Thursday, April 30, 2009

Hope was Here by Joan Bauer

Hope. But her mom named her Tulip, what kinda of name is that? But she is a waitress and lives with her aunt, Addie. Her mom visits every now and then with some good waitressing tips, but that's about it. The same Christmas card every year. All that. Hope is used to moving around. But she had a great place in New York, until someone stole all their money and they had to move to Wisconsin to help. They end up going to Welcome Stairways. A diner owned by G.T Stoop. Throughout the book, Hope and Addie become a part of the town. And then G.T decides he wants to run for mayor against Eli, whose been in office already 8 years. The campaign goes on and Eli is trying to destroy G.T, whose battling leukimia. I thought thid book was def inspirational and had a great storyline. It just reelend me right in. I like reading books about small towns, and how those relationships work so much differently than in big cities. And I love how they talk about different food and everyhing haha. It's def a book you should read, just like all the ones I read right? haha

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Go Figure by Jo Edwards

Ryan is the fat girl. But so is her best friend Chelsea, so she feels some type of contentment with that. Her exboyfriend Noah turned into some national popstar! So now she's known as Noah's ex. She takes Zoloft and goes to a psychologist/psychiatrist who gives her a goal every week to accomplish. But she's so caught up in her fat. One of her other best friend Kimberlee is so gorgeous and thin. But Kimberlee knows the truth that everyone has problems. That people who are fat wanna be skinny but people who are skinny sometimes wanna be a little more full, and not be payed attention to all the time. But Ryan is fighting with herself in her senior year of high school. And what about Josh, whose been starting to talk to her more. They're both in this exclusive photography class. And Chelesea is acting weird. But this is her senior year and she's gotta live it up! I thought it was alright. I mean typical type of book. I mean I just like reading stories, sometimes they are alot similar, but it's ok with me. Haha, I kinda suck with reviews. I just like telling someone what the book is about and ya know, sometimes some books have more umph than others, but yeah. Not a waste of time though.

Poseur by Rachel Maude

Petra, Melissa, Charlotte, and Janie are all completely different. But when the new "Special Studies" makes them form some type of plan for a project, all four of theres get put together. And they don't like it at all! Their styles aren't the same and neither are there lifestyles or friends. But they soon find out that to hate is to love, and become friends, in the end. Along with the trouble of them trying to make a label, comes boy problems with Jani'es brother Jake with Charlotte and Marco and Melissa. No one life is perfect right? They end up naming their label poseur, because they want to show how its hard to always be yourself, and if finding yourself is changing around, then so be it. That's cool. I thought it was pretty good. I like stories where it's different girls. But the thingI'm confused, is why is there only 3 girls on the cover when there's the 4 main ones in the book? haha. But it was a good book. The personalities are fun to read. Maybe I'll read the second one if I come across it in the library, but won't buy it hehe.

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Huge by Sasha Paley

April saved up all her money to attend the Wellness Canyon camp, or "fat camp". While Wil, the daughter of two fitness crazed parents had no choice to go. They beocme room mates and their presence with one another is very limited. They book think Colin is hott, so they make a challenge to see who gets to him first. Wil seems to be always so negative, while April is pining to become friends with Jessica and Marci, who really aren't that fat and seem to be like the popular group there. But they found out that Colin is a jerk and plan something to get back at him. All the while they're getting to be better friends without even knowing it. They have team activities with two other guys, Paul and Dave. At the end of the summer, both have lost weight, but an incident occurs where they end up being mad at each other. But both realize in the end that they want each other as friends and forgive. Each comes out with a new best friend. I thought this was an amazing book! I loved it, like the beginning of every chapter had either April's or Wil's food and what exercises they did. I'm not really fat, but I totally have gained weight, so I like reading about other people's stories and how they deal with things, compared to myself and other people. But I like it and that picture on the cover is like damn no one could put their mouth around that! haha

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Bloom by Elizabeth Scott

Lauren has the perfect boyfriend, Dave. He's sweet, understanding, smart, has awesome parents, good at everything! And her best friend Katie is going out with Marcus, Dave's best friend. What could be better? Nothing right? But she's unhappy! And then the son of one of her dad's ex girlfriends, Evan, reappears in her life. And he's the one she's lusting after, not Dave. So she gets wrapped up into these two lives. Of being with Evan and how happy is makes her, but also with Dave because he's secure and safe. But what will shd decided to do? This was a good book! I'm not sure why it's called bloom, maybe because the last sentence his smiles blooms or something like that. But i like the cover. :] This is my book number 91!

Friday, April 24, 2009

Partiers Preferred by Randi Reisfeld

Jared is supposed to be at summer school getting his grades up, but instead he's at his uncle's house. And he finds 4 room mates to live with and pay rent to him. Lindsay, his exgirlfriend, Eliot and Nick who are coming from Michigan, and Sara from Texas. Then Naomi comes into the picture later, whose a mysterious girl who was on the streets when Sara found her. Sara and Lindsay are both trying to be come actresses and try out for the role of Cherry. Nick wants to be a male model but at his job, it's not what he thought it was. And Eliot is taking summer classes. And all of these people are living under the same roof. Of course some drama unfolds and who would have thought, an earthquake. But in the end it turns out for the better, of course. I thought it was ok. I mean, it wasn't as like fluid in the words as other books. It didn't come to me as smoothly, but I still enjoyed reading it. It was alright.