WE HIT 1K!!!!!!

OMG!! I just want to say how happy I am to hear that my blog hit 1,000 views (1,161 to be exact). It was one of my goals when I started this blog to at least have 1000 views by the end of the year and we achieved it.

So, I just want to say thank you to all you bookworms, for helping me achieve my goal.

You guys are AWESOME!!!!!

P.S. My next GOAL is to have at least 20 bookworms join the blog. (But, don't sweat it)

Okay, that's it I just wanted to give you guys an update. Love you guys. You guys are the bomb.

"Baby you and me, stumbling in the streets. Just singing! Singing! Singing! Midnight memories."

                                                                                                       - One Direction, Midnight Memories

LOVE,
        LEEYA

Landline

Title: Landline

Author: Rainbow Rowell

Rating:  4/5

Reading Time: 1 day

Bookworm Appeal: Marriage Problems?
                               : Contemporary Reading?
                               : Magic?
                               : Book Cameo?
                               : Sucky iphone?


It's a lot of reading.



Review

I loved it, just like all the other Rainbow Rowell books. I love how Rainbow's writing makes you feel as though you're with the characters as their story plays out on the pages. Them going through hardship and stuff while you following them from behind like the crazy stalker you are.

I love how funny Rainbow was in the book. Especially the part where Heather answer's the phone and also have you read Rainbow's dialogue.

But the reason I'm giving it a 4/5 is because of the ending. I wanted more. I wanted her to ask Neal about 1982 (is it 1982 or 1988?) and I wanted to see if they could reschedule their meeting, I want to see what happens with Seth and if Heather tells her Mom. (OMG! Reading out what I typed, I realized I'm starting to sound like Hazel from TFIOS, when she talks about wanting to know the ending for all the other characters in Imperial Affliction after Anna dies.)

I also liked how she did cameos of 2 characters from her other book.

(comment who you think the cameos are)

Summary

Georgie is 37 year old, workaholic. She's married and has 2 girls. After choosing work over the family, everything in her life goes downhill. She's given a magic phone to set things right.

I know it's short but it pretty much sums up the book.


"I'm never gonna change, I'm always gonna stay, when you call for me I'm right there."
                                                                                                                - Ariana Grande , Right There

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

For all my fellow bookworms who don't know this, the actual FIRST time I've ever read a Harry Potter book is TODAY!!! (I know, I know, I'm late. But at least I started.) I haven't watched any of the movies either.

Title: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Author: J. K. Rowling

Rating: 5/5

Reading Time: 3 - 4 hrs

Bookworm Appeal: Fantasy?
                               : Plot Twists?
                               : 3 Leads?
                               : Detention?
                               : Page Turner?

I wanted to put unicorn as an appeal but they only mentioned unicorns once or thrice.



Review

I am speechless. Which is why I'm typing this down. I hated nothing about this book. I only felt love.


I loved Hermione, Harry and Ron's relationship.I like how Harry and Ron became friends on the train, you know, instant friendship. But I also liked that they had to build their friendship with Hermione. Kind of. I love the line

" There are some things you can't share without liking each other, and knocking out a twelve foot mountain troll is one of them. "

I also like how Snape wasn't evil just misunderstood.  I also like how she sometimes shifted POVs mid page and switch it back to Harry's POV by the end of the page like during Harry's first Quidditch match.

I love the plot and I love J. K.  Rowling.

I also love that she named one of the Weasly's name Percy like in Percy Jackson and the Olymipans. #PJO #PERCABETH #HoO

Summary

I think we all know the story, even I did and I didn't read the books or watch the movies.

It's about an eleven year old boy who was left on the doorstep of his horrible (huge understatement) aunt and uncle.  He turns out to be a wizard and goes to Hogwarts. How will he cope, in a new world where he doesn't know anything about but where everybody knows him while figuring out the mysteries going on in Hogwarts.

"I think something big is happening, feel in my bones."
                                                                   - Shawn Mended,  Something Big

Sorry I'm writing this on my phone.

Fangirling over FANGIRL

Title: Fangirl

Author: Rainbow Rowell

Rating: 1000/5

Reading Time: 1 day

Bookworm Appeal: Basic Nerd?

                                  : Fangirl?

                                  : First love?

                                  : Fandom?

                                  : The TRUTH about Fangirls?

TRUTH TIME PEEPS!!!                                                           

My initial reaction after reading this book.

Review

I EFFING LOVED THIS BOOK!! (BTW I'm listening to Tay as I type) WHY??? Because it tells the honest truth about most Fangirls, Fangirls are weird. We prefer staying at home blogging, reading and watching book reviews on Booktube than going out shopping unless, of course if it's for more books. I love this book, for some people it was easy for them to detect how it was gonna end but, I was completely in the dark and that's what I loved about it.

There's this one line she says when someone accused her of being obsessive and I practically laughed my face off. (I'm exaggerating a tad...just a tad) The line was...(drumroll) "I'm just really active in the fandom." (well something along that line)

GO READ IT!

Summary

(I wasn't sure on how to summarize thisso excuse me if it's bad and u can click here to read the summary from Goodreads)

Cath/Cather is the ultimate Simon Snow fan. Being a Simon Snow fan is her life (literally, she's obsessed to Simon Snow like how I'm obsessed with The Hunger Games Trilogy) She and Wren (her sister) followed the series ever since they were kids, it was what got them through their Mother leaving them.

Reading. Rereading. Fanfic-ing (I don't think that's a word). Dressing up for the movie premieres, basically doing everything a gigantic fan does.

Even though Cath is still a hard core fan, Wren has mostly left the clutches of the fandom. Since their going to college, Wren decides that she wants to be more independent and meet new people (lame excuse to ditch your sister) and doesn't want to be roommates with her. Cath is left alone to fend for herself in a completely new world.

She's got one of those party girl (?) kinda girls for a roommate with a, always in their room, kinda cute boyfriend, a fiction writing teacher that hates dislikes fiction writing and a WWI handsome classmate that only wants to talk words...she can't stop worrying about her Dad who has never really been alone, like ever, she and her sister have always been there but now their not.

Can she do it? Can she survive?


"You watch me bleed until I can't breathe. Shaking, falling onto my knees, And now that I'm without your kisses, I'll be needing stitches"
                                                           -Shawn Mendes, Stitches  

Noughts and Crosses

Title: Noughts and Crosses

Author: Malorie Blackman

Rating:4/5

Reading Time: 1-2 days (there are 119 chapters)

Bookworm Appeal: Black and White controversy in reverse?
                               : Romance?
                               : Plot Twists? (like at least 3)
                               : Long Read?
                               : Action?
                               : Betrayal?

There's so much I added a 6th appeal.



Review

OMG!!!! After reading this book I wanted to KILL Malorie Blackman for what she did. But, being the awesome person that I am, I'm not going to tell you bookies why because I hate it when people SPOIL me AGAINST my will. I love her writing it just made me feel like the one of the characters in the story. (I used one of because she writes in both Sephy's and Callum's perspective, I loved that she did that) Go READ IT like NOOOOWWW!!!

Summary

It's the Black/White controversy in reverse, The whites are slaves and the blacks are on top but, instead of saying black and white she used Nought = White and Cross = Black. Thus the title Noughts and Crosses. It's a tragic love story about how Sephy a Cross and Callum a Nought find love and deal with loses.

Profiles

Sephy- a.k.a. Persephone (like the greek godess Persephone daughter of Demeter and wife to Hades #pjo #HoO #BoO #I'minthefandom), quirky, short sighted (as in thinking skills not her actual sight), rich, 14 (well in the beginning of the book), comes from a messed up home and LOVES CALLUM

Callum- poor, has mentally unstable siblings, Nought, family drama, serious, smart, curious, loves to learn, super sweet and most importantly LOVES SEPHY

There are huge plot twist throughout the entire book that I will allow you to enjoy finding out about through, I cried at the ending.

"Oh, misty eye of the mountain below. Keep careful watch of my brother's soul."
                                                                                                                            - Ed Sheeran, I see fire


 
CURRENTLY READING

Eleanor and Park

Eleanor & Park (VERY MINOR SPOILER)

Title: Eleanor and Park ( I wrote this three times )

Author: Rainbow Rowell

Rating: 10/5

Reading Time: 1 – 2 days

Bookworm Appeal: Romance?

                                  : Page turner?

                                  : Mystery?

                                  : Long Read?

                                  : Action?

You’ve just found it.

REVIEW

I loved the book. It was so good and also amazingly long. It took me almost 2 days to finish it and I’m a fast reader. (Then again I was kinda busy and barely read it on the 1^st day) BUT, I still categorize it as a LONG READ #longreads. It was nicely written. It’s romance and action and mystery and sadness  ( it was kinda sad but is there a genre for sad stories ) I think it is an awesome book and I’m going to read another one of Rainbow’s books, Fangirl. I think most likely the underdogs and the nerds might be able to relate to this book. (people who try to blend in or the people who are madly in love can relate to it too). There were some of the romantic parts in the book that were kind of like romantic parts in books like Pushing the Limits (Hot & Intense…).  But, even though  I usually mind when it’s written like that, this time I DIDN’T. It was that good.

SUMMARY

ELEANOR- Overweight, from a broken family, Jerks for a family, has a pervert for a stepdad, LOVES PARK

PARK- Asian, slim(?), rich, a good guy, can drive, wears eyeliner, awesome boyfriend, loves ELEANOR

Together Park and Eleanor (I know it’s Eleanor and Park but since Eleanor came first in the book title it’s only fair that Park’s name comes first in my review/summary.) make one of the SWEETEST, MOST ROMANTIC love story in HISTORY like they could beat ROMEO AND JULIET. Mystery, romance and action thrown in together (mostly romance…) to make one heck of a book.

“You and I, we don’t wanna be like them. We can make it till the end, nothing can come between you and I.”      
              -One Direction, You and I      

BTW I heard there is gonna be a second book.                                                                                                                                                                                

                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

I AM A DOUCHE

OMG!!!!!!! I am such a douche bag. I am so sorry for not keeping up with my blogging but its the fasting month where I live and guess what...I'M FASTING!!

I've also been super busy with my choral speaking and debating and keeping up with my studies so I don't flunk. But these are not very good reasons to miss almost a month of blogging. I APOLOGIZE. I'll try to put in as many reviews as I can but it won't be much.

Sorry
(Your fellow bookworm)
Leeya

"And I know you're shining down on me from heaven, like so many friends we've lost along the way and I know eventually we'll be together. One sweet day."
                                                                                             - Mariah Carey, One sweet day
                                                                                               (sorry I'm kinda into the 90's now)