Booking Through Thursday & Theme Thursdays #1

What’s more important: Good writing? Or a good story?

(Of course, a book should have BOTH, but…)

Wow, That's a tough one. 

I guess I would go with story. While writing is extremely important and sometimes the voice, the beauty with which you construct the sentences can make or break a book, I definitely need a story that is worthwhile. What's the point of a stunning prose if there is no good plot. 

But that's just because I had to choose,  I think a book MUST have both. I want my cake and I want to eat it too.

Think, Ian McEwan or Margaret Atwood. 

Great plots and pretty prose. 

This week’s theme is

VERY

"The very complexity of her feelings confirmed Briony in her view that she was entering an arena of adult emotion and dissembling from which her writing was bound to benefit. "

"I'm very very sorry." 

Check out my new Read The Classics Challenge and let me know if you are interested! 
  http://oopsireadthatbook.blogspot.com/2012/01/read-classics-2010-challenge.html

On My Wishlist #2

On My Wishlist is a weekly meme by Book Chick City.

After losing her sister and finding out who- or what- she really is, Vanessa returns home for her senior year. Everyone at Hawthorne Prep has questions about her tragic summer, but knowing who to open up to is impossible. As she walks the halls without Justine for the very first time, Vanessa has more to worry about than just making a new life for herself. 

Because the sirens are out for revenge. To protect herself and the ones she loves, Vanessa must call on powers she believes she has but does not know how to use. To learn, she'll have to seek help from the only person who truly knows her. But first, she must admit the truth about her real identity.


Why It's On My Wishlist?
I looooooooooved Siren.

Jasmine had everything a girl could want.1

So it wasn't her idea of SuperFun to move halfway around the world to Venice, Italy, leaving her fab pals and hot new boyfriend back in Los Angeles.2 But Venice isn't so bad . . .

Until Jasmine's Evil Hench cousin, Alyson, and her Best Fiend Veronique arrive,3 Jasmine's secret plan to jet to California is foiled,4 her boyfriend starts hanging with someone named Candy,5 and her only friend in Venice turns out to be in deadly peril.6

Faster than you can say "gelato," Jasmine is caught up in a catastrophic caper featuring a runaway heiress, a smoldering gondolier, 142 kinds of pizza, and a bothersome kitty. But before she can face off against a dangerous adversary, she has to face herself.

While wearing white leather pants.7

1 Rock star boyfriend, homicidal hair, fabulous pals, iNsAnO father . . .
2 No, this was the work of Dadzilla, smiter of life's happiness.
3 They ask to be called by their faerie names, Sapphyre and Tiger's*Eye. No, I am not joking. What? I'm supposed to keep the scary stuff inside the book?
4 Hello Dadzilla!
5 Who may or may not have perfect hair and boobs and be able to communicate with dolphins.
6 Not that anyone believes it. Until - What? That is for inside the book too? Okay, fine.
7 Only part of the time. The rest of the time I have to wear . . . oh, right. ScArY stuff inside.


Why It's On My Wishlist?
I loved Bad Kitty!


:D 


What's on your wishlist!?


*air kisses*

Follow Friday #3 & TGIF #2 & Book Blogger Hop #1

Q. What do I do when I am not reading?

Well I guess I like to shop, eat, sleep and eat some more.
And I watch TV Shows.
A lot of TV Shows.
Oh You want to know which?
Here's the list.
Dexter, Pretty Little Liars, Gossip Girl, The OC, 30 Rock, How I Met Your Mother, 90210, The Vampire Diaries, Castle , Psych, Bones, Criminal Minds, Community, Glee, Modern Family, Supernatural, Teen Wolf, Lie To Me, The Hills, Laguna Beach, True Blood, America's Next Top Model & Project Runway.
Currently I am downloading Twin Peaks. I love how everyone in that little town  is as eccentric as Luna Lovegood!
Speaking of HOW EPIC WAS HP7!!
I feel sad that it's over. :(
*throws some love at my fellow potterheads*
Also, I blog and tweet and I do NOT facebook.
Oooh Oooh I also attend college and try to study economics.

Book Blogger Appreciation: Which book blogs have inspired you 

or made a difference in your blogging experience?

The Story Siren, Of Course.

Q.How/Where do you get your books? Do you buy them or go to the library? Is there a certain website you use like paperbackswap?


Nowhere particular.
Also, I don't like taking books from libraries because I get attached to them easily and I really do not feel like returning them!


You can follow me on Twitter


@PinkBullets666


I know the handle sucks. I need to get around to changing it.

On My Wishlist #1

On My Wishlist is a weekly event started by Book Chick City.

I shall post every saturday book I want to buy and devour.

There is a long list of books on my wishlist and this is the one for this week.

The Liar Society (Liar Society #1) by Lisa Roecker 

                                 Kate Lowry didn't think dead best friends could send e-mails. But when she gets an e-mail from Grace, she’s not so sure. 

To: KateLowry@pemberlybrown.edu
Sent: Sun 9/14 11:59 PM
From: GraceLee@pemberlybrown.edu
Subject: (no subject)

Kate,
I'm here…
sort of.
Find Cameron.
He knows.
I shouldn't be writing.
Don't tell.
They'll hurt you.

Now Kate has no choice but to prove once and for all that Grace’s death was more than just a tragic accident. But secrets haunt the halls of her elite private school. Secrets people will do anything to protect. Even if it means getting rid of the girl trying to solve a murder...

Why it's on my wishlist?
Pink Hair. Teen murder mystery.

The Future of Us 

by Jay Asher, Carolyn Mackler

It s 1996, and less than half of all American high school students have ever used the Internet.

Emma just got her first computer and an America Online CD-ROM. Josh is her best friend.

They power up and log on and discover themselves on Facebook, fifteen years in the future.

Everybody wonders what their destiny will be. Josh and Emma are about to find out

Why it's on my wishlist?
Jay Asher.

By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead 

by Julie Anne Peters

Daelyn Rice is broken beyond repair, and after a string of botched suicide attempts, she’s determined to get her death right. She starts visiting a website for “completers”— www. through-the-light.com.

While she’s on the site, Daelyn blogs about her life, uncovering a history of bullying that goes back to kindergarten. When she’s not on the Web, Daelyn’s at her private school, where she’s known as the freak who doesn’t talk.

Then, a boy named Santana begins to sit with her after school while she’s waiting to for her parents to pick her up. Even though she’s made it clear that she wants to be left alone, Santana won’t give up. And it’s too late for Daelyn to be letting people into her life…isn’t it?

National Book Award finalist Julie Anne Peters shines a light on how bullying can push young people to the very edge.

Why it's on my wishlist?
Suicide. Bullying.Beautiful cover.

These are the three books I desperately want this week!

What is On Your Wishlist?

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