are a collection of "wizard fairy tales". Supposedly these are the fairy tales wizard children grew up listing to and J.K. Rowling went and wrote all these fairly tales down so its now a real book. There are short fairy tale stories in it like The Wizard and the Hopping Pot, The Fountain of Fair Fortune, The Warlocks Hairy Heart, Babbitty Rabbity and Her Cackaling Stump and The Tale of The Tree Brothers. Now if your not a fan of Harry Potter, that's okay! You can still read these without a knowledge of the Harry Potter world and it's characters. What I love most is that each of the fairy tales has a moral that is separate from magic and most of them are how about magic can actually ruin your life. I thought the fairy tales were cute and well written and they could def become classics. My favorite was the Fountain of Fair Fortune because three witches travelled to this fountain thinking that the fountain would grant them their heart's desires but on the journey they find what they really were searching for. So in the end, magic was not needed and, you guessed it, they all lived happily ever after.

I thought it was really cute how Dumbledore would "explain" the "origins" of the story and about the wizard or witch who it was based on. It was a charming addition (don't I sound smartical) to an already lovely tale.

Even if you aren't a fan of Harry Potter, you simply must read this book! It was really, really good and I loved it. And so will you! I hope. -crosses fingers-

p.s. J.K. Rowling did all the illustrations in the book. Plus if you buy the book a certain amount of the money goes to a children's organization called Comic Relief

The Fortunes of Indigo Skye

OK and now here is my SECOND guest reviewer! All the way from...Pennsylvania, Its KATIE MACDONALD! :)

The Fortunes of Indigo Skye by Deb Caletti. From normal to millionaire... in a second. That's what happens to 17 year old Indigo Skye in this book.
She's just a normal girl who works at a comfy, small town cafe where everyone knows each other. She
has a dear family, a boyfriend who loves her, and friends at school. She's happy. But her life turns upside down when a grateful customer gives her 2.5 million dollar tip for her kindness.
Overnight, everything seems to change. Ipods, TVs, cell phones, cars; she can have almost anything she wants, right at her finger tips. But is she really happy? Will the money give her what she really wants in life?
This book isn't super deep, but it's a great pick up and read it, and it's an easy page turner. I found it on ALA's top recommended books for teens list. Aside from some language, it was an appropriate. I enjoyed it alot!
Hope you do to.

Carpe Corpus

YAY! THE NEW MORGANVILLE VAMPIRE BOOK CAME OUT EARLIER THEN I THOUGHT IT WOULD! Sorry, I'm just REALLLLLY EXCITED! Why? Cause this book is the CLIMACTIC POINT in the series! Also the Seris is now a NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER! So HA! Now you MUST read it! The NEW YORK TIMES says its worth your attention! Lol Anyways i was really excited about the book but now I'm going to go to bed. :)

Max

YAY! I was soooooo happy that this book came out and even happier when I read it cause it was MUCH better then anticipated. Even with all the "that is so weird!" moments it was still really good!

OK this book is Max by James Patterson. It's actually book 5 in a series of books called Maximum Ride and for the most part it's pretty good. The rest is like "OH stop shoving that down our beaks!" Lol You'll see why i said beaks in a moment.

Max is a normal 14 year old girl for about ..... a page in the first chapter. Then you find out something really neat about her. Max can fly. Max is 98% human and 2% Avian. She has a pair of 13ft. wings and can fly!

The series is basically about Max and her flock: Fang, Iggy, Gasman and Angel and how they try to get away from The School (aren't we all? Lol)

I can't realy say alot about the books because I coudl really ruin them. Just be warned, theres a ton of Global Warming stuff in a few of the later books so if you really hate hearing about it well then close your eyes when your reading it. :)

A Northern Light

OK so I found this book A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly at Borders for $2.99! WHAT A DEAL! I've been looking for this book for a looooong time and I found it! I thought it was great! Its based on true events too!

It's a fictonal story about a girl named Mattie (Matilda) who is a watress at the Glenmore Hotel in Big Moose Lake, New York in 1906. One day while working there one of the guests, Grace Brown asks her to burn a packet of letters for her. Mattie says she will but forgets to do so. A few days later Grace Brown in pulled out of the lake. It looks like she just drowned but Mattie has a feeling their is something much more sinister behind this young women's death.

Now the chapters flip back and forth. Past to present. In the chapters about the past you learn a lot about Mattie. She loves to read and she and her friend Weaver are the only two students in their entire town who are trying to get their high school diplomas. Its such a small logging town that no one bothers to do so because the boys know they will only ever be loggers and the girls know that their place is at home. Mattie and Weaver try to break those rules and both want to go do something More then what they are told they can be. They both want to go to college. Big dreams for them seeing as Mattie is a girl and Weaver is black.

There are many morals to this book but the main moral is about using your voice through writing. I thought the writer did a great job describing a lot of thing. I would really though recommend this book to just girls unless guys don't mind reading about all the little details of a women giving birth. Yeah it was really gross so if you dont want to read that skip the chapter titled Wan. Most of the chapters dont have titles but some of them do.

But anyways like i said this is accually based on a real murder. There really was a Grace Brown and she really was murdered on Big Moose Lake and it was one of the biggest murder triels in history. You can accually get anothe rbook out that has all her love letters in it. I'm going to get tha tbook out next. :) Hope you enjoy this book!

The Chosen One

OK so I found this book online and I really wanted to read it because it sound pretty good. It took the library some time to get it but i finally got it! Its called The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams.

Its about this thirteen year old girl, Kyra who has grown up her whole life in this isolated community with the people called The Chosen Ones. They were supposedly chosen by God himself to lead these lives that to them are what God has told them to do. It get to heaven a man must have 3 wives and for a women to get to heaven she must marry and have as many children as her body will allow. They don't read books besides the Bible. The women cover ever inch of skin on their bodies and do nothing but have babies. Kyra has 3 mothers and 21 brothers and sisters and 2 more are on they way.

One day her family receives a visit from The Prophet. He was chosen by God to be a leader of The Chosen Ones and if you disobey the word of the Profit that sliek disobeying a direct command from God and you are severely punished. The Prophet comes to her family and tells them that he has had a vision form God. In the vision there was a girl sitting at this mans feet. The man he says is Hyrum, Kyras 60 something year old uncle and the girl at his feet it Kyra. The Prophet says it is God will that Kyra marry her Uncle Hyrum and become his 8th wife.

Now your probably thinking that everyone in this weird cult it totally messed up and i though so too but while reading you come to realize that this is all they have ever known. They have been told that everything that is not what they believe is of Satan.

Kyra thinks this is a punishment from God because she does two things in secret that are forbidden in the community. She reads. She has a library card and gets books from a mobile library. Also she has a boyfriend. This to them is commiting adultery because they arnt married and they arnt ment for each other. But she nad Joshua are really in love. When she askes him who his other two wives would be he says he dosnt want any other wives but her. Thats saying alot cause you need 3 to get into heaven.

I wont tell you what happens because this was a nail biter. Does she end up marryign her Uncle or does she get to marry Joshua? Does she escape from the the cult? WHAT HAPPENS! iell d yout. will nto tell you. :) Read it and find yourself! :)

Looking for JJ

This book took me just one night to read. I was up till 2 but it was worth it. This was really good and I didn't even get it out! Sam got it and she just picked it up off the shelf. She didn't even know what it was about. Its called Looking for JJ by Anne Cassidy.

The book is about this 16 year old girl name Alice Tully who just 6 months ago started living in Croydon in Great Britain. She has a fairly normal life. She has a job at a coffee shop, a roommate and a boyfriend who is going to the university in her city. She's enjoying a normal, simple life until the past comes back to tear everything she doesn't deserve away from her.

6 years ago the media was a buzz with a story about a 10 year old girl, Jennifer Jones who brutally murdered another 10 year old and hid the body. Now she's being released from prison. The media is still buzzing with the story. Should Jennifer Jones be allowed to live her life like a normal teenager? Should this child murderer be allowed to live? Where is Jennifer Jones?

How are Alice Tully and JJ related? What does this girl have to do with a brutal child killer? To understand Jennifer Jones you have to go back to the beginning and walk with her through the neglect, abuse and betrayals that lead to her becoming the most notorious murdering in all of Great Britain.

I really liked this book. It seems I'm really good at picking books I love. Lol Any way you have to read it! I give it 9 out of 10 cupcakes! XD

p.s. this book is so popular in Great Britain that they actually made it a theatrical Production. Weird, a play about a 10 year old who murders another 10 year old. Hmmm? Lol