Showing posts with label book. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book. Show all posts

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Todays Answer

Today's Answer is the weekly meme hosted over at Black Fingernailed Reviews. Because i can never pick one favorite book or song, i have a favorite book and song for every week.

This weeks favorite book:

The Short Second Life Of Bree Tanner - Stephenie Meyer.
I watched his body change. He crouched on the roof, one hand gripping the edge. All that strange friendliness disappeared, and he was a hunter. That was something I recognized, something I was comfortable with because I understood it. I turned off my brain. It was time to hunt. I took a deep breath, drawing in the scent of the blood inside the humans below. They weren't the only humans around, but they were the closest. Who you were going to hunt was the kind of decision you had to make before you scented your prey. It was too late now to choose anything.


This weeks favorite song:
Two Door Cinema Club - Undercover Martyn.


Monday, August 16, 2010

Memories

This book is very easy to read but has a sense of maturity. Rachel ,thinking she is unwanted and ugly believes she needs to be thin.Even though she sounds whiny she doesn't seem that way in the story. Danielle, still loves her ex-boyfriend.she thinks he likes her best friend Nicole which is wrecking there friendship.Danielle does have her funny moments though. Nicole is scared that she is totally worthless but hides it by pretending that shes oozing with confidence and self-esteem.

My Thoughts..
This has always been one of my favorite books. I read this when I was 13 years old and loved it straight away. The story is basically three teenage girls who are under pressure from their looks, family and friend problems, boys, school and drugs.

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The Melancholy Death Of Oyster Boy

From breathtaking stop-action animation to bittersweet modern fairy tales, filmmaker Tim Burton has become known for his unique visual brilliance -- witty and macabre at once. Now he gives birth to a cast of gruesomely sympathetic children -- misunderstood outcasts who struggle to find love and belonging in their cruel, cruel worlds. His lovingly lurid illustrations evoke both the sweetness and the tragedy of these dark yet simple beings -- hopeful, hapless heroes who appeal to the ugly outsider in all of us, and let us laugh at a world we have long left behind (mostly anyway).

My Thoughts..
I wouldn't call it amazing but it is good to pass the time if you're bored. It's basically a book filled with freaky poems and stories. It took me 10 minutes to read.

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The Vampire Lestat

After the spectacular debut of Interview with the Vampire in 1976, Anne Rice put aside her vampires to explore other literary interests--Italian castrati in Cry to Heaven and the Free People of Color in The Feast of All Saints . But Lestat, the mischievous creator of Louis in Interview , finally emerged to tell his own story in the 1985 sequel, The Vampire Lestat . As with the first book in the series, the novel begins with a frame narrative. After over a half century underground, Lestat awakens in the 1980s to the cacophony of electronic sounds and images that characterizes the MTV generation. Particularly, he is captivated by a fledgling rock band named Satan's Night Out. Determined both to achieve international fame and end the centuries of self-imposed vampire silence, Lestat takes command of the band (now renamed "The Vampire Lestat") and pens his own autobiography. The remainder of the novel purports to be that autobiography: the vampire traces his mortal youth as the son of a marquis in pre-Revolutionary France, his initiation into vampirism at the hands of Magnus, and his quest for the ultimate origins of his undead species. While very different from the first novel in the Vampire Chronicles, The Vampire Lestat has proved to be the foundation for a broader range of narratives than is possible from Louis's brooding, passive perspective. The character of Lestat is one of Rice's most complex and popular literary alter egos, and his Faustian strivings have a mythopoeic resonance that links the novel to a grand tradition of spiritual and supernatural fiction.

My Thoughts..
This book is just as good as the previous one, Interview with the Vampire. It shows the way Lestat thinks, and is, something Interview with the Vampire does not. This book tells about Lestat's life before he meets Louis, and it shows a softer side of Lestat than most people know about. One of my favorites.

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