Hi readers!
I just did a book review of Ms. Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Which is a brilliant book by the way) and I think it would be in your best interests to read it (to clarify I mean read both the book and my review thereof). I am here to let you know that TODAY IS THE FIRST OFFICIAL DAY OF SUMMER!!!!!!!!! This summer, after exams of course, I will be able to do much more reviewing, that is in between writing for Camp NaNoWriMo in July and preparing for my 1st year of university in late August. I'm thinking about reviewing as much as 2 or 3 books a week, maybe even a book a day if I get around to it. So let me know what books you'd like me to review and I'll read them and post a review. If I don't get a suggestion I'll just review from my Shelfari as I read things/look back on what I've read. You can follow me on Shelfari at Eileen WeepingAngel M. and I've added 3 Shelfari widgets, what I'm reading is at the top, what I have read is at the bottom and in the middle is books I'm going to read, to my blog so you can see what I'm reading and have read/will read so you can read along with me, or whatever, feel free to scroll through the widgets, and yes I often read multiple books at once. Keep reading and writing and see you next time (maybe Sunday, I'm busy tomorrow) DFTBA everyone!
Friday, 21 June 2013
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
This book is one of the best that I have ever read. The story is so original and seamlessly meld photography with the story if a little boy trying to find out more about his grandfather. My friend Sara read it and I wanted to as well and it is, at some parts, edge of your seat creepy but it will keep you hooked the whole way through.
This book is about a boy named Jacob. One day his grandfather is killed in a horrific turn of events that will change his life forever. He has grown up hearing his grandfather's stories about the peculiar children at the orphanage in Wales where he used to live and when he was younger he actually believed his grandfather's tales. As he got older he believed them less and less, until his grandfather's murder that is. You see, in the woods behind his grandfather's house he saw something strange and soon he begins to see them everywhere. His dad, believing that he is haunted by his grandfather's death sends him to see a psychiatrist who believes that a trip to Wales to see where his grandfather grew up would help him realize that the peculiar children were stories and nothing more. He and his dad go to Wales and Jacob asks one of the local kids to take him to the abandoned orphanage, they say it's haunted and will only go so far. Jacob's curiosity gets the better of him and he wanders the ground and ends up in a parallel world. He meets each of the peculiar children in turn and they become his friends. When the time loop that the orphanage is in is threatened by monsters will they get away in time? Will anything ever go back to normal again for Jacob? Read the book to find out.
As I mentioned it is truly brilliant and riveting. An edge of your seat ride. Ransom Riggs has a blog in which you can keep track of his projects, if you like his work and he also has a Youtube channel. There is a sequel to Ms. Peregrine coming out soon and there will also be a Miss Peregrine movie.
As a side note I'm REALLY EXCITED because I loved the book, it ends on a cliff hanger so I can't wait for the sequel and the movie is promising to be amazing, it will be directed by Tim Burton which some of you might already know, as per the article that I shared yesterday. In case you didn't see the article here it is http://pagetopremiere.com/2013/06/tim-burtons-adaptation-of-miss-peregrines-home-for-peculiar-children-has-a-release-date/ and I strongly recommend you read this book, here is the book trailer just to give you a little teaser about the book https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWrNyVhSJUU. Also Ransom Riggs is good friends with another one of my favorite authors, John Green, so if you go onto his Youtube channel you will find interviews and the like and John made a VlogBrother's Thoughts from places video with him which you should totally watch, just not in a dark room at midnight, so here's the link and thanks for reading! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecVtw4NbQC8
This book is about a boy named Jacob. One day his grandfather is killed in a horrific turn of events that will change his life forever. He has grown up hearing his grandfather's stories about the peculiar children at the orphanage in Wales where he used to live and when he was younger he actually believed his grandfather's tales. As he got older he believed them less and less, until his grandfather's murder that is. You see, in the woods behind his grandfather's house he saw something strange and soon he begins to see them everywhere. His dad, believing that he is haunted by his grandfather's death sends him to see a psychiatrist who believes that a trip to Wales to see where his grandfather grew up would help him realize that the peculiar children were stories and nothing more. He and his dad go to Wales and Jacob asks one of the local kids to take him to the abandoned orphanage, they say it's haunted and will only go so far. Jacob's curiosity gets the better of him and he wanders the ground and ends up in a parallel world. He meets each of the peculiar children in turn and they become his friends. When the time loop that the orphanage is in is threatened by monsters will they get away in time? Will anything ever go back to normal again for Jacob? Read the book to find out.
As I mentioned it is truly brilliant and riveting. An edge of your seat ride. Ransom Riggs has a blog in which you can keep track of his projects, if you like his work and he also has a Youtube channel. There is a sequel to Ms. Peregrine coming out soon and there will also be a Miss Peregrine movie.
As a side note I'm REALLY EXCITED because I loved the book, it ends on a cliff hanger so I can't wait for the sequel and the movie is promising to be amazing, it will be directed by Tim Burton which some of you might already know, as per the article that I shared yesterday. In case you didn't see the article here it is http://pagetopremiere.com/2013/06/tim-burtons-adaptation-of-miss-peregrines-home-for-peculiar-children-has-a-release-date/ and I strongly recommend you read this book, here is the book trailer just to give you a little teaser about the book https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWrNyVhSJUU. Also Ransom Riggs is good friends with another one of my favorite authors, John Green, so if you go onto his Youtube channel you will find interviews and the like and John made a VlogBrother's Thoughts from places video with him which you should totally watch, just not in a dark room at midnight, so here's the link and thanks for reading! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecVtw4NbQC8
Monday, 10 June 2013
Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James
OK, so I'm not actually finished the book yet so I can't say much, but it's really good so far. It takes place in the world of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" shortly after the end of the novel. In short there is party and a murder and a visit by a surprise guest.
P.D. James is a brilliant writer and very eloquent and a well established crime writer. Also if you like this book I would read some of her other novels. She has an entire series based around her detective main character Adam Dagliesh.
Her writing is brilliant and she melds the worlds of crime and Jane Austin with absolutely no seam. This book is so well written it's almost as if Jane Austin herself wrote "Pride and Prejudice" as a murder mystery.
Also if you like Jane Austin I would read not only this book but also the book by Seth Grahame-Smith "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" in which seamlessly melds Jane Austen and horror and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Ben H. Winters and "Mansfield Park and Mummies" by Vera Nazarian.
P.D. James is a brilliant writer and very eloquent and a well established crime writer. Also if you like this book I would read some of her other novels. She has an entire series based around her detective main character Adam Dagliesh.
Her writing is brilliant and she melds the worlds of crime and Jane Austin with absolutely no seam. This book is so well written it's almost as if Jane Austin herself wrote "Pride and Prejudice" as a murder mystery.
Also if you like Jane Austin I would read not only this book but also the book by Seth Grahame-Smith "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" in which seamlessly melds Jane Austen and horror and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Ben H. Winters and "Mansfield Park and Mummies" by Vera Nazarian.
Friday, 7 June 2013
Camp NaNoWriMo!
OK So, some of you writers probably know about this already but for those who don't or are interested/ have done NaNoWriMo in the past go to http://www.campnanowrimo.org/ and sign up! If you have an existing NaNoWriMo account you can log in using that account. Camp NaNoWriMo starts July 1st so sign up today! OK that was your daily news bulletin. In other news I am 55 000 words into my Murder Mystery, tentatively titled "Murder on the Emerald Isle" Reminder that in and earlier post I did post a snippet and asked for feedback. So, if you've got a Google account follow me! and leave a comment on any of my posts! I welcome your feedback!
DFTBA and keep reading and writing!
DFTBA and keep reading and writing!
Wednesday, 5 June 2013
THE FAULT IN OUR STARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! By John Green
YAYAYAYAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I FINISHED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OK So I finally started reading The Fault in Our Stars (I've only had it for a month or so). It is, so far as I can tell being on Page 19, about a young girl named Hazel, she's got cancer. One day she meets and subsequently falls in love with Augustus Waters and they go on adventures as boyfriend and girlfriend.
IT'S NOT FAIR!!! It is not logical nor is it fair to make a character so lovable that you fall in love with him, erm, them in 4 pages. Nevertheless that is what happened. he has mahogany colored cropped hair and piercing blue eyes and he is lanky and tall and OMG! Well obviously John Green describes it better...Well, that escalated quickly...Suffice it to say, to quote the book, "The beautiful couple is beautiful." and then stuff happens and everything escalates and things go horribly wrong. Needless to say I couldn't bring myself to read the last couple chapters yet. I wouldn't actually recommend reading this book in one sitting, like a fine wine it should be savoured over a period of time. Also if you read it all in one sitting it will reduce you to a crying, sobbing wreck. I started to cry and dissolved in a whirlpool of feels. This book however, no matter how many times I cried while reading it, is a fantastic work by an wonderful author. He is a wonderful author, eloquent, intelligent and just plain awesome.
If you are not really that familiar with John Green I would recommend that you read his books and watch his Youtube videos. He has a couple of channels on Youtube such as: VlogBrothers, which he does with his brother Hank, CrashCourse, in which he teaches you about History and Literature and various other things, MentalFloss, in which he divulges some random and amazing facts and Hank does SciShow, in which he goes over science news and teaches you about science and HankGames in which he plays video games and other random things. Just saying they're all really awesome.
I would recommend that you read this book because John Green is a brilliant author and I would also suggest that you read his other books, his other books being: Will Grayson, Will Grayson (Which he co-wrote with David Levithan, who wrote Every You, Every Me (Also, I haven't read this yet, but I will this summer)), Looking for Alaska (Which I also haven't read yet but SUMMER!), The Fault in Our Stars (obviously), An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns and Let it Snow: A Collection of 3 Holiday Romances (Which he co-wrote with Maureen Johnson, author of The Name of the Star (which I reviewed in an earlier post), and Lauren Myracle (I also haven't read this yet))
I must say that the book is very good and very eloquently written and I can't wait to finish it. I think that once I have read the whole book I'll be able to appreciate it fully and form a more informed review and I CAN'T WAIT! And I'm going to stop the review here because I'm rambling.
Also here is another teaser/quote from the novel/ I felt like quoting the novel here
"I fell in love the way you fall asleep, slowly then all at once." - Hazel Grace Lancaster
DFTBA Nerdfighters and Readers!
OK So I finally started reading The Fault in Our Stars (I've only had it for a month or so). It is, so far as I can tell being on Page 19, about a young girl named Hazel, she's got cancer. One day she meets and subsequently falls in love with Augustus Waters and they go on adventures as boyfriend and girlfriend.
IT'S NOT FAIR!!! It is not logical nor is it fair to make a character so lovable that you fall in love with him, erm, them in 4 pages. Nevertheless that is what happened. he has mahogany colored cropped hair and piercing blue eyes and he is lanky and tall and OMG! Well obviously John Green describes it better...Well, that escalated quickly...Suffice it to say, to quote the book, "The beautiful couple is beautiful." and then stuff happens and everything escalates and things go horribly wrong. Needless to say I couldn't bring myself to read the last couple chapters yet. I wouldn't actually recommend reading this book in one sitting, like a fine wine it should be savoured over a period of time. Also if you read it all in one sitting it will reduce you to a crying, sobbing wreck. I started to cry and dissolved in a whirlpool of feels. This book however, no matter how many times I cried while reading it, is a fantastic work by an wonderful author. He is a wonderful author, eloquent, intelligent and just plain awesome.
If you are not really that familiar with John Green I would recommend that you read his books and watch his Youtube videos. He has a couple of channels on Youtube such as: VlogBrothers, which he does with his brother Hank, CrashCourse, in which he teaches you about History and Literature and various other things, MentalFloss, in which he divulges some random and amazing facts and Hank does SciShow, in which he goes over science news and teaches you about science and HankGames in which he plays video games and other random things. Just saying they're all really awesome.
I would recommend that you read this book because John Green is a brilliant author and I would also suggest that you read his other books, his other books being: Will Grayson, Will Grayson (Which he co-wrote with David Levithan, who wrote Every You, Every Me (Also, I haven't read this yet, but I will this summer)), Looking for Alaska (Which I also haven't read yet but SUMMER!), The Fault in Our Stars (obviously), An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns and Let it Snow: A Collection of 3 Holiday Romances (Which he co-wrote with Maureen Johnson, author of The Name of the Star (which I reviewed in an earlier post), and Lauren Myracle (I also haven't read this yet))
I must say that the book is very good and very eloquently written and I can't wait to finish it. I think that once I have read the whole book I'll be able to appreciate it fully and form a more informed review and I CAN'T WAIT! And I'm going to stop the review here because I'm rambling.
Also here is another teaser/quote from the novel/ I felt like quoting the novel here
"I fell in love the way you fall asleep, slowly then all at once." - Hazel Grace Lancaster
DFTBA Nerdfighters and Readers!
Sunday, 2 June 2013
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
OK so this book is a bit difficult to get through just like a Jane Austen is hard to get through because they are very descriptive. However it is very well written and very good. I would recommend this book if someone was looking for something to read.
It is not about a guy that spends 100 years living in a cave in solitude, which was my initial thought before I read it. It is about a solitary little village which is all but completely isolated and cut off from the world and how their lives change irreparably after a traveling group of gypsy's visit the village. This book chronicles the lives of the people living in the town for a hundred years or so (hence the title). Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a very eloquent writer but, as I mentioned the book is very descriptive at parts, of course I'm not saying that you must read this book it is, as always, up to you. I would tell you more about the book and what it is about but that would be spoiling things.
It is not about a guy that spends 100 years living in a cave in solitude, which was my initial thought before I read it. It is about a solitary little village which is all but completely isolated and cut off from the world and how their lives change irreparably after a traveling group of gypsy's visit the village. This book chronicles the lives of the people living in the town for a hundred years or so (hence the title). Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a very eloquent writer but, as I mentioned the book is very descriptive at parts, of course I'm not saying that you must read this book it is, as always, up to you. I would tell you more about the book and what it is about but that would be spoiling things.
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