From Girl #173!!!!!

Hey everybody! Girl #173 here, on Julia's laptop. I'm here to tell all you bloggers out there about an intriguing tale of action, excitement, and determination. You'll all be cheering for the protagonist in this incredible story; "The Little Engine That Could." Haha, I'm just kidding! The real book I'm here about is "Marley & Me." You"ll fall in love with this hopelessly disobedient and lovable Labrador Retriever, or as his family calls him when trying to teach him to fetch, their "Labrador Evader" Even when he's disobeying, taking his owners for walks, and getting his family kicked out of beaches and restaurants, Marley keeps his happy-go-lucky attitude through it all. After I read this book, I was kind of wishing for my own Lab!((Julia: Your own SECRET LAB?!? WITH LIKE SCIENCE?!?! Me: Go away! I'm typing!)) Anyways, you should all read this book! You'll love it! Bye!

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SilverFin by Charlie Higson

It's British, that's one reason to like it. In fact, that should be like, a whole ten reasons to like it in my opinion. It's also James Bond, but as a kid. I'm not really sure how old he is, around 13. The book teaches you facts you have no reason to know, unless you play Trivial Pursuit and I did AND I WAS SO EXCITED THAT I ACTUALLY KNEW A SPORTS QUESTION!!!!!!!!!! : D
' "A dry bob is a boy who plays cricket, and a wet bob is one who chooses rowing."
"Really?"
"Yes, really."
"And what do you call a boy who doesn't do either?"
"A slack bob" '
BOOM! Right there. I'm awesome.

Anyway, as far as I can tell, the evil person (such great vocabulary right?) is an American ('Murca) that is rich and is plotting something to do with flesh eating eels. Oh, and he makes and sells weapons. Lovely.
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IT'S RED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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The Puzzler's Mansion by Eric Berlin

Hi!  Sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry. Sorry. Does that cover it? No? SORRY!

There. So,  yeah is been a while. Sorry. I've been busy with life and... I've been cheating on you. With fanfiction.Sorry!!!!  I'll set a reminder on my phone to tell me at least every week to post something. I'm try.

So this book is... well I'd  be in love with it if I was like nine,  but it's only a little crush so... not too bad. It's really cool. It's like one of those puzzle books with the answers in the back, but with actual plot. And a twist ending. Apparently there's two others I have yet to read, and say least one came before this one. (Bad Julia, bad!)

A B.

P.S. One of my stories on fanfiction is titled "House of Hades" and you can find me by that. You'll know the one I'm talking about.

PEACE

 

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How to Train Your Dragon series by Credissa Cowell

Don't you hate it when you find out a really good book you've read is coming out as a movie and you get all excited then you watch the movie and you want to murder the movie company? I sure do. Anyway, that's what happened with this book. For those of you that have seen the movie but haven't read the book; first of all, EVERYBODY trains a dragon. Second of all, Toothless is really toothless... and very small and useless and completely ordinary. So, what does Hiccup do with a toothless dragon, a useless friend(Fishlegs), and a girl that can fight better than him, Fishlegs, and Toothless combined? Well, he goes and gets a foe that JUST WON"T FREAKING DIE!!!!! Sorry, it's a bit frustrating.

Grade: B+

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The Middle School Series by James Patterson

Rafe hates middle school (Hence the title; Middle School: The Worst Years Of My Life). In my opinion, it's freaking beast-mode(compared to elementary). So, he and his friend Leo decide to make a game to make ms (middle school) more fun... and end up with detentions, expulsion, and get a ride in the back of a police car(if this is wrong, please tell me. I haven't read the book in while). So...yeah. At least he got Jeanne Galletta to notice him. Yup.

Grade: B

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More quotes (I'm too lazy to actually post a review, plus I thought these were funny)

Suddenly there was an enormous boom from down the hall. Before Nina and Steve could get up to see what   happened, Ashley swung through the door and shut it behind her. "Did you hear that?" she gushed. "Everyone heard that," Nina said. "What was it?" "I put it in the microwave." Ashley laughed. "It blew up." "Your avocado?" Steve looked at Nina in confusion. "She had an avocado," Nina explained."I guess she blew it up."
-The Bermudez Triangle by Maureen Johnson

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Thanks to my amazing lead, the next three runners would've had to been struck down by polio to blow the race.
-Sloppy Firsts

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To Read Or Not To Read; That Is The Question

Okay, so I've heard of this series called The Halfblood Chronicles. Is it any good? Would you recommend it to me according to the books I've read? I NEED ANSWERS PEOPLE!!!!!!

The Hourglass Door by Lisa Mangum

You've never been kissed before. You have a boyfriend, although he wants to wait for the "perfect" time. Which is apparently your birthday. Also his. Then an Italian (and very hot) exchange student comes into the picture when he wants to join the school play(which you are the assistant director of). Remember how you've never been kissed? Not after the day the exchange student arrived. Oh, but he didn't kiss you. Your teacher did. On purpose. Out of nowhere. In front of (almost) everyone. Yup.

Grade: B

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Airhead+Being Nikki by Meg Cabot

Okay, first let me warn you I'm not done with Being Nikki yet, but I love it so much I just HAVE to write a review about it.

So, there's this girl, Emerson (also known as Em) Watts. She has an annoying little sister who is "like, totally in the in crowd(also known as  the walking dead)". She's in love with her best friend, Christopher, who sees Em as nothing but a person to play JourneyQuest with and to scoff at the walking dead. Until she dies.

I know what you're thinking!!! I read way too many books in which the main character dies. Oh well. Too bad for you.

Some funny quotes from "Being Nikki":

I mean, what girl wouldn't want a guy to go on a wild computer-hacking rampage against a majorly environmentally irresponsible corporation, just for her?

It would have been obvious to anyone looking at me as I staggered into school Monday morning just before the late bell rang, a cup of tea clutched in one hand and my Marc Jacobs tote full of overdue assignments and my MacBook Air in the other, that I hadn't had a good weekend. I know I looked particularly heinous. I'd tossed and turned all night, unable to sleep not just because Lulu Collins was hogging my Frette sheets and duvet, but because the guy I was hopelessly in love with? Yeah, well, he was in love too. With a dead girl.

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More to it than it seems...

Is anybody wondering what I was talking about in the "I've noticed this lately" post? Please wonder. I'm getting bored without an audience. Well, for those of you who are (Boy #74: Which is nobody because nobody cares about you Julia. Just go sit in the corner and cry.(And yes, someone has actually said that to me. I don't really mind; in fact we're good friends.)) interested I'm writing a fan fiction. It's a continuation of the Gregor the Overlander series. I'll send you a link if you've read the series. Just comment. (Boy #74: I TOLD YOU TO GO SIT IN THE CORNER AND CRY!)

Book Quotes

She sighed. "Just because I'm Native American doesn't mean I can track furniture through the wilderness." She deepened her voice:"'Yes, kemosabe. A three-legged table passed this way an hour ago.' Heck, I don't know."
                 -The Demigod Diaries by Rick Riordan


Golden Rule for Demigods: Thou shalt not Hokey Pokey with psychos.
                 -The Demigod Diaries by Rick Riordan

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I wondered if what I really wanted for Christmas was to find someone who'd be the piece of paper to my stapler. Or,wait, why couldn't I be the piece of paper? Maybe it was a stapler I was after. Or the poor mouse pad, who was clearly in love with the stapler but couldn't get him to give her a second look.  All I'd manage to date so far was a series of pencil sharpeners, with the exception of Sofia, who was more like a pleasant eraser.
                 -Dash and Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan

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I've noticed this lately

Right  now, I'm writing a book. And it feels a whole lot like reading one. I can't get away. THE SUSPENSE IS KILLING ME! I know it might seem weird, but it's true. It's like, you're reading the story as you're writing. As if, I don't know what's going to happen until I write about it.

Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin

It starts out with a girl riding a bike to the mall. Her name is Lizzie, and she's going to help her friend pick out a prom dress. Which was exactly what was on her mind when the car hit her. You might think this is the end of her story, but it's only the beginning.

Grade: B

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Everybody Sees the Ants by A.S.King

This one is a little... strange. Well, all the books are strange, but this one, THIS one, was especially strange. His father is a turtle; never has any time for him or his mother because he too busy "cooking". But, that's okay. Well, at least for his mother. She's a squid; she's always swimming of she has nothing better to do, and sometimes even when she does. How does the boy handle all this, you ask? He hangs out with his grandfather. Oh, by the way, did I mention he's dead? 

Grade: B-

P.S.- Do you notice anything different? Please answer with a comment.

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The Name Of This Book Is Secret by Pseudonymous Bosch

The thing that makes this book interesting, is that you're not allowed to read the first chapter. Nope. The author doesn't even want to give you the danger of this book's secrets, but nobody can keep in a secret. Right? At least, that's what he says. I'm not so sure about it.

Anyway, I'll be generous and give this book a B.

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***Book Quote Time***

I'm sorry. I usually look much nicer after I take a beating.
                -Torn by Amanda Hocking (2nd in a series)

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...So big mistake, Grandma. You know what other mistake you made was? Killing me.
                -Abandon by Meg Cabot
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Time is a river. The river bends and loops and meanders, but it always, only flows one way- away from the past toward the future. And all of us are carried though our lives on the current of the river. We live and love- and age- immersed in the all-encompassing waters of the river of time. The river is now. This moment. The breath between us. The space between your heartbeats. The moment before you blink. The instant a thought flashes through your mind. It is everything that is around us. Life. Energy. Flowing, endlessly flowing, carrying you from then... to now...to tomorrow. Listen: you can hear the music of it. Of the passage of time.
                -The Hourglass Door by Lisa Mangum
Click here to read my review of The Hourglass Door.

Inside, I made myself a peanut butter sandwich, plunked myself onto the couch, and dreamed about the girl I attacked with an ax.
                -Jerk, California by Jonathan Friesen

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Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

OMG! This book is "Completely fricking awesome" (said by Patrick Rothfuss) and I totally agree. It's even something I would say.(Girl #173: Yep.) It's 2044 and most of the world is composed of  computer-addicted-freaks. A famous video-game maker has made a computer simulation so real that just about every business has taken up there. You can even go to a virtual public school. Then, the dude dies. Like Willy Wonka, he doesn't have any family to pass down the business to. So, he hides an "Easter egg" somewhere in the game. Whoever finds it gets EVERYTHING.

Basically, this book is beast-mode. A solid A.

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