42. Milkrun by Sarah Mlynowski.

Okay, how perfect is the picture I took for this book? LOL. It cracks me up every time. Master shake..omg, I love him. And it's perfect how the book has a fucking pink straw. Priceless.

I don't know what to say about this book :(

It was good.

LOL.

It's about a woman (she's 24, I think) whose boyfriend (that she's pretty obsessed with) randomly dumps her while he's on a vacation in Thailand to find himself. She decides to put herself on the market and get back in the game. She starts getting all dressed up and going to a bar called Orgasm (wtf) with her slightly slutty friend, shall I say. She meets guys, she goes out with the guys, she finds out something super negative about the guy and then she moves on to the next. Not in a slutty way, she isn't fucking them all or anything. She's just looking for THE ONE. She always gets overly excited and overly expectant. For example, she meets this guy that she was obsessed with back in high school and he asks her out and she's all excited and is thinking about their future together as husband and wife and then they go out and he turns out to be a total creeper. And so the story goes. It's just a comedic story of a girl who isn't quite over her previous love but willing to put herself out there and let her hair down. It's funny and witty and a great..er, girly read, I guess.

QUOTE.

"Don't worry, there's a lid for every pot."

But only because I had never heard that phrase before and it cracked me the fuck up for some reason. LOL. I'm so easily amused.


Kristen :D

39-41. Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer.

Sigh. Yes, I'm a Twilighter. But I REFUSE to read Breaking Dawn again, lol.

Let me break it down for you:
Twilight = LOVE.
New Moon = Good, but not great.
Eclipse = Ehhhhhhh.
Breaking Dawn = W.T.F.

That's how it goes. I've read Twilight - Eclipse 3 times now in a little over a year. I've read Breaking Dawn twice. I know I could read it again but there's no point. I find it so retarded..the only part I like is when all of the vampires from across the world come together and you learn about their powers and culture etc.

Most of the arguments for Twilight are so repetitive and annoying. I'll go through them and put my opinion.

1. Vampires don't sparkle. Okay, why is this such a big deal? It's not as if vampires actually exist..so why can't an author take a creature and make it her own? Many different vampires have different elements and personalities in different vampire books. If she wants her vampires to sparkle in the sun then let her and get the fuck over it and stop bitching. Go read Vonnegut since sparkling vampires are so beneath you and hey, maybe you should bitch about something that's worth bitching about next time. ///// This is only directed towards those who take this shit too seriously. If it's a joke, I don't care, I find most jokes about Twilight hilarious even though I like the book. But if people are degrading the book due to sparkling vampires and what not, I mean, what the fuck, it's a fiction story. Yeah. Woo.

2. Girls that like Edward Cullen's character are dumbass fucks and need to realize he cannot exist. REALLY? STONE COLD/HARD AND SUPER STRONG, SPARKLING, VEGETARIAN BEAUTIFUL MALE VAMPIRES DON'T EXIST? OH MY FUCKING GOD. I HAD NO IDEA. THANKS FOR BRINGING MY HEAD OUT OF MY ASS AFTER ALL OF THIS TIME. There's a difference between admiring his character and waiting for it. I agree, if you dump your boyfriend because he doesn't compare to Edward Cullen or if you're sitting at home crying because you can't find an equivalent, then that's pretty pathetic and you really do need to get over yourself. But for the rest of us who just admire his character and choose him over Jacob, why is this so unbelievable? People always say that they're for Jacob because he's human and someone like Edward could never exist and he's too perfect blah blah blah. Now, let me mention this again..IT'S A STORY. FICTION. NOT REAL. So if this FICTIONAL CHARACTER named BELLA has a choice between a PERFECT, BEAUTIFUL, ETC VAMPIRE named EDWARD and a typical immature dickass werewolf named Jacob that shoves his tongue down her throat..why the fuck would she NOT choose Edward IN THE STORY. If Edward exists for her IN THE STORY then why should she say NO to him? It doesn't make sense for her to be like "oh, sorry Edward, I'm going to have to turn you down for Jacob because you don't exist - oh wait" seriously.

NOW, if you genuinely don't like Edward's character - many people don't - then that's fine. If you don't like the over-protectiveness (he loosens up eventually) or his old style mannerisms or his cold skin or whatever other elements of his personality..then fine. It makes perfect sense for you to be like..yeah, I want Jacob. Or if you want neither. Or if you don't give a shit about any characters in Twilight, then yeah, that's fine. But don't be and idiot and get fiction confused with reality. Most of my obsessions involve the characters and nothing related to my own life. Sure, I may have mentioned in the past that I wish a vampire would come find me and love me and obsess over me..but it's not literal seriousness. Kind of like how I desire to have a threesome with the Weasley twins or James+Oliver Phelps, but that will never happen either. Hopefully you get my point.

But I do genuinely love Edward Cullen's character. I love his old fashioned phrases and the way he talks and the way he addresses Bella etc etc. His sarcasm and quiet humour. It's all so very attractive. And he's supposed to be. But it's not for everyone.

3. Stephenie Meyer's writing is horrible and her grammar is even worse. Okay, I may somewhat agree with this, but I'm not going to hate her books because of it. They're still read-able to me. Yes, it isn't written like a classic and it's not supposed to be, I don't think. For me, it's merely entertainment, nothing more, nothing less.

But yeah, I love Twilight (the first book) and I'll probably read it a billion times without it ever getting old.

I can't wait until the final draft of Midnight Sun comes out..I've read the partial draft and it's so amazing. Woooooo.

I've said enough on the subject. I'm sure I could go on and on but I'm too lazy.

KRISTEN.

38. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink.

Allllllllllllllright. I saw the movie and then I got super excited when I found it at Goodwill. I love Goodwill..there may be no organization at all, but you can find the best books there. And it's sooooooo cheap, obviously.

So, this was the last book that I read while at the beach. It's different when you see a movie and then read the book..instead of reading the book and then seeing the movie. Your perception is a bit different, I think, because if you read a book FIRST then you develop your own perspective of the characters and places in the book, and obviously books usually go into more depth, so that when you see the movie, you typically feel disappointment, or at least that's how it is for me. BUT if I see a movie THEN read the book, it's not as bad, because you see the characters and the setting and how it plays out..and then when you read the book you're like "oh, yeah, I can picture this perfectly..I remember this in the movie..blah blah blah!" and so on and so forth.

So, what I'm trying to say is that, from the direction I went (movie to book) I thought they did a pretty good job and stayed on track with the book. I really liked the movie and it's representation of the book. Now, if I had read the book first, who knows. But even if I had read the book first, I still think I would have liked the way the movie was. ANYWAYS.

The book was good. I already knew most of what was going to happen because, like I've already repeated 98532 times, it was a lot like the movie. I don't think I really expected it to be much different though. The book is a lot less..revealing, I guess, than the movie. They speak of making love a lot, but in the movie it's like woah shit.

The writing is very beautiful and very mature. It was really easy for me to get into, it wasn't dull or boring. It's written in a way that makes me really..I don't know, appreciate it.

And the story line is just so heart-sinking. It's beautiful and depressing. Yet..happy, sometimes. Not rainbow and unicorn happy, just moving. I don't know, I'm horrid at this.

QUOTE.

"The tectonic layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against earlier events in later ones, not as matter that has been fully formed and pushed aside, but absolutely present and alive. I understand this. Nevertheless, I sometimes find it hard to bear. Maybe I did write our story to be free of it, even if I never can be."


kfkfffiiiishshshsh

37. Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan.

LOL. Okay, I couldn't resist. I'm not a fan of Harry/Malfoy erotic fan-fiction, but it cracks me the fuck up. I mean, I'm not against it though...

ANYWAYS.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS BOOK. Seriously, it's one of my all time favourites. Maybe my new obsession = books that involve young, troubled gay relationships. Maybe that makes me insane. Maybe I love being insane. But regardless if I'm insane or not, this book kicks ass.

I don't even know why! It's really short but it's just filled with so much awesomeness. It's so heart-felt and funny and heart-clenching and intense. Maybe I'm over-dramatic about it. I don't know. But I KNOW this is going to be one of those books that I read 930853925 times and it will never get old, NEVER.

But yeah, it's about a gay couple. In high school. Paul meets Noah who is a new guy and they fall for each other pretty fast but Noah is super hesitant because he had a super bad relationship in the past and it upset him super amounts. Why did I feel the need to use the the word super so much in that sentence?

Anyways.....DRAMA! Paul's ex (Kyle) all of a sudden starts being super random and wants to all of a sudden be a part of Paul's life again...go figure!

And with all the gossip going around (thanks to Infinite Darlene, the cross-dressing male who is also the QB of the football team) and Paul's best friend (Joni) all of a sudden dating a complete idiot and Ted (Joni's ex) being a broken-hearted annoyance and Tony (Paul's best friend who is also gay) having difficulty with his super christian parents, things obviously are going to get complicated.

And that's what it's about. READ IT. I love it. Read it. Now. It won't take you long. It's so cute, so cute, so cute. I love young gay love. I don't know why! It's just beautiful. Oh, and for those who aren't too happy with books about young gay couples, I'll at least let you know that there's nothing graphic in it really. Just kissing. But why would anyone be against it? It really burns me up, to be honest, and I find it idiotic.

5/5 stars, it DESERVES IT! I love David Levithan, I want to kiss him.

QUOTES!

"The pond's surface is like a wrinkled blue shirt, with small buoy-buttons marking the distance of water. The paddleboat wrangler has named the boats after his seven daughters. From the time I was little, I've always chosen Trixie, because she's orange and has the funniest name. This time the paddleboat wrangler lifts his eyebrow at me because I go along when Noah chooses the light green Adaline. I like the idea of following his whims. I like the idea of going with him into a boat I've never been in before. Trixie has seen me with Joni and Kyle, other friends and other guys; she has also seen me paddle alone for hours, trying to sort out my problems by leaving a wake. Adaline doesn't know any of my secrets."

"Do you know when you cross against traffic? You look down the street and see a car coming, but you know you can get across before it gets to you. So even though there's a DON'T WALK sign, you cross anyway. And there's always a split second when you turn and see that car coming, and you know that if you don't continue moving, it will all be over. That's how I feel a lot of the time. I know I'll make it across. I always make it across. But the car is always there, and I always stop to watch it coming."


<3much love, kristen


PS I'm done adding these for the day. IRL I'm on book #45 or 46, I don't remember, but I've almost reached 50. I'm totally going to own that shit, though. I mean, it's not even August yet! I still have a good five months, LOL.

36. How to Be Bad by Lauren Myracle, E. Lockhart, and Sarah Mlynowski.

I really liked this book! I love when multiple authors come together to create one book.

It's from the perspective of three different girls. Two are best friends and one is new in town. All three work at Waffle House. Jesse is a good ole' country girl, very christian, kinda stubborn, but very genuine and a good friend. Her best friend, Vicks, is more out-there, more punkish, although that's a horrible way to describe her, but I'm assuming you know what I mean. Mel is the new girl and Jesse doesn't like her at first because she doesn't understand her - she noticed her expensive jeans and found out she's from a fairly wealthy family, and she doesn't know why she's working at the Waffle House.

Anyways, Vick's boyfriend of the past year goes away to college at the University of Miami and he doesn't contact her for weeks and she's secretly freaking out about it. Jesse has a fight with her mother so she decides to steal her car and take Vicks with her to Miami to surprise her boyfriend. At first Vicks hesitates because her and Jesse aren't getting along as well as usual. Mel intrudes and says she would like to go and that she would pay for it (the other two don't have any money) so they finally agree.

So it's basically the story of three girls who go on a road trip. I love road trips, therefore I love this book. There was rule-breaking (they break into a closed tourist shop to see a giant stuffed alligator) and drunken mistakes and crushes and pirate hotels and the saving of baby ducks. It was very eventful and just a very cute book about the troubles of teenage girls and their ridiculous lives. But it's very genuine, or at least to me, because we all went through retarded ass shit growing up. All the dumb arguments that seem so stupid now, and all the excellent make-up experiences. We've all been there.

But yeah, I loved this book.

AND I have a quote!

"You guys have to make up. You're lucky to have each other, you should just get over your sex-God fight already."

Ahahaha. I just found the way it was worded super amusing.

4/5 stars, baby!

KFIOSH

35. I Love You, Beth Cooper by Larry Doyle.

I mean, what's there really to say about this book? It was alright, slightly predictable. It wasn't as funny as I thought it was going to be. I want to see the movie, it's really the only reason I read it. It wasn't that I didn't enjoy it, I guess I was just expecting more from it. But it is what it is. Not one of those books that's supposed to be life-changing, just amusing/entertaining, which it is.

3/5 stars.

KFISH >((((^((((;>

34. Bright Shiny Morning by James Frey.

Ahaha, oh boy. James Frey, you crazy man.

I love his other books, especially My Friend Leonard. Seriously, I read that at the beach a few years ago and I had tears streaming down my face and I was gasping for breath because I was crying so hard. It was that powerful, or to me at least. But I won't tell you which part, it's obvious if you read it.

Anyways, Bright Shiny Morning.

I liked it. Not as much as Leonard, but it was..amusing, shall I say? It's basically many different stories all related to Los Angeles. The good, the bad, the ugly, the beautiful, the fake, the false, the true, the rich, the poor, the desire, the facts, everything. Between each story he writes a paragraph of information concerning LA. Some of the stories he continues throughout the book, some don't. Sometimes he goes off and talks about something completely random for a few pages. For examples, roads. Seriously, the roads and highways of LA. He goes on and on about it. It's not BORING, but I didn't enjoy it as much as the stories. And sometimes he'll list things. Like the names of people who arrive in LA with the desire to be made into something..for example..he lists about 50 names and next to them he put the age and what they came to LA to be and what they ended up doing there. Like "Robert - 21 - actor - now a McDonald's cashier" or something along those lines.

There are maybe 5 stories that continue throughout the book. One is about a young couple that move to LA to escape their family. Another is about a rich couple (both actors) that are really friends in a fake relationship just to appear awesome to the outside world - the male is gay and is obsessed with a football player and goes to extremes to manipulate him and get him into bed, etc. Another is about a homeless man and his search for meaning. Another is about a girl whose parents crossed the Mexico/America border and had her in America. She has really big thighs and is very insecure with herself. I think that might be my favourite.

He also does a few pages of "fun LA facts" which are ridiculous things that you can hardly believe are true. And he talks about crime rates and the different groups of people and cultures and different parts of the city. It's kind of like reading Wikipedia, but better, lol.

Anyways, it was a very intriguing book and major props to James Frey.

3 1/2 out of 5 stars.

KDSGJAKDSGJASKGD
KRISTEN

33. The Realm of Possibility by David Levithan.

Okay, it's settled, I LOVE DAVID FUCKING LEVITHAN! He's just so awesome.

I don't know why I took the above picture. I didn't really know how to pair this book up with a picture, so I just opened up my drawer of hats and was like "all the possibilities.." okay, super lame, but it's super me, because I love hats, and I never know which one I should wear. End of story.

This book is written in poetry-block type paragraphs. Honestly, I don't get the point of it, if there is a point. I'm not one for poetry or anything close to poetry, but I just read it as a book and ignored how it was displayed on the page. It doesn't rhyme or anything, it's just typed into blocks. Maybe I just fail at poetry or whatever, but whatever. Haha, wow, that last sentence failed miserably.

Anyways, I loved this book. It's super short and I read it in one tiny sitting, but it's amazing. It's a bunch of different stories that somewhat come together and relate, but they're all from different points of view. It includes homosexuality, eating disorders, teasing, etc, all typical things that teenagers go through. But it's portrayed in a very mature, understanding way. Like it's not a teen novel, just a book involving teens. It was beautiful, very beautiful.

I have no quotes because the whole book is a quote. Seriously, it's just deep, in an easy way. I don't know, but I think that everyone should read it. No, I demand it.

5/5 stars, definitely.

E> kkkkkkriz10

32. Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen.

Okay, I have A LOT of updates, so I'm not going to go into detail for every single book anymore. Only if I feel like it. Which won't be often, most likely.

I love Sarah Dessen. I don't care if that makes me a 13 year old hopeless romantic or whatever. Her books are cute and I think each book can apply to a different teenager with a different situation. The stories aren't all the same. Okay, they are with the whole "girl meets boy something happens and girl ends up with boy anyways" but actually, when I think about it, all of her books aren't even like that.

Anyway, this book takes you back to Colby, a town on the beach. I think my favourite thing about her books is that a previous character/setting from a different book of hers always finds their way into it. It's not big, it's typically very subtle, but you notice it. All of the books are set in the same place (well, except Colby, but it's mentioned in quite a few of them) and it's fun how she'll randomly throw in a previous character. I'm always like "Oooh!" and sometimes she doesn't even mention the characters name, she'll just describe them and you'll be like "I know EXACTLY who she is describing!" It's fucking awesome.

I don't really feel like talking about the actual book. It was a good beach read though.

I didn't put aside any of the quotes from it or anything because I didn't even think about it and I blazed through it like a mofo. That's what happens at the beach house, I go crazy.

That's all I'm going to sayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.
I know, I SUCK.

Time to go add the rest of the entries. Let's see how far I get, ahaha.

!!!!!!!!Kristennnn

25-31. The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling.

(I usually take my own crazy-ass pictures for the books but was too lazy for HP so I stole this from Google)

Okay, I haven't updated in a super long time but that doesn't mean that I haven't been reading! I've read 11 books since my last update but I wasn't planning on doing each HP book individually because I've read them so many times.

I read the series again because, of course, the 6th movie was scheduled to come out on July 15th. I successfully read them all before 12am Wednesday the 15th and set out to watch the movie that I had been anxiously waiting for forever..I AM NOT going to discuss the movie though, lol.

I will discuss the books. Here we go.

THEY'RE FUCKING AMAZING. Seriously, my favourite books, and it's not going to change anytime soon. I am so obsessed with these books and Harry Potter is kinda like my religion. I can't go a day without referencing something to HP it seems. I'm a fucking HP nerd and I wouldn't change it for the world, baby.

I've read them all so many times. Seriously, my friend saw one of my copies and was like "holy shit this thing is worn out" and I was like "yeah :("

I'm not saying I love the books any more than the average HP fan-person. I'm just saying that I'm amongst that category of people, yeehaw! I really want to go to LeakyCon one year but I doubt that I ever will...

J.K. Rowling is a genius though. I love her. I would have her babies.

Everything just fits together so perfectly. Gah, I'm going to stop talking about HP.

ALL BOOKS ARE 10 OUT OF 5 STARS.

There are so many good quotes, SO MANY good quotes. Most of my favourites are from Dumbledore or the Weasley twins. I'll just post a fewwwww.

"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?" (Deathly Hallows)

"You're a prefect? Oh Ronnie! That's everyone in the family!"
"What are Fred and I? Next door neighbours?" (Order of the Phoenix)

"And now, Harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure." (Half-Blood Prince)

"You are the most insensitive wart I have ever had the misfortune to meet." (Order of the Phoenix)

"Get away from me, werewolf!" (Prisoner of Azkaban)

"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." (Chamber of Secrets)

"We could all have been killed — or worse, expelled." (Sorcerer's Stone)

"What's comin' will come, and we'll meet it when it does." (Goblet of Fire)



I'll update when I get home from the beach.
That's right, I'm on damned vacation!
<3Krrrrrrristen.