Paper towns

After I read The Fault in Our Stars and Looking For Alaska, I had to find another John Green book. My friend and I are both obsessed with his books so we decided to read Paper towns, one of the ones we hadn't read. I started paper towns late one night and finished it early the next morning. It was probably the best John Green book I have ever read, therefore the best book I have ever read.
Paper Towns is about a boy named Q, and he lives next to Margo Roth Spleinman. The story starts a young Margo and Q find a dead man lying in their park. Margo mentions how all the strings inside him broke so he killed himself.
In all John Green books there is the story than something like a substory. Sort of like something that is mentioned and is connected as a whole. Then the title will be mentioned about twice, once in the very beginning, then at the end.
In Paper Towns strings are mentioned a lot. Margo talks about things being the last string instead of straw. It's very interesting. Margo likes mysteries so much, she makes her own. Lots of times she runs away, leaving clues behind. One time whew went to Mississippi, and left the letter Misp in her alphabet soup.
After Margo runs away this time, Q starts to find his own clues.
This book was so good. Not much like a love story as much as The Fault in Our stars or Looking for Alaska, but it was still so good. If you like funny and interesting books this book is great. It is so amazingly written, because John Green is an amazing writer, and is a very good read.
I love this book and maybe you will too.
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Looking for Alaska

About a couple weeks ago I read The fault in our stars.
Since I loved it so much I decided to read another book of the author, John Green.
As soon as I started Looking for Alaska I fell in love with it. It has so many lovable characters, and is one of those books where all you want is for the two main characters to fall in love.
The book is separated it two parts; before and after. Its about the importance of friendship but in a cheesy way.
There is never a boring part in the story, and everything has import connections and meaning.
After I finished "before", the "after" part was most likely the most interesting, sad, and funny book I have ever read. While being a mystery. Although the mystery of what happened between Before and After is the whole story, it is so much. The book is so good and I recommend to for any age or gender.
It's really funny, yet sneaks in the "meaning of life" or things like that.
The book includes so many things to think about and take away from.
I highly recommend it, more for the teenagers, and for any gender.
Or any book from John Green.

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Pretty Little Liars

Over the break I decided to read pretty little liars. Then the next book. Then the next. I've barely been able to breath in between books! Currently I'm on number ten of ten and I'm so sad it's almost over!
The series is about four girls whose best friend goes missing. Three and a half years later she turns up, dead.
The series is about the four girls, figuring out what happened to their friend, Ali.
A couple weeks before Ali's body is found Spencer, Aria, Hanna, and Emily start getting texts from a person going by A.
The series is so good, and very well written. I love it a lot. While it has the teenage love drama (and a bit of cliché) going on, it's also a mystery! And (in my opinion) quite terrifying to read late at night. The book is a mix of mystery, love, and adventure. Considering in the past view books Spencer, Aria, and Hanna have almost died about five times.
I recommended this book for anyone looking for a great series, and wanting to read something for a while.
The book is very gripping and switches from the perspective of the four friends. If you like the kind of book where the characters know something bad that happened but your still figuring it out, this is a great book for you!

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A couple weeks ago my friend told me to read the beginning of a book, Lovely Bones. She only wanted me to because of how creepy it was. So I read the beginning, but I ended up wanting to read more. It was such a good and creepy book, with lots of detail.
Lovely Bones is about a girl, Susie Salmon who dies, as she says in the second sentence. She is murdered by someone who has killed many girls just like her. From heaven Susie watches the people she loves grow and forget about her.
When Susie left to heaven she touched her friend, Ruth, and Ruth immediately became fixated with her. Susie watched as Ruth and the boy who had loved her, and she had loved, lived their life together, connecting out of her death. She watched as her mom cheated on her dad and as her brother grew up without her.
There are two parts of heaven. The part that watches the earth, the part where the people can go into their own worlds, relive moments when they were alive, and the part that can never again connect to earth. Susie's grandparents are in that other part, as Susie learns as she chooses whether to stay or go.
Lovely Bones was a really good book, but very creepy! I recommend it if you have some patience, its long and very descriptive, and like to be scared a bit. It's really great writing and I loved it!


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Dreamland

After finishing This Lullaby I moved on to (yet another) Sarah Dessen. This one was recommended by my friend Leigh. So far the book has been good, but not quite as good as the other. It might be because I just read This Lullaby, with a super quick start and great characters but I dont really like this one as much. It is sort of that book where you feel like you should finish it, but I can get easily distracted by other ones

The book is about a girl named Caitlyn. Caitlyns sister ran away on the day of her sixteenth birthday to be with her boyfriend. Her sister had her whole life ahead of her, she was hugely athletic and going to Yale in two weeks. But Caitlyn's birthday doesn't go forgotten by her sister. She leaves Caitlyn a present out side of her room. It's a dream journal, and n the inside it says "I'll see you there."

Soon afterwards Caitlyns life starts to change. For one, she joins cheer leading. Then she meets a boy. Of course, what Sarah Dessen books don't have that perfect boy. Although this boy is different then the typical Sarah Dessen perfect boy. Rogerson is more of a rebel than the nice guy-next-door. And Caitlyn soon figures out what makes him so vague sometimes.

The book is really good, but I would read some other Sarah Dessen books before you do, they'll leave a better impression. I hope your right Leigh, I hope the book has a bitter sweet ending.

I can't wait to find out how it ends!

Bye for now.

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This Lullaby

After I finished the book Someone Like You I decided to read another one of Sarah Dessens books. Out of all of them I decided to read This Lullaby because of it's great ratings. I loved the book just like I thought I would. The story is a classical romance, with a slight twist like Sarah Dessens other stories. Yet unlike the other stories, This Lullaby starts of pretty quickly and has is really funny, which the other stories lack. This Lullaby has the always happy, funny charming "boy-next door" with the main character, Remy, who only believes in staying in a relationship until the beginning love rush starts.
Remy is a heartbreaker. She's not afraid to love 'em and leave 'em. Except honestly she always leaves the relationship before it gets too serious, before the "loving 'em". When she meets Dexter it isn't a possibility to love him, until she finds herself falling for Dexter. Dexter isn't perfect, like Remy usually makes her boyfriends. He's clumsy, messy and a musician, all the things Remy would break up with boys because of. Yet she can't seem to break up with him. She couldn't possibly love him could she?
Unlike her mother, Remy doesn't fall in love easily, while her mothers constantly in love and currently on her fifth husband. Or her sixth, whether you count Remys dad. Which she doesn't.
Remys dad left before Remy was born. When he heard that Remy was born he wrote a song about her, "This Lullaby." The song was a hit makings Remys dad a one hit wonder. Sadly Remys dad died soon after the song was released.
This book is great, funny and so sweet. It's a romance, with still a touch of friendship and the way life shakes you around. It's a fantastic book and anyone who liked any other Sarah Dessen books will definitely love This Lullaby. It's hard not to!

Someone like you

A couple days ago I started to read a book called, Someone Like You. I finished it the next day. The book, although not exciting every minute, is a really sweet and magical story about friendship. I loved the book! It's the kind of story that takes place over nine months in about 300 pages. So many things are not too descriptive. I thought it was a very cool way of writing and it made me want to read every word. There isn't some surprising twist in the end, but it is a nice look inside what a friendship can or cannot stand.
The story takes place from the perspective of the main character, Halley. Halley is named after her grandmother, who was named after Halley's comet. The comet was seen when Halley's grandmother was born.
Halley's best friend is Scarlett. Scarlett is a tough girl, she's practically raising her family, the complete opposite of Halley.
Scarlett and Halley have been best friends since they were little, and this year is a test of their friendship. In the summer Scarlett's boyfriend dies in a motorcycle accident, and everyone is devastated. Michael, the boyfriend, was nice to everyone, sort of "the guy to like" in their school.
A few months after Michael dies huge changes come to the best friends. Halley falls in love with Michaels best friend and Scarlett finds out something that will change her and Halley's life forever.
And to find out what that is you'll have to read the book!
It's a great story and I totally recommend it. The book isn't really for "a younger crowd" in some parts but in most of it it's appropriate.
I love this book!


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L8R G8R

About two weeks ago I started reading TTYL, a book told totally out of instant messaging. Currently I am read the last book in the series, L8R G8R. Maddie (madmaddie) Zoe (zoegirl), and Angela (Snowangel), are in their last year of highschool! I'm only half way through and I cant imagine what else could happen! Usually in the past books in the series (TTYL and TTFN) have had a sudden unexpected twist at the last couple days of the book. So far Maddie and Angela have been spending a lot of time together, getting closer and closer, while Zoe (though still 'true blue' with Maddie and Angela) has been drifting away, spending more and more and too much time with her boyfriend, Doug. Angela, though she refuses to admit it, seems to be slightly falling in love with Doug who has been in love with Angela, up until Zoe came in!

Through out the books you can so easily imagine what their life is like. Although instant messages aren't descriptive its nice to know what other people are thinking, not just the main character. And through it, its so easy to pick favorites! With girls abandoning each other and what they do, told through the messages, everyone has their own favorite. And it depends with the book! For example, each girl changes through the books. Another life lesson and another mistake made. So you'd think that in their Senior Year of high school they'd have it all figured out.

But nothing comes easy!

This book is great, and a fast read. It's hilarious (though the humor is pretty PG-13), sweet and very hooking. I recomend the whole series!

About a week ago I started reading a book called TTYL. It's told completely out of instant messaging, so of course theres those "I shouldn't say this cause it'll be online forever but..." moments. I haven't finished it yet, but it so far it's so good.
Basically it's about three highschoolers life's... in high school.
Theres Zoe, the saint-like, perfect-at-everything, super-sweet, Maddie, tomboy, mad-Maddie, funny, and Angela, the hopeless romantic, drama queen. The "winsome threesome" all go through different twists and turns of their first couple months of high school.
I could not put this book down, last night I took a good three hours "getting ready for bed". The book is so funny, and even if you don't like to read you'll love this book!
The book has a series so it probably wont have any ending. It's the kind of book that you wanna read the last chapter, just to see what's gonna happen. Since it is written through iChat don't expect any amazing metaphors or spectacular descriptions. Though it isn't set up like normal books it still has all the clever writing and amazing wit. The characters are hilarious and everything they do is too. Its not from any one persons perspective so you hear all the other characters think about each other versus just the main characters. Of course they have opinions on each other so the story is more relatable. Some of the times I want to slap the characters for being so dumb, or think about what I would have said.
I completely recommend this book! It's so good!

Maximum Ride

Earlier this summer I started reading the book Maximum Ride: The angel experiment. I finished the rest of the series within three days! The book is about six kids who had bird DNA implanted in them when they were born. They are avian-human, 98% human, 2% bird. There's Maximum Ride, the leader, 14 years old, Fang, second in command, 14, Iggy, third in command (and considering he's blind he probably shouldn't be), 14, Nudge, 12, The Gasman (there's a reason he's named that) 8, and Angel, 6.

The series has science, romance, adventure, cliff hangers and everything but the kitchen sink. The books always have different twists and turn, although some parts aren't as intense as others, the book is always surprising. At the end of every book there are still huge unanswered questions or just plots needing to be finished. It keeps you wanting to read it till the very end.

There are very few boring parts in Maximum Ride, considering in every book a new villain, or new rising enemy is introduced. The books aren't only all that I said before but they're also really funny. I think anyone could like this book, since there are so many different sides to it. One moment you'll be hearing about Max's oh-so-romantic life and the next her and the rest of the bird-kids will be kicking butt in a battle against some kind of serial killer threat.

What keeps me reading is that its the kind of book that you won't know how it ends till you read it. Since there are so many things being thrown at the characters you don't know who will disappear next. Or who will turn out to be "playing for the other team".

The books are so good! Definitely recommended!