Saving Wishes ~ G. J. Walker-Smith

So in this book the main character is Charlotte Blake (a.k.a. Charli). She wants to get out of the small town of Pipers Cove. Probably the most boring place she will ever be. She wants to go out and explore the world. She does not want to be held up in a small town. Then she meets Adam. He comes bearing a postcard that she made. Or more took a picture of. She said, "Fate brought you here." (pg. 108) She believes it is fate that brought him here bearing this beautiful postcard that she made that came all the way from New York to Australia. I am just going to go out on a limb here and say they are going to end up together! Wouldn't you say so? But I am only in the beginning and they are sort of coming together already so what is going to happen the next 800 pages? (It is not as big as you would think since there are more pages on a smaller screen; I am reading this on my phone)

I believe that something is going to happen to make the other person mad or something happens where they can't be together any more or Adam leaves because he has to go back to New York some time. Isn't that almost what always happens? Then sometimes they get back together

or they don't but I will have to keep reading to find out!

My Sister's Keeper ~ Jodi Picoult

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG. BEST. BOOK. EVER. This book is so good and soooo well written! The author is amazing and you feel like you are living each characters emotions! What the author does is she writes each chapter in first person. But each chapter is a different person! So you get the whole book from all the perspectives in first person, which is really helpful in this book because you need to know what is going on to understand. I have almost cried several times during the duration of this book. One of those times I was in class and the only reason I didn't cry was because I didn't want to embarrass my self...
Anyway! Imagine you were only born so you could be used to help your sister get through cancer. You would feel a little used right? Well that is how Anna Fitzgerald feels. She has to go to the hospital every time Kate, her sister, goes. Well, she won't let that happen anymore because she is suing her parents for the rights of her own body. (oh no she didn't!) The only confusing thing is, she is best friends with her sister! So why is she doing this? And that is one thing you are just to have to find out. :)

I have heard the movie is a real tear jerker too! Almost everybody that I have asked has watched the movie and have cried. I really want to watch it now!!! But below is the trailer so enjoy :) (you might even cry at the trailer; that's what I did)

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The Bone Season ~ Samantha Shannon 3

Okay, throughout the whole book, I will admit that I have been a bit confused...I was always thinking: what, how, why? But I just came across a memory of the main character that possibly explained the whole book!
"'Do you have any idea what clairvoyance means?'
Clairvoyance. The forbidden word. I glanced around the restaurant, but nobody was looking. Or listening it seemed.
'Unnaturalness,' I said.
Jaxon smiled thinly. 'So the Archon calls it. But do you know what the word means? From the French.'
'Clear vision. A kind of extrasensory perception. Knowing things that are hidden.'
'And where are they hidden?'
I hesitated. 'In the subconscious?'
'Sometimes yes. Or sometimes' --he blew out the candle in the middle of the table--'in the æther.'
I looked into the smoke drawn to it. A chill spread through my chest. 'What's the æther?'
'The infinite. We come from it, we live within it, and when we die, we pass back into it. But not all of us are willing to part ways with the physical world.'
'Jax,' Nick said, keeping his voice low, 'this is meant to be an introduction, not a lecture series. She's sixteen.'
'I want to know,' I pressed.
'Paige--'
'Please.' I had to know.
His expression softened. He sat back in his seat and sipped his water. 'You choice.'
Jaxon, who was looking at us with raised eyebrows, pursed his lips before continuing. "The æther is a higher plane of existence," he said. 'It exists alongside the corporeal plane. Clairvoyants--people like us--have the ability to draw on the æther.'
I was sitting in a restaurant with two unnaturals. 'How?' I said.
'Oh, there are an infinite number of ways. I've spent fifteen years trying to categorize them.'
'But what does it mean to 'draw on the æther'' Asking questions about clairvoyance gave me a sinful little thrill.
'It means you can commune with the spirits,' Nick clarifies. 'The dead. Different voyants can do it in different ways.'
'So the æther is like the afterlife?'
'Purgatory,' Jaxon said.
'Afterlife,' Nick said." (pg, 186-188)

THis wasa when she got introduced to her"gang" of people. They were trying to explain it to her to try and get her to join them. She did. So now, if you ever read the book, which I highly recomend you do, you will be ahead of the game. :)

Relativity ~ Cristin Bishara

Looking at what I have read so far, I think that the cover has something to do with space and wormholes and lighting and that stuff. What I don't understand is the the saying on the front cover:

"What would you give up for the perfect life?"

I thought a little bit, and then I got to thinking. This book is about alternate universes and exploring them. I think maybe the main character found the perfect universe to live in and wants to abandon her own universe. But she has things in her universe that she won't have in the perfect one. How bout' that theory?

I think there is something, not entirely the same but similar to this story. Have you ever seen or heard of the movie groundhog day? Apparently it's quite hilarious. But that's besides the point. What strikes me as familarr to this story is he keeps on waking uop in the same place over and over again sort of like alternate universes. Here's a clip:

In this clip, he knows he will keep waking up each day at 6:00 am and he gets REALLY annoyed at his alarm clock. But the point is that he wakes up on the same day. This kind of reminded me of this book.

The Bone Season ~ Samantha Shannon 2

This is the kind of book that you need to sit down in front of a fire and get as comfortable as possible with some hot chocolate in your hands. I am just saying you have to set aside time to read it so you can get into the interesting part. I am not that far into it, but I am in the transition from where you are bored to where the action begins. As I read this I kind of understand, but then they introduce a character that I was supposed to know but didn't. But you can still understand this enough to enjoy to the book. I am going to try and break this down. I might actually understand the book more after I write this.

The main character, Paige Mahoney, is sort of a criminal.

"From the age of sixteen I had worked in the criminal underworld of Scion London---SciLo, as we called it on the streets. I worked among a ruthless gang of voyants, all willing to to floor each other to survive. All part of a citadel-wide syndicate headed by the Underlord. Pushed to the edge of society, we were forced into crime to prosper, And so we became more hated." (2)

Paige is on a "wanted list". When Paige went to go visit her father and take a break from the criminal world, she was on a train when Underguards came and searched the train. This was bad. So she used her power to try to disorient them so she can make a run for it. Instead she ends up killing one of them and damaging the other one badly.
"I'd killed him, I'd killed an Underguard.
His companion hadn't been so lucky, He was on his back, his eyes staring at the ceiling, a slithering ribbon of saliva down his chin. He twitched when I came closer, Chills crept down my back and the taste of bile burned my throat. I hadn't  pushed his spirit far enough. It was still drifting in the dark parts of his mind: the secret, silent parts in which no spirit should dwell. He'd gone mad. No. I'd driven him mad." (19)

She then runs away to go to her fathers house. Once she gets there and stays for the night, the people come to get her.
"They had come for me.
They had finally come.
I was on my feet at once, throwing a jacket over my shirt and pulling on my shoes and glovelettes, my hands shaking. This was what Nick had trained me for: to run like hell. I could make it to the station if I tried, but this run would test my stamina to the limit. I would have to find and hail a cab to reach Section 4. Buck cabbies would take just  about anyone for a few bob, voyant fugitive or not." (29)

She tries to run away from them but they end up capturing her and putting her in some sort of cell. Then they take her to the welcome orientation for Sheal I.
"It was deathly cold outside the room, and the threadbare carpet did little to improve the temperature. It must have been red once, but now it was faded and stained with vomit. My guide led me through a labyrinth of stone corridors, past small barred windows and burning torches. They seemed too bright, too raw, after the cool blue streetlights of London." (37)

They assign them to "trainers". That is where they train there gifts to use them to their advantages. Paige gets put with the Warden. Everybody says she should be really grateful because he rarely takes interests in humans.
"'I have good news for you, Paige Mahoney.' Nashira placed her hand on her companion's arm. 'You have attracted the attention of the blood-consort: Arcturus, Warden of the Mesarthim. He has decided to be your keeper.'
The Rephaim looked at each other. They didn't speak, but their auras seemed to ripple.
'It is rare that he takes interest in a human,' Nashira said, her voice as quiet as if she were entrusting me with some closely guarded secret. 'You are very, very fortunate.'
I didn't feel fortunate. I was sickened.
The blood-consort leaned down to my level. A long way down. I didn't look away.
'XX-50-40.' His voice was deep and soft. 'I lay claim to you'" (55)

Paige goes to the wardens house and explores around and he explains shortly what she is supposed to do.
"'I will be away tomorrow. You may acquaint yourself with the city in my absence. You will be back my dawn every day. You will return to this room at once if you hear the siren. If you steal or touch or otherwise meddle with anything, I will know'
'Yes, sir'
The sir just slipped out." (58)

After she explores the surrounding city she comes back and lays down and fakes sleep when she sees the Warden come in. She goes into his room to look at him and sees he is injured. She has an argument with herself in her head. Should she kill him? Or should she save him? Or should she just ignore him? She decides to save him.
"I had three options. I could sit here and watch him die, but I sensed it might be better to save him . I was reasonably safe in Magdlaen. The last thing I wanted to  do at this stage was move. He hadn't hurt me yet, but he would. to own me he would have to subjugate me, torture me, make me obey by any means necessary. If I killed him now, I might save myself. My hand reached for a pillow. I could do it, I could suffocate him. Yes, come on, kill him. I flexed my fingers, grasped the cotton. Kill him!
I couldn't. He'd wake up He'd wake up and break my neck. Even if he didn't, I wouldn't be able to escape. The guards outside would string me up for murder.
I had to save him." (83)

Now here come the inferences...
The second time Paige goes out in the city she asks some questions. Like why we have to take pills and what they are for. She gets some answers but those answers leave even more mysteries.
"'Right.' I watched her smoke. 'Do you know what's in the pills they give us?'
Tilda nodded. "The little white one is a standard contraceptive. Surprised you haven't seen it before.'
'Contraceptive? What for?'
' To stop us breeding, obviously. And bleeding. I mean, would you want to punch out a sprog in this place?'
She had a point. 'The red one?'
'Iron supplement.'
'And the green one?'
'What?'
'The third pill.'
'There's no third pill.'" (86)

I think that the third pill has to do with her special trainer, the Warden.She has to train with him, so maybe this will give her extra powers while training with him. The Warden also mentions something how she can't see the spirits. "'You do not have the spirit sight,' he observed. 'That will be a disadvantage here. Unless you have some means of compensating, of course. Perhaps a stronger sixth sense.'" (58) Maybe the pill will help her develop the "spirit sight".

I cannot wait to find out!! :)

What I Didn't Say ~ Keary Taylor

Imagine this. You are a senior and you can't talk. At all. Nada. You're mute. This is the situation for Jake Hayes, except he wasn't always mute. On the night of the big homecoming game, he went to a party and got into a car crash with a t-post speared right through his vocal cords. He's alive but he can't speak. Which is really bad because his life goal was to say "I love you" to Samantha Shay. "My biggest regret is what I didn't say..." Now he would never be able to. But what he couldn't say, he made up for by actions. "There was a lot of pain in that kiss. There was so much hurt and so much fear in it. I felt tears rolling down the both of our faces. But, in that  kiss, there was even more want. We both wanted to smother out that pain, to not have so many horrible things in the all too recent past, to just be normal, to do the types of things we were supposed to be dealing with besides death and disability." 

Anything can change your life dramatically, and it is up to you to try and make it the best you can make it. Or it will be harder to live through.

At first, Jake had a hard time dealing with being mute. “Not being able to talk sucks. There's no doubt about that. There's a lot of times when I almost feel like I'm trapped inside of myself. Like if I don't talk or yell or scream or laugh I'm going to explode. A lot of the time it almost feels like I'm suffocating." At first, he was just trying to get a grip on things. But then he found Samantha. And Samantha found him. "It would have been really easy to spiral down into drugs or alcohol that year, for both of us. But instead we were there, together. We'd taken all the bad things that had happened to us and turned them around into something good and bigger that the two of us." They both helped each other live through what they couldn't have lived through alone. Sometimes you just need that one person to help you through life.

The Bone Season ~ Samantha Shannon 1

When I first saw this cover I was like, "What in the world...?" Then I thought it looked a little like a clock. But then I thought, "What does a clock have to do with the story? From the little I read, can't seem to make a connection from the cover to the book. But I have heard that the book is kind of like a new Hunger Games. So then I thought about the clock arena in the second book of hunger games, Catching Fire. Probably no relation, but I won't see until I read the book right? And when I read the book I will let you know how it went!

Revived ~Cat Patrick 2

So I have finished my book Revived by Cat Patrick. This book is basically about a live saving drug that will save you once you are dead. But it won't work on sicknesses like cancer. I really liked this book and there wasn't any parts that I felt it was too slow to read. I was always on the edge of my seat. It's a soap opera book. Every single thing going on makes you gasp and makes you feel like it can't be fixed but it can and will somehow that you would have never thought of. And what seemed to be impossible; is possible. Like the TV show Castle:



I think the kind of people who would like this book are people that really like the idea of impossible things made possible. People who like a good drama, romance, and fiction rolled up in a book.
★★★★☆

 

Revived ~ Cat Patrick 1

This author has a very creative mind. With this book there are a group of kids that got in a bus crash. They were rescued by a group of scientists who were testing this medication called Revive. What Revive does is it brings people back from the dead. When they used it on those kids it worked. So the kids became the scientists "guinea pigs". Now when I say it like that, it sounds really mad scientisty. It's not. The scientists take a kid and pretend like the kid's parents. In a way they are. The kids really love them and have grown up with them. One of these kids is Daisy. She has died 5 times. Right now she is 15. Every time she has died she has gotten a new name, new place, new identity. She is used to not getting attached to any place, not to make any good friends because if she does it would be harder to keep Revive a secret. But then she meets Audrey McKean and her gorgeous brother, Matt. Let's us just say she goes against all of her instincts and she gets attached.

Now, I am not done with this book yet. So the most fun thing to do is to make a prediction of course! :)

My first prediction is that Daisy will end up telling Matt about Revive for reasons that only you'll know by reading the book. And after she tells him he will get mad and they will get in a really bad fight but of course like in any romance novel they will find a solution and will make up and live a happily ever after!
" 'I really like you,' Matt continues. 'You're like this good thing that showed up in the middle of the bad. You're sort of helping me remember that there actually is positive stuff out  there.' "(132)

*SPOILER ALERT*

My second prediction is they use Revive on Audrey because she is going to die of cancer. The only reason she hasn't done it yet is because first of all they are supposed to keep it a secret and second of all it won't work on cancer because the body has to die healthy but from a sudden death. With cancer, you always have this illness that you die from. But I predict that they will(and this sounds violent; don't judge) make Audrey die a sudden death before she dies from cancer.
" 'How long did they give her?' I ask.
'Three years,' Matt says. 'It's been two and a half.' " (109)

I have to decided not just to put a prediction but make a connection based on my prediction! I have made text-to-text connection. In the book, Daisy spots Matt in class and immediately thinks he is "flat-out, undeniably, unbelievably, hot."(34) And this happens almost exactly in another book. Can you guess which book I am thinking about? Yep! Twilight!! When Bella sees Edward in the lunchroom, she saw him and thought that he was gorgeous too. And like my prediction they of course get together and live the happily ever after.

In the video is the first time Bella sees Edward and his family.

James Potter and the Hall of Elder's Crossing ~ G. Norman Lippert and Johnny Atomic

One of the book series I'm currently on is in the wizarding world, but it's not Harry Potter. I mean Harry is in it, but not how you would think.

*I just want to tell you right now, if you haven't read the Harry Potter series or watched the movies ALL the way through and you really want to, you might not want to read this blog. It's a sort of a spoiler.*

Harry is a father.

Now if you did read the Harry Potter series or watched the movies all the way through, you might be able to remember the 19 years later epilouge where Harry and Ginny are married and they have 3 kids. James, Albus, and Lily Potter. James is the eldest so he went to Hogwarts first of the three.
This book by G. Norman Lippert and Johnny Atomic. The books starts off when James is getting on the train to Hogwarts.

When James gets there he makes friends, he gets sorted, he tries out for the quidditch team; basically following in his dad's footsteps. But that is not working for James. There is no way that he can follow in his dad's footsteps, like the whole wizarding world expects him to. The footsteps are just too big to fill so he decides to do his own thing but so many prejudices are thrown at him this year that it is a realy hard thing to do.

The book is about James and his adventures at Hogwarts, so if you don't want to leave Hogwarts, then this series is definitly for you.

“The scariest people in the world are not always the ones who are bent on evil, James. Sometimes, the scariest person is the one who mistakes their own lies for truth.”
― G. Norman Lippert, James Potter and the Hall of Elders' Crossing

★★★★☆

The link below links to a website dedicated to this book.
http://elderscrossing.com/wizard.html

Incarceron ~ Catherine Fisher

In Incarceron, Finn led a very hard life. In this bleak world, he is a very rare kind. He is cell-born which means he showed up in a cell with no memories of anything. He was in there for who knows how long and finally he saw a door and opened it. He eventually found his way to where he is now, with his oathbrother.They try to survive. He goes on and adventure trying to get out of Incarceron with his oathbrother, his Sapient, and his servant. He starts as a liar, a person who does stuff only to help himself. Like in the very first chapter he plays the sympathy of a woman just The Comitatus can raid their trucks. This is when Finn was "tied down" on a track to fool the Civicry.

"'No! Please! Please get me up.' They were silent and no one moved, so he took a breath and said tightly, "The Scum raided our Wing. They killed me father and they left me like this for anyone who passed.' He tried to ease the agony in his chest, clenching his fingers on the rusty chain. ' Please. I'm begging you.'"
"Finn moved. He flung the man with the cutters back, Kicked the false bolt off, and wriggled out of the chains."

Finn was pretending to be trapped the whole time so the Civicry would stop so the Comitatus could raid the trucks. Finn does chang throughout the book. While they are trying to escape Finn stops to save one of the servants from the guards that are trying to stop them. He then takes her with them to escape.

"In the uproar and crashing alarns and falling steel he looked back and the eyes of the leprous slave watched him. But it was the Maistra's eues he saw, her voice that spoke inside his mind.
I will never dare show kindness to a stranger again.
Instantly he stooped, hauled the creature onto his back, and climbed."

As you see, Finn felt the guilt about the Maestra's death and decide to save one of the slaves lives and take her with them to the Outside.

Where'd you go Bernadette? ~ Maria Semple

Bee in Where'd You Go, Bernadette, developed very much of the course of this text. She started off as this straight A student wanted to go to Antarctica to learn. And in the end she got to go, but only to find her mother and she didn't learn anything there. She wasn't a straight A student anymore. She interacted with other characters by asking them questions about her mother and that was pretty much it. But when she was a student she was very social and helped everybody who needed it. She learned that if you never give up you can achieve your dream. NEVER GIVE UP.

Where'd you go, Bernadette article

This article is a review on the book. The author of this article writes about the book and the author, Maria Semple.