Review: Anna and The French Kiss

Anna is looking forward to her senior year in Atlanta, where she has a great job, a loyal best friend, and a crush on the verge of becoming more. Which is why she is less than thrilled about being shipped off to boarding school in Paris–until she meets Étienne St. Clair. Smart, charming,beautiful, Étienne has it all…including a serious girlfriend. 

[summary and picture from GoodReads]

Author: Stephanie Perkins

Rating: 8/10

What I liked: Almost the whole thing… I enjoyed Anna’s POV, as she told the story as I would’ve lived it. It was real, it wasn’t trying to pretend that love is easy or simple or uncomplicated, and it showed that even if you are so convinced you love/like someone, there might be other reasons for you and him/her dating. I enjoyed the writing style, and really liked the characters! St. Clair is officially my new book boyfriend, well after Augustus Waters…

What I disliked: I drifted of every now and then, found myself skipping a paragraph or two, which usually means one of two things, I really like the book and want to skip ahead to find out what is happening, or I don’t like it that much and want to skip ahead to finish it… But the second I drifted of, I got pulled in again.

Why would I recommend this book: Because every now and then, we need to remember how absolutely wonderful first love is, and how wonderful it can make you feel.

Quotes that stood out… “I ask myself, if the worst happened – if I did get knocked up – would I be embarrassed to tell my child who the father was? If the answer is anywhere remotely close to yes, then there’s no way”

“The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.”

“His friendship alone has strengthened me in a way no one else’s ever has.”

[Disclaimer notice… This is my own personal book journal, my opinions and thoughts… And I hope they don’t offend anyone]

Love Always,

Marliz3e

Top Ten Thursday – Comfort Reads

I love to read, under all circumstances, but when I get weird, I really dive into books…

And by weird, I mean sorta sad… I dunno how to explain it, I’m not a sad person, I’m a bubbly, happy-go-lucky type of girl, who rarely shows when something upsets her. But when something does get under my skin, it hurts like hell…

I’m not the type of girl who crawls into her bed when her heart gets broken, or eat tubs of ice-cream and wallow for hours. I simply read and convince myself that I’m moving on and will be fine. That’s how I deal.

But when those sad days come, there is a few select books I gravitate towards. Some I will actually grab to read, even if I’m busy with something else, some I will just yearn for, but these are my ‘comfort reads’

1. All and Any Harry Potter
2. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
3. The Gargoyle – Andrew Davidson
4. Stolen – Susan Lewis
5. Any John Green
6. Perks of Being a Wallflower
7. Any Jackie Collins
8. Hannibal- Thomas Harris
9. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
10. The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins

What books do you read when life gets too much?

Please share!

Love always,

Marliz3e

(All images from this pinterest page of mine)

Book Review: The Girl who loved Tom Gordon

The Goodreads Summary:

Nine-year-old Trisha McFarland strays from the path while she and her recently divorced mother and brother take a hike along a branch of the Appalachian Trail. Lost for days, wandering farther and farther astray, Trisha has only her portable radio for comfort. A huge fan of Tom Gordon, a Boston Red Sox relief pitcher, she listens to baseball games and fantasizes that her hero will save her. Nature isn’t her only adversary, though – something dangerous may be tracking Trisha through the dark woods

Author: Stephen King

Rating: 4/10

What I liked: The narrative form the little girls POV, it made me feel like I was stuck with her in the woods, like I was being haunted by It. I didn’t love the storyline, but it was okay… 

What I disliked: I expected more? I don’t know, I just wasn’t thrilled by this book, I won’t recommend it, and I probably won’t reread it.

Why would I recommend this book: I wouldn’t…

Quotes that stood out… “Maybe when my mother started rubbing her temples with the tips of her fingers, it wasn’t because she had a headache but because she was trying to keep her brains from undergoing spontaneous combustion or explosive decompression, or something.”

“Now the socks were little more than holes held together by strings, and that made her feel like crying again (probably because she herself felt like holes held together by strings”

[Disclaimer notice… This is my own personal book journal, my opinions and thoughts… And I hope they don’t offend anyone]

Love Always,

Marliz3e

Free write Friday… Puzzle Pieces

Hey there!!

I decided to participate in Free Write Friday, over at Magic in the Backyard… Feel free to check ’em out!

http://kellieelmore.com/2012/03/09/free-write-friday-give-this-picture-a-story/

The prompt was to give the picture above a story…

And this is what I delivered…

* She had no idea how to go on from this… How to get away… All the pieces of her life was all messed up.
No coherent thoughts to go together, no way to put it all back together.

It has been 3 months now and still everything she sees, hears, smells, reminds her of that night. That fateful night…
She thought it would be a harmless night of wine, puzzle building and two friends coming together after years apart…
But it all went wrong…
Horribly wrong…

Crystal has changed into some one she wished she had never met. Her usually shining blonde hair was now dyed to a horrible black, red colour. Her sparkly eyes was reduced to lifeless holes in her head… She had about 5 face piercings and her idea of a fun evening was drugs, vodka and raves…

And Carol decided to go along with it…Somewhere along the line she lost herself and dove head first into the evening Crystal promised her… It looked like so much fun. Until Crystal overdosed and Carol had to leave her alone in a rave club bathroom, out of fear of being accused as a murderer…

Now Carol was all alone…

Left only with a broken puzzle and the pieces of her life all around her…*

Well, there you go!!

Love,
M*

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