Monthly Archives: September 2012

Rant, rant, rant.

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You know. I really wanted to do a blog post about what happened to me this week but I don’t really feel like it.

Basically, someone did something to me that hurt me deeply. Something that left me questioning every detail that transpired.

Lesson learned this week is that I apparently cannot trust anyone. In order to protect myself, I have to remember that I cannot depend on anyone but myself.

Oh well. I don’t need anyone and certainly not somebody who would treat me like I’m lower than the dirt on their shoe.

It’s times like these that you find out who your real friends are.

 

No. 49 for 2012

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Title: Where We Belong
Author: Emily Giffin
Rating: 4/5
Book: 47/50 (98% completed)
Pages: 372 pgs
Total Pages: 18,361 pages
Version: Book
Next up: The Last Victim by Karen Robards

I enjoyed this book. I definitely enjoyed it more than I did her last couple of books. I just wished we say a little more Marian/Kirby/Conrad bonding. Also, the ending to this book kind of sucked. To me, Giffin just decided one morning that she was through with the story and just ended the book. It didn’t feel complete or resolved to me.

About The Book:

Marian Caldwell is a thirty-six year old television producer, living her dream in New York City. With a fulfilling career and satisfying relationship, she has convinced everyone, including herself, that her life is just as she wants it to be. But one night, Marian answers a knock on the door . . . only to find Kirby Rose, an eighteen-year-old girl with a key to a past that Marian thought she had sealed off forever. From the moment Kirby appears on her doorstep, Marian’s perfectly constructed world—and her very identity—will be shaken to its core, resurrecting ghosts and memories of a passionate young love affair that threaten everything that has come to define her.
For the precocious and determined Kirby, the encounter will spur a process of discovery that ushers her across the threshold of adulthood, forcing her to re-evaluate her family and future in a wise and bittersweet light. As the two women embark on a journey to find the one thing missing in their lives, each will come to recognize that where we belong is often where we least expect to find ourselves—a place that we may have willed ourselves to forget, but that the heart remembers forever.

No. 48 for 2012

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Title: Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Last Olympian
Author: Rick Riordan
Rating: 5/5
Book: 48/50 (96% completed)
Pages: 381 pgs
Total Pages: 17,989 pages
Version:  Book
Next up: Where We Belong by Emily Giffin

This was a great ending to a great series! I think of all of the books, this one is my favourite book of the series! I can’t wait to start the new Percy Jackson books. I hope that they are just as good as this series was!

About The Book

All year the half-bloods have been preparing for battle against the Titans, knowing the odds of victory are grim. Kronos’s army is stronger than ever, and with every god and half-blood he recruits, the evil Titan’s power only grows. While the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster Typhon, Kronos begins his advance on New York City, where Mount Olympus stands virtually unguarded. Now it’s up to Percy Jackson and an army of young demigods to stop the Lord of Time.

In this momentous final book in the “New York Times” best-selling Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, the long-awaited prophecy surrounding Percy’s sixteenth birthday unfolds. And as the battle for Western civilization rages on the streets of Manhattan, Percy faces a terrifying suspicion that he may be fighting against his own fate.

No. 47 for 2012

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Title: Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Battle of the Labyrinth
Author: Rick Riordan
Rating: 4/5
Book: 47/50 (94% completed)
Pages: 361 pgs
Total Pages: 17,608 pages
Version: Book
Next up: Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan

I think this book, along with book 2 are my favourites of the series so far. I’m finding it hard to put these books down. I can’t wait to read more!

About the Book

Percy Jackson isn’t expecting freshman orientation to be any fun. but when a mysterious mortal acquaintance appears on campus, followed by demon cheerleaders, things quickly move from bad to worse.

In this forth installment of the blockbuster series, time is running out as war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near. Even the safe haven of Camp Half-Blood grows more vulnerable by the minute as Krono’s army prepares to invade its once impenetrable borders. To stop the invasion, Percy and his demigod friends must set out on a quest through the Labyrinth-a sprawling underground world with stunning surprises at every turn.

No. 46 for 2012

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Title: Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Titan’s Curse
Author: Rick Riordan
Rating: 4/5
Book: 46/50 (92% completed)
Pages: 312 pgs
Total Pages: 17,247 pages
Version: Book
Next up: Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan

I really enjoyed this one. I’m really enjoying Percy’s point of view and all of the half-bloods and characters that we meet in this series. Definitely can’t wait to read more!

About the Book

When the goddess Artemis goes missing, she is believed to have been kidnapped. And now it’s up to Percy and his friends to find out what happened. Who is powerful enough to kidnap a goddess? They must find Artemis before the winter solstice, when her influence on the Olympian Council could swing an important vote on the war with the titans. Not only that, but first Percy will have to solve the mystery of a rare monster that Artemis was hunting when she disappeared—a monster rumored to be so powerful it could destroy Olympus forever.

No. 45 for 2012

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Title: 11/22/63: A Novel
Author: Stephen King
Rating: 4/5
Book: 45/50 (90% completed)
Pages: 849 pgs
Total Pages: 16,935 pages
Version: Book
Next up: Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan

This was an awesome book! I loved the majority of the book. There were parts that I thought were just filler and had nothing really relevant to add to the story. I also think that the execution of JFK was a little rushed. There was 750(ish)pages of build up and 100 pages on the actual execution. I would have liked to have seen more of that. Anyways, that being said, this book was awesome and should be read by all!

About the Book:

On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed forever.

If you had the chance to change the course of history, would you?
Would the consequences be worth it?

Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students—a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night 50 years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk.

Not much later, Jake’s friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane—and insanely possible—mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake’s life—a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.

Explore the Possibilities…

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry that I could not travel both.

And be one traveller, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had todden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence!

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-

And that has made all the difference.

No. 44 for 2012

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Title: Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Sea of Monsters
Author: Rick Riordan
Rating: 5/5
Book: 44/50 (88% completed)
Pages: 279 pgs
Total Pages: 16,086 pages
Version: Book
Next up: Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan
Still reading: 11/22/63 by Stephen King

Awesome book! I don’t know why I didn’t finish reading the series after I had read the first book two years ago! I’m really enjoying the fast-paced plot of these books and all of the mythology involved. Can’t wait to devour the next one!

About The Book

Percy Jackson’s seventh-grade year has been surprisingly quiet. Not a single monster has set foot on his New York prep-school campus. But when an innocent game of dodgeball among Percy and his classmates turns into a death match against an ugly gang of cannibal giants, things get…well, ugly. And the unexpected arrival of his friend Annabeth brings more bad news: the magical borders that protect Camp Half-Blood have been poisoned by a mysterious enemy, and unless a cure is found, the only safe haven for demigods will be destroyed.

In this fresh, funny, and wildly popular follow-up to <i>The Lightning Thief</i>, Percy and his friends must journey into the Sea of Monsters to save their camp. But first, Percy will discover a stunning new secret about his family-one that makes him question whether being claimed as Poseidon’s son is an honour or simply a cruel joke.