Monday, December 15, 2008

Hello world

Hey everyone!

Grr, I'm so mad at myself for not keeping up with the blog. Ive just been so busy and this week is finals week and I'm super stressed. So I'm sorry for not posting anything for a while.

Second (i know its a little late but...) I hope everyone had a good thanksgiving. I did! i got to spent the day in Kansas City at my uncles house with tones of great food lol. I also want to mish everyone a Merry Christmas, hope everyone is getting their holiday shopping done, because im starting to get stressed about what im getting everyone.

At the moment I and reading a biography about Anne Frank for my highschool english class, I so stressed about that because its due friday and Ive only made a dent in it so far : (. As soon as I get it done I will try to post a reciew about it. Its a very good book and im learning a lot about the beginning of WWII.

But...ONLY ONE MORE WEEK OF SCHOOL! yay! I'm so happy! cant wait till I can accually sleep in for more that 1 day. And to see all my family that I havent seen in forecer will be great too.

So im also sorry that I havent been keeping up with the newsletter, maybe once a couple more people sign up I will send another one out. So if you would like to sign up send me an e-mail (sarahsue94@yahoo.com) and I will add you to the list. The newsletter features new reviews, occiasionally a author review, and new contests. So sign up soon!

thanks for reading and supporting!
Lots of love

Sarah

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Wake : Lisa McMann

"For seventeen-year-old Janie, getting sucked into other people's dreams is getting old. Especially the falling dreams, the naked-but-nobody-notices dreams, and the sex-crazed dreams. Janie's seen enough fantasy booty to last her a lifetime.
She can't tell anybody about what she does -- they'd never believe her, or worse, they'd think she's a freak. So Janie lives on the fringe, cursed with an ability she doesn't want and can't control.


Then she falls into a gruesome nightmare, one that chills her to the bone. For the first time, Janie is more than a witness to someone else's twisted psyche. She is a participant.... "


Wake is an awsome book and in a way kinda weird one. I pulled it off the shelf thinking it was going to be this totally awsome kick butt book, but it wasnt quite that. It was a really good, you will be on your seat clear till the end wondering what crazy thing Lisa will have Janie do next. Totally cool i recommend it all the way!

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

13 Little Blue Envelopes: Maureen Johnson


"inside little blue envelope 1: are $1000 and instructions to buy a plane ticket.

in envelope 2: are directions to a specific London flat.

The note in Envelope: tells Ginny to find a starving artist.

Because of envelope 4: Ginny and a playwright/theif/bloke-about-town called Keith go to Scotland together, with somewhat disastrous - though utterly romantic - results. But will she ever see him again?" --- Back of book

Ginny Blackstone receives a mysterious little blue envelope with a cute drawn on number 1. It tells her to buy and plane ticket to London ASAP, but not before she travels to a run down greasy Chinese restaurant that her strange aunt Peg used to live in. When she goes there she gets a package with 12 more little blue envelopes. Each one leading her on another adventure across Europe. She meets new people, finds love, dreams big, and find herself in a new way that her aunt Peg was always trying to tell her. Everything Ginny new about herself will change because of these 13 little blue envelopes.

13 little blue envelopes is an amazing book, its very funny but can be very serious too. Maureen has done it again! But seriously read this book its amazing and eye opening.

Thursday, June 19, 2008

MJ interview!!!!

Okay so heres the deal. Ive just recently e-mail Maureen Johnson asking if she would do an interveiw for my blog and she said yes!!!! Im so happy.

Buuuutttt...... I have good news and bad news. The bad news is...she wont be able to do it untill Augest. The good news is its because shes working on her newest book! But we can wait, lol.

Happy Reading!
Sarah

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Thursday, June 12, 2008

The page flipper

one of my friends thepageflipper is doing awsome with her blog, she is doing so good that she made an awsome website:

thepageflipper.com

its so cool check it out!

theres a link in the picture on the sidebar so click it QUICK! theres an awsome contest going on that might end soon!!!!

The Sacrifice: Kathleen Benner Duble


At the peak on the Salem Witch Trials one family is threatened. Abigail is a fun loving 10-year-old girl who lives in the small town where everyone knows everyone. But can anyone be trusted? Young Abigail’s aunt Elizabeth is Accused of being a witch and I’m prison at Salem. Later Abigail and her sister are also denounced by her friend. As requested by there family they share the same cell and their aunt. They spend many weeks in the prison, surrounded by rats and sickness, there health crumbles and their aunt soon dies. That’s when her comes up with a plan for them to tell the judge that she is there teacher, because her mother is pregnant they cannot imprison her and Abigail and her sister are free to go. But at the Trial Abigail speaks up with what she believes in and brings this insanity to an end.


This is a very good book and is on my must read list. It teaches you a lot about the Salem Witch trails. I would advise this book for a book report or something like that.

13 Reasons Why: Jay Asher



Clays life changes when he gets a mysterious box from a unknown source. He opens it to find 7 tapes, with a story on each side. When he put the tapes in him Walkman he hear the voice of his good friend and the girl he was secretly crushing on, she had committed suicide months before. As he listens to the tapes he follows the map that was given to him with them. While on an emotional roller coaster he finds his true self and finds out so much about why Hannah killed herself.


Jay Asher is brilliant in this book, I’m not going to say its one of those page turners, you get in done in one day kind of book. Its so much more, you have to let everything soak in and really think about the story to really get what its about and understand. I would read one chapter and sit and think about it for at least and hour. Its not something that you can blow though and move on.


It’s an amazing story and it changes you input on life, you really start to think about your actions and the way you treat others after reading this book. I advise EVERYONE to read it, even if you don’t like reading books that are sad, or about suicide because that’s not what its all about, its like a setting, just there to serve as a background, the real story is between the lines and how you read it.