Friday, January 15, 2016
Weekend Goals
Hey! So here is another week of my weekend goals, and I have been feeling very productive lately. I also, have changed some of my writing schedule around, so I'm going to be updating all of you on that next week. But this weekend my goal- besides my regular daily stuff- is to get done with Realm Walkers. I can't get much done this weekend because I'm very busy this weekend. Thank you, and I'll be starting on my goal now.
Monday, January 11, 2016
Short Story
Life is really just a series of unexpected events. And for me, this is an accurate description of my life. People call me, Beebee, but my name is Beatrix. I remember several odd events which have happened to me through the course of my fascinating life. A few, for example, is the time I saw someone jump off an ice cream cart, which I then proceeded to imitate. Another, was when I ran into a mule in New York City, and I then rode on the poor thing, screaming that I was batman. And to top off with a final cherry, there was a time which I ate a whole table of candy at a really really fancy restaurant- just because I was feeling a bit wild.
But you’re not here to read about my strange happenings… Well, I suppose you are, but not those ones. I was planning to tell you about the time that I saw ten different people get electrocuted at the same time, and the events that followed, but I just changed my mind- I’m feeling a bit wild today. Instead I’ll inform you of the thing that happened to me just the other day, as I was hiking up a gravel road to find my lost turtle, which my cousin had lost three years ago. And yes, I know it was a long time ago, but there’s always hope.
Anyways, I was walking up this gravel road, hoping to find my turtle, Buster. I had pinpointed the location which seemed the most obvious for him to be after three years. I was just hoping I wouldn’t find his dead corpse on the road. Anyways, twenty miles away from my house, on a gravel road, I heard this truck behind me. So, I turned around, to get a good long look at the truck which would someday do stuff- I didn’t know what the stuff was, I just knew it would see more than a gravel road someday. But anyways, back to the story, I saw a silver Honda truck driving up the road, ready to run me over, so I quickly made a dramatic jump into the bushes.
After bruising a couple ribs from the rocks I had landed on, I quickly jumped up, and raced after the car, to ask if they had seen my pet turtle. Because, hey, there’s always hope… Plus, I wanted to perhaps engage in an adulty conversation of politics and tea- I don’t really know what adults talk about, I haven’t talked to them for awhile. But anyways, I ran up the road, after Silver Honda, and I quickly fall behind- because I’m very bad at running. But I persevered on. I did look for my turtle on the way up though.
Eventually, I caught up to Silver Honda, which had stopped, and some lady was busy filing her nails in the driver’s seat. She had on a business outfit, and the fancy stuff productive adults wear? But what do I see on her shirt? Blood stains! I gasped, and hid behind a bush, as I watched her file her nails. My imagination started running wild. Did she murder someone? Did she kill them with her claws? Is that why she’s filing her nails?! Because they’re actually claws!? My mind went crazy, and every question from, what is the meaning of life, to, what’s for lunch, to, is she a politician, went through my mind. At this point I started to think she had a problem.
Then, finally, the lady got out of Silver Honda. She walked with her back straight, her nose up in the air, and her high heels stepped on the gravel. All the way to the back of Silver Honda she walked like this. She opened up the back. I held in a breath. She reached into the back of the truck, and grabbed something that needs both hands. Several things with that description went through my mind: Bookshelves, chairs, sometimes really big books, a dead body!?... Or a heavy box. But anyways, while these things went through my mind, she pulled the thing out inch by inch. I exhaled a small wisp of air, since breathing is required. My limbs shook with nervous energy, and she almost has the thing out.
She pulled it out. It dropped to the ground. And it’s a dead llama…
Life is strange and cruel!
Friday, January 8, 2016
Weekend Goals
Hey! Just wanted to update you all on my progress. First of all, I did not meet last week’s goal. However, I have not missed a single day on my new project, and I’m really excited for where it’s going. Now, lo and behold, another weekend rolls around, and I must prepare for writing with no school as a distraction. Unfortunately, I will not be able to do much writing, so I will not be doing much writing. But, I still want to get one page written per day for my new project, and get done with the first chapter of Dawns Rise. Anyways, geronimo.
Saturday, January 2, 2016
Weekend Goals
Hey! Today is my first weekend goals post. If you don’t remember, I’m going to be posting these short posts every weekend. Each post will have a writing goal to get done that weekend. Anyways, this weekend, my goal is to finish getting Dawns Rise prepared, so next week I can begin the third rewrite. Ugh! Can I just say, rewrites are hard!
Friday, January 1, 2016
2016 Goals
Hey! Happy New Years everyone! 2015 has drawn to a close, and I wanted to create a list of goals for 2016 that I can hopefully get done. And just to not feel overwhelmed by all of my new goals, I've created a writing calendar to guide me along the challenges. But I'll get to that later, right now, here are my writing goals for 2016:
1. I want to have the fourth draft of Dawns Rise begun by the end of the year. I'm hoping to work on Dawns Rise everyday
2. I have a new project which was inspired by a quote I found.
The quote sparked an idea in my mind, which is that I am going to write one page a day of a story I know nothing about at the moment, and see how it turns out by the end of the year. I have purposely not thought of the project, just so I can start from scratch. The only thing I actually know of the story at this moment, are these two things (the first one will be the beginning sentence):
3. I have a short fairy tale re-telling that I've been working on recently, and I'm planning to be done with it well before the end of the year, since it's so short
4. I want to meet more people in the writing universe
And that's all I have for my writing goals, but I also have some revisions I want to make with my writing schedule. And I'm telling you all the schedule, to keep my accountable. Once a month I will have a writing weekend, where every single second of my free time I will write as much as possible. Also, every weekend I will post on here a small writing goal I want to get done that weekend- just a small one, to make sure I'm still walking along in my writing journey. Also, with my school, this blog, and my writing, I've realized I need to minimize the load on some of my projects. So, I have changed posting on here from once every week, to only once every other week. Anyways, that is all of the writing updates to know for the upcoming new year.
But my life does not all consist of writing, so I have made a few simple life goals for this year. Here it goes:
1. I want to save the world
2. Go to Mexico again
3. Write a letter to some of my favorite authors- Just because I want to
4. Read 45 books
5. Read ten books of the bible
6. Write down every good memory from this year, and put it in a jar
7. Start running or do some sort of exercise
8. Learn how to sword fight
9. Go hunting
10. Get my permit
11. Star a diary and write in it every day
12. Live!!!!
You all have a great New Years day! Allons-y!
1. I want to have the fourth draft of Dawns Rise begun by the end of the year. I'm hoping to work on Dawns Rise everyday
2. I have a new project which was inspired by a quote I found.
The quote sparked an idea in my mind, which is that I am going to write one page a day of a story I know nothing about at the moment, and see how it turns out by the end of the year. I have purposely not thought of the project, just so I can start from scratch. The only thing I actually know of the story at this moment, are these two things (the first one will be the beginning sentence):
3. I have a short fairy tale re-telling that I've been working on recently, and I'm planning to be done with it well before the end of the year, since it's so short
4. I want to meet more people in the writing universe
And that's all I have for my writing goals, but I also have some revisions I want to make with my writing schedule. And I'm telling you all the schedule, to keep my accountable. Once a month I will have a writing weekend, where every single second of my free time I will write as much as possible. Also, every weekend I will post on here a small writing goal I want to get done that weekend- just a small one, to make sure I'm still walking along in my writing journey. Also, with my school, this blog, and my writing, I've realized I need to minimize the load on some of my projects. So, I have changed posting on here from once every week, to only once every other week. Anyways, that is all of the writing updates to know for the upcoming new year.
But my life does not all consist of writing, so I have made a few simple life goals for this year. Here it goes:
1. I want to save the world
3. Write a letter to some of my favorite authors- Just because I want to
4. Read 45 books
5. Read ten books of the bible
6. Write down every good memory from this year, and put it in a jar
7. Start running or do some sort of exercise
8. Learn how to sword fight
9. Go hunting
10. Get my permit
11. Star a diary and write in it every day
12. Live!!!!
You all have a great New Years day! Allons-y!
Thursday, December 31, 2015
Burrito Fight
Addy and Thacia walked a good 20 feet head of the group. They weren’t quite sure where they were going, but everyone else was walking way too slow. Addy kept looking over her shoulder to make sure the group was still following. Everyone had been down since the fight with Talos. Percy especially; he blamed himself for Bianca’s death. Though, most of them did, because, as Addy had learned, that just happens to be what people do when someone dies. Thacia brought it up again a little bit later. “I don’t understand why they are all still sad.” she said
“I know! You’ think they’d get over it.” Addy replied.
“We already told them she wasn’t dead!” Thacia shouted, so the group believed them could hear.
“Precisely! Because people don’t die… Well, they do, but not like that… at least not the people we know, and like. It just doesn’t happen!”
“Exactly!” Thacia agreed.
They reached a river. Addy thought it was the Hudson, but she wasn’t sure, she had a horrible sense of direction. They walked along the edge, avoiding the cliff. A ways down there was a few canoes and a boathouse. Addy stood back with Thacia as Percy wrote a note and left some money. Then the rest of them climbed into the little boats. Zoe looked back and asked if they were coming, as naiads started pushing the boat. “No!” Thacia shouted, and Addy followed her to another boat.
“We’ll catch our own!” Addy shouted as they got some oars, climbed in a boat and started catching up.
The boats being pushed by naiads stated to get ahead. Addy got annoyed, but she was by no means going to have naiads push her boat. She did not like them, they didn’t like her and it was the same for Thacia. Suddenly a wind blew and Addy noticed they were starting to catch up. She looked questioningly at Thacia. “Remember, Eurus owed us a favor.” Thacia said excitedly.
Addy thought really hard, trying to place a face with the name. “Eurus. Eurus… Euuuuruuus.” she repeated in different voices, then it hit her. “Eurus! God of the east wind! Why was that so hard to remember?”
“I don’t know!!” Thacia shouted in her face, seemingly for no reason.
Not to long after they caught up, Addy saw that they were rapidly approaching the Hoover Dam. They all got out of the canoes and made their way to the entrance of the dam. Barely 20 minutes had passed, and Addy realized they were really lost, and had no visual on the other demigods. “Addy, I think we’re lost.” Thacia echoed Addy’s thoughts.
“Of course we aren’t!!” Addy replied, “I know exactly where we are!”
5 minutes later they entered the food court and saw Percy running to Thalia, Zoe, and Grover. He shoute something about skeletons. On cure the things entered from all exits. “They look like a very dead dinosaur thing.” Addy said to Thacia.
“I know! But very clean dinosaurs.” Thacia said. They laughed.
“Burrito fight!” Grover shouted.
Addy and Thacia climbed in at the same time, “Burrito fight!”
Addy stated searching for any food she could find as a full on food war broke out. Addy was having a blast. She threw food everywhere. “This is great!” Thacia shouted.
“I know! And we can’t get in trouble for starting it!” Addy shouted back.
Amidst the enjoyment, Addy almost missed their group sneaking out. Addy grabbed Thacia’s arm and then ran. “Hey! Let go!” Thacia shouted, getting her arm loose. “They’re leaving without us!” Addy yelled in her face.
Addy took the lead again as they ran outside. They made it just in time to see two giant bronze angel statues carry their friends away from a ring of skeleton warriors. Addy looked at Thacia, “These were the angel thingies Athena made for Zeus right?” she asked.
Thacia nodded, “Yup!”
“Greeeeeeat.” Addy said, very annoyed. “Well, we’ll get to San Francisco however we want.”
“Yeah! And it will be more fun!” Thacia said.
With that, Addy turned on her heel and left to think of a plan to get to San Francisco.
Monday, December 21, 2015
Read List
Earlier this fall, I made a post of the books I wanted to read over the fall, and now since it is the last day of fall, I thought I'd tell you which books I got done. So, here is the list of what I did and did not get done, for your enjoyment:
1. Forest Born-
This was the first book I read this fall, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The character was very relatable, and the plot and inner conflict was rich. Here is the description for Forest Born.
Rin is sure that something is wrong with her…something really bad. Something that is keeping her from feeling at home in the Forest homestead where she's lived all her life. Something that is keeping her from trusting herself with anyone at all. When her brother Razo returns from the city for a visit, she accompanies him to the palace, hoping that she can find peace away from home. But war has come to Bayern again, and Rin is compelled to join the queen and her closest allies—magical girls Rin thinks of as the Fire Sisters—as they venture into the Forest toward Kel, the land where someone seems to want them all dead. Many beloved Bayern characters reappear in this story, but it is Rin's own journey of discovering how to balance the good and the bad in herself that drives this compelling adventure.
2. Enchanted- Alethea Kontis
I did not get to read Enchanted, it sort of slipped out of mind. But hopefully I'll remember to read it soon.
It isn't easy being the rather overlooked and unhappy youngest sibling to sisters named for the other six days of the week. Sunday’s only comfort is writing stories, although what she writes has a terrible tendency to come true.
When Sunday meets an enchanted frog who asks about her stories, the two become friends. Soon that friendship deepens into something magical. One night Sunday kisses her frog goodbye and leaves, not realizing that her love has transformed him back into Rumbold, the crown prince of Arilland—and a man Sunday’s family despises.
The prince returns to his castle, intent on making Sunday fall in love with him as the man he is, not the frog he was. But Sunday is not so easy to woo. How can she feel such a strange, strong attraction for this prince she barely knows? And what twisted secrets lie hidden in his past—and hers?
3. Cascade- Lisa T. Bergren
Cascade I also did not get to read unfortunately.
Mom touched my underdress—a gown made six hundred years before—and her eyes widened as she rubbed the raw silk between thumb and forefinger. She turned and touched Lia’s gown. “Where did you get these clothes?”
4. Dragonwitch- Anne Elisabeth Stengle
I did get to read Dragonwitch, and it was amazing. It's my new favorite book from the Tales of Goldstone Wood series.
Who Will Dare to Face the Dragonwitch?
Submissive to her father’s will, Lady Leta of Aiven travels far to meet a prospective husband she neither knows nor loves–Lord Alistair, future king of the North Country.
But within the walls of Gaheris Castle, all is not right. Vicious night terrors plague Lord Alistair to the brink of insanity. Whispers rise from the family crypt. The reclusive castle Chronicler, Leta’s tutor and friend, possesses a secret so dangerous it could cost his life and topple the North Country into civil war.
And far away in a hidden kingdom, a fire burns atop the Temple of the Sacred Flame. Acolytes and priestesses serve their goddess to the limits of their lives and deaths. No one is safe while the Dragonwitch searches for the sword that slew her twice…and for the one person who can wield it.
5. Shadow Hand- Anne Elisabeth Stengle
I did not get to read this one, but I have it in my room, borrowed from the library, waiting to be read, so hopefully soon.
This is a tale of blood.
And love.
And the many things that lie between.
By her father's wish, Lady Daylily is betrothed to the Prince of Southlands. Not the prince she loves, handsome and dispossessed Lionheart, but his cousin, the awkward and foolish Prince Foxbrush. As her wedding day dawns, Daylily flees into the dangerous Wilderlands, her only desire to vanish from living memory.
But Foxbrush, determined to rescue his betrothed, pursues Daylily into a new world of magic and peril, a world where vicious Faerie beasts hold sway, a world invaded by a lethal parasite.
A world that is hauntingly familiar.
6. Princess of Glass- Jessica Day George
Okay, once again, I did not finish this book.
Hoping to escape the troubles in her kingdom, Princess Poppy reluctantly agrees to take part in a royal exchange program, whereby young princes and princesses travel to each other's countries in the name of better political alliances--and potential marriages. It's got the makings of a fairy tale--until a hapless servant named Eleanor is tricked by a vengeful fairy godmother into competing with Poppy for the eligible prince. Ballgowns, cinders, and enchanted glass slippers fly in this romantic and action-packed happily-ever-after quest from an author with a flair for embroidering tales in her own delightful way.
7. Palace of Stone- Shannon Hale
I did not read this book either, unfortunately.
Coming down from the mountain to a new life in the city is a thrill to Miri. She and her princess academy friends have been brought to Asland to help the future princess Britta prepare for her wedding.There, Miri also has a chance to attend school-at the Queen's Castle. But as Miri befriends students who seem sophisticated and exciting she also learns that they have some frightening plans. Torn between loyalty to the princess and her new friends' ideas, between an old love and a new crush, and between her small mountain home and the bustling city, Miri looks to find her own way in this new place.
Picking up where "Princess Academy" left off, and celebrating the joys of friendship, romance and the fate of fairy tale kingdoms, this new book delivers the completely delightful new story that fans have been waiting for.
8. Battle of the Labyrinth- Rick Riordan (re-read)
This book, I did read. For the second time! And it was just as good the second time around, as it was the first.
Percy Jackson isn't expecting freshman orientation to be any fun. But when a mysterious mortal acquaintance appears on campus, followed by demon cheerleaders, things quickly move from bad to worse.
In this fourth installment of the blockbuster series, time is running out as war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near. Even the safe haven of Camp Half-Blood grows more vulnerable by the minute as Kronos's army prepares to invade its once impenetrable borders. To stop the invasion, Percy and his demigod friends must set out on a quest through the Labyrinth - a sprawling underground world with stunning surprises at every turn.
9. The Last Olympian- Rick Riordan (re-read)
This one, I also read, and for a second time. Very mazing, very sad, very much genius, it was really good.
All year the half-bloods have been preparing for battle against the Titans, knowing the odds of a victory are grim. Kronos’s army is stronger than ever, and with every god and half-blood he recruits, the evil Titan’s power only grows.
While the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster Typhon, Kronos begins his advance on New York City, where Mount Olympus stands virtually unguarded. Now it’s up to Percy Jackson and an army of young demigods to stop the Lord of Time.
In this momentous final book in the New York Times best-selling series, the long-awaited prophecy surrounding Percy’s sixteenth birthday unfolds. And as the battle for Western civilization rages on the streets of Manhattan, Percy faces a terrifying suspicion that he may be fighting against his own fate.
10. Oregon Driver's Manual- I know, boring, right?
No, I did not get to read it, but I still have another six months before the test for my permit, so I'll be fine- but then, that's what everyone says.
11. Josh Anvil and the Gathering Storm- Bruce E. Arrington
Does it count if I started it? No? Well, yeah, never did get to finish it.
Fourteen-year-old Josh Anvil is back on Earth, having rescued his grandparents from oblivion. After his interview makes him the laughingstock of the world, he returns home to face school finals, mind-numbing nightmares, demanding FBI agents, and teacher clones. Meanwhile the Earth’s atmosphere is heating up toward Triassic period levels, and no one seems to know why.
With a new girlfriend and a promise of basketball stardom, Josh’s life seems to be getting more bearable. But is it only the calm before the storm?
12. Torn- Margaret Peterson Haddix
I did get to read this book, and it was terrific. The characters were a little bit of idiots, but it was fine besides that.
Still reeling from their experiences in Roanoke in 1600, Jonah and Katherine arrive in 1611 only moments before a mutiny on Henry Hudson’s ship in the icy waters of James Bay. But things are messed up: they’ve lost the real John Hudson, and they find what seems to be the fabled Northwest Passage—even though they are pretty sure that that route doesn’t actually exist. Will this new version of history replace the real past? Is this the end of time as we know it? With more at stake than ever before, Jonah and Katherine struggle to unravel the mysteries of 1611 and the Hudson Passage...before everything they know is lost.
13. Caught- Margaret Peterson Haddix
I also read this one, and I'm just going to leave off with the fact that it had a killer plot twist.
Jonah and Katherine are accustomed to traveling through time, but when learn they next have to return Albert Einstein’s daughter to history, they think it’s a joke—they’ve only heard of his sons. But it turns out that Albert Einstein really did have a daughter, Lieserl, whose 1902 birth and subsequent disappearance was shrouded in mystery. Lieserl was presumed to have died of scarlet fever as an infant. But when Jonah and Katherine return to the early 1900s to fix history, one of Lieserl’s parents seems to understand entirely too much about time travel and what Jonah and Katherine are doing. It’s not Lieserl’s father, either—it’s her mother, Mileva. And Mileva has no intention of letting her daughter disappear.
14. Golden Daughter- Anne Elisabeth Stengle
Suppose you should know my answer, since you know I did not read Shadow Hand. So, of course, by consequence, I did not read Golden Daughter. Someday though.
Masayi Sairu was raised to be dainty, delicate, demure . . . and deadly. She is one of the emperor’s Golden Daughters, as much a legend as she is a commodity. One day, Sairu will be contracted in marriage to a patron, whom she will secretly guard for the rest of her life.
But when she learns that a sacred Dream Walker of the temple seeks the protection of a Golden Daughter, Sairu forgoes marriage in favor of this role. Her skills are stretched to the limit, for assassins hunt in the shadows, and phantoms haunt in dreams. With only a mysterious Faerie cat and a handsome slave—possessed of his own strange abilities—to help her, can Sairu shield her new mistress from evils she can neither see nor touch?
For the Dragon is building an army of fire, and soon the heavens will burn.
15. Storm of Lightning- Richard Paul Evans
I did read this! And let me just say, I was expecting some big things in this book! It's so close to the end of the series, it's just got to be great! But I'm afraid, it was not. It was the biggest disappointment in my life, let me just say. And now, I'll leave.
Michael, Taylor, Ostin, and the rest of the Electroclan go on their most dangerous mission yet as the thrilling action continues in this electrifying fifth installment of the New York Times bestselling series!
The resistance movement has been compromised.
The Voice is in hiding.
Their families are missing.
Can the Electroclan pull together to defeat the Elgen once and for all?
So, out of fifteen books I did not read eight of them. However, I did not just read seven books this season, and then twiddle my thumbs. I ended up reading other books also, ones that I just got to faster than the others. So, here they are:
1. The Red Pyramid-
Since their mother's death, Carter and Sadie have become near strangers. While Sadie has lived with her grandparents in London, her brother has traveled the world with their father, the brilliant Egyptologist, Dr. Julius Kane.
One night, Dr. Kane brings the siblings together for a "research experiment" at the British Museum, where he hopes to set things right for his family. Instead, he unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes him to oblivion and forces the children to flee for their lives.
Soon, Sadie and Carter discover that the gods of Egypt are waking, and the worst of them —Set— has his sights on the Kanes. To stop him, the siblings embark on a dangerous journey across the globe - a quest that brings them ever closer to the truth about their family and their links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs.
2. The Throne of Fire-
Ever since the gods of Ancient Egypt were unleashed in the modern world, Carter Kane and his sister Sadie have been in trouble. As descendants of the House of Life, the Kanes have some powers at their command, but the devious gods haven't given them much time to master their skills at Brooklyn House, which has become a training ground for young magicians.
And now their most threatening enemy yet - the chaos snake Apophis - is rising. If they don't prevent him from breaking free in a few days' time, the world will come to an end. In other words, it's a typical week for the Kane family.
To have any chance of battling the Forces of Chaos, the Kanes must revive the sun god Ra. But that would be a feat more powerful than any magician has ever accomplished.
First they have to search the world for the three sections of the Book of Ra, then they have to learn how to chant its spells. Oh, and did we mention that no one knows where Ra is exactly?
Narrated in two different wisecracking voices, featuring a large cast of new and unforgettable characters, and with adventures spanning the globe, this second installment in the Kane Chronicles is nothing short of a thrill ride.
3. Waterfall (re-read)-
What do you do when your knight in shining armor lives, literally, in a different world?
Most American teenagers want a vacation in Italy, but the Betarrini sisters have spent every summer of their lives among the romantic hills with their archaelogist parents. Stuck among the rubble of the medieval castles in rural Tuscany, on yet another hot, dusty archaeological site, Gabi and Lia are bored out of their minds...until Gabi places her hand atop a handprint in an ancient tomb and finds herself in fourteenth-century Italy. And worse yet, in the middle of a fierce battle between knights of two opposing forces.
Suddenly Gabi's summer in Italy is much, much more interesting.
1. Forest Born- This was the first book I read this fall, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The character was very relatable, and the plot and inner conflict was rich. Here is the description for Forest Born.
Rin is sure that something is wrong with her…something really bad. Something that is keeping her from feeling at home in the Forest homestead where she's lived all her life. Something that is keeping her from trusting herself with anyone at all. When her brother Razo returns from the city for a visit, she accompanies him to the palace, hoping that she can find peace away from home. But war has come to Bayern again, and Rin is compelled to join the queen and her closest allies—magical girls Rin thinks of as the Fire Sisters—as they venture into the Forest toward Kel, the land where someone seems to want them all dead. Many beloved Bayern characters reappear in this story, but it is Rin's own journey of discovering how to balance the good and the bad in herself that drives this compelling adventure.
I did not get to read Enchanted, it sort of slipped out of mind. But hopefully I'll remember to read it soon.
It isn't easy being the rather overlooked and unhappy youngest sibling to sisters named for the other six days of the week. Sunday’s only comfort is writing stories, although what she writes has a terrible tendency to come true.
When Sunday meets an enchanted frog who asks about her stories, the two become friends. Soon that friendship deepens into something magical. One night Sunday kisses her frog goodbye and leaves, not realizing that her love has transformed him back into Rumbold, the crown prince of Arilland—and a man Sunday’s family despises.
The prince returns to his castle, intent on making Sunday fall in love with him as the man he is, not the frog he was. But Sunday is not so easy to woo. How can she feel such a strange, strong attraction for this prince she barely knows? And what twisted secrets lie hidden in his past—and hers?
Cascade I also did not get to read unfortunately.
Mom touched my underdress—a gown made six hundred years before—and her eyes widened as she rubbed the raw silk between thumb and forefinger. She turned and touched Lia’s gown. “Where did you get these clothes?”
Gabi knows she’s left her heart in the fourteenth century and she persuades Lia to help her to return, even though they know doing so will risk their very lives. When they arrive, weeks have passed and all of Siena longs to celebrate the heroines who turned the tide in the battle against Florence—while the Florentines will go to great lengths to see them dead.
But Marcello patiently awaits, and Gabi must decide if she’s willing to leave her family behind for good in order to give her heart to him forever.
I did get to read Dragonwitch, and it was amazing. It's my new favorite book from the Tales of Goldstone Wood series.
Who Will Dare to Face the Dragonwitch?
Submissive to her father’s will, Lady Leta of Aiven travels far to meet a prospective husband she neither knows nor loves–Lord Alistair, future king of the North Country.
But within the walls of Gaheris Castle, all is not right. Vicious night terrors plague Lord Alistair to the brink of insanity. Whispers rise from the family crypt. The reclusive castle Chronicler, Leta’s tutor and friend, possesses a secret so dangerous it could cost his life and topple the North Country into civil war.
And far away in a hidden kingdom, a fire burns atop the Temple of the Sacred Flame. Acolytes and priestesses serve their goddess to the limits of their lives and deaths. No one is safe while the Dragonwitch searches for the sword that slew her twice…and for the one person who can wield it.
5. Shadow Hand- Anne Elisabeth StengleI did not get to read this one, but I have it in my room, borrowed from the library, waiting to be read, so hopefully soon.
This is a tale of blood.
And love.
And the many things that lie between.
By her father's wish, Lady Daylily is betrothed to the Prince of Southlands. Not the prince she loves, handsome and dispossessed Lionheart, but his cousin, the awkward and foolish Prince Foxbrush. As her wedding day dawns, Daylily flees into the dangerous Wilderlands, her only desire to vanish from living memory.
But Foxbrush, determined to rescue his betrothed, pursues Daylily into a new world of magic and peril, a world where vicious Faerie beasts hold sway, a world invaded by a lethal parasite.
A world that is hauntingly familiar.
Okay, once again, I did not finish this book.
Hoping to escape the troubles in her kingdom, Princess Poppy reluctantly agrees to take part in a royal exchange program, whereby young princes and princesses travel to each other's countries in the name of better political alliances--and potential marriages. It's got the makings of a fairy tale--until a hapless servant named Eleanor is tricked by a vengeful fairy godmother into competing with Poppy for the eligible prince. Ballgowns, cinders, and enchanted glass slippers fly in this romantic and action-packed happily-ever-after quest from an author with a flair for embroidering tales in her own delightful way.
7. Palace of Stone- Shannon HaleI did not read this book either, unfortunately.
Coming down from the mountain to a new life in the city is a thrill to Miri. She and her princess academy friends have been brought to Asland to help the future princess Britta prepare for her wedding.There, Miri also has a chance to attend school-at the Queen's Castle. But as Miri befriends students who seem sophisticated and exciting she also learns that they have some frightening plans. Torn between loyalty to the princess and her new friends' ideas, between an old love and a new crush, and between her small mountain home and the bustling city, Miri looks to find her own way in this new place.
Picking up where "Princess Academy" left off, and celebrating the joys of friendship, romance and the fate of fairy tale kingdoms, this new book delivers the completely delightful new story that fans have been waiting for.
This book, I did read. For the second time! And it was just as good the second time around, as it was the first.
Percy Jackson isn't expecting freshman orientation to be any fun. But when a mysterious mortal acquaintance appears on campus, followed by demon cheerleaders, things quickly move from bad to worse.
In this fourth installment of the blockbuster series, time is running out as war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near. Even the safe haven of Camp Half-Blood grows more vulnerable by the minute as Kronos's army prepares to invade its once impenetrable borders. To stop the invasion, Percy and his demigod friends must set out on a quest through the Labyrinth - a sprawling underground world with stunning surprises at every turn.
This one, I also read, and for a second time. Very mazing, very sad, very much genius, it was really good.
All year the half-bloods have been preparing for battle against the Titans, knowing the odds of a victory are grim. Kronos’s army is stronger than ever, and with every god and half-blood he recruits, the evil Titan’s power only grows.
While the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster Typhon, Kronos begins his advance on New York City, where Mount Olympus stands virtually unguarded. Now it’s up to Percy Jackson and an army of young demigods to stop the Lord of Time.
In this momentous final book in the New York Times best-selling series, the long-awaited prophecy surrounding Percy’s sixteenth birthday unfolds. And as the battle for Western civilization rages on the streets of Manhattan, Percy faces a terrifying suspicion that he may be fighting against his own fate.
10. Oregon Driver's Manual- I know, boring, right?
No, I did not get to read it, but I still have another six months before the test for my permit, so I'll be fine- but then, that's what everyone says.
Does it count if I started it? No? Well, yeah, never did get to finish it.
Fourteen-year-old Josh Anvil is back on Earth, having rescued his grandparents from oblivion. After his interview makes him the laughingstock of the world, he returns home to face school finals, mind-numbing nightmares, demanding FBI agents, and teacher clones. Meanwhile the Earth’s atmosphere is heating up toward Triassic period levels, and no one seems to know why.
With a new girlfriend and a promise of basketball stardom, Josh’s life seems to be getting more bearable. But is it only the calm before the storm?
I did get to read this book, and it was terrific. The characters were a little bit of idiots, but it was fine besides that.
Still reeling from their experiences in Roanoke in 1600, Jonah and Katherine arrive in 1611 only moments before a mutiny on Henry Hudson’s ship in the icy waters of James Bay. But things are messed up: they’ve lost the real John Hudson, and they find what seems to be the fabled Northwest Passage—even though they are pretty sure that that route doesn’t actually exist. Will this new version of history replace the real past? Is this the end of time as we know it? With more at stake than ever before, Jonah and Katherine struggle to unravel the mysteries of 1611 and the Hudson Passage...before everything they know is lost.
I also read this one, and I'm just going to leave off with the fact that it had a killer plot twist.
Jonah and Katherine are accustomed to traveling through time, but when learn they next have to return Albert Einstein’s daughter to history, they think it’s a joke—they’ve only heard of his sons. But it turns out that Albert Einstein really did have a daughter, Lieserl, whose 1902 birth and subsequent disappearance was shrouded in mystery. Lieserl was presumed to have died of scarlet fever as an infant. But when Jonah and Katherine return to the early 1900s to fix history, one of Lieserl’s parents seems to understand entirely too much about time travel and what Jonah and Katherine are doing. It’s not Lieserl’s father, either—it’s her mother, Mileva. And Mileva has no intention of letting her daughter disappear.
Suppose you should know my answer, since you know I did not read Shadow Hand. So, of course, by consequence, I did not read Golden Daughter. Someday though.
Masayi Sairu was raised to be dainty, delicate, demure . . . and deadly. She is one of the emperor’s Golden Daughters, as much a legend as she is a commodity. One day, Sairu will be contracted in marriage to a patron, whom she will secretly guard for the rest of her life.
But when she learns that a sacred Dream Walker of the temple seeks the protection of a Golden Daughter, Sairu forgoes marriage in favor of this role. Her skills are stretched to the limit, for assassins hunt in the shadows, and phantoms haunt in dreams. With only a mysterious Faerie cat and a handsome slave—possessed of his own strange abilities—to help her, can Sairu shield her new mistress from evils she can neither see nor touch?
For the Dragon is building an army of fire, and soon the heavens will burn.
I did read this! And let me just say, I was expecting some big things in this book! It's so close to the end of the series, it's just got to be great! But I'm afraid, it was not. It was the biggest disappointment in my life, let me just say. And now, I'll leave.
Michael, Taylor, Ostin, and the rest of the Electroclan go on their most dangerous mission yet as the thrilling action continues in this electrifying fifth installment of the New York Times bestselling series!
The resistance movement has been compromised.
The Voice is in hiding.
Their families are missing.
Can the Electroclan pull together to defeat the Elgen once and for all?
So, out of fifteen books I did not read eight of them. However, I did not just read seven books this season, and then twiddle my thumbs. I ended up reading other books also, ones that I just got to faster than the others. So, here they are:
Since their mother's death, Carter and Sadie have become near strangers. While Sadie has lived with her grandparents in London, her brother has traveled the world with their father, the brilliant Egyptologist, Dr. Julius Kane.
One night, Dr. Kane brings the siblings together for a "research experiment" at the British Museum, where he hopes to set things right for his family. Instead, he unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes him to oblivion and forces the children to flee for their lives.
Soon, Sadie and Carter discover that the gods of Egypt are waking, and the worst of them —Set— has his sights on the Kanes. To stop him, the siblings embark on a dangerous journey across the globe - a quest that brings them ever closer to the truth about their family and their links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs.
2. The Throne of Fire- Ever since the gods of Ancient Egypt were unleashed in the modern world, Carter Kane and his sister Sadie have been in trouble. As descendants of the House of Life, the Kanes have some powers at their command, but the devious gods haven't given them much time to master their skills at Brooklyn House, which has become a training ground for young magicians.
And now their most threatening enemy yet - the chaos snake Apophis - is rising. If they don't prevent him from breaking free in a few days' time, the world will come to an end. In other words, it's a typical week for the Kane family.
To have any chance of battling the Forces of Chaos, the Kanes must revive the sun god Ra. But that would be a feat more powerful than any magician has ever accomplished.
First they have to search the world for the three sections of the Book of Ra, then they have to learn how to chant its spells. Oh, and did we mention that no one knows where Ra is exactly?
Narrated in two different wisecracking voices, featuring a large cast of new and unforgettable characters, and with adventures spanning the globe, this second installment in the Kane Chronicles is nothing short of a thrill ride.
3. Waterfall (re-read)-What do you do when your knight in shining armor lives, literally, in a different world?
Most American teenagers want a vacation in Italy, but the Betarrini sisters have spent every summer of their lives among the romantic hills with their archaelogist parents. Stuck among the rubble of the medieval castles in rural Tuscany, on yet another hot, dusty archaeological site, Gabi and Lia are bored out of their minds...until Gabi places her hand atop a handprint in an ancient tomb and finds herself in fourteenth-century Italy. And worse yet, in the middle of a fierce battle between knights of two opposing forces.
Suddenly Gabi's summer in Italy is much, much more interesting.
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