Tuesday, October 29, 2013

The Eye Of Minds Rivew


Oh wow! What a book! This book made my brain explode!!
It's about a boy named Michael who lives in the future where they have "full-emersion" video games.
This means, he lays in a "coffin" and goes to sleep, where he then in his minds gets to explore a video game world with other people. SO COOL! When can this be invented????
When the book starts Michael has been given an in-game task to prevent a girl from jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge. It won't kill her, just her avatar, and she will awaken in her coffin. But if Michael prevents it from happening, without breaking character and acknowledging they are in a game, he gets a ton of experience points.
As Michael tries to coax the girl of the ledge, she spouts something off about someone who wont let her leave the game and how she needs to get away from him. Annoyed, Michael finally tell her it's just a game, and he really needs the experience points, and begs her to come with him. Realizing that if she dies in game, she wont truly die, the girl proceeds to rip open the flesh over her temple and reach her fingers in her head trying to remove her 'core'. We are then explained that in doing this, she will remove the programing that tells her brain that she is only experiencing a game, not real life. Without her core, she would become brain dead if she died.
Michael becomes freaked out, and again begs her to stop, but he fails. She jumps off the bridge and he follows her. He then awakes in his coffin, knowing she is truly dead.
After these events, he is contacted by the government, they want him to catch this hacker.

This book was so awesome!!! It was fast paced, and had a HUGE twist at the end!! OH, MAN!
If you enjoy sci-fi this is the book for you!!!!



Monday, October 28, 2013

NaNoWriMo

Hey Guys,

I signed up for NaNoWriMo! I am so excited!
For those of you who don't know what NaNoWriMo is, it stands for National Novel Writing Month.
For 30 days participants begin to draft their own novel trying to write more than 50,000 words.

I haven't ever been a big writer, but I have always enjoyed it! I am hoping that partaking in NaNoWriMo will give me the motivation needed to be able to write more!

Yesterday I came up with an interesting plot for my novel, and I can't wait to outline it all this week, and then begin writing it next week!

I will be posting updates and occasionally excerpts regularly here on my blog and on YouTube (they will also be linked here.)

If you are participating in NaNo please add me as a buddy here!


Can't Wait to get started! <3 Amanda

Top 5 Books that Broke Our Hearts!!


(Don't worry! It's spoiler-free!!!)

Friday, October 25, 2013

Favorites Fridays: Favorite Fictional Crushes


Lets Think of something happier than our Post-Allegiant depression! Let's talk about LOVE!!! :)

Monday, October 21, 2013

Book Review: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

The Perk of Being a Wallflower




This book was nothing like I anticipated. I guess that's because I hadn't heard too much about the plot other than it was supposed to be a great story about making friends and surviving high school. While this is true, it ended up being a lot more, so much deeper, and so much more disturbing.

It starts out with one of Charlie's best friends having committed suicide. This leaves him with one less friend than he had (and he did't have man to start with.) The book is written as letter to an unknown person, and it is essentially inner dialogue.


The themes talked about: Suicide, date rape, underage drinking, drug use, premarital sex, bullying/harassment, hate crimes, depression, abusive relationships, self mutilation, and child molestation.
Although, I feel like all of these are important subjects that needs to be talked about, it was a very difficult read for me. I think what added to the unsettling feeling, was being inside someones head, that obviously wasn't quite right, or all there. It wasn't a pretty place to be. Also, it just seemed a bit too much for one story, in my opinion. If it were to focus on a smaller pool of problems, there would have been more time to develop into each problem. Instead, I feel like some of the "bad-themes" were skipped over too quickly, making them seem minuscule and not as important as others.

Some of the things I did like:
The over all themes of "We accept the love we think we deserve." This was very touching, and I believe it to be very true in real life.
Another being that inorder to life life, you must get out there and experience it, you can not remain a wallflower forever, or you will never truly live.

Overall, I perfered the movie to the book, because we witnessed the events taking place as an outsider, instead of seeing it all through Charlie's eyes.

Here I have my BookTalk over it. Watch it and let me know your thoughts! :)


Want the read this book? Check it out here.



Hope ya'll have a fantastic day!
<3 sharing the reading love!


Top 5 Books I Need to Read



I split this into two sections.
First, the top 5 books I need to read, that I already own.
1. The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
2. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
3. A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
4. The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black
5. The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken

Top 5 books I need to read, that I don't own yet.
1. Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
2. Vicious by V.E. Schwab
3. Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
4. The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
5. Graceling by Kristin Cashor


Sunday, October 20, 2013

Subscriber Sunday #2



Subscriber Sunday!
I do some more Q&A, and show you some of my favorite comments of the week!
This week I hit 200 Subscribers!!! OMG!!! Thank you so much!!!
<3 sharing the book love!