Have you ever thought....

Have you ever seen someone and thought, 'you should be a character in a book!' Last night I was having dinner at a very yummy place in Aspen, Colorado, where we drove around to have a look at before returning to our campsite, and one of the waiters at the restaurant totally should have been a character out of a novel!!! He had dark hair that fell to just below his collar, he was slender and not extremely tall, but not short either. He had a very handsome face and he had a scar that went down from the bottom of the center of his eye to just below his cheek bone. The whole time I was thinking of what character he would be, and I thought he would be perfect as the mysterious stranger who comes to the aid of one of the other characters, or a prince in hiding, maybe both!

I'd love to hear if this type of thing has ever happened to you before! Anyway I filed his description away in my notebook for future use, so if you read anything of mine in the future with a character of that description, you will know what my inspiration was!!!

Hiatus

Hi everyone! I am leaving for a three week road trip, so I may not be able to post as often as I'd like. ( though I will try to get a few now and then).

I am so happy because with long hours of driving comes long hours of reading as well!

Cheers

~ Larissa

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Posts this week:

Review: Imaginary Girls
MainstayProductions: Second Quarter Quell!

Reivew: Imaginary Girls

Title: Imaginary Girls
Author: Nova Ren Suma
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
Page Count: 352 (hardcover)
My Rating: 3/5 stars

Description: (from GoodReads)

Chloe's older sister, Ruby, is the girl everyone looks to and longs for, who can't be captured or caged. When a night with Ruby's friends goes horribly wrong and Chloe discovers the dead body of her classmate London Hayes left floating in the reservoir, Chloe is sent away from town and away from Ruby.

But Ruby will do anything to get her sister back, and when Chloe returns to town two years later, deadly surprises await. As Chloe flirts with the truth that Ruby has hidden deeply away, the fragile line between life and death is redrawn by the complex bonds of sisterhood.

Review:

I really wanted to love this book. From the very first time I saw the cover on a blog I was hopping through and it grabbed me and I had to know what it was about. The description that they put on Amazon and GoodReads doesn’t really tell a lot about what it was about, so when it came out I got it the first chance I had and started reading it.

I know a lot of people have said this, but the whole book really did feel like a bad dream that you didn’t wake out of, but for me it might not have been for the same reason as the author might have intended.

In books, there is a line between relationships where one person has an intense instinct to protect the person they care about and for that person to be down right controlling. (In my opinion, it is the difference between Jace/Clary and Edward/Bella). And I recognize that that is sometimes a very fine line, but I felt like the line was crossed in this book, and Ruby was very controlling of Chloe. Throughout the whole book it felt strange, because it was more of Chloe witnessing what is happening than Chloe actually doing anything herself. She was more along for the ride, and I thought that was weird because the book is told through her perspective. In books, that controlling type of relationship is a real pet peeve of mine, so that was one of the books drawbacks for me.

Another was that most of the characters in the book are older teenagers, and it seemed that every chapter they were out partying somewhere, drinking, smoking joints in cemeteries, and though their were plenty of characters who hooked up, throughout the whole book there wasn’t even one healthy relationship that I could find. What’s worse was that all of this did not add a single thing to the plot of this book. It just felt completely unnecessary to me.

Another thing was that after two hundred pages of this illegal activity (which was maybe the author’s stab at showing how bored the kids in the small town were?) I still didn’t have a clear picture of what was going on, and that feeling remained to some extent all the way until the end of the book, which did in no way really wrap anything up for me. I suppose that that ties in with the bad dream piece of it, I don’t know what’s going on in a lot of my dreams, but for a book a conclusion, even one as simple as the main character waking up and finding it really was a dream would have been enough for me.

Having said that. I did like the writing. Some of the images were very dreamlike, and it wasn’t a boring book. It just wasn’t my cup of tea. I think I would have liked it a lot more without all the unnecessary drinking, smoking, and partying. If I had gone into it knowing it was going to be written like a long, drawn-out dream and not spent so long looking for where the plot was going, I would have given it another star or two.

I don’t want to discourage you from reading this book, I have read quite a few great reviews on it, but I feel like I have to be honest with my thoughts and so I have been. The cover most definitely gets a 5 from me though.

Book Trailer:

Mainstay Productions: Second Quarter Quell!

Mainstay is just awesome with their Hunger Games fan videos such as the Katniss and Rue scene and the Cave Scene. And they have done it again with this one that takes a look at the Games which Haymitch participated in!

*It is rather violent (after all it is the Hunger Games) so just a heads up about that*

Reminder!

Hello!

Just wanted to remind everyone that tomorrow will be exactly one month before the closing of my Summer Reads, Fall Conclusions Giveaway! So you still have plenty of time to enter, but I'm just posting this reminder now because I know blogger widgets kind of fade into the backround after they aren't new anymore, and I am going on vacation soon and won't be able to do as much posting as I would like, so I am doing the 'reminder post' now!

Hope y'all are having a great summer!

Cheers!

Larissa

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Q. WHAT DO I DO WHEN I AM NOT READING?

A. well, let's see, if I'm not reading I am doing a lot of different things in my awesome busy life that would take a very long time to list. But in terms of pass times that I do when I am not reading... I like watching movies/TV shows, writing, spending time with friends, family, pets, horse back riding, and cooking and baking yummy things and eating them (as long as they are gluten free)!!!!

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p.s. The new Harry Potter movie is amazing! I was at the midnight showing last night and I totally cried! If you haven't seen it yet and you are at all into the series, this is the movie you HAVE to see in the theaters!