Confessions of a Book Addict

My reading corner Chris as well as I moved into our novel menage a twosome of months ago, as well as spell nosotros nonetheless haven't completely gotten our materials organized, things are starting to come upward together.  Since it's merely the 2 of us (for now), he took i of the 3 bedrooms for his office, as well as I took some other for my library. The shelves don't match, they are flood as well as double-stacked inwards some places, the books are completely unorganized, as well as I receive got yet to pass whatsoever existent fourth dimension inwards at that spot doing what I intended to do, which is read.  But it's starting to experience similar a cozy reading room, amongst my Aunt Mary Chair (also known every bit "The Ugly Chair"), which came from, y'all guessed it, my Aunt Mary.  It has this corking pinkish cloth amongst birds all over it.  It matches absolutely goose egg inwards my house, as well as I love it. My woman bring upward suggest...

I'm starting to experience similar I'm reading the same mass over as well as over again, then I've given upwards on YA for forthwith as well as convey moved dorsum into adult fiction. Right forthwith I am reading Madame Bovary , Janeology  by Karen Harrington, as well as volition hopefully endure starting Dan Simmons' latest, Flashback , soon. I am besides working through my feelings of frustration at reading, because equally much equally I was enjoying the YA fiction I had been reading, in that place was a lot I was angry as well as annoyed alongside (see previous posts).  It got to the scream for I wasn't happy reading it anymore, because I merely couldn't conk along seeing the same former thing.  Even Delirium  didn't alive upwards to the hype I'd heard.  Maybe it's merely disappointment, but I am starting to experience similar in that place aren't a lot of slap-up books coming out. The fact that I convey Flashback  in my possession makes...

The Selection past times Kiera Cass My rating: 4 of v stars ARGH ACK I DON'T WANT ANOTHER SERIES!!!!! *FLAIL*SPASM*TWITCH* ...Now that that's out of my system... Seriously, I thought this was a stand-alone until I got to the end. Grr! So tired of authors who are completely incapable of wrapping things up! ...Now that THAT'S out of my system... I actually REALLY liked this book. So much thence that I actually REALLY wanted it to halt amongst the kickoff book. I don't desire to accept to hold off until side past times side twelvemonth for majority two, because this SHOULD accept ended here. HERE. Not side past times side year. NOW. Yet again, my YA gripes accept presented themselves. 1: series. 2: I accept no thought what ANY of the characters await like. "Beautiful" does non tell us what they await like. 3: Love triangle. Both boys are sexy. Both boys similar her. Both boys are consummate opposites. This review isn't real positive, fifty-fi...

As y'all tin enjoin past times all my recent reviews, I've been deep into YA fiction the end few weeks (months?).  There's as well as then much coming out that I desire to read, it seems similar the genre has experienced an explosion as well as I don't desire to miss anything good.  However, with all the reading does come upwards about observations: 1. YA authors don't similar to depict the principal characters.  I outset noticed this with Twilight  (yes, I read majority 1).  Bella isn't actually described - nosotros don't genuinely know what she looks like.  When all the snark started, many commentators speculated it was as well as then that the reader could pose herself into Bella's grapheme as well as imagine that Edward was inwards dear with HER.  The to a greater extent than YA I read, the to a greater extent than I think that's true.  I don't guide keep a clear ikon of Cassia from Matched , or Eve from Eve  (unless y'all count her cer...

Cinder yesteryear Marissa Meyer My rating: 5 of v stars This was a bully showtime to what looks similar an exciting trilogy. If you've read The Snow Queen as well as The Summer Queen , you lot volition recognize a bully elbow grease at world-building as well as technology. You volition also expose a similarity inward the principal grapheme to refuse as well as hence bring her "fate," or rather what path her life is going to follow. ***THERE ARE H5N1 FEW SPOILERS BELOW*** I truly enjoyed reading a third-person YA novel for once. I am getting a petty sick of reading from the POV of a 16- or 18-year-old who is totally inward honey amongst a guy as well as all of her struggles at beingness parted from him. In this book, I could larn multiple characters' stories instead of non knowing what was going on inward other parts of the stories until the narrator meets upwards amongst them again. I could reckon the struggles Kai was dealing with, equally good equall...

Eve past times Anna Carey My rating: 3 of five stars Eve was good, non great, but expert plenty to continue me reading through the whole thing. The fact that schoolhouse becomes a unsafe house for Eve inwards the starting fourth dimension sets upwards a really interesting premise - women used equally breeding provender to repopulate the earth. Only it's non a natural breeding - they are implanted amongst embryos in addition to thus forced to pass the residue of their lives strapped to gurneys, giving nativity every nine months to God knows how many children. I want at that spot had been a fleck to a greater extent than data most that, such equally how many children they gave nativity to at a time. There was cite of a "litter" in addition to their stomachs beingness unnaturally bloated amongst children, but were at that spot multiples inwards there? How many? Will nosotros honor out inwards the mo installment of the series? OK, here's my gripe: Why is it ...

Matched past times Ally Condie My rating: 4 of five stars There are no existent spoilers inward this post, fearfulness not! I wouldn't telephone vociferation upward this neat fiction, nor fifty-fifty neat YA fiction, but it was definitely something I actually enjoyed reading. It started off a footling slow. I nevertheless don't know what whatsoever of the characters *look* like. I'm left amongst blank faces inward my mind, which tin teach irritating. But I'm finding this is to a greater extent than too to a greater extent than mutual amid YA writers - don't depict the characters, permit the readers run into who they desire to see. Is this beneficial? I'm non sure yet. What I am sure of is that this mass actually sucked me in. I started too finished it inward 2 days (one hateful solar daytime I was super ill too the minute hateful solar daytime I stayed upward until afterward 11pm to finish, too I'm unremarkably inward bed past times 10 because of ...

Shatter Me yesteryear Tahereh Mafi My rating: 1 of five stars I receive got wanted to read this for months. MONTHS. I placed a concur on it at the library lastly when I wasn't having whatsoever luck getting it through BooksFreeSwap. It sounded SO GOOD. Sure the concept was familiar (Rogue from X-Men, duh), but it sounded similar it had been done completely differently. Well, my eagerness as well as excitement was disappointed. The strikethroughs throughout the entire mass seat me correct off. The stream-of-consciousness means writing was done real poorly. And inward the end, everything happens simply a niggling besides easily, as well as remains unexplained inward every means at the determination of the book. **SPOILERS BELOW** Obviously it is ready for a sequel. Juliette becomes the "Rogue" grapheme consummate amongst particular bodysuit as well as gloves as well as thus she won't wound anyone. Hell, Adam fifty-fifty says she looks similar a super...