So, in the haste of school, all my AP workload, many of the release date for books that I was dying to read have vanished from my mind. *sigh* This week was the first week I had gone to WalMart in a while and I went to the book section, What do I see? The Last Sacrifice. NightStar. Crescendo. I have no money :( and for Christmas I want some KPop CDs. My family is always tight on money so to get more than a couple of CDs is not very possible. Maybe in January :) For now, I am off on books except required history reading and book club books, currently The Adoration of Jenna Fox *awesome*. Also, recently I have been watching a lot of dance covers and I love this one, Hope you enjoy it ^^

Karla ^^

Hello:)
I haven't been posting anything lately, actually for months ^^
School has started and I have been OVERWHELMED.
I have discovered new things. I have become interested in new things, but I have not lost my love for reading though my time for reading has been killed . Grades for the first trimester are not what I'm accustomed to, so much so that I had to prep myself for the day that grades would be final and I would no longer have a 4.0. I don't think I was so much worried because I thought I was doomed, but I knew that it was something that people were not going to expect, and I am some one that likes to meet expectations.
I found the new stats thing interesting. I have had people view my page in South Korea, which is awesome since recently I have made South Korea a place I want to live one day; having fallen in love with KPop. I have always been one to like what most don't or don't know of, and this is no exception since very few people know of KPop, well at least around me :) I recommend it. If you not into pop music, then listen to 2AM or SM The Ballad. It's in Korean but that does not take away from its magnificence.

I will hopefully post more soon, I fell like I need to- for myself :)

Karla

Since I wasn't blogging a lot in June and I still wanted to kind of show what I thought about the books I read through June, I made this Grade Report. It's hard for me to give a rating sometimes wbecause I don't know what to base it on completely so I decided to make a score sheet. The new ratng system is up. If you click on the pictures it will link you to the books Goodreads page. Hopefully I can start bloggin and posting more soon. My summer is about to get more busy soon though. :)

Karla

So there was a lot of trailers, all amazing :)

Karla

Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1) by Cassandra Clare

August 31st 2010 by Margaret K. McElderry

From Goodreads- Magic is dangerous—but love is more dangerous still.

When sixteen-year-old Tessa Gray crosses the ocean to find her brother, her destination is England, the time is the reign of Queen Victoria, and something terrifying is waiting for her in London's Downworld, where vampires, warlocks and other supernatural folk stalk the gaslit streets. Only the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the world of demons, keep order amidst the chaos.

Kidnapped by the mysterious Dark Sisters, members of a secret organization called The Pandemonium Club, Tessa soon learns that she herself is a Downworlder with a rare ability: the power to transform, at will, into another person. What's more, the Magister, the shadowy figure who runs the Club, will stop at nothing to claim Tessa's power for his own.

Friendless and hunted, Tessa takes refuge with the Shadowhunters of the London Institute, who swear to find her brother if she will use her power to help them. She soon finds herself fascinated by—and torn between—two best friends: Jem, whose fragile beauty hides a deadly secret, and blue-eyed Will, whose caustic wit and volatile moods keep everyone in his life at arm's length...everyone, that is, but Tessa. As their search draws them deep into the heart of an arcane plot that threatens to destroy the Shadowhunters, Tessa realizes that she may need to choose between saving her brother and helping her new friends save the world...and that love may be the most dangerous magic of all.

I'm sure that a lot of people are waiting for this one. I cannot wait to read it. I loved the TMI series. It's the only series I fully own :)


Karla

HeyHiHello!
I'm sorry I haven't been posting reviews and updating very often. I haven't been able to read a lot since it's coming down to the last week of school and I've been having to read Lord of the Flies. Hopefully I get to read more this week and those following since I won't be in school. I am starting and continuing White Cat and A Clockwork Orange. This summer has a lot of work. I already went to my AP US History Mandatory meeting and I know my summer assignment and Monday I have AP Language/English meeting and I will get my summer assignment. I'm also a part of Leo Club and we have a new...person, I don't know what to call him, we are going to be doing more service projects over the summer:) I like Leo Club, I'll miss Mrs.Smith. This summer will be busy but nothing will keep me from reading the YA books I love and look forward to, which are A LOT :).
I promise to have more soon. Have an amazingly fantastic day :)


Karla

So I know this really has nothing, kind of, to do with books and such but I feel so mad about it so I wanted to just vent about it. It's kind of random but hence the name Karla's Randomness :)

So today during English, I don't know how we got the subject, the girl next to me says that her cousin who is younger than her, we're 16, is and has been doing drugs since she was 12. 12!! I know our town isn't great but that is still so young. I asked her if she has told her cousins parents and she said no because she didn't want to be a snitch. I find that very wrong and selfish. I am usually a calm person and I try to keep it that way but when I said the next thing I heard a harsh tone in my voice, I don't know if anyone else heard it though. I told her that it doesn't matter if she was a snitch. If I was in her position I would have talked to my cousin and told her parents. She replied by saying that she didn't want to be a snitch. I don't get it. Being a snitch shouldn't matter if someone close to you is putting themselves in danger. So I said, this is getting to the hole "I said...so then she said..." kind of thing isn't it?, if I were you and I hadn't told anyone and one day she gets hurt or overdoses I would blame it on me and not be able to live with myself seeing her parents in family in grief. She told me that her cousin would never overdose she isn't stupid like that. If she wasn't stupid then she wouldn't be doing drugs in the first place. That is when someone else in the group changed the subject by asking what kind of drugs her cousin did. I don't know if she knew I was getting angry or not but oh well.*sigh*
The conversation just aggravated me. It's not the first time a topic that aggravates me comes up during English. I've known this girl since elementary. I guess I believed a lot of the people I knew for a long time thought the way I thought on that subject and others like having sex as a teen, but I am terribly wrong. I just don't get it but that's a different subject. I would love to talk about it but this is already too long :). I kinda feel less jumbled up about it...thank you blogger :). What are your thoughts on drugs? What would you do?

Sorry I am posting this late but I went to my friends 17th birthday party and it was so much fun. I didn't come home 'till 11:30ish, and today is my birthday. I keep saying that because I am now 16! Yeah my friend is one year and one day older than me and me and another friend have the same birthday so yeah :).
In My Mailbox was started by The Story Siren. It’s where I post all the books I got, whether I bought/borrowed/received, that week. So here we go!

That's what I got these last two week. I got some pretty awesome book. I enjoyed Pearl Pink. :)
What did you get?


Karla

Okay so I just finished Spirit Bound and it made me really sad. I love love Adrian. His love for Rose and understanding he is. Sure he has a few problems but so what he tried to fix them for her. I love Dimitri too. He was Rose's first love which means I loved him first too but I can't help but like Adrian better. What make me so sad is thast I fell like I'm Team Jacob. You hope that Bella ends up with him but the books are about Bella&Edwards love. These books have A LOT to do with Rose and Demitri. Mostly what Rose has done in the past two books was because of him. It seems as if there is no other ending but have Dimitri and Rose be together, but I don't want that not really. I want Adrian&Rose. I don't know how that would work out because then what happens to Dimitri. I'm just so confused and I don't have anyone to talk to about this, my friend Sam reads the series but hasn't read Spirit Bound yet, so I thought I would post my thoughts here and see if I could staighted them out. I don't think it helped though because I am still confused. :/ I'll just say these last few word on the topic : I love Adrian. I love Rose. I love Dimitri. I love all the characters (except those that are e-vile). I want them to be happy but I know that no matter who ends up with who someone will get hurt...I just don't want that someone to be Adrian...but Dimitri is awesome too...I'm SO confused. ugh :/

Anyways, do you read the series?What are your thoughts on this topic?

Karla

I made some new graphics adn I wantes to share them with you. Which Teams are you on? :)

Karla

It should be called Waiting on Thursday. I didn't get to post this yesterday but I still wanted to post my Waiting on Wednesday for this week so here we go. HEADS UP: This is the third book in the series so I don't think people who haven't read the series should read it fore it will have spoilers :). I do recommend reading the series though. Hmm. I'll show you the series first. Howa about that?

The Devouring(The Devouring, #1) by Simon Holt
Summary: When Reggie finds an old journal and reads about the Vours, supernatural creatures who feast on fear and attack on the eve of the winter solstice, she assumes they are just the musings of some lunatic author. But soon, they become a terrifying reality when she begins to suspect that her timid younger brother might be one of their victims.

Risking her life and her sanity, Reggie enters a living nightmare to save the people she loves. Can she devour own her fears before they devour her?

Bone-chilling, terrifying, thrilling...what are you waiting for?





Fearscape(The Devouring, #3) by Simon Holt
Summary:The Vours: evil, demonic beings that inhabit human bodies on Sorry Night, the darkest hours of the Winter Solstice. It's been a year since Reggie first discovered the Vours, and the Winter Solstice is approaching once again. It will be another night of unspeakable horror for those unlucky enough to be taken by the Vours, because this time, she won't be able to stop them. The Vours have imprisoned Reggie in a psychiatric hospital, where she is subjected to a daily routine of unfathomably sadistic experiments. Her life is a living Hell, but she won't give up. They attacked her brother. They killed her friend. And Reggie will never stop fighting back.







I am usually not into scary stuff but I love this series. My sister just read the first one and she really like it. I cannot wait to read this one :). I love the covers too.

MUSE's Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever) from the Eclipse Soundrack, with scenes from Eclipse.

I really like this song and think Edward looks really good in the scenes. I can't wait to see Eclipse.

Karla

Summary:

My name is Chloe Saunders. I'm fifteen, and I would love to be normal.

But normal is one thing I'm not.

For one thing, I'm having these feelings for a certain antisocial werewolf and his sweet-tempered brother—who just happens to be a sorcerer—but, between you and me, I'm leaning toward the werewolf.

Not normal.

My friends and I are also on the run from an evil corporation that wants to get rid of us—permanently.

Definitely not normal.

And finally, I'm a genetically altered necro-mancer who can raise the dead, rotting corpses and all, without even trying.

As far away from normal as it gets.

My Thoughts: This book picks up right where The Awakening takes off. This book is so gripping. I started it and I couldn't put it down until I finished it. This book is full of action just like the others. The love triangle finally gets resolved in this final installment and when this certain event dealing with this said love triangle happened I just couldn't help but squeel and be uber happy, at the same time though another part that involved said love triangle happened, I cried. To put it easily, I am very happy with how the person she ends up with is, I don't think that will ruin it for anyone, seeing I didn't tell anyone I was team...yeah I am not going to tell you.
In conclusion I can not write to much about this book without spoiling part of it. This was fantastically written, set at a great place, and overall awesome. I read it in one day and kept thinking about it the next day. This book has a lot of mystery/action with just enough romance to keep me and maybe some of you others out there happy. I give the FINAL installment to The Darkest Powers Series five Stars.



Karla

Summary:All Meg has ever wanted is to get away. Away from high school. Away from her backwater town. Away from her parents who seem determined to keep her imprisoned in their dead-end lives. But one crazy evening involving a dare and forbidden railroad tracks, she goes way too far... and almost doesn't make it back.
John made a choice to stay. To enforce the rules. To serve and protect. He has nothing but contempt for what he sees as childish rebellion, and he wants to teach Meg a lesson she won't soon forget. But Meg pushes him to the limit by questioning everything he learned at the police academy. And when he pushes back, demanding to know why she won't be tied down, they will drive each other to the edge - and over...

My Thoughts:This book was amazing. It was amazing seeing the relationship grow and become real. These characters each had such grief that they never really got to show or pass or confront that they would never be able to live their lives right. John was never able to let go of what kept him in protecting the bridge. Meg was trying to live her life to the fullest, even though in the process she mught hurt herself or others. These characters push each other to their limits and on,, but allow themselves to finally find away to surpass those things that kept them from being who they could really be.
I heard a lot of great things about this book, and once I got to page 20 or so I just couldn't stop reading. I finished it that night. I would definitely recommend this to anyone. I cannot wait to read Forget You. I wanted to anyway, but now I want to more. I give this a high Five.

So today I went to WalMart to see if perchance they had Spirit Bound. I was thinking not because the only books they usually have are The Vampire Diaries Books, The Twilight Books, The Night World Books, The House of Night Books, The Immortal Series, and some other random books. Today they had way more. The first thing I noticed was that they had The Hunger Game Series, then City of Glass, then all the Vampire Academy Books...1-3. Yeah 1-3. I was not very happy. My mom said she wouldn't buy me it until next week , closer to my birthday but I was still confused. Why only have part of the series?
They also had Revelations and The Van Allen Legacy, but they had Revelations with The Vampire Academy Books so I moved them. I hope they don't get mad. Again, they only had those two in the series. Our WalMart is small, and now confusing since all the moving of stuff since the new additions and stuff.

Karla

In My Mailbox was started by The Story Siren. It’s where I post all the books I got, whether I bought/borrowed/received, that week.

So that is all I got this week.

Karla

My Thoughts:Like all the other Melissa Marr books, Radiant Shadows did not disappoint. Radiant Shadows revolves around Ani and Devlin. I was a little worried I would not get into this book because I thought it wouldn't have many of the other characters, but it did. I loved the characters. Ani was such a strong person, always longing to be part of the Hunt but never being able to because her father Gabrielle never sees her as one of the Hounds but just as a fragile little pup. Devlin is the High Court Queen's bloodied hands. Being High Court means he can't indulge can't have the emotions others can have because that would be out of order. The only times he is able to induldge and feel free is when Rae posses his body. When Ani is put in danger, she escapes with Devlin.
Throughout the journey Devlin starts to see his true self. The self that has to choose between his loyalty his queen, Sorcha, or be with the first person he has every had these feelings for. At first I didn't know how I was going to respond to Ani, but it didn't take long for me to like her. She is such a strong character and I'm sure many people can relate to her. Always looking and waiting for the acceptance and approval to be what be. One things that I love about this book is the whole aspect of family between the courts. To the Dark Court, though many cower from it, family is very important to it. Ani, Irial, Rabbit, Tish, Rabbit, Gabriel, Niall, and Seth, too, they are all so close, they're family and when something devastating happens the emotion is there. It's there in all of them, and it was overwhelming to me how much each of them felt when that wasn't very common among them.Hounds.Fey.Halflings. I don't think I can explain it well, and I am probably confusing you guys, lets just say it was good.
This book has a great story plot, along with great characters, and a fantastic writing style. One of the things that I loved about this book is the writing. I most of this book out loud because I loved how it sounded and how even if I was just reading it from the book, the emotion was there. It wasn't hard to know how each of these characters felt. The wanting, the longing, the worry, the love, the everything. I recommend reading some of this book out loud even though it might be weird for you. I cannot wait to read the next and, I believe, finale book in the series. I love Melissa Marr's writing and can't wait to see what's to come in the future from her. She has an incredible writing ability and makes it easy to love/hate her characters. This book isn't my favorite in the series but it was still really really good. I thought I would miss Keenan and Ash but this story had great characters and enough emotion and wanting and other things great things going on that I didn't need that little bit of Keenan and Ash and Seth, even though I did appreciate Seth being a part of this story :) ( I LOVE Seth :) ). I give Radiant Shadows 5 Stars. I had given it a 4.5 but then I thought aboout it and dude I really like this book. I kept thinking about something in particular and now I HAVE to read the last one to find out the truth. Goodness. Just as fantastic as the others :)


Karla

I am currently reading Radiant Shadows by Melissa Marr and like all the Wicked Lovely books the cover is beautiful so I thought this would be a special Wicked Lovely Uncovered Covers Post. I found all the covers except for Fragile Eternity. I kept looking hoping to find it but I couldn't :(. I got the other three tough :). So here we go!

I wish I had found the cover image for Fragile Eternity to complete the series but all these images are beautiful. I think my favorite is for Ink Exchange. The tattoo and wings are so beautiful. I am almost done with Radiant Shadows and I love it so far. Devlin and Ani are fantastic, and Bananach is evil. You can click on the images to get bigger images. Mark Tucker did a great job with these pictures. You can visit his website here.

Karla

I just wanted to talk about this because there are only two people I talk to this about and this morning I couldn't talk very long with one of them and then the other didn't watch it last night. Ugh. That was one the best season finales ever. When the whole Damon and Elena thing was happening my sister was saying "Yes Yes Yes", while I was saying" No No NO". I love love love Damon especially because he opened up more and just made my heart all warm inside but I love love love Stephan too. The love he has for Elena is so much and the love he has for Damon even after everything he has done warms my heart and I don't want him to be hurt, but I don't want Damon to be heart either. The scene in the kitchen had me freaking out. My sister was grossed out and I was freaking out and my brother was wierded out by both of us. I am so excited for the upcoming episodes though I don't know when. I can't make myself choose between Damon and Stephan. I think though that Elena really really really loves Stephan and that breaks my heart a little because I know Damon loves her. *sigh*
Also the whole werewolf thing serves that dude right though. I laughed when the mayor said "What are you doing here?" and then Damon says,"I'm a vampire, whats your excuse?" Made me laugh, made me laugh. It was full of greatness and left it with so many things hanging.
Yeah I LOVED it!

ps.I copied and pasted most of this from a comment I made on this post, I didn't want to tire out my fingers again :)


Karla