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

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

Getting Over Garret Delaney

When I saw this book on the floor of my friend's grandmother's minivan, I didn't think it was going to be much considering she said she hadn't even finished it and didn't seem to care when I asked if I could borrow it. And right now, as I type this review, it seems as if I always applaud books (well except for this one time) but this one was really, extremely cool.

For one, it was intriguing. I couldn't put it down. Another thing, I could totally relate to most situation. This book was hilarious and literally had me sitting in my room on my bed, rereading stuff out loud just to giggle to myself again. This book is fresh and funny, and really connects with the reader.

Okay, this book is mainly about a girl named Sadie and her plan to get over her extremely hot best friend that she is utterly in love with. I bet you're asking "Why in the world would she ever ever do that?" Simple. Her best friend, Garret, doesn't love her back.

Before she realizes she needs to really get over him and just be his friend, he goes to a writing camp and she is convinced that he'll come back, in love with her. But he tells her he's in love with this other girl who, I quote him exactly from the book, "You'd love her, too. You guys are so much alike. It's why I noticed her to begin with."

Can you believe that insensitive jerk face!?

Something I can imagine LuAnn
wearing... and me too. This is
cute! So on the Christmas List!

Anyways, I loved this book so much. Sadie was asking herself if she had always been a Garret Clone, a wannabe, one of those girls who changes herself just for a guy, and she found out that was exactly was she was. I started wondering if I ever acted like a clone for someone, maybe even Hay but I realized I've never really done that.

I love the characters, especially LuAnn, this vintage loving hipster fashion diva who helps Sadie with her "Getting over Garret" plan. I also adore Josh because he's so much like Sadie when she's really herself, and he's funny.

I love the way it's written, it could be read by anyone as long as they try to understand most of the book and don't get side tracked a lot even though you'll understand everything even if you miss a little bit. You'll just miss the little stuff that is humorous and just...meant to exist there, really.

My rating: 9.5 out of 10

Jay

Abduction!

"Don't talk to strangers." "Run away and get an adult immediately." "Don't get in a car with a stranger."  What if that stranger had your dog? He said your mom wanted to meet you at the hospital? He was your father?

Imagine your name is Matt. You're six years old. Your mom always told you to never talk to strangers, to always go home on the bus with you big sister, Bonnie. And never EVER talk to strangers?

I bet you've never thought to pick this particular book off the shelf or at your school just because it was a itty bitty book or it wasn't romance or fantasy. It's a little kid's novel. It's stupid. "I know not to trust strangers."

Trust me, that was what I thought everytime I passed this book everyday for about month but I picked it up for Thanksgiving break because I thought it was going to be a quick read. I was right. It was: Two day read with many many breaks made by cousins and aunts and grandmas.

But I was also wrong. This was a lesson. This book was utterly awesome and well thought out. Could you imagine being abducted by your father? Or someone you've never met? Too bad Matt was kidnapped by both, his father and a complete stranger.

And trust me when I say it's a thinking book. When I went to bed the first night I had it, I couldn't stop thinking about what would happen to Matt and Bonnie and Pookie throughout the book. I wanted to know more about the abductor, Denny Thurman and his so very "valid" reasons for even thinking about abduction.

Whether you're thirtheen like me or five or seventy-four or twenty, you can read this book and learn something from all perspectives of this story: What it's like for the police officerr, witnesses, or any else really involved.

My rating: 8 out of 10

Jay

School,Reading, and Reviews! Oh My!!!

Hey-yo, this is H. Long time,no see!!! Today I was just gonna give you guys a overlook on my week!!! (If you're even interested) First things first! School!!! My first week of school was WONDERFUL!!! I saw my friends, have great teachers, and I am totally awesome!!!(Not that that's relevant...) Any way, things were all fine and dandy until I got on the bus. I was just chillin' with my new friend I met and stuff when this lunatic kept bugging me!!! He was even pulling my hair!!! Which brings me to a topic one of my dear friends asked me to write about. BULLYING. Now we all know how calm and collected I am. :) So I really wanted to slap this kid.HARD. But I didn't because that would be bad... I also notice how they are becoming more strict about bullying. Which is good!!! I have to ride three different busses. One to get to the other. The other to get to school. The last one to get to the other school. Which is back to the first one to go home. It isn't as confusinf as it sounds. But our bus driver gave us a lecture about bullying. Which was good. Well on the first day and my confusing bus route. I was two hours late to school!!! Back to bullies. I can't stand bullies! Sometimes I will take my anger towards them and turn pity. Because if they think they're hotter than me I am obviously cooler than them. :) Yeah well... I will hit them back!!! Once I am off school grounds...they are all mine...MWUHAHAHAHA!!!

     Now for the reading/review part!!! I am reading this amazing book by Cassandra Clare. Book One in The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones. This book is for anyone who enjoys books about magic and mystery. This is the summary on the back of the book:

When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder—much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It’s hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing—not even a smear of blood—to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy? This is Clary’s first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. It’s also her first encounter with Jace, a Shadowhunter who looks a little like an angel and acts a lot like a jerk. Within twenty-four hours Clary is pulled into Jace’s world with a vengeance, when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know. . . . Exotic and gritty, exhilarating and utterly gripping, Cassandra Clare’s ferociously entertaining fantasy takes readers on a wild ride that they will never want to end.

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Cryer's Cross

I know I've been gone for a while and didn't write anything telling you guys I was leaving. SORRY! I left for the fourth of July and five more days. And the place I was staying at didn't have usable wi-fi. So, sorry guys. I really am.

Now I read this amazing book called Cryer's Cross by Lisa McMann. I read it in about two days time and its pretty short, maybe two hundred pages with big font I wasn't expecting.

The main character, Kendall lives in Cryer's Cross, Montana with her best friend Nico, who's practically her brother. Kendall's small town has only so many people and everyone knows everyone. Her parents and everyone else owns a farm, growing food and raising cattle. Its a pretty basic life. Except for the fact Kendall suffers from OCD, Obsessive compulsive disorder. But that doesn't bother her all that much. It just sort of takes over her life.

Then one day in the middle of the summer, a girl goes missing. Without a trace. Leaving the town to search for her until they've all searched every corner and know she's most likely dead. Months later, Kendall's best friend and boyfriend, Nico, disappears without a trace.

Kendall has to find out how to save him, and how she's going to save herself from whatever has taken her best friend.

"The smaller the town, the bigger the secrets."

My rating is 8 out of 10 only because it didn't scare me and because it was short. But it was still a fantastic book and one of it's purposes was a good one. It taught me about OCD people and their problems. I think if I meet a person with this disorder, I might understand their situation better.

Tell 'em Jay sent ya!

Books

"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."-Dorothy Parker


Hey everyone!!! H is here! Don't kill me, I know I haven't written in forever! So today I am writing an extra long post about. BOOKS!!! (Oh how very interesting...) Shushies!!! I know what your thinking: "BOOKS!!! HAS SHE LOST HER MIND!!! I JUST GOT OUT OF SCHOOL!!!!" Well suck it up!!!
       Anyway...books are just. Indescribable (What a nerd...). AHEM!!!
       Books are passageways to things only our minds can think of. They are our escape. You have no idea how much books have influenced my life. I write this because sadly today was my last day of school. ;( Teachers as you may know encourage reading. Thus we have our dreaded summer reading! The Giver- Lois Lowry. (Comment or e-mail if you know what I am talking about.)
      You know what I am feeling lazy as usual so here is a great song by Coldplay-Viva La Vida

I love this song. Have a good summer & don't forget to ....SUBSCRIBE!!! (Its Free!!!)

Book Companies are so Awesome!

I found these illusions the other day on an app on my kindle called Pulse. It's awesome, first off. It gives me my everyday information and I can keep up with the world. And it gives me cool stuff to write about. 

These ads are made by a book lending company. And they found a clever way to get their logo, "Come with a story and leave with another," know to the world. 

This illusion shows one story with another hidden within it. The first, Harry Potter, has a Trojan Horse hidden in it. The second is Snow White with Sherlock Holmes smoking an old-fashioned pipe. The last is Red Riding Hood with Moby Dick in a very awkward position. I never pictured the whale bending back that way before!

I thought I would share that all with you. Make sure to look at the other pages. I'm still working on a video. And a story to possibly put on there. For now, I'm going to go eat a cookie!

Jay