The Girl Who Could Fly

Just the title you it all. Just not everything.

This book was given to me by a friend who was re-reading the book for probably the gazillionth time. She handed it to me, almost a little sadly and said I would love the book.

She is psychic.

I loved the book.

The first 150 pages are just enough to make me smile and laugh not because their funny but because their so well written and amazing, you don't realize that you read not 10 pages, not 20 but 50, 100! That's how fast you'd read this book.

The story begins with Betty and Joe McCloud. Average, saintly people who live in Lowland County. They don't upset "Providence" and they don't do anything out of the ordinary. Of course, they had an abnormal child. It was only irony playing it's sick trick.

Piper, they named her, can float. Every since she was an itty bitty baby, somehow, she always floated off the ground just a few inches.

Betty never said anything, only worried a little until one day.

Betty was changing Piper on the table. The basic process: Cover nose, open diaper, throw away diaper, change diaper, breathe and exhale.

Betty left Piper on the table while changing her diaper and turned her back on her. That instant, Piper rolled off the table.

Normal children would hit the floor and cry and cry and cry until they were comforted. But Piper never hit the ground. She floated.

When Piper was five was the first time Betty decided to voice her opinions on the child to her husband. Joe only nodded because he was a man of little words.

When Piper got older, she saw a little bird get pushed out a tree and start flying. That gave her an idea.

She climbed onto the roof and she jumped off and flew!

Her parents didn't encourage it much but Piper never stopped. She praticed and praticed until she could fly at will.

One day, Betty suggests going to the Fourth of July because of Piper's strangely good behaviour. Piper was estatic, being homeschooled and never being able to play with the other kids.

So they went but it wasn't all they thought it would be.

There was a baseball game and Piper was picked last. She wasn't a good baseball player, couldn't catch a ball for the life of her and she couldn't swing. But she was determined. So when a ball know one can catch is swung, Piper deciedes to impress everyone and get it by flying.

No one is impressed. In fact, they all leave.

The next day, Ms. Hellion and many agents come to Piper's house. Hellion asks Piper if she wants to go to a school with kids just like her. And Piper agrees, says bye and leaves.

Best stinking story ever.

Best ending. Best characters. Best plot twist and best moral ever!

Even a romantic nut like me who hoped for some kind of romance to bloom, I just got lost and didn't even think about that.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Just read it!!

Jay

Flash Burnout

Someone told me today that the name of this book would prevent them from actually picking it up and enjoying it and reading it. Unbelievable!

I love this title! Partially because I truly do understand why it's there as a granddaughter's photographer and, plus, I didn't take enough time to actually look at the title. I kinda just looked at the book, flipped it, read about it, and bought it.

Right now is actually the first time I started assessing why it could possibly be called Flash Burnout.

I still think it's a brilliant title. That goes along with a beautiful book cover and wonderful story that is enlightening and kinda stupid.

I don't usually read stories that have the point of view of a guy. The first time (that I can remember) I read in the point of view of a guy was in... I think the summer before 3rd grade. It was Sign of the Beaver, not a requirement for Gate but extra credit so I read it. I will openly say I loved that book enough to pass down to my younger sister.

But the point is I've read a total of maybe five to ten books in a male, a boy, a guy's point of view. This happens to be among them.

The book with the awesome cover and title.

Time to review: This book was weirdly humorous.

On the very back of the book, it said it would be but I really didn't expect it to be. These are critics grading books and giving their opinions. Usually, I only take the reviews lightly. Like I should have the next part of the review.

It said the book was deep. For whatever reason, I didn't take that all to lightly.

I should have.

Maybe it's because the book was so short or because I read to fast or because the character was not really spilling his emotions, I don't know, but this book was not deep enough for my taste.

When a book says it is deep, it had better be deep!

Okay, let's get to the story's main idea. It's about a guy named Blake. He has a cute girlfriend named Shannon and an awesome photography buddy named Marissa. Blake loves being with his girlfriend. And he loves being with Marissa, his friend. Only his friend.

Who knew it could turn for the worst.

As a project, Blake takes a picture of a woman, drunk and passed out against a building. Marissa sees it and freaks out, stating that's her mom. Of course, Blake freaks out as well, asking questions in his head he wouldn't voice.

Eventually, Marissa finds her mom, her meth-head mom, and gets her into rehab.

Things go back to normal. Until Marissa's mom goes missing again.

Along with Marissa's drama, Shannon feels like Blake is spending too much time with Marissa, even if they are just friends. And, hey, how can Blake not notice this when he really loves his girl Shannon and really wants to do...it with her.

L.K. Madigan

My rating: 6 out of 10. It made me smile. And giggle weirdly on the bus so much people started watching me but still, this book was really just too small and jam packed for the big stuff going inside Blake's head that I can't even feel sad about Marissa or Blake or Shannon or the mom.

And the ending...I still need some time to really think about whether I liked it. I'll just have to say that the ending was something... you interpret that however you want to.

Oh, the author is a female, if you were curious. I sure was because this book was a little boyish, I just had to look up the author's gender.

Jay

Nothing

Martin Aitken when he was younger.

It's amusing at first saying, "Hey, I just read a book!"

"Really? What was it called?"

"Nothing."

Really, it is actually funny saying this. Especially when people think I'm not kidding. But, seriously, being completely serious here, this book has now made me emotionally disturbed.  So I would obviously recommend this to the rest of the world out there though many, many people have already read it in France, Denmark, Hungary, and other European countries. In fact, the version I purchased was actually translated from Danish by a guy named Martin Aitken.

Honestly, this book was emotional. At first when I picked it up, I thought it was a thriller or something along the lines of teenage assassin (not the lame, modern ones nowadays, I mean the cool ones who plan out murders like in this one book I have to still write about).

Instead, it was way cooler.

Now, I like to call myself the ultimate book scavenger. And this book proves my mad skills for getting awesome books.

Okay, let's get to the nitty gritty.

A kid called Pierre Anton one the first day of 7th grade announces, "Nothing Matters. I've known that for a long time. So nothing's worth doing. I just realized that." And he leaves and never comes back.

After his realization, the other kids start acting a little weird, thinking about what Pierre Anton said until finally it sets in that what he said was totally stupid. There is something to live for! A job and love and education! But Pierre quickly says that's all stupid because you get a job and lose it to die, you can fall right back out of love and what is the need for education? To get a job so you can die?

And everyday, Pierre Anton reminds them all as they pass by his plum tree, the one he sits in. He throws plums at them and further irritates all of them until finally, they reach their definite breaking point.

They decide to prove to him that something does matter in life. That life isn't meant to just die.

Eventually, things do get out of hand but they can't stop now when their almost done showing Pierre Anton what life is worth living for.

See what I mean? Pure genius! And the ending was just too good!

Rating: 9.9 out of 10

There seriously were dead points. Not completely but I'm sure if some of you do end up reading this, you'll think it's stupid even though this is an upcoming classic.

Janne Teller does have other books. You can find there names and read about her on her website, (janneteller.dk/?English.)

Jay

All Alone in Walmart

Hello you beautiful balloons! I would like to tell you a story. I know I didn't post on Valentines Day but I honestly don't care.

\_/ <- You see this?

That is my cup of cares. Notice that it is empty.

(Actually I was going to post about Forever Alone Day but I was too busy having fun!...Also because I was too lazy.)

Anyway I want to tell you about my first time as a child being left alone by myself in Walmart.

At the time I was six or seven and life was just beginning to show its' true, mean, and ugly face.
It was a time where everything I wore was pink and purple and my older sister and I actually shared clothes.

 That time was over.

My little toddler mind refused to accept the fact that the world was becoming a house of horrors.
So, there I was. Standing in Walmart ,even as a junior, reading books in the book section.
I didn't hear my mom say she would soon come and get me or that she just needed to go grab a jug of milk.
So I was standing there lost in a Junie B. Jones when a gruff voice interrupts my train of thought.

"Are you lost?"

Now the voice sounded very much like one a person would of someone who ate staples and swallows a big ole cup o nails to finish it off. Because we all know breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
The guy had raggedy clothes and a beard and he kind of smelled like pee.

So I was just standing there and looked around for my mom, because she was the one who answered the questions for me.

When I realized she wasn't around I did the thing any child who was lost would do.

I screamed like a fool.

Screaming was an understatement. More like howling like a banshee and siren crossed together.
And by that time I was thinking of all the horrible things that could happen: the strange man could yank me away from the two pigtails sticking from my head.

They were the kind of pigtails that were like helicopter blades, if they could spin fast enough I would've flown away!

Then I fell to the floor and cried. Right in front of the guy. He tried to help me up but I just kept flailing and falling on the floor.

Eventually he ran away from my strange demonic child screams and ran away before he thought I would open a portal or something.

I was all cried out and sniffles emitted from my little nose.
My mom came back and we checked out our groceries and to this day I see scraggly beard man whenever I go to Walmart.

-Hay

*Note
Small details in this story may have been exaggerated. :)

Wreck This Journal

Hello my lovely friends! Hay is here and she has something fun for you!!!

It's called Wreck This Journal by Keri Smith!!!

My friend showed me this and I loved it and ran to the store and bought myself a copy!
I thought I would share this with you guys because I feel that every once in a while you need to let the imagination run wild and this is the perfect creative outlet.

I posted a few pictures below and I just want to say my Wreck This Journal looks extremely neat because as a over extensive reader and a lover of writing it was difficult for me to begin defacing a book- even if its purpose was to be broken.

This is my journal before I began beating the snot out of it. :') It was so beautiful! 

This is my journal a little bit into the process of wrecking. It currently looks like this now  but I  shall continue to wreck!

This is one of the first pages. I just want  to show you a few so I won't spoil the book for you!

Here is my cracked spine... this hurt me to do.

I made this page all sunshine and rainbows! My friend keeps telling me that I need to actually wreck the journal and not turn it into a piece of altered art but I can't help it!I LOVE BOOKS TOO MUCH!!! :)

This was painful. I gave it to my friend and this is how it came back! :) I was kind of scared on how she did that without making a sound...
If you can't read the page it says:"Ask a friend to do something destructive to this page.Don't look."
I'm glad I didn't look... I probably would've been scarred. :D

I colored this page too. :)

This was the hardest one to complete. If you are a reader you know to never put your books
(or e-reader as a matter of fact)
into water. I didn't actually shower with the book (I  don't have that much willpower) so I just turned on the shower threw it in and sobbed. (Just kidding about the sobbing part! ) :)

All in all I have to say this book is pretty fun for me and I do recommend it! You can get it on Amazon and find it at Walmart and Target. Check around online because they are everywhere!

I hope you guys enjoyed this post! Have a wonderful weekend! Au revoir!

-Hay 

Beautiful Creatures

Hello my lovely friends! Hay here and I want to tell you about my new favorite book, Beautiful Creatures!
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margeret Stohl is a book told from the point of view of Ethan Wate, a teenage boy with dreams that reach far beyond the small southern town of Gatlin.

Ethan starts experiencing strange dreams that are scarily realistic and involve a girl he's never met before.

Then she happens to move into town.

Beautiful Creatures is a wonderfully crafted love story that involves the perfect amount of voice, action, lovey dovey stuff ;), and enough cliffhangers to keep the audience intrigued.

I absolutely recommend this book and give it the highest score I could give!

10 out of 10!

The cover of the book!I took this screenshot on my phone! :)

This is one of my favorite books and it is flawless, and dark, and just...beautiful!

I am reading the rest of the series and this would have to be one of the few cases where I say the sequels are just as good as the first book.

I am also very excited because they are making a film adaptation of the book that is to come out on February 14, 2013!

Watch the trailer below and for any other information about the movie check online and I suggest IMDb!

Alrighty guys! I hope you choose to read Beautiful Creatures! Adios! 

-Hay

Downtown

I was with my family and we decided to continuously venture downtown.
I love downtown because you find the most amazing things and people.
Where you go you're sure to find something that rings your bell and collects your attention.
I saw a lot of music acts and ate delicious food.
There was a man with a sweetgrass basket playing his keyboard on the edge of a crosswalk, there was a father and his daughter playing some country music on guitar and violin, and a guy painted all white who played a song then stood still for hours!
I feel like you find the most amazing things when you venture out a little.
Happy New Year! Remember to live life to fullest and explore! There are some amazing things out there you just need to find them.
-Hay
P.S. The picture below is the guy painted in white playing guitar! Pretty cool!