tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34077281985505030342024-03-05T16:11:06.283+00:00I Have To Read ThatSabrina Yamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688104328794236568noreply@blogger.comBlogger95125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407728198550503034.post-25819131014624809802014-06-18T21:46:00.001+01:002014-06-18T21:46:27.742+01:00I'VE MOVED<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">GUYS - </span><br />
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<br />Sabrina Yamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688104328794236568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407728198550503034.post-79439851724415603802014-04-19T09:02:00.000+01:002014-04-19T09:06:18.837+01:00UKYA Day: Spot the UKYA Books!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you didn't know about UKYA day - where have you been?! The awesome <a href="https://twitter.com/LucyTheReader" target="_blank">Lucy</a> from <a href="http://queenofcontemporary.com/" target="_blank">Queen of Contemporary</a> and also <a href="http://projectukya.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Project UKYA</a> has organised an April </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Extravaganza squished full of all things UKYA: posts, twitter chats and live chats with VIDEOS!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Today is the 19th April and if you haven't heard the 19th April is UKYA day!! A day where bloggers are posting their celebration post onto the internet world to share the love for the UKYA authors and novels!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">So, I call mine 'Spot the UKYA Books.' </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">One extract, 13 UKYA books - easy, right?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Four clues below if you get stuck, but they aren't all very obvious....</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It’s quiet. The sea water ripples back and
forth and the stars light the sky with the moon watching over them. He’s
sitting close to me. His leg on mine, his arm
wrapped round my back and my head on his chest. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">His heat radiating onto me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“I’m not
ready to say it yet. I feel the same but just give me time.” I say, he gives me
<i>the look</i> and sighs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My name is
Mina. I’m the girl who watches Disney fairytale films and reads sappy books
packed with romance. Before meeting him I believed in prince charmings and soulmates. I've soon learnt that that's not the case in any relationship but I like to stay optimistic. Hopeful that there will be that someone who I'll be with forever. How we ended up together is beyond me. I’m an utter geek girl. I’m scared of anything unpredictable. Something
abnormal. Something that evokes trouble. And he sits as the complete opposite of me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I rest my head back over his heart. His
chest rising and falling with every breath, I feel him draw me closer and he
plants a kiss on my forehead and asks if I’m cold. I shake my head.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I never
believed the difficulties in books. They
all seemed so petty. I never thought something so small could destroy something
that felt like an all time high. But it
did. I was caught up in cloud nine that I didn't even notice the obvious rumour
that was floating around. So blatantly obvious, but I was being so naive I
ignored it. It hit me in full force. I felt robbed. Stolen from. Nothing
screams “dead romantic” more than finding out he was with another girl on Valentine’s
Day. A day which he said he’d be spending the evening with his sick grandma. My
heart ached from sheer pain. I cried until my body was drained from all its water<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>. People would say
her name and the knife would plunge further, twisting in my gut. I hated what
he’d done to me. I was so dense that I never stopped to think about our pacing.
I agreed with myself that a break from him was best. Sorting myself out before going ahead to salvage the remains. Even after what he’d done, I never gave him a chance to explain.
Apparently he got it worse than me, strange since it was his doing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It’s not
hard to guess what happened next. Bit by bit he earned my trust back. Maybe I should
have been harder on him. He shattered my world, I should have destroyed his.
But where would that leave us? I’m not that heartless and if there’s a way to
resolve something, I will. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That summer
he took me to the fun fair along the river. Merry go rounds, small roller
coasters, haunted mansions, all the thrills and chills of the crazy pop-up fun fairs. We howled out laughs, I felt giddy and full of energy. In that moment,
everything felt perfect. I was living someone else’s life that night. The fair made me forget what happened in the past. Everything seemed to click in
the split second whilst on top of the ferris wheel and I forgave him. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The tides
bring me back to the shore, the water reaching for my feet before unwillingly
pulling back. I move under his arm and look up. The moonlight defining his
jawline and his eyes seemed to have intensified. His mouth draws up in the
corner and All my thoughts become banished. He smells like the ocean. He smells
like home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“I love you.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Book titles and the amount of letters per title (random order):</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/URL%20ADDRESS" style="text-align: center;"><img height="640" onmouseout="this.src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1HONd5U1at9xf-DzFy_wmG-q54c-Rr7uOKgtTi5rgnljpjMw3L1Mh7ePj5UCnn8MU2-_GHnEwN6tCo9o7mTBDuH_yVs0BmF4uUgwC5UmaTbb-W3Ogc-ke3BmK2Qc8l2Qp3RQyNYv8kls/s1600/clue+1+part+1.jpg'" onmouseover="this.src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuOshoKbWWvCfbbbeola4WPvOpYrTMjkf-SC5wVQ2-_am-9QJIpKHjAk_cpZSq0gWjhHuf1BTKqnikGzxFOjxfhs5YWQj_YRw8BlogPAGLQv6YmY-LNGxmdA_oLtCFbZYtEyMahp89eRE/s1600/clue+1+-+2nd+part.jpg'" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1HONd5U1at9xf-DzFy_wmG-q54c-Rr7uOKgtTi5rgnljpjMw3L1Mh7ePj5UCnn8MU2-_GHnEwN6tCo9o7mTBDuH_yVs0BmF4uUgwC5UmaTbb-W3Ogc-ke3BmK2Qc8l2Qp3RQyNYv8kls/s1600/clue+1+part+1.jpg" width="547" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Title acronyms (random order): </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12458914-the-look?from_search=true" target="_blank">The Look </a></i></b>by Sophia Bennett <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8526585-my-name-is-mina?ac=1" target="_blank">My Name is Mina</a></i></b> by David Almond</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16099393-soulmates?from_search=true" target="_blank"><b><i>Soulmates</i></b></a> by Holly Bourne<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><u><i><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13621089-geek-girl?from_search=true" target="_blank">Geek Girl</a></i></u></b> by Holly Smale<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i><u><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18138917-trouble?from_search=true" target="_blank">Trouble </a></u></i></b>by Non Pratt<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i><u><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6408862-stolen?from_search=true" target="_blank">Stolen</a></u></i></b> by Lucy Christopher</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i><u><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18621200-say-her-name?from_search=true" target="_blank">Say Her Name</a></u></i></b> by James Dawson</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u><i><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16126716-dead-romantic?from_search=true" target="_blank">Dead Romantic</a></b></i></u> by CJ Skuse</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18066469-salvage?from_search=true" target="_blank"><b><i>Salvage</i></b></a> by Keren David </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17901410-shattered?from_search=true" target="_blank">Shattered (Slated #3)</a> </u>by Teri Terry</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10413869-someone-else-s-life?from_search=true" target="_blank"><b><i>Someone Else’s Life</i></b></a> by Katie Dale<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16280607-split-second?from_search=true" target="_blank"><i><b>Split Second</b></i> </a>by Sophie Mckenzie</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i><u><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17617648-banished?from_search=true" target="_blank">Banished</a></u></i></b> by Liz de Jager </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ah, that was fun right? Well, I hope you had a good time 'spotting' the books, it was nice to revisit one of my really old pieces. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How many did you get? Leave it in the comments below and compare with others!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm going to have to step back and focus fully on my for the next 3 months because, I'll be honest here, I really really really want to get into university.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So other than my post for <a href="http://projectukya.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/april-extravaganza-kick-off.html" target="_blank">UKYADay</a>, all my other drafts will stay in drafts until the middle of June.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then after my exams are over, I'll be back posting as much as my brain can reel out, to my hearts content, going on book splurges and hopefully redesigning my blog (which I've been wanting to do for a while - but have had no time!!).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This may be a goodbye to my blog for a bit but fear not, I will be lurking on Twitter now and then, so no blogger is dropping a reader on their stats! ;-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Sabrina Yamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688104328794236568noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407728198550503034.post-83719057624078084462014-04-02T22:22:00.000+01:002014-04-08T15:18:19.911+01:00Event: European Divergent Premiere <span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>[This post a little unfinished but I wanted to get it out there before the film release!! More pictures and text to come soooon!]</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In all odds, I won tickets to walk the Divergent European Premiere red carpet in London as well as to watch the film itself. For the whole weekend the Leicester Square garden was transformed into the dystopian world of Divergent, with Erudite's directing our aptitude tests and the Dauntless cheering us with a mini capture the flag game.</span><br />
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As we queued for the fan experience, we had Erudite's entertain us as they pick out Divergent's to burn by Steven (a very awkward role play if I say so myself *cringe*). As the time came closer to the gates opening for us, they soon multiplied and we were then picked on. Luckily we got an easy escape as I asked for a photo with them where they later commented how I was a "<i>smart one</i>." ;-) </span><br />
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Collecting our wristbands, we were in! We tried everything we could - No trampoline or rock climbing for us gals though, since we were in dresses...and heels! But we had to take the aptitude test, play capture the flag and replace Four and Tris in the Divergent poster! The whole fan experience feel was so much fun and the Dauntless actors were amusing to talk to. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THIS guy especially...he was perfect....</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Daunltess:</b></span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> How do you know I'm nice?</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Me:</b></span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Because you're talking to us!</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Daunltess:</b></span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> So what? Hitler spoke and he wasn't nice.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I definitely have a good stack of photos both with the actors and just of the surroundings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just a bit before we headed out, I got a chance to stop and say hi to <a href="http://justbeingme.co.uk/" target="_blank">Alison</a>, the only Amity in sight! It was great to meet her, having spoken to her on Twitter several a times!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Other than that I didn't get a chance to talk to anyone else. I did spot <a href="http://www.themilelongbookshelf.com/" target="_blank">Amber</a> but then she walked off before I got a chance to go up to her - but definitely next time!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Heading out we grabbed a quick lunch, and sooner than ever, it was time to queue to walk the carpet!! ....AND WATCH THE FILM!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Before we were allowed to step onto the carpet, we had to queue and choose faction wristbands from five choosing bowls. The wristbands decided where you'd sit in the cinema. Unfortunately, when we got to the bowls there were only two options left. In a panic with where to sit and what bands were left, we grabbed the Candor ones. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As we entered, on our seats there were t-shirts as well as a free drink awaiting us. The screen was playing the footage that was being shown outside, which was really nice because I didn't feel like I missed out on anything. In my fangirling state, as I walked into the screen room, Miles Teller and Jai Courtney were on screen...dear god, I had a massive fit...Jai Courtney...!! But anyway...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All the stars, Shailene Woodley (who plays Tris), Theo James (Four), Kate Winslet (Jeanine), Ben Lloyd-Hughes (Will), director Neil Burger and author Veronica Roth came on stage to introduce the film....</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*<span style="font-size: x-small;">Whispers swears to oneself, scared, nervous and in shock that I was about to watch the film</span>*</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The film was AMAZING. I was in complete shock at the end of it. I went in with high expectations but open minded with knowing that scenes would me missed and details missed. The cinematography in the film is beautiful with the CGI not being overdone. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cast-wise it was perfect. I didn't have any issue with it anyway so really, I was all up for the full film impact. Shailene played a much sassier Tris and Theo held his power and vulnerability as Four. Kate Winslet showed that she can make a great villain, from the very start there was always something unsettling that was always there, kind and firm but unsettling. I know people were annoyed about the way Eric looked, but I think Jai was a great Eric. Even if he wasn't what the Eric was like in the books, he still held the power and he stood as someone you'd never mess with. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If I had to criticize it, I was disappointed in the relationship and character build in the movie. I felt that not all the characters got the full spot light they deserved (i.e Eric and also Peter). Due to the lack of relationship build the loses weren't as emotional as they could of been and some were just not dwelled on at all! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was all really cleverly shot with the highs and the lows as well as the odd humorous comments that were just perfect. Being so overwhelmed by the film, I ended up crying! <i>Oh why do you mention something so pointless as that? </i>So, basically, I'm a rock. As soon as I felt a tear drop...OH MY GOD - THE FIRST FILM THAT'S MADE ME CRY!!! So naturally, now this film has a sentimental value to me..</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(I've now watched this film for the second time and have put more thought on it. Yes, I loved it but there are some small yet meaningful scenes that were missed out. I think the scenes that are put into the film are focusing on 'what could look beautiful on screen?' more than 'let's tell a story which delves into the characters and relationships.' But then again, it's from book to screen and it's impossible to put everything that's on the page!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The annoying thing with me being me, I know that they've filmed it and there are photos and clips in the trailer that proves they've shot it, so I am hoping for at least a three hour reel of deleted scene! - If not I will be very disappointed...)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I just wish the day was longer! I had an amazing time...and I did return home with a freebie or two...(which I have no room for in my room).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Because I was searching for these boards, I didn't get a chance to see Ben Lloyd-Hughes leave the cinema, as my friends told me after. It made it all that much worse when they then went on to tell me that not many people went up to him! Gah, I so would of been flailing around him, I love the whole cast so much!!</span><br />
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Sabrina Yamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688104328794236568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407728198550503034.post-16983887561542062712014-03-29T06:45:00.000+00:002014-03-29T10:47:51.833+00:00College Event: James Dawson Visit with Say Her Name reading!! [With VIDEOS]<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So for part of my college celebration of YA books/Arts Award project, I organized James Dawson to come in for a talk. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was nervous as hell, being super worried that my posters, emails and general word of mouth wasn't enough, but that was all out of my control. I couldn't even focus on my double maths period I had in the morning..haha...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don't know how much I'm really allowed to say about the talking that happened before the event so I just thought it'd be safer not to say anything in general...other than I can't wait for his future books and a possible shake and change in the genre department. Other than that my lips are sealed...!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">James kindly agreed for me to film the talk, as a use of evidence for my Gold Arts Award, but has also let me share it with you guys too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have also edited out the extract that he read...just to save those who don't have an hour at hand to listen to the full talk!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I present to you, an extract from <i>Say Her Name </i>read by the author himself, James Dawson<i>. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now, for the full length talk....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is a cut around half way through because the camera had a little panic attack but I don't think you really miss much either way! It's basically an hour long. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I speak in this video...and I sound SUPER posh...I am still coming to terms with how weird I sound..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- There are some small spoilers in this talk about <i>Say Her Name</i> - it's in the Q&A section, you watch at your own risk (for me, I would count it as a spoiler but it's up to you!) ...It's around </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">28:37(ish) to 31:02(ish)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Do I need to warn you guys about swears too? Or are we all cool about those things? What do I say..? Mild use of swearing? *shurgs*</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>My review will be posted here closer to the time of release! And yes, I finished it in less than 24 hours. 24 hours of paralyzed reading. I have yet to decipher if I was paralyzed from fear or enjoyment!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But in the meantime, check out <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10836484-hollow-pike" target="_blank">Hollow Pike</a> and <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16275049-cruel-summer" target="_blank">Cruel Summer</a>!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And THANK YOU (again) James for coming in!! :D </span>Sabrina Yamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688104328794236568noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407728198550503034.post-17158328161450502772014-03-25T07:00:00.000+00:002014-03-25T07:00:01.294+00:00Confessions of a Book Addict #3: Multiple Book Copies<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I saw </span><a href="http://queenofcontemporary.com/2014/02/multiple-copy-obsession.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lucy</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">'s post a whole while ago but it really got me thinking about my own collection of books. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We read books and once we're done with them we put them on a shelf, display them like you're telling someone: 'yeah, I've read that book, take that!' Occasionally, if a book reaches my 'favourites' shelf, I will reread it. But does that really make me need to have two copies of a book? </span><br />
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Half the time I never even read the story in the second copy of the book. But yet, I go and buy myself a second copy, just...because. </span><br />
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I think my first books that I got which were doubles was a boxset of Sarah Dessen books. I already had the UK covers and then for one of my 13th (maybe? Or 14th...15th? Somewhere between there) birthday my sister got me a US boxset of Dessen's books. Those book covers have now been republished but back in the days, I really adored the American covers. I do still really do love the UK covers (before they got republished and they now match the new republished covers in the US). But anyway, those were my first double copies.</span><br />
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I like to think that's where it all started but I'm not 100% sure where it originated from. Some occasions, I have got some of my multiple copies for free (all by chance!) but others and the majority of the time, I do end up buying them. But I always think that maybe it's not so pointless if they are different covers, or if they are US editions of books (which are floppy and oh-so-exciting!!)</span><br />
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I will give you a rough outline of my collection...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i style="font-family: Verdana;">Keeping the Moon</i> is actually called <i style="font-family: Verdana;">Last Chance</i> here in the UK...and I mean, different titles, different cover, how can I not buy another copy of it? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am still saving to buy the Sarah Dessen DELUXE boxset. And and, it comes with a key necklace! (Pointless since I don't wear jewellery but yeah...) </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Divergent</i> Series By Veronica Roth</span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Collection almost complete - but yes, I bought all of these...shipping to the UK from the US is bloody expensive...! <span style="text-align: center;">The Chinese edition one I bought from Hong Kong.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>The Hunger Games </i>by Suzanne </b><b style="font-family: Verdana;">Collins</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Again, a UK edition alongside a Chinese edition...that I also bought in Hong Kong.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Won the pre-signed copy and the other was handed out at the Movellas event that I went to via Spinebreakers!</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Verdana;"><i>Angelfall</i> by Susan Ee </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One copy I bought *before* it was published by Hodder and then the other two were hand-outs at the Catching Fire Premiere!!</span><br />
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But the question is, do I really need them? Am I gaining anything? Should I be spending my money on other books I haven't read rather than those that I have? </span><br />
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And the truth is I don't know. I think that in my mind, I know that it's a huge waste of my money. I mean, an option of a new book or an already read book is not hard to choose from. But some specific books mean more to me than others so I feel the need of wanting them in their different editions and versions! </span><br />
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Sabrina Yamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688104328794236568noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407728198550503034.post-72282015633068288252014-03-11T07:00:00.000+00:002014-03-11T07:00:04.260+00:00Book Review: Matched by Ally Condie<a href="https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1331116724l/10401868.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="10401868" border="0" height="320" src="https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1331116724l/10401868.jpg" width="209" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Title: Matched (Matched #1)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Published: 2nd June 2011 (Penguin) </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows he is her ideal mate . . . until she sees Ky Markham's face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black. The Society tells her it's a glitch, a rare malfunction, and that she should focus on the happy life she's destined to lead with Xander. But Cassia can't stop thinking about Ky, and as they slowly fall in love, Cassia begins to doubt the Society's infallibility and is faced with an impossible choice: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she's known and a path that no one else has dared to follow. </i>[Via <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10401868-matched" target="_blank">Goodreads</a>]</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">GAAAHHHH! This book was so disappointing in so many ways! As well as hearing about this book, the main reason it did stick in my mind was the cover. I absolutely love the cover, the bubble the matching dress and bubble the idea of being trapped...yes! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So as soon as I started this book it really did intrigue me. I loved the whole idea of how you find out your 'match', seeing them on a screen and then taking home a card which stores all the information about them. That part really got me, just imagining the whole build up to it. But for Cassia, her match doesn't appear of the big screen. It stays black because her best friend, Xander, is her match and he is in the same room! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But then when she gets home to see Ky flash on Xander's card. Predictably, it is a 'glitch.' However, the question remains in Cassia's mind, since when does the Society make mistakes? Do they ever?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My main issue with this book was the danger. I didn't feel any sort of danger or threat whilst reading, maybe it just wasn't strong enough, but all I know is that Cassia, Ky and even Xander got away with so much without a punishment. The actions that were done to act as punishment were also quite small. From what I took in, I would of loved a bit more description about the Society as a whole, it wasn't really very clear throughout. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I also didn't like Cassia's narration with her indecisiveness. It really bothered me with all her bouncing around. I can't stand it when feelings and thoughts bounce around so often! Yes, maybe it did show she was constantly thinking but I think there's always a limit. Going past that limit edges onto annoying. </span><br />
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<a href="https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1330612912l/13145654.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Heart-Shaped Bruise" border="0" height="320" src="https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1330612912l/13145654.jpg" width="207" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Author: </b>Tanya Byrne </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-style: italic; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;">They say I'm evil. The police. The newspapers. The girls from school who shake their heads on the six o’clock news and say they always knew there was something not quite right about me. And everyone believes it. Including you. But you don't know. You don't know who I used to be. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-style: italic; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;">Who I could have been.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-style: italic; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;">Awaiting trial at Archway Young Offenders Institution, Emily Koll is going to tell her side of the story for the first time. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-style: italic; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;">Heart-Shaped Bruise</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;"><i> is a compulsive and moving novel about infamy, identity and how far a person might go to seek revenge. </i>[Via <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13145654-heart-shaped-bruise?from_search=true" target="_blank">Goodreads</a>]</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I read this book after reading Dawson's books and it definitely brought the pacing down in comparison. It was slower paced but that didn't stop me from enjoying it, it definitely added to the eeriness to the book.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The layout of the novel was as if reading from a diary. We read about Emily almost in reverse order, as we know that she has done something, we just need to find out what and the 'deeper' answer to why. I loved reading about her session with her therapists as the story unfolds. She did everything with a purpose but with her reasoning I did find her a little weird. Her mind works in an odd way, which I didn't really see eye to eye with, but then the story really wouldn't of gone anywhere if she did what I would of done. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What freaked me out at the beginning was the times when Emily, spoke to the audience.*shivers* But at least it didn't happen as often, which disappointed me a little, and yet was grateful there was a stop to it because...it just freaked me out a little, with the already eerie storytelling and... *shivers*</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was a good read and I'd recommend it for those who prefer the easier going crime-type books. It was super easy to get through!</span>Sabrina Yamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688104328794236568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407728198550503034.post-73260233301584856902014-03-05T06:30:00.000+00:002014-03-05T06:30:00.346+00:00Celebration of UKYA: Problems, Improvements And Actions<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I think I left off at the planning stages of my project in my last <a href="http://ihavetoreadthat.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/celebration-of-ukya-event-planning.html" target="_blank">post</a>. Planning was pretty easy for me as it only required little time to figure out what I wanted to do. Sadly, now actually trying to get everything done, it's all way above me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Initially I wanted to <strong>only </strong>focus on UKYA fiction but now realized that that limits me a lot in trying to encourage people to come to my book club, so I've had to just keep it to YA fiction in general.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">So, fortunately, I can say it's not going to be a complete flop. The displays I wanted to do aren't going to be as lavish as I pictured them. However, I spoke to the college librarian and she was totally for the idea of putting a display of YA fiction up. We actually ended up talking about reading in general and how I feel that in schools we are pushed to read certain books, which people don't enjoy and therefore decide that they overall don't like reading. I made these small booklets of recs, 8 pages or so, and she was super nice and said she'd order some of them in!! (Damn, should of put more books that I haven't read on that list!! There are so many!) Haha, but I will be displaying books, hopefully, this week! I will definitely show everyone when I'm done with it ;D</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi62U6jmqLOAAK93TqMyfibVfSmg_SyOw8Let7jnFYyM73adwg3xK8o-_rHVTZTkhjTnko2IiMmpCS3DV_vLOPl4mkXwhvqzvt0DouRbb7fvQ_ubKQmks14CeGUIqNFLpR0R0FQWnho1So/s1600/james+dawson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi62U6jmqLOAAK93TqMyfibVfSmg_SyOw8Let7jnFYyM73adwg3xK8o-_rHVTZTkhjTnko2IiMmpCS3DV_vLOPl4mkXwhvqzvt0DouRbb7fvQ_ubKQmks14CeGUIqNFLpR0R0FQWnho1So/s1600/james+dawson.jpg" height="226" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As well as the display, I have also managed to book an author. I initially wanted to get two authors in but soon realized that with the budget given, two is hard to fit as well as the fact that I had to find authors who people will want to turn up to an listen to talk. I'm really gutted about this part the most because I guess you say that I wanted to get authors in so I could meet them... Although in the end I ended up asking people who've I've actually already met! I also wanted to get an author to do a workshop (more because I wanted to sit through an authors' creative writing workshop) but that has also had to be put aside due to what I can o with the amount I have. But I have one author booked and I am totally happy about that!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Trying to complete this running alongside my A2 classes is crazy hard and I am starting to wonder why they didn't get us to do this in the first year rather than the second year! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">But anyway, I just thought I'd give you a little update on my plans...It's nice to just be able to write about it even if no one reads it...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">I can't believe I'm already writing a January. I really haven't done all that much this month. Reading has been slow and then blogging and reviewing has been so much worse!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">Reading UKYA is great! On the adult and graphic novel side, they still stand at zero.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><a href="http://ihavetoreadthat.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/book-review-cress-lunar-chronicles-3-by.html" target="_blank">Cress</a></i> by Marissa Meyer</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><a href="http://ihavetoreadthat.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/book-review-where-you-are-bewteen-lines.html" target="_blank">Where You Are</a></i> by Tammara Webber</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tithe by Holly Black <span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>(Review to Come)</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><a href="http://ihavetoreadthat.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/book-review-hollow-pike-by-james-dawson.html" target="_blank">Hollow Pike</a></i> by James Dawson</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><a href="http://ihavetoreadthat.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/book-review-cruel-summer-by-james-dawson.html" target="_blank">Cruel Summer</a></i> by James Dawson</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Heart-Shaped Bruise by Tanya Byrne <span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>(Review to Come)</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Crash Into You by Katie McGarry </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>(Review to Come)</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Matched by Ally Condie </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>(Review to Come)</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Starcrossed by Josephine Angelini </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>(Review to Come)</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can just check my stacking shelves post here to see what I mean <a href="http://ihavetoreadthat.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/sabrinas-stacking-shelves-2.html" target="_blank">here</a> (keep in mind that I have yet to get through my last haul...)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">February was pretty much packed with university everything. I received all my replies from the five unis and have gone to three applicant days (still have another but in April!). </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Something really uninteresting but I'm going to say anyway, is that I got a maths tutor this month (YES!) - I've been trying to find a really good one for a while because I am just all-round failing maths at the moment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fangirling is part of personal life right? So Divergent sure had a lot going on in February and it's AWESOME! Trailers, music videos FEAR LANDSCAPE clip.... *mindblown*</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">Catching up on my reviews. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">Ongoing revision!</span></span>Sabrina Yamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688104328794236568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407728198550503034.post-51417056066811858592014-02-27T07:30:00.000+00:002014-02-27T07:30:02.425+00:00Sabrina's Stacking Shelves #2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'll be honest with you, I went on another huge buying binge. I still have a tonne from my previous that I haven't read yet and as it's coming close to half term that I doubt I'll be reading again any time soon! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don't know what came over me but there were cheap books here and then bloggers wanted to get rid of their books and so I was just like, "<b><i>I'LL GIVE THEM HOMES! ADD THEM TO MY FUTURE LIBRARY!! GIVE, I'LL PAY!</i></b>" - that's not even exaggerating my thoughts. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15832163-where-you-are" target="_blank">Where You Are (Between the Lines #2)</a> </i>by Tammara Webber - <b>READ</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Can I just say £1 per book, I mean, come on? Who wouldn't?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2312788.Ruby_Red" target="_blank"><i>Ruby Red</i></a> by Linzi Glass</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/283498.Tithe" target="_blank">Tithe (Modern Faerie Tales #1)</a></i> by Holly Black - <b>READ</b></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3942410-ironside" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ironside </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(Modern</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Faerie Tales #3)</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> by Holly Black</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Couldn't find the 2nd one, so annoyed!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9678708-my-soul-to-save" target="_blank"><i>My Soul to Save (Soul Screamers #2)</i></a> by Rachel Vincent</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6315602-my-soul-to-take" target="_blank"><i>My Soul to Take (Soul Screamers #1)</i></a> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Rachel Vincent</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sorry for the wrong photo ordering. (Couldn't find the third one either so annoyed!)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7884000-extras" target="_blank">Extras (Pretties #4</a><u>)</u></i> by Scott Westerfeld - <b>READ </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Read way before blogging days but I only had the trilogy, funny how I also bought them from The Works. But now I've got the complete series!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8776757-lament" target="_blank">Lament</a></i> by Maggie Stiefvater</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So thank you To Amber (<a href="http://www.themilelongbookshelf.com/" target="_blank">The Mile Long Bookshelf</a>) for these glorious books :D</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17205536-you-don-t-know-me?bf=500&from_search=true" target="_blank">You Don't Know Me </a></i>by Sophia Bennett</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17340150-here-without-you" target="_blank">Here Without You (Between the Lines #4)</a></i> by Tammara Webber</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And also Kayleigh (<a href="http://k-booksxo.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">K-Books</a>) for just a few more books! ;D</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7488244-unearthly?bf=500&from_search=true" target="_blank">Unearthly</a></i> by Cynthia Hand</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9721690-starcrossed" target="_blank">Starcrossed (Starcrossed #1)</a></i> by Josephine Angelini </span></div>
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<i><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13041606-dreamless" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dreamless </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(Starcrossed #2)</span></a></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Josephine Angelini </span></div>
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<i><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16146662-goddess" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Goddess </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(Starcrossed #3)</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></a></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Josephine Angelini</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I didn't buy this. I was sent it by the awesome Tammara Webber! Signed and everything, and the <i>Easy</i> bookplates and the bookmark! Eeeep! I can't believe it! It's like my first official blog sent item :D (not going to apologise for my 13 year old excitement :P) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What's everyone else got recently? Done a shop that you shouldn't have like me? xD</span>Sabrina Yamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688104328794236568noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407728198550503034.post-57930924308408556292014-02-24T07:30:00.000+00:002014-02-24T07:30:00.115+00:00A to Z Bookish Survey<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I found this on <a href="http://www.perpetualpageturner.com/2013/08/some-friday-fun.html" target="_blank">Perpetual Page Turner</a> and thought it looked super fun so I thought I'd just go ahead and do it! (I also hoped it'd be a quick post I could do and put up, but I was wrong about that!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Haha...anyway, here is my version of the A to Z Bookish Survey!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13496084-point-of-retreat?bf=500&from_search=true" style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;" target="_blank">Point of Retreat (Slammed #2) </a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">by Colleen Hoover</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - 870 pages</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">Apparently I have 272 books from last September..? I don't know if that includes my teen books but that was the amount I counted last (via my personal Twitter) </span></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">O</span></strong><span style="font-size: small;">ne Book You Have Read Multiple Times:</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 11.263999938964844px;">"</span><i><span style="line-height: 11.263999938964844px;">Life, he realized, was much like a song.</span></i><span style="line-height: 11.263999938964844px;"><i>In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile."</i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/series/41855-modern-faerie-tales" target="_blank">Modern Fairie Tales</a> by Holly Black</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51737.The_Truth_About_Forever?bf=500&from_search=true" target="_blank">The Truth About Forever </a>by Sarah Dessen.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">U</span></strong><span style="color: #333333; font-size: small;">napologetic Fangirl For:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I feel like it should say "books" not "book" because who just buys one book at a time?!?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Haha, I think I will say <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9462795-starcrossed" target="_blank">Starcrossed</a> by </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.3;">Josephine Angelini (but it was also bought with a tonne of other books I shouldn't of bought!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am very strict with how long I stay up reading because, unlike many of my friends, I can't function without sleep and I become a real grumpy poo. But anyway, Requiem by Lauren Oliver kept me up - worst thing is, I had a maths exam the next day!</span></div>
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Sabrina Yamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688104328794236568noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407728198550503034.post-89771599080438790642014-02-21T09:00:00.000+00:002014-02-21T09:00:02.115+00:00Thank You Blogging!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Before I started blogging, I was a quiet reader. I pretty much kept myself to myself. My friends weren't really aware that I was such a heavy reader. I didn't talk about reading an awful lot and during my time in high school because leisurely reading was the "strangest hobby <i>ever"</i> (</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">according to everyone in my year) and it also meant you didn't have a life, which I also found out when I expressed my liking for crafting in my English class (it was an presentation assessment, <i>bleeehh!</i>). I only had three friend who read for entertainment but we all had very different reading tastes. But I think in secondary school reading YA books seemed much more acceptable than now that I'm in college. </span><br />
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I guess my friends now know how much I read now. They know how much money I spend on my book hauls. They also know that I attended tonnes of book events last year, since most of them were after college and I would be lugging a massive bag around college full of books!</span><br />
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But from secondary school to college there's a bit of a difference.</span><br />
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When I hit college, everyone expects you to be an adult. Doing adult things, organizing time and then reading what adults read. Something complex and educational, bettering your internal dictionary. I can't say I disagree with that but then leisurely reading is supposed to be fun, right? So if I picked up a book with several words in one sentence that I didn't understand, where is the fun in that?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don't care so much who knows about my reading habits. Ok, so I don't go round broadcasting it to every person I see, but I talk about books without feeling so ashamed. Basically everyone in the English department know me as a very heavy young adult reader, especially since I handed in my proposal (I also spent my second year English Language coursework focusing on YA dystopian and romance. It was so much fun!). I have never been able to get into classics, not being able to get through the few pages of heavy description, and there are only a small bunch of adult books that I read.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And where did this change of hiding my reading habits change? The turth is it has actually come from <i style="color: #0b5394; font-weight: bold;">blogging</i>!</span><br />
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I have come to the idea that some people will always disagree with what I want to do in the end, be a UKYA author. People will always look down on authors who write YA but the blogging community has really opened my eyes. As well as being able to project my voice into the internet void, I have been able to read other posts done by various bloggers who aren't ashamed of what they read or write.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(And yeah, I kinda use my blog as a bit of a diary entry. It's pretty awesome because I can ramble and you'll read it anyway ;P haha..)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I was in the process of writing my personal statement my tutor commented how I said 'amazing' so much. He said it didn't sound like I really meant it and that I should take the 'George Orwell way of writing.' I missed out on studying </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Animal Farm, </i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">so had no clue what he was on about. But apparently, simple is the way I should of written. No exaggeration of emotion. I was a bit of a stubborn student and didn't do anything he said and instead gave it to my English teacher to read over, and thank god I did because I have got the turn out that I couldn't be happier about!</span><br />
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So why did you read that massive chunk of a post? It was a very long way of saying thank you, which is all I seem to be doing most of the time. Thanks to those who've been super kind to me, those who've followed me every and anywhere and those, who don't know it, but post their normal posts for people to read and give me a little boost of determination of what I want to do in the future! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />So hopefully this blog will be around for a while!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Should be a fun ride! (Just put in that cliché there!!)</span><br />
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Sabrina Yamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688104328794236568noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407728198550503034.post-27139975598696471172014-02-19T08:00:00.000+00:002014-02-19T08:00:02.634+00:00Book Review: Cruel Summer by James Dawson<a href="https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1361979896l/16275049.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="16275049" border="0" height="320" src="https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1361979896l/16275049.jpg" width="202" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;"><b>Title:</b> Cruel Summer</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;"><b>Published:</b> 1st August 2013 (Indigo)</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>A year after Janey’s suicide, her friends reunite at a remote Spanish villa, desperate to put the past behind them. However, an unwelcome guest arrives claiming to have evidence that Jane was murdered. When she is found floating in the pool, it becomes clear one of them is a killer. Only one thing is for certain, surviving this holiday is going to be murder…</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;">It's hard when the first book I read by Dawson was 5 stars, but the only reason for the 4 stars is because I didn't get the full surprise I wanted at the end (I saw what Dawson was doing and actually got my guesses right!!) </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;">Nevertheless, this book contained every obvious horror movie convention: the killer on the loose...scary silhouette, a dark cellar and, of course, deaths. With the twist of the horror format, this book twisted my guts even more than Hollow Pike because of these "horror conventions" that are build to be suspenseful and shocking. Every sentence screamed: "YOU ARE ALL SCREWED! SOMETHING BAD WILL HAPPEN!" - literally....and it got me every time..</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><em style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;">'But he didn't check everywhere.' Katie's voice was full of apprehension. 'Nobody looked in the cellar...' </em><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;">Dun dun DUNNNN!!!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;">I really loved Ryan. He was the key person who brought up the questions and pushed forward, equally loving his narration! (Well I loved the whole structure of the book). Like I said in my Hollow Pike review, I could imagine it on TV. Then I read this book, BAM, the layout is as if I'm watching a TV show! Nice nice, I like it...bonus points there! ;-) But it was more because of Ryan's way of thinking about life and I thought it was a really interesting way on looking at life (but then not really agreeing).</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;">Even with the situation of the book, I liked how there was a merge of other themes that came with an individual. I think I am speaking more about Gregg. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;">The highlights were when we got to read about two characters having a private conversation, which seemed to happen a lot in this book (Oooo, so many secrets!!!). These scenes are where we get to suss out our suspects as well as get our flash backs on the events surrounding Janey. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;">Definitely a book to read.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;">Your mind won't be put to rest until the end...literally! </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;">** When I was telling my friend about Hollow Pike and Cruel Summer, she asked: "Did James Dawson just have a horrible time with teens and want to murder them all?" - I laughed. But a good question, don't you think? ;P</span></span></div>
Sabrina Yamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688104328794236568noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407728198550503034.post-82039568890503280682014-02-17T08:00:00.000+00:002014-02-17T08:00:02.495+00:00Will People Always Look Down on YA readers?<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is something I thought about whilst writing one of my other posts. It's something that is true. But maybe there's a bit of hope since the announcement of the <a href="http://twitter.com/yalc_2014" target="_blank">YALC</a> that will be held at the <a href="http://www.londonfilmandcomiccon.com/" target="_blank">London Film and Comic Convention</a>!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">In secondary school, you are taught to look at the classics. Me, I looked at <i>Frankenstein, The Crucible </i>and <i>To Kill A Mockingbird</i>. They were books that are something that we should aspire to write like. They are the "finer" ways of writing. Ok, it sounds like I'm on a rant about classics. I'm not. To be honest I really wish I could get through them, but I can't. I don't know if it's that I choose all the wrong books or if it's just me with no reading stamina, but I have tried many a times and nothing seems to work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I was writing my personal statement for UCAS, at my college, you are supposed to give your personal statement to your tutor to check over. My tutor is a maths teacher and I wanted to give mine to an English teacher because the subject I wanted to study has something to do with English. My english teacher told me to write about some novels that I've read, which I replied to saying: "Should I write about books for the target audience I want to write for? Or classics?" He then went on and asked me what classic books I've read. I said: "I'm not really a classic reader and have only read two." (Ok, so I have read more than two but I was on the spot, I panicked!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And then, this is where I was made to feel like a '<i>stupid' </i>person, there was a teacher who sat behind his desk in the office and she laughed. Properly laughed. A '<i>I-can't-believe-she's-only-read-two-classic-books-and-she's-going-to-study-creative-writing</i>' laugh. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was then when I kinda realizes that YA won't be classed as an acceptable piece of literature. My dad told me that I needed a thicker skin because otherwise how would I write my own novels without getting down. I believe that so much. I think it gave me a heads up on what I will face in the future. I mean, I know tonnes of authors (as in the authors who's books I've read) who don't care. It's not about if there are superiors who think that they are writing rubbish (well maybe it is important to drill into their heads that nothing is wrong with YA fiction!). But they write to please the young adult audience and not anyone else! That's what counts, not those who judge them for writing "proper" books!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Having said this, we need to bow down to Malorie Blackman *gets on hands and knees and worships* for the organising the Young Adult Literature Convention in the London! I am so excited for this. I've always wanted to go to the LFCC but have never got round to it but now with the YALC rolling in, it is a perfect opportunity to go ahead and get tickets. I've always been very envious about for America for constantly having events where herds of authors gather but now it's our time!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Some of the authors who have been announced so far: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">• Malorie Blackman<br />• James Dawson<br />• Matt Haig<br />• Derek Landy<br />• Sophie McKenzie<br />• Patrick Ness<br />• Natasha Ngan<br />• Darren Shan<br />• Ruth Warburton</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I feel that it is more acceptable in the US than anywhere else. They have their huge conventions, <a href="http://www.bookexpoamerica.com/" target="_blank">BEA</a>, and most of the well know YA authors are American. Their bookshop displays are huge (or so I've seen via my Twitter timeline) but then when I go to Waterstones for a newly released book, all I get is a small stack on a table with a tonne of other books. No fancy sign saying they're just in stock or anything....But hey-ho, I want to see where this convention will take people opinions. Should be an awesome weekend!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">What does everyone else think? Do you think that people look down on YA books? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">And who's going to the YALC??? (I'm thinking of buying the weekend ticket but haven't confirmed! <i>Is it worth it?? </i>Who's going? What days? Tell me people!!)</span><br />
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Sabrina Yamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688104328794236568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407728198550503034.post-61357014918911981712014-02-15T17:35:00.000+00:002014-02-15T17:35:23.617+00:00Book Review: Hollow Pike by James Dawson<a href="https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1311348328l/10836484.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img alt="10836484" border="0" height="320" src="https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1311348328l/10836484.jpg" width="202" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Title:</b> Hollow Pike</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;"><i>She thought she’d be safe in the country, but you can’t escape your own nightmares, and Lis London dreams repeatedly that someone is trying to kill her. Lis thinks she’s being paranoid - after all who would want to murder her? She doesn’t believe in the local legends of witchcraft. She doesn’t believe that anything bad will really happen to her. You never do, do you? Not until you’re alone in the woods, after dark - and a twig snaps... Hollow Pike - where witchcraft never sleeps. </i>[Via <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10836484-hollow-pike?ac=1" target="_blank">Goodreads</a>]</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've had this book on my TBR shelf for a while, I bought it back in October (I think), but was never really in the mood to read it. I'm currently in the "fairies, magic and witches" sort of mood, so what book fits one of those categories? <i>Hollow Pike</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;">I've never held my breath so much throughout a book. Descriptions where written so well without it feeling too overwhelming and I felt like I was watching a TV series *cough cough* Yeah, I can imagine this being a TV series, every little scene in this book. (Not a movie because I feel that it can end on so many cliff-hangers at the end of each episode...and it's worth more than an hour long film! :P )</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;">I was gripped to the book as soon as I started. I cannot think of a fault at all. The pace was perfect and I don't know how Dawson was able to keep it so suspenseful, making me frantically reading on until revealing the answers on the last pages. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;">A creepy and eerie factor that I loved were from those figures were stalking Lis. But then the idea of paranoia also slips in and thinking back, yes, it does seem to run really closely to The Crucible (which I also had to study in GCSE like Lis - I hated it). This was almost like a modern day twist of the novel and it was perfect. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><i><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;">"From the tangled bushes at the end of the garden, a figure watched the house intently. Pale fingers pulled leaves aside, seeking a better view of the building." </span></i><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;">WHO? WHEN? WHY? HOW?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;">Even with the gritty storyline, I think that the draw was the characters. I, strangely, really wanted to be friends with Lis as soon as I started reading about her. She seemed so down to earth and although initially siding with Laura, she did everything that I would of done in the end. I never once got annoyed at any of the characters for keeping secrets from the police, which I think is really difficult to do because there's always that thin line between annoying and being tolerable. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;">HIGH RECOMMEND! </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;">If you don't follow through by reading it, I really do think you're missing out on some really good UKYA!</span></span>Sabrina Yamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688104328794236568noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407728198550503034.post-62391325488817020802014-02-14T14:17:00.003+00:002014-02-14T14:17:54.402+00:00Happy Valentine's Day!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So far, my day hasn't been the most loving of days. I woke feeling ill, had to work on some of my media coursework for my 3rd draft and was rained on on my way home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However your spending this day, I hope that you have an awesome time. Partying? Evening meal? Movie date? Staying in? A bit of 'me-time'?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For me, I am staying home (I know, living the wild life). I thought today would be a great day to reread some of my favourite YA romance novels. Only <b>some</b> because I don't think I'd be able to read <b>all </b>of my favourite books by the end of today! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, I call this my dinner date....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>A Kiss in Time</i> by Alex Flinn <i> </i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(Before you ask 'wait, where's Sarah Dessen?' I only recently reread her books so I don't think I need to read them again just yet! Haha..)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yay! So that's my plan for the rest of the day!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">So I was tagged by the lovely Orli from <a href="http://blamemybookshelf.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-book-bloggers-tmi-tag.html" target="_blank">Blame My Bookshelf</a>. As well as giving me this tag, she has given me the task of tagging others who HAVEN'T done this tag...oh no...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;"><b>How old are you?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">18</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>What book are you
reading?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Heart-Shaped
Bruise by Tanya Byrne</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;"><b>What are you
wearing?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Blue
Jeans, grey top, grey hi-top converse (which are fluffy inside) and a cream
wool scarf.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Is
that ok?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm
not sure why you'd want to know..</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;"><b>OTP?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Fourtris</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's the first fandom that I've been submerged in. Before, no other book or anything has ever been so consuming (well, I was a huge fan of the Jonas Brothers when I was younger...they've split soo..)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But anyway. Divergent.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Literally. My life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Or Lake and Will from Slammed <3</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Blogger or Wordpress?</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 12.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is tricky. Yes,
my blog is on Blogger but the Divergent fansite that I help with is on
Wordpress and I do like the format there - It wasn't so hard for me to figure
out.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 12.75pt;">So...Wordpress...just wins by a tiny tiny bit..</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span style="color: #0b5394; line-height: 12.75pt;"><b>Going
outside being active or staying in and reading a book?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 12.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I really love love
love hiking and I'd love to go caving and things like that but because of where
I live, staying in and reading a book is the only option.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>What
is the last book you read?</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 12.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cruel
Summer by James Dawson - It was so good!!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394; line-height: 12.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>What
is the book you're going to read next?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 12.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I
haven't decided that yet! I pick and choose when it's time rather than have a
set list of books I need to read.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394; line-height: 12.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>eBooks
- yes or no?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 12.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes (If novellas count..?)</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394; line-height: 12.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Where
do you prefer to read?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 12.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bedroom!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 12.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Or in the summer, I
like my conservatory.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394; line-height: 12.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Who
is the last person you tweeted?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 12.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By the
time I write someone down to the time I type this, it'll change, but...</span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
last person was @DivergentsUK via my personal twitter account!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394; line-height: 12.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Who's
blog did you look at last?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; line-height: 12.75pt;"><a href="http://daisychainbookreviews.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/reviewed-by-arianne-salvage-by-keren.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+DaisyChainBookReviews+(Daisy+Chain+Book+Reviews)" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Daisy Chain
Book reviews</span></a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; line-height: 12.75pt;"> - I just read Arianne's review on Salvage
by Keren David.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b5394;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394; line-height: 12.75pt;">Who
is your favourite blogger?</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 12.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I
really love Jamie's which I only recently discovered.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black;"><a href="http://www.perpetualpageturner.com/2013/08/some-friday-fun.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Perpetual Page Turner</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It has
loads of fun tags and booky related posts that I think are really awesome.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Outside of books, I'm really into DIY stuff so:</span><br />
<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://apairandasparediy.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">A Pair & A Spare</span></a> is pretty awesome</span><br />
<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And also..</span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.highondiy.com/" target="_blank">High on DIY</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b5394;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394; line-height: 12.75pt;"><b>Who
is your favourite booktuber?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; line-height: 12.75pt;">Priscilla
on </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; line-height: 12.75pt;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/thereadables/videos" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Readbles</span></a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; line-height: 12.75pt;"> -
I adore her videos (and also her accent...yeah, I just had to say that..)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394; line-height: 12.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>What
do you do when someone tells you reading is boring?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 12.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don't really
care. Depends who they are, I normally just comment that they're not reading
the right books. But other than that I let them be.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394; line-height: 12.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Who
is the last author you spoke to?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 12.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Spoke to in person:
Veronica Roth</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 12.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Via email: James
Dawson</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394; line-height: 12.75pt;">Who
is the last person you texted?</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 12.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My friend, Beth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394; line-height: 12.75pt;"><b>Who
is your all-time favourite book character?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 12.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Seriously? You're
making me choose?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394; line-height: 12.75pt;">UKYA
or USYA?</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 12.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am a really heavy
USYA reader but that was because I was never really aware of many UKYA authors!
I'm trying to even out the playing field now though! At the moment then, it's
USYA.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>What
is your preferred drink whilst reading?</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 12.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tea or peppermint
tea or Chinese herbal tea stuff or water</span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...not all that
exciting...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394; line-height: 12.75pt;">If
you hated reading, what would you be doing instead?</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 12.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think I would
probably be a film watcher. That or maybe a gamer. Or maybe one of those crime
tv show junkies.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 12.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Three things I wish I had more time to do.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394; line-height: 12.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>How
many bookshelves/bookcases do you have?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 12.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have one book<b>case</b>
(that doesn't live in my room)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 12.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One book<b>shelf</b> and
then a tiny mini book<b>shelf</b> (that live in my room)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Confused?
Yeah...sorry...</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394; line-height: 12.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>If
you had the choice to meet all of your favourite book bloggers or all of your
favourite authors, which would you pick? You can only pick one.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 12.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Is it bad if I say
authors?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 12.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I feel really
bad, but literally all my favourite authors are American and NEVER come on tour
in the UK!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Insta-love-
yes or no?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;">It depends on the book. Sometimes I can deal with it, sometimes it's all round wrong!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b5394;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394; line-height: 12.75pt;">Favourite
author?</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 12.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sarah Dessen</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394; line-height: 12.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>What
is the number-one book on your wishlist?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 12.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the
moment, Panic by Lauren Oliver.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394; line-height: 12.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Do
you prefer books with female or male protagonists?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 12.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don't really mind
to be honest.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 12.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think that
reading about a female protagonist who's in a dystopian world and badass feels a little more empowering and cool.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 12.75pt;">But then I love
reading YA romance novels with the perspective of both the female and males.
The guys are always really cute...</span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Which
is your favourite book-to-film adaption?</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 12.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Can I say Divergent
even if it hasn't come out yet? Is that cheating?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ok, The Hunger
Games and Catching Fire is pretty awesome.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394; line-height: 12.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>What
is the last song you listened to?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 12.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Can I
just say Hunter Hayes...one of his songs, they're currently on shuffle as I
type this.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Which
do you enjoy reading more - negative reviews or positive reviews?</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 12.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I enjoy both.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 12.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I really like the
really really negative ones of books that I enjoyed because it also gets me
thinking!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394; line-height: 12.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Who
are you going to tag?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 12.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ok, so
here's the part that I suck at!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I tag..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: black;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/BooksessedKata" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Kata</span></a></span><span style="background: white; color: black;"> (I can
tag booktubers right? Oh well, I just did!)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jayd from <a href="http://booksfoodandotherthings.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Books, Food & Other Things</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Kelsey from <a href="http://verbositybookreviews.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Verbosity Book Reviews</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<a href="http://midnightpageturners.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Midnight Page Turners</span></a><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Please
say I haven't tagged anyone who's already answered these questions </span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will cry...</span></div>
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Sabrina Yamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688104328794236568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407728198550503034.post-17750965644093021582014-02-09T17:29:00.000+00:002014-02-10T07:38:28.965+00:00Celebration of UKYA: Event Planning<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You may or may not have seen me on Twitter rambling on about something called the Gold Arts Award. At my college, every A2 student at my college has to take on what they call an "extension course." I chose the Arts Award as a way for which I could explore my creative writing. </span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is a split of two units (Unit One is the creative challenge and then Unit Two is the teaching others part) and I am currently working on Unit Two, with Unit One slowly working in the background. </span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So Unit 2? Teaching others. It can also be an event or a series of workshops or lessons. I wanted to stick closely with my creative challenge and so have put myself forward to host a month celebration of UKYA (or YA novels in general!). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the year that I've been at my college, YA books seem to be disregarded. Thrown down as something "not as important" as classical literature. I want to show other students at my college that that is wrong and in a way it is much harder to write for a YA audience as we, well I think I do, don't have a very good tolerance of books that aren't enjoyable to oneself. I feel that adults are resilient with books if they don't seem as good to start with but on the other hand, for me sometimes that isn't the case! There is a equal or somewhat harder task for authors who target us and that shouldn't be looked upon as something "rubbish" or "less important" or "not gifted" in any way.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So at the end of January I wrote and gave my proposal to the English department to see whether I would get the go ahead. AND...I have!! </span><br>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My plan is to have this celebration in March, my rough plan so far goes something like this:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1st Week: YA book club sort of meeting/chat. Possible book swap.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2nd Week: Author visit - Talk</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3rd Week: (Different) Author visit - Workshop</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4th Week: </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">YA book club sort of meeting/chat.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Round Up. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Possible book swap.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On top of this, I just recently gave the librarian at my college my proposal to also get them involved in it all. I want to display YA books and create recommendation card for which people can look over then possibly read. (Want in on that? Post a comment below with a title, author and a little summary of the book and why you recommend it!)</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think that the main reason though for my excitement is the fact that I get to work with something that I already love. Although, yes, this is going to be a drag, especially since I have my exams, but I am so excited to share what I love. Being hopeful, I hope that it really shows people that not everyone has to be into the classic sort of books. Where this could flop is that no one turns up to any of the events I host, take nothing away from it and they all just hate hate hate reading. </span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But that's the last case scenario right? </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sabrina x</span></div>
Sabrina Yamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688104328794236568noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407728198550503034.post-51373096231931547832014-02-09T09:00:00.000+00:002014-02-12T21:12:10.659+00:00Book Review: Where You Are (Bewteen the Lines #2) by Tammara Webber<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1363045609l/15832163.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="15832163" border="0" height="320" src="https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1363045609l/15832163.jpg" width="208" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Title: </b>Where You Are (Bewteen the Lines #2)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Author: </b>Tammara Webber</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Published:</b> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">March 14th 2013 (Razorbill)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Pages:</b> 304</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Emma, Reid and Graham's story continues in this sequel to Between the Lines, by bestselling author of Easy, Tammara Webber. Emma has pursued her dream - she's trying to live a normal life and attend university. But when a twist of fate means she encounters Graham again in New York, life promises to be anything but ordinary . . . </i>[Via <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15832163-where-you-are" target="_blank">GoodReads</a>]</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>My Thoughts: </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I read Between the Lines and wasn't all to pleased, especially because I read Easy beforehand and literally fell in love with it, so my expectations were high. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But let me tell you this: I loved this book! The main dislike I had for the first book was Emma's "bouncing" of feelings. She was just so irritating!! But in this book everything was so much more settled. Emma felt a little more mature and less childish. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So after filming a film, what happens next? Promotion and the premiere! The best part about this book was the POVs from all four characters (Emma, Graham, Reid and Brooke!). Not only do we get their prospective on the situation but Webber went into great detail about their past, which I absolutely loved, especially with Graham since we hardly get to know him in the first book. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I loved Reid's character development as well and it has got me super excited about reading <i>Good For You</i>. But from the <i>Good For You </i>blurb, it's sad to know that it's also a goodbye to Emma and Graham - I hope they'll make an appearance in the next one even though the focus isn't fully on them. Maybe a mention? ...Hopefully...?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"Reid turns to Graham. They're standing two feet apart - the tension rocking between them like punches thrown. And then suddenly Reid is completely at ease. 'Graham,' he says.<br />Graham's jaw remains rigid. 'Reid.'<br /><i>Boys.</i>"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you didn't like Between the Lines, give the series another shot and read the second one. It'll change you're mind over the series. Trust me!</span><br />
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Sabrina Yamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688104328794236568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407728198550503034.post-54174490878067134862014-02-04T21:48:00.000+00:002014-02-04T21:48:38.329+00:00Can I Just Fangirl for One Moment? {New Divergent Trailer}<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'll give you a bit of behind information about my fangirling with Divergent. As I said in my <i><a href="http://ihavetoreadthat.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/goodbye-2013-hello-2014.html" target="_blank">Goodbye 2013, Hello 2014</a> </i>I joined to be part of the DivergentsUK fansite team. That was pretty much the time I found out that I was becoming a proper fangirl.</span><br />
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<a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BXMsaMYIgAA1KyE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BXMsaMYIgAA1KyE.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's got to the point where I travelled to a Waterstones during one of my frees during college to find out they hadn't gotten Allegiant in store yet and cried. Full out cried on the phone to my mum. I had a whole elaborate meal planned out with a burger and chocolate cake and everything. Literally not even joking -></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the end I had to go back after college and buy it. I stayed up all night reading it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Moving on from there... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ok. So last night Theo James and Shailene Woodley had an interview with <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hU8LWVIAcw" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Jimmy Kimmel</span></a> where they then showed the final and last Divergent trailer. Then today, they released the official trailer on <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/kateaurthur/divergent-trailer-shailene-woodley" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Buzzfeed</span></a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh my gosh.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Have you read the books?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Have you seen the trailer?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I feel like it's Christmas or something. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The day basically went like this for me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was briefly on twitter this morning, before college when I saw someone who lived in the UK had already watched the trailer that was shown last night on Jimmy Kimmel. Clearly I was missing out in her major excitement so asked her where she saw it, she tweeted me the link. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I thought: 'oh, my computer isn't on and I want to watch it in real nice quality on the computer. I'll wait until I get to college and watch it on their computer.' <i>What a mistake.</i> I emailed myself the tumblr link, was all like: 'YEAH - lets do this!' and the url was BLOCKED! Yeah, so you might say I had a *minor* panic attack...I did end up watching it on my Ipod....(it was a little out of sync) but it was the most amazing trailer...I really think they've done an incredible adaptation of the book!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I mean the part where Eric spoke, I was just like: Yes - you are Eric. When Tris is head to head with the dog. When Tris jumped (which is the scene I am most looking forward to watching). When we see Natalie. I was just all over the place. The ferris wheel. The crows. And then the fighting sequences near the end!!! Oh my god...literally could not do anything but stare!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But then (thank god) my fangirling counselling friend Lauren (basically Divergent is my first experience in the "<i>fangirling</i>" thing and she is a long time one so she "helps"/understands me through tough time, so wish I could say I was lying), logged onto tumblr and got me the Jimmy Kimmel interview with the trailer on the computer (she skipped to the trailer) and....dear lord....it was even better.....eyes and mouth wide open.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lauren said to me as we walked out of the library: "You know when people say you look like a smiling idiot? You are a smiling idiot."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But the truth was, I literally couldn't help it! I was so giddy after watching that trailer! It was so packed and everything was explained so much better in it than in the previous ones, which would of only made sense if you'd have read the books. I was so pleased!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The only thing was the one on my iPod had clips with Eric in and the one in the interview didn't - so I was a bit like what the hell?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During my Arts Award lesson, I watched the interview. AHHH! The ziplining was so jokes. It made me laugh so much. And...oh Theo, Theo, Theo. He is just...yeah...he is so awesome. So British. Shai is just so naturally beautiful without trying, she always has that "grounded" feel...she's just so natural, make sense?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Moving on with the day, I had a free period 5 (1:50 - 2:55) and so during that free I showed my other friend, Beth</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> (who hasn't read the book or anything) but puts up with my fangirling because I have the most frees with her and I put up with her excitement over her things. She asked the usual questions about the whole Divergent world....whilst I happily answered them. I also told her I would buy the book for her to read so I can then drag her to the cinema with me because I have no Divergent fan buddy :( I need to make one so I can do book references and all that!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The official trailer was released at 11am in America and 4pm here in the UK and the only thing I could think of was which one was right? The one with Eric or the one without?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My lesson finished a little earlier than usual (I was let out at 4:10) so I headed straight to the library to find out (also having to drag Beth with me to watch it because she was walking home with me and I wanted her to watch it's full release too). YAY! It had Eric in it! Even though he doesn't look like the way I pictured him in the book, I am literally in love with him in the film because he just looks so intimidating and tough and yeah...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pains me to say though. Annoying how they tried to fit "I know what you are" into a clip where Four says "Keep tension here" to Tris from the first trailer. Literally the most obvious thing ever!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Phahahaha - What an entry. That is basically a diary entry of my whole day - Divergent news wise! I've watched it quite a few times...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That was a mix of random ramble and a mix of my fangirl thoughts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hope everyone a good day too no matter what you were doing :P</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Who else has seen the trailer? Thoughts? :D</span>Sabrina Yamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688104328794236568noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407728198550503034.post-42628238730300682872014-02-03T19:16:00.002+00:002014-02-12T21:12:22.615+00:00Book Review: Cress (Lunar Chronicles #3) by Marissa Meyer<a href="https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1379083526l/13206828.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="13206828" border="0" height="320" src="https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1379083526l/13206828.jpg" width="212" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Title:</b> Cress</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Author:</b> Marissa Meyer</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Published:</b> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">February 6th 2014 (Puffin Books)</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-style: italic; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;">Rapunzel’s tower is a satellite. She can’t let down her hair—or her guard. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-style: italic; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;">In this third book in the bestselling Lunar Chronicles series, Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they’re plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and her army. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-style: italic; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;">Their best hope lies with Cress, who has been trapped on a satellite since childhood with only her netscreens as company. All that screen time has made Cress an excellent hacker—unfortunately, she’s just received orders from Levana to track down Cinder and her handsome accomplice. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;"><i>When a daring rescue goes awry, the group is separated. Cress finally has her freedom, but it comes at a high price. Meanwhile, Queen Levana will let nothing stop her marriage to Emperor Kai. Cress, Scarlet, and Cinder may not have signed up to save the world, but they may be the only ones who can. [</i>Via <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13206828-cress?bf=500&from_search=true" target="_blank">Goodreads</a><i>]</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I first got a hold of this book, my first thought? This is a fat book! I didn't expect it to be as fat as it was, but am I complaining? Hell no! Yay for a fat book!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don't know how Meyer is able to pull it off but she did. I am more impressed with the balance of characters! As we move on in the Lunar Chronicles more characters are introduced but each and every one of them were well balanced to make it an enjoyable read.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The spark of new romance is more than obvious in this twist of Rapunzel but that doesn't decrease the enjoyment of their mutual feelings - not sure if it topped the ending of <i>Scarlet</i> in the happily ever after department though!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Occasionally, I felt that the build up to the wedding was a bit of a pain, although that may have just been because I wanted the Cinder and Kai reunion because I love them together!! But then again, everything to the build up is super important: action packed with a twist I didn't see coming. It definitely kept me on my toes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What's happening next? A war!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Sabrina Yamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688104328794236568noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407728198550503034.post-11714904229912805862014-02-02T20:33:00.000+00:002014-02-12T21:12:38.515+00:00Book Review: Façade (Games #2) by Nyrae Dawn<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRPJTX6qDYiqb50N5H_CBW_CBejr4Oeq-BnB86d9H3cMAxJQSM5iFzYcpLxjNbo8kxR6BGAoPy52NVKA0z-7cXNZ03Rc1uzCn4e6QjWpD67QS0tF-FbC-iS3Qzmqguloqukscfbbsco1c/s1600/facade.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRPJTX6qDYiqb50N5H_CBW_CBejr4Oeq-BnB86d9H3cMAxJQSM5iFzYcpLxjNbo8kxR6BGAoPy52NVKA0z-7cXNZ03Rc1uzCn4e6QjWpD67QS0tF-FbC-iS3Qzmqguloqukscfbbsco1c/s1600/facade.jpg" height="320" width="209" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Title:</b> Façade</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Author:</b> Nyrae Dawn</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Published: </b></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">September 24th 2013 (Forever)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-style: italic; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;">Can love save them? </strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-style: italic; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;">After her father commits a crime that shatters her family, eighteen-year-old Delaney Cross is tired of pretending everything is alright. Packing up her car, she sets out to find the people her father hurt. Her search leads her to places she's never been--and into the arms of Adrian Westfall. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #181818;"><span style="line-height: 15.455999374389648px;">To the outside world, Adrian is a sexy, charming ladies man. But his playboy persona is just an act. Secretly his soul is tortured by a memory too painful to share. Only Delaney seems to see through his façade to the real man underneath. And for the first time in his life, Adrian feels he can begin to open up about his past.</span></span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;"><i>Together, Adrian and Delaney share a passionate, carefree love they never expected to find. Yet both still </i>harbor<i> their own secrets. When the dark truth is finally revealed, will it bring them closer together, or tear them apart forever? [Via <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17786016-facade" target="_blank">Goodreads</a>]</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;">After read Charade, I couldn't wait to read another book by Nyrae Dawn. I did not expect it all to pan out how it did! It was all so heart-breaking and a tear or two did appear :(</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;">I was really interested in this book before starting it especially since it's about Colt's room mate - and from Charade, we got to see what a party animal he was. But now - Oh. My. God. The build up to the truth being laid out is killer, with an unexpected twist. As well as the two POV narrations, it was interesting to read about Adrian's past through flashbacks and also dreams, it created something quite powerful.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;">Something that did carry on from Charade is the nicknames. From Tiny Dancer for Chey to Little Ghost for Delaney. Strangely, I didn't really like the fact that Adrian gave that name to Delaney. I felt that that was more of Colt's thing and having Adrian using the same idea for the nickname made me feel like he has something from Colt that I only wanted Colt to have....Anyway...it's a pretty lame excuse for not liking it I know...</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;">Just thinking about it now, the story kinda reminds me of a mash-up of <i>Fallen Too Far</i> by Abbi Glines and <i>My Life Next Door </i>by Huntley Fitzpatrick.</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;">THIS ONE IS A MUST!</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;"><i> </i></span></span>Sabrina Yamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688104328794236568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407728198550503034.post-18412823340183830272014-02-01T17:09:00.001+00:002014-03-02T22:10:20.884+00:00January Roundup: How's The Year Going So Far? <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I can't believe I'm already writing a January. I really haven't done all that much this month. Reading has been slow and then blogging and reviewing has been so much worse!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>Goodreads Challenge:</b></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A month in and Goodreads is already nagging at me for being 2 books behind schedule! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Personal Reading Challenge:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Only one book read...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The books I did get round to reading are as follows:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Submarine by Joe Dunthorne</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dare You To by Kaite McGarry</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tidal by Emily Snow</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cress by Marissa Meyer</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I know, hold onto your seats...I've just read a mind-blowing amount of books. But the truth is that I've been having weird swings where I can't seem to settle. I'll read the first few chapters of one book and just put it down. The worse thing is is that I know I'll love it, but I just can't seem to keep a hold of it. And so because of this I just haven't been in the greatest of moods, reading-wise.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The books that I bought this month and really shouldn't of:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Killing Woods by Lucy Christopher</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Where You Are by Tammara Webber</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Crash Into You by Katie McGarry</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">More like retail-therapy buying as well as the fact that when I bought books back in December they were all dystopian-y books and I've been in a bit of a contemporary mood. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Personal Life:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This month has been awful. I don't feel comfortable broadcasting the happenings family-wise here but it has been a pretty rough month. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">College-wise, it has also been hard. I didn't realize how soon my exams were and how quickly the time is passing. Maths is the real challenge but hopefully tutoring will soon cheer me up with that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Something that did spring up near the end of the month, that is a little better, is my plan to organize a month of celebration for UKYA at my college (which will count as part of my Gold Arts Award) but I can't wait to organize it...when I get funding from the English department....but yeah, I'll do a post about this when it's officially a go (so now if you don't hear anything about this in the future you'll know my plan has failed... XD)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>Next Month:</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Finish reading the half read books I have lying around my room and get onto the other books I have. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Finish all the draft reviews I have stored up...</span>Sabrina Yamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688104328794236568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407728198550503034.post-91193329640209489602014-01-31T19:59:00.003+00:002014-02-09T15:15:17.902+00:00Book Review: Dare You To by Katie McGarry<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEH4y5xvB8e1tnotuWRQMpsFrXKDWBenNfCOES9M8YYfazNpQa4j8-MmJ1-x9mK-nEsm18bfpN6H_p4_I5zfcpcFaem4wJbaynSzP5GohTVvKLiD0QE4M5NHoVGIcsjmJDlOfQ4Wuphpg/s1600/dare.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEH4y5xvB8e1tnotuWRQMpsFrXKDWBenNfCOES9M8YYfazNpQa4j8-MmJ1-x9mK-nEsm18bfpN6H_p4_I5zfcpcFaem4wJbaynSzP5GohTVvKLiD0QE4M5NHoVGIcsjmJDlOfQ4Wuphpg/s1600/dare.jpg" height="320" width="211" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Title:</b> Dare You To</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Author:</b> Katie McGarry</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Published:</b> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">7th </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">June 2013 </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(Mira Ink)</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;"><b>Ryan lowers his lips to my ear. "Dance with me, Beth."</b></span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;"><b>"No." I whisper the reply. I hate him and I hate myself for wanting him to touch me again....</b></span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;"><b>"I dare you..."</b></span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;">If anyone knew the truth about Beth Risk's home life, they'd send her mother to jail and seventeen-year-old Beth who knows where. So she protects her mom at all costs. Until the day her uncle swoops in and forces Beth to choose between her mom's freedom and her own happiness. That's how Beth finds herself living with an aunt who doesn't want her and going to a school that doesn't understand her. At all. Except for the one guy who shouldn't get her, but does....</span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;"><br /></span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;">Ryan Stone is the town golden boy, a popular baseball star jock-with secrets he can't tell anyone. Not even the friends he shares everything with, including the constant dares to do crazy things. The craziest? Asking out the Skater girl who couldn't be less interested in him.</span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;"><br /></span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;">But what begins as a dare becomes an intense attraction neither Ryan nor Beth expected. Suddenly, the boy with the flawless image risks his dreams-and his life-for the girl he loves, and the girl who won't let anyone get too close is daring herself to want it all.... [Via <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17451824-dare-you-to" target="_blank">GoodReads</a>]</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;">I wasn't so keen on Pushing the Limits after I finished reading it. I felt that the characters where pushed into a characteristic that didn't really seem like them. There is a little of that in Dare You To as well but then I preferred this one way more!!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;">In </span><i style="color: #181818; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;">Pushing the Limits</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;">, we saw Noah as the "bad boy" and Echo the "good girl" (on the outside), in Dare You To the roles have swapped. Sadly, I had the same issue with this book as the first. It's the swearing. I'm not anyone who gets offended by swearing, I don't mind if you swear or don't. I know people who swear like sailors but this book places them oddly. I find it difficult reading this book with the unnatural sounding </span><i style="color: #181818; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;">"fuck" </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;">placed in Beth's speech. But luckily, it eased out and became more natural than forced. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 15.455999374389648px;">This book is both heart-warming and heart-breaking. I loved the different issues that this book tackled and it was balanced so well. We have Beth, the rebellious girl who always looks after her mum, and to do so has to go stay with her uncle, which means leaving her mum and her friends. Then we have Ryan, who has a pushy father steering him in the direction of baseball, as well as the touchy topic of his brother. I don't know who's narration I liked more, because the characters where so complex. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 15.455999374389648px;">Friendship, family and love. The letting go to go into the future, it's a real drive to what we have to do as an individual. My only second complaint is that I wanted to see more of Beth and Ryan, I was gutted when I got to the end of the book.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 15.455999374389648px;"><i>"My destiny was built for me before I sucked in my first breath."</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 15.455999374389648px;">I doubt the first book, but this has got me back on tracks. <b>Definite</b> recommend!!!</span></span></span>Sabrina Yamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09688104328794236568noreply@blogger.com0