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I'mRose

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  • Birthday 11/24/1985

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    Little Women by Louisa M. Alcott
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    Books, books, cooking, writing, baking, horses and books.

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  1. Another year has passed, and another birthday. Have a lovely day. X

  2. Hi Rose, I hope you are well. Happy Birthday! Have a lovely day. : )

  3. The Girl Who Chased the moon by Sarah Addison Allen Synopsis: Emily Benedict has come to Mullaby, North Carolina, hoping to solve at least some of the riddles surrounding her mother’s life. But the moment Emily enters the house where her mother grew up and meets the grandfather she never knew, she realizes that mysteries aren’t solved in Mullaby, they’re a way of life: Here are rooms where the wallpaper changes to suit your mood. Unexplained lights skip across the yard at midnight. And a neighbor, Julia Winterson, bakes hope in the form of cakes, not only wishing to satisfy the town’s sweet tooth but also dreaming of rekindling the love she fears might be lost forever. Can a hummingbird cake really bring back a lost love? Is there really a ghost dancing in Emily’s backyard? The answers are never what you expect. But in this town of lovable misfits, the unexpected fits right in. Review: This is such a little gem. Magically delightful and it makes you smile. It reminded me a bit about the movie Big Fish, not story wise but just this quirky kind of magic that surrounds the people of Mullaby. The only negative things I can say is that it ended when I wanted to know more and that some of the great mysteries felt a bit weak.
  4. Thank you! :-) I should add that one to my wish list! I have Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne and I'll probably bump that higher up on my TBR list. However it wasn't that long ago that I bought it and I'm trying to read a lot of my older books since I've put them off for so long. In my crazy head I feel that they might get sad if I wait to long to read them....:-P
  5. Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne Synopsis: A fastidious English gentleman makes a remarkable wager - he will travel around the world in eighty days or forfeit his life's savings. Thus begins Jules Verne's classic 1872 novel, which remains unsurpassed in sheer story-telling entertainment and pure adventure. Phileas Fogg and his faithful manservant, Jean Passepartout, embark on a fantastic journey into a world filled with danger and beauty - from the exotic shores of India, where the heroic travelers rescue a beautiful Raja's wife from ritual sacrifice, to the rugged American frontier, where their train is ambushed by an angry Sioux tribe. Fogg's mission is complicated by an incredible case of mistaken identity that sends a Scotland Yard detective in hot pursuit. At once a riveting race against time and an action-packed odyssey into the unknown, Around the World in Eighty Days is a masterpiece of adventure fiction that has captured the imaginations of generations of readers - and continues to enthrall us today. Thoughts: I read a classic and I liked it! It's pretty fast paced and an exciting read. You learn a lot and the characters and likable. I think I might have seen the movie but I didn't remember much so it wasn't a spoiler. I must say I liked pretty much everything abut this book and I wasn't expecting too. Phileas Fogg is a great name and I love how he stayed so calm and collected during the entire book while Passepartout was going through and emotional roller coaster and getting them into trouble. 4/5
  6. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green Synopsis: Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten. Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning author John Green’s most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love. My thoughts: If you order a book in the summer and get's it in January it better be good. This book was hyped up, it even has it's own blog on tumblr where people holds it up showing they got it. Why? Well for one John Green signed every pre-orderd copy, that would 150 000, and two it's a book by John Green. So did it live up to the hype? For me, yes, it was a beautiful book. John writes beuatiful, thoughtful, realistic book that you can easily related to. He teaches you things as you read and he makes you look at the world just a little bit different. I loved this book and think it*s his best since Looking for Alaska. The main character Hazel it believably written and so are the rest of them, although Peter van Houten is a little bit...out there. I did struggle with some of his words since English is not my first language. It's a great, honest and sad tale about young people. John Green at his best! 6/5 :-)
  7. Across the Universe by Beth Revis Synopsis: Amy is a cryogenically frozen passenger aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed. She expects to awaken on a new planet, 300 years in the future. But fifty years before Godspeed's scheduled landing, Amy's cryo chamber is unplugged, and she is nearly killed. Now, Amy is caught inside an enclosed world where nothing makes sense. Godspeed's passengers have forfeited all control to Eldest, a tyrannical and frightening leader, and Elder, his rebellious and brilliant teenage heir. Amy desperately wants to trust Elder. But should she? All she knows is that she must race to unlock Godspeed's hidden secrets before whoever woke her tries to kill again. Review: I don't read a lot of sci-fi but I did enjoy this book. You follow the two characters Amy and Elder as they deal with the strange things happening on the ship. Some of it was pretty disturbing to me considering this is YA book. You get their point of view from every other chapter, Amy who has just woken up to this strange new world and Elder who starts to see that what he has grown up with as normal may actually be really wrong. It was a quick read, good characters and an exciting story. I'll probably pick up the sequel. 3/5
  8. Best early valentines ever! We we out shopping today and my boyfriend let me go into the bookstore and pick whatever I wanted as my valentines gift! I got three books, yay: A game of thrones by Geroge RR Martin Wordsworth Libaraby Collection: The Little Prince and Other Stories Stolen by Leslie Pearse
  9. I haven't read Quidditch through the ages but I definitely must get it this year! I remember reading Black Beauty when I was a kid and loving it, but I'm not sure if it was an unabridged version or not. How long was your book? Because I remember it as being pretty short.
  10. Great review! I've been wanting to read The Forrest of Hands and Theeth forever. Putting this and the series on my wish list!
  11. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Synopsis: In early nineteenth-century Yorkshire, the passionate attachment between a headstrong young girl and a foundling boy brought up by her father causes disaster for them and many others, even in the next generation. Review: Does anyone else ever feel like a bad reader for not liking a classic? I really did not like this book very much and all the characters were very easy to dislike. I did not enjoy Heatcliff or Cathrines story, and I felt that overall it was pretty dull. Does it make me crappy reader? I'm sure I missed a lot of themes and important stuff and the translation into Swedish did nothing for this book. I did like Cathy a lot more for some reason and found her story more interesting then her mothers but as I said overall this was such a dark book I never felt that I got into it. 2/5
  12. I love the books and remember being very scared of the fox and the fake hen in the book above as a child.
  13. It's here! I'm so frickin excited! I ordered John Greens The Fault in Our Stars in June last year and it finally came out on January 10th. If you don't know he signed all pre-ordered copies or around 150 000 books. Mine had a red J scibble. Love it! Pictures on my tumblr! Can't wait to read it!
  14. How did you like Gullivers Travles? I read it last year and thought it was a fun read. I had seen so many movie version it was nice to get the original story.
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