Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Top Ten Tuesday: Books Don't Cry But We do





TOP TEN BOOKS DEALING WITH TOUGH SUBJECTS


These types of books are heavy, which is strange because most of them have very few pages, and yet manage to bring us to tears. Here is my top ten:


Suicide





Illness

     


Sexual Abuse

     


Family Issues

              


Bullying

    




Sunday, May 12, 2013

Caught my arrow # 14


Caught my Arrow is a meme similar to In my mailbox and  Stalking the Shelves featuring books that were purchased, borrowed or received that week.


I'm happy to announce that I am finally reading The Host. About time too. I thought I should do this before the DVD came out.

 

I also borrowed Boundless and Meant To Be from the library. 


What are you reading this week?


Review: Every Little Thing in the World


Every little thing in the world stopped once Sydney found out she was pregnant. How could she think of anything else? The father is a guy she barely knows, she is sixteen, and has a hard time integrating into her own broken family, let alone start one of her own.

To make matters worse, she gets shipped to a camp with her best friend Natalia, who volunteered. But Sydney can't see it. For most of the book, the jealousy toward her friend Natalia is horrendous and very realistic of a teenager with self-esteem issues. She even crushes on Natalia's beaus, Steve and Mick. 

In fact she crushes on everybody even though she is pregnant, making it hard to connect with her as a character. Too bad Natalia wasn't the protagonist, as the author placed a lot more importance to detail when it came to her family and love life, providing her with a steady boyfriend and a hot camp guy that would make many ladies swoon.

All in all, I enjoyed how teens shared their different views on abortion. It must not be easy to have a child at sixteen and I couldn't blame Sydney for considering her options.


Saturday, May 11, 2013

Looks like We Have Our Gus for The Fault in our Stars



I'm so excited.

The Fault in our Stars film continues to take shape, as Ansel Elgort is offered the role of Augustus Waters. My only concern is that he will also be playing Caleb in the upcoming Divergent movie along side Shailene. Will we be able to distinguish both actors from both roles?

He does look the part. And hopefully he will accept the offer and the crew can start filming.

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Feature and Follow Friday: No Mommy Dearest

Parajunkee Alison Can Read



FEATURE & FOLLOW FRIDAY

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Q: Happy Mother's Day! Who is your favorite mom from fiction?

Ma.

Room is a hard read. The story is told from the point-of-view of a five year old who lived with his Ma in a room where Old Nick held her in captivity for seven years.

Now, Ma could have completely lost her mind. But instead she fought for her son. She made a schedule in which they would push the furniture and run around for exercise. Or draw on the toilet paper, since they had no paper....just so many ideas to shield him  from the horror and give him whatever life she could.