Guys, I have a little blog I would like you all to check out! My friend Casi looked at my blog and decided she wanted to make her own, and I just checked it out and think it's really awesome! Check it out and follow it!
http://booksrdiamonds.blogspot.com/
Love ya, mean it!
Saturday, July 4, 2015
Book Recommendations: GO!
(At the request of my dear friend and follower!)
You heard me, fandomeers! Comment away your favorite books!
If I could recommend a super sensational and horrendously underrated book series to you, it would definitely be the Gallagher Girls series by Ally Carter.
Alright, go!
You heard me, fandomeers! Comment away your favorite books!
If I could recommend a super sensational and horrendously underrated book series to you, it would definitely be the Gallagher Girls series by Ally Carter.
Alright, go!
Sunday, June 7, 2015
The Heroes of Olympus
(Spoilers for The Mark of Athena)
So, I just finished A Dog's Purpose. I still get shame from enjoying a dog book so much. But the people, you will love the people. And, let me just say, my gosh, let all the authors of the world be a little bit more like W. Bruce Cameron and tell the readers all about their lives and all the people and things in their lives that ended up in their books or helped shape the way it was written! Shout-out to the writers that just love to write and could write all day about whatever's going on with them or whatever crazy idea they thought of and will just write to the world about all those things. They are the greatest. And to the readers who are willing to just read those things! You're awesome too.
Now... the day has finally come!!! I'm going to read/reread the Heroes of Olympus series!
For those of you who weren't with me awhile ago on the blog, I had started reading Heroes of Olympus. I read The Lost Hero. Then I read The Son of Neptune. But when I got to the end of that... I sadly realized that the third book, The Mark of Athena, hadn't come yet. What?! I have this thing that I call the Booklist, and, I made it so I could keep track of all the books I wanted to read, but I wouldn't be reading one series in the middle of reading another. It made my head feel more organized. So I was totally defeated when I couldn't finish this series. I couldn't just move on to the next series on the list!!! And I certainly couldn't just not read for that amount of time! So instead I had some books I wanted to reread, my two favorite fandoms at the time (Harry Potter and Hunger Games, now Percy Jackson is added to the list), and some new books I had gotten that were part of a never-ending series (Princess Academy and Nancy Drew, for example) and the sequels to not-never-ending seri that I didn't know weren't never-ending seri at the time (For example, A Dog's Purpose). So, I decided, I would start back at the top of the list and do some rereading and reading, until I got back to Heroes of Olympus, and by then I would be able to finish the entire series. Well, school had me pretty busy so for a while I couldn't read at all, and I also learned from Nancy Drew that you don't want to read if the book isn't good, so for quite a few months all of the Heroes of Olympus books have been out. Only now have I finally caught up to the list and I can read them all! I'll be rereading The Lost Hero and The Son of Neptune, then reading for the first time The Mark of Athena, The House of Hades, and The Blood of Olympus.
This is a spin-off series of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, about three kids named Jason (who doesn't remember who he is), Piper (who had a really scary dream), and Leo (who is your comic relief with a super deep past). And, it's a super bomb series. Of course, you have all probably read them all already so please don't tell me anything!!! (I was so mad at my friend when he told me Annabeth and Percy fell into Tartarus)
Happy reading, love you mean it!
So, I just finished A Dog's Purpose. I still get shame from enjoying a dog book so much. But the people, you will love the people. And, let me just say, my gosh, let all the authors of the world be a little bit more like W. Bruce Cameron and tell the readers all about their lives and all the people and things in their lives that ended up in their books or helped shape the way it was written! Shout-out to the writers that just love to write and could write all day about whatever's going on with them or whatever crazy idea they thought of and will just write to the world about all those things. They are the greatest. And to the readers who are willing to just read those things! You're awesome too.
Now... the day has finally come!!! I'm going to read/reread the Heroes of Olympus series!
For those of you who weren't with me awhile ago on the blog, I had started reading Heroes of Olympus. I read The Lost Hero. Then I read The Son of Neptune. But when I got to the end of that... I sadly realized that the third book, The Mark of Athena, hadn't come yet. What?! I have this thing that I call the Booklist, and, I made it so I could keep track of all the books I wanted to read, but I wouldn't be reading one series in the middle of reading another. It made my head feel more organized. So I was totally defeated when I couldn't finish this series. I couldn't just move on to the next series on the list!!! And I certainly couldn't just not read for that amount of time! So instead I had some books I wanted to reread, my two favorite fandoms at the time (Harry Potter and Hunger Games, now Percy Jackson is added to the list), and some new books I had gotten that were part of a never-ending series (Princess Academy and Nancy Drew, for example) and the sequels to not-never-ending seri that I didn't know weren't never-ending seri at the time (For example, A Dog's Purpose). So, I decided, I would start back at the top of the list and do some rereading and reading, until I got back to Heroes of Olympus, and by then I would be able to finish the entire series. Well, school had me pretty busy so for a while I couldn't read at all, and I also learned from Nancy Drew that you don't want to read if the book isn't good, so for quite a few months all of the Heroes of Olympus books have been out. Only now have I finally caught up to the list and I can read them all! I'll be rereading The Lost Hero and The Son of Neptune, then reading for the first time The Mark of Athena, The House of Hades, and The Blood of Olympus.
This is a spin-off series of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, about three kids named Jason (who doesn't remember who he is), Piper (who had a really scary dream), and Leo (who is your comic relief with a super deep past). And, it's a super bomb series. Of course, you have all probably read them all already so please don't tell me anything!!! (I was so mad at my friend when he told me Annabeth and Percy fell into Tartarus)
Happy reading, love you mean it!
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
The End of the Chamber of Secrets
(Spoiler alert for Harry Potter)
Do you want to know how much my mind was blown?
At the end of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry is killed by Voldemort... and doesn't die. What? Dumbledore explains it to Harry... and it's still super confusing.
I saw a question that J.K. Rowling was asked on Twitter. About the end of Deathly Hallows. Voldemort clearly killed Harry. But he didn't die. I guess "After all this time" we still don't get it.
(Ten house points to whoever caught that reference.)
And J.K.R. said, who seemed very tired of answering this question, that if someone tried to kill Harry, he would not die, only the horcrux in him would. So Harry would just become mortal and vulnerable again. The next time someone tried to kill him, he would die.
Okay, okay, I see. So a killing curse, that magical fire stuff (Can someone help me remember what it's called?) or basilisk venom would only kill the horcrux..... WAIT WAIT WAIT stop the train. Basilisk venom? Let's go back to Harry's second year at Hogwarts, when he almost died because he got stabbed with a basilisk fang. That was the closest Harry had ever really come to death. He didn't die because Fawkes used his magical tears to save him.
But wait a minute, now we know that the first time someone tried to kill Harry after he got the horcrux put into him, it would only kill the horcrux. Does that mean that Fawkes's tears actually healed the horcrux? And even more importantly, if Fawkes had not saved Harry Harry still would not have died.
Just think of how different everything would have been! Think of how much sooner everything could have ended! Harry gets stabbed with a basilisk fang... but doesn't die. And nobody can make any sense of that because it is common knowledge that basilisk venom is deadly. Nobody except Dumbledore. Dumbledore knows but Harry is still too young to completely understand. The real question is how long can Dumbledore keep that information from Harry? I think if Dumbledore doesn't tell Harry at the end of his second year then he will have to tell Harry in his third year, because Harry is just the most stubborn child at all time, is willing to do anything to figure something out and has two best friends that are just as willing as him. And when Harry finds out and has to go on the horcrux hunt, he is super undertrained. At that point he would only be thirteen years old! But then again, Voldemort would not have risen to power at that time. Who knows how that story would end.
Do you want to know how much my mind was blown?
At the end of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry is killed by Voldemort... and doesn't die. What? Dumbledore explains it to Harry... and it's still super confusing.
I saw a question that J.K. Rowling was asked on Twitter. About the end of Deathly Hallows. Voldemort clearly killed Harry. But he didn't die. I guess "After all this time" we still don't get it.
(Ten house points to whoever caught that reference.)
And J.K.R. said, who seemed very tired of answering this question, that if someone tried to kill Harry, he would not die, only the horcrux in him would. So Harry would just become mortal and vulnerable again. The next time someone tried to kill him, he would die.
Okay, okay, I see. So a killing curse, that magical fire stuff (Can someone help me remember what it's called?) or basilisk venom would only kill the horcrux..... WAIT WAIT WAIT stop the train. Basilisk venom? Let's go back to Harry's second year at Hogwarts, when he almost died because he got stabbed with a basilisk fang. That was the closest Harry had ever really come to death. He didn't die because Fawkes used his magical tears to save him.
But wait a minute, now we know that the first time someone tried to kill Harry after he got the horcrux put into him, it would only kill the horcrux. Does that mean that Fawkes's tears actually healed the horcrux? And even more importantly, if Fawkes had not saved Harry Harry still would not have died.
Just think of how different everything would have been! Think of how much sooner everything could have ended! Harry gets stabbed with a basilisk fang... but doesn't die. And nobody can make any sense of that because it is common knowledge that basilisk venom is deadly. Nobody except Dumbledore. Dumbledore knows but Harry is still too young to completely understand. The real question is how long can Dumbledore keep that information from Harry? I think if Dumbledore doesn't tell Harry at the end of his second year then he will have to tell Harry in his third year, because Harry is just the most stubborn child at all time, is willing to do anything to figure something out and has two best friends that are just as willing as him. And when Harry finds out and has to go on the horcrux hunt, he is super undertrained. At that point he would only be thirteen years old! But then again, Voldemort would not have risen to power at that time. Who knows how that story would end.
Happy Two Years!!!
Guys, the day has come! "It's an Adventure!" has been a thing for two years! For those of you who have been with me since at least last year you'll remember that I forgot our first year last year and I ended up doing a super late post in July or something.... I'll be honest, I forgot about today too, until I looked at my fridge and there was a piece of paper saying what day it was and I flipped and I knew I had to post.
My dearest fandomeers, I am super happy for this day! We have grown a lot in the past year. I've gotten a lot more followers and you're all so supportive! You have no idea, I love you to the moon and back a million times! I'm planning on expanding a lot in this next year too. Right now I'm trying to get more followers and get more people to join our fandomeer family!
Confession: I don't have a smart phone. Which was fine until my precious camera broke. So this summer when I get a new phone, the blog is expanding more, to YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter and me writing and posting for you guys will get a million times easier!
You see, I kind of have this vision for the blog. Another confession, that I feel like I've kind of told you guys before: I've been writing various works for a few years now and once I (whenever this happens) start working on getting published I kind of want to use the blog to help promote that, and me, and my various other stuff I'm working on. (I do a little bit of music writing too.) But it reminds me of the words of my hero, Walt Disney: "I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing-- that it was all started by a mouse."
Of course, in this case I mean by a dead-end literature blog that really wasn't awesome in the beginning. In these two years I have grown as a person and as a writer. Thank you for all being here with me!
Love ya, mean it!
My dearest fandomeers, I am super happy for this day! We have grown a lot in the past year. I've gotten a lot more followers and you're all so supportive! You have no idea, I love you to the moon and back a million times! I'm planning on expanding a lot in this next year too. Right now I'm trying to get more followers and get more people to join our fandomeer family!
Confession: I don't have a smart phone. Which was fine until my precious camera broke. So this summer when I get a new phone, the blog is expanding more, to YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter and me writing and posting for you guys will get a million times easier!
You see, I kind of have this vision for the blog. Another confession, that I feel like I've kind of told you guys before: I've been writing various works for a few years now and once I (whenever this happens) start working on getting published I kind of want to use the blog to help promote that, and me, and my various other stuff I'm working on. (I do a little bit of music writing too.) But it reminds me of the words of my hero, Walt Disney: "I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing-- that it was all started by a mouse."
Of course, in this case I mean by a dead-end literature blog that really wasn't awesome in the beginning. In these two years I have grown as a person and as a writer. Thank you for all being here with me!
Love ya, mean it!
Saturday, May 16, 2015
A Dog's Purpose
I have been trying to post this literally all day, and I only now can.
So I finished Princess Academy. I read the first book (Princess Academy) for the second time (and that book is still just so dang beautiful) and then for the first time read Palace of Stone (which was really unexpected-- check out the review for it and other books here ). I decided not to try to find The Forgotten Sisters because I feel like it was a pretty good assumption that Princess Academy is officially a never-ending series. But let it be known that Princess Academy is like a million years old, still going on not horrendously strong, but it probably should be because they are just absolutely beautiful books! Just so you're all aware.
Now I'm going to read A Dog's Purpose, by W. Bruce Cameron.... I'm almost ashamed to say this. W. Bruce Cameron is a quality writer, and I believe he is a really intelligent writer and really good. It's just that... ugh. When I was a kid-- okay, not even when I was a young child, I mean like as of almost two years ago even, it was more so when I was a young child but the same was true as of about two years ago-- I was really into animals. I was super interested in them and loved them and for a time I wanted to be an animal boarder or a veterinarian or a dog groomer and I loved learning about animals and being with animals and all that. But over the past few years I stopped loving animals. I don't hate animals, it's not like I don't like them, 'cause I don't mind them. I just don't love them. They just don't really matter to me a ton anymore. I've of late gotten really into what my choir director calls "the human element", the emotions and ideas of people. I'm a few hundred pages into the first book, A Dog's Purpose, and the human emotions in the book interest me a lot more than the animal emotions do. In the book, Cameron wrote it himself: "Humans are so much more complex than dogs, with such a broad range of feelings...." And that's why I love them.
When the second book in the series came out, A Dog's Journey, I thought that A Dog's Purpose was a never-ending series. I wonder now if I was wrong. I'm not sure, it honestly could go any way. Luckily I bought it about three years ago or so, so I feel obligated to read it because I've never read the second book before.
Cameron got the idea for this book when he was a kid and had a dog named Cammie. (By the way, shoutout to the writers who will write about their lives for the readers!) Cammie died before he went to college. Many years later he saw a dog that looked at him just the way his old dog Cammie used to. It made him wonder, is that really her? What if dogs are reborn?
A Dog's Purpose is about a little dog named Toby, who dies. But Toby is reborn again into another dog's body. He can remember everything about his past life, but he is starting a new one, and Toby starts to look for his purpose in life.
Cameron said, "I’ve been a writer my whole life, but never have I ever written anything as important as A Dog’s Purpose." Wish me luck!
(Should I be having you guys wish me luck? I'm only going to read a book. Gosh, I'm such a nerd.)
So I finished Princess Academy. I read the first book (Princess Academy) for the second time (and that book is still just so dang beautiful) and then for the first time read Palace of Stone (which was really unexpected-- check out the review for it and other books here ). I decided not to try to find The Forgotten Sisters because I feel like it was a pretty good assumption that Princess Academy is officially a never-ending series. But let it be known that Princess Academy is like a million years old, still going on not horrendously strong, but it probably should be because they are just absolutely beautiful books! Just so you're all aware.
Now I'm going to read A Dog's Purpose, by W. Bruce Cameron.... I'm almost ashamed to say this. W. Bruce Cameron is a quality writer, and I believe he is a really intelligent writer and really good. It's just that... ugh. When I was a kid-- okay, not even when I was a young child, I mean like as of almost two years ago even, it was more so when I was a young child but the same was true as of about two years ago-- I was really into animals. I was super interested in them and loved them and for a time I wanted to be an animal boarder or a veterinarian or a dog groomer and I loved learning about animals and being with animals and all that. But over the past few years I stopped loving animals. I don't hate animals, it's not like I don't like them, 'cause I don't mind them. I just don't love them. They just don't really matter to me a ton anymore. I've of late gotten really into what my choir director calls "the human element", the emotions and ideas of people. I'm a few hundred pages into the first book, A Dog's Purpose, and the human emotions in the book interest me a lot more than the animal emotions do. In the book, Cameron wrote it himself: "Humans are so much more complex than dogs, with such a broad range of feelings...." And that's why I love them.
When the second book in the series came out, A Dog's Journey, I thought that A Dog's Purpose was a never-ending series. I wonder now if I was wrong. I'm not sure, it honestly could go any way. Luckily I bought it about three years ago or so, so I feel obligated to read it because I've never read the second book before.
Cameron got the idea for this book when he was a kid and had a dog named Cammie. (By the way, shoutout to the writers who will write about their lives for the readers!) Cammie died before he went to college. Many years later he saw a dog that looked at him just the way his old dog Cammie used to. It made him wonder, is that really her? What if dogs are reborn?
A Dog's Purpose is about a little dog named Toby, who dies. But Toby is reborn again into another dog's body. He can remember everything about his past life, but he is starting a new one, and Toby starts to look for his purpose in life.
Cameron said, "I’ve been a writer my whole life, but never have I ever written anything as important as A Dog’s Purpose." Wish me luck!
(Should I be having you guys wish me luck? I'm only going to read a book. Gosh, I'm such a nerd.)
Monday, April 6, 2015
Princess Academy
(Spoilers for Princess Academy)
Just finished my second time reading the Hunger Games Trilogy way early this morning. You know, I think that it's true of books in general that you need to reread it to truly know it. Hunger Games has a lot of complexity and a lot of feeling in it for just one trilogy. So rereading it? Was super awesome. And I feel like I really understand them now.
Now I'm going to reread/read Princess Academy by Shannon Hale. Princess Academy, being the first book, was published in 2005, and I read that a few years ago. But later-- like, way later-- in 2012 Palace of Stone was written. I got that book a few years ago, so I thought I would reread Princess Academy and then read Palace of Stone-- but I'm just now finding out that Princess Academy is a trilogy! The third book is The Forgotten Sisters and it seems it came out the third of March just this year. Well, that's why I didn't know about it. So I'm thinking I'll finish up this trilogy! Unless there's another after The Forgotten Sisters? That would totally throw me. Or even worse, and I'm thinking this is a possibility, Princess Academy is a never-ending series? But in that case I don't even need to read The Forgotten Sisters. We'll see, though.
Princess Academy is about the kingdom of Danland, where Miri lives on Mount Eskel. The people of Mount Eskel are kind of thought to be below the lowlanders, but then it is announced that the prince's bride will be chosen from the girls of Mount Eskel. They are all sent to the Princess Academy, where they will have to learn things that will make them eligible to be chosen by the prince. The first time I read the book it was really good. Now with a sequel, we'll see what happens. I don't know about you guys, but I love fairy tales. I'll let you know how it goes!
Just finished my second time reading the Hunger Games Trilogy way early this morning. You know, I think that it's true of books in general that you need to reread it to truly know it. Hunger Games has a lot of complexity and a lot of feeling in it for just one trilogy. So rereading it? Was super awesome. And I feel like I really understand them now.
Now I'm going to reread/read Princess Academy by Shannon Hale. Princess Academy, being the first book, was published in 2005, and I read that a few years ago. But later-- like, way later-- in 2012 Palace of Stone was written. I got that book a few years ago, so I thought I would reread Princess Academy and then read Palace of Stone-- but I'm just now finding out that Princess Academy is a trilogy! The third book is The Forgotten Sisters and it seems it came out the third of March just this year. Well, that's why I didn't know about it. So I'm thinking I'll finish up this trilogy! Unless there's another after The Forgotten Sisters? That would totally throw me. Or even worse, and I'm thinking this is a possibility, Princess Academy is a never-ending series? But in that case I don't even need to read The Forgotten Sisters. We'll see, though.
Princess Academy is about the kingdom of Danland, where Miri lives on Mount Eskel. The people of Mount Eskel are kind of thought to be below the lowlanders, but then it is announced that the prince's bride will be chosen from the girls of Mount Eskel. They are all sent to the Princess Academy, where they will have to learn things that will make them eligible to be chosen by the prince. The first time I read the book it was really good. Now with a sequel, we'll see what happens. I don't know about you guys, but I love fairy tales. I'll let you know how it goes!
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