Cover Art Saturday: Sarah Dessen's Along for the Ride

So, the cover of the new Sarah Dessen's Along for the Ride was released recently, and like any teenage girl that reads... I am very excited for it. The cover is gorgeous like her other covers, and of course there will be some romance in the book. I love the fact that she is on the handlebars in a dress. The fact that the dress has polka dot is awesome. I also like the clear chemistry between them in their pose. I though that there might be a car on the cover(When I heard the title), but a bike is much more fitting. Also the water behind them, is gorgeous. I am so excited for June 2009.

I am going to try and post a cover every Saturday and explain why I love it. I love book covers.

In other news, I will be on antibiotics for 6th month. My IgG is from 754 to 420 in one month. My white blood cell count is up. So are my inflammation markers. That is all really bad. Good new is I don't have to get a biopsy yet.

I also chopped off my hair this week. It is somewhat even. I have bangs again. It is cute.

Peace out, Sarah.

Paper Towns by John Green

Paper Towns is an amazingly well written book. It is about a boy and girl. The boy is Quentin Jacobson and the girl is Margo Roth Spiegelman.

When they were younger, they found a body in a local park. After a late night talk about the man and his suicide, Margo and Quentin separated as friends. As Margo becomes a mystery.

It is their senior year and Margo is known for her mysterious and grand disappearances. Quentin is known for his brains. They both live in Jefferson Park, a development in Orlando and are still neighbors.

Margo comes one night for help with some pranks and also to drive her. Margo gets at her friends and Quentin has the time on his life. Not only learning more about Margo, but learning about himself. The night ends in the early hours of the next morning. In the end, Quentin thinks that maybe he finally has a chance with Margo Roth Spiegelman.

The Next morning, Quentin finds something wrong with that idea. Margo is missing.

Quentin and his friends(Ben and Radar) find clues of Margo whereabouts. Using Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass and what Margo said in the night before. The mystery is of Margo Roth Spiegelman has twist and turns.

Paper Towns is a book that will amaze you till the last word. One minute, you will be crying and the next you'll be laughing like crazy. This novel is suspenseful, hilarious, and quirky, and especially appealing to the well read teen. The characters seem like someone you could be friend with. . So if you haven't get Paper Towns now and read it. You will not be disappointed.

Oh and it has Black Santas... you will get this on page 23.

My next great idea...

I have decided to get a job at Barnes and Noble.
Reasons are:
A. It is the only book store in my area.
B. Dustbunnies are collecting in my wallet, because I won't spend any of it. I am already saving for Christmas.
My best friend pointed out that you get 30% off, which means I would save money. Also college is two years away and I will need a job to pay for that. I finally am not using my crutches as much, so this will work out if I get hired. *gulp*
I also want to start reviewing book, that is the reason that I got this blog. So, I will do one sooon.
Also, Happy Teen Read Week. This is a great week to finish your book goal of 300 books. Yay! I will post my complete list of the year on New Years Eve.
Peace out, Sarah.
P.S. John Green is in 9 days... I am beyond excited.

100 books

According to The Big Read, the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books on this list.The instructions:Look at the list and:Bold those you have read.Italicize those you intend to read.Underline the books you LOVE.Reprint this list in your own blog.
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. 1984 - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones’ Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87.Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92.The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Of the 100 books listed here, I:
Read 47
Loved 24
Intend to read 18
Also... halfway and I am not an adult yet.
Peace out, Sarah

Poetry

I have to keep a writing journal for English, this year. I decided to do mostly poems. This one is my favorie so far and untitled at the moment. I'll post one, once in a while. Tell me what you think.

The sun sparkles on my face...

In the early morning.

It makes me awake and it does that to pain, too.
Light can't take all evils away.

Hurt escapes my hip and

Moves to my back.
Dizziness comes,

Like my headaches used to.

Twisting and turning the world in circles.
I try to close my eyes and just dream.

That my life is back to what it was.

I see a lost future.

Peace out, Sarah.

School

My english is like so easy. We have to read books from a list and do questions. It is so easy... I am on book 2 of 8 that I have to do.
I have to go to Children's, again tomorrow. I spent all day there today.
Peace out, Sarah.

Stress...

School starts tommorrow and I am not ready. I can't sleep, again... which is not good.
I had an infusion today and my blood pressure was really low... so I might have to get infusion more often.
Ugh, I am on first reader program for Harper Colins, and my review was due on the 1st, but the site is down. I also have been freaking about the It group ran by Simon Pluse... because I haven't got a link for a review link... turns out they are skipping it this month.
I think I will go to bed soon.
Love, Sarah.

Also...

Sorry for the lack of posts... I will try to do it weekly or biweekly.
Love Sarah

Agh....

Summer is almost over. I don't want to go to school, yet.
I have Postional Vertigo, right now and I am in the weridest postion, trying to be undizzy.
So this summer, I went to Forks and met Stephenie Meyer...yay! I'll try to post pictures soon.
Well about Forks, it is amazing... and I want to live to on First Beach. The view is just so pretty and I love the cliffs and drift wood.
I am on book 258 for this year... so I am so pourd on myself.
I just read Nation by Terry Pratchett. It was very amazing and just a great book. It is about a boy that loses his family and everything by a wave. A girl lands on the island and they have to work through languge difference to bulid a Nation or a community.
I am reading Blind Faith by Ellen Wittlinger. I like it so far.
So, how was your summer?
Peace Out, Sarah.
P.S. I am also going to the Paper Towns tour in Seattle. It is October 29th. So if you are going leave me a comment.

Lala....

I am horrible at blogs. I had surgery, yesterday. I am so tired. Beth made me Brownies.

Yum....

Last 5 books read:

1. One whole and perfect day by Judith Clarke- This was a cute book... sort of hard to get in to.

2. Song of the Sparrow by Lisa Ann Sandell- About The Lady of the Shallot and her living in the camp with the Arthur's Round-table. It is very amazing and has alot of welsh folklore

3. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards- About the life of twins. One is born with Down Syndrome, the father delivered them. He decides to send her away with the nurse. It is really good and I suck at explaining.

4. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart- About Frankie that gets her dream boyfriend. She learns that he is in a secert organization. She decide to do something to prove her self. It is very funny and witty.

5. The Carlyles by Cecily Von Zeigesar- New gossip girl... enough said.

I'll try to be more frequent.

Peace out, Sarah.