Arts, Crafts, Words Oh My!
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline is about a contest within a virtual world called the OASIS, the prize being the multibillion dollar fortune left by the game's creator, James Halliday. The challenge is a search for his hidden egg in OASIS. Avatars searching for the egg (aka gunters) have to find three keys and… Continue reading Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Stolen is about a girl named, Gemma, who gets kidnapped from the airport by Ty. He takes her away from everything and everyone she knows to a make shift house, surrounded by sand, middle of nowhere. Throughout the book, Gemma's emotion shift, as she begins to show signs of Stockholm syndrome towards the end of the… Continue reading Stolen by Lucy Christopher Review
Anna and the French Kiss was one of those books that I never wanted to put down. I only left it when I had to go to school or it was too late that my eyes could no longer focus. It's a light, feel-good romance book. It takes place in Paris at an American boarding school,… Continue reading Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
About a week ago, I finished The DUFF by Kody Keplinger. WOW! It was such an amazing, captivating book. I couldn't put it down. As it is in most books, the first fifty pages are a little slow, but that's because the author has to introduce the reader to a whole new world. After the first fifty… Continue reading The DUFF by Kody Keplinger
This month for school I was required to read a poetry book. So, my grandma lent me a small book by an author that she had told me about several time. The author was Pablo Neruda. The book was only 89 pages (half of which are in Spanish) so I thought, "Why not?" I finished… Continue reading Twenty Love Poems And a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
I absolutely LOVED this book! It kept me interested through the whole novel and continued a well-thought story line consistently. It was amazing to see two opposite characters become attracted to each other. I guess it's true: opposites attract. I loved seeing the character development of Aelyx; he developed emotions and a true heart throughout… Continue reading Alienated by Melissa Landers
Thank god for Rainbow Rowell! This book is too brilliant for words! I loved how she wrote the characters as misfits. This story is definitely not your typical 'skinny girl falls in love with blue-eyed, buff guy'. The characters are true to real life, and even though they are so different, they fit together like… Continue reading Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
