The Earth, My Butt and Other Big, Round Things-- Carolyn Mackler

Fifteen-year-old Virginia Shreves has a larger-than-average body and a plus-size inferiority complex. She lives on the Web, snarfs junk food, and follows the "Fat Girl Code of Conduct." Her stuttering best friend has just moved to Walla Walla (of all places). Her new companion, Froggy Welsh the Fourth (real name), has just succeeded in getting his hand up her shirt, and she lives in fear that he’ll look underneath. Then there are the other Shreves: Mom, the successful psychologist and exercise fiend; Dad, a top executive who ogles thin women on TV; and older siblings Anaïs and rugby god Byron, both of them slim and brilliant. Delete Virginia, and the Shreves would be a picture-perfect family. Or so she’s convinced. And then a shocking phone call changes everything.

I enjoyed this book quite a bit; although it was a bit slow at the beginning, the end made you want more. Immediately after reading this, i wanted there to be a sequal just so that i could follow the characters through more of their life.
4 stars!

age recommendation: 13+

The I Love Your Blog Award!

thanks to Liana, i won the I Love Your Blog Award! :] *cheer* so check out her blog as well: http://lainahastoomuchsparetime.blogspot.com/2008/12/i-love-your-blog-award.html

so here are my nominees: *drum roll please*
*Reading Keeps You Sane
http://readingkeepsyousane.blogspot.com/
*And Another Book Read...
http://andanotherbookread.blogspot.com/
*The Book Muncher
http://thebookmuncher.blogspot.com/
OK FINE. I CAN'T CHOOSE ANY OTHERS... I PICK EVERYBODY. I JUST LOVE THE DIVERSITY AND APPEARANCE OF ALL BLOGS. LOL

so yeah... i know it's dumb, but i really couldn't pick any more lol

now here are the next steps after receiving the award:
1) Add the logo of your award to your blog.
2) Add a link to the person who awarded it to you.
3) Nominate at least 7 other blogs.
4) Add links to those blogs on your blog.
5.) Leave a message for your nominees on their blogs.

contest!! (no, not mine yet, sorry)

Hey! head on over to http://andanotherbookread.blogspot.com/ for an amazing contest to win Paper Towns by John Green! hurry, the contest ends Saturday! :]


and by the way guys, expect a review or two tonight and tomorrow! :]

Happy day after Turkey Day!

hey everybody! i know it's been a while, but i just wanted to say that i hope everyone had a really good Thanksgiving and all stuffed them selves with food (lol... i know i did) :]


i plan on updating with some cool new book reviews and maybe a surprise or two in the next couple of days (schoolwork has been absolutely insane and it's been keeping me from my lovely blog!)

thank you all for keeping up with my slow blog updates! :] lol

Anthem by Any Rand

from the back of the book:
Equality 7-2521 lives in the Dark Ages of the future, where all decisions are made by a committee, all people live in collectives, all traces of individualism have been wiped out. But the spark of individual thought and freedom still burns in Equality 7-2521, a passion which he has been taught to call sinful. in a purely egalitarian world,he dares to stand forth from the herd -- to think and choose for himself, to discover electricity, and to love the woman of his choice. Now he has been marked for death for committing the ultimate sin: in a world where the great "we" reign supreme, he has rediscovered the lost and holy word "I."

This is one o my all time favorite books. it's really short, but i absolutely loved it! it is so amazingly written and Ayn Rand has such a way with words. i was completely hooked from beginning to end. it is an amazing and deep book with a deep, powerful message
5+ stars!! :]

age recommendation: 15+

Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson

Tyler Miller used to be just an average person, but ever since he got busted for spray painting the school, everyone knows his name. He has an overwhelming crush on Bethany Milbury, one of the most popular girls in school, who also happens to be a)the sister of his worst enemy and b)the daughter of his father's boss. Because of his mandatory hard labor over the summer, he starts to get attention from her. They start to talk and hangout and it all goes on from there...
i really liked this book... 5 stars! i have loved all of the books that i have read by Laurie Halse Anderson and i plan on reading all of her other books. i would definitely recommend this book :)

it's been a while...

i know it's been a while since i've done a review. i've been so crazy with school and such that i've had no time. the books are piling up to be reviewed, so you can expect at least 2 or 3 by tomorrow. (if i get all of my homework done in a timely fashion today, i'll have a few up tonight) :]