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Sunday, July 28, 2013
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Manga
xxxHolic by CLAMP
Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE by CLAMP
Chibi Vampire by Yuna Kagesaki
Cirque Du Freak by Darren Shan
Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE by CLAMP
Chibi Vampire by Yuna Kagesaki
Cirque Du Freak by Darren Shan
Dystopia
Divergent by Veronica Roth
1984 by George Orwell
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Limit by Kristin Landon
1984 by George Orwell
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Limit by Kristin Landon
The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
Book title: The Fault In Our Stars
Author: John Green
Summery from front flap: Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.
My thoughts: This. Freaking. Book. I have tried so very hard not to cry, but at some point, I think I'm going to see some picture based off of the book and I will break down crying. This book should have a warning label somewhere.
WARNING: DO NOT READ IF YOU DON'T WANT TO CRY
I plan to read other books by John Green, despite the fact that I will probably cry over those books.
Review: For one, this book did NOT end the way I expected AT ALL. I won't say HOW it ended, or what I thought it would be like here, in case you haven't read the book, and believe me, there is nothing more annoying then reading a book review and without warning, telling you everything that happens. No thank you! But if you are interested in what I thought it would be, email me at athenasbookstack@gmail.com
The characters are extremely intelligent. They made me seriously think about what they were saying, and you really don't find things like that very often. The things Hazel said..Jeez...she is like, seriously deep.
Here is what she says in response to Augustus saying that he fears oblivion.
"There will come a time," I said, "when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this" -I gestured encompassingly-"will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was a time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be a time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that's what everyone else does."
I admit, I've thought about things like that, but I don't know if it was her acceptance or that she used bigger words than I would, but for some reason that really amazes me.
Once again, a great book, and I would definitely recommend it.
Quick review:
Age group: Teen 13+Writing style on a scale from 1-5: 5
Plot on a scale from 1-5: 5
Characters: Brilliant
Monday, July 22, 2013
What Makes You Put Down A Book?
Goodreads explores the psychology behind abandoning books.
What makes you put down a book, and what makes you keep turning pages?
http://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/424-what-makes-you-put-down-a-book
What makes you put down a book, and what makes you keep turning pages?
http://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/424-what-makes-you-put-down-a-book
Sunday, July 21, 2013
Perks of Being a Wallflower
PERKS OF BEING A
WALLFLOWER
BY STEVEN CHBOSKY
A REVIEW BY ATHENA
FROM ATHENA’S BOOK STACK
This book.
I’m not even quite
sure what I think of it yet.
I finished it a few
days ago, and I’m kind of, still thinking about everything.
Let’s start with
something easy first.
The first thing I
noticed was the style of writing. In Perks, Charlie, the main character, and
the one writing, writes to a friend who isn’t named in the book, or not that I
could tell. And Charlie just wants the person to listen and try not to find out
who he is, saying that he used generic names.
And just reading
that makes me wonder if his name really was
Charlie or not. About how many times he must have rewritten the fake names
because he accidentally used the real ones. I don’t know if I’m the only one
who thought of it that way, but I’m almost certain I’m not.
But, yes. Charlie
writes to the person from the beginning of his first year as a freshman in high
school, to the end of it. And we aren’t quite sure what happens to him after
that, and I suppose that that would just be up to our imagination.
So, Charlie is a very
lonely kid and he doesn’t really makes friends easily. And to me, he was kind
of a wimpy kid who knew nothing of the world until it was revealed to him in
high school, about this thing called “going out” and such. It really surprised
me how little he knew about these things, considering I knew about “going out”
before freshman year, which I haven’t even started yet. I guess he was just one
of those innocent kids, or something.
It’s a coming of age
story, definitely.
But, at some point,
Charlie finds friends who are older than he is, but they treat him just the
same. He goes to parties, and hangs out at restaurants and other places. He
goes to numerous showings of Rocky Horror Picture Show, and makes some friends
there as well.
Although I’m trying
not to reveal too much, Charlie does get into relationships, other than being
just friends.
This book if for
people who are in the middle of their teen years, at least 14 I believe would be
acceptable, but it would really depend on the person because this book has a
lot of graphic scenes not appropriate for young people. I know, I’m 14, but
still, I want to give you a fair warning. This does contain swears, at maybe a
medium-minimal amount. But I’m used to swearing, so I guess that may just
depend.
RATING
Age group: Older
teen (at least 14/15 years of age)
Writing style on a
scale from 1-5: 3
Actual story on a
scale from 1-5: 5
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