Merry ((LATE)) Christmas!

Hey guys!

Sorry about posting late, I figured that everyone was spending time with their families, as was I, hence the absence of an update. As far as book-type things, I received two brand new books, the Doctor Who OFFICIAL Quiz Book ((snazzy, right?)) and from the Lovely Brandi I received my very own copy of Paper Towns. I also was gifted with Lindsey Stirling's Shatter Me album. Best thing I've listened to in ages. I spent a lot of time with my grandparents yesterday. I went to nana's house and baked for about five hours, and somewhere in those five hours I managed to start a new book!

The book I am currently reading is Prodigy by Marie Lu, the second book in the Legend trilogy. Legend last summer, and thoroughly enjoyed this. It has been a very easy read so far, I am hoping to have it finished either today or tomorrow. This is a dystopian series, in this book it is in a way similar to the Hunger Games trilogy yet there are more differences than there are similarities. Since I feel I may explode and blurt out spoilers, I thought I would give you Goodreads' perspective on the book. You can find the link to the Goodreads page for this book here.
I read

"Injured and on the run, it has been seven days since June and Day barely escaped Los Angeles and the Republic with their lives. Day is believed dead having lost his own brother to an execution squad who thought they were assassinating him. June is now the Republic's most wanted traitor. Desperate for help, they turn to the Patriots - a vigilante rebel group sworn to bring down the Republic. But can they trust them or have they unwittingly become pawns in the most terrifying of political games?"

It's been far too long since we've heard anything from our audience. What were your favorite parts of the holiday season? Any thoughts on how un-Christmasy things felt this year? Book recommendations? Anything? Let us know you're alive out there.

Anyways. I have some farm-type chores to be doing, and a family christmas to attend soon, so this is where I leave you. Remember what I said about commenting. Play nice with the other children.

Until next time,

~ Josh

Late Night Blogging

Hey guys!

So, I'm really sorry Brandi and I haven't been very active for the past few months. We've been very busy, but I'll give you guys a short run down of what has been going through my life recently.

1. Junior Year - As some of you may know, it is rumoured that junior year in high school is the most stressful year out of the four years in school. I am here to put those rumours to rest. Junior year has been by far the most stressful year in my eleven years of education. Between my dual credit courses, regular classes, and extracurricular, I am finding I have far too many things to do with very little time. I haven't read many books lately, besides Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter for my American Lit class, I haven't had time to do the reading thing.
2. ACT's and College-Type Things Alike - Another lovely benefit to being a junior, is that you should probably start applying to colleges, taking ACT's, SAT's, filing out job job applications so you can have money for said college applications, it get's to be a bit much.
3. Holiday Things - Yes, 'tis the season. The time period between Thanksgiving and Christmas has been living hell. See reasons above. ^^
4. Relationships - Lately I've been realising that in about five months, nearly all of my friends ((including the Lovely Brandi)) will be graduating high school, and some will be off to start their first year in college. So I've been dedicating a lot of time to hang out with these people before they leave me. Deal with it. I have also been busy with my private relationship lately, because my parental units aren't exactly savvy with the whole idea of me having a significant other.
5. Other News - Right after Thanksgiving, I received a call from my mother in which my mother told me my grandmother had cancer.... again. I've been going over to her house whenever I can, spending time with her. She finished her last radiation treatment last Wednesday, and I was ecstatic. I still go over to her house after my night courses on Wednesdays, and we'll sit around, drink coffee, and talk about the world.
6. Work-Type Things - Woooooot. I've been an assistant DJ at Select Entertainments for a while now. Moving up the echeladder. Money for college. Wooooooot.

This is how the past few months of my life have gone. As you can see, there hasn't been much time for reading. However, Christmas Break starts on Tuesday, and I plan to read four books before the end of 2014 so I can complete my reading challenge for this year.  This has only been my past few months, lord knows what Brandi is going through, with her seniority and all. 

Look forward to a few book reviews relatively soon, and I will see you all later. 

Until next time,

~ Josh

My Books Are Ashamed of Me, But Gabriel Still Loves Me...Maybe

THE FOLLOWING MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS OF SEASON 5 OF SUPERNATURAL, AS WELL AS INTENSE FANGIRLING OVER A CHARACTER.

VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED. 

Dear Josh,

Today is Monday, October 6th and I think we ought to give our lovely audience a little update, don't you think?

Let's start off with me, and then continue with me, shall we?

Basically, I've gotten nothing I've talked about in the last entry accomplished. I have absolutely nothing done when it comes to reading; I haven't picked up a book in god knows how long. Right now, The Book Thief and Pilgrim at Tinker Creek sit in various places, mocking me for my inability to find any motivation to read. The MSPA link I have saved just kinda glares at me and shakes his head, ashamed with my lack of effort.

Because of school and all of that fun stuff, I haven't had any time to update things not only on here but on other places, so tonight (since I've had a break from the homework), I've decided to update some things. I've posted things on deviantART, and now I'm posting a thing here. As far as social networking goes, this is the most accomplished I've felt in a long time. Yay semi-productivity.

Right now, I am currently in the midst of writing three fan fic requests which I have been doing instead of reading, but I'm hoping to get some reading done here soon-ish. Like, during Thanksgiving break. That's a good time to read.

Not only that, but I'm also working out my Gabriel cosplay for tomorrow. For those of you who don't know him, he's the one sassy archangel in Supernatural who's like 5'4" and made of sunshine, sarcasm, sugar and perfection.

For those of you who still don't know, I have visuals.

Look at him.

Look at this babe.

Gabriel the Baberiel

He's such a dork I can't even

Gabriel stahp I don't want the readers to see me
aggressively fangirl over you. I have an image to uphold.

You better be.

Aaaaanyway, I may post pictures of my cosplay on here. I haven't quite decided that yet. It just kinda depends on how well it turns out and whether or not I have the motivation to post them.

I really don't know what the point of this entry was. I guess I wanted to let you know that I wasn't forgetting about you guys? Or maybe it was to reaffirm your belief that I am a lazy little shit? Maybe I was just bored and needed to pass the time? Maybe I just needed to have an excuse to fangirl over a cutie patootie with a hella rad booty? Maybe the faces of adorkable angels makes me feel better about things? I dunno...but I'm sensing a lot of it has to do with the last two options.

Whatever the reason is, I hope you enjoyed this little update, and hopefully His Imperial Condescension will update soon.

(You thought I forgot about that little nickname, didn't you, Josh?)

Anywho, I'm gonna go and...fangirl about derps and probably sleep a little bit.

As always...



Live Long and Prosper, and DFTBA.

(Not Quite) Tiny Chickens and Ideas for Future Entries

Dear Josh,

Basically me throughout the week, to be honest

Today is Wednesday, September 10th and recently I have been battling a bout of Tiny Chicken Disease that was so unlike any case of Tiny Chicken Disease I have ever had to deal with. So much so, in fact, that I don't think that it even qualifies as Tiny Chicken Disease.

It started out as a headache and neck pains, specifically on the left side just below the base of the head, and then it escalated into sinus-y stuff and coughing and it was just overall really gross. I kinda thought I was going to die at one point, to be honest.

But I'm better now, to an extent. I still have the headaches and the sinus issues, but at least I don't feel like I'm on the verge of leaving this planet in the most unpleasant, unfortunate, and unwarranted ways possible.

But enough about my chickens. Time to talk about the main-ish point of this post.

I've been thinking a little about what I've been wanting to do here, and I kinda thought I'd run it by you guys first and see what you think.

Firstly, I thought about posting a sort of...collaborative summary of the novel/series of essays/book/etc. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard. Just to kind of touch on the main points and the main themes, and maybe do a post for each chapter. This book is becoming a big deal now that National Academic Decathlon has started up, and I think it would be nice for people to have a resource to help study the material. Either that, or I thought about making a PowerPoint for something. I really haven't decided.

Secondly, I've been learning a lot about the history of our language and where a lot of our words are derived, and I thought it would be pretty neat to do little posts that focused on that. Like one post a month or so do a post that mentioned where certain words come from. Or I could do a little sidebar thing that has something like that. Again, I kinda have to ask Josh about it first. This is just kind of a brainstorm post.

Thirdly, I realize that if I do run out of things to post, I could do what I occasionally did...do...on my random fandom blog and post stories and fan fictions and stuff that I've written. It probably won't be for a while, but I figured if I need to post something and it's been a while I could do something with that.

This was kind of just a brainstorm post, and I'm sorry if I wasted all of your time. I'm just trying to get a general idea of what I can do with this blog, and what Josh and I can do to improve people's blogging/reading experience.

If you have any thoughts about my blogging, or ideas on how to improve it, feel free to leave a comment and I'll get around it and take it under consideration. So yeah, until next time, I guess.

Live Long and Prosper, and DFTBA.

Rebuilding an Empire

AS WE CAN ALL SEE, THE LOVELY BRANDI HAS RETURNED, SNARKY, AND SARCASTIC AS EVER.

Beginning with the shoutyness...

I shall now apologise for my douchemuffinry with a few gifs, in order of what I felt while reading that quite well deserved post.

Then progression to a new title ((whoot whoot))

Then shameless self-promotion..

And then a final conclusion...

In conclusion...

A) I apologise for my douchemuffinery

B) I am ecstatic to have Brandi posting again ^-^

C) There was a C, but I forgot what it was.

Until next time,

~Josh

For His Imperial Condescension

Dear Josh,

Today is Tuesday, September 2nd, and I have been informed that you and everyone else have missed my presence on this blog.

Well, less informed. More like shouted at:

See? See what I have to go through?

He's so inconsiderate.

So yeah. I figured I should probably write something, despite the fact that I think Josh's emails were incredibly exaggerated and rather annoying. But anyway, I owe you all an explanation...

The truth is that I haven't been reading a lot recently, and I feel a bit bad posting stuff on a reading blog if I haven't been reading. I've been busy with schoolwork and I just haven't felt motivated to read in a while. However, when I find enough time I'm going to be starting The Book Thief, so kindly recommended by His Imperial Condescension.

That's your new title now, Josh. I hope your happy.

But I have been using a lot of my time to write stuffs, and blog on other blogs that are not this one.

That's right. I'm going to use this post for shameless promoting.

Josh, when you get shouty at me.
You get to watch me use this space for advertisement.

Specifically, I'm going to use it to promote Adorabloodthirsty Fan Fictions, my fan fic blog that has been existence for a few months. Recently (about a month or so ago) one of my fan fictions called The Unseen Genius, a Crowley/Reader story, was posted on Supernatural Imagines. You may have read it, you may not have. The point is, I have written more stories after that, so if you want to read those, you can. I have also been taking requests for people. So far, most of them have been Supernatural related, but I do have a few Homestuck stories and a Doctor Who story on there as well. I have a list of fandoms that I'll write about on the sidebar...thing, and if you have any questions feel free to ask them.

Though, I should warn you, it may take a little while for you request, but I promise I will get it done...eventually.

So let's recap...

1. I am now referring to Josh as His Imperial Condescension, because of his comments and overall rudeness towards me not getting around to writing a post.
2. I will be reading The Book Thief soon, though I am not sure if I'll post a review of it. I might, so that way you get two viewpoints on it.
3. I may or may not use my posts to spite Josh if he should make me upset.
4. I have a fan fic blog, which you can ask for stuff and I may write it, if you ask nicely.
5. I'll try to update soon, it just might not be as frequent as it was before, because unlike Josh I'm actually busy with schoolwork and stuff.

I'm sorry for the overall snarkiness of this post. I promise they won't be as angry...unless His Imperial Condescension decides to pull this stunt again.

Until next time...

Live Long and Prosper, and DFTBA.

Slackers, Procrastinators, and Brandi's ((Which Are All The Same Thing))

Hello all!

Today is September second, and I feel a very ranty rant coming on right about..... now.

As we all know, I have been sending the Lovely Brandi multiple emails about the intolerable crime of blog neglect ((view exhibits A and B below))

Exhibit A

Exhibit B

Yes. I have been trying. But she does not listen. She apologises, and then conTINUES HER CRIMES AGAINST THE INTERNET.

In the meantime...

I have started to read Cassandra Clare's City of Glass, and from what I can tell so far, I cannot wait to finish this book. Anyways. This was just a quick post, I should stop ignoring my U.S. History teacher and do something productive.

Until next time,

~ Josh

Good Morning Internet/TTTC

6:21 AM

Good Morning Brandi,

Today is august twentieth, and I finally started another book.

Not by free will, but the thought counts, right?

Yesterday, my American Lit class started and we were assigned a book that has been on my list for quite a while, ((as you can see, I don't go in the chronological order that I worked so hard to put in order for no apparent reason)) and I am truly thrilled to read this book.

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien.

I haven't got too far in this book, but I already love how it is written, though, I have been warned that the writing style completely changes. So, we'll see how this pans out.

What truly amazes me is that the first chapter was simply a short story, and it won a freaking Pulitzer Prise.

That's just. Freaking. Nuts. And I believe it too, looking at the details that were so carefully written in.

I am ecstatic to finish this book, and I plan to do so sometime in the near future. 9/10 would continue reading. The tenth got into a misfortunate........ accident.


Well, it's now 6:35, and I have to be leaving soon. So. Be good.

My little soldiers, I hope you shall be brave in my absence. Mommy will be home soon.

I love you guys. Stay cool.

~ Josh

So Let it Begin/Ender's Game

Hello Brandi,

Today is August eighteenth, and a few things have happened since we last spoke.

9:18 AM

A) I have done a fuckton of reading
B) I reorganised my bookshelf
C) I haven't been able to talk to my matesprit human for a week and a half OnO
D) School started, and I'm currently sitting in a meeting, slacking off.



3:52 PM

Well. That was fun.

I've found The Fault in Our Stars online, so I might be gone for a while, crying.


10:59 PM

I'm back, and doing stuff as always. It's been a hella long day guys. I'll try to get the Lovely Brandi to post tomorrow, if not, then I can always post, even though my entries are dull and missing humour. I should really go to bed. I'm exhausted. I should just start doing book things now.

And the thing is doing the not lining up thing again. I need to learn how to do this. Anyways. I finished up Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game.

Let's talk about it.

I was slightly frustrated at how Ender's character was portrayed, because he was simply a nine year old boy, yet had an extraordinarily advanced thought process, as well as Val, Peter, and any of the other adolescent figures in this book. While that is only a small detail, I was getting hung up on how Ender hated himself and his life so much, and honestly, I was quite depressed reading this, because he's nine. Nine year olds aren't supposed to hate their lives, their supposed to hate vegetables. I really did like the idea of this book, I will have to complete the series. The ending confused me a bit, I'm going to have to go over it again.

Eight out of ten would read again. 

Anyways. It's getting late, and it's a school night. I need sleep.

My little soldiers, I hope you shall be brave in my absence. Mommy will be home soon.

I love you guys. Stay cool.

Goodnight,
~ Josh

Hellos, Goodbyes, and a Very (Un)Happy Blogger

Dear Brandi,

Today is August 9th, and I leave for CCC camp tomorrow.

This is just a quick little update from me. I've had a good day, climbed around on the roof a bit, watched a ton of AoS, and cried a lot (due to AoS.) I did read, though I didn't finish Ender's Game. I also read a bit of Bo Burnham's Egghead. I was a bit disappointed not to see the Lovely Brandi post today, I'm afraid I'll have to pester her about that later. But yes, this is the last you'll hear from me until the 18th. I'm gonna try a new little signature, see how it fits.

My little soldiers, I hope you shall be brave in my absence. Mommy will be home soon.

I love you guys. Stay cool.

~ Josh

Bout of Books 11.0

I told you you would be hearing from me again.

It's that time again!!

Bout of Books 11.0 starts on the 18th! Go register your book-loving booties, it's a good time. I have found Bout of Books motivating me to tackle my list, and I got a lot done a few BoBs ago. I am ridiculously excited, I hope you all do it, I love it. I'm also trying to get the Lovely Brandi to register as well, but she may take some convincing, considering school shall be starting soon. anyways. I'll paste the blurb and put the buttony thing in and stop pestering you.

The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda @ On a Book Bender and Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, August 18th and runs through Sunday, August 24th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure, and the only reading competition is between you and your usual number of books read in a week. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 11 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team

Remember, play nice, share your toys, buckle your seat belts, don't drink and drive, don't drive with anyone who has been drinking, and don't do anything too illegal.


With love,

~ Josh

SUMMER HAS FINALLY ENDED/BOOK REVIEWS

Dear Brandi,

Today is August eighth, and I now realise the title of this post is a complete lie. There is still a week left of summer.

What I meant was, I have a laptop, and I can now blog. I've missed you guys. I've missed constantly checking the pageviews. And most of all, I've missed writing the Lovely Brandi.

So, let me fill you all in.

I missed the hell out of the blog. I really missed my school issued laptop. I didn't tackle The List like I thought I was going to, but we'll speak of that later. Did a lot of traveling. Lucky me, I get to go on vacation this Sunday!


Story time!
Many many moons ago, my youngest (at the time) sister, Kaylee, had cancer. Twice. Both extraordinarily rare to be seen in children. Both times required vigorous weeks of chemotherapy, needles and pinpricks, tests, the whole nine yards. Flash forward. One day, we learn a tiny little organization that at the time went by the name The Heart Connection discovered us. Long story short, the organization changed it's name to the Children's Cancer Connection ((Or CCC)).

Each summer, the CCC will rent out the YMCA Camp for two weeks during the summer, one for the children who had cancer, and another for the siblings of the children who had cancer. I'm trying to make a long story short. As you can see, I'm horrid at that. So I get to go to summer camp this week.

Oh, and it's in a freaking valley. Which means no internet. Which makes me feel like this. All. Week.

Now. Back to business.

I read some books guys!! I haven't exactly been following The List in order, but by what I have on my shelf.

About a week ago, I read Cassandra Clare's City of Bones.

Yes. Finally. I broke open the box set. I did it. 

I can confidently say that this is one of my favorite books. Cassandra wrote this phenomenally, the idea itself is brilliant. Shadowhunters, Idris, the constant not knowing. It's lovely. 9 out of 10 would recommend. The tenth, well, let's say he got into a little accident. *snickers*

This week, I also finished the second book in the series, City of Ashes.

Okay. I don't know why the text suddenly decided to go next to the image. Whatever. Just roll with it.

I thought this book was a rough follow-up to City of Bones. Nonetheless, this is still a fantastic book, but it had a great shadow to live up to. ((If I don't even get the slightest chuckle out of one of you for making a shadow pun while we're talking about books in which the characters are Shadowhunters, I will find each and every one of you, and I will shake your hand, for the last time I thought I was funny, the end was near. "Orange you glad I didn't say shut the fuck up?" "Hi hungry, I'm that guy who doesn't give a shit." 

Those were dark days.))

A lot of this book was dialogue. I enjoyed it, but I've heard a lot of people have given it up for that reason. 8 of 10 would recommend.

And finally, I started Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game.

Okay, this one is doing the thing too. It works. 

I'm a little more than half way finished with this book. And all I have to say, is this. If you have not read this, drop everything you're doing and read it. Not the movie before the book, oh no, that's cheating!

From what I've read, this book is just amazing. Definitely number one on my favorites list. I can't wait to finish this book. I'm assuming a very emotional feelsy feels feeling book review will be coming your way soon, as I plan to finish this book today, and start Cassandra's City of Glass. If I'm feeling adventurous, I may finish that and begin City of Fallen Angels, then take City of Lost Souls to CCC. I'll update you guys next time around the 18th, this post was meant to be posted last night, but I managed to pull an all nighter procrastinating it and am just now publishing. So. Yeah. 

So, as a summary....

A) I miss you guys and promise to get back into blogging when school starts ((the 18th))

B) I'm asking you guys for any book recommendations, if you have any you enjoyed, or that you think the Lovely Brandi or I would enjoy, or just a generally good book, drop it in the comments below :)

C) I won't be blogging at all for the next week or so, I may update again today, just for the hell of it, because I feel terrifically horrible for abandoning you all summer

D) I apologise for the ridiculously long post. It's cause I missed you!!!!

E) There is no E section of the list, I just like lists.

See you all the 18th!!

Remember, play nice, share your toys, buckle your seat belts, don't drink and drive, don't drive with anyone who has been drinking, and don't do anything too illegal.

With love,

~ Josh

Welcome to Another Installment of: I Don't Know What To Post Today

Dear Josh,

Today is Tuesday, May 27 and I am starting to remember run out of quick, interesting posts to put on this blog.

Then again, none of my posts so far have been interesting.

So I'm just going to make this an update as to how the posting is going to work, since I already missed the 221 pageview mark to comment on and make this post all Sherlocky and stuff. Mmkay? Mmkay.

As most of you are aware, there was a point in time where we messed up the posting schedule. So now, we're fixing that. Yesterday counted as Friend Josh's day, today is mine, and the rest of the days will continue in the same pattern as they have. This means that Friend Josh's day is tomorrow, mine is Thursday, his is Friday, etc. etc. etc. you all get the point.

So yeah. Much change. Many difference. Such wow.

*SARCASM*

Sorry for the lack of an interesting post. It's late, I'm kinda sleepy, and I really don't feel like writing a very detailed post today, ya know? I promise come next week it'll be more detailed and fun times and less updates and boring times. Okay?

Anyway, until next time...



Live Long and Prosper, and DFTBA.

I'M SO SO SORRY

Hello my lovelies, Mummy is home.

I am so sorry for not posting for the past couple of days. I have really been putting this off. I haven't been on my computer for the past few days, and I apologize. We really messed up this schedule. Ever since my birthday stuff has just been weird and busy, with my parents' wedding coming up this weekend, I've been so busy. Hella busy. I honestly feel really bad for not posting. I love you guys so much, it means a lot looking at our view count, seeing that it is now over two hundred views. I'm sure the Lovely Brandi is absolutely ecstatic about that.

Anyways, since my birthday thing happened last Wednesday, I has monies. Well. Had. I bought some books. I would share them with you guys, but it's 11, and for the past four days I have been running on two consecutive hours of sleep, and I have school in the morning. So I think I'm going to go write friend Colin an email and send him his playlist, and then go to bed.

In conclusion,

*Please, Internet Gods, forgive me, a poor, miserable procrastinator, for all my neglecting to this blog
*Pat yourselves on the back for helping us get to 200 views (Now only if we had that many followers.. GO)
* Friend Colin is only Friend, not anything more
*Seriously, round of applause for you guys
*This really isn't a conclusion, is it?
*Okay, that's enough with the god damned bullets

Remember, play nice, share your toys, buckle your seat belts, don't drink and drive, don't drive with anyone who has been drinking, and don't do anything too illegal.

~Josh

I Have Failed You

D-->Warning, the following contains some e%ceptionally STRONG and 100d language, so trot at your own risk.

Dear Josh,

Today is Saturday, May 24, and we done diddly fucked up the posting schedule.

I know we've been neglecting this blog for the few days now, and we really need to stop that. But we've been busy, so I'm going to add a thing to compensate for that.

So yeah. Enough of that neglecting. Stahp that.

Hopefully our scheduling will get back to the way it was before. They keyword in that phrase being hopefully. I know my schedule should clear up a little, so I got time to do things. I'm also planning on posting a book review of The Great Gatsby soon...I just have to start reading it...which I will before Tuesday.

Sorry for the really short post. I'll hope to have something interesting by Monday.



Live Long and Prosper, and DFTBA.

Happy Early Wriggling Day, Friend

Dear Josh,

Today is Tuesday, May 20th, and getting down with the sickness isn't nearly as fun as what songs make it out to be.

I was planning on reading a little tonight, but when I got home I managed to take a nap.

A four hour long nap.

I never take naps like that. If I do, it's usually an hour, maybe an hour and a half tops. But with this...whatever the hell kind of sickness that I'm fighting, I managed to sleep for four hours. I'm not sure whether I should be proud of that fact or not.

But anyways, enough about me. This post is about you.

Not you, darling readers, but to my lovely partner in crime, Josh. For you see...tomorrow is his birthday!!!!!

 

I was going to do something rather special today before I left school that he would have found tomorrow morning, which involved a few passive-aggressive sticky notes and his gift which I will not reveal to you gorgeous readers until Thursday, in order to keep the gift a secrety secret of secrecy for Friend Josh.

I think I might have to do something else for his wriggling day, though. I just haven't decided what I'm going to do yet.

So yeah. Happy Wriggling Day, Friend Josh! I will see you on Thursday.

In fact, I will see you all on Thursday. And, as always....

Live Long and Prosper, and DFTBA.

The Scorch Trials

Hello Brandi, today is May 19th, and I'm taking my post back.

I had a really intelligent blog post idea earlier today, but I did not write it down, and I forgot it. So maybe I'll rant about algebra for a little bit. Because well. Math sucks. I guess I could talk about my new book, but I haven't even started it. Oh well.

The next book on my list is The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. I have heard nothing but fantastic things about this book, and I can't wait to start it. Whoot whoot.

Some of you may be wondering "Oh, I thought he was going to read the Maze Runner trilogy..?" (Please, at least act like you are thinking that, for my sake, okay?) Well I'm going to tell you all a thing. In my personal opinion, James Dashner isn't the best author. I barely made it to chapter seven of The Scorch Trials. That's right. Only 40 pages. I broke the 50 page rule. Whoops.

Sorry for the short post, but it's 11:30 and I need to go use the sleep, so I'm gonna go.

Remember, play nice, share your toys, buckle your seat belts, don't drink and drive, don't drive with anyone who has been drinking, and don't do anything too illegal.

~Josh

Allegiant

Dear Josh,

Today is Monday, May 19, and I am going interrupt your blogging day by substituting a post of my own. You can having back when I'm through.

Why am I doing this, you ask?

Well, today I am going to post my first book review!! Huzzah!

Why am I posting this so early, you might ask again? (Jeez, you guys are nosey.) The answer, my darling readers (and Josh) is that I am sick at home. Not-so-much huzzah...

Anyways, as I mentioned yesterday I finally finished Allegiant. I managed to get most of it done before I graduation-open-house hopped with friends (and Josh). Then we went to see Captain America: The Winter Soldier (which I may post a review of on my other blog Live. Laugh. NERD!), and I got home around 10:30. Throughout this whole time, I was battling a sore throat which made my day not as fun as I would have liked it to have been. Finally, I managed to pick up the book again at 11:42 and finish it at 11:52...ish. Which isn't too bad, all things considered.

Now that the circumstances of me finishing the book are out of the way, time for the review.

I wouldn't say that this is the strongest book in the series. I was about halfway through when I put it down, and it was really hard for me to pick it back up again, and I (by some miracle) wasn't exposed to any other spoiler besides the fact that the ending would make me cry.

And that's the only spoiler I'm really going to expose you to, and I'm not going to write a synapsis because y'all need to read the first two books for this to make some sense.

When you first start reading, you find out that the book is written in alternating POV between Tris and Four, which is something I really liked about the novel. It was nice getting to see things from Four's perspective, and it's not too often you see something like that.

When I did manage to pick it up again, I don't think I was as into it as I was when I first started. And the hardest part for me as I was trying to finish it were the fact that Tris and Four were kind of making me mad, and by kind of I mean very much so. I think that was the most difficult thing to get past for me; the fact that the characters are really pretty bad at using their words.

It really started to pick up again at the ending, however, and I had almost cried when I read the part where *CENSORED FOR THE SPOILER*.

Almost.

So yeah, it wasn't the strongest in the trilogy, since it didn't really didn't keep my attention. However, at the same time, I think it was one of the strongest in the trilogy in the sense that it's unlike anything I've seen before. The alternating point of view and the way the book ended was something that you really don't see in a lot of book series nowadays, and it was actually fun to read...all things considered.

I think I would give it a 8.5/10 would recommend.

I think that's all I have to say on the matter without spoiling anything.

Friend Josh, I hope you don't mind me posting on your day. You can have it back now.

As always, my lovely readers (and Josh),



Live Long and Prosper, and DFTBA.

I FINALLY FINISHED IT.

Dear Josh,

Today is Sunday, May 18, and I HAVE FINALLY FINISHED ALLEGIANT. *pulls the string to all of the champagne poppers currently in existence*

I ended up reading until noon, then hanging out with friends (including the Wonderful Josh) and after seeing Captain America: The Winter Soldier (OH MY GOD THAT WAS AN AMAZING MOVIE) I ended up finishing the last little bit about...two minutes ago?

Anyway, I'll most likely post a review about it tomorrow (I really don't have the time for one tonight). I'm sorry that this is a short post, but I really ought to go to bed since 1) I'm not feeling the best 2) It's almost midnight and I won't be able to upload anything after midnight.

So yeah. Hopefully there will be a review tomorrow, despite it being Josh's day to update.

Until tomorrow, my lovelies.



Live Long and Prosper, and DFTBA.

Graduation/ Maze Runner

Hello Brandi, today is Saturday, May 17th, and today was a pretty awesome day.

Let's start with yesterday. Friend Megan let me borrow her knives, so now I have some real throwing knives. Well. Temporarily. They throw fairly well, I started throwing this morning. I like them. She might not be getting them back >:D

Built a fence for the calves today, now they have a pasture. Calves were happy. Much excite. Such wow.
The fence building was extremely simple, but took too much time. Then I was home alone. Threw some more knives. Watched some NCIS. Ate some ramen. Spaced walking the fences. Ran the fences. Got back inside. Showered. Was half dressed when the Lovely Brandi showed up at my house, for today was graduation reception day. Put pants on. Ran out the door. The Lovely Brandi has a kickass mother. Just saying. Ate some food at graduation things. Brandi almost got shanked when I volunteered her for a hug. Not kidding.








Now. Time for an update. Bout of Books 10. Page count 375. I accomplished one book this week, basically because I had to power through this one. Yes. Some of you may understand my pain.

That's right. James Dashner's The Maze Runner. This book took me the whole week. It was hard to power through this. It was just so confusing, and a bit complex. The ending was kinda awesome, which gives most people the sense that the whole book was awesome, but you have to hang in there. I have to read the rest of the series, because I read the first book. *sighs*

I would give this book a 6/10. Some things were just a bit too complex where they didn't need to be, and I found the storyline a bit boring. That might just be me though. 3/10 would not recommend.

Well guys, I gotta go to bed. Today has been a pretty good day. Until Monday my darlings.




Remember, play nice, share your toys, buckle your seat belts, don't drink and drive, don't drive with anyone who has been drinking, and don't do anything too illegal.

~Josh

Pointless Update

Dear Josh,

Today is Friday, May 16–er…Saturday, May 17, and this is going to be a really short post.

Because I'm kind of in the middle of an online game of Cards Against Humanity.

Tomorrow I'm hoping to catch up on my reading and such. Like, that is my main day for reading. Like, my plan for tomorrow is mainly reading.

And taking this really weird kid to a few of his graduation parties. ;)

But yeah. I'm also planning on printing off my reading list soon so I know where I'm at on it.

Today has not been a really productive day.

I'm sorry. I'll try to make a better post next time. Hopefully I'll have a book review on here soon.

You can still post for tomorrow, we'll just count this as Friday's post.

So…yeah. Sorry for BSing my way through this post. I'll make it up to you guys. I promise.

Until next time!

Live Long and Prosper, and DFTBA.

Sharp Thingys

Hello Brandi, today is Thursday, May 15th, and I like sharp things.

Today, I learned a very very valuable skill.

Yes. That's right.




I learned how to throw motherfucking knives.

It all started this morning in biology class, when good friend Megan reminded me her birthday was a thing, and started bombarding me with links from websites, all leading to throwing axes and throwing stars and throwing knives, and throwing things. A plethora of things. So many things. Enough things that she made me want to start throwing sharp things. And then what did she do for the rest of the day?

She sent me more sharp pointy things on the internet. So I came home. Found some 2x4's and a few wood pallets and some cheap plywood. Found some nails. Put the thing together. And suddenly I have a target. Great.

So I found a chef's knife, just laying outside. How could I not take it? After watching a lot of youtube videos, I was prepared. Then the handle on my knife broke. Luckily, it was only the plastic.

So now I have a balanced knife, and I can successfully stick the knife. Yeah!!

The knife throwing thing is actually really stress relieving. I think this is all I'm going to do this weekend besides attend graduation receptions.

Now. The Readathon.... Uhhh.... Yeah.... About that...

I've started!!
I just... haven't accomplished anything. Too many distractions *cough cough throwing knives cough*

So. Yeah. That's all for today. If you guys wanna learn, here is the YouTube series that really helped me learn. Speaking of YouTube, I have been realising why I love Christina Grimmie so much. I found her before she was on the Voice, and now my bby's all grown up. Check her out, will you?


Episode 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrBUB7_y_6U


Episode 2 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhEzY_QzyhA

Episode 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdKfEepHmNQ

Episode 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzbrIhwGLQM

Remember, play nice, share your toys, buckle your seat belts, don't drink and drive, don't drive with anyone who has been drinking, and don't do anything too illegal.

See you Saturday!!

~Josh

Let's Pretend That This Is Something Important And Interesting

Dear Josh,

Today is Wednesday, May 14, and I was going to do a really cool and interesting post and stuff for today about books and shipping and all of that fun stuff.

Unfortunately, I waited too long, so I don't think I'm going to do that tonight.

Instead, I'm going to do a quick update on how the Bout of Books is going.

*shuffles papers* *dramatically clears throat* I...have not started yet.

It's okay, Dean. I'm not too proud of myself, either.

I know, I know! I'm sorry, okay? I've just been busy with homework and getting stuff done for classes that I've been putting it off.

It's just not good enough.

My plan is to get some reading in tonight, and hopefully read Allegiant enough to either a) finish it or b) get to a point where I can finish it in, like, thirty minutes to an hour.

After that, I'll move on to The Great Gatsby, because I checked it out from the library a while ago and I didn't read it when we were in class I need to hand it back in.

Then, before Friday, I'll check out Eleanor and Park and The Book Thief from the library (if they'll let me) and at least get through one, if not both, of those books by the end of the Bout of Books.

I also have Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck I have to read for class, so hopefully that will make up for my lack of participation in the Bout of Books.

I know, it's ambitious considering how well I've been doing recently, but I promise I will participate!!

It's just that these Read-A-Thons are falling at inconvenient times. Teachers (for some reason) find the need to pile on the work towards the end of the year, not to mention giant ass projects are due...and it's really hard to find time to do these things. I don't think Read-A-Thons are my motivation to read. Then again, I don't think that's fair to say, since I've never actually participated thoroughly in a Read-A-Thon. *shrugs* Maybe this time will be different.

I hope it is. Otherwise I will feel bad.

ANYWAY. I'M GOING TO GO BEFORE I MAKE EVERYONE SAD.

This was just kind of an update, I guess. Friday I'll do something worthwhile and interesting. I pwomise.

Until next time, kiddos.



Live Long and Prosper, and DFTBA.

Internet VS Books **FIGHT!!**

Hello Brandi, today is Tuesday, May 13th, and I'm also participating in Bout Of Books.

This week, The Lovely Brandi and I will be participating in another readathon, and today we are determined to make our TBR (To Be Read) lists for the week, as well as organize our all time TBR list. Because well, we've been a bit out of order. Eleanor and Park and the Book Thief just kind of barged right on in on my TBR list, that was so rude of them. Assholes.

This week, I will be reading The Maze Runner by James Dashner, as well as The Scorch Trials. I was going to throw The Death Cure in there, but I don't think I could finish all of that this week. Maybe. It's completely possible. That's only if I don't get distracted by the interwebs. This is going to take some willpower. Those are the two books I have as primary goals this week, I really don't want to add more books, because then if I don't get them done I'll feel bad. If I do end up finishing them, I'll have to find myself a copy of Pawn by Aimee Carter, and get my hands on that. Because books. And that's the first on my newly organized list. I'm proud of myself, organizing that took me like an hour. Never. Again. So far, I am on page 160 of 375 in The Maze Runner, starting off my page count for the week at 160 pages. I hope to have a lot more by tomorrow, I'm going to try and finish this tonight. This is my first short blog post update thingy, I kinda like it! Maybe more to come? Who knows??

Tune in on Thursday to find out!!

Remember, play nice, share your toys, buckle your seat belts, don't drink and drive, don't drive with anyone who has been drinking, and don't do anything too illegal.

Until then!
~Josh

The DA VS The Books: Bout of Books 10

Dear Josh,

Today is Monday, May 12th, and 1) I'm glad to hear that you, Spectacular Josh, had a wonderful time on your band trip 2) despite this knowledge, I'm taking my blogging day back and 3) I'm concerned as to what you're planning on getting me into.

What is this thing of which I speak?

The Bout of Books Read-A-Thon. That is what this thing is.

As I have stated before, my track record for Read-A-Thons have gotten off to a shaky start. I wasn't really strict with the last Read-A-Thon (what with school and things), but you have asked me to participate and I will try my hardest and by bestest to do the thing this time.

Plus, friend Josh have our own, 24 hour Read-A-Thon on Saturday, so that should help.

What is the Bout of Books? Well, thanks to the official blurb they have on the website, I don't have to come up with a better way to explain this...

The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda @ On a Book Bender and Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, May 12th and runs through Sunday, May 18th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure, and the only reading competition is between you and your usual number of books read in a week. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 10 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team

 So yeah. I don't really know what my goals are for this. I guess one of my goals is to at least finish Allegiant, and maybe start and finish Eleanor and Park and The Book Thief. And then maybe I can pick up a few other books. I know I have a few Doctor Who and Supernatural books I need to read.

Okay, I might be getting ahead of myself.

The point is, this is my official entry post. I am participating in The Bout of Books, and I will not let you down.

Hopefully by tomorrow, the posts will start getting back to normal...if there was ever a normal pattern with this blog to begin with.

As always, my dear readers...and Josh,



Live Long and Prosper, and DFTBA.

Worlds of Fun, Kansas City

Good afternoon Brandi, today is Monday, May 12th, and I want to make up for my missed blog, so I'm kidnapping yours. Deal with it.

This weekend I went to Kansas City with our concert band. This was the Festival of Music at Worlds of fun. Our band always has this little problem. State Large Group Competition happens to be on the same weekend as the Festival. So, we leave the school at 8 AM. Preform. Choir people do the choir thing. For all of you that don't know, a 1 is the best rating you can get. There are almost always three judges for your performance. It's extremely rare for a concert band to get straight ones at competition. Especially if you are being judged by old fashioned judges. So what do we do? We get straight ones. 

Leave the competition. Go back to the school. Scramble to get on another bus. Throw your shit in the undercarriage and hurry your ass onto the bus. Go to Winstead's. Stuff your face with some awesome food. Go to the hotel. Swim. Get stomach cramps. Regret swimming. Go upstairs. Go back downstairs. Buy macaroni and cheese. Go back upstairs. Tolerate the playful harassment of your roommates for eating macaroni and cheese at midnight. Try to sleep. Drink a liter of Dr. Pepper. Try to sleep. Throw your book across the room to get your roommates to get up. Freak out as you are suddenly at the bottom of a pile of humans. Flail around a bit. Hit someone on the head with your empty liter Dr. Pepper bottle. Crawl back to your sleeping spot. See a sketchy prison bus drop someone off outside your hotel. Retreat to your fuzzy TARDIS blanket. Finally fall asleep at 2 AM. 

Wake up at 6. Fight over who showers first. Iron concert clothes. Frantically pack shit. Get dressed. Walk out the door. Walk back in. Put pants on. Walk back out. Dash downstairs, there's food down there. Eat some gross donut thing. Drink some bad coffee. Go back to your room. Apologize to the book you threw. Drink half a liter of Coke. Shower. Hide a pillow in the fridge. Pack more stuff. Read book. Have emotion. Realise you have 5 minutes before the bus leaves. Frantically frantic. Fall down a flight of stairs. Forget your half liter of Coke in the fridge. Throw your stuff on the bus. Wrinkle freshly ironed concert clothes. Take a nap. Wake up. You're at the gates. Check out the park for a little bit. Go on the Patriot four times in a row. Check the time. Panic. Sprint back to the bus, ten minutes before warmup. Take migraine medicine. Migraine intensifies. Drink water. Practice with migraine. Walk into the air conditioned auditorium. Hell. Fucking. Yes.

Perform. Do good. Walk out. Be nervous about the rating. Go ride the Mamba three consecutive times in a row. Find a group of friends. Go buy food. Wait impatiently. Complain your order was lost. Wait another thirty minutes for food. Get food. Eat two chicken strips and some fries. Listen to friend get phone call. Cry. Throw away food. Sprint to the auditorium. Burst into the doors. Cry some more. Hug the first person you see. Hug everyone in a 45 foot radius. Hold Sweepstakes trophy, as well as 1st Place trophy.

 Cry. Take more pictures. Cry some more. Group hug. Take a victory lap around the park. Stop for victory ice cream. Continue victory lap. Go to the bus. Find the bus is locked. Impatiently call the band director. Hold trophies. Cry. Walk back to the park. Hand trophies off to director. Find out we got straight ones, which is almost impossible at a national competition. Cry some more. Get a phone call. Get congratulated by a French horn player form the Canadian Brass, one of the best brass trios in the world. Cry. Ride some more rides. Say goodbye to the park. Get on the bus. Get your ass kicked in chess by your computer 24 consecutive times. Eat some McDonalds. Get back on the bus. Take a nap. Freak out because you're in a tornado warning. Get to the drop-off. Grab shit. Run to the car. Drive home. Eat some ramen. Text everyone in the band. Make sure they're all home okay. Watch the weather. Don't go to sleep til 2 because you're too busy trying to figure out if this is real.

We can say it was a good trip. My first thought when we got Sweepstakes was "We're gonna need a bigger trophy case." For those of you who don't understand, the Festival is a national competition that is open, in which +50 bands competed in, from 8 different states. and we have gone for the past three years. The first year, we received 2nd place in our class. Last year, we received 1st in our class. And this year, we received 1st in our class, and Sweepstakes. Sweepstakes means that we won the whole damn thing. And we received straight ones. Most bands are lucky to walk away with one trophy. We walk away with two. And a little plaque. That's right. We got a plaque. Jelly?

Seriously, I just read all of that. God. If you made it this far, you are determined. Good job. If any of you were there, I love you. Sorry for this long post. I thought it would be cool to tell you guys since I mentioned it earlier in my Eleanor and Park blog. If you guys want to check out the award ceremony, or a few pictures, there's a link to our school website below. 

http://www.southhardin.k12.ia.us/WOF/wof_band.html

Well. This has been fun. Good talk. 

Remember, play nice, share your toys, buckle your seat belts, don't drink and drive, don't drive with anyone who has been drinking, and don't do anything too illegal.

See you tomorrow!!

SURPRISE, B*TCH. BET YOU THOUGHT YOU'D SEEN THE LAST OF ME.

Dear Josh,

Today is Sunday, May 11 and I thought I would surprise you all with a surprise post of surpriseness.

Or, in other words, I'm do not think that that Friend Josh will be able to preform his vlogging duties today.

But no matter.

Tonight, I will be the Josh. It's me.

Anways, I don't think I'm going to be able to complete the Read-A-Thon as I had promised. I did stay up until two last night reading, and I now have about a fourth of the book left. Okay, maybe a little over a third. So hopefully, despite my failure at completing this Read-A-Thon because I'm a total f***a** (I'm censoring my words now to make up for my last post where I swore a s***ton), I will write a book review sometime this week.

The keyword, of course, is hopefully.

After this one...I don't know where I'm going to start next as far as books go. I think I might either start up the LoTR again, or read Eleanor and Park, as per Friend Josh's request. I'll most likely read Eleanor and Park, otherwise I'll never hear the end of it.

I'm sorry, but I think this is going to be a really short post. I hope you guys can forgive me.

And I'm not sorry about taking over your posting day, Josh.

Okay I'm a little sorry.

Maybe more than a little.

Anyway, whether you are Josh and I took over your posting day, or whether you are one of the lovely readers out there who had to read through this really short, rather meaningless post...

And, as always...

Live Long and Prosper, and DFTBA.

I Am Really Bad At Read-A-Thons

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING CONTAINS SOME RATHER FOUL AND VULGER LANGUAGE, AND GIFS. VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.

Dear Josh,

Today is Saturday, May 10, and today I thought I would have a little time to read and possibly finish Allegiant and participate in this week long Read-A-Thon that I said I would do with you.

I was wrong. So very, very wrong.

I woke up this morning knowing that my bro was graduating from college today (*sassy Dolorosa voice** hella proud of dat little bitch right there!), and as per usual I dressed in the most classiest attire I was willing to find this morning: jeans and a t-shirt.

Once I was dressed and fed, I piled in the car with my mom and my dad and we headed off to the graduation...thing. During this time, I was stupid and forgot to bring my book, so I read a lot of fan fiction on the way on my phone. For a moment, I thought I ran out of data, but I think I'm still safe in that department for now. At least, I was not sent the nice little text message saying "YO FUCKASS. YOU'RE ALMOST OUT OF MINUTES. SLOW THE FUCK DOWN, NOOKSNIFFER."

Karkat is the phone. It's him.

Once we got to the ceremony, there was a lot of sitting around and listening to people talk (as per usual) and then my bro got his diploma...or rather, a piece of paper saying that he will get his diploma in the mail once all of the grades are entered into the system. And after commencement, there were cookies and punch in a adjacent building.

Needless to say, I was all up and in those cookies.

After that, we decided to run a few errands and then come home, where I spent all of the afternoon up till now cleaning for a little celebration of sorts. Which will mainly consist of me watching Supernatural with my cousin for a good deal of the night.

Anyway, I will try and read a little tonight while everyone's gone...even if it means staying up until 2 in the morning to get a fourth of it done, and staying up until 2 in the morning Sunday night to finish it, since I have homework that I really need to get done.

So yeah. I guess that's about it.

For those of you who were offended by my language in this post...

I look forward to seeing your post on Sunday, darling Josh, and I hope you have fun this weekend. Don't do anything I wouldn't do, and if you do...take pictures.

Until then, my lovelies..


Live Long and Prosper, and DFTBA.




**Sassy Dolorosa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4Vu4LHgfZg

Hero or Not?

Hello Brandi, today is Thursday, May 9th, and I have a ranty rant.

WARNING : NERDINESS MAY OCCUR. CONTINUE AT OWN RISK

Hero or Not?

The difference between heroes and superheroes. Some people can't begin to understand. Let's kick this off.

Spiderman is a superhero, because he has an unnatural mutation/power, just because he isn't rich doesn't mean he isn't a superhero. Unlike Batman or Iron Man, he is a true superhero. I'm not saying that Batman and Iron Man aren't heroes, they're just not superheroes. A superhero is an individual that has some sort of power, and unnatural ability or mutation. I argue that Batman and Iron Man are not superheroes. They're just a few rich guys that could probably buy away all their problems, kind of like Oprah.

Another misconception. Thor is most definitely not a superhero. Some argue that since Marvel created him as a character, that he is a superhero, but this is not the case. Thor is a god, and the idea of him has been around longer than Marvel can even begin to imagine. Just because he runs around saving everyone's asses doesn't mean that he's a superhero. Hero? Yes. Definitely. There are multiple other heroes and superheroes I could rant about, but I assume you're all tired of me. Kudos to you if you actually read this far.




I lied. More superheroes. Maybe some villains. Shitstorm headed your way, man the hatches.

What makes a super villain different than any other super villain? It should be the same concept, right? Since there is a lack of true super villains, I'll just throw a few of the common ones out there.

Red Skull. This is a tough call, given his past. Originally, he did have superhuman-like abilities, but lost those when he was doing all this lovely body borrowing. He had telekinetic powers, but now it seems as if he has been downgraded to a regular old villain. The recession hit us pretty hard.






Aaaand I'm back. Went to Iowa Falls. Lost my train of thought. Bought some stuff. Got mum some flowers. And a garden thing. Happy Mother's day mum, even though you don't read this. I hope you all have a great weekend.


Remember, play nice, share your toys, buckle your seat belts, don't drink and drive, don't drive with anyone who has been drinking, and don't do anything too illegal.

Until Sunday!!

~Josh

Eleanor and Park

Hello Brandi, today is May 8th, and I am having extreme emotions.

I know you already updated today and we were going to alternate and such whatnot, but I couldn't resist as to blog this because my heart hurts and I just can't. (Also, surprise!! 2 blogs in one day. From 2 people. I hope your little hearts can handle this craziness.)

Eleanor and Park, by Rainbow Rowell. This book. Let me tell you. I fell in love with all the characters, this was fantastically written. No character was portrayed as a "perfect" person. Each and every one had flaws, and that's what made this book amazing. This is not an everyday YA Romance book. I want everyone to read this.

The year is 1986. Walkmans and comic books were still cool. Not that they ever stopped. Or at least, I don't think so. Sex Pistols, The Smiths, Echo and the Bunnymen. The cool stuffs. Yeah. Park is just your average everyday high schooler, when one day some silly ginger shows up. Silly ginger. Thinking she can sit anywhere on a public school bus. God, what a weirdo. Who the hell does she think she is?

Park, being the good human he is, allows her to sit with him, while he just ignores her and goes back to reading his comics. This becomes a daily routine. Suddenly, Park is letting Eleanor borrow his comics and he is making her mix tapes, this book was just too damn cute. The adorabubbles were intoxicating. And it kept getting worse. I recommend this to anyone who is looking for a good read. It's only 325 pages, so it's not too much to tackle. If I can do it, you can too! But in all seriousness. Get out your lists, and put this on there. 10/10 would definitely reread.

But yeah. That was my day. Now it's time to actually read The Maze Runner and The Scorch Trails because those are on my TBR, and they've been on my list for long enough. I'll get started on that tonight, maybe tomorrow. I haven't really slept because books. Books. Consuming my life.... Well, not like I really had one anyways. Today's been a pretty good day, I just can't wait to start my next books. I bought three more online, Trapped by Michael Northrop, and The Shadows of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, and Eon by Alison Goodman. Impatiently waiting, even thought I just ordered them. But yeah. This was fun.

Remember, play nice, share your toys, buckle your seat belts, don't drink and drive, don't drive with anyone who has been drinking, and don't do anything too illegal.

Stay awesome.

~Josh