Book #14 "Uncommon Criminals" by Ally Carter: So this was a good follow up book as any to "Heist Society". It was all about the same crew however this time it starts with them being the ones to get conned and then they have to go and fix what happen by stealing back what they thought they had just returned to it's rightful owner. Got a little bit confusing at some points but overall, like I said, I really did enjoy it.
However, the one thing that did kind of bother me (and it drives me crazy when authors do this) was when the author spent unnecessary time focused on the love story and then when the end of the book comes around they didn't even end up telling us one way or the other what happen to the two people that might, or might not, have had something romantic going on between them. I mean come on if your going to spend time developing the love story at least go all the way through with it.
So yeah, other then that little pet peev of mine I thought that it was pretty good.
Next book up for #15 is "Bright Young Things" by Anna Godbersen. That is all for now.
Until next time,
Michaela Jane
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Sunday, July 7, 2013
Book #13: "Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince" ...Finished!!
Book #13 "Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling:
Ok first things first, may I just say that, and maybe this is just me, but Harry Potter is so whiny!! like oh my gosh, don't get me wrong I enjoyed the book but there are times that I wish I could reach into the story and hit Harry upside the head with something and be like 'Shut up already!!' but anyways....
All of the Harry Potter books so far have proven one thing for me, that the movie is way way way WAY different then the book and that they leave so much out when converting books into movies. The amount of just little conversations, that would have added had they been in the movie, that are left out is just really quite sad.
The only other thing I can think of that I really wanted to comment on was, and I may be wrong considering that I have not watched this Harry Potter movie in a really really really long time, but didn't Harry and Ginny not start dating until the Deathly Hallows Part: 1 movie? I do not for the life of me remember them having any kind of relationship in 'The Half-Blood Prince'...but I could be wrong, like I said it's been a while.
Once again, Rowling did not disappoint and I am actually really looking forward to getting the next book and finishing this all up. Part of me in the beginning, when I first started reading these books, really didn't want to. However, looking back I'm really happy I took the time to read what are probably some of the most well known books of my generation. So those are all my thoughts for right now...next up is book #14 which is going to be "Uncommon Criminals" by Ally Carter.
Until next time,
Michaela Jane
Ok first things first, may I just say that, and maybe this is just me, but Harry Potter is so whiny!! like oh my gosh, don't get me wrong I enjoyed the book but there are times that I wish I could reach into the story and hit Harry upside the head with something and be like 'Shut up already!!' but anyways....
All of the Harry Potter books so far have proven one thing for me, that the movie is way way way WAY different then the book and that they leave so much out when converting books into movies. The amount of just little conversations, that would have added had they been in the movie, that are left out is just really quite sad.
The only other thing I can think of that I really wanted to comment on was, and I may be wrong considering that I have not watched this Harry Potter movie in a really really really long time, but didn't Harry and Ginny not start dating until the Deathly Hallows Part: 1 movie? I do not for the life of me remember them having any kind of relationship in 'The Half-Blood Prince'...but I could be wrong, like I said it's been a while.
Once again, Rowling did not disappoint and I am actually really looking forward to getting the next book and finishing this all up. Part of me in the beginning, when I first started reading these books, really didn't want to. However, looking back I'm really happy I took the time to read what are probably some of the most well known books of my generation. So those are all my thoughts for right now...next up is book #14 which is going to be "Uncommon Criminals" by Ally Carter.
Until next time,
Michaela Jane
Book #12: "Frankenstein" ....Finished!!!
Book #12 "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley: So I'm not going to wast my time or your time by going on and on and on about 'oh my gosh I haven't written on this blog in forever!' or any of that stuff let's instead just get right to the good stuff, shall we?
"Frankenstein" was, in a word, disturbing.
There is simply no other word for it! While reading it one can't help but wonder, 'what in the heck was Mary Shelley thinking?!'... personally I don't know that I want to know because my bet would be that she was one strange kid.
So I am going to be honest here and say the thing that probably bugged me the most about this was when Dr. Frankenstein (yes that's right the doctor's name is Frankenstein and they just call his creation either 'the creature' or 'the monster' the majority of the time) is creating the monster and right after it comes to life there is no 'IT'S ALIVE!!!!!' if fact Dr. Frankenstein then just kinda runs away.
Very disappointing to me for some strange reason.
The only other thing that i really gave any serious thought to was the fact that Dr. Frankenstein ends up marring his (basically) half-sister! EWW!! I mean surely there was someone else that Shelly could have had him marry?
All in all the story was good very full of grim and vivid details at every point (even on subjects that you didn't think it was possible to give so many details on).
That's all for book #12, next up for book #13 is "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince".
Until next time,
Michaela Jane
"Frankenstein" was, in a word, disturbing.
There is simply no other word for it! While reading it one can't help but wonder, 'what in the heck was Mary Shelley thinking?!'... personally I don't know that I want to know because my bet would be that she was one strange kid.
So I am going to be honest here and say the thing that probably bugged me the most about this was when Dr. Frankenstein (yes that's right the doctor's name is Frankenstein and they just call his creation either 'the creature' or 'the monster' the majority of the time) is creating the monster and right after it comes to life there is no 'IT'S ALIVE!!!!!' if fact Dr. Frankenstein then just kinda runs away.
Very disappointing to me for some strange reason.
The only other thing that i really gave any serious thought to was the fact that Dr. Frankenstein ends up marring his (basically) half-sister! EWW!! I mean surely there was someone else that Shelly could have had him marry?
All in all the story was good very full of grim and vivid details at every point (even on subjects that you didn't think it was possible to give so many details on).
That's all for book #12, next up for book #13 is "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince".
Until next time,
Michaela Jane
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