by Marie, (54 posts) on April 25th, 2010
Poetry has a way of of telling the truth… It describes things in so much details and usually with an immense power. But if I say; poetry, you usually end up thinking about love. Why? Because it’s beautiful? Because it’s light and happy like a lot of poems are? Or simply because it’s so easy to [...]
by Marie, (54 posts) on April 22nd, 2010
Title: Specials
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Pages: 372
After being forced to become pretty, Tall now finds herself being forced to becoming a Special, one of those monster humans, the ones made to survive in the wild, who don’t need long hours of sleep, food for nutrients. The ones that move at lighting speed, that [...]
by Marie, (54 posts) on April 22nd, 2010
Title: Pretties
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Pages: 370
Tally has finally become pretty, but it was the only way for the others to see if their cure against the brain lesions worked. Tally is now bubbly all day long, with this innocence that only pretties have. She goes to parties and her only worry is what to wear! But when her [...]
by Marie, (54 posts) on April 22nd, 2010
Title: Uglies
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Pages: 425
Tally Youngblood is like any other ugly, apart from her fizzy hair that never listens, her eyes a little too close together, her nose to big, her non-flawless skin, she is just like the rest of them; she can’t wait to turn sixteen and finally have the [...]
by Marie, (54 posts) on April 22nd, 2010
Title: Sushi For Beginners
Author: Marian Keyes
Pages: 603
Lisa Edwards is the glamorous editor of a famous magazine. Until she was exiled to Dublin, Ireland. What else could have gone wrong? she had been waiting for a promotion since forever but they crushed her and sent her over to a country where it rains [...]
by Marie, (54 posts) on April 22nd, 2010
title: Hunted
Authors: P.C & kristin Cast
pages: 323
Stark is a character that we don’t really know about, he enters the story very briefly before dying, but he has a huge impact on the principal character. Mysterious bad boy style, he also awakens the curiosity of the readers. Stark has powers f his own, that [...]
by Marie, (54 posts) on April 7th, 2010
When you memorize the speech, you truly learn each word. You can make your way in between all the commas, the emotions that inspired Shakespeare take control of your tongue and your voice. Before you memorize and act the speech out, you don’t really know what the character was thinking, you can only guess. [...]
by Marie, (54 posts) on March 19th, 2010
Title: Untamed
Authors: P.C & Kristin Cast
Pages: 338
Aphrodite, also known as”the hag from hell”, is a blond, blue eyed gorgeous rich girl with words as vicious as a snake. She used to be the leader of the Dark Daughters but got kicked out because of her Terrible actions. But maybe her hateful [...]
by Marie, (54 posts) on March 16th, 2010
title: The RopeMaker
Author: Peter Dickinson
Pages: 132
Tilja is the principal character of this story, outcast of her family since she they discovered that she was not to be the the succeeder of her mom. Tilja doesn’t her the voice of the cedars, instead it is her little sister, Anja, who has been gifted by such [...]
by Marie, (54 posts) on March 13th, 2010
Title: Chosen
Author: P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
Pages: 307
With her funny Oklahoma accent and her unique sense of style, Stevie Rae is just one of those girls you automatically grow close to. Her affinity to earth brings her closer to her best friend, Zoey, and she takes up an important place amongst the other [...]
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