tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33586785836294841752024-02-21T02:04:24.257-08:00Prescription FictionMajestical_Eviehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05701391827723831681noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3358678583629484175.post-73274739850659152602015-03-19T12:49:00.002-07:002015-03-19T12:50:30.421-07:00Just a Note to Say...<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That school is hard. Really hard. But I'll be back soon. 6 weeks. Tops. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'll see you soon okay? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sorry.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Evie x </span>Majestical_Eviehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05701391827723831681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3358678583629484175.post-91666269018656296582015-03-08T09:55:00.000-07:002015-03-08T09:58:21.955-07:00British Book Boy Stereotypes<div class="MsoNormal">
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there, right? I mean this is after all a book blog. But it’s true, I do. I eat
up books at an alarming speed, barely pausing for breath between each paperback
and fiction. Well, apart from to shove my nose in the pages and inhale that
rich scent of a good story (Seriously, I would wear that smell as perfume).
Recently though, I have had no new books to read. I was scanning my bookshelf
looking for an old favourite instead, when I realised something. Hardly any of
my books were British? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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stories? Where was London and Cardiff? Glasgow and Belfast? Where was my home
country? How as a 16 year old British girl, who bought her books from almost
solely British sources (Does Amazon have a nationality?) could I have so few
books actually set in Britain? And if Britain wasn’t here, what was?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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my bookshelf was jam packed with places like Chicago, New York, Detroit and
Walmart. I’ve never been to America but somehow I have managed to accumulate
rather a large amount of American fiction! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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warmer and sunnier than the UK with all of its cloud (In January I forget what
the sky even looks like) and by now I’m used to the American terminology and
school system, so the plotlines are just as good to me as any other country’s. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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American fiction that maybe my country wasn’t entirely misrepresented in my
bookshelf. There <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">were </i>Brits living in
these American worlds, whether they were exchange students or recently moved
families. The problem was, they were horribly inaccurate. For starters, all
these Brits were boys, where were all the British girls? And of course, they
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Fiction tends to feature two kinds of British males. </span><b><span style="font-size: large;">The Rich Brit </span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">and</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><b><span style="font-size: large;">The Poor
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on a diet of caviar and liquid gold, which of course he was. He walks with his
nose in the air and treats you like one of the many maids that doted on him as
a child. He is from London, and before he was unfairly removed from his
extravagant home in Kensington Gardens and shoved into your American high
school (which he openly despises) he went to the biggest and best British
boarding school ever built, where they rode ponies in the yard and played
quidditch and had secret midnight feasts in their dorm rooms with lashings and
lashings of ginger beer. The Rich Brit craves scones like no one’s business<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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ways than one. Though he may not necessarily be poor he still has an air of it
about him like Bert from Mary Poppins. He does not eat scones but instead will
talk about Earl Gray and big English fry-ups that he once consumed every
morning. He talks fairly posh as well (we all do in Britain, don’t we?) but his
language is littered with phrases such as ‘Cor blimey’ and ‘bloody ‘ell’. The
American girls all laugh at the way he says ‘ass’ but cannot resist his crooked
smile and British charm. He does not know what a T-Shirt is dressing instead
like some kind of time lord. The poor Brit is also from London (because that is
the only British place American fiction seems to be aware of) and likes to
reminisce on the cobbled roads, and double decker buses and his old job as a
chimney sweep. Those were the days. The Poor Brit is </span><i style="font-size: 16pt;">always </i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">the love interest. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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posh, even if he is from London. If he has an accent it’s Yorkshire, or Glaswegian
or Geordie. He goes to a normal school, just like everyone else, and may never
have played hockey in his life. The thought of buying a tea and scone for lunch
is absolutely alien and he sticks instead to a cheese sandwich and an apple.
His diet would not be affected if he moved to America, nor would his clothes
seem out of place. In fact, most of the brands he wears are straight out of
America anyway. He likes Harry Potter but the closest he has ever gotten to
Hogwarts is the Warner Brothers Studios. He was probably raised in your average
suburban house on a very ordinary street. He is barely distinguishable from an
American boy… although he probably does say ‘arse’ instead of ‘ass’ <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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American Brit a little bit (or an awful lot), but my point still stands. I
don’t expect American fiction to be absolutely chock-a-block with British kids,
but a little less of a stereotype would be nice. The thing about London, in my
readings anyway, is generally true. It would be nice to have the British kid be
Northern Irish or Scottish just once. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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American fiction anyway) and maybe Britain does it to American kids too but
that issue doesn’t seem so apparent. But maybe before an American writer makes
the British kid a crucial part of their plotline, instead of marathoning every
BBC series ever made and using J.K. Rowling as your guide they should visit
Britain, or even just talk to an actual Brit. I love America, but us Brits
don’t like it when you see us as all the same, especially when that all the
same is so far from the truth. So, America, don’t be an arse, let’s stop the
stereotypes! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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issue, especially all you Americans and Brits? Have you noticed this? Do you
mind? If your view is completely different to mine, then say so! I love
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Majestical_Eviehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05701391827723831681noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3358678583629484175.post-51842573095875985982015-03-01T09:22:00.000-08:002015-03-01T09:25:12.220-08:00Wreck This Journal Art Update!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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reading… Shocking, I know! As a book blogger should I not spend every waking
hour spaced out and high on literature? You would think so, but this is not the
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">One of the things I love to do in my spare
time is actually art. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Art?</i> I hear you
say. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Art is not a book! Picasso is not
Rowling! This is a book blog - I came here for books! </i>Well, art may not be
a book, but <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Wreck This Journal </i>by
Kerri Smith is and a damn good book too! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I have always loved <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Wreck This Journal</i>, giving them away left right and centre for
various birthdays and celebrations… But sadly I’ve never owned one – <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">until
now!<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Recently my craving for Wreck This Journal
got so strong that I just had to bite the bullet and go out there and grab one
for myself! I started filling it up straight away and let me tell you – it has
been <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">fun!</i> I’ve worked quite slowly,
because I wanted to really take my time making it lovely, but I thought I’d
show you some of my work today… Because even though I’m not an artist and I
don’t take art at school, I’m still quite chuffed with myself! Let’s get
wreckin’! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">They may not have been the first
pages I did but it makes sense to start at the beginning, yes? The page on the
left is my copyrights page and I went through all the magazines I own so I
could cover it in clippings! The next page I decided not to plan so much,
because I tend to over-plan my art, so I just kind of went for it and it turns
out I quite like swirls… Who knew?!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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originally going to do just a regular old protest over something I really cared
about, but I kind of realized that sometimes people get so caught up over
really pointless stuff. SO - the obvious solution? A happy protest! I used
newspaper in the background to be ironic ‘cause I’m artsy like that… </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I got a new set of watercolour
paints for Christmas, and I’ve been practicing like mad with them through my
wreck this journal. A word of warning, they do buckle the paper, and colours
like black or navy tend to bleed through to the next page, but you are supposed
to wreck the journal so I suppose that doesn’t really matter! This was another
fun one – I never draw anything but people so it was cool to give myself new
subject matter! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><o:p><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;"><b>Fill This Page With Circles</b></span></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">This guy right here is
unfinished. He is supposed to be a soldier and I am going to rub the dirt on
his cheeks. I decided to break out my old water-colour pencils and I find
them just so frustrating as a medium… I have the basic outline of a little boy
on the other page out of shot and I’ll put dirt on his cheeks too… They soldier
and the boy were meant to be each other but art is hard so maybe not…</span></div>
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all from me for now folks! I hope you had fun reading this blog because I
definitely had fun making all the art for it! Let me know if this is the kind
of thing you might be interested in seeing again or on the other hand if you
rather my art just got lost off my blog! Communication is key my little
addicts…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Majestical_Eviehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05701391827723831681noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3358678583629484175.post-48640125748655111932015-02-17T10:02:00.003-08:002015-02-17T11:10:36.162-08:00The Blog Revamp <div class="MsoNormal">
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while now I kind of have to stop trying to excuse the overall
humbly-jumbly-rambliness of my blog by telling people that ‘I’m new!’ and that
‘I’ll get the hand of it’! The fact of the matter is, I’m lazy. I’m rubbish at
properly proof reading my blogs and editing them into a more readable state,
I’m a terrible rambler and if I don’t get my act together quick then I’ll never
be a blogging superstar! Okay, I don’t actually care about fame, I just want my
blog to be a bit prettier. So here it comes, my Chinese New Year Blogging
Resolutions! (That’s a thing right?)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Short and Sweet</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Every
Tuesday I essentially post a 1000 word unstoppable rant onto my blog and it has
come to my attention that that might be a little hard to swallow. I barely have
the attention span to sit down and read 1000 words on some book I’ve never
heard of, so why should I expect you guys to as well? I want to make my blog
more accessible and this I think is the first step. That’s not to say I’m
banning the epic Lord-Of-The-Rings-length post, I’m just going to try and trim!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Structure</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">As
I said, I’m not good at editing my blogs and it’s time for that to change.
Perhaps not with discussion posts but I realize I don’t actually write many reviews
because it’s so hard to write an 1000 word review <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and </i>keep it somewhat interesting. Most bloggers have an
easily-readable structure to their posts and those are the blogs I usually like
best, so I plan on making my thoughts and opinions a little more structured
too!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></b><!--[endif]--></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Routine</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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you haven’t worked it out, I post a new blog every Tuesday at about 5pm and
that is just impossible! So far I have kept very strictly to my schedule
however what with Tuesday being a school day <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and </i>an after-school rehearsal day for me. So I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">might</i> (I haven’t quite decided) move my post day to a Sunday, just
to make things a little stress for myself! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> 4.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></b><b style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Makeover Time</span></b></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxrfIzKqUTu051CXD4Sv9f-kl3Gym96TEGPxyWKvzJyceQE5Vys3gKUeSYPDfQZF5Mu3BKZ7BaxlRXhbHfCPvAExJHgwH_elgJFEn3YaDPv96SXkHNfaWBqFbfYlatA1oKC7EqLE84SSSu/s1600/10403411_775776169163249_7435351553288733728_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxrfIzKqUTu051CXD4Sv9f-kl3Gym96TEGPxyWKvzJyceQE5Vys3gKUeSYPDfQZF5Mu3BKZ7BaxlRXhbHfCPvAExJHgwH_elgJFEn3YaDPv96SXkHNfaWBqFbfYlatA1oKC7EqLE84SSSu/s1600/10403411_775776169163249_7435351553288733728_n.jpg" height="200" width="111" /></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt;"> I'm not even gonna pretend to know anything about web design. I want my blog to look prettier - I'm not talking Vogue style perfection. I mean, I want my blog to undergo that process in the teen movie where the cool kids take of the dorky girl's glasses, give her some lip gloss and teach her to smile and </span><i style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt;">oh look she was pretty all along! </i><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt;">So if any of you know how to work that kind of movie magic... let me know</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> 5. Connect more</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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but not least, I want to put myself out there! I don’t speak to you guys nearly
enough! I’ve never done events or buddy-reads (yet!) and I think that should
change. I vow to at least<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> try<u> </u></i>and
remember to answer my comments, update my goodreads and make myself known in
the community. Soon enough, I promise, I’ll be tweetin’ like a little bird!</span></div>
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there we have it, a makeover-to-be! But I’d like to know whether these things
were ever issues for you guys or was it just me? Let me know if there’s
anything I can do to make this blog a better place that I haven’t already mentioned.
Let’s get started guys- <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Majestical_Eviehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05701391827723831681noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3358678583629484175.post-23073518412026532692015-02-10T09:59:00.001-08:002015-02-10T10:00:35.255-08:00A Bad Review - Soulmates by Holly Bourne <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><i>‘Soulmates do exist. But not as you think.
Every so often to people are born who are the perfect match for one another.
Soulmates. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><i>But what if meeting your soulmate is
earth-shattering – literally? <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><i>An epic electrifying and extraordinary debut
about falling in love’</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">My Thoughts:</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></div>
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</i>I hate to say it, but this book, in my opinion, was really not very good at
all. I expected so much. I think that might be the biggest issue I had with
this book. Having had my mind blown by Bourne’s second novel ‘The Manifesto on
How To Be Interesting’ I thought that Bourne’s burst into the literary world,
her grand entrance, would be even better – but sadly I was proved wrong. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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blurb does not give much away, has a spectacular plot concept! The story is
based around the idea that Soulmates do exist, but when a pair meets, the
chemical reaction between them is so strong that it their hormones can cause
storms, earthquakes and huge life-threatening natural disasters. There is a
secret government facility that works to frantically try to prevent these
soulmate disasters from happening. This plotline, combined with my history with
Bourne is what sold the book to me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The story is told through a first person
perspective from one half of two Soulmates, 17 year old Poppy Lawson, as well
as an interesting occasional third person extracts of the actions of those
running the government facility. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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mindblowing idea of a plotline fell absolutely flat on its face. It’s a
firework that never goes off. We spend a long 450 pages listening to Poppy
Lawson whine on and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">on</i> about how ‘Oooh
Nooo… I’m in love! But I can’t be in loooove, I can’t actually <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">like </i>a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">boy</i>! I am <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">such </i>a feminist!’
Poppy is one of these irritatingly strong-minded characters who seems to think
that if she shows so much as a wink of affection for a member of the opposite
sex then she has tainted the rights of women everywhere and is no longer a true
feminist. Poppy had lots of likable qualities, her bitter confidence and
sarcasm were amusing and interesting at times, but I feel, at least for me,
this was broadly overshadowed by her sheer close-mindedness. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Within those 480 pages we also explore
Poppy’s blossoming relationship with her soulmate, local bad-boy, Noah. Noah’s
in a band, a very tortured soul - Their eyes meet across a crowded room, one of
his gigs actually, and of course, the attraction is instant. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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enjoyed Noah and Poppy’s grand gestures and first steps immensely… at first.
However, they’d been going out for one week, 200 pages, when the
‘I-love-you-I-need-you-please-never-leave-me’s started spouting and it all just
got a bit… <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sickening.</i> We get it. You
like each other, you really don’t have to describe, in detail, every single
time he blinks, coughs or looks at you. I mean, I’m not love-expert, but when
they started speaking about how their children would look everything seemed a
little unbelievable. There were no subplots, just the batting of eyelashes and
a weirdly excessive amount of lust. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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pages could save the book for me but… no. I feel like Bourne wrote the majority
of the book in a rose-scented haze and only snapped out if it to write the
ending when her publisher started phoning up, gabbing about deadlines and
delivery dates. It is only in the ending of the book that the idea of the
government facility actually comes properly in to play but with the rest of the
novel styled as a contemporary romance, this seemed more than a little out of
place. It was rushed, random and sadly, I didn’t like it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was entirely unlikable, in fact, I have read many reviews of people who thought
the romance was, sweet, and well-thought-out with the twist at the end exciting
the reader a suitable amount and tying a nice red ribbon around the story as a
whole – but that’s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>not how it was for
me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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which should have been a five and without any substantial subplot or character
depth other than the two soulmate’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">deep
unending</i> love for each other it just didn’t cut it for me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Majestical_Eviehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05701391827723831681noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3358678583629484175.post-82558650192669150122015-02-04T07:57:00.001-08:002015-02-04T07:57:12.844-08:00The Bad Review<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>You may have noticed (at least I hope
you have) that I try and make my blog, Prescription Fiction a very light
hearted, non-confrontational, comfortable place for all you lovely chaps to
explore. I try my best to use non-offensive language, a fairly positive tone
and just to be double sure that I come across as friendly to you lot I grin
constantly while writing these blogs (actually, I might stop that, my face is
starting to hurt). Now, all this fluffy, goodness-and-light pleasantry business
may seem just fine and dandy to you, however being nice in the book blogging
industry (If I call it an industry I sound way more professional) has one fatal
flaw – I cannot write a bad review. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I have tried. I have sat down, boring
book in hand, scowl firmly set upon my face, ready to write some hard-hitting,
brutally- honest blog posts. But it’s as if as soon as my fingers hit the
keyboard all that anger just slips away and my head is crammed full of
butterflies, rainbows and such a beautiful happiness that I simply cannot type
a single tainted word. It sucks. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>So far, on this blog, I have not
uttered a single sour word towards any book at all. I have pointed out flaws,
yes, but more by way of creative criticism, two stars and a wish if you don’t
mind reverting to primary school terms. I have avoided the bad review at all
costs. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not as if I am a reading saint, immune to all
negative bookish thoughts, enjoying every book presented to me, and it isn’t as
I have been lying to you, swearing to you that the worst books are the best,
tricking you into a day or two of bash-your-brain out monotony. No, I have
simply avoided the bad review entirely. Making a conscious decision not to
write about the books I don’t like. And why I hear you ask curiously through
your computer screens, well, let me tell you. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Guilt. Guilt is what stops me from
tearing a book to shreds for all to see. I get that funny little knot in my
tummy just thinking mean thoughts about my book. I would like to be honest with
you, telling you about why I hated that love triangle or why the author’s
sentence structure made me what to rip off my own eyebrows, but every time I
hover my hands by the computer, ready to tell you what any professional book
critic would, I imagine being the author of that book and finding a review like
that. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Every book you read has an author.
Someone who sat for months, sometimes years behind a keyboard, dreaming up a
world and spilling every ounce of literary brilliance they possess into the
pages of a book. I have such a major attachment to some books, I will happily
fight their corner in any way I can – if that’s me, I can’t even begin to
imagine how strong a bond an author must have with their own book. How must
they feel when they read a harsh review? We’re practically attacking their
children!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I cannot bear to be
responsible for that. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>That’s, not to say, however, that I
have a problem with others who are bold enough to publish bad reviews, quite
the opposite actually. I read bad reviews regularly, they’re juicy and
interesting, and if it’s a book I did happen to like, I like to hear the
different perspective. I respect the skill in being able to politely tell your
audience that you disliked a book.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, there are
times when that can go too far. I hate to see bloggers violently destroying a
book without reason, writing only for the purposes of an interesting post, as
opposed to informing others or expressing an opinion. I cringe when I see
bloggers bite and snap over some poor guy’s debut novel on the basis that they
‘just didn’t like the book’. That is not a reason that is an opinion. If you
really must be so harsh and aggressive about a book, I want you to give at
least one good valid reason as to why, otherwise, you’re simply being mean. Not
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I’m scared that if I write a bad review, this will be the case. All of
this. I will write out all my negativity, hit publish and you guys will all
read it and think I’m being terribly rude and mean and nasty! You will press
un-follow and spread the world of my disgusting, evil character. I will never
blog again. What’s more, the author of that book will somehow stumble upon my
post. They will read my words with a look of misery on their face, one sad tear
rolling down their cheek as they realise that they have failed as an author.
They decide never to write again. With one post I will have kicked myself out
of the blogging world, ruined someone’s life and looked like a prat all at the
same time. Horrific, right? In my mind, this is the only outcome of writing a
bad review and it terrifies me. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Majestical_Eviehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05701391827723831681noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3358678583629484175.post-54205661407030276382015-01-27T10:08:00.003-08:002015-01-27T10:08:51.669-08:00Sorry, Percy Jackson<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here’s a confession that isn’t going to be easy… Promise you
won’t tell anybody? Right – I have never read any of the Percy Jackson series.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I know! I know! It’s terrible. It’s awful. It’s practically a
crime in the book world! If I was saying this on tumblr I might actually have
been hunted down and locked away, but, I’m afraid it’s true. Talk to me about
camp-half blood, Greek mythology or funny dyslexic heroes and all you’ll be met
with is a blank stare and a polite cough.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It’s not that I haven’t tried. Trust me – I have. I bought
the book earlier this year and intended to have finished the series and be
excitedly scribbling out fan-fiction by the end of June. I would finally be
part of this manic Percy craze that had consumed the universe. I felt like
reading this series would be my rite of passage into the book blogging world, I
would be accepted into some kind of unspoken cult!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But, it just didn’t happen. I have picked up Percy Jackson a
countless number of times, my determination growing more forceful every time –
I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">would</i> read this book. I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">would</i>! But, each time, without fail, I
would reach chapter four and lose all interest, my motivation vanishing like it
was part of some clever magic trick. If this is frustrating for you, imagine
how irritable it got me. I was trying so hard, so ridiculously hard, to read
this book and make the world happy but I just couldn’t do it. It was just so… <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">boring.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I could practically hear the pitch forks being sharpened as I
wrote that word. Boring. I found Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief
monotonously boring. So shoot me! Tear up my membership card and ban me from
the metaphorical bookblogging club! It’s true! For a girl of my age Percy
Jackson <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is </i>boring. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My issue, I think, is that I never read Percy Jackson as a
child. If I had read it aged 9 or 10 like everybody else then I know it would
consumed my world in one large bite. But read it for the first time now, it
just doesn’t do anything for me. It’s a children’s book. The writing style is
meant for children. You can’t expect me to switch from my heart diet of teen
fiction and angst to a simplistically written fantasy just like that! I can’t
connect with the characters or the story because there just isn’t enough depth
and substance for an older reader to work with. This sounds so pretentious, but
it wasn’t Percy Jackson’s plotline that turned me so completely off, but the
writing style simply wasn’t sophisticated enough for me.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I know a lot of Percy Jackson fans my age and older and they
will defend the series with their life. They are completely unable to
understand what’s stopping me from diving head-first into their world. They
would happily read that first book over and over again forever if they had to,
why shouldn’t I be able to do the same? But, for them, the first Percy Jackson
book is a nostalgia thing. It holds meaning for them as a book that was so
important to them growing up. They can read that first chapter and feel like
the excited little kid again. For me, Percy Jackson holds no meaning or
significance. It is just another children’s book that sadly I have long since
outgrown. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">‘Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone’ I think is a prime
example of this. I can switch from ‘The Lord of the Flies’ to that faithful
first book so easily you would think they were of the same genre. Harry Potter
is familiar and warm for me. It reminds me of being 7 years old and yelling the
word ‘muggle’ at anyone who crossed me. It brings me back to one of my first
experiences of getting excited over a book or a series. However, I know that if
I read that book now, it wouldn’t do anything for me, I probably wouldn’t enjoy
it. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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usually. You don’t ever see a sixteen-year old girl walking out of Waterstones
excitedly with the next ‘Goosebumps’ book in her hands. In fact, some would
even ridicule me if I did. So why should you expect me to react any differently
to Percy Jackson. I will not deny that it is well-written book with a
spectacular plotline as long as you do not deny that it was not intended for my
age range.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I’m sorry. I really am sorry. For writing this blog, for
thinking these thoughts, for not forcing myself through Percy Jackson in the
first place! I don’t mean to offend such a massive, passionate fanbase or
ridicule your personal reading tastes – if you’re excited about Percy Jackson
then that’s fantastic! But, Percy Jackson just isn’t for me. He wasn’t there
when I was the book-curious 8 year old who needed him and he’s only now
appeared that I am a teenager reader with no interest whatsoever. I’m going to
stop pretending that I’m ever going to read the series. I’m going to put the
book on my bookshelf and it probably won’t move for many, many years. This is
just way that I feel. I’m sorry, Percy. I’m sorry. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>This week’s blog may seem a little
bit far-fetched but I need you to hear me out. I’ve made a discovery that I
believe may prove the existence of dark voodoo magic in the book world. Maybe.
It’s just a theory, and feel free to yell at me down in the comments section
but it would be morally wrong not to let you in on such a major scientific
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>So here it is: I believe that the
third book in every dystopian series is cursed. I really do think that there is
some kind of mystical nonsense going on here because no matter how untouchable
an author may seem, as soon as they release that long-anticipated third and
final novel, the entire series seems to just crumble into the dirt. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Okay, so maybe that’s a little
harsh. But seriously, I haven’t in a very long time read the third book in a
trilogy and thought: ‘Yes, that was brilliant. That met all of my expectations
and more!’ Every time I get my eager trembling hands on that final book the
same thing happens: I buy it, so ridiculously enthusiastic to embark on what I
am sure will be the most glorious, eye-opening, heart-stopping adventure I have
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">But, this wouldn’t be science
without a little evidence now would it? Well, sadly I can provide you with
quite a lot. The best example I have of this would be Suzanne Collins’ ‘Hunger
Games: </span></span><span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Mockingjay</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> . The series had so much promise. Everyone was talking
about it! When the second book came out the whole world was setting itself alight with ‘Catching Fire’
excitement. Walk into any high-school during the hunger games craze and I can
guarantee you would see at least five three-finger salutes, seven Katniss
braids and two furious battles over who was best: Finnick, Gale or Peeta? But
sadly, after everyone had finally blazed their way through the third and final book there was
an overwhelming sense of disappointment. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The book wasn’t bad by any means
but, let’s face it, it wasn’t great. It wasn’t the shining golden trophy of a book
that everyone had been waiting for, more a 3<sup>rd</sup> place bronze medal.
Bronze is okay, it’s still winning, but it isn’t exactly… desirable. At first
everyone was shell-shocked. How could this possibly be? We began to grieve.
Pretending it hadn’t happened. Denying with all our might that the book might
be anything less than wonderful, amazing, golden. But, now that some time has
passed, I think we can accept it – it really wasn’t very good. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Why though? Why wasn’t it very good?
Lauren Oliver’s <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">‘Requiem’</b>, Veronica
Roth’s <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">‘Allegiant’</b>, Scott
Westerfield’s <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">‘Specials’</b>, Malorie
Blackman’s <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">‘Checkmate’</b>,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ally Condie’s <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">‘Reached’</b>…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The list goes on. How is it that so many
promising series’ could plunge so horrifically into mediocrity? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Maybe there is too much pressure on
the writer to finish well? Once you’ve written two of the most astounding books
you’ve ever written it must be very difficult to muster the same incredible
amount of writing-brilliance from inside to do it for a third and final time.
How in the world do you come up with an ending that will do the series any
justice? Everyone’s watching and waiting for you to write a book so good that
it could compete with the bible in greatness. How the hell do you do it? You
don’t. Maybe it’s impossible. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>But as I professor in the science of
reading I have done my research and I know that this just doesn’t prove true.
No, the blame for this book-based tragedy should not be placed on the writer
but, in fact, on us, the reader. It is our fault. We just get too darn excited!
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We can’t help ourselves, especially
with the dystopian genre! It’s new and modern with juicy plotlines and gorgeous
love-interests. When books are this good, how can we help ourselves? Besides,
it’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">fun</i> to get all hyped up!
Dystopian fiction seems to be able to create a buzz like no other genre. Entire
communities are formed in appreciation for the series’, stocked with enough
fanart to put London’s National Gallery to shame. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>But we get so carried away with all
our excitement that we accidentally give the series impossible, unreachable
expectations. Two great books is enough to pull down the galaxy and put stars
in our eyes. If the first and second books were <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that</i> good then the third book has to be even better! The third book
will be the book to end all books! Right? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Wrong. It’s our greatest downfall.
We fall in love with a series so deeply and passionately that we inadvertently
destroy anything that could possibly come next. We crown writers as royalty
when really all they are is just a few normal chaps and chapettes who quite
like writing stories. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">We</i>
are the voodoo doctors who inflicted such a terrible, terrible curse. And we
are the only ones who can fix things. We have to stop ruining things for
ourselves. I’m not saying don’t get so excited, I’m just saying, put it in
perspective.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Realise that what you want
may not be the same as what the writer imagines and try and accept that. And if
it really is awful that doesn’t have to be the end - Re-write for yourself!
Fanficiton is the ultimate way to both get excited over a series <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and</i> get exactly what you want out of it!
It’s fun too!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And with that, I close my scientific
case. The research has been done, the experiment carried out and the evaluation
written. It’s time to take my lab-coat off and put up my feet. But next time
you start a new dystopian series be careful. Only <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">you </i>can save us from the terrible, frightening, Three Book Curse. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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my little addicts (Oh my, that is so your nickname now!), this is Evie coming
back at you with another Tag post! Today I have had the honor of being tagged
to do the Reading Problems Tag by Izzy over at <a href="http://thereadingizzy.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">The Reading Izzy!</a> That girl is
seriously great so go on and take a moment to hop on over to her blog? This tag
was created by another awesome blogging buddy named Jay from over at <a href="http://booksbyj.blogspot.co.uk/#uds-search-results" target="_blank">Books ByJay</a>! (She’s nice too, I swear!)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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let’s quit yacking and get right down to it! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><br /></span></span></b></span></div>
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</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria;">You have
20,000 books on your TBR. How in the world do you decide what to read next?<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNtrfJBVRNHTxcw2a6y4ysSdoKD7zUfdzdG0oNyDUdI1JTqiiGSqb-bm81xh1x-Ez4X-lr6irBy-tQeVApI2RX7zo_5awiWusykTIXaU4ZFqeveD-nXpJVKLEW8zgx1uUqIDSZ-AfDBoiN/s1600/anna.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNtrfJBVRNHTxcw2a6y4ysSdoKD7zUfdzdG0oNyDUdI1JTqiiGSqb-bm81xh1x-Ez4X-lr6irBy-tQeVApI2RX7zo_5awiWusykTIXaU4ZFqeveD-nXpJVKLEW8zgx1uUqIDSZ-AfDBoiN/s1600/anna.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am a horrific mood reader, me! If I am just not in the mood to read
something then I simply can’t. My heart has to be in it, you know? How could I
possibly read crime when I crave the sweet romantic pages of Anna and the
French Kiss (I'm always in the mood for Anna...)? Read some sickly sweet and fluffy when all I want to do is strike
a dramatic life-affirming pose and read a good feminist biography, huh? You see
my point. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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halfway through a book and you’re just not loving it. Do you quit or are you
committed?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Oh, my. All the secrets are coming out now, aren’t
they? Sadly I’m a quitter. Quitters never win, winners never quit… But at least
quitters don’t find out that Dumbledore dies, right? (I can say that little
spoiler because it’s just about the worst kept secret ever. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria;">The end
of the year is coming and you’re so close, but so far away on your Goodreads
reading challenge. Do you try to catch up and how?<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well actually, this is the first year I’ve ever
attempted the goodreads challenge (why not check out my <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/34706835-majestical-evie" target="_blank">goodreads </a>here?), but if I’m having a bit of a slump, not
reading as fast as I’d like, well I like to take a trip to the local bookshop.
Just the site of all those fresh-smelling paperbacks is enough to send me
spiraling into a reading frenzy. TBR? What TBR?!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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covers of a series you love do not match. How do you cope?<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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little bit of mix and match gives a bookshelf character, you know? Livens
things up a bit! Why go red, red, red, when you can go red, green, blue,
indigo, NEON YELLOW, black, white, rainbow, shartruce?! Besides, you should
never judge a book by it’s cover! (She says a little guiltily…) <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria;">Everyone
and their mother loves a book you really don’t like. Who do you bond with over shared
feelings?<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well, I’d love to talk to you guys about it but I’m
always so scared to write a bad review… But trust me, I may seem all
nicey-nicey online but just see me in my Modern Studies class when someone
starts talking about Sarah Manning or Carol Ann Duffy! I’m a wolf. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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reading a book and you’re about to start crying in public. How do you deal?<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgySb_0caeQhMW8-o-vlQj0sDe2l9iPE3RgPO-96ono1J3Cu7gh-E8DyjTi0ouQHDrfrp2AfK_MInFJ5_mdQ9avuFmXCheEXHib6Wrhkaa0s1qiwsS4uAIejlrUQDXeivZ6_Yd5cXXLHkKf/s1600/marley.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgySb_0caeQhMW8-o-vlQj0sDe2l9iPE3RgPO-96ono1J3Cu7gh-E8DyjTi0ouQHDrfrp2AfK_MInFJ5_mdQ9avuFmXCheEXHib6Wrhkaa0s1qiwsS4uAIejlrUQDXeivZ6_Yd5cXXLHkKf/s1600/marley.jpg" /></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This actually happened to me in a reading lesson at
school a few years ago when I was reading ‘Marley and Me’ for the first time. I
think if you hold back the tears it kind of tampers with your overall
experience of the book so I just bent my head and covered the 300<sup>th</sup>
page onwards with fresh salty tears! But luckily, with a book like that, all
that I needed to say for the rest of the day when people questioned the puffy
eyed look I was rockin’ was a simple, emotional ‘Marley’. They understood. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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sequel of a book you loved just came out, but you’ve forgotten a lot from the
prior novel. Will you re-read the book? Skip the sequel? Try to find a synopsis
on Goodreads? Cry in frustration?!?!?!?</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Oh man, cry in frustration. I am such a simpleton. I
STILL haven’t read Allegiant just because I can’t be bothered to spend a couple
days going back over Divergent and Insurgent! It’s like, I’m dying to read it,
but I’m also super lazy, but also I can’t remember whether Tris is Dauntless or
Amity?! My brain goes into overdrive and deletes the very idea of the book I
was wanting to read in order to avoid the prospects of a complete Evie
meltdown! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria;">You do
not want anyone—ANYONE—borrowing your books. How do you politely tell people
nope when they ask?<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well actually, I’m usually the one <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">forcing </i>books into other people’s hands!
If I love a book then I absolutely need other people to love it to, otherwise
I’ll have almost no release (well, apart from you lovely lot of course) for all
my bookish emotions, and trust me - I usually have quite a lot of emotions. But
every now and then there is that one person who will keep my book for years or
bring it back like they used it to wipe the kitchen table, and in that case all
you have to do is pull on your innocent eyes and tell them sweetly that you’ve
already lent that book to your mum/auntie/sister/cousin/dog and so you couldn’t
possibly give it to them for another 99 years… sorry! Problem solved.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria;">Reading
ADD. You’ve picked up and put down 5 books in the last month. How do you get
over your reading slump?<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I’ve actually done all my scientific research on the
reading slump already and have published my ground-breaking findings in a post
right here: How to Cure the Reading Slump! So, if you <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">really</i> want to know, and you know how to open a new tab you can
just go read that! Go on, I’ll wait here. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"> 10.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria;">There
are so many new books coming out that you’re dying to read! How many do you
actually buy?<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well, being sixteen, I’m poorer that bloomin’ Oliver
Twist, so probably not as many as I’d like! Occasionally I beg my family to
spend a few quid on poor old me, like the little begging cretin I am, but
mostly I just harbor all the teeny tiny pennies in my purse until I can afford
one or two all on my own!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 21px; line-height: 24.533334732055664px;"><br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLxuuWfap7S5bmooFEvqHWkKNK7IQlPNY02gaB9pT5s99Q0t3a83DWp2LI3Iv7Fm-XZY8He5tLygaYCyp3IzUG9a2JQrETTs3PpGTC-q5yhWVz3z1-arriRvGQujfzog6jnLXeTdeh_n1o/s1600/oliver+twist.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLxuuWfap7S5bmooFEvqHWkKNK7IQlPNY02gaB9pT5s99Q0t3a83DWp2LI3Iv7Fm-XZY8He5tLygaYCyp3IzUG9a2JQrETTs3PpGTC-q5yhWVz3z1-arriRvGQujfzog6jnLXeTdeh_n1o/s1600/oliver+twist.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rich little blighters. </td></tr>
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you’ve bought the new books you can’t wait to get to, how long do they sit on
your shelf before you get to them?<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I finish whatever I’m reading and then GO, GO, GO! I
don’t see any point in waiting until my excitement has died a slow and painful
death to read a book! All the fun is the buy-and-read-immediately buzz! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And that, my little addicts, (see, I told you I was
gonna use it!) was the Reader Problems Tag! It was such lovely fun, but what
would make it even more fun if we could have a wee chat about some of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">your </i>answers to these questions down in
the comments section. It’s comfy and warm down there, you’ll like it! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But before we do so, I would like to tag a few of
the best blogging pioneers in the business (bar <a href="http://thereadingizzy.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Izzy</a> and Jay of course!) <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Morrighan Rose from <a href="http://ufbooks.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Elysian Fields Book Reviews</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My girl Tika from <a href="http://fangirlavue.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Fangirl Confessions </a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yvonne from A <a href="http://thebookishpanda.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">World Between Folded Pages</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ellen from <a href="http://www.questreviews.com/" target="_blank">Quest Reviews</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Maz from <a href="http://pageflicker.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Two Handed Library</a></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And finally, Emily from <a href="http://foreverliterary.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Forever Literary<o:p></o:p></a></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></o:p></span></div>
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Majestical_Eviehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05701391827723831681noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3358678583629484175.post-34411690375407980202015-01-06T09:16:00.001-08:002015-01-06T09:18:14.631-08:00How to Cure the Reading Slump<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The reading
slump: a disease, exclusive to readers only, in which one cannot get their face
stuck into any books for a stupidly long period of time. Symptoms of the
reading slump include loss of interest, total boredom and an overwhelming
desire to hit one’s self in the face with a large hardback from the cookery
section. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Yes folks, the reading slump, it
happens to the best of us and it happens to the worst. It’s hideous, entirely
unavoidable and up until now, thought to be incurable, but I’m here to make all
of that change! Use my newly discovered method and you’ll be out of bed with
your hardback-harry-potter bruises fading away in no time. So, let’s put our
lab-coats on, grab our stethoscopes and get right down to the bottom of this
horrific illness. Doctor Evie - reporting for duty. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv2vOP4fYga5-kMP2C6JuZNATfvZ9cxacSO6zjIFcxygZQL4oCOyg9CwICfD8DoZVegBBeJBbP2qr9pnC5S0ZavYWWSVKv8lC2-DAxMMqVguhpzgHo4sXHDdDojVzB1vvbgH1mmrwtQitr/s1600/wash+hands.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv2vOP4fYga5-kMP2C6JuZNATfvZ9cxacSO6zjIFcxygZQL4oCOyg9CwICfD8DoZVegBBeJBbP2qr9pnC5S0ZavYWWSVKv8lC2-DAxMMqVguhpzgHo4sXHDdDojVzB1vvbgH1mmrwtQitr/s1600/wash+hands.png" height="200" width="144" /></a><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Firstly, <b>why does the reading slump
even happen?</b> The disease seems so random and spiteful that even the most wiggly
bookworms (I mean the kind of people who can flip between Charles Dickens and
Diary Of a Wimpy Kid without even a couple minutes break to make a cup of tea) could easily be infected. You can wash your hands all you like, but there seems
to be nothing stopping you from being poisoned as well. Or is there? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well, if my research proves true, the slump is most likely to
thrive in those who place too much pressure on themselves. Don’t force yourself
to read! In fact, that’s probably one of the worst things you can do. There’s
nothing worse than pressing yourself to crawl through a long, monotonous book
just because you think you have to! Who cares if Johnny, Greg <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and</i> Tabitha have all read ‘The Great
Gatsby’ and you haven’t? Who cares if you don’t know what the hell an ‘Avox’ even
is? Who cares?! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"> Read because you want
to, not because you feel you have to and I promise the slump won’t be hiding
round your bookshelves any time soon. This, I think, is why the slump always
hits me hardest when I’m trying to get through a novel for English class.
Sadly, English class reading cannot be helped and this is when we need the
cure! Cue Evie's </span><span style="font-size: 21px; line-height: 24.533334732055664px;">medical science! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>So, here you are. You’re sitting on the
couch with your old battered school copy of ‘To Kill a Mocking Bird’ for the
sixth time that week; you’ve just read the same sentence about sixteen times
over when you decide you’ve had enough. You go to find a different book from
your bedroom, but you’re not really sure what you’re looking for. You must have
started and gave up on five different books before you realise… you’ve got it.
The slump has hit, you are infected. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I prescribe one dose of Vampire<br />
Fiction. To be taken twice<br />
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sadly in this case, my first curing
method– to <b>read something different that you actually want to read</b> - has not
worked. Sometimes a simple change of pace can get you speeding along again but
not this time. We will be using method number two – re-reading. Though a book
may not be so riveting the second time around, re-reading still provides a
comfortable experience with book you know for a fact that you like. It doesn’t
take too much effort and attention and because you’re certain to enjoy it your
reading enthusiasm will be boosted enough to take on any library. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>With a sigh, you pick up your old blue
copy of ‘The Fault In Our Stars’ and settle back down for a long-haul read.
But, to your horror, not even Augustus Waters can perk you up anymore. This
calls for some drastic action! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Method number 3:<b> The bookshop.</b>
Immersing yourself in a place so thick with scent of stories and characters can
be enough to make your page-turning hand start to itch. The bookshop is
magical. I don’t know about you but I always get excited buying a new book, in
fact, I get so psyched that I always have to start my new book as soon as I get
home. You buy something new, trying your best to get buzzed over your purchase,
and nervously make your way home. Surely this will get you nose back between
the pages of a book?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Nope. It hasn’t worked. You’re back on
the couch, ready to burn your bookshelf to the ground. I have only one more
method left. It is the simplest, most effective, yet probably the most ignored
method that there is:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> <b> </b></span><b>Just stop. Let it go.</b> Put the book down
and walk away. It may take a day, a week, or even only an hour but I promise
you that eventually you’ll regain your appetite for words and paper and stories
once again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You need to make reading fun
again for yourself and this is never going to happen when you’re trying to make
yourself read when, obviously, you don’t really want to. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b>It can smell fear.</b> So, the longer you fret and worry over the slump’s horrific
symptoms, the longer the slump will trap you in its vice-like grip. Forget
about it, stop worrying. It’s inconvenient and annoying, yes, but it isn’t the
end of the world – you’ll survive. Soon enough you’ll get your hands on
something so good that it’ll be all you can do not to swallow it up in one day
or less. Because the best cure for the read slump, is really very simple –
time. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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research. May all those suffering from the illness be benefited and healed by
my discovery. Doctor Evie is over and out. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Majestical_Eviehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05701391827723831681noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3358678583629484175.post-64706059166799556802014-12-30T07:37:00.000-08:002014-12-30T07:37:29.353-08:00Reading Resolutions <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: -14.2pt; margin-right: -10.25pt; margin-top: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As Christmas sadly
draws to a close and we set about pulling the mistletoe down from the ceiling,
blowing out that sickly sweet cinnamon scented candle and eating the last
crumbs of Christmas cake that no one really wanted, it really is easy to feel a
bit sad, isn’t it? When all that festive cheer is gone you’re going to need
something else to replace the excitement of having all those santa ornaments
dotted around the house – New Year! If we can’t celebrate December anymore
let’s celebrate January instead! And, of course, with New Years Day comes New
Years Resolutions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Now, don’t worry. I am not going to harp on at you about my overwhelming desire
to stop eating chocolate and start hitting the gym at every possible moment
during the day (I think we all know that’s <i>never</i> going to happen).<i> </i>No,
this is a book blog, so of course, these must be Reading Resolutions. And,
trust me; I have a few bad habits to break…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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So without further ado I bring you this year’s 4 Reading Resolutions</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 14pt;">:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><b><span style="font-size: large;">1.</span></b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Start using bookmarks</span></b><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It has begun</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"></span></b></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What have I been doing instead,
you ask? Fine - May as well get it out in the open now, because it’s all about
to change. I am a page folder. I know it’s terrible, I can see you all wincing
when you see me put a crease or a crinkle in a brand new book, and up until
recently I have felt no remorse. But the problem is getting out of hand – It
was okay when it was just my books, at that point it was just a quick and easy
way to mark my pages, but now I’m folding other people’s books without even
thinking! I can’t handle the shame of creasing another’s book, any more of this
guilt and I’ll drive myself insane. So, this is why, starting January 1<sup>st</sup>
I will pick up a bookmark and never fold again… I hope.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a;">2.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a;">
</span></b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Read at least two classic novels</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b></b></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Okay, I’m kind of lazy so maybe
two is a tad optimistic, but still! I would like to read <i>at least</i> one
classic novel. Too many of my favourite teen fictions and movies are based off
or make reference too classic novels such as ‘Wuthering Heights’, ‘Pride and
Prejudice’ or ‘The Scarlet Letter’. Supposedly these books provide some
amazingly mind-blowing experience that will skyrocket me into such an intense
euphoria that I will never be able to enjoy reading again. I want in on that,
Dudes. So, though it may be hard work, and at times I may curse a Brontë or stamp
Dickens name into the dirt, but as long as I persevere I shall take my place
among the reading elite and I will be able to finally let myself swoon over
Colin Firth acting in the old BBC ‘Pride and Prejudice’ series.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a;"> 3.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a;">
</span></b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Stop holing up in the teen section, you hermit!</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b></b></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b></b></span></span></span></div>
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all the different books I’ve read this year and it occurs to me that I have a
certain… taste in books. What I mean by this is apparently I read almost solely
what Waterstones puts on the recommended table in the teen section. I am
addicted to teen fiction, particularly the contemporary kind! I can actually
feel the craving in me now. I crave Rainbow Rowell and John Green like a
drug-addict craves crystal meth. Is there a rehab for this kind of thing? Whether
there is or not, I’m not going. I can do this on my own. Cold turkey. This year I shall
finally take those few hesitant steps out of the confines of young-adult. I
shall browse through not-young-adult and sci-fi and crime/thriller novels!... Maybe.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a;">4.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a;">
</span></b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Attempt the Goodreads 50 Book Challenge</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 14pt;">I have spent many hours tampering about with the site but I <i>think</i>
I have finally worked out how Goodreads works. However, as I explored through
the deep depths of the website trying to work out exactly what a TBR is and how
the hell one makes a ‘Listopia’ I stumbled upon the 2014 Reading Challenge.
Obviously, having found it in December, it’s a bit late to attempt my 50 books
this year, but with any luck I will be able to sign up on January 1<sup>st</sup>
and power-read my way through the rest of the year. I’ve never done goodreads
stuff before, nor have I ever counted the amount of books I read in a year, so
I’m not entirely sure how big a number 50 really is, so if you lot reckon I
should boost that figure or push it back down, do tell me! All I know is that
in 2015 Majestical Evie shall fix on her determined face and she shall read
more books in one year than ever before! And that my friends, is a promise, not
a resolution! </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> If you have been keeping up with me
on my <a href="https://twitter.com/PrescripFic" target="_blank">twitter</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/prescriptionfiction?ref=hl" target="_blank">facebook </a>accounts, or read <a href="http://prescriptionfiction.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/dash-and-lilys-book-of-dares.html" target="_blank">last week’s blog post</a> (a review of Dash and Lily's Book of Dares) then you will know how much I love Christmas
time! The cold, the food, the family… All of it – there isn’t a bit I don’t
like (Except for mandatory Christmas dinner sprouts…)! But, I think my
favourite part of Christmas is that lovely feeling of nostalgia that gets
unboxed with all of the festive decorations. Christmas, for me, is a time to
remember. I am the youngest of five (I know… How did I survive?) But seeing as
all my siblings have grown up and left home for university, jobs and life in
general, the only time we are all together in one place as a unit is Christmas.
Despite the constant teasing they like to bring home as an early gift, it
really is lovely to see them and quite often we spend long evenings after
dinner, remembering all our different stories from growing up together. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> So, what with being in the Christmas
spirit and all, that’s what I think I’m going to do with you all today –
remember. I want to take a little trip down memory lane of some of the most
important books to me growing up and just celebrate the fact that they existed,
because without them I probably wouldn’t be here writing this blog now. Let’s
get right down to it!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnjH00klIQUcRs9QScqUH8wzs7OQwTtPXGYcbvaaANZta9QME5tGKxXRVVW3Jcai3CUh70zhjsepoJKHXe78MBWyh1vaIkSS5TnihilJ6Ge2JS8oM5AeUEXCH-gsdoIG057E19cNQRKWzJ/s1600/enormous.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnjH00klIQUcRs9QScqUH8wzs7OQwTtPXGYcbvaaANZta9QME5tGKxXRVVW3Jcai3CUh70zhjsepoJKHXe78MBWyh1vaIkSS5TnihilJ6Ge2JS8oM5AeUEXCH-gsdoIG057E19cNQRKWzJ/s1600/enormous.jpg" height="320" width="243" /></a><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Where should we start..? I think we
ought to go right back to the very beginning and talk about one of my absolute
favourite picture books – ‘The Enormous Crocodile’ by Roald Dahl. For those of
you who don’t know, ‘The Enormous Crocodile’ is a book about a very boastful
crocodile (obviously… It wasn’t going to be a giraffe, was it?) who absolutely
loves to eat children. The story follows all his attempts at doing just that.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> As a kid, I never
realised just how weird and twisted ‘The Enormous Crocodile’ really was, I was
just happy to be read a story with such great illustrations. When I was five my
oldest sister (and main babysitter) was nineteen and she had a love for creepy
things, which is why she always read me this book in particular. I remember
quite vividly that every time she read the book to me in bed, she would make
little innocent baby me put on my creepiest, most disturbing voice and read the
line: “if you listen carefully, you can hear their bones go munch and crunch”…
Sister, I blame you for any strange child-eating behaviour I may develop as an
adult! Than you very much. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd6nUlehf3t6AosmKEPi0r_QcL7AdejoJgMREJtQVi5Ighpp0eLh9AHn9wZiK3pEk_FiLyBqbBhKcTfH6MSotJzwGqxDBR0ihh5GJbo-k16K8XC2Zg_ZZPyOcHe8S41hL9CVYlP_4gvrXY/s1600/Nancy+&+Plum.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd6nUlehf3t6AosmKEPi0r_QcL7AdejoJgMREJtQVi5Ighpp0eLh9AHn9wZiK3pEk_FiLyBqbBhKcTfH6MSotJzwGqxDBR0ihh5GJbo-k16K8XC2Zg_ZZPyOcHe8S41hL9CVYlP_4gvrXY/s1600/Nancy+&+Plum.jpg" height="320" width="219" /></a><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> As I grew up a little bit and became
much too mature and sophisticated for picture books and Quentin Blake
illustrations (Though, I never did truly outgrow his wonderful pictures…) I
suddenly decided that I wanted to read all sorts of ‘classic’ books - the
older, the better. My lovely Mum took it upon herself to go rooting through our
most ancient belongings to find me her copy of ‘Nancy and Plum’. Yes, it was
beaten and brown with age, but it had been my Mum’s favourite when she was a
kid and that was enough to launch eight-year-old me into the first chapter. It
truly is a gorgeously sweet book, following the story of two orphan sisters,
Nancy and Plum, at Mrs Monday’s wretched boarding school. The story starts in a
barn on a snowy Christmas Eve (the most charming setting I think I’ve ever
read) and every time I read it, it just makes my heart swell. Ever since I
first picked it up, I have read it at least once per year at Christmas time and
the book holds so much nostalgia for me now that I can’t help but cry when
reading its festive goodness!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> It wasn’t too long after that that I
came across my first ever ‘banned’ book. It was my older brother who told me
that I wasn’t allowed to read ‘Angela and Diabola’ by Lynne Reid-Banks.
Apparently, the story was horrifically, inappropriately disturbing – especially
for a tiny ginger-haired kid like me – and I was not, under any circumstances,
to read it. He practically gave it the kiss of death. Of course, as soon as he
seemed to have finished with it, I snuck into his room and stole it from his bedside
table.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVu9Y8pvfXYP4TeVI253g07qhzf8fE9odmF9gyan1LrMhV8F5AIoAD9JCPtqQmXN1A3hHUtkN2Sn-OwgYWJ4DTkYBqNmyT8Kb0kS0IRM7Dhi45TMlNpZhrwxlRM-BicRFaPa0F33eB0dpq/s1600/angela+and+diabola.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVu9Y8pvfXYP4TeVI253g07qhzf8fE9odmF9gyan1LrMhV8F5AIoAD9JCPtqQmXN1A3hHUtkN2Sn-OwgYWJ4DTkYBqNmyT8Kb0kS0IRM7Dhi45TMlNpZhrwxlRM-BicRFaPa0F33eB0dpq/s1600/angela+and+diabola.jpg" height="320" width="208" /></a><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> I read secretly for
the next two days, devouring the words with a mischievous smile on my face. It was
a children’s book, but in truth it <i>was</i>
dark! It was all about a young couple and their difficulty bringing up their
two twin girls – one was the most perfect girl in the world, and one the most
evil. The book certainly was a change from my usual sunshine fairies and ice
princesses and I loved every single bit of it. I went on to read it a countless
number of times, happily rereading it between every other book. It may have
been just to spite my older brother, but I know for a fact that if he hadn’t forbidden
me from reading ‘Angela and Diabola’, I never would have read it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Those were three of the most
important books of my childhood, the ones that even now when I read them I feel
that same familiar burst of excitement that I did when I was younger. These
books have helped shape my personality and my reading tastes and I just love
each one of them so much. I know that when I am an adult, and I have munchkins
of my own, that I will read them these books and maybe they’ll like them just
as much as I did. Either way, there’s something about these books that just
makes me feel so nostalgic and Christmassy that it’s all I can do not to have a
little bit of a weepy moment.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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now, so I best go find something a bit cheerier to do, sip eggnog or roll around in some tinsel or somethin… But, I’d love continue
this conversation down in the comments! I want to hear all about <i>your </i>nostalgic books! Which books hold
the most memories for you? Tweet me, facebook me – I’d love to know. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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up to Christmas I love to get into the Christmas spirit and read a few
Christmassy books and so back in September, during a particularly wild Amazon
book spree, I purchased ‘Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares’ by Rachel Cohn and
David Levithan in preparation for the festive Winter months. When the book
arrived with a lovely thump on my doorstep I was very sensible and placed it
safely in a hidden corner of my bedroom to sit and wait until the reindeers
roamed the streets, tinsel was strung over every available surface and it was
okay to be excited for Christmas. I definitely was<i> not </i>going to read this book until Christmas. I wasn’t. I wasn’t!
... I did. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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October… Okay! Okay! So, kill me! I saw a wreath of holly in a passing shop
window and I got a <i>teensy</i> bit
excited. Well… when I say a ‘teensy bit’ I mean I freaked out in the middle of
the street, pre-ordered a new reindeer pattern Christmas jumper, pulled my
‘Snowman’ snow globe down from the spiders in the attic and shook it manically
as I began to read ‘Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares’. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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The point is that ‘Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares’ is one of the most wonderful
Christmas books that I have ever read! The book follows the story of New York
teenagers, Dash and Lily (the co-writers writing the two perspectives chapter
for chapter) as they get to know each other over Christmas using only the
fantastic dares and challenges they leave each other in a little red Moleskine
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just in case you like to take my word as law (As I know you all definitely do!)
that this is not for all you lactose intolerant readers out there. This book
definitely has rich, creamy, full-fat gorgonzola cheese as its main ingredient
– and I loved it! Cheese is exactly what a Christmas book should have, heck,
the entire <i>season</i> is cheesy, not just
its literature. There were so many sweet little scenes and Christmassy settings
that I could almost smell the cinnamon in the air. I have never in my life left
Europe but I’ll be damned if I don’t what Christmas in New York is like after
reading that book. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Christmas book and at first I found him quite irritating. The complete opposite
to Lily, he hated Christmas and chose to spend Christmas alone, hiding from
parties and festivities and delicious gingerbread men. Dash seemed to think himself incredibly deep and
troubled because of this particular preference and kept spouting pretentious
moody rubbish all the way throughout the book.
However, as I became more familiar with the characters and their
individual thoughts and feelings I began to realise that this was no accident.
Dash was meant to be annoying! Though infuriating, it was crucial to the
plotline and I actually began to become quite fond of this particular
personality quirk. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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contribution to the novel as a whole is her close connection with her family.
Lily’s relatives feature a lot throughout the novel and though they may only be
minor parts I think collectively they make the book more Christmassy than any
number of snowflake baubles, giant nutcrackers or North-Pole themed mittens.
This may only be a personal opinion, but, to me, family is the most important
aspect of Christmas and I know that if Cohn and Levithan had forgotten to
sprinkle a few aunts, uncles and lazy older brothers into their writing, then
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calendar reads December 15<sup>th</sup>. I have read ‘Dash and Lily’ again
since my little (massive) Christmas freak out back in October and I can confirm
to you that nothing I have said as thus is a lie - induced by an early dose of
mistletoe and fake shop-display snow. The book manages to maintain its lovely
warmth and sweetness for the re-read and if, still, this late into December,
you haven’t yet felt that familiar glow that comes from warm mince pies and
santa-shaped mittens, then I guarantee you, this is the book to kick-start your
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time! The streets are packed with people, there’s a bite of frost in the air,
everything smells a bit like cinnamon and if you’re lucky, there might just be some
lovely book-shaped parcels under the tree. Christmas is a brilliant time for
book-lovers everywhere! The bookshops are stocked with all sorts of wonderful
Christmas releases and if you have a family that listens quite closely you can
replenish your entire to-be-read pile with the fantastic new titles you’ve been
lusting over for ages!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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a book-lover and they are not entirely explicit about exactly which book it is
they would like to receive from Santa, then having a successful Book-Christmas
can be a tad tricky! But don’t you worry; I am here to help you through this
difficult time of year! This is a book-lovers guide to Christmas!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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am going to get this out of the way first because I love you all and I don’t
want you to waste your money. If you don’t know almost exactly what titles a
person may want, </span><b><span style="font-size: large;">don’t guess</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">
Seriously, either just ask them what they want or avoid the bookshop entirely,
it isn’t worth it. If your loved one is quite an intense book-lover then chances
are that they will have read quite a lot of what Waterstones, Barnes & Noble and WH Smith have
to offer. Unless you happen to be a crazy stalker or know their exact reading tastes
and experiences inside-out then I really wouldn’t bother. Play it safe and
don’t be tempted by that gorgeous new John Green box set, if you don't know for sure, it’s much too dangerous!</span></span></span></div>
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so you’ve read tip number one and you’re thinking, but if I can’t get a
book-lover books, what the hell do I buy?! No fear, my dears! This is where
your trusty friend, </span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>the book token</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, swoops in to save the day. It may seem
impersonal and a bit weak but trust me, stick even just a £10 book token inside
a card and you will be able to watch the sheer delight on your loved one’s face
as it falls out onto their lap! Physically, a book token is just a small
rectangle of plastic, but emotionally it is so much more. Book tokens are
exciting, they hold all sorts of possibilities, and they give book-lovers an
excuse to go for another thrilling adventure through the shelves at the local
bookshop!</span></span></div>
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obviously, we don’t all have obese wallets of cash to spend on festivities but
buying books really doesn’t have to be expensive. It is so easy to get</span><b><span style="font-size: large;"> cheap
books if you buy second hand</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. You’d be surprised the amount of good-quality,
well-known books hidden inside your local charity shop. I’m lucky enough to
have two different Barnardos bookshops near me and an Oxfam one as well, but if
you don’t have access to these shops specifically, any old charity shop will
do! I once found the entire Hunger Games series in almost brand-new condition
for only about £3.50 in a random Hospice Care on holiday. I really don’t think
your loved one will care if the books are second-hand or brand new, if it’s a
good story they’ll thank you profusely and stick their teeth in right away. After
all, it </span><i style="font-size: 14pt;">is</i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> the thought that counts! <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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when shopping for Book-Christmas you are not solely limited to the bookshops
only. </span><b><span style="font-size: large;">Book-related merchandise is a fantastic gift</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> for any passionate fan girl
or boy! If your friend happens to be a massive potterhead then the
possibilities are endless! Replica Marauders Map? I do think so. Bertie Bott’s
Every Flavour Beans? Yes please! Magical heat transforming ‘Mischief Managed’
mug? Well, I don’t mind if I do! Simply
search your loved-one’s favourite book or series along with the word ‘merch’
into your favourite search engine and I guarantee you’ll get hundreds of gift
ideas in mere seconds! Personally, when I want to find cool and interesting
merchandise I hop on over to</span><a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/" style="font-size: 14pt;" target="_blank"> Etsy.co.uk,</a><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> there’s thousands of people on there,
hand-crafting and creating merch every single day! Just a few quick clicks and
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gift to give for book-Christmas, well, </span><b><span style="font-size: large;">why not get a little arty?</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Sure, it
takes a bit more time and effort, but, even if it doesn’t turn out quite the
way you want it to, the finished product can still be something quite awesome
and special. It doesn’t have to be all that complex – if you have art skills
and some coloured card you can make cool book themed cards like this one – and
if you can’t think of any ideas there’s tons of guides and templates on the
internet. It’ll cost you one day, some knitting needles and a couple balls of
wool to make a long cosy Gryffindor scarf, or if you want to get really fancy
you could even have a go at crocheting yourself a </span><a href="http://www.alithealien-crochet.co.uk/harry-potter/" style="font-size: 14pt;" target="_blank">woolly Potter dolly</a><span style="font-size: 14pt;">! Just, have a go. It’s fun and a great way to
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for saying this, but there’s something so fantastically gorgeous about opening
up a book someone has given you, ready to start reading, and finding that
they’ve left you a little message. It’s so sweet and cute and very personal! It
adds a lovely little touch to an otherwise fairly usual present. If you want to
leave a message but are a bit scared to commit so fully to leaving a permanent
mark on the gift, just write it lightly in pencil, then it can be rubbed out at
the reader’ own discretion. It’s counter-intuitive but it is an undeniably
romantic, I’ve wanted someone to do this for me ever since I first read ‘The
Fault In Our Stars’. So go on, be a bit cheeky! <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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Stephanie Perkins way too much, but if she didn’t cause me so much heart ache
maybe I wouldn’t have to! I can’t just let her tear me apart, rip my heart out
and use it as a football and pretend like it isn’t happening! I need to speak
through my feelings with you, It’s the only way I’ll ever come close to moving
on, – particularly my most recent
feelings concerning her newest book, ‘Isla and the Happily Ever After’. In recent
weeks I have once again found myself lying on my bed at 2am, that familiar pain
in my chest, wishing with all my might that I could pull one of Stephanie
Perkin’s boys out of their fictional world and safely into my arms. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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time it was Josh. <i>Joshua Wasserstein.</i>
Though I had not truly appreciated him when reading ‘Anna and the French Kiss’,
my mind too consumed with the sheer swooshiness of Etienne’s hair, I was
certainly appreciating him now. While Etienne and Cricket, the romantic
interests of Perkins two previous companion novels, were friendly and
confident, Josh was quiet, artistic and mysterious. In my mind he was stronger
built than the other two boys, less soft edges, with a gorgeous well-shaped
smile. It was a lovely change from the other two love interests and I ate up
every romantic gesture like I hadn’t had a meal in weeks. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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‘Isla and the Happily Ever After’ not found in the previous books. Usually,
Perkins focuses on exactly how the lovely couple came to be, the book ending
with that fantastic first kiss moment so highly anticipated by the reader,
however, this time we get to have a look at what comes after that. Of course,
once a seventeen year-old couple has been together long enough to get that kiss
out of the way, things begin to progress to much more… serious stuff. However,
being so familiar with Perkins’ usual romance structure, I really did not
expect this uh… new kind of kissing contained within the book. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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literary genius that she is, it was all ok</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">ay. Better than okay, it was nice. It
wasn’t awkward or disgusting. She avoided explicit language and instead of the
actual physical act, Perkins spoke of the feelings her characters experienced,
something not usually the focal point of this kind of scene. It wasn’t
pornographic and strangely, it didn’t seem all that sexual. Josh and Isla did
not ‘have sex’, they ‘made love’. It was beautiful.</span></div>
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that ‘Isla and the Happily Ever After’ is about sex. Most definitely not. These
moments were simply the finer details of an ultimately gorgeous picture; the
glint in Mona Lisa’s eye. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Of course, this wouldn’t be a
Perkins book if we didn’t have an artfully chosen romantic setting. The book
has two main settings – new and exciting Manhattan, brimming with people and
possibilities, and… Paris! I squealed with joy when I found out we were going
back to Paris, setting of ‘Anna and the French Kiss’. I want <i>every</i>
book to be set in Paris, things just seem to be more dazzling over there. Joshua
Wasserstein was amazing for many reasons, he was gorgeous, artistic, thoughtful
and funny… but now he gets to speak casual French too? I’m practically swooning
as I type. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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and the Happily Ever After’ we get to return to Anna’s boarding school from
‘Anna and the French Kiss’. Yet another reason to read the series – the three
stories are all tastefully intertwined, with ‘Isla and the Happily Ever After’
featuring, in my opinion, the best cameos of the entire series. Etienne, Anna,
Meredith, Rashmi, Cricket, Lola and Calliope all make an appearance at some
point in the book. The reader is given
enough to detail to both excite and satisfy, but crucially, the cameos do not
take over the main plotline of the book. I really do wish that I could talk to
you about the wonderful scene near the end of the book, but even I would not be
so mean as to spoil such a perfect surprise. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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‘Isla and the Happily Ever After’ and that is this; the remarkable book marks
the end of the three-part series. As I put the book down a weird sort of
sadness washed over me and I suddenly wished I had never read any of it at all.
I wished I could be back on the first page of ‘Anna and the French Kiss’, my
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Happily Ever After’ I knew one thing for certain. Stephanie Perkins is my
favourite author. She writes exactly the kind of books I want to read,
satisfyingly romantic and perfect right down to the last detail. I can’t stress
enough how much I loved this series and I just know that whatever Perkins
chooses to release next, I will buy from Waterstones with a bright grin on my
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one of those people who look forward to it all year and starts planning their
special deal months in advance, and in the week running up to that faithful
date I hardly shut up about it! I love the creamy, candle-lit birthday cake,
the room filled with balloons and I won’t lie, as an aspiring actress, I love
all the attention too – Most people find a room full of people serenading you
with ‘Happy Birthday to You’ very awkward and embarrassing, but not me, I bask
in it! But of course, like most teenagers in Britain, one of my favourite
things about my birthday is the presents… More specifically, the book-shaped
presents. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Most people my age want laptops and
iPods and BMX bicycles for their birthday, not me - I always use and abuse my
birthday to top up my to-be-read pile and this year was no exception. I asked
for books and books only from almost everyone who posed the question, ‘and what
do you want for your birthday?’ in fact, my parents even asked me to compose a
list, which let me tell you, was definitely not an unenjoyable task. So, when
my lucky day finally rolled around I was able to come downstairs to a
birthday-table absolutely teeming with gorgeous crisp new novels from almost
every author I asked for.</span></span></div>
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transformed from innocent birthday sweetheart into present-drunk spoilt brat.
It was wonderful. My lovely dad, who lives quite far away, had taken it upon
himself to order me almost every book on my list to celebrate my change of age.
This combined with the generosity of a few other friends and relatives brought
my book count to an astonishing 22 books - Happy birthday to me, right?! Today,
I want to share my excitement with you guys and go into detail about a few of
favourite new novels. <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am absolutely in love with the cover of ‘Firecracker’ by David Iserson.
So much so, in fact, that I had to read it first just to find out what
wonderful story could possibly lay beneath a design that delightful. The gorgeous
cover was actually the main reason it made its way into my library, something
that pretty had to be good, right? I was
not disappointed. The story follows the awesomely named, incredibly-rich and
totally heartless, Astrid Kreiger (What a great name right? I’m going to have
to name a kid that when I’m older) as she is forced out of prestigious private
school, Bristol Academy, and into local public school, Cadorette Township High
School, much to her dismay. Astrid is a sneaky and sparky and absolutely horrible,
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a cheap copy of ‘Love, Rosie’ by Cecilia Ahern for weeks. The movie recently
came out here in the UK. It features dead-gorgeous Sam Claflin and the trailer
looks so fun and cute and hilarious that I’ve been dying to see it. But, of
course, I must be faithful to my books and I will not let myself watch the
movie until I have read the novel. I figured I would be able to find a cheap
and battered copy of it under its previous name, ‘Where Rainbows End’ in a local charity shop, but luck has not
been on my side and I refuse to cough up £8 for it, so as of yet, I still
haven’t seen that movie. But, I will. I have it now and there’s nothing to stop
me! </span></span><br />
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a trilogy that seems to be on everyone’s tongue and quite frankly, I feel
majorly left out of this discussion. A friend laid down the plotline of the
first book, ‘The Selection’ to me and from what I’ve heard it seems to be a
series after my own heart, combining dystopian fiction with dating programmes
and a hefty dose of romance too. I have all three books in the series line up
and ready to read and though I mustn’t let the hype spoil my experience, my
expectations are quite high. I am dying to get in on this fandom and now,
thanks to my good ol’ Dad, I can. I’m expecting to love this series so get
ready for some top-speed book chatter for this one! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">‘If I Stay’ by Gayle Forman is a book that left both me, and a large
portion of the rest of the world, in a state of tears and turmoil. The book,
though short, was an emotional roller-coaster from start to finish. It was the
kind of book that was so gripping and intense that I had to read it all in one
day, in one sitting. This was a book that was not going to wait. But though I
did not have to wait with ‘If I Stay’, I have waited months for the sequel,
‘Where She Went’. I am so ready to find out the rest of Mia’s story. So much was
left unsaid and I simply cannot live the rest of my life not knowing what
happened next. I cannot. I will not let Gayle Forman trample all over my heart
and crush it into a thousand pieces without her at least telling me if I’ll
ever get to put it back together again. I need </span></span><br />
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equal amount of care and attention, there was one book I wanted more than all
of the others put together. Finally. Finally! I own a gorgeous copy of ‘My True
Love Gave to Me’. Edited by literary goddess, Stephanie Perkins, the book is a
compilation of twelve different Christmas stories, each written by a famous YA
author. As soon as I knew about it I
needed it! This was a book that
contained words from Rainbow Rowell, Stephanie Perkins, and David Levithan (to
name a few) all in one place. It was like someone had taken my exact reading
tastes and try to make a book tailored entirely to my preferences. It has almost
all my favourite authors, It’s got romance, It has a beautiful cover and to top
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birthday books forever but this is a blog post, not a novel. This was just a
few of the highlights of my book haul, there is still so much to be said. All
my friends and family have been so generous and lovely this year and you have
no idea how grateful I am. I want to give special thankyou’s to my fantastic
Dad who sent me the majority of what’s currently in my new to-be-read pile. I
am so excited to read all of this new stuff.
Though I am sad it’s over, the day was perfect. Thank you, everyone. It
really has been a magnificent birthday!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ever since I was a small child it has
been drilled into me that you must never judge anything on appearance alone;
places, people and most importantly of all – books. No matter what picture
happens to be on the front or what title is written down the spine – you must
never judge a book by its cover. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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been force fed to me over the years, I still haven’t quite absorbed it. As I
walk through Waterstones on a lazy Sunday afternoon my eyes fly restlessly
around the room, searching for a place to land. I skim over the dull looking
books sporting grey or black dust jackets, barely giving them a second glance
before I move on. I finally settle on a bright red book decorated with white
sparrows that stands in a crowd of navy and dark purple – ‘Ketchup Clouds’ by
Annabel Pitcher. I read the blurb with a smile; it is exactly the kind of book
I want to buy. I am guilty, but I enjoy it immensely.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> This is almost always my tactic when
book shopping and it has not failed me yet. Unless a friend has particularly
recommended something, I will not pick up a book that doesn’t catch my eye. I
have betrayed the golden rule of reading. But I am not sorry. When you think
about it, there is no other way to shop for books. When in a bookshop you are
faced with the mammoth task of deciding which book you will buy out of the
hundreds in the room. Yes, you could pick each book up and read them one by one
until you find the few that you like, but that could take hours for only one
section of the shop. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyiSxaNTU4QjieGR49YDO_V4zspqd5zCMSA3xMHiaeC9RGpmNfC7AdXWQrW493axO1ZPdGHw-ls9Cj0VqI2NQZPpJPrVs-fxnJ8eUTZ7vGCbmva7eDaupg9Q2UJB5WTr65juqpmw71AfUT/s1600/rainbow.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyiSxaNTU4QjieGR49YDO_V4zspqd5zCMSA3xMHiaeC9RGpmNfC7AdXWQrW493axO1ZPdGHw-ls9Cj0VqI2NQZPpJPrVs-fxnJ8eUTZ7vGCbmva7eDaupg9Q2UJB5WTr65juqpmw71AfUT/s1600/rainbow.jpg" height="200" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> You can’t pick up everything, so how
do you decide what to focus your attention on without looking at the cover of
the book? You don’t. The most efficient way to find something you like is to
search for the colours you like. We pick up the bright ones because they are
the ones with the most obvious advertising. And as much as you may not want to
hear it – the system works. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Waterstones adventures, that the authors of the kind of books I fall in love
with are also the authors who print books with bright, eye-catching covers. Now,
this may just as easily be because the books I tend to buy are the ones with
colourful covers. All I know is that my favourite bookshelf is a violently beautiful
mess of reds and oranges and blues.</span></div>
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book cover racism, I still remain open to just about everything. Though when
buying books I’m more likely to pick up the books with a spine of neon yellow, this
is because they are the most obvious. I still remain opinion-less about all
books until I have read them – I just get a little bit more excited for the
pretty ones. I firmly believe that the colour of the cover does not affect the
quality of the content inside.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_GUQFGCZlTz4R4qydjyyTQaZiQFVfIJ8GQ7msUnu4XBN5zEGQ92y_zmecHmuvygvf8_UVHKD0j1-wkP97cjExUVqTB6QR2HwixFuxMC18ZUK86bqfFvPr1Sm7twWVsubfDTQbrR3H4gTj/s1600/Fault+in+Our+Stars.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_GUQFGCZlTz4R4qydjyyTQaZiQFVfIJ8GQ7msUnu4XBN5zEGQ92y_zmecHmuvygvf8_UVHKD0j1-wkP97cjExUVqTB6QR2HwixFuxMC18ZUK86bqfFvPr1Sm7twWVsubfDTQbrR3H4gTj/s1600/Fault+in+Our+Stars.jpg" height="200" width="136" /></a><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> I don’t think there is anything
wrong with being charmed by illustration or vibrancy. We as humans are
practically programmed to enjoy pretty things from the get-go. That does not
exclude books. So what if I would prefer to buy the bright blue copy of ‘The
Fault in Our Stars’ as opposed to the movie edition?! That doesn’t mean that my
enjoyment of the story differs between the two styles. All it means is that I
might just quite enjoy the colour blue. Is that really so bad?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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I understand why we must never use this theory on people, but why not judge
books by their covers? We all have
preferences and interests. Even the most self-righteous readers are prone to
‘accidentally’ forgetting to consider the beige book in the top corner of the
shelf. We all do it without even thinking. Really, we’re all a little bit
book-cover-racist. And I say that that
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Majestical_Eviehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05701391827723831681noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3358678583629484175.post-40100123193415910722014-11-11T13:24:00.000-08:002014-11-11T13:37:11.578-08:00My Top 5 Favourite Teen Romance Novels<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If you are a
regular to my lovely little blog you will probably know that I like teen
romantic fiction. A lot. Instead of going to wild parties like most teenagers
in this country do, I love to curl up on a Friday night with a mug of hot
chocolate, a cosy blanket, a box of tissues close to hand and a good bit of
chick-lit in my lap. I’ve read an awful lot of romance fiction in my time and I
thought that, what with my experience and all, I’d give you a little idea of
what to look out for! So, without further ado, here is my top 5 favourite Teen
Romances!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Snogging by Louise Rennison<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvmTyJYsjzK3Z3RKeKFt7Rf4MlvbRcgFZYZK6SkQtKV6bPsm9rJVC8Dv2clgciibNm9UkTcPJXSDNukK2wEggSY55M9DcZsgdk7nXd3i7u6Bh2rX2iDgz1TyfGKQ6qRN5gWOicDsxyb6Op/s1600/angus+thongs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvmTyJYsjzK3Z3RKeKFt7Rf4MlvbRcgFZYZK6SkQtKV6bPsm9rJVC8Dv2clgciibNm9UkTcPJXSDNukK2wEggSY55M9DcZsgdk7nXd3i7u6Bh2rX2iDgz1TyfGKQ6qRN5gWOicDsxyb6Op/s320/angus+thongs.jpg" width="210" /></a><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Okay, so it may not be the most
mature love story out there but it’s still has a warm spot in both my library
and my heart. Written as if it were the diary of fourteen year old Georgia
Nicolson, ‘Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging’ was the first romance novel
that I ever read. I must have been about ten or eleven when I first stole this off
of my older sister’s shelf. I was curious as to the contents of a book with the
word ‘thong’ on the front cover. I snuck off to my room and read it in secret.
It was the funniest book I had ever read. Georgia’s crazy antics and
randomnosity had me giggling wildly and though I did not much care for love
interest, Robbie, at the time, I still told all the girls in my class at school
about it. ‘Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging’ is a book that refuses to
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to this book like crack cocaine. For the day it took to get through it, getting
me to do anything was about as easy as trying to walk through a thick brick
wall. ‘The Boyfriend List’ follows Ruby
Oliver as, throughout the course of 11 ‘shrink’ appointments, she explores 15
important relationships (not all of which are romantic) that she has had with
guys throughout her life. The stories are interesting and well-paced and the
narrative is hilarious. This is a romance novel that for once does not actually
promote the importance of love, but promotes self-confidence and friendship
instead – strange, I know, but it completely works! Start reading it and I
promise, you’ll be done before the day is out. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Rainbow Rowell really)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfymTHocLItFuMGVDIv1Qdm0ZRwNMU8-DgMksI-jqVwDnotnsD5diruCL_ptiTsgmX_2COSOPRg4m0ecpm5Om8VMTai2_qLsbkiRjJolU-4nBfmq0IOq0PbrLodTW1cHfiUnRVswP8fNKo/s1600/fangirl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfymTHocLItFuMGVDIv1Qdm0ZRwNMU8-DgMksI-jqVwDnotnsD5diruCL_ptiTsgmX_2COSOPRg4m0ecpm5Om8VMTai2_qLsbkiRjJolU-4nBfmq0IOq0PbrLodTW1cHfiUnRVswP8fNKo/s320/fangirl.jpg" width="209" /></a><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Would this really be a reliable list
if Rainbow Rowell wasn’t on here <i>somewhere</i>?
Just thinking about ‘Fangirl’ and its colourful array of characters
(particularly tall and lovely, Levi) makes me sigh and drift off into a Rowell
induced dream. One of the main reasons I think I loved this book so much was
because of its unusual set-up. We all know the story of the cute
under-appreciated girl desperately trying to get her high-school crush to
notice her, but never before have I heard the tale of one awkward twin, trying
to run a successful fan-fiction page and refusing to adapt to her new life at
college (University to us Brits)! The difficult changes that happen at college
are rarely addressed in teen romance fiction and I absolutely loved ‘Fangirl’
for being one of the first to do so! The whole story was just </span></span></div>
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definitely one to look out for!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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by Sarah Mlynowski</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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summer for about three years now and it never fails to amaze me. ’10 Things We
Shouldn’t Have Done’ is the most unpredictable piece of romantic fiction I have
ever read. I found myself laughing with glee at some of the cleverer plot
twists. The story follows sixteen year old April as she and her friend Vi spend
a year secretly living on their own together while their parents are out of
town. Of course, as expected, they abuse this newly-found freedom and after a
few wild parties and a washing machine disaster find themselves in a good bit of
trouble. Hot-tubs, kittens and drunken mermaid impressions are just three of
the 10 things I absolutely loved about this book. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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little bit from the brilliance of this one. As regulars to this blog will know,
‘Anna and the French Kiss’ has been one of my favourite books for a very long
time. It actually has a whole other blog post to itself – and rightfully so.
‘Anna and the French Kiss’, in my opinion, is the perfect teen romance novel.
It has everything you could possibly ask for: a beautiful Parisian setting, a
charming romantic interest, and most importantly, a whole lot of nearly-kisses,
almost-kisses, not-quite kisses and finally, <i>French</i> kisses. There has never, in all of Waterstones teen section,
been a more indulgently romantic novel. It destroyed me emotionally and left my
crying on my bed. It really is that good. I may have written this list just so
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Majestical_Eviehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05701391827723831681noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3358678583629484175.post-46732543806043251852014-11-04T08:51:00.000-08:002014-11-04T10:29:58.255-08:00Sisterhood of the World Blogger Award<div class="MsoNormal">
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much, Jay, for nominating me! You should check out her blog: <a href="http://booksbyj.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Books By Jay</a>, it
really is phenomenal. I’ve been dying to do this tag for ages and I am locked
and loaded to write down the best darn answers to any tag you’ve ever
read! So… let’s do this thing<o:p></o:p></span></span><br>
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love my dystopian and trust me I have read <i>a
lot</i> of it! However, if you really are going to be so cruel as to make me
choose then I would probably have to go with… ‘Delirium’ by Lauren Oliver. That
book made me weep all kinds of ugly. I must have cried out around 50% of the
water in my body. My friend told me what happens in the other two books though
and with an ending like that I can’t bear to even attempt to read them… Aren’t
spoilers the worst?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I’m quite new to this whole blogging thing compared to some of you
keyboard dinosaurs out there, but I <i>think
</i>this is like a goodreads thing? In which case, I don’t know, because
apparently I’m too stupid to work out how to use goodreads.<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/34706835-majestical-evie" target="_blank"> You can find mehere</a> if you want to try and figure it out for me… <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">However, if you’re talking about the books in the massive wobbly pile by
my bed then I have about 10! Though it <i>is
</i>my birthday this month so with any luck, that’ll double!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Ahern came out and my friend pointed out in Waterstones that it had this really
wicked writing style! Of course, it made me want to read it right then and
there, immediately. But, what with being a teen n’ all my pockets are
perpetually empty and I decided that £7 was far too much to pay for this book.
Luckily, my town has about a thousand charity shops so I figured I’d just hunt
the book down under its old title ‘Where Rainbows End’ (cheesy, I know).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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swear, I must have gone into more than twenty different odd-smelling shops and
bumped into enough of the elderly to have me banned from all care homes ever,
but it wasn’t there…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All of this just makes me want it more! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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different Christmas stories written by some of my absolutely favourite authors,
including the Romantic Rainbow Rowell and the Spectacular Stephanie Perkins!
It’s actually already out in the shops but I can’t afford it and it’s glorious
pink pages… So, I will wait until my birthday and hope with all of my might. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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I have read a total of 32 of her books… I honestly don’t know how I did it! I
was a massive fan of hers as a kid, every time we went to the bookshop I would
pick out one or two of her books without fail. My brothers and sisters were
fantasy addicts and they used to get annoyed by my total devotion to something
that didn’t even have a single hobbit in it. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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ones never hop on over to my part of the UK! I never get any chances to get
anything signed. I don’t buy the signed books from Waterstones again because of
price, but even if they were cheaper it’s still not as exciting as having the
actual living breathing author in front of you scrawling down your name… Maybe
if I wish hard enough John Green or E. Lockhart will suddenly be compelled to
jump on a plane, hunt me down and write a deep personal message in the front of
my book, but until then, I can only dream. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Rowell. Every single one of their books so far has managed to break down my
floodgates and turn my eyes into some kind of Niagra Falls lookalike. They have
such a beautiful writing style and I am most comfortable when immersed in one
of their gorgeous romances… *sigh* <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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involved and that is why ‘Perks of Being a Wallflower’ was so on point! Chbosky
himself wrote the screenplay for the movie so it was always destined for
greatness. The characters were so well cast (even if Emma Watson's ‘American’
accent was so annoying…) and it was such an emotional movie. Seriously: Read
it. Watch it. Rip your heart out of your chest. And then lose the ability to
feel emotions entirely.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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fiction the situations can be so extreme. I mean, I’ve never been forced to
participate in a battle for the death against 23 other teens in which I nearly
die of dehydration, fire, flying bug attacks and angry dogs who look weirdly
like that guy I once knew, all the while being broadcast to millions of rich
costume-lovers – so how the hell can I say I relate to Katniss Everdeen? That
said, I would probably say I’m a bit like a few different characters. I’m
stubborn like Emily in ‘A Heart Shaped Bruise’ (though, er… not to such a
murderous extent) and I’m quirky like Lola in ‘Lola and the Boy Next Door’ – my
friend says I even dress a bit like her! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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you could change the ending of any book, what would it be and what would you
change it to?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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you could dump hot noodle soup over the head of any one book character, who
would you choose?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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maids and your DJ?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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into prison for twenty two years with one book character of your choice, who
would it be? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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can attend one fictional school for an entire year, which would it be?
(Hogwarts is banned from this answer because, well… duh!) <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Would
you rather snog Draco Malfoy, Luna Lovegood or Ron Weasley? State why!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If
you had to get a tattoo of one characters face on a body part of your choosing,
who and where would you choose? (Keep it clean people!) <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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can bring one fictional character back from the dead, but by doing so you have to
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to black and the opening scene for ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ began to run, I bit
my lip. This was it. Like most people my age, I have had a deep love for the
John Green novel ever since I had first read it. The book destroyed me, drowning
me in tears as I read the last chapters. It had definitely left a lasting
impression. I had been waiting for this movie for a long time. It meant
something to me. It meant something to most every other teenager I knew. And
that was why it was so important they got this right.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSGzLh5WDgp2-27zegrIG6pJZ2-Tco1E3EYHzXsFavlXU9QOGAtwdfNwOKKVl-korW7qPgM0rFnqf1SNJx9I6jM7FRCV2_9GBUVa-9i4zD7x9StZfNA4ZVdi_h9IVJr6laGWjKzhgjmjdd/s1600/Fault+in+Our+Stars.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSGzLh5WDgp2-27zegrIG6pJZ2-Tco1E3EYHzXsFavlXU9QOGAtwdfNwOKKVl-korW7qPgM0rFnqf1SNJx9I6jM7FRCV2_9GBUVa-9i4zD7x9StZfNA4ZVdi_h9IVJr6laGWjKzhgjmjdd/s1600/Fault+in+Our+Stars.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Movie adaptations on the whole make
me quite nervous. There are so many things that they can get wrong. I know I
have to make exceptions -it must be difficult to fit every single page into the
film - but the more they cut and paste and change, the lower my opinion
plummets. I just get so angry paying to see a movie-adaptation of a book I
loved so much and finding how unrecognizable it has become. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Even if they do somehow manage to
leave the plot line in its original form, I am still ridiculously hard to
please. The setting and the characters have to be just so, otherwise the book
will be ruined for me for a long time after. Seeing a movie-adaptation always
manages to erase the idea of the characters that exists in my head and replace
it with whatever brand-name ill-fitted actors that the director has chosen to
sell more tickets. One single movie can change my whole perspective on the
book, to the point where I can’t even remember what the character’s used to
look like to me. When I read Harry Potter, it is Daniel Radcliffe I see, not
the scruffy bespectacled kid that I had one been able to conjure up in my mind.
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‘The Fault in Our Stars’ was perfect. It was beautifully shot; cleverly cast
and did not miss a single scene. It was a wonderfully weird sensation to
realise that the version of the book they had created was almost identical to
the version of the book I had initially imagined at home. And after a deep
discussion with a few other die-hard John Green fans it turned out that it was
a close fit to their imaginations as well.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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announced, I had been apprehensive about the casting of soft-faced blonde,
Ansel Elgort, for the part of Gus. But as I slipped easily into the first
scenes of the movie, I realised that no other actor could have fit into the
role quite as well. Elgort’s Gus was funny and charming and a sweet sort of
handsome that he managed to show both on the inside and the out. It may just
have been because I did not associate Elgort with any other movie but I really
believed in his portrayal of Gus. I think that belief is one of the main
reasons why my mascara was dripping off of the bottom of my face by the time
the lights came up at the end of the show.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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is an enjoyably romantic film to watch. The story is made perfectly clear for
those with no previous experience and the scenes are wonderfully romantic with
only a subtle layer of cheese to satisfy the audience. The powerful emotions
contained within ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ have been translated almost perfectly
from book to movie. Though I cried more when reading the book, the movie still
felt like a strong personal experience. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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do recommend that you read it first. As closely as the film reflects the book,
I still think that the book tells a more emotionally compelling story and
proves to be a more satisfying experience overall. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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movie adaptations that I have ever had the pleasure of seeing. There was much
concern surrounding the ridiculous expectations of the fans of the book, but
‘The Fault in Our Stars’ somehow managed to skyrocket way above its impossible
hype and into a whole new galaxy of goodness. Despite my apprehension, I loved
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of characters ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ is a movie-adaptation that will
simultaneously wreck you emotionally and warm you to the core. Without a doubt,
if you were a fan of the book you’re going to love this. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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isn’t easy to say. I’ve been keeping a secret from you for quite some time now,
and the guilt is becoming unbearable. It’s time you knew…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> I have read a total of
32 of Jaqueline Wilson’s books. I often re-read my favourites. I was addicted
to ‘Cookie’ and I cried for days about ‘My Sister Jodie’. She has been one of
my favourite authors for a long time now. There. I said it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ever since I found a copy of ‘The Bed and Breakfast Star’ at
the bottom of our family bookshelf I was hooked. Having been read by each of my
four brothers and sisters numerous times, the book was old and battered, but I
loved it all the same. It was so different from the rest of my identical
stories of dragons and fairies and painfully well-behaved children. I thought
Elsa, the main character, was brilliant! She was bright and bubbly and got into
lots of trouble. I had never met any homeless children before, but it never
mattered to me one bit that her living situation was so different to mine – her
being curly headed and hilarious, in my eyes we were practically the same.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy56W2Ra-uHX1bE-HIIQngLlpUvhypwqqvM2Ro4AUAMAoyj_8d-OxTydLDDnqRwtg1BMnpAUgEJD0LyHvqWxxE1ZMKE3Q5o1LevA1DN2UbGKpwaMJuoCG4472Mzdyx1_yDmWzqYx1dovKH/s1600/The+suitcase+kid.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy56W2Ra-uHX1bE-HIIQngLlpUvhypwqqvM2Ro4AUAMAoyj_8d-OxTydLDDnqRwtg1BMnpAUgEJD0LyHvqWxxE1ZMKE3Q5o1LevA1DN2UbGKpwaMJuoCG4472Mzdyx1_yDmWzqYx1dovKH/s1600/The+suitcase+kid.jpg" height="200" width="135" /></a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: 36pt;">For many years after that, I thrived off of Wilson. I became
sensitive towards anyone with an unusual home life - understanding so much more
about why I should show kindness to the people around me. I read all of what
they had to offer in the school library, fighting with the other girls over who’s
turn it was to take home ‘The Suitcase Kid’. My friends grew envious as every
time my parents took me to the bookshop my collection grew larger </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: 36pt;">and larger.
It is majorly because of Wilson that I love reading as much as I do. She was
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But as we all grew up at a startling speed, Wilson was cast
out of our bookshelves for being too immature, leaving many near empty. Wilson
was what children read - not practically-almost-adult preteens! I pretended I
had rid myself of Wilson as well, embarrassed by the joyful nostalgia she
brought me. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There’s a big stack of her books in the corner of my bedroom
that I always push behind the curtain when friends come around. I’m worried
that the sheer size of my collection will alarm them. They may not be accepting
of my unusual reading habits. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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leaving my house in disgust and texting everyone I know about my dirty little
secret. I am left alone in my room, completely humiliated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But should I really be ashamed? It’s quite unpopular at the
moment to be a fan of Jacqueline Wilson. Readers have labelled her writing
predictable, boring and childish and have turned their nose away in revulsion. I’m
going to let you in on another little secret though: most of them are lying
too!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I was recently at a female friend’s house and upon entering
her room the first thing I did was scour her bookshelf for anything I hadn’t
read. </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As my eyes wandered over the familiar John Green titles and
the ‘Hunger Games’ hardbacks they landed upon something most surprising: ‘Lola
Rose’ by Jacqueline Wilson. I pulled the book from its place with elation and
grinned at my friend. She had a mini-collection of her own: ‘Vicky Angel’, ‘The
Lottie Project’, ‘Double Act’; They were all here!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My friend went pink in the face and snatched the book from my
hands, shoving it hastily into the back of her drawer. “I never did like that
book. Jacqueline Wilson’s so boring!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Oh really, dear chum? You think she’s boring? Is that why all
these books are so battered and well-thumbed? You were so bored by her that you
accidentally read all her books twelve times?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Much like high-school musical or Spongebob Squarepants,
people don’t tell you they like Jacqueline Wilson because they are embarrassed
that they will appear immature. She is something we were all meant to have
outgrown years ago but never really did. We cannot deny that Jacqueline Wilson
is good at what she does! Yes, her stories all seem to share themes of divorce
and family troubles, but that doesn’t seem to stop children today from coming
back for more. They’re warm and comforting books that taught most of us girls
(females being her main audience) not only about the issues of children not as
fortunate as ourselves, but also to love reading. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Though I do not read much Wilson anymore (finding myself
unable to connect with the children in her stories so far from my own age), I
refuse to stand up and say that I never liked her. I did. We all did. So let’s stop all this
shame and just stand up and say it. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">‘I love Jacqueline Wilson and you all probably do, too!’</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If you fancy reliving your old Jacqueline Wilson memories then why not go visit her <a href="http://www.jacquelinewilson.co.uk/" target="_blank">website</a>?</span></span></div>
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friendly blog. I am extremely open to all your comments, tweets and suggestions
and in fact encourage them! I am more than happy to answer almost any question
or query that you may have and I would love to think of my blog as a small
community. However, as a particularly passionate breed of bookworm, one of the
worst questions anyone could ever ask me is this:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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book I have ever read will fall ou</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">t of my head and into a puddle around my
feet. I will squirm and wriggle and say ‘Um…’ a lot, before finally shuffling
away with an extremely anti-climactic ‘I don’t know’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> The pressure of that question is too
much to bear. The asker will always stare at you with a certain amount of
expectation in their eyes, as if whatever it is that bursts out of your mouth
next will determine their opinion of you for many years to come. If I say
something like ‘The Lord of the Flies’ then they will probably give me an
impressed nod and invite me to eat lunch with them, however, if I panic and say
‘Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging’ (I do love that book) then they will
probably wrinkle their nose in disgust before exiling me from their life
entirely. Probably. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsRBs_ofLzDECljsgDIEdxNbPWdpznaNq6Q17Ja-GtHlphz9_2grSCL7LeLPSt195y7s_otmJ8sv8hmaHS46zKLSz2z-o1vuXA9_KEBF5IZSjmNustA3JcA7eon2IllaTzgpqs02iX70v9/s1600/whinnie.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsRBs_ofLzDECljsgDIEdxNbPWdpznaNq6Q17Ja-GtHlphz9_2grSCL7LeLPSt195y7s_otmJ8sv8hmaHS46zKLSz2z-o1vuXA9_KEBF5IZSjmNustA3JcA7eon2IllaTzgpqs02iX70v9/s1600/whinnie.png" /></a><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> I don’t see why I should have to
choose a favourite book at all. I simply cannot commit to one when there is so
much choice out there. It is simply ridiculous that I should have to let you make
a snap decision about me based on whether I prefer Classics or Sci-Fi; romance
or horror; ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ or ‘Winnie the Pooh’. I am not married
to a single novel; I am having off-again, on-again affairs with more than
twelve at once.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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every single day of the week. It entirely depends on what kind of mood I’m in.
If I’m in quite an emotional mood, I’ll probably name ‘Anna and the French
Kiss’ as my favourite and start endlessly chattering about boarding school in
Paris. If I want to feel cool and mysterious, I might tell you that I love the
symbolism in ‘The Catcher in the Rye'. If on a particularly reminiscent
Tuesday, I am overtaken by nostalgia, I will tearfully tell you all about my
mother’s beaten old copy of ‘Nancy and Plum’ that she was given in Sunday
school as a child and ignore your confused expression when you don’t know what
the hell I’m on about.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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books are my favourite. Or maybe they all are? I don’t really know and I don’t
really think I should have to. When you think of me, I don’t want you to think
of a miniscule 300 pages – I want you to think of an entire library! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> This is why I think that in the UK
we should have a law that prohibits everyone from ever asking that dreaded
question. I want David Cameron and stand up in the House of Commons and say
that if one wants to enquire about another person’s taste in reading, then we
must say ‘So what kinda books are you into, chum?’ or something of that
variety. I guarantee you that by doing
this everyone in the UK will probably be invited to 70% more sleepovers. Probably.
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sweating in front of a new acquaintance, wracking our brains for that one
answer that will lead to a strong and beautiful friendship. No more will we
fail to come up with that answer and instead try to avoid that person for the
next month out of embarrassment. No more shall we have to run into them at our
friend Keith’s party and awkwardly stand making our ridiculous excuses! No
more, I say, no more!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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book tag! This lovely tag consists of seven deadly sins with seven deadly
questions which I am going to answer for you today! I did not create this book
tag; this tag was created by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm0c56gcbsE" target="_blank">BookishlyMalyza </a>on youtube. All that aside; let’s
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expensive books. Most of my library is a second hand paperback, so it’s unusual
for me to pay more than about £7 for a book (Which I believe to be fair book
price). However, I did pay about £14 for my hardback copy of ‘The Fault in Our
Stars’, which, even though I have lost the dust cover for, was a bloody good
buy. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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mere 52p from a Welsh hospice care and it is ‘The Sisters Club: The Rule of
Three’. I shamelessly bought the children’s book only a couple of weeks ago.
It’s the sequel to ‘The Sisters Club’, a book I have re-read over and over in
the years since I got it. It's just so nostalgic and lovely for me and... for 52p, you can't really go wrong!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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if I love a book, I tend to love it whole heartedly. My love/hate author would
probably have to be Malorie Blackman. I absolutely loved ‘Noughts and Crosses’
as a stand-alone novel, it was exciting, thought-provoking, heart-wrenching and wonderful but I found the rest of the series far-fetched and
quite frankly a bit... disappointing. My advice would be to read book one and leave it
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Brett a good number of times. It tells the tale of Ember Fury, the troubled
daughter of a rock star. It’s visually awesome, with cool Gorillaz-esque illustrations
everywhere and ever-changing fonts. It’s supposed to be a kids book but it’s a
story I just love to get lost in over and over and over and over again. It makes me feel so cool to read that book because it's so darn angsty and I'm a sucker for great illustrations! All that and more keeps luring me back!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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slang that I just can’t get my head around. I’ve been told countless times that
if you push through, you get used to the slang and swallowed up by the story,
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to drop ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ by J.D. Salinger into conversation if I can. I
do have a genuine love for the book and the fact that it’s a classic (not to
mention the fact that it’s also John Green’s favourite) just makes me feel so
cool when I talk about it. I’ve read the book a good number of times so I do
know pretty much what I’m talking about… but I won’t deny that I love the
impressed looks I get whenever I mention it. It's the book-equivalent of putting on a pair of ultra-cool black sunglasses and riding off on your motorbike into the sunset. 'Catcher In the Rye' is like the black and white photo filter. It makes you really, incredibly, <i>deep.</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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and an accent on a male protagonist. I know I can’t actually see the character,
but if the writer lets me imagine they’re love interest as attractive, then
I’ll love their book just that bit more. Otherwise, I like a good sense of
humour, the ability to take control of a situation, a little bit of mystery and
a cheeky bit of charm. Just think Étienne St. Clair from ‘Anna and the French
Kiss’ or Four from ‘Divergent’. However, sometimes I can just fall in love with a love story as a whole and find a certain couple more attractive rather than a particular individual! For instance, in 'Eleanor and Park' I wanted Park to be with Eleanor way more than I wanted Park to be with me! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Stephanie Perkins so that would be a very welcome gift indeed. Otherwise, anything from the anime
section really. I never buy myself any anime at all because it’s so darn
expensive for what you get. An anime book of the same size as any other novel
will tell a way smaller section of the story and will be finished way quicker.
As a teenager I don’t have as much money to spend on books as others, so when I
do buy a book I like to get good value for my money. I'm a bit of a cheapskate really! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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school night and I was lying restless on my bed with a throbbing ache in my
heart. ‘Anna and the French Kiss’ lay open on the pillow beside me, spine still
stiff from the bookshop that day. As I lay sighing at the ceiling, there was
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in love with someone who I had only ever seen in my imagination; who only
actually existed on paper. I longed to pull Etienne out from the pages of ‘Anna
and the French Kiss’ and into my own comparably boring world. This just wasn’t
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slayed me. Never before had I felt such an ache of yearning when reading a
romance novel (and trust me – I’ve read a lot of them). But what was it that
made this book so perfect? Let’s analyse shall we?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> The Setup: The story follows Anna
Oliphant as she is unwillingly pulled from her happy life in Atlanta to go and
attend her final year at a prestigious boarding school in Paris. First off –
Paris: The city of love. We’ve not even started the book yet and already our
heart is melting a little bit. Romantic things just seem to <i>happen </i>in Paris. Maybe it’s the
language? You could describe a particularly bad case of athlete’s foot in
French and I’d still want you to kiss me under the twinkling lights of the Eiffel
Tower. Whatever it is, as soon as Perkins so much as mentioned Paris, I was
drawn like a moth to a flame. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> The Boy: Of course it wouldn’t be
Paris if there weren’t a few good-looking chaps floating about, now would it?
You simply cannot have one without the other. Our boy takes form as Étienne St.
Clair. I’m not sure how she did it, but Perkins somehow manages not only to
wedge a French boy into an American boarding school, but give said boy a
gorgeous British accent as well. Étienne was the perfect mix of cheek, chivalry
and charm, (not to mention, fantastic hair) but somehow didn’t come across as
over-the-top or arrogant. Despite being otherwise engaged with long-running
girlfriend, Ellie, St. Clair was a love interest you could really lust over,
making the rest of the book a tantalizingly tasty read. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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romance fiction, but usually when I pick up these sorts of books I find the
female narrative a little… irritating. Seemingly as some kind of rule the girls
who star in these books are self-involved, shallow and little bit too obsessive
– I expected a similar situation with ‘Anna and the French Kiss’. However, I
was pleasantly surprised. Not only did Anna give a likable and interesting
narrative to the book, but she also managed to break every single one of the
rule I just stated. Anna cared about her friends and her family back home; she
was ready to put them before anything else in her life. As much as she lusted
after Étienne St Clair, she also showed an interest in other boys and kept a
constant and thriving film blog too. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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other details are slightly off, but this is romance</span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: 36pt;"> fiction</i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: 36pt;">, people! It’s what we’re here for! We read this stuff
because sometimes real life just isn’t exciting enough. If we start picking
apart every detail in a romance novel that’s the slightest bit unrealistic then
you might as well chuck the entirety of Waterstones’ teen romance section into
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The bottom line is if you don’t like romance novels; don’t
read ‘Anna and the French Kiss’. It just won’t be for you. It is the most
brilliantly, satisfyingly romantic novel I have ever had the pleasure of
reading, and it isn’t pretending to be anything else. I regard ‘Anna and the
French Kiss’ so highly that there were really no other contenders for the pink
spot on this list. The book pushed me into a deep cavern of love and longing
that I don’t think I’ll ever really climb out of. Not that I’d even want to try.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 21.4666652679443px; text-indent: 0px;">Find out more about Stephanie Perkins <a href="http://naturalartificial.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">here!</a></b></div>
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<b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 21.4666652679443px; text-indent: 0px;">You can read the other reviews in the Rainbow List of Must-Reads here: <a href="http://prescriptionfiction.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/the-rainbow-list-of-must-reads-red.html" target="_blank">Red</a>, <a href="http://prescriptionfiction.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/rainbow-list-of-must-reads-orange.html" target="_blank">Orange</a>, <a href="http://prescriptionfiction.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/rainbow-list-of-must-reads-yellow-its.html" target="_blank">Yellow</a>, </b><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 21.4666652679443px; text-indent: 0px;"><a href="http://prescriptionfiction.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/rainbow-list-of-must-reads-green-how-to.html" target="_blank">Green,</a> <a href="http://prescriptionfiction.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/rainbow-list-of-must-reads-blue-we-were.html" target="_blank">Blue</a>, <a href="http://prescriptionfiction.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/rainbow-list-of-must-reads-purple-will.html" target="_blank">Purple</a></b></div>
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Majestical_Eviehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05701391827723831681noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3358678583629484175.post-81186434879514132642014-09-23T09:22:00.000-07:002014-09-23T09:22:31.355-07:00Rainbow List of Must-Reads: Purple - Will Grayson, Will Grayson<h4>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.4666652679443px;">This is the Rainbow List of Must-Reads: Where I review a different one of my favourite books each week! Sixth</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;"> on our list we have a purple book with a purple cover:</span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> As I lifted ‘Will Grayson, Will
Grayson’ from the shelves of my local Waterstones, a strange sadness washed
over me. Having just finished ‘An Abundance of Katherines’ (My favourite of his
works) I had rushed to the shops to complete my Green collection – Now, I
wished I had waited just a little bit longer. This was the last one of John
Green’s books that I hadn’t read. This book would be the last time for a while
that I would get the excited rush of reading something of his for the first
time. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For those of you who don’t know, ‘Will Grayson, Will Grayson
‘ is shared by two authors; with John Green writing the odd numbered chapters
and David Levithan the even. It follows the story of two teenage boys; both
named Will Grayson, living in different parts of Illinois. The issues that the
two boys are faced with in their day-to-day lives cause their stories to
intertwine one faithful night in Chicago outside a dirty looking sex shop. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> I slipped into the story of ‘Will
Grayson, Will Grayson’ in the same way one would slip into a hot bath. I sighed
with a mixture of bliss and relief as I sailed through the first chapter. I had
gone to the bookshop in search of some sweet John Green familiarity and I was
not disappointed. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Though in ‘Will Grayson, Will Grayson’ Green’s characters are
somewhat different to what we have seen before (The book features the
exuberant, extravagant and fantastically gay character of Tiny Cooper) the writing
style is still easy, warm, satisfying and distinctly John Green. It was exactly what I came for, I was not disappointed. However,
when I bought the book there was one rather large aspect of it that I had
forgotten – co-writer, David Levithan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After John Green’s smooth opening chapter, the switch in
writers was a bit of a shock. Not only because Levithan has refused to any
capital letters in his chapters whatsoever (something which took quite a bit of
getting used to), but also because the two writer’s main characters have a
strong and obvious contrast. While Green’s Will Grayson seems your typical
awkward, ordinary teenage boy, hopelessly trying to fly under the radar of high
school life, Levithan’s Will Grayson is an angry, angsty teenager with a severe
case of depression, desperately clinging to his online relationship with
another boy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Levithan’s Will Grayson definitely wasn’t what I was
expecting from a book with John Green’s name on it. But as I worked my way
through the book I found myself savouring Levithan’s chapters a little more
than Green’s. As much as I enjoyed Green’s Grayson’s side of the story,
Levithan’s came as a refreshing change of pace, giving the book whole new
dimensions. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The character development in ‘Will Grayson, Will Grayson’ is
simply beautiful. Though initially I found both Will Graysons annoying and
horrifically self-involved, as the book progressed I began to understand them
and relate to them in ways I don’t usually with other books. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One of the reasons ‘Will Grayson, Will Grayson’ made such an
impact on me was because the characters were imperfect - and that was okay.
Often, teen fiction can undermine the emotions of young characters as instances
of teenage angst rather than issues that should actually be recognised and
dealt with. In ‘Will Grayson, Will Grayson’ the problems of the two main
characters were indulged by the writers in a most satisfying way. The reader is
taught that the dilemmas you are faced with as a teenager are equally as
important as the ones you will face in your adulthood and can in fact affect
you for the rest of your life.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> I loved ‘Will Grayson, Will Grayson’ because
it is a book written by adults that finally manages to acknowledge that being a
teenager is difficult, without seeming condescending in any way. And that it
why I believe it deserves the purple spot on this list. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>You can find out more about John Green <a href="http://johngreenbooks.com/" target="_blank">here</a>!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>You can find out more about David Levithan <a href="http://davidlevithan.com/" target="_blank">here</a>!</b></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;">You can read the other reviews in the Rainbow List of Must-Reads here: <a href="http://prescriptionfiction.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/the-rainbow-list-of-must-reads-red.html" target="_blank">Red</a>, <a href="http://prescriptionfiction.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/rainbow-list-of-must-reads-orange.html" target="_blank">Orange</a>, <a href="http://prescriptionfiction.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/rainbow-list-of-must-reads-yellow-its.html" target="_blank">Yellow</a>, </b><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;"><a href="http://prescriptionfiction.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/rainbow-list-of-must-reads-green-how-to.html" target="_blank">Green,</a> <a href="http://prescriptionfiction.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/rainbow-list-of-must-reads-blue-we-were.html" target="_blank">Blue</a></b></div>
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