And then came Wednesday

icandidreality — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:08:16 +0000

I am back my fellow readers I checked my blog stats and saw that 5 people viewed my blog, but nobody posted a comment…? What’s up with that? Am I un-coment worthy? Do I not deserve to hear how much my blog sucked outloud and that you wanted to reach out and strip it off the net

Anyway, it’s Wednesday and I was thinking. When you think of Wednesday, what do you think about? Besides it being the middle fo the week of course. Do you think of it as trash day, test day, shopping day, etc? When I think of wednesday, i think of it as ‘do my tutoring’ wednesday. Or ‘America’s Top Model’ day. Not exactly a memorable day outside of those two elements.

So…in honor of my new blog, i decided to create a special day. One thing you should know about me is that I love to write (hello, duh. I wouldn’t be writing a blog if I didnt’). I’m in the works of writing my novel (but hush!). And automatically I love to read. The number of books I have read over the years are endless.

Well what am I continually droning on? I’m talking about creating Book Review Wednesday

Okay, okay…I know as a writer that I should have a catchier name than that, but give me a break. It’s a new project of mine. Every Wednesday, I will refer ten books that I love (you don’t necessary have to love them) and you can choose to read them if you like, or you can just scroll right on past.

Okay without further ado…let’s see April the 22nd’s top ten novels!!!!!

Book #1: The twilight saga by Stephanie Meyer (Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse)

I started to read these books before they became big. You know, in that whole new spinoff craze of the Harry Potter craze? And I absolutely love this series. Stephanie Meyer creates an excellent well spun fantasy in a (surprisingly) real town in Washington, where a human, Bella Swan, and a vampire, Edward Cullen, fall in love. It’s your classic love story, only this one has a *bite* to it. It makes you experience a wide range of emotions from amusement, to sadness, to joy and sometimes even to tears (come on…just read these books and you will know what I’m talkign about!). The book series currently span over three 500+ page novels (don’t be intimidated by the page count!) and a fouth one is due for release in early August. A true loyal fan of the series, I pre-ordered my copy on Amazon (Breaking Dawn). This book series can reach out to a variety of readers with different genres. Plus, there is a movie coming out (date soon to be released) perhaps sometime this year or next in honor of the book series, so hopefully Hollywood doesn’t choose to alter the story as it did for Blood and Chocolate.

Book #2 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

This novel generally started out as a expected read for my English III honors class. I thought I would hate it. But I can fully say that I enjoyed this book. The plot is mainly driven around the thoughts narrator of the story, Nick Carraway, that protain to the protagonist of the novel, Jay Gatsby. It’s a wonderfully short novel (short by my standards anyway) that is of the time period of the 1920’s and keeps you intrigued with the intricate characters of Jay Gatsby and associates.

Book #3 The Guardian by Nicholas Sparks

I’m pretty sure that you’ve heard of Nicholas Sparks. Hello…A Walk to Remember, Message in a Bottle, The Notebook…? If you haven’t heard of these titles, then you have seriously been living underneath a rock. Nicholas Sparks doesn’t fail to deliver a wonderfully attention grabbing, heart wrenching, (And at some points) pulse pounding novel that you can be glad that you read. I was actually quite surprised when I began to read the novel how abruptly the themes changed in the novel. From romance to suspense in an instant flat!

OOPS!!!! Maybe I shouldnt’ have said that. I don’t want to ruin the surprise for you if you haven’t read it yet. Just go read it if you hadn’t. It’s sure to lead you in for a delightful ride.

Book #4 Memoirs of A Geisha by Arthur Golden

This was the first ever book that I read that took place in a country other than America. And it was set in the past rather than the present. When I picked up this book, it was at a book fair and I had a few bucks in my pocket and time to kill. So I bought it, not having the intention to read it (sometimes I shamefully do that). But I flipped that one page, and instantly I was hooked. The novel takes on the form of first person perspective and delievers in the form of-no shock-a memoir. You have to remind yourself at the end of the book that the novel is just a novel-a work of fiction-because it is so excellently written in the perspective of a young woman…by a man no less! The novel’s plot takes place in Japan as a young woman learns how to grow into a beautiful geisha after she is taken away from her family rather abruptly. The young woman also learns how to cope with love, the lost of a love, and how we have to listen to our hearts rather than our heads. Three cheers for Arthur Golden for blessing this world with the presence of Memorirs of a Geisha that later graced movie screens (Thankfully the movie and novel actually coincided for the most part) and stole my heart and enhanced my emotions in the process.

Book #5 Night Game by Christine Feehan
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First of all, anything Christine Feehan writes, I absolutely love. Her genre is more romance on paranormal fiction cruising on borderline suspense. What I love about Night Game is that in her writing, she takes on the persona of placing her characters in the deep south and her hot Cajun male protagnoist is amusing and very hard to hate. Her female protagonist is a fiesty sprint who is INDEPENDENT and will meet tit for tat. I love how the novel is mystery with romance thrown in rather than a romance with mystery thrown in as an after thought. When Christine writes, she knows what she is talking about and her characters literally come alive off the pages. You can feel the fear. You can taste the suspense. You can feel the passion. Trust me…when you pick up this novel (or any other novel by Christine Feehan), you will not want to put it down.

Book #6 Night by Elie Wisel

This novel is different from all the rest that I have listed here on my blog. This is a non-fiction first person account of a person that lived through the Jewish Holocasut and tells his experiences about being moved from different German concentration camps and his experiences. You just have to read it to get the whole effect. It’s not a partifculary light hearted read, as it is depressing and full of distraught. It’s only about 75 pages long so even if you are a slow reader, you’ll probably finish the book in maximum of 2 days. This book made me cry and mad eme think of how horrible history was and how some people can treat human beings (Even in today’s society).

Book #7 My Sweet Audrina by V.C. Andrews

The thing with this book is that it is not particularly a book you want to love. The themes presented in this novel are the themes that are heart wrenching and straight up horrible. It’s not exactly the sort of book some parents want their children to read (even though they do it anyway) and its the sort of book that has you to look at your own life in prespective and sympathize the character. If you pick up any V.C Andrews book that was written before the 21st century (i.e VC Andrews herself and several ghostwriters), you’ll have a novel full of pain, anguish, and tough themes. Some people like to read these sort of novels. When I first picked up VC Andrews, I thought it was a typical child story. Boy was I ever wrong. The book deals with heavy themes such as child rape, psychological tramatation, family issues, and gut wrenching pain throughout. It’s all spun together morbidly, but overally makes the story come together.
But if you read this book, you’ll be rocked to tears and this book may actually may want you to get up and punch something.
Just put it this way….it’s an unforgettable book.

Book #8 Heartbeat by Danielle Steel

I can say whole heartedly that any book that Danielle Steel comes out, I will instantly buy. There is a reason fo why her books are a national phenomenon. Her books contain issues that affect us to the heart, and are inspiring. In every book of Danielle’s that I have read, her characters are faced with an emotional or physical issue in which they learn how to find the strength to move on. Heartbeat is no different. The woman character of the novel is trapped in a childless marriage where her husband controls her in ways she doesn’t know and finds love and support in a way she never would have thought have.

Book #9 Size 12 is Not Fat by Meg Cabot

If you’re familiar with Meg Cabot, then you know she wrote the princess diaries series. But here is a novel that an adult can actually pick up and enjoy. The title says it all: Size twelve is not fat. And Meg Cabot sets out to prove in this noevel that we don’t need to be a perfect size zero to gain the two things that we want in life: love and sucess.

Book #10 The Gingerbread Girl by Stephen King

My list is not complete without adding at least ONE Stephen King book. I admit that I have not read this book yet, but from this synopsis, it sounds intriguingly good

In the emotional aftermath of her baby’s sudden death, Em starts running. Soon she runs from her husband, to the airport, down to the Florida Gulf and out to the loneliest stretch of Vermillion Key, where her father has offered the use of a conch shack he has kept there for years. Em keeps up her running—barefoot on the beach, sneakers on the road—and sees virtually no one. This is doing her all kinds of good, until one day she makes the mistake of looking into the driveway of a man named Pickering. Pickering also enjoys the privacy of Vermillion Key, but the young women he brings there suffer the consequences. Will Em be next?

It’s Stephen King. Need I say more?

I can and I will

icandidreality — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:45:24 +0000

Hello to all of you out there in cyberland (a.k.a the internet if you are behind the times). If you’ve stumbled across my blog, then you here for either one of two reasons.

Reason #1: You know this blog is destined for greatness and clicked on it through a search engine

Reason #2: You came to bash me for whatever I a am going to say (no matter what I actually do say

Anyway, it does not matter how you came on my blog. I’m glad you’re here. =D

You see, I could go on and on and on about who I am, what I do, etc. ect….but….I’m not going to do that…not just yet, anyway. You see, some people get bored talking about theirselves reguardless of the fact that they may have the most intresting life in the whole world and success to go with it.

So yeah, I’m one of those people who get bored about talking solely about theirselves.

I mean sure, you may be one of those people who have no trouble in that department. But do you honestly want to read a page long blog about me and I know you don’t care.

So who exactly am I? Well…that’s just something you’re going to have to do some snooping on

So……who loves politics?

Well I don’t really. But it’s that part of our lives that we can try to deny that there, but it’ll only hurt us in the future. So I’d have to be under a rock to not know that it is democratic delegation day in Pennsylvania. If you’re a Republican, you can probably care even less.

So you Democrats…did you go vote today?

If you didn’t…shame on you. The only excuse that I can see is if you cat died or you broke your toe.

=D hehe.

Long story short….your girl Hiliary Clinton won. Mmm….I guess that special broadcast on Monday Night Raw worked in her favor. It seems that “Hil-Rod” took away with 55% of the vote. I mean, not that this could not have happened if she was on Raw, but still….big win for Hil. Let’s just not count Obama out of the race just yet. I’m pretty sure that everybody knows that theis will be one of the most historic elections in US history.

Some of you are going yay while others are going nay while all of you simulatenously are going “What the hell is she droning on and on about this for? If I wanted to hear a boring lecture, I’d listen to my mother telling me to clean my room, or my teacher teaching me about logorithiums. If I hear her drone on one more time, I will die of boredom.”

Here’s a hint! Go to Scotland! Scientists over there are in the stages of developing a pill that can increase longevity to 120 years. Talk about crazy, huh?

Well..I’m gone. Next time I’ll try not to bore you to much. But when it’s a boring tuesday, what can you expect?!?!? Anywhoo….tune in tomorrow for another one of my ’sweet’ blogs. In the meanwhile, while you detain yourself in excitement *hehe* watch this video that has been labled the new internet sensation. Its about a man that was stuck in an elevator for 41 HOURS (that equals suicide to me). I don’t know about you, but nothing can top the internet sensation of the coke and menthols experiment. Now, THAT was cool.

iCandidReality♥

And then came Wednesday

I can and I will