tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86383626502082990652024-02-19T05:23:49.165+00:00WorticationYA Book Reviews on Dystopian, Paranormal, Fantasy, Contemporary and more.Cybermess10http://www.blogger.com/profile/13260081983097469205noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8638362650208299065.post-67356937693144313522013-06-25T16:30:00.001+01:002013-06-25T16:30:47.488+01:00Hi guys, sorry I haven't been posting for a while: I was too busy reading the Carnegie Longlist. As many of you may have heard, Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner won the Carnegie this year, and I may do a book review on it soon. Also, just an update on my last post which was <a href="http://wortication.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/waiting-on-wednesday-meme-1.html" target="_blank">Waiting On Wednesday Meme #1</a>, I recently found out that the cover has been released, so I shall edit the post to include it.Cybermess10http://www.blogger.com/profile/13260081983097469205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8638362650208299065.post-81075176729366035012013-01-09T17:43:00.001+00:002013-06-25T16:32:34.628+01:00Waiting On Wednesday Meme #1<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPMRO3e_6e4eDXpR007RUYS8lKQYno-0M7wNrNVMnDQ-LQMV7das828s2tSrSXhyqbF2LLM22pCTpeUSXsCu7UB-hYMKOt_Jr8Syohv_oAxOR3fmMCUm5ALgknTzRiicXcxIT_FLiGDn8/s200/New+WoW.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" closure_uid_a6cwer="2" closure_uid_kqcbyn="2" closure_uid_n3xt7y="2" closure_uid_wia6oa="2" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPMRO3e_6e4eDXpR007RUYS8lKQYno-0M7wNrNVMnDQ-LQMV7das828s2tSrSXhyqbF2LLM22pCTpeUSXsCu7UB-hYMKOt_Jr8Syohv_oAxOR3fmMCUm5ALgknTzRiicXcxIT_FLiGDn8/s200/New+WoW.JPG" width="200" /></a>Waiting On Wednesday is a blog meme hosted by <a href="http://breakingthespine.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Breaking The Spine</a>. All you need to do is write a post containing a book that you can't wait to be published.</div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<img height="200" src="http://www.publishingcrawl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Once-We-Were-final-hi-res.jpg" width="132" />This weeks book is Once We Were by Kat Zhang. The expected publication is 29th August 2013. I really loved this book, and can't wait for the sequel to be released. I would show a plot summary of the second book, but that hasn't yet been released.</div>
Cybermess10http://www.blogger.com/profile/13260081983097469205noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8638362650208299065.post-77631931456287494752013-01-06T12:20:00.000+00:002013-01-06T12:21:29.262+00:00My Top 10 Books From 2012<br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">
</div>
<br />
Here are my Top 10 Favorite Books that were published in 2012. Sorry for how late this post is. <br />
<br />
<br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<u><span style="font-size: x-large;">#10</span></u></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<a href="https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTeH2L2AVnoPgh0YIBmiaVTwc38unT9_k4nRzLBfhHwa3vp07S8" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" class="rg_hi uh_hi" data-height="276" data-width="182" height="200" id="rg_hi" src="https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTeH2L2AVnoPgh0YIBmiaVTwc38unT9_k4nRzLBfhHwa3vp07S8" width="131" /></a>Insurgent by Veronica Roth</div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
Published 1st May 2012 by Harper Teen</div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
This is the sequel to Divergent, set in a dystopian world, where people live in five different factions: Candor, the honest; Abnegation, the selfless; Dauntless, the brave; Amity, the peaceful; and Erudite, the clever. If you don't have a faction, then you becombe one of the Homeless.</div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /> </div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<u><span style="font-size: x-large;">#9</span></u></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<a href="https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQFsaDiY-GUS4WA9BXrv0AvCDGOeZX4SsqxQrzv5Cq8uhbrcHoWqA" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" class="rg_hi uh_hi" data-height="273" data-width="185" height="200" id="rg_hi" src="https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQFsaDiY-GUS4WA9BXrv0AvCDGOeZX4SsqxQrzv5Cq8uhbrcHoWqA" width="135" /></a>Unravelling by Elizabeth Norris</div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
Published 24th April by Balzer and Bray</div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
Two days before the start of her junior year, Janelle Tenner is hit by a pickup truck and killed. However, the next thing she knows is that she is opening her eyes to find herself still at the scene of the accident and face to face with Ben Michaels. Despite it seeming impossible, it seems that Ben has healed her! Then, when looking through her FBI Dad's case files, she finds a clock that is counting down, but what to? </div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<u><span style="font-size: x-large;">#8</span></u></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<a href="https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRANZY2-ltvfFyiDB6PfS2Qs2U_IwSRsKWKeDcbpzLSnhRnKn3Gqg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" class="rg_hi uh_hi" data-height="287" data-width="176" height="200" id="rg_hi" src="https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRANZY2-ltvfFyiDB6PfS2Qs2U_IwSRsKWKeDcbpzLSnhRnKn3Gqg" width="122" /></a><a href="http://wortication.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/book-review-4.html" target="_blank">Fear by Michael Grant</a></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
Published 3rd April 2012 by Electric Monkey</div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
It has been a year since the FAYZ established itself. Despite Everything, the Kids of Perdido Beach are determined to survive. But then the dome goes black.</div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<u><span style="font-size: x-large;">#7</span></u></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<a href="https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQl6f6GDSh31kurMj-q45BsAyenw5EPMO_NC3rzR6-E0HhcU7v-ZQ" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" class="rg_hi uh_hi" data-height="276" data-width="183" height="200" id="rg_hi" src="https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQl6f6GDSh31kurMj-q45BsAyenw5EPMO_NC3rzR6-E0HhcU7v-ZQ" width="132" /></a>Cinder by Marissa Meyer</div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
Published 3rd January 2012 by Feiwel and Friends</div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
A deadly plague is zooming through the streets of New Beijing and a race of deadly lunar people wait, ready to make their move. Cinder is a cyborg mechanic, hated by her stepmother and blamed for her stepstisters illness. No one could imaging that the fate of the planet rests on her.</div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<u><span style="font-size: x-large;">#6</span></u></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSwLWVK5KI_lYVRjJ8fRCxwAUSmOzfVmJ9FCrgeIlc7x-5h0znK" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" class="rg_hi uh_hi" data-height="284" data-width="177" height="200" id="rg_hi" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSwLWVK5KI_lYVRjJ8fRCxwAUSmOzfVmJ9FCrgeIlc7x-5h0znK" width="124" /></a>Hidden by PC and Kristen Cast</div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
Published 1st October 2012 by ?</div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
Book 10 in the House of Night Series, in which Humans and Vampires live together in something bordering harmony. Vampires pray to a Goddess called Nyx, night personified and live in a society where women are mainly in charge</div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<u><span style="font-size: x-large;">#5</span></u></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<a href="https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSDksjKb2w8zOsUW3BDk_c2KF8qW05j7Ar7bPr4gHJoYT3fjYXRHg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" class="rg_hi uh_hi" data-height="278" data-width="181" height="200" id="rg_hi" src="https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSDksjKb2w8zOsUW3BDk_c2KF8qW05j7Ar7bPr4gHJoYT3fjYXRHg" width="130" /></a>Breathe by Sarah Crossan</div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
Published 2nd October 2012 by Greenwind</div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
In a world without trees, humanity survives in a dome. You have to pay for every breath you take. Premiums can afford it; Auxilaries can't.</div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<u><span style="font-size: x-large;">#4</span></u></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<a href="https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQCl_FyZMuVgNn10VXCS5CHjia8UQTQp-MG7hV56EOwhaqA9P9_" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" class="rg_hi uh_hi" data-height="284" data-width="177" height="200" id="rg_hi" src="https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQCl_FyZMuVgNn10VXCS5CHjia8UQTQp-MG7hV56EOwhaqA9P9_" width="124" /></a>Struck by Jennifer Bosworth</div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
Published 26th April 2012 by Doubleday Childrens Books</div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
Mia Price is a lightning addict. She craves it, like a drug. Los Angeles is one of the few places Mia can feel safe with her addiction because lightning rarely strikes there. But when an earthquake devastates the town, Mia is seen by two warring cults as the answer to their problems. One sees her as the saviour of the world, the other sees her as its destroyer.</div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<u><span style="font-size: x-large;">#3</span></u></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<a href="https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQBPdRyKSAoGn_hoL0M8VGjCWy0nhNsBtp0EA8cyGwJB0nNOHi9OQ" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" class="rg_hi uh_hi" data-height="277" data-width="182" height="200" id="rg_hi" src="https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQBPdRyKSAoGn_hoL0M8VGjCWy0nhNsBtp0EA8cyGwJB0nNOHi9OQ" width="131" /></a>Nevermore by James Patterson</div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
Published 6th August 2012 by Little Brown and Company</div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
This is the 8th book in the Maximum Ride Series, a series starring six genetically engineered mutants- 98% human, and 2% bird.</div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<u><span style="font-size: x-large;">#2</span></u></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<a href="https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTSZBvUjcpJFpFHSxt5AbpVcvtYfF8B7JQkQeu_XlnpkwdL5jv26g" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" class="rg_hi uh_hi" data-height="278" data-width="182" height="200" id="rg_hi" src="https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTSZBvUjcpJFpFHSxt5AbpVcvtYfF8B7JQkQeu_XlnpkwdL5jv26g" width="130" /></a>Whats Left Of Me by Kat Zhang</div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
Published 27th september 2012 by HarperCollins Children's Books</div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
Eva and Addie started off the same way-two souls woven into one body, taking turns at controlling it and learning to walk, sing, dance. But then the whispers started. Why weren't they settling like everyone else. Why hadn't one of thoes souls disappeared? Finally, it was declared that Addie was healthy and Eve was gone. Dead. Except she wasn't. She had hung inside their body, unnable to do anytrhing except whisper thoughts to Addie. It was their secret. No one knew the truth. Until now.</div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<u><span style="font-size: x-large;">#1</span></u></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSgf79sXGbBYNrJZ97XRRnAVimYHYRFqBJ_tdjcNlXiilMIMjwztw" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" class="rg_hi uh_hi" data-height="279" data-width="181" height="200" id="rg_hi" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSgf79sXGbBYNrJZ97XRRnAVimYHYRFqBJ_tdjcNlXiilMIMjwztw" width="129" /></a>Daylight Saving by Edward Hogan</div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
Published 2nd February 2012 by Walker Books Ltd</div>
<img height="96" src="https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSDksjKb2w8zOsUW3BDk_c2KF8qW05j7Ar7bPr4gHJoYT3fjYXRHg" style="filter: alpha(opacity=30); left: 83px; mozopacity: 0.3; opacity: 0.3; position: absolute; top: 1531px; visibility: hidden;" width="62" />When Daniel Lever is dragged away to Leisure World Holiday Complex with his depressed dad, his hopes are low. Daniel is overweight and hates sport. But then he meets Lexi. She is smart and intelligent. But why do her bruises seem to be getting worse? And is her watch ticking <em>backwards</em>? <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Have a happy new year!Cybermess10http://www.blogger.com/profile/13260081983097469205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8638362650208299065.post-15294727920425072852012-12-29T08:41:00.000+00:002012-12-29T08:41:49.942+00:00Carnegie Longlist 2013<img alt="CKG_CMYK_portrait" src="http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/pressdesk/images/CKG_CMYK_portrait.png" height="150" width="125" />Hey guys, a few days ago, the 2013 Carnegie and Greenway longlist was released. Wooo! I can't wait till 19th March when the Shortlist is released. To find out more about them, go to <a href="http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/">http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/</a> . <br />
<br />
Soo... Here are the nominations for the Carnegie Award:<br />
<br />
<span class="T4">Goldilocks</span><span class="T2"> </span><span class="T4">on CCTV</span><span class="T2"> by John Agard</span><br />
<span class="T2"></span><span class="T4">The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean</span><span class="T2"> by David Almond </span><br /><span class="T4">Soldier Dog</span><span class="T2"> by Sam Angus </span><br />
<span class="T2"></span><span class="T4">The No. 1 Car Spotter and the Firebird</span><span class="T2"> by Atinuke </span><br />
<span class="T2"></span><span class="T4">The Traitors</span><span class="T2"> by Tom Becker </span><br /><span class="T4">The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket</span><span class="T2"> by John Boyne </span><br /><span class="T4">Jasmine Skies</span><span class="T2"> by Sita Brahmachari</span><br /><span class="T4">Spy For The Queen of Scots</span><span class="T2"> by Theresa Breslin </span><br /><span class="T4">Naked</span><span class="T2"> by Kevin Brooks </span><br /><span class="T4">Kill All Enemies</span><span class="T2"> by Melvin Burgess </span><br /><span class="T4">Dead Time</span><span class="T2"> by Anne Cassidy </span><br /><span class="T4">VIII</span><span class="T2"> by H.M. Castor </span><br />
<span class="T2"></span><span class="T4">Dying To Know You</span><span class="T2"> by Aidan Chambers </span><br /><span class="T4">The Broken Road</span><span class="T2"> by B.R. Collins </span><br /><span class="T4">The Unforgotten Coat</span><span class="T2"> by Frank Cottrell Boyce </span><br /><span class="T4">15 Days Without a Head</span><span class="T2"> by Dave Cousins </span><br /><span class="T4">After the Snow</span><span class="T2"> by S.D. Crockett </span><br /><span class="T4">The Weight of Water</span><span class="T2"> by Sarah Crossan </span><br /><span class="T4">Scramasax</span><span class="T2"> by Kevin Crossley-Holland </span><br /><span class="T4">Mortal Chaos</span><span class="T2"> by Matt Dickinson </span><br />
<span class="T2"></span><span class="T4">Sektion 20</span><span class="T2"> by Paul Dowswell </span><br /><span class="T4">A Greyhound of a Girl</span><span class="T2"> by Roddy Doyle </span><br />
<span class="T2"></span><span class="T4">Saving Daisy</span><span class="T2"> by Phil Earle </span><br />
<span class="T2"></span><span class="T4">Buzzing!</span><span class="T2"> by Anneliese Emmans Dean </span><br /><span class="T4">The Things We Did For Love</span><span class="T2"> by Natasha Farrant </span><br /><span class="T4">Trouble in Toadpool</span><span class="T2"> by Anne Fine </span><br /><span class="T4">Call Down Thunder</span><span class="T2"> by Daniel Finn </span><br /><span class="T4">Far Rockaway</span><span class="T2"> by Charlie Fletcher </span><br /><span class="T4">The Double Shadow</span><span class="T2"> by Sally Gardner </span><br /><span class="T4">Maggot Moon</span><span class="T2"> by Sally Gardner </span><br /><span class="T4">After</span><span class="T2"> by Morris Gleitzman </span><br /><span class="T4">To Be A Cat</span><span class="T2"> by Matt Haig </span><br /><span class="T4">A Face Like Glass</span><span class="T2"> by Frances Hardinge </span><br /><span class="T4">Unrest</span><span class="T2"> by Michelle Harrison </span><br /><span class="T4">Seraphina</span><span class="T2"> by Rachel Hartman </span><br /><span class="T4">The Seeing</span><span class="T2"> by Diana Hendry </span><br /><span class="T4">Daylight Saving</span><span class="T2"> by Edward Hogan </span><br /><span class="T4">Hero on a Bicycle</span><span class="T2"> by Shirley Hughes </span><br /><span class="T4">The Abominables</span><span class="T2"> by Eva Ibbotson </span><br /><span class="T4">The Girl in the Mask</span><span class="T2"> by Marie-Louise Jensen </span><br /><span class="T4">The Prince Who Walked With Lions</span><span class="T2"> by Elizabeth Laird </span><br /><span class="T4">In Darkness</span><span class="T2"> by Nick Lake </span><br /><span class="T4">The Brides of Rollrock Island</span><span class="T2"> by Margo Lanagan </span><br />
<span class="T2"></span><span class="T4">Skulduggery Pleasant: Death Bringer</span><span class="T2"> by Derek Landy </span><br /><span class="T4">Itch</span><span class="T2"> by Simon Mayo </span><br /><span class="T4">At Yellow Lake</span><span class="T2"> by Jane McLoughlin </span><br /><span class="T4">The Apothecary</span><span class="T2"> by Maile Meloy </span><br /><span class="T4">The Treasure House</span><span class="T2"> by Linda Newbery </span><br /><span class="T4">All Fall Down</span><span class="T2"> by Sally Nicholls </span><br /><span class="T4">This Dark Endeavour</span><span class="T2"> by Kenneth Oppel </span><br /><span class="T4">Hitler's Angel</span><span class="T2"> by William Osborne </span><br /><span class="T4">Wonder</span><span class="T2"> by R.J. Palacio </span><br /><span class="T4">Gods and Warriors</span><span class="T2"> by Michelle Paver</span><br /><span class="T4">Burn Mark</span><span class="T2"> by Laura Powell </span><br /><span class="T4">Black Arts: The Books of Pandemonium</span><span class="T2"> by Andrew Prentice and Jonathan Weil </span><br /><span class="T4">Mister Creecher</span><span class="T2"> by Chris Priestley </span><br /><span class="T4">This is Not Forgiveness</span><span class="T2"> by Celia Rees </span><br /><span class="T4">Goblins</span><span class="T2"> by Philip Reeve </span><br /><span class="T4">Black Heart Blue</span><span class="T2"> by Louisa Reid </span><br /><span class="T4">Pendragon Legacy: Sword of Light</span><span class="T2"> by Katherine Roberts </span><br /><span class="T4">Midwinterblood</span><span class="T2"> by Marcus Sedgwick </span><br /><span class="T4">A Boy and a Bear in a Boat</span><span class="T2"> by Dave Shelton </span><br /><span class="T4">The Sleeping Army</span><span class="T2"> by Francesca Simon </span><br /><span class="T4">The Flask</span><span class="T2"> by Nicky Singer </span><br /><span class="T4">The Scorpio Races</span><span class="T2"> by Maggie Stiefvater</span><br /><span class="T4">A Skull in Shadows Lane</span><span class="T2"> by Robert Swindells </span><br />
<span class="T2"></span><span class="T4">A Waste of Good Paper</span><span class="T2"> by Sean Taylor </span><br /><span class="T4">Code Name Verity</span><span class="T2"> by Elizabeth Wein </span><br />
<br />
<span class="T2">I have set myself a challenge to read all these books before the shortlist is released.</span>Cybermess10http://www.blogger.com/profile/13260081983097469205noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8638362650208299065.post-55996638363400250432012-12-28T18:03:00.002+00:002012-12-28T18:10:07.224+00:00Book Review #8 <br />
<div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">
<u style="text-underline: single;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Title:</span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> We Die Alone</span></div>
<div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<a href="https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRjYONw0rLZV2hi9lNWI9VZcuWWackrb4YGzCcf-zNUbmgl7-2u1A" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" class="rg_hi uh_hi" data-height="276" data-width="183" height="200" id="rg_hi" src="https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRjYONw0rLZV2hi9lNWI9VZcuWWackrb4YGzCcf-zNUbmgl7-2u1A" width="132" /></a><u style="text-underline: single;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Author:</span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> David Howarth</span></div>
</div>
<div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<u style="text-underline: single;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Date Published:</span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> May 1955</span></div>
</div>
<div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<u style="text-underline: single;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Publisher:</span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> Collins</span></div>
</div>
<div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<u style="text-underline: single;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Age Rating:</span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> 12+ </span></div>
</div>
<div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<u style="text-underline: single;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Genre:</span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> War Biography</span></div>
</div>
<div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"></span><u style="text-underline: single;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Main Character</span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> :</span></div>
</div>
<div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.5in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<span style="color: #e40059; font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-color-index: 5; mso-special-format: bullet;"> o</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Jan </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Baalsrud</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> </span></div>
</div>
<div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.5in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
<div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><u>Plot</u> </span></div>
<div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> Jan Baalsrud and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>his three friends attempted to smuggle bombs into WW2 Norway as part of</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> a </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; font-size: 12pt; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">s</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; font-size: 12pt; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">abotage mission. However, soon after arrival, they were betrayed by a man</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; font-size: 12pt; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> thought to be a friend. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">The only survivor, Jan is forced to make his way through</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">treacherous terrain in the hope of finding </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">his way to Sweden.</span></div>
</div>
<div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; font-size: 12pt; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> <u>Review</u></span></span></div>
</div>
<div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; font-size: 12pt; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Firstly, I found this book slightly boring. This was due to the fact that that the</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; font-size: 12pt; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-text-raise: 0%; vertical-align: baseline;"> story was a bit slow</span></div>
</div>
<div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-text-raise: 0%; vertical-align: baseline;">at times, making reading the book a bit tedious at times. </span></div>
</div>
<div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-text-raise: 0%; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div>
<div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; font-size: 12pt; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Another problem with the</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; font-size: 12pt; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-text-raise: 0%; vertical-align: baseline;"> book was the fact that the story didn’t exactly draw me in. It took me</span></div>
<div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-text-raise: 0%; vertical-align: baseline;">about a week to read this book because of how little the story appealed to me. Instead of reading</span></div>
<div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; font-size: 12pt; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-text-raise: 0%; vertical-align: baseline;">war stories, I was more interested in the latest post/pre </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; font-size: 12pt; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-text-raise: 0%; vertical-align: baseline;">apocalyptic story.</span></div>
<div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-text-raise: 0%; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div>
<div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-text-raise: 0%; vertical-align: baseline;">However, one of the good points of the story was the writers ability to describe. I loved the</span></div>
<div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-text-raise: 0%; vertical-align: baseline;">intriguing way the author described Jan’s adventures, as if I was really there. </span></div>
<div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-text-raise: 0%; vertical-align: baseline;">Overall, this was a good book that tried its best, but just wasn't me in the end.</span></div>
<div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-text-raise: 0%; vertical-align: baseline;"><u>Rating Out Of 5</u></span></div>
<div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-text-raise: 0%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #ff557a; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; language: ar-AE; letter-spacing: 0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; text-shadow: auto; text-transform: none;">۞۞</span><span style="color: #ff557a; font-family: 'Orange LET'; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; letter-spacing: 0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Orange LET'; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; text-shadow: auto; text-transform: none;"> .</span><span style="color: #ff557a; font-family: +mn-ea; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; letter-spacing: 0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; text-shadow: auto; text-transform: none;">☺</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-text-raise: 0%; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
</span></span></div>
Cybermess10http://www.blogger.com/profile/13260081983097469205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8638362650208299065.post-47226513634162606222012-10-14T18:39:00.001+01:002013-07-13T08:56:13.687+01:00Book Review #7<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQHnkG1n2Pc3TD3Hh9o9HEphwUXY4hL4RrLQ8d2sXr_By-p6026xQ" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" class="rg_hi uh_hi" data-height="230" data-width="149" height="200" id="rg_hi" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQHnkG1n2Pc3TD3Hh9o9HEphwUXY4hL4RrLQ8d2sXr_By-p6026xQ" width="129" /></a></div>
<div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.3in; margin-top: 6pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.3in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<u> Title:</u> Blue Is For Nightmares</div>
</div>
<div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.3in; margin-top: 6pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.3in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<u> Author:</u> Laurie Faria Stolarz</div>
</div>
<div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.3in; margin-top: 6pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.3in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<u> Date Published:</u> November 8th 2003</div>
</div>
<div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.3in; margin-top: 6pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.3in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<u> Publisher:</u> Llewellyn Publications </div>
</div>
<div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.3in; margin-top: 6pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.3in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<u> Age Rating:</u> 11+</div>
</div>
<div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.3in; margin-top: 6pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.3in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<u> Genre:</u> YA Paranormal</div>
</div>
<div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.3in; margin-top: 6pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.3in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<u> Main Characters :</u></div>
</div>
<ul>
<li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Stacey</li>
<li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Amber</li>
<li>Drea</li>
<li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Donnovan</li>
<li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Chad</li>
<li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Maura</li>
<li>Veronica </li>
</ul>
<div>
<u>Plot:</u></div>
<div>
On the outside, Stacey is an average teenage girl. However, there's one problem: she's psychic. Every night, Stacey has nightmares about the death of her best friend, Drea. The last time this happened, someone close to her heart died. Determined to right the wrongs she did when she kept her gift quiet and did nothing to help, Stacey soon finds herself in a world of mystery and adventure, where one wrong move could kill her best friend. Despite being no stranger to magic, Stacey is soon faced with the worrying fact that magic has its limits and that even witches cant save the world all the time.</div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
<u>Review:</u></div>
<div>
<br />
<br />
I absolutely adored this book. Personally, I think it was an amazing new read into a world rarely explored by me.</div>
<div>
<br />
Firstly, BIFN had an wonderful plot. It was fast enough to be interesting, yet not too fast that you had to keep on looking back to see who each person was and what they were going on about. The plot was also full of mystery and deceit, my favourite kind of story.<br />
<br />
Another good point, was the characters. You found yourself really empathizing with them, like Drea and her cheating boyfriend and Stacey with her malfunctioning psychic powers and night-time problems.<br />
<br />
Lastly, you always felt part of their world, even after you had finished the book. You found yourself wanting to slap some characters, and hug others. You find yourself not wanting to put the book down night and day. You find yourself promising only one more paragraph, whilst secretly hoping that it will never end and knowing that you mean to break your pledge in a few moments when the next character finds themselves in a life-or-death situation.<br />
<br />
The only problem that I found with it, was that about three quarters of the way through the book, I realised who the murdering stalker person was. After that, the book wasn’t as fun, however, this had given me another incentive to read on: to find out if I was right.<br />
<br />
Despite the bad point, I still found this a remarkable new read.<br />
<br /></div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
<u>Rating Out Of 5</u></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ff557a; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; language: ar-AE; letter-spacing: 0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; text-shadow: auto; text-transform: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">۞۞۞۞</span></span></div>
Cybermess10http://www.blogger.com/profile/13260081983097469205noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8638362650208299065.post-45018282589508274012012-08-17T18:11:00.000+01:002013-06-25T16:46:15.292+01:00Book Review #6<span style="background-color: white; color: black;"><br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<u>Title:</u> Dark Inside</span></span><br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<a href="https://encrypted-tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTn28a49DZ_la_bRS8mz1hWrMFDUxGHZKepIiCBaUVA81H8ozWK" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" class="rg_hi uh_hi" data-height="277" data-width="182" height="200" id="rg_hi" src="https://encrypted-tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTn28a49DZ_la_bRS8mz1hWrMFDUxGHZKepIiCBaUVA81H8ozWK" width="131" /></a><span style="color: black;"><u>Author:</u> Jeyn Roberts</span></span></span></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<span style="color: black;"><u>Date Published:</u> 2nd September 2011</span></span></span></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<span style="color: black;"><u>Publisher:</u> Macmillan Children's Books</span></span></span></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<span style="color: black;"><u>Age Rating:</u> 13+</span></span> </span></div>
<div>
</div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<u>Genre:</u> Post Apocalyptic</span> </span></div>
</div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<div>
</div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<u>Main Characters:</span></u> </div>
</div>
<ul>
<li><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
Aries</div>
</div>
</li>
<li><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
Clementine</div>
</div>
</li>
<li><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
Mason</div>
</div>
</li>
<li><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
Michael</div>
</li>
<li><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
Nothing</div>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<u>Plot </span>:</span></u></div>
<div class="readable stacked" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; right: 0px;">
After a wave of deadly earthquakes nearly destroys the Earth, the surviving few watch as their loved ones, friends and neighbous turn in to killing machines, that will stop at nothing to slaughter the human race. Now, there only seems to be one rule, one law: kill, or be killed...</span></div>
<div class="readable stacked" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; right: 0px;">
<br /></div>
<div class="readable stacked" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; right: 0px;">
</div>
<div class="readable stacked" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; right: 0px;">
<u>Review:</span></u><br />
One of the problems I found with this book, was the narration. Usually in books with multiple narrators, I don't have any trouble knowing who was who. However, in this book, I had to keep on skipping back to find out how the character got there, or who they were in the first place.<br />
Another problem, was how similar Aries and Clementine were. This was also the same with Mason and Michael. I would have prefered the book if they could have some obvious differences in their personalitys.</div>
Despite these problems with four of the main characters, I really enjoyed reading Nothing's story. It helped me get some extra insight into the story, and really kept me on the edge of my seat. I hope that this character is also included in the next book, Rage Within.<br /> I also loved the storyline. It was fast, fun and full of surprises. I literally couldn't put this thrilling book down. <br /> Overall, I found this an enjoyable read, however, there were a few problems with it. I can't wait to read Rage Inside, but hope that some of the problems that I found with this book don't apply to the sequel.<br /><br /><br /><div class="readable stacked" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; right: 0px;">
<div>
<u><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Rating out of 5:</span></u><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"></span><br />
<div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"><span style="color: #ff557a; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; language: ar-AE; letter-spacing: 0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; text-shadow: auto; text-transform: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">۞۞۞</span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">
</span></div>
</div>
</div>
</span>Cybermess10http://www.blogger.com/profile/13260081983097469205noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8638362650208299065.post-21485928919060988972012-08-01T10:01:00.001+01:002012-10-15T17:37:26.207+01:00Book Review #5<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<u><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Title</span></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">: Speak</span><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<shapetype coordsize="21600,21600" filled="f" id="_x0000_t75" o:preferrelative="t" o:spt="75" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" stroked="f"><stroke joinstyle="miter"></stroke><formulas><f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"></f><f eqn="sum @0 1 0"></f><f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"></f><f eqn="prod @2 1 2"></f><f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"></f><f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"></f><f eqn="sum @0 0 1"></f><f eqn="prod @6 1 2"></f><f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"></f><f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"></f><f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"></f><f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"></f></formulas><path gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect" o:extrusionok="f"></path><lock aspectratio="t" v:ext="edit"></lock></shapetype><shape alt="https://encrypted-tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQJ_Cnq6NrAMcZoRcCFtn3L4OkXZovi3tC5P-12d714jCuPb5kv" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?um=1&hl=en&biw=1024&bih=634&tbm=isch&tbnid=MVAff6Mbc7P_hM:&imgrefurl=http://www.mrsqbookaddict.net/2011/09/review-speak-by-laurie-halse-anderson.html&docid=C8ZfXwqWNgZpCM&imgurl=https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTLbykE7qvTURipsTDzLbIPLvXy2sFyydBYL-VzPEsX8h_62eC8uwmyE9avpIGC8sdr2q56BliUS4jWQQPg75_5_l0LBSxewHbP9Fg-bs3aD81b2OFHPWBEKCZ-X1pV-iOvdVhkGxClu0/s1600/51xgjCIctiL._SL500_.jpg&w=305&h=500&ei=8AMYUIWTJ8OJ0AWE-oCoBQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=89&vpy=211&dur=609&hovh=288&hovw=175&tx=133&ty=153&sig=114726348109398819118&page=1&tbnh=123&tbnw=77&start=0&ndsp=20&ved=1t:429,r:14,s:0,i:114" id="rg_hi" o:button="t" o:spid="_x0000_s1026" style="height: 3in; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-top: 6.05pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: text; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-bottom: 0; mso-wrap-distance-left: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-top: 0; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 132pt; z-index: -1;" type="#_x0000_t75" wrapcoords="-245 0 -245 21450 21600 21450 21600 0 -245 0"><imagedata o:title="ANd9GcQJ_Cnq6NrAMcZoRcCFtn3L4OkXZovi3tC5P-12d714jCuPb5kv" src="file:///C:\DOCUME~1\Lillian\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.jpg"></imagedata><wrap type="tight"></wrap></shape><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Author</span></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">: Laurie Halse Anderson</span><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<a href="https://encrypted-tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ8FgjkhTlXn10i7mZp2NRMjDInRPHXvQ-xZlEL9D-w6nTAEo63" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" class="rg_hi uh_hi" data-height="288" data-width="175" height="200" id="rg_hi" src="https://encrypted-tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ8FgjkhTlXn10i7mZp2NRMjDInRPHXvQ-xZlEL9D-w6nTAEo63" width="120" /></a><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Date Published</span></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">: 22<sup>nd</sup> October 1999</span><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<u><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Publisher</span></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">: Puffin</span><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<u><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Age Rating:</span></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 12+</span><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<u><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Genre</span></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">: Realistic Fiction</span><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<u><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Main Characters</span></u><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"> </span><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Melinda</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Andy</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Rachel</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Ivy</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Heather</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Nicole</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 110.3pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<u><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Storyline:</span></u><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Melinda had been invited to the party by her best friend Rachel. Halfway through it, she called the police. This left her as a loner, the outsider who had ruined their party. In this stunning story, one girl is trying to break free of a silence that has gripped her and won’t let her go.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<u><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Review</span></u><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I absolutely adored this book. When I picked up this book from a genre that I usually avoid, I wasn’t expecting something this amazing and emotional.</span><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I loved the way that the speech in the story was usually indirect, yet when it wasn’t, it was as if the story was a play. I think that this was a very unique way to narrate a story, and I really enjoyed it.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> I also liked the way that the author created a realistic image of all the characters in my mind. It helped me really bond with Melinda and sympathise with her. I ended up feeling as if I was there, witnessing the story happening infront of me.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Another thing I liked about Speak, was the speed that the story developed at. It wasn't so fast that you ended getting confused, however it wasn't slow and boring, which makes you want to either skip bits, or stop reading completely. </span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Overall, I think that Speak was an amazing book, which drew you into the story and bought the characters to life. I really enjoyed reading it, and I can't wait to read more novels by this author.</span></span><br />
<br />
<br />
<u><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Rating (out of 5)</span></u><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><div>
<span style="color: #ff557a; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; language: ar-AE; letter-spacing: 0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; text-shadow: auto; text-transform: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">۞۞۞۞<span style="color: #ff557a; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; language: ar-AE; letter-spacing: 0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; text-shadow: auto; text-transform: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">۞</span></span></span></span></div>
</span></div>
Cybermess10http://www.blogger.com/profile/13260081983097469205noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8638362650208299065.post-70068338405427578042012-07-31T10:26:00.000+01:002012-08-02T18:30:16.011+01:00Feature and Follow #107<div class="post hentry" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting">
<a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="9098896015574215398"></a><br />
<div class="post-header">
<div class="post-header-line-1">
</div>
</div>
<div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="articleBody" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<a href="http://parajunkee.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/FF_2012.jpg" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Gain New Blog Followers" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4465" closure_uid_r8pbz0="2" closure_uid_ul6nzo="2" height="200" src="http://parajunkee.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/FF_2012.jpg" title="FF_2012" width="164" /></a>Hi guys, I am taking part in this week's Feature and Follow, hosted by <a href="http://www.alisoncanread.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4f48a0;">Alison Can Read</span></a> and <a href="http://parajunkee.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4f48a0;">Parajunkee</span></a>. What you have to do, is follow them, follow this weeks featured blogs and put this button in a post so that people can post comments here to say that they have followed me. You also have to fill aut a Linky form, so that people can find your blog. <a href="http://www.alisoncanread.com/2012/07/feature-and-follow-friday-107.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4f48a0;">Click Here</span></a> to go the this week's Feature and Follow Friday. By the way, I named last weeks post Feature and Follow #109, however it was in fact #106! Sorry for any confusion that this may have caused you. </div>
<div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="articleBody" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
This weeks FF question is: </div>
<div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="articleBody" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="background-color: yellow;">What was your favorite book that you were REQUIRED to read when you were in school? </span></strong></span><br />
<a href="https://encrypted-tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQjGoy3KMnrkw6SN-eZxHBpTjJZzvR36wZDigTtmuuGn2i2alcAYA" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" class="rg_hi uh_hi" data-height="287" data-width="176" height="200" id="rg_hi" src="https://encrypted-tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQjGoy3KMnrkw6SN-eZxHBpTjJZzvR36wZDigTtmuuGn2i2alcAYA" width="122" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times New Roman;">The answer to this is To Kill A Mockingbird. I thought this was a really good book, with a good plot and storyline. I also loved the way that it was narrated by a child.</span></span></span></div>
</div>Cybermess10http://www.blogger.com/profile/13260081983097469205noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8638362650208299065.post-90988960155742153982012-07-20T14:37:00.001+01:002012-08-02T09:09:28.362+01:00Feature and Follow #106<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
Hi guys, I am taking part in this week's Feature and Follow, hosted by <a href="http://www.alisoncanread.com/" target="_blank">Alison Can Read</a> and <a href="http://parajunkee.com/" target="_blank">Parajunkee</a>. What you have to do, is follow them, follow this weeks featured blogs and put this button in a post so that people can post comments here to say that they have followed me. You also have to fill aut a Linky form, so that people can find your blog. <a href="http://www.alisoncanread.com/2012/07/feature-and-follow-friday-106.html" target="_blank">Click Here</a> to go the this week's Feature and Follow Friday.</div>
<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://parajunkee.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/FF_2012.jpg" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Gain New Blog Followers" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4465" closure_uid_r8pbz0="2" height="200" src="http://parajunkee.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/FF_2012.jpg" title="FF_2012" width="164" /></a></div>Cybermess10http://www.blogger.com/profile/13260081983097469205noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8638362650208299065.post-29626098300173993992012-07-17T18:55:00.001+01:002012-10-14T18:41:34.485+01:00Book Review #4<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<shapetype coordsize="21600,21600" filled="f" id="_x0000_t75" o:preferrelative="t" o:spt="75" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" stroked="f"><stroke joinstyle="miter"></stroke><formulas><f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"></f><f eqn="sum @0 1 0"></f><f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"></f><f eqn="prod @2 1 2"></f><f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"></f><f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"></f><f eqn="sum @0 0 1"></f><f eqn="prod @6 1 2"></f><f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"></f><f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"></f><f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"></f><f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"></f></formulas><path gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect" o:extrusionok="f"></path><lock aspectratio="t" v:ext="edit"></lock></shapetype><shape alt="https://encrypted-tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQNVfrwmAhx2rIalK6tPPP_W1S7pYfx4C13OHRS14K8BW2Wj1m7" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?um=1&hl=en&sa=N&biw=1280&bih=571&tbm=isch&tbnid=MTTgOi8XMqzNtM:&imgrefurl=http://scatteredfigments.blogspot.com/2012/04/review-fear-by-michael-grant.html&docid=pSUWb5ujmByx9M&imgurl=https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG2l9eINf9yN8Wd2QM6pRgzh0ew8OjzNig_j53lrluK5ephiF-J5Gdi3sf9Ff1Jv2TRKwwk7ehL5VUNxlU40wDxtz4yuMl0RE9ni5ipMxT5V_qupJY7N5mz84CQSWrxa2Dk0e3_s-JIqFU/s400/FEAR.jpg&w=198&h=325&ei=3ejyT-TCK8mf8gPNjIncCQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=380&vpy=192&dur=1390&hovh=260&hovw=158&tx=100&ty=107&sig=112287865865169269256&page=1&tbnh=115&tbnw=70&start=0&ndsp=30&ved=1t:429,r:12,s:0,i:110" id="rg_hi" o:button="t" o:spid="_x0000_s1026" style="height: 195.3pt; margin-left: -6.55pt; margin-top: 9.15pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: text; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-bottom: 0; mso-wrap-distance-left: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-top: 0; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 118.75pt; z-index: -1;" type="#_x0000_t75" wrapcoords="-273 0 -273 21401 21555 21401 21555 0 -273 0"><fill o:detectmouseclick="t"></fill><imagedata o:title="ANd9GcQNVfrwmAhx2rIalK6tPPP_W1S7pYfx4C13OHRS14K8BW2Wj1m7" src="file:///C:\DOCUME~1\Lillian\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.jpg"></imagedata><wrap type="tight"></wrap></shape><u><span lang="EN-GB"></span></u></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><u>Title</u>: Fear</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<a href="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1332613816l/13188077.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Fear (Gone, #5)" border="0" height="200" id="coverImage" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1332613816l/13188077.jpg" width="121" /></a><u><span lang="EN-GB">Author</span></u><span lang="EN-GB">: Michael Grant</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<u><span lang="EN-GB">Date Published</span></u><span lang="EN-GB">: 3<sup>rd</sup> April 2012</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<u><span lang="EN-GB">Publisher</span></u><span lang="EN-GB">: Electric Monkey</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<u><span lang="EN-GB">Age Rating:</span></u><span lang="EN-GB"> 12+</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<u><span lang="EN-GB">Genre</span></u><span lang="EN-GB">: Dystopian</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<u><span lang="EN-GB">Main Characters</span></u></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Sam</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Peter/Little Petey/Pete</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Caine</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Astrid</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Diana</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Giaphage</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Connie(Sam’s Mum)</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Dekka</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Brianna</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Lara</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Quinn</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Drake</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Penny</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Edilio</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 110.3pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<u><span lang="EN-GB">Storyline (From </span></u><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/"><span style="color: #5eaeff;">Goodreads</span></a><u>)</u>:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's been one year since all the adults disappeared. Gone.<br /><br /><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Despite the hunger and the lies, even despite the plague, the kids of Perdido Beach are determined to survive. Creeping into the tenuous new world they've built, though, is perhaps the worst incarnation yet of the enemy known as the Darkness: fear.<br /><br /><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Within the FAYZ, life breaks down while the Darkness takes over, literally—turning the dome-world of the FAYZ entirely black. In darkness, the worst fears of all emerge, and the cruellest of intentions are carried out. But even in their darkest moments, the inhabitants of the FAYZ maintain a will to survive and a desire to take care of the others in their ravaged band that endures, no matter what the cost.<br /><br /><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fear, Michael Grant's fifth book in the bestselling dystopian Gone series, will thrill readers . . . even as it terrifies them</span>.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<u><span lang="EN-GB">Review</span></u></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I really enjoyed this book. I loved all the intricate plots and the way the author portrayed all of the characters in the FAYZ.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the 5<sup>th</sup> and penultimate book in the Gone series, and in my view, is well worth reading. It has a lot of characters, but despite what can sometimes happen in books, you don’t get confused with who is who.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I loved the way the plot moved, which was not so slow that you got bored reading, but not fast enough for you to find yourself confused and wondering what was happening.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also liked the way the storyline flicked between the Lake, Perdido Beach, Peter, Clifftop, The Mine and Outside. This made the story even more interesting and helped me understand more.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another thing I liked was the ending. I won’t say what happened, but it made me really want to continue reading and to want to read Light, the next book in the series.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All in all, I felt that this was a very good book full of cliff hangers, narrators and excitement. Because of this, I feel that this book is a book worthy of the Carnegie Medal.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<u><span lang="EN-GB">Rating (out of 5)</span></u></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><div>
<span style="color: #ff557a; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; language: ar-AE; letter-spacing: 0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; text-shadow: auto; text-transform: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">۞۞۞۞<span style="color: #ff557a; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; language: ar-AE; letter-spacing: 0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; text-shadow: auto; text-transform: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">۞</span></span></span></span></div>
</span></div>
Cybermess10http://www.blogger.com/profile/13260081983097469205noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8638362650208299065.post-8851454109732266762012-07-10T17:22:00.000+01:002012-10-14T18:41:14.145+01:00Book Review #3<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><u><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; color: black; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Title:</span></u><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; color: black; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> Uglies</span></span><br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<a href="https://encrypted-tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRVqkgR59OVn2UnpLeQ0yUB_K8qVo1kppwlfl0-maMyI4PWTxbjwg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" class="rg_hi uh_hi" data-height="276" data-width="182" height="200" id="rg_hi" src="https://encrypted-tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRVqkgR59OVn2UnpLeQ0yUB_K8qVo1kppwlfl0-maMyI4PWTxbjwg" width="131" /></a><span style="background-color: white;"><u><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; color: black; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Author:</span></u><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; color: black; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> Scott Westerfield</span></span></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><u><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; color: black; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Date Published:</span></u><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; color: black; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 1st January 2005</span></span></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><u><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; color: black; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Publisher:</span></u><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; color: black; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> Simon and Schuster</span></span></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><u><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; color: black; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Age Rating:</span></u><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; color: black; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 12+</span></span></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><u><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; color: black; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Genre:</span></u></span><span style="background: #f3f3f3; color: black; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="background-color: white;"> Distopian</span></span><br />
<u><span style="background: #f3f3f3; color: black; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="background-color: white;">Main Characters:</span></span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<ul>
<li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Tally Youngblood</li>
<li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Shay</li>
<li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Peris</li>
<li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Dr Cable</li>
<li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">David</li>
</ul>
</div>
<u>Plot (from <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/" target="_blank">Goodreads</a>):</u><br />
<span id="freeText10837983069394310970"> Everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous. What could be wrong with that? Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. Not for her license -- for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks Tally will be there. </span><br />
<br />
But Tally's new friend Shay isn't sure she wants to be pretty. She'd rather risk life on the outside. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world and it isn't very pretty. The authorities offer Tally the worst choice she can imagine: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all. The choice Tally makes changes her world forever.<br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;"><u>Review:</u></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I found this book on <span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="background-color: white;">Goodreads</span></span></a></span><span style="background: #f3f3f3; color: black; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="background-color: white;">, and I am glad I did. Uglies is a thrilling book with a fast storyline and a unique plot.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> I </span><span style="background: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: white;">also really liked the characters. They all had really strong personalities and you could really interact with them because of this. My favorite character was Tally, because she was really brave and I liked the way she struggled to decide what whether she should protect Shay and in doing so break her promise to Peris (her friend who had turned pretty 3 months earlier) that she would join him in New Pretty Town as a perfect pretty, or to betray Shay and join Peris in New Pretty Town. I also liked the way she handled this.</span></span><br /><span style="background: #f3f3f3;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white;">I also liked the way the story developed. The pace was good: not too slow so that you got bored with the way the story dragged on, and not too fast so that you kept on forgetting what was happening and how it had happened.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: white;"> I loved the way that this book made everything in it seem real. When reading, I sometimes found it hard to realise that there was no Tally Youngblood. This helped make the story very heart provoking and sad at parts.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="background-color: white;"> <span style="background: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: white;">Overall, I really enjoyed this book, with its heartwarming story about perfection gone horribly wrong and loyalty to friends. This is an AMAZING series, and if you haven’t read it, then you should.</span></span><br /><br /><br /><u><span style="background: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: white;">Rating out of 5:</span></span></u></span></span><br />
<span style="background: #f3f3f3; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="background-color: white;"><div>
<span style="color: #ff557a; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; language: ar-AE; letter-spacing: 0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; text-shadow: auto; text-transform: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">۞۞۞۞<span style="color: #ff557a; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; language: ar-AE; letter-spacing: 0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; text-shadow: auto; text-transform: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">۞</span></span></span></span></div>
</span></span>Cybermess10http://www.blogger.com/profile/13260081983097469205noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8638362650208299065.post-84526421155805066522012-07-04T17:11:00.001+01:002012-10-14T18:40:43.953+01:00Book Review #2<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-outline-level: 3;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><u><span style="background: #f3f3f3; color: black; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="background-color: white;">Title:</span></span></u><span style="background: #f3f3f3; color: black; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="background-color: white;"> Unwind</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<a href="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1327963719l/6062049.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Unwind (Unwind, #1)" border="0" height="200" id="coverImage" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1327963719l/6062049.jpg" width="130" /></a><u><span style="background: #f3f3f3; color: black; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="background-color: white;">Author:</span></span></u><span style="background: #f3f3f3; color: black; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="background-color: white;"> Neal S</span><span style="background-color: white;">husterman</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="background: #f3f3f3; color: black; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="background-color: white;"><u>Date Published:</u> 6th November 2011</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="background: #f3f3f3; color: black; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><u>P</u></span><span style="background: #f3f3f3; color: black; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="background-color: white;"><u>ublisher:</u></span></span><span style="background: #f3f3f3; color: black; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="background-color: white;"> Simon and Shuster</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<u>Age Rating</u><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;"><u>:</u></span><span style="background-color: white;"> 12+</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><u><span style="background: #f3f3f3; color: black; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="background-color: white;">Genres:</span></span></u><span style="background: #f3f3f3; color: black; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="background-color: white;"> Young Adult and Distopian</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><u>Main</u></span><span style="background: #f3f3f3; color: black; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="background-color: white;"><u> Characters:</u></span></span></span></div>
<ul style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background: #f3f3f3; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="background-color: white;">Connor</span></span></span></li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="background-color: white;">Lev</span> </span></span></div>
</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: black; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="background: #f3f3f3; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="background-color: white;">Risa</span></span><span style="font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></li>
</ul>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><u><span style="background: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: white;">Plot (From <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/">Goodreads</a>):</span></span></u><br />The Second Civil War was fought over reproductive rights. The chilling resolution: Life is inviolable from the moment of conception until age thirteen. Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, however, parents can have their child "unwound," whereby all of the child's organs are transplanted into different donors, so life doesn't technically end. Connor is too difficult for his parents to control. Risa, a ward of the state is not enough to be kept alive. And Lev is a tithe, a child conceived and raised to be unwound. Together, they may have a chance to escape and to survive.<br /><br /><u><span style="background: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: white;">Review:</span></span></u><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: white;"> One good thing about the book was the characters personalities. They were really strong, so you could really interact with them and you really wanted them to survive.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: white;"> Another goood thing was the narration. It was forever skipping between people, which helped you understand their point of view and what everyone belived. This reminded me a bit </span>of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12262665-mortal-chaos" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #ce220a; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="background-color: white;">Mortal Chaos by Matt Dickinson</span></span></a><span style="background: #f3f3f3; color: black; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="background-color: white;"> and the multiple narrators and storylines that weaved together to create one amazing story.</span></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="background: #f3f3f3; color: black; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="background-color: white;"> I found some bits a little bit confusing, and because of this, I had to flip back a few pages sometimes, just to check what was happening. This, as far as I was concerned, was really the only thing that let this book down.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="background: #f3f3f3; color: black; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: white;"> The fact that everything slotted together was another good point. Everything was explained at the end, except what happens next to Connor, lev and Risa, which likely to be explained in the sequel, Unwholly, which comes out in August 2012.</span></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="background: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: white;"> Over</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Crafty Girls", "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: white;">all, I thought that this was a really good boook, despite being a bit disturbing. It had a great plot and was set at a fast pace, so you never got bored. However, I found a few bits a bit confusing, which sort of ruined the story for me.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="background: #f3f3f3;"><u><span style="background-color: white;">Rating out of 5</span>:</u></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="background: #f3f3f3; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="background-color: white;"><div>
<span style="color: #ff557a; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; language: ar-AE; letter-spacing: 0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; text-shadow: auto; text-transform: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">۞۞۞۞</span></span></div>
</span></span></div>
Cybermess10http://www.blogger.com/profile/13260081983097469205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8638362650208299065.post-8828171070336047032012-07-01T17:38:00.000+01:002012-10-14T18:40:30.831+01:00Book Review #1<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black;"></span></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black;"><u>Title:</u> The Look </span><br />
<a href="https://encrypted-tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTgH6m7a408y5brPhLNjLcnX5BUPJW3eHFkjt8XpACz2LE98ce70A" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;"><img alt="" border="0" class="rg_hi uh_hi" data-height="279" data-width="180" height="200" id="rg_hi" src="https://encrypted-tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTgH6m7a408y5brPhLNjLcnX5BUPJW3eHFkjt8XpACz2LE98ce70A" width="129" /></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><u>Author:</u> Sophia Bennett</span></span></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><u>Date Published:</u> 1st March 2012</span></span></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><u>Publisher:</u> Chicken House</span></span></div>
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><u>Age Rating:</u> 12+</span></span></div>
</div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: white;"><u>Genre:</u> Contemporary</span></div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
<u><span style="background-color: white;">Main Characters</span></u></div>
<ul>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">Ted Trout</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">Ava Trout</span></li>
</ul>
<br />
<u><span style="background-color: white;">Plot (From </span><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/"><span style="background-color: white;">Goodreads</span></a><span style="background-color: white;">):</span></u><br />
<div class="readable stacked" id="description" style="right: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span id="freeTextContainer3677666011743902762"> When Ted is spotted by a model agency, she can’t believe it. At the same time her gorgeous sister, Ava, is diagnosed with cancer. With her world turned upside down, Ted has a lot of growing up to do, some of it in five-inch platforms. Can she be a supermodel and a super sister? Or will she have to choose between fame and family?</span> </span><br />
<br /></div>
<div class="readable stacked" style="right: 0px;">
</div>
<div class="readable stacked" style="right: 0px;">
<u><span style="background-color: white;">Review:</span></u></div>
<div class="readable stacked" style="right: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white;"> I really liked this book. Not only did it have a really strong storyline, but it also portrays a serious message in a really heartwarming way.</span></div>
<div class="readable stacked" style="right: 0px;">
</div>
<div class="readable stacked" style="right: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white;"> Some books really dont work when they have a 15 year old as a narrator, because the narrator may sound too grown up, or too childish. This, however, this worked perfectly for me. Ted's sarcastic sense of humour really suited her character and personality.</span></div>
<div class="readable stacked" style="right: 0px;">
</div>
<div class="readable stacked" style="right: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black;"> Another good thing about it was Ted's character. She was really strong and positive and tried to be a really good sister whilst Ava was ill. She also took everything in her stride, so whenever she was called names or laughed at in school, she just carried on. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: black;"> I also liked the fact, that, despite how pretty and popular Ava was, she wasn't perfect and had some flaws. This is because in some books, you find characters that are pretty, popular and perfect. They then don't seem human, and you find it hard to interact with them. However, with Ava, this is luckily not the case.</span><br />
<div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: black;"> Overall, I would say that this was a really well written book with a great plot. This book, despite not being my type, really worked for me and I would recomend it to others as a really great book. However, I found some bits a little bit boring.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: black;"></span><br />
<u><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Rating out of 5:</span></u><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"><div>
<span style="color: #ff557a; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; language: ar-AE; letter-spacing: 0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; text-shadow: auto; text-transform: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">۞۞۞۞</span></span></div>
</span><span style="background-color: white;"></span></div>
</div>
</div>
Cybermess10http://www.blogger.com/profile/13260081983097469205noreply@blogger.com1