Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone by J.K. Rowling

One of my all time favorite book series. Sorceror's Stone is the book that started it all! It is whimsical and very cute.
Harry Potter is the protagonist, and begins this story just before he turns 11 years old. He had been orphaned when he was just a year old. He was left on his aunt and uncle's door step. They were supposed to raise him as one of their own children, but they treat Harry as nothing more than a charity case who should be grateful that they didn't put him in the orphanage, and constantly remind him that he is beneath their pride and joy, his porky cousin Dudley. One day Harry receives a letter inviting him to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He begins his journey on September 1st on the Hogwarts Express. He meets and becomes friends with Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, and also makes and enemy out of Draco Malfoy. The story follows Harry through discovering Quidditch, casting his first spell and battling against the potions master Severus Snape to finding out what really happened to his parents and coming face to face with their killer, Lord Voldemort.
I came across this series because my brother left this book lying around, and I have been hooked every since!
As always leave comments if you read the book! Happy Reading!

City of Bones by Cassandra Claire

I heard about this book from some friends I had talked to though Twilighters Anonymous Podcast. I decided to check it out. The one thing I can say is the book is very well written. However, the book is very much written for younger teenagers.
The main protagonist is Clary Fray. One night while out at an all ages club called Pandamonium, Clary witnesses the murder of a what she thinks is a young boy by three teenagers. She will have a hard time proving it because she is the only one who can see the teenagers and the boy that disappeared. One night Clary's mother is kidnapped and Clary is attacked by what she finds out is a demon. This is around the time that she meets Jace, Alec and Izabelle. She learns that he parents are Shadowhunters and it is her destiny to become one herself. I will leave you guys to figure out if she does ;)
As always, if you read this book or any of the others I have recommended please leave a comment and let me know what you thought.

New Moon by Stephenie Meyer

Okay I know that I should probably write about Twilight first, but with the movie just being released I ended up re-reading New Moon. So here is my blog on New Moon. This is the second book in the Twilight Saga. It continues the story of Edward and Bella, who fell in love in Twilight. Edward happens to be a vampire. In the beginning of New Moon Bella gets hurt and almost attacked by Edward's brother, Jasper. He is broken up about it and decides to leave Bella. She completely breaks down. She begins to hang around with Jacob Black, and to pick up the pieces of her shattered heart. She realizes that she can hear Edwards voice when she tries to get an adrenaline rush. It also happens when she is in danger. Bella goes cliff diving and Edward thinks she killed her self and rushed to Italy to the Volturi, the royal family of the vampire world. Bella rushes behind him to save his life. I will leave it there for you to find out if she got there in time!



Side Note The movie came out on November 20th and it is epic! I highly recommend it to you all!



As always, if you read New Moon, please leave a comment and let me know what you though!

Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr

I had never read a book that was strictly about Faeries until I read a thread posted in the Order of the Plaid Unicorn Book Recommendation section of the Twilighters Anonymous Podcast forums. I decided to check it out. I was absolutely blown away! The story-telling is phenominal!! The host that recommended the book did not really enjoy it as much as I did.
The main character is Aislinn. She is gifted with "Sight", she can see faeries walking among the humans. One night she is followed by a handsome faerie called Keenan. He is the King of the Summer Court, and his powers are bound by the Winter Queen. He is also separated for his Summer Queen. One by one he must chose girls and make them trust him enough to risk the Winter Queen's test. If they chose to stay with him, but not risk the test they become one of his Summer Girls bound to him and his court. If they are brave enough to take the test, but are not the Summer Queen they become the Winter Girl, the most recent being Donia. It is Donia's bound duty to persuade each girl not to trust Keenan. This is to keep him from finding his Summer Queen. Keenan and Donia spend the book pursuing Aislinn. Aislinn finally agrees to take the test...I will leave you to discover the outcome for yourselves!
As always, if you take my recommendation and read this book, please leave a comment and let me know how you enjoyed it!
There are 3 books in this series:

Wicked Lovely
Ink Exchange
Fragile Eternity



Check them all out!
Happy Reading!

Captain Wentworth's Diary by Amanda Grange

Okay, Ms.Grange knows her Austen men. This book is exceptionally well written. You "hear" Captain Wentworth's voice.
This is Jane Austen's story Persuasion told from the POV of the hero. Now I am assuming that you readers know the story of Persuasion, the story of Anne Elliot, who falls in love with Captain Wentworth. They are torn apart when she rejects him because her "friend" Lady Russell tells her that she will hold him back. When they meet years later, the feeling rekindle, but Captain Wentworth tries to deny it. Well his diary takes you through their first meeting all the way through their wedding day. You find out how he perceived certain events, and the emotions that he goes through. The most interesting parts are where he discusses thoughts that he keeps hidden from the people around him.


Ms.Grange also has other books written along this line:


Mr.Darcy's Diary,
Mr.Knightly's Diary,
Edward Bertram's Diary


As always, if you check any of these or the other books I have recommended please,please comment and let me know your thoughts on them!



Happy Reading!!!

Covet by J.K. Ward

Disclaimer: This book is basically a trashy romance novel set in a paranormal world, so DO NOT read this book unless you are over the age of 18



Wow! That is all I can say about this book! It was so intense! It really was a little harder to get into at the beginning, but once you get over the hump, OMG!!
The premise is about a construction worker named Jim, who is chosen to become a Fallen Angel. His job is to save seven people from the seven deadly sins [FYI that means that there are going to be six more books!]. The first person he has to save is a business owner by the name of Vin dePietro. You may be able to guess that the sin that he has to be saved from is avarice or greed. Jim at first thinks that his job is to get Vin to fall in love with his current girl friend, [whom by the way Jim has a steamy scene in his truck in a club parking lot with.]Devina. Although, Devina is definitely not what she appears to be. I'll leave you guys to figure that out when you read the book. As the story progresses and Jim and Vin become friends, Vin falls in love with Marie-Terese. She is also not what she appears, and again you'll have to read the book to find out!
This book is filled with the paranormal, and dare I say it...sex, sex, and more sex...well okay, maybe only like four scenes, but still its there!
Again, I ask if you guys read this book leave comments and let me know what you think.

Looking for Alaska by John Green

This is an AMAZING book. From start to finish it pulls you in and won't let go. It is the winner of the Micheal Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature.
This is the story of Miles "Pudge" Halter. He spends the first part of the book looking for the Great Perhaps. You find out that he is obsessed with famous peoples last words. He is enrolled in Culver Creek Boarding School where he meets the sexy, and crazy Alaska Young, with who he is immediately smitten. She is a HUGE practical joker. He also describes her as smelling of vanilla and cigarettes. As the story progresses Miles gets a girlfriend, but he is still attracted to Alaska. They plan a tremendous prank, consisting of sending failing report cards home to Weekday Warriors. Through out this story Alaska has a boyfriend, and one night she runs off without an explanation. What happens next turns Mile's world completely upside down. I'm going to leave it off right there, because I really think you guys should read this book even though it is young adult.
I cried when I got to the end of the book because it is just that emotional. It really does keep you hanging on from the first page to the last.

Happy Reading!

P.S. You really should check out Brotherhood 2.0 on YouTube. It is John Green with his brother Hank, and become a part of nerdfighteria!

Mr. Darcy, Vampyre by Amanda Grange

All I can say is...WOW! I never in a million years thought that I would enjoy a book based on characters from another author, but this book is fabulous. It opens on the day of Elizabeth and Darcy's wedding. Elizabeth begins noticing strange things about Darcy almost immediately. He changes their honeymoon plans and they spend most of the book in Europe among his vampyre friends. They travel to Paris, Switzerland, and Italy. Elizabeth spends the whole trip thinking that Darcy regrets marrying her because he won't touch her. Darcy ends up protecting her from a very old vampyre who thinks that she is the reincarnation of his lost love. Elizabeth helps him break the vampyre curse, and they live happily ever after.
The book is very well written. All the characters are very well fleshed out, and the plot is an awesome one that fits in with today's obsessions with vampire books. I don't normally like the idea of someone taking Jane Austen's characters and putting them in an Alternate Universe(it seems a little too much like fan fiction to me. After reading this book though, I think I may tackle Pride and Prejudice and Zombies or Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. Stay tuned!

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Wow! I hadn't realized that it had been so long since I posted. Okay, this book is a Pulitzer Prize winner. It is a post-apocalyptic tale of the survival of a father and son. It follows them as they try to make their way towards the coast. The way the book is written is very interesting. The characters are never given names. Mr. McCarthy does not use quotation marks to mark the dialogue between characters. The story its self is very touching, and the love the father has for his son is very evident, he is all that the boy has left because the boys mother died right after the apocalyptic event, by committing suicide. The story is tough to read because it does hit close to home. The way Mr. McCarthy presents the story makes it really seem like it could happen. The father and son are on the run for their life from road agents who have turned into cannibals from the lack of food. At some points in the book it goes for weeks before the father can find food for him and the boy. They will steal other peoples belongings as other people will steal their belongings. The one thing that I do not like about the story is that it is never revealed what happened to put the world in that state. Over all the book is fantastic, if a little tough to swallow. I hope you all will read it and leave comments on what you think about it.

Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

This is the first book of the Southern Vampire Mysteries. You meet Sookie Stackhouse, a waitress at Merlotte's Bar who also happens to be telepathic. She has tried to hide it all of her life, but people in town know and consider her "Crazy Sookie". At the beginning of the story Sookie meets Bill Compton, a vampire circa the Civil War. The Vampires have been "out of the coffin" for two years since the invention of TrueBlood, a synthetic blood that will sustain a vampire and allows them to mainstream and live among humans with out having to feed on them. Although the Vampires fare better with human blood. Anyways, there is a serial killer on the loose that is targeting "fangbangers" or human women who primarily sleep with Vampires. Sookie is one of the main targets because of her relationship with Bill and the fact that she has ingested Bill's blood which causes her to become stonger and more sexually appealing to vampires and humans alike. Sookie's grandmother was the killers last victim before he caught up with Sookie. Sookie ends up having to fight off the serial killer and discovers that it is her best friend's boyfriend. She is very seriously injured.



I like this book a lot. The plot is intriguing and it is interesting to find yet another take on Vampire lore. Sookie is very much the sweet, innocent girl next door until she meets Bill, and he brings out the sexy, glamorous Sookie. In my opinion Sookie is a very strong female character. She is very well fleshed out. The story is a page turner and keeps you on the edge of your seat. Especially at the end. I definitely recommend this book.

The Virgin's Lover by Philippa Gregory *spoilers*

Hey guys!!



I just finished this wonderful book today. This was my second time reading it, and i found it just as incredible as I did the first time.



SPOILER ALERT



This is the story of Queen Elizabeth I. It tells the story of her first 2 years as Queen of England. The main focus is her affair with Robert Dudley. It takes the stance that she was not in fact a virgin Queen, but was in fact Robert Dudley's lover. It was a very big scandal because he was a married man. He tries desperately to get Elizabeth to grant him a divorce, but she refuses because her adviser,William Cecil tells her that with out grounds Robert can not just cast his wife aside. Elizabeth is torn. When Robert starts talking about being named king instead of king-consort as would have been his proper title, Elizabeth gets scared and asks Cecil for advise. He tells her the only way to knock Robert down is to attach his name to a scandal. She asks what it would entail, and he tells her the death of an innocent person and she agrees. So he sends an assassin to kill Amy Robsart who is Robert's neglected wife. This gives Elizabeth the scandal that she needs as seeing that Dudley would be the prime suspect. He was cleared of the charges, but that ended his hopes of ever ruling England. While the whole love triangle, Dudley over shooting himself thing unfolds, England is under threat of invasion from France. Elizabeth spends most of the story wheeling and dealing to make a marriage that would give her an ally in a war with France.

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I really like this book because it is very interesting. It pulls you in almost from the first page. Ms. Gregory spends a lot of time researching and most of her events and characters are true to life. This book has just about everything. Love, the glamor of court, backstabbing and double dealing, and spying. It even includes a murder mystery! I highly recommend this book if you like historical fiction!

Introduction

Welcome to my blog!! I am going to use this blog to talk about my favorite books and authors. My goal is to become a book editor once I am finished with my degree. I feel like writing this blog will help me along that path. Alright lets get in to this. I will read just about anything, but I do have my niche. I mostly read young adult literature, fantasy and historical fiction. I also like 18th century European Literature. Here is some of my favorite authors:



Jane Austen

Emily and Charlotte Bronte

JK Rowling-Author of the Harry Potter Series

JR Ward-Author of the Black Dagger Brotherhood Series

Stephenie Meyers-Author of the Twilight Saga

Melissa Marr-Author of Wicked Lovely, Ink Exchange, and Fragile Eternity

Gilbert Morris-Author of the House of Winslow Series and Appomattox Saga

Cassandra Claire-Author of the Mortal Instruments Series

Philippa Gregory-Author of The Other Boleyn Girl and other books during King Henry VIII's reign

Lori Wick-Author of the Kinsington Chronicles Series

Dan Brown-Author of The DiVinci Code and Angels and Demons

Laura Weisberger-Author of The Devil Wears Prada

Jennifer Weiner-Author of In Her Shoes

John Green-Author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines and PaperTowns


As you can see I have a very wide range on taste in literature. I will spend the next blog post talking about a specific book and author. I hope that you enjoy reading this!

Shellie