Mates, Date and Chocolate Cheats by Cathy Hopkins

"Oh, I'm so ugly", wailed Nesta.

"And I'm uglier", TJ joined in.

"And I'm the ugliest of all", cried Lucy.

Fun, as light as iced tea. I wasn't completely blown though, not blown at all.  

The Host

I’m not really a twi-hard but I did watch every movie. I used to  be on Team Jacob ( I’m team Taylor NOW!!!!) , I guess things like these are bound to happen back when you’re in high school, none the less, I try to convince myself that I’m Completely pass   that. 

I had a hard time convincing myself to purchase a copy of the host because it involved ALIENS. I’m not really into that genre. Also, I was afraid that it would be similar to Bella’s story that centered in romance. I watched the trailer and I was completely blown! One of my weak points is  that I let the actors influence me in terms of novel-turned-movie books. I fancy Saoirse Ronan.  

I bought the book on march 1 and finished it on the 4th (829 pages). No matter how busy I am, I  always find time for my obsession. It’s innate I guess, I’m always fixated on what’s gonna happen on the next chapters. Anxiety develops and we all know that the instant solution for this is to give in to that compulsion. 

Melanie Stryder was one of the few humans left on earth when SOULS invaded. She’d rather be dead than let SOULS take over her body. The exact reason why she remained intact inside her body even when the WandeRER already occupied it. So it was like two persons inside one host. But that was not the end of it, as Melanie recalls her past life with JARED,  the WANDERER developed a humane love for him too.   It’s one of the most extraordinary love affair I’ve ever witnessed. Stephenie Meyer also brought a new perspective on what being a human truly means. It’s more than just being born as one but feeling like one even when you’re not. Ceasing and being born as one. Being human somehow falls in double effect. Is being called human negative or positive? Its complicated, not black and white this time. 

I was a little disappointed with the lack of mind blowing action scenes.  I was expecting cruelty if not from the souls, from the humans. I mean this is alienation! There should be unbearable death, suffering , hopelessness and pity. Scenes like this were kept at a minimal.

  

“Why did life and love go on?, what was the point?"

 

PATCH CIPRIANO.

While my classmates fall for campus guys, while my aunts complain about their husbands, while fans fawn over actors I lust for HIM : 

PATCH CIPRIANO.

Well that's no old news, I'm more in touch with fantasy than in reality. We all have our image of Patch in our heads but the world sees him as Drew Doyon. Honestly, he's not the Patch I pictured in my head, but close enough. Remember my first post about HUsh Hush saying that I'd read the next three books in hard copy. I slipped, I have read Crescendo before classes resumed and I'm nearly loosing my control to read Silence. December seems too far away, a mate of mine agreed that we'd have another book hunting next month. So Patch and Nora will have to wait till Christmas. He's the definition of danger , but what did LiL say in Parker Gray show? you need to let go of bad so the good karma would come to you. I am freaking attracted to his darkness. I want it to eat me. To consume me. To drown me. To let me fall. I want danger !!!  I want my path to burn like hell...

Other guys of fiction that I wish existed in my own so-called life :

Jace Lightwood from Mortal Instruments

Simon Lewis from Mortal Instruments

Peeta Mellark from Hunger Games 

Dave the laugh from Confessions of Georgia Nicolson

Fred and George Weasley from Harry Potter

Rodrick Heffley from Diary of a Wimpy Kid 

Jason from How To Be Popular 

HUsh Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick

Last week I posted four books that I’m assigning myself to indulged into during the sem break. I’m done with fracture, diary of a crush and I just finished hush hush last night. I wasn’t so impressed with the first two  but hey third time really is the charm . Hush hush  redefines YA love. 

Nora’s mundane life ended when her new biology partner crashed beside her. Patch.  His eyes sparked trouble, his smile meant danger and his body called for desire. Everything about him is a silhouetted menace. She tried to stay away but gravity pulled her, before she knew it she was falling. But Patch fell first. From heaven. 

I read this not knowing that it belongs to a series. Reading one book requires completion of the collection and I’m itching for the next books already. I read Hush hush on screen and I’m not planning to continue reading them that way, I have to flip pages, smell it’s addicting scent and be able to lock it into my embrace.  I found this accidentally while watching random book trailers. I saw Nora and Patch as the top fiction couple and I thought I might as well give it a try. I remember a mate of mine recommending Fallen by Lauren Kate, maybe the reason why I hadn’t taken that book was because Becca Fitzpatrick is the voice I was meant to hear ( I have nothing against Fallen FYI). 

Looking for in HUsh hush , Crescendo , Silence , finale pdf ? 

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entertainment only.

The 1st semester is rolling the credits and i am left with time to waste. What would I use all those time for? Sleeping. Forever, if possible. I used to say, sleeping it off is a complete waste, you can get enough of that  once you're 12 feet beneath the ground, but now, I'm literally swallowing my words. 

I pledged read the books:

Fracture by Megan Miranda Catching Jordan by Miranda Keneally

 HUsh hush by Becca Fitzpatrick Diary of a crush by Sara Manning

 

 But I've never read one of them. I did spend my time in front of the monitor. Watching:

La Belle Personne

 

It's  French, I got interested in French films after watching LOL. It's a story about satiated desires. How it consumes you till you realize it's a sin. How you try to get back on track and fail. Juni,  transferred due to the death of her mother. All eyes were on hers. She possessed fragile beauty that somehow needed to be sheltered. But they didn't know what she needed, she didn't know it herself. And when she finally figured it out, death payed a visit and she had to ran away again.

 Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

  

How would you convince people of an unreal story? Back it up with some history. I didnt care who Abe was, where he stands in the civil war, how he died, why he ran or how he got where he was in the first place. After all, he was not our president so why bother reading about him? But that is what i did after watching this: scanned his bio. 

Privileged ( series)

Megan Smith is a writer who found her self tutoring filthy rich kids just before she dyed her hair red. This wasn't part of the plan, she was supposed to get herself a column of her own and write about people who matters. Instead she took a private plane, stayed in a huge mansion, re-united with her best friend, became a neighbor of a hot billionaire and be continuously pestered by evil Baker twins while convincing them to flip the pages of the "Great Gatsby".

Confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison

I have started to read this series after watching the movie version and I couldn't just stop flipping the pages. Georgia Nicolson's world is just fabbity fab fab. The book stated with her dilemmas namely her:
 1) parents
2) Libby ( her lil sister)
 3. Her big nose
 4. Her lack of boyfriend
Her circle is called the ACE gang and together they do stuff like their world is the only world. Georgia herself is plain weird.She says "laughing away on a fast camel" instead of goodbye.  It's written by a Britt author so you kinda need a dictionary while reading one and the book has a glossary at the last pages.
Georgia has three guys lurking behind her:
Robbie  The Sex God:
Masimo The Italian Stallion
Dave The Laugh
Out of the three my favorite is Dave The Laugh. She says they are just mates but come on! mates dont snog each other each time  they encounter. And he is indeed a laugh. They always have their moments which makes me giggly and i develop that GEneral HORNNNN!!!!. Yes, indeed, i am talking dirty but it's a Dave the laugh horn so please extend your understanding because i just cant stop rating this boy ( although hes is fiction). I also liked Robbie at first because he is a guitar plucking God who sings in front of her wet nunga-nungas , but he keeps on dumping her because of their age gap which is in my opinion doesn't seem to matter at these days ( in the movie he is played by Aaron Johnson who married a 43-year-old, irony anyone?) Her best pal Jas " Jazzy Spazzy" is quite entertaining because she can be slow at times but when she gets upset  she takes on a huge Hump and their phone dialogues always makes me laugh. Georgia believes that she lives in a mad house but I always thought they were an ideal family which sadly I don't have.

Im currently reading the 10th and last book : Are these my basoomas I see before me?

MortAl Instruments : City of Bones

Dammit! I'm a Mundane!!!!!

In the wizarding world of Harry Potter, I am regarded only as a muggle (although I have this gut feeling that I could be a mud blood), a mere non- magic human. In the LJ Smith’s night world, I could only aspire to be part of a circle. In Cassandra Clare’s I am no less than a mundie, could there be any other word that could accurately define me?
I’m not the type that follows the trend as if it is a necessity. The side lines is where my kingdom is, and most of the time I am it’s only inhabitant. So being completely taken over by NEPHILINS or SHADOW HUNTERS to me is like wearing peep toe pumps just to fake my 5’1 height.  Angels , half , fallen , hunters are the newest trend In fantasy books right now and im just the same old me who gets too easily hooked because suddenly being able to breathe isn’t a matter of life and death anymore, it’s this superficial world where I see myself in the eye of the heroine.
The series centers in the life of CLARY FRAY AND JACE WAYLAND.
CLARY : short, redhead, bad temper.

She is a red headed girl from BROOKLYN, living life as mundane only to find out that her true home is In IDRIS, a place for shadow hunters who live by the oath of the Angel. 

JACE: “Jace likes to pretend that everyone isn’t talking about him, even when he knows they are.”
       

Here’s the stich; he’s arrogant yet charming. He acts like he’s in love with himself but when he realized clary can see him ( with glamour) , he began acting like nothing is at risk when it comes to her.

SECRET CIRCLE

The Secret Circle

Cassie Blake labeled herself as a shy daydreamer, possessing nothing to brag but her ordinary self. But all that changed as she learned that she is a part of a coven of witches in NEW SALEM and they need her to bInd their circle.

Adam Conant, whose eyes were blue-gray, like the mysterious sea. His odd face, not conventionally handsome but arresting and intriguing with high cheekbones and determined mouth. Proud and independent and humorous and sensitive all at once. (excerpt from the initiation)

When Cassie saw him for the second time, she saw a silver cord that linked their bodies. He gave her a chalcedony rose. Adam saw the cord too but neither knew that it didn’t just linked their bodies but their souls too. Isn’t that quixotic ? Knowing that you both had connections on the surface but underneath destiny has already bounded you in that lifetime .

A drop of water as light as air. Nature kept pushing them, their powers magnetizing them. But they took an oath.
"Fire, Air, Earth, Water listen and witness." "I, , swear not
to betray my trust-not to betray Diana,""Not by word, or look, or deed, waking or sleeping, by speech or by silence in this land or any other. If I do, may fire burn me, air smother me, earth
swallow me, and water cover my grave." ( excerpt INItiation).

Nick Armstrong, the cold, handsome face of the dark-haired guy. His eyes, they were dark brown, the color of a mahogany furniture. They weren't unfriendly, exactly. Just-unimpassioned. As if nothing much touched this guy. He’ s special, moody most of the time but speciaL.

Faye Chamberlain.A big, beautiful girl, both tall and voluptuous. She had a mane of pitch-black hair and her pale skin was touched with the glow of confidence and power. Her poem indicated that she is not a person to mess up with.
“I dream about fire-
Tongues of flame licking me.
My hair burns like a torch;
My body burns for you.
Touch my skin and your fingers will stick-
You'll blacken like a cinder.
But you'll die smiling;
Then you'll be part of the fire too.

DIANA

                             
                                                                                  MELISSA

After I read the secret circle, I knew I wanted to meet L.J Smith. To see with my very own light brown eyes that magnifies each time I focus, the woman who lives a mystifying life. How she is surrounded by magic and how she puts soul in every drop of ink in her writings. How she tells an enchanting tale that doesn’t require you to fully leave reality. I wanna join their coven, be the 13th witch and the 8th sister altogether. Find my stone and occupy any house in Crowhaven Road.

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SECRET CIRCLE EXCERPTS: SECRET CIRCLE BY LJ SMITH

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How to Teach Filthy rich Girls

I have finished reading this in a single day. Thanks to pdfs. i didn't have to buy a hard copy, which usually is harder to find .
MEGAN SMITH !!!
Compared to the t.v version, the megan here is big fat liar.
I'm gonna have to skip/jump'hop to the end. How could every chic novels end like that ,with the usual surprising unexpected kind of expected ( does that makes sense) CINDY-PERFECT-GET-AWAY, the sort that i keep rereading for better imagination.. The kind that i keep in mind for ridiculous smiles. The scenes where I get jealous and hope for something like that but different to happen.









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Wuthering Heights

I have spent the entire weekend reading WUTHERING HEIGHTS while waiting for the damned typhoon to be over, in this novel I have witnessed a true living devil under the name of HEATHCLIFF. Is he a force of evil or simply a victim of it?
Heathcliff: Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest so long as I live on! I killed you. Haunt me, then! Haunt your murderer! I know that ghosts have wandered on the Earth. Be with me always. Take any form, drive me mad, only do not leave me in this dark abyss alone where I cannot find you. I cannot live without my life! I cannot die without my soul. 
-This line made me hang in the mid air!!!! Then I thought If I had a lover like HEATHCLIFF , it would be a living hell since it is better to be hated than to be loved by him. Why did he kept on living for another 19 years after CATHERINE had perished? If this kind of LOVE takes place in this modern world today, how cruel would that crazy little thing (called love) would be, full of obsession, passion and revenge? I dare not to speak of it!!!!!
Catherine: If all else is perished and he remained, I should still continue to be, and if all else remained and he were annihilated , the universe would turn to a mighty stranger, I should not seem part of it.
- This reminded me of EDWARD CULLEN, the extent of his action due to Alice's false vision of Bella's death. Yes, I did read the twilight saga. I know that these two novels cant be compared but the message that their characters convey is the same in a way, DEATH AFTER LOVE..... Tragedy is a tragic thing but if the idea of love is mixed, it transcends to romantic. These people depicts love as if there is nothing that would come after it if the object of their affection have reunited with the earth. Is it really that way? That there is nothing that comes after but misery and the world would turn into an abandoned wretched space?   

Leaving A Trace By Alexandra Johnson

On July 27, 2011, around 8pm I have purchased a copy of Alexandra Johnson's Leaving A Trace.
I kept a proper journal since my Junior year in High school. But I didn't really created it to leave a mark or record the passage of time. I just have these whispers of my own voice in my own head but my own tongue cant quite recognize them when they had to publicized, I kept it to glue things when my Verbally Challenged self refuses to participate.  

Im still in page 37 "The well examined life" the smell of the pages enters my lungs it wants to stay there for eternity.  I love books, I used the word love because contrasting to my other obsessions Im sure it loves me back as well.