Book #13 "Happy Ever After" by Adele Geras: "As if love were the most important thing of all, more important then anything in the world. I used to think that, but now I'm not so sure. Perhaps love needs a whole arrangement of other things to support it, to keep it standing: a kind of scaffolding without which it simply falls to the ground in little shards and splinters.." (page 49).
'Happy Ever After' is suppose to be a more modern re-telling of three classic fairy tales (Repunzel, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White) all intertwining with each other. I got recommend this book by someone that I look up to a lot as far a taste in books is considered and I have to tell you I was actually very disappointed. Which is really sad considering the potential this book had to be good. But as is my duty let us get into talking about it, shall we?
One thing I did like about the book was that it was split up into 3 different stories, each told from a different girl's point of view, the book takes place in the 1960's and is based in London mostly where the three girls are attend a boarding school together, which is were they first became friends.
The main thing that got to me the most in this book was how much they took the whole turning the book modern thing all most too far. For example Alice, who is suppose to be Sleeping Beauty, is put into her 'sleep' or in this case 'silence' after she gets raped at her birthday party. It was just seemed a bit extreme to me I guess.
The way it was written also wasn't really my favorite I don't know if it was just I wasn't that in to the story line or that I wasn't that into Geras writing style. Either way as I said I just wasn't really that into it. I wouldn't recommend it personally. Sorry to anyone that has read it and likes it. And sorry to Geras. On the other hand now I guess I have a new reason to go to Half-Price Books...not that I really need a new reason.
Oh on side-note I did go to half-price books and get four new books that I totally didn't need. :) makes me happy. So, on to other things, next book up is bit more of a classic book #14 "The Beautiful and Damned" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Hope this one is better then the last one. :P
That's all for now,
Michaela Jane
PAGE COUNT:5,385
Thursday, May 22, 2014
Monday, May 12, 2014
Book #12 "The Devil Wears Prada" ... Finished!!!
Book #12 "The Devil Wears Prada" by Lauren Weisberger: "It was two in the afternoon of my first day in Paris, and I wanted to die. Only death was not an option" (Page 312).
The story follows Andrea Sachs as she starts the all important hunt for the first out of college job. What she really wants is to be a writer for the New Yorker but without an in she doesn't really see that being much of a possibility until she learns about the jr. assistant job at Runway magazine to the editor of the magazine herself, Miranda. It just so happens that after a year of working with Miranda you can practically get a job anywhere you want. Just no one seemed to remember to warn poor Andrea that her boss was seriously turns out to be one of the hardest people anyone could ever even dream of working for. But could it all be worth it so that at the end of a year you can get basically any job you could ever want?
As I mentioned in my last post this is my second time reading this I thought I was going to enjoy it as much the second time around and I got to be honest with you I don't know if it was because I knew everything that was coming or just because I am starting to get sick of the same old same old style of books I tend to pick up and read? Who knows?
But if you have never read it before I would say it's a good read for the first time around but as I kind of hinted to above I wouldn't really read it over and over and over again.
This is also one of the rare times when I can actually say that the movie is 100% better then book, I mean sure the book is good but I just love the movie, I don't know if it is the actors they got or what but I just love it. It's so good.
Next book up for number #13 is "Happy Ever After by Adele Geras. It is suppose to be a modern day mash up of 3 different fairy tales all wrapped up into one. Should be interesting to give a try, hopefully :P
That's all for now,
Michaela Jane
P.S. sorry I don't have a whole lot to say about this one like I said I just wasn't super thrilled with it as a re-read... :/
Page Count:4,986
The story follows Andrea Sachs as she starts the all important hunt for the first out of college job. What she really wants is to be a writer for the New Yorker but without an in she doesn't really see that being much of a possibility until she learns about the jr. assistant job at Runway magazine to the editor of the magazine herself, Miranda. It just so happens that after a year of working with Miranda you can practically get a job anywhere you want. Just no one seemed to remember to warn poor Andrea that her boss was seriously turns out to be one of the hardest people anyone could ever even dream of working for. But could it all be worth it so that at the end of a year you can get basically any job you could ever want?
As I mentioned in my last post this is my second time reading this I thought I was going to enjoy it as much the second time around and I got to be honest with you I don't know if it was because I knew everything that was coming or just because I am starting to get sick of the same old same old style of books I tend to pick up and read? Who knows?
But if you have never read it before I would say it's a good read for the first time around but as I kind of hinted to above I wouldn't really read it over and over and over again.
This is also one of the rare times when I can actually say that the movie is 100% better then book, I mean sure the book is good but I just love the movie, I don't know if it is the actors they got or what but I just love it. It's so good.
Next book up for number #13 is "Happy Ever After by Adele Geras. It is suppose to be a modern day mash up of 3 different fairy tales all wrapped up into one. Should be interesting to give a try, hopefully :P
That's all for now,
Michaela Jane
P.S. sorry I don't have a whole lot to say about this one like I said I just wasn't super thrilled with it as a re-read... :/
Page Count:4,986
Book #11 "Water for Elephants" ....Finished!!
Book #11 "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen: I first off want to go ahead and apologize for two things. The first is that there is no quote to start this post like I normally would start one, I just didn't find one that I really thought would sum up/give you a feel of the book very well, hence no quote. The second is that I am sorry it has taken me so gosh awful long to post this. I actually finished this book last Tuesday but then just kept putting off sitting down to type all this out. But here we go:
The story follows Jacob, whom when we first meet him is an old man in a nursing home and as he is reminiscing about the good old days of when he used to work on a circus we are given an inside view into the world of the 'Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth'. Jacob joined up with the 'Benzini Brothers Show' after he suddenly ran away from college upon hearing about the death of both his parents. With no other family members alive or at least not near by he just couldn't stand it so he just ran away to quite literately join the circus.
Personally I have never read a book that was based on a circus. Gruen went into a lot of detail about everything that goes on behind the scenes so that was kind of cool in the aspect that I got to learn something new. It was nice to just get to read something a little different for a change, which lets be honest is never a bad thing.
Speaking of cool things that I learned from this book, and I want to go on record that I have no idea if this is real or not or if it was made up just for the sake of the book, but in the book the circus traveled around by train and if someone got in trouble they could be "redlighted" which is basically when they would get tossed off the moving train! I don't know about you but if that is true that kind of blows my mind. I just can't imagine people staying around to work in a place if they knew there was a possibility of getting tossed off the train. But what do I know? One note that I unfortunately must make is that these was a lot and yea I mean a lot of really awkward sexual parts of the book that, as always, were randomly put in and in my opinion took away from the main story.
Overall though I really did enjoy it. I wish I could talk about the ending cause it was for sure the best part, but I don't want to ruin it for you if you do chose to read it. So anyways, next book up is going to be "The Devil Wears Prada" by Lauren Weisberger. I've read this one before but it's been like 4 or 5 years so I figured that it was time for a re-read.
Oh in other news I graduated with my associates degree and I ended up getting 7 new books as presents. So with those and the 2 new books that came in from goodreads I now have all my books for the 50 that I'm planning on reading for the year. Yea, and it's only May...I think I might just have a addiction :(
That's all for now,
Michaela Jane
Page Count: 4,626
The story follows Jacob, whom when we first meet him is an old man in a nursing home and as he is reminiscing about the good old days of when he used to work on a circus we are given an inside view into the world of the 'Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth'. Jacob joined up with the 'Benzini Brothers Show' after he suddenly ran away from college upon hearing about the death of both his parents. With no other family members alive or at least not near by he just couldn't stand it so he just ran away to quite literately join the circus.
Personally I have never read a book that was based on a circus. Gruen went into a lot of detail about everything that goes on behind the scenes so that was kind of cool in the aspect that I got to learn something new. It was nice to just get to read something a little different for a change, which lets be honest is never a bad thing.
Speaking of cool things that I learned from this book, and I want to go on record that I have no idea if this is real or not or if it was made up just for the sake of the book, but in the book the circus traveled around by train and if someone got in trouble they could be "redlighted" which is basically when they would get tossed off the moving train! I don't know about you but if that is true that kind of blows my mind. I just can't imagine people staying around to work in a place if they knew there was a possibility of getting tossed off the train. But what do I know? One note that I unfortunately must make is that these was a lot and yea I mean a lot of really awkward sexual parts of the book that, as always, were randomly put in and in my opinion took away from the main story.
Overall though I really did enjoy it. I wish I could talk about the ending cause it was for sure the best part, but I don't want to ruin it for you if you do chose to read it. So anyways, next book up is going to be "The Devil Wears Prada" by Lauren Weisberger. I've read this one before but it's been like 4 or 5 years so I figured that it was time for a re-read.
Oh in other news I graduated with my associates degree and I ended up getting 7 new books as presents. So with those and the 2 new books that came in from goodreads I now have all my books for the 50 that I'm planning on reading for the year. Yea, and it's only May...I think I might just have a addiction :(
That's all for now,
Michaela Jane
Page Count: 4,626
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