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~ The Clumsy Reader aka Christine
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~ The Clumsy Reader aka Christine
I was looking through some more blogger sites and I decided I was going to start putting in 'cover/title' little things and extras [link, videos, pictures, music, ect.] but i started going back through my old reviews and after about 7 I said: FUDGE THIS! So it's going to be a 'from now on' thing. Also I'm InSaNeLy behind on reviews. with my limited time on the laptop I am caught up to Feb. 21. But I only have 10 more reviews to put up! Yay me! Also if there is any challenges you know of that are extremely hard or/and have great prizes, contact me! Please I beg you because all the challenges, except the 451 F. one, are easy. So have a great, cookie-eating book- reading day like moi! :)
PS- My mother just informed me that I have been putting "exert" when's it's really "excerpt".
So.................sorry................
~ The Clumsy Reader aka Christine
Ranting:
I started the Vampire Academy series and fell in love! Well, maybe I'm just addicted!!! LOL So I went out and bought the 1st 3 in a 'box' set and then the 4th. Well, then I saw posts about "Spirit Bound" and then the last and 6th book coming out in DECEMBER!!!!! And I thought 'Wait, I'm going to finish the ones I have and then be agonizingly waiting for May and December. So why not stop when I am ahead?' So I literally stopped myself on page 38? in "Shadow Kiss" and will not pick that up again till May. I idea is that I will make the last 3 books (because, duh, I am so pre-ordering "Spirit Bound"!) stretch till December. Then I will put out of my misery!!!! Ok, I'm done ranting :)
Reviews:
I am so behind, it isn't even funny. I know probably no one is reading this but hey, i don't care. I just want to have these reviews done! And since my dad soooooooooooo disapproves vampires and anything with sexual content (but my mom says it's FINE), it's not like I can get on here anytime I want :( So just bear with me and Ill be putting up reviews soon.
Reading:
Well, I was going to put "challenges" but it start with a 'R' so..... yeah. I just entered, like, almost all of Royal Reviews challenges and I so hyped up about it!!!!! :) go and sign up!!!!!!! ;)
Also I am going to try to put these on the site soon:
Ok, I went through many wishlists on Amazon and randomly picking 20 out 500+books I have on there. No-Joke. So here we go! {R} = Reading; Highlighted Red Means Finished!
Well that's a pretty good group just for random, uh?
~ The Clumsy Reader aka Christine Read more...
1/20
I so can do Obbsessed(20). Hell I bet I could do 100! Ok I am counting from Jan. 1st and even though I read a romance every other day, i am only putting the hard core romances. Like harlequins... *sigh* they're so cheesy they're yummy.
Name: The Luxe
Author: Anna Godberson
Pages: 433
Start Date: Feb. 26
Finish Date: March 1
Type: Historical Romance/Drama; Hardback
Status: Library; 1st in Luxe Series (1/4)
Rating:
Summary:
Pretty girls in pretty dresses, partying until dawn.
Irresistible boys with mischievous smiles and dangerous intentions.
White lies, dark secrets, and scandalous hookups.
This is Manhattan, 1899.
Beautiful sisters Elizabeth and Diana Holland rule Manhattan's social scene. Or so it appears. When the girls discover their status among New York City's elite is far from secure, suddenly everyone—from the backstabbing socialite Penelope Hayes, to the debonair bachelor Henry Schoonmaker, to the spiteful maid Lina Broud—threatens Elizabeth's and Diana's golden future.With the fate of the Hollands resting on her shoulders, Elizabeth must choose between family duty and true love. But when her carriage overturns near the East River, the girl whose glittering life lit up the city's gossip pages is swallowed by the rough current. As all of New York grieves, some begin to wonder whether life at the top proved too much for this ethereal beauty, or if, perhaps, someone wanted to see Manhattan's most celebrated daughter disappear...In a world of luxury and deception, where appearance matters above everything and breaking the social code means running the risk of being ostracized forever, five teenagers lead dangerously scandalous lives. This thrilling trip to the age of innocence is anything but innocent.
Name: She's Got the Beat
Author:Nancy Krulik
Pages: 303
Start Date: March 7
Finish Date:March 7
Type: Romantic Comedy; Hardback
Status: School Library
Rating:
Summary: SHE BANGS! SHE BANGS!Miranda was the quiet type...until she moved to Austin. Home of the hippest college rock bands, Austin, Texas, is a scene. And Miranda is dying to break out of her small-town shell. So she decides to do something totally un-Miranda: learn to play the drums.When crashing the cymbals, the girl's a wild child! Plus there's a perk to her new gig: a cute bass player. Unfortunately Mr. Bass Man isn't exactly looking for love. Can this rocker chick change his tune? Or does finding her own rhythm mean sacrificing true love?
My Review: This wasn't all that and i knew it wasn't going to be. I read it in, like 3 hours, so I liked it. But for someone would read it in a week or so, would probably be mad. Let me just say, the end sucks. With these kind of books it's duh that the girl will get the guy (who I LOVE in this) so I can safely say, I want to know more about them! You'll get if you once you've read it or if you already have.
Exert: "She was my yellow Texas rose," he sang. "A soft petaled beauty, who never thought to pose. She let me be myself, I could trust her with my soul. I knew she'd treat it gently, for only she could make me whole. her honesty and strength made her rise above the garden. Her genuine Texas sweetness, I never thought would harden..." ~ 292-293
Cover/Title: The face looks weird but other-wise, it's looks like Miranda. The title fits nicely.
Extras:
Songs: Me & Bobby and Try and Honey Don't
~ The Clumsy Reader aka Christine
Name: Holly
Author: Jude Deveraux
Pages: 277
Start Date: March 2
Finish Date: March 4
Type: Romance; Hardback
Status: Library; 6th Taggert Book
Rating:
Summary:A relentless campaign by phone, letter, and email has persuaded Hollander Latham's parents to purchase the home of her dreams: Spring Hill, a beautiful North Carolina plantation where Holly spent her memorable thirteenth summer. Now a successful architect, Holly is intent on reuniting with Spring Hill's neighbor and her love from that long-ago summer, wealthy heir Laurence Beaumont -- she dreams of working her way into Lorrie's heart while restoring his historic estate, Belle Chere. But as Christmas fast approaches, Nick Taggert -- a mysterious stranger who makes her laugh and tempts her with a surprising passion -- turns her plans upside down. One man can seduce her with fortune and privilege; the other can promise her the simple gift of love. And on a frost-covered Christmas night, Holly's choice will unmask astonishing truths and hidden dangers -- revelations that will forever change her charmed life and her vulnerable heart.
My Review: There ain't much to say. I think the main characters hit it off way to fast and it didn't seem real. Holly was a little idiotic and Nick made the Taggerts look bad. In places it moved to fast but then some thoughts seemed to go on forever. Not Jude's best... but a good quickie.
Exert: "Sorry, sir. Moonlight. Old friend who's grown into a beautiful woman." - pg. 149
Cover/Title: I'd have rather seen the Belle Chere. So-so name. Could have been better
Extras: X
~ The Clumsy Reader aka Christine
Name: Vampire Academy
Author: Richelle Mead
Pages: 332
Start Date: Feb. 25
Finish Date: Feb. 26
Type: Vampire Romance/Chiller ; Paperback
Status: Library; Book 1 in the Vampire Academy Series
Rating:
Summary:St. Vladimir’s Academy isn’t just any boarding school—it’s a hidden place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teens train to protect them. Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, a bodyguard for her best friend Lissa, a Moroi Vampire Princess. They’ve been on the run, but now they’re being dragged back to St. Vladimir’s—the very place where they’re most in danger. . . .Rose and Lissa become enmeshed in forbidden romance, the Academy’s ruthless social scene, and unspeakable nighttime rituals. But they must be careful lest the Strigoi—the world’s fiercest and most dangerous vampires—make Lissa one of them forever.
My Review: Well, I have wanted to read this since it came out, and I finally did! It was intoxicating. That is like all I can say. I was pulled in and I still can't get out. After this I went and bought it with the rest! I recommend it because if you read one, you have to read them!
Exert: A miracle unfolded before my eyes, and Alberta gasped. His wounds closed. The blood dried up. Color returned to his cheeks. His eyelids fluttered, and his eyes regained their life again. Focusing on Lissa, he smiled. It was like watching a Disney movie. I must have keeled over after that, because I don't remember anything else. ~ pg.310
Cover/Title: I don't like this cover, I like the one with her face up close (that's the one i bought) but this is the one I read. I like it because it states from the beginning what the series is called.
Extras:
Series Site
Cool Stuff
When Doves Cry - Prince ~ Dimitri listens to this one time
Something Dimitri would read...
I so can see Dimitri is this!
Dream Cast <-- The only I don't agree with is Rose -_- but everything else is perfect! Cool Trailer#1 & Cool Trailer #2
The Book Dimitri is reading is by this Guy
~ The Clumsy Reader aka Christine
Name:Born of Night
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon
Pages: 533
Start Date: Feb. 23
Finish Date: Feb. 25
Type: Sci-Fi Romance; Paperback
Status: Library (Buying); 1st in League Series
Rating:
Summary:In the Ichidian Universe, The League and their ruthless assassins rule all. Expertly trained and highly valued, the League Assassins are the backbone of the government. But not even the League is immune to corruption . . . Command Assassin Nykyrian Quikiades once turned his back on the League—and has been hunted by them ever since. Though many have tried, none can kill him or stop him from completing his current mission: to protect Kiara Zamir, a woman whose father’s political alliance has made her a target. As her world becomes even deadlier, Kiara must entrust her life to the same kind of beast who once killed her mother and left her for dead. Old enemies and new threaten them both and the only way they can survive is to overcome their suspicions and learn to trust in the very ones who threaten them the most: each other.
My Review: This book was so different then what I thought it would be! I thought it was just a sci-fi sappy romance but it hit so many points! Abuse, discrimination, and the right to protect one's self. Plus the grittier world in the future is amazing. And you just fall in love with Nykyrian and you just want to cry when you really learn about him. The one thing I hated was Kiara. I would have loved him right away and wouldn't have gotten mad at him when he kills to protect me! But she does! Can we say Ungrateful? But other wise it was just sexy and cool I couldn't and didn't put it down!
Excerpt: I have a couple because this book was so good:
Brothers to the end, even through the fires of hell and beyond ~ pg. 5
You can't protect yourself. No matter how safe you think you are. No matter how much precaution you take, the rodents always find a way in... ~ pg. 16
"Wonder is she sleeps naked...bet she showers that way. Every day even. Think about it. I'll bet she's even naked underneath her clothes." ~ pg. 17
"Death is just a new beginning...at least in my religion. And extreme inebriation seriously helps." ~ pg. 114
"Baby, it's either laugh or cry and crying takes way to much energy. If you can't find humor in the shit life heaps on you, you really will grow miserable." ~ pg. 115-116
"Princess, in the end, life makes victims of us all." ~ 132
Cover/Title: I like the cover because at least I knew what his strong jaw looked like. :) And the title fits nicely ;)
Extras:
Author's Cool Site
Book Site with Lots of Info.
~ The Clumsy Reader aka Christine
Name: The Hunger Games
Author:Suzanne Collins
Pages:374
Start Date: Feb. 21
Finish Date: Feb. 23
Type: Sci Fi Adventure/Thriller; Hardback
Status: Library; 1st in the Hunger Games series (1/3)
Rating:
Summary:Katniss is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem, the remains of what used be the United States. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, "The Hunger Games." The terrain, rules, and level of audience participation may change but one thing is constant: kill or be killed. When Kat's sister is chosen by lottery, Kat steps up to go in her place.
My Review: I didn't have any interest to read this. I mean like 0% interest. But then a teacher raved to my mom (who is a teacher) that mom should read t=it to her kids. So of course mom came back and raved to me about. And since she wouldn't read it, I did. And I think I fell in love. The way Kat thinks and acts is so close to me, it's scary. I've grown up in the elements and I know how to take care of my self and how to think. Not to Katniss's extent but pretty close. But I the whole love triangle thing i so didn't expect! I mean the guy back home is great, but the guy in the games with her? Ug, I don't know which she should have! But the writing was perfectly done and I can't wait to read more of this author!!!! PS- WTF (sry) is with the dogs/werewolves??????? Did they take the kids and like bring them back and make them dogs??? I hope they explain or I'll be pissed!
Exert: I nod. It's funny. I feel almost as if it's the first day of the Games again. That I am in the same position. Twenty-one tributes are dead but I still have yet to kill Cato. And really, wasn't he always the one to kill? Now it seems the other tributes were just minor obstacles, distractions, keeping us from the real battle of the games. Cato and me. But no, there's the boy waiting beside me. I feel his arms wrap around me... - pg. 327
Cover/Title: I am guessing it's a mockingjay and the arrows of course stand for Kat. the cover is pretty much explanatory.
Extras:
Awards and More reviews
Awesome Book Site!
Really Really Cool Unofficial Fan Site <-- Check out the German Covers! I wish they were ours!
The Best Teaser EVER!!!! OMG YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS!
Awesome Trailer! <-- Made by the same as above, but longer and more detailed. Quality is bad but I love it! ps - Steven Strait I think would be a perfect Gale! 
~ The Clumsy Reader aka Christine
Name: The Men I Didn't Marry
Author:Janice Kaplan & Lynn Schnurnberger
Pages: 285
Start Date: Feb. 19
Finish Date:Feb. 21
Type: Chick Lit (?) ;Softback
Status: Library
Rating:
Summary:Hallie, a fortysomething successful lawyer and mother of two college kids, is devastated when her husband of 21 years tells her that he is leaving her for a woman half her age, named Ashlee--with two e's. After wallowing in self-pity and succumbing to an Oreo cookie and QVC coma, Hallie pulls herself together and decides that the past might hold the key to her happiness. She goes looking for her old boyfriends: Eric, a college boyfriend who is now an extremely rich investment broker; Barry, a sensitive guy she met while backpacking across Europe; Kevin, her old high-school boyfriend; and Dick, the one she thought she was going to marry and would now rather forget than find again. But it is in rekindling these old relationships that Hallie rediscovers who she is and what she wants out of life. Kaplan and Schnurnberger know how to craft a fun read that is perfect for those days when the most you want to do is lie around in your pajamas, watch QVC, and eat Oreos.
My Review: I am not really into books about divorces or divorcees, adult or teen. But this book really pulled it off. Everything that happened seemed real. If someone had just given it to me and I had no info about it I might have thought it no-fiction. It gets in so many funny situations, you forget at times what it's really about: the dumped last year model for the new and improved model. Like a old TV for a flat screen. Also it hits true to home I think on how men go through their thought process. That they are superhuman gods and that women just fall at there feet, begging to come back so can fix them sandwiches. I am teen and i understand all this! Guarantee you love this book from start to finish.
Exert: X
Cover/Title: The funny thing is that the woman looks like my mom! Thin, perky boobs, legs up to her chin, and the 'I don't Care' hand thing. And the title really just states what it's about, but I think they could have been just a bit more creative but it works.
Extras:
~ The Clumsy Reader aka Christine
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