Release Date:September 22, 2009
Book: Paper Towns
Author: John Green
Number of Pages: 305

The Basics:Who is the real Margo? Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life—dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge—he follows. After their all-nighter ends, and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues—and they're for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees the girl he thought he knew... 

My Musings:

I love John Green. I love the way he writes, I love the way he creates characters, I love everything about his books. This is the third book by him I've read. The first was TFIOS, and that books was amazing. I even wrote a letters to Augustus and Hazel   and made a playlist for Looking for Alaska. So I was expecting to love this book and be totally in love with every aspect of the novel. Maybe my standards were way too high, maybe it's the fact that I had to read this in tiny increments, but I was a little disappointed. Don't get me wrong the books is AMAZING but I don't feel as strongly about it as I did TFIOS and Looking for Alaska.

The book hooks you in right away. The writing style is amazing. I love how John Green describes things, the thoughts Q has, and how profound he can be as well as funny. There's something nice about reading a book that can make you actually LOL/ I love the sarcasm, the humor, and not surprisingly quotable lines.

The plot was super well developed I think. It starts off pretty fast pace, things happening in every chapter. For the first quarter I guess Margo and Q are pulling pranks and stuff. But then Margo disappears and the whole books slows down. Which I get. I totally get why it slows down. It adds to the fact that Margo was this ball of fire propelling her life and those around her. Similarly her character propelled the book, albeit a lot slower when she disappeared. But I wish it was just a tiny bit faster. There were so many moments when Q was trying to figure out where Margo was, that broke my heart. Like Prom Night. Or when him and his friends go on a car ride near the end of the book. I love how this was both very character driven and very plot driven. We see Q have a new appreciation for people and life, and we see the journey that leads him to his goal: Margo and understanding her. Which he kind of does at the end of the book.  I loved all the intricate little details in the book, like the black Santas and the bloody Ben story. I loved how every little thing in the book, all the hints, and non-hints all tied together at the end.

If there's one thing I think I love most about John Green novels, is that his characters are so heartbreakingly relatable, realistic, and just damn amazing. Q is this nerdy guy who sticks to routine and is pretty much just there in high school. Margo is the beautiful, charismatic, queen bee. Q is also this guy desperately in love with a girl he thinks he doesn't deserve or have a chance with and wants more out of his life. Margo is a broken person, looking for a way to feel happy again. Ben is this sex crazed pretend macho guy that you simultaneously want to laugh with and slap. But then again, most guys are like that. Radar is pretty nerdy and I love him for it. I like Lacy and her girlyness but I will admit she gets a little annoying. All the storylines intertwine really well together and mesh to create a kind of haunting story about a girl wanting to be found when in reality she just needs to find herself. In reality, while I loved all the characters, I only really connected or could relate to, Margo and Q. Which I didn't really mind because it was centered around them, but I was disappointed that I couldn't like the other characters more.

This is the kind of romance that you ship from the get go. Q and Margo. They just work. You desperately hope for Margo to be alive at the end of the book for them to have their moment. This is the romance that makes you giggle with glee as they laugh and do stupid things. I think it's really cute. I love how Q realizes that Margo isn't the girl he pictured but learns to love her anyway. He learns to love her darker gory bits, not just this glorified image that every one seemed to have of her.

Overall it was a great read. I was a little disappointed with how it lost momentum and how I couldn't really relate to the minor characters. But like I said the plot is golden, the character and character development is on point, and the ending was perfect for this book. Not gonna lie I teared up a bit.





Coffee For This Book: A Vienna. It has the perfect amount of espresso to keep you up reading this book, and whip cream on top to help you eat you feeling when this book gets emotionally hard to read. Which it does. 

My Rating

Waiting on Wednesday #5

Release Date: August 25, 2015
Book: Reawakened
Author: Colleen Houck
Number of Pages: 400

The Basics:When seventeen-year-old Lilliana Young enters the Metropolitan Museum of Art one morning during spring break, the last thing she expects to find is a live Egyptian prince with godlike powers, who has been reawakened after a thousand years of mummification. And she really can't imagine being chosen to aid him in an epic quest that will lead them across the globe to find his brothers and complete a grand ceremony that will save mankind. But fate has taken hold of Lily, and she, along with her sun prince, Amon, must travel to the Valley of the Kings, raise his brothers, and stop an evil, shape-shifting god named Seth from taking over the world. From New York Times bestselling author Colleen Houck comes an epic adventure about two star-crossed teens who must battle mythical forces and ancient curses on a journey with more twists and turns than the Nile itself.

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Why do I want to read it?

Wow. To think that by the time this comes out i'm going to be in my senior year of high school, is really crazy. Anyway, I've been reading a lot of contemporary and I miss fantasy YA. I miss reading about fantastical crazy things that con't happen in this world. Plus I love this author, I love the Tiger's Curse series, it's amazing. This sounds vaguely like a remake of the Tiger's curse because of the whole finding someone who needs help and going across the globe on a mission. But I hope Houck can pull it off and make this book stand out from her other books.

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What Are You Waiting On?

Waiting on Wednesday #5

Release Date: June 16, 2015
Book: Every Last Word
Author: Tamara Ireland Stone
Number of pages: 368

The Basics: If you could read my mind, you wouldn't be smiling. Samantha McAllister looks just like the rest of the popular girls in her junior class. But hidden beneath the straightened hair and expertly applied makeup is a secret that her friends would never understand: Sam has Purely-Obsessional OCD and is consumed by a stream of dark thoughts and worries that she can't turn off. Second-guessing every move, thought, and word makes daily life a struggle, and it doesn't help that her lifelong friends will turn toxic at the first sign of a wrong outfit, wrong lunch, or wrong crush. Yet Sam knows she'd be truly crazy to leave the protection of the most popular girls in school. So when Sam meets Caroline, she has to keep her new friend with a refreshing sense of humor and no style a secret, right up there with Sam's weekly visits to her psychiatrist. Caroline introduces Sam to Poet's Corner, a hidden room and a tight-knit group of misfits who have been ignored by the school at large. Sam is drawn to them immediately, especially a guitar-playing guy with a talent for verse, and starts to discover a whole new side of herself. Slowly, she begins to feel more "normal" than she ever has as part of the popular crowd . . . until she finds a new reason to question her sanity and all she holds dear.

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Why do I want to read it?

First of all the cover is beautiful and understated, but what got me to look at the summary was the title. It's short and sweet. The story seems so dark, yet cute. The summary is so good, i'm sure the book will live up to it. I'm a suker for cute love stories but I have a feeling this is going to be more than that. It's going to deal with real issues in life, the type of issues no one ever really wants to talk about. 

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What Are You Waiting On?

Blogtober: Waiting on All the Bright Places

Release Date: January 6, 2015
Book: All the Bright Places
Author: Jennifer Niven

The Basics:The Fault in Our Stars meets Eleanor and Park in this compelling, exhilarating, and beautiful story about a girl who learns to live from a boy who intends to die.
Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him.
Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister's recent death.
When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, it’s unclear who saves whom. And when they pair up on a project to discover the “natural wonders” of their state, both Finch and Violet make more important discoveries: It’s only with Violet that Finch can be himself—a weird, funny, live-out-loud guy who’s not such a freak after all. And it’s only with Finch that Violet can forget to count away the days and start living them. But as Violet’s world grows, Finch’s begins to shrink.
This is an intense, gripping novel perfect for fans of Jay Asher, Rainbow Rowell, John Green, Gayle Forman, and Jenny Downham from a talented new voice in YA, Jennifer Niven

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Why do I want to read it?

I love everything about it. I love the message of hope. I love how profound it seems. I'm such of fan of all of the authors mention and i'll be happy if I can add this author to the mix as well. I mean the summary in of itself just blew my mind and I can't wait to read it!

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Blogtober: Teaser Tuesday

"The tears finally slow and I feel really good for someone who just got my faced smashed in" (pg. 100)

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Blogtober: Best Blog Award

Hey guys! It's Saturday!! The best day of the week. I had a pretty good Friday. I spent it drinking butterbeer and catching up on shows. Pretty much the Friday night dream, I know.

Anyways I just want to thank Once Upon a Book for nominating me for Best Blog Award. It honestly made my day :) She's got a great book blog! Definitely check her blog out!!


Here are the rules:

1. Thank and Follow the blog that has nominated you. 
2. Tell us 11 things about you. 
3. Answer the questions that were set up for you. 
4. Nominate some blogs and make your questions for them. 

Facts:

1. I really like British T.V Shows. I love Skins and My Mad Fat Diary
2. I love chai lattes
3. I procrastinate a lot. I'm known for staying up late finally starting that essay that was assigned two weeks ago. I somehow still do well.
4. I'm vegetarian. Have been fro over three years. 
5. I play What Sarah Said on the Piano when I'm sad.
6. My favorite animal used to be a cheetah, but then people made fun of me by calling me gazelle which is what cheetahs eat. So I had to change my favorite animal
7. I love the twilight movies, even though I deny it half the time
8. I feel like my handwriting is messier when I right in pen.
9. I have shoulder length hair. I used to have long hair. Almost down to my waist. Everyone didn't want me to cut it. No one could picture me with short hair. But then I did it, I loved it, and now no one can picture me with short hair. 
10. The oldest friend I have is Marianne from Marianne Says... we meet in kindergarten and got close in middle school.
11. I cry a lot. Books make me cry, Movies make me cry, Seeing other people cry makes me cry. I can't help it. My friends like to make fun of me for, but I can't help it. 

Questions:

1. Which is/was your favorite subject

Like book genre? Or like school subject? My favorite book genre right now is contemporary. I love reading contemporary because it deals with more real life problems and how to overcome them. I don't know I've just been finding myself being able to relate to these books the most. 

As for school, I don't really have a favorite subject. I do love english, but I hate doing essay's. I like History but some parts can be boring. I guess I'd have to say english minus the essays.

2. Be brave: What is your most shameful characteristic?

Okay. I tend to push people away. Keep them arms length. I can't help it. I love my friends I do, and I trust them and all that, I just have issues with getting super close to people. I feel bad about it sometimes but I can't help it. 

3. Which book is your guilty pleasure? 

Hmm It'll probably have to be Dark Visions by L.J Smith. I love the trilogy and I love how now you can buy all three in one book, or volume I guess. I love it, it's kinda corny but in the best way possible! 

4. What social media you use the most?

To be honest I'm not really a social media person, but being a blogger kind of makes me a social media person. But the one social media networks that has always been my favorite is tumblr. It's Fangirl paradise. I'm on it every day, posting things, reblogging things, putting links up etc.

5. Which book you have in your TBR and you have been procrastinating too much into reading it?

Okay, don't kill me, but The Hunger Games. I read the first one and I never picked up the rest. I know I know I'm terrible! It's just other books kept getting in the way. Like Divergent. And The Darkest Minds, and others.

6. Choose a recent movie toon. Why did you picked him/her? 

I don't think I'm answering this correctly but I've been obsessed with Willamette Stone. They're not a real band, but the do have real songs. For those of you who don't know, Willamette Stone is the fictional band from If I Stay. I love Heart Like Yours. 

7. Which book are you reading right now? 

I'm reading Melt by Selene Castrovilla. I don't want to talk to much about it cuz I'm going to be doing a review on it, but I'm not to happy with it at the moment.

8. Name a Disney Princess for rating the last book you read and explain why. 

Jasmine. Because Queen of Someday is about a princess and her quest to fall in love. Unfortunately for her, she does, but not with the guy she's supposed to marry. Like Jasmine Sophie struggles to be powerful in a time when men and politics rule. 

9. How did you decided to start reading that book?

I decided to read Queen of Someday because I like historical fiction but I don't read enough of it. So I thought I'd give it a try

10. Name a Blogger and a BookTuber worth the time... 

Booktuber everyone should check out is probably PolandandBanannaBooks. She just says what everyone is thinking, and can fangirl with the rest of us. 

As far as Book Blogs go, I love Oh The Books. 

My Nominations

1. Marianne
2. Noelia
3. Cecil

My Questions:

1. Which fictional world would you live in?
2. Which song describes you favorite book?
3. Favorite Kids show?
4. One thing you can't live without?
5. How has blogging impacted you life?
6. Favorite Book to movie adaptation?
7. Fictional Boyfriend? (feel free to pick more than one option)
8. Favorite Halloween Memory?
9. Describe you style.
10. Picture perfect friday night?
11. Go to fall outfit?

Blogtober: Teaser Tuesday

"His eyes fill with light, so beautiful. I watch the pain melt from them. Drip, drip, drip it shrinks down, it just shrivels away till it's gone. They're happy now. He's happy." (pg. 57)

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Blogtober14: 7 Deadly Sins of Reading

So it's been awhile but i'm finally doing this tag thanks to the lovely and talented Noelia. So for the fourth day in #Blogtober14 I'm going to do the 7 deadly Sins of reading. 

Greed – What is your most inexpensive book? What is your most expensive?

 I spent over $20 on Clockwork Princess, i'm not exactly sure how much it was but I remember thinking that it was expensive. I bought it as soon as it came out. I love this series so much. Everything about it is just brilliant! Turned I bought as an e-book, it cost me 99 cents. This was when I really into fantasy and more specifically the supernatural aspect of fantasy. I don't think I ever finished it.

Wrath – What author do you have a love/hate relationship with?

Ahh, P.C Cast and Kristin Cast. When I first discovered the House of Night books, I thought they were amazing! They had humor, romance, and suspense. I loved them so much and I still do. As much as I love these authors I hate the decisions they make in books. I even gave up on the series. I don't even know what number we're on anymore. But honestly I feel like half the time the decide something, they change their mind halfway through the book. So we're stuck with this random twist that actually didn't even need to happen.

Gluttony – What book have you devoured over and over with no shame?

If you know me at all, you know i'm in LOVE with this book. I practically fangirled over it in one of my Top Ten Tuesday posts! I've read it 6 times and I'm going for 7 this year. I honestly don't care how many times I've read and will read this book, it will and never has failed me. It's just impeccable. Like I can't even with my feels!

 Sloth – What book have you neglected reading due to laziness?

You ever have a series that you LOVE? Then after you've read it, you think about how not so good it was? Well this happened to me with the Immortals series. I still love it a lot! Don't get me wrong i'm a fan. But even I can't admit there are a lot of flaws and stuff going on that are a) really? b) Really, still? But I don't care, I love it! Anyways, back before I saw the problems with this series, this book came out. It's the last book in The Immortals. I bought it and I was so excited, but I got busy and lazy and I've abandoned it. And now that I see all the problems, I'm even less likely to finish it.

Pride – What book do you talk about most in order to sound like an intellectual reader?

Personally, I don't read anything to impress other people. I read for me, as I'm sure many of you guys do. And for some reason classics seem to be what people use to sound/seem smarter. I haven't read many classics sooo I guess to some people the books I read aren't "intellectual" when in reality they really are. I really hate some of the stereotypes about YA Lit. It's so frustrating

Lust – What attributes do you find attractive in male or female characters?

Will Herondale. Jace Herondale, Jem Carstairs. Enough Said. 

Envy – What book(s) would you most like to receive as a gift

Isn't it just beautiful?

Alright so thats it! I guess this is the part where I tag people. I tag anyone who reads this post and want to do it!. If you already have this post up feel free to link it in the comments cuz i'd love to check it out! 

Blogtober: Waiting on Love and Other Variables

Release Date: October 7, 2017
Charlie Hanson has a clear vision of his future. A senior at Brighton School of Mathematics and Science, he knows he’ll graduate, go to MIT, and inevitably discover solutions to the universe’s greatest unanswered questions. He’s that smart. But Charlie’s future blurs the moment he reaches out to touch the tattoo on a beautiful girl’s neck. 
The future has never seemed very kind to Charlotte Finch, so she’s counting on the present. She’s not impressed by the strange boy at the donut shop—until she learns he’s a student at Brighton where her sister has just taken a job as the English teacher. With her encouragement, Charlie orchestrates the most effective prank campaign in Brighton history. But, in doing so, he puts his own future in jeopardy. 
By the time he learns she's ill—and that the pranks were a way to distract Ms. Finch from Charlotte’s illness—Charlotte’s gravitational pull is too great to overcome. Soon he must choose between the familiar formulas he’s always relied on or the girl he’s falling for (at far more than 32 feet per second squared)

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Why do I want to read it?

I'm such a sucker for a good love story! I already love the tittle and the cover and the summary sold me! This book seems cute and the plot seems to have depth. 

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Waiting on Wednesday: Save Me

Release Date: January 6, 2015
Debut-novelist Jenny Elliott’s thrilling romance, chosen by readers, writers, and publishers for the first list in the new Swoon Reads imprint, pours on the tension and danger in an addictive combination that will keep you turning pages!
Something strange is going on in the tiny coastal town of Liberty, Oregon. Cara has never seen a whale swim close enough for her to touch it—let alone knock her into the freezing water. Fortunately, cute newcomer David is there to save her, and the rescue leads to a bond deeper than Cara ever imagined.
But then she learns something about David that changes everything, and Cara is devastated. She turns to her best friend for support, but Rachel has changed. She’s suddenly into witchcraft, and is becoming dangerously obsessed with her new boyfriend….
Cara has lost her best friend, discovered that her soul mate is off limits, and has attracted the attention of a stalker. But she’s not completely alone. Her mysterious, gorgeous new friend Garren is there to support her. But is Garren possibly too perfect?

Book Talk: The Isobel Journal

Release Date: August 13, 2014
Book: The Isobel Journal
Author: Isobel Harrop
Number of Pages:210
Source: Netgalley (Note: I got this in exchange for an honest review)

The Basics:THE ISOBEL JOURNAL is no ordinary snapshot of a contemporary teenage life. A charming and vivid narrative scrapbook of the eighteen-year-old author's sketches, mini-graphic novels, photographs and captions, it captures her wit, her observations and her creative talent as she takes us through the three central themes in her life: 'Love', 'Friends, Art and Otters' and 'Me'.