Books Review I Rated

The first book I want to share is Looking For Alaska By John Green.

So, what is this book about?

Here, I will share you the summary of it from a website. I'm not good at describe. So, sorry.

Trust me, it is a good book to read. Although at the end part is sad, yet it is still nice to read.

I've borrowed my book to my friend, Lusha. (just to remind me only, I'm forgetful)

Summary

( http://looking-for-alaska.wikispaces.com/Summary+and+Review )

Before: The novel begins introducing Miles Halter who is beginning his first year at Culver Creek High School as a junior. Miles Halter loves memorizing the last words of famous people, and is searching for "The Great Perhaps" that he concluded would lead him to a greater realization about life and help him to understand the world around him. Culver Creek High School is known for its academic rigor, illustrious pranks, and illegal actions by students. Upon arriving on campus, Miles is told by his parents not to indulge in any of the inappropriate behavior practiced by students; a foreshadow for future events in the novel. Miles then meets his roommate, Chip who has the self-titled nickname of The Colonel. The Colonel is an arrogant, stocky, incredibly intelligent, confident, natural born leader. After a brief dialogue between the two, the Colonel gives Miles the nickname of Pudge an ironic nickname because of Miles' gawky physique and lengthy stature.

The Colonel takes Pudge to meet his long time friend Alaska Young. Alaska is very attractive and Pudge begins to have feelings for her the minute he sees her. The Colonel asks Alaska for smokes, Pudge buys them for the economically troubled Colonel. The three walk to a swing by the lake and smoke together. Alaska and the Colonel tell Pudge about the killer swan in the lake.

The next day, Colonel and Pudge have their first round of classes and Pudge learns how hard the school is. Later, Alaska promises to get Pudge a girlfriend; she sets up a “triple-and-a-half-date” with Alaska, the Colonel, and Pudge with is date Lara (a foreign exchange student). After a freak accident with a fly basketball hitting Pudge and concussing him, he throws up into Lara’s lap.

Later, Pudge focuses on his studies in between taking smoking breaks with the Colonel and/or Alaska and drinking. As winter break rolls around, the Colonel and another friend, Takumi, return home for Christmas festivities. Alaska and Pudge are forced to spend more quality time together, and grow together; they become better friends. They go searching through peoples’ rooms and make a replica of Mt. St. Helens out of burnt candles. The Colonel returns to save Alaska and Pudge from a lonely Thanksgiving and gives them a great Thanksgiving feast.

Alaska is blamed for breaking the number one rule: ratting people out. But she begins to redeem herself in the eyes of the disappointed Colonel by coming up with a “pre-prank” that would act as counter-insurgency to the people who had been harassing and pranking Alaska and Pudge. The pre-prank began with the gang – Alaska, Pudge, the Colonel, Takumi, and Lara – spending the night in a barn drinking and planning for a night of adventure. Pudge and the Takumi would lure the Eagle (the nickname for the Principal) out of this house by setting off fireworks while Alaska and the Colonel change grades and add die to the bully’s hair gel. The morning after everyone feels sick from sick from the previous nights alcoholic festivities. The gang returns to their regular school life and studies as winter break comes to an end.

One night Alaska, the Colonel, and Pudge are drinking away their troubles in Pudge and Colonel’s room when Alaska mysterious leaves for a few minutes to call Jake. When she returns she is very distraught and yells at Pudge and Colonel to help her leave. Without asking questions, Pudge and Colonel distract the Eagle while Alaska leaves into the night.

After:

The next morning Pudge and Colonel are woken by the Eagle who tells them a traumatic event has happened and everyone is to gather in the gym. Upon arriving, Pudge and Colonel learn the shocking truth that Alaska died in a fatal car crash.

The tone of the book completely changes from a light-hearted coming-of-age story to a depressive death/mystery. Pudge and the Colonel exclude Takumi and Lara and go off on their on to try and investigate the mystery behind Alaska’s death. From drinking excessively to calling Jake and other people, the two are frantic to figure out the reasoning behind Alaska’s death. Pudge apologizes to Lara for excluding her, and the Colonel and Pudge also make amends with Takumi. Towards the end Takumi discloses some information that solves the puzzle. Alaska had forgotten the anniversary of her mothers’ death and felt that she had let her mother down just like she did the night that she had died. She didn’t die on purpose, just with the combination of her intoxication, and her emotional distress, her judgment was in disarray; this lead to her untimely death. Pudge and Colonel with his information can move past the grief of her death and pull off a prank that she had originally thought of. The prank consisted of hiring a male prostitute to strip on stage during a public speaking function of the school. It was the Alaska memoir prank. Pudge wrote his final paper about Alaska in religion class; Alaska will forever live on his, the Colonel’s, Lara’s, and Takumi’s memory.

The second book I want to share you is FLIRT: Lessons In Love.

This series of books are all about first love.

They describe the simple, first love.

You will love it once you read because it is all about first love. How people feels excitement when there is a guy falling for you blah blah blah.

Here is the book review I found in Google Book.

There might not be an exact science to first kisses, but Bailey’s about to experiment! This standalone addition to the Flirt series is sweet, fresh, and clean.

For fifteen-year-old high school sophomore Bailey Myers, science comes easy. But her feelings about the new boy in town, super hot Logan Morse, are a bit more complicated. For whatever reason, the newcomer’s smile makes butterflies flutter rapidly in Bailey’s stomach and causes her knees to go weak. There’s no scientific explanation for such a reaction, at least none that Bailey knows of, unless…

No, it can’t be. Bailey doesn’t get crushes. Sure, she thinks Logan’s good-looking in a jaw-dropping way, has eyes she could stare at forever, and speaks with a voice that sounds like cherubs blasting their cute little trumpets. But that’s a normal reaction, right?

And even if it wasn’t, it’s not like Bailey has a chance, not with all the other gorgeous, popular girls at their school who have Logan Morse on their radar.

But when Logan needs a science tutor and Bailey gets the job, their growing friendship begins to turn into something more, as Bailey learns that chemistry is a powerful force…

The third book is from the same series of FLIRT: Lessons In Love. This book named FLIRT Never Too Late.

So, basically, it is also about first love and first relationship.

A nice book to read too.

Book Review:

There might not be an exact science to first kisses, but Bailey’s about to experiment! This standalone addition to the Flirt series is sweet, fresh, and clean.

For fifteen-year-old high school sophomore Bailey Myers, science comes easy. But her feelings about the new boy in town, super hot Logan Morse, are a bit more complicated. For whatever reason, the newcomer’s smile makes butterflies flutter rapidly in Bailey’s stomach and causes her knees to go weak. There’s no scientific explanation for such a reaction, at least none that Bailey knows of, unless…

No, it can’t be. Bailey doesn’t get crushes. Sure, she thinks Logan’s good-looking in a jaw-dropping way, has eyes she could stare at forever, and speaks with a voice that sounds like cherubs blasting their cute little trumpets. But that’s a normal reaction, right?

And even if it wasn’t, it’s not like Bailey has a chance, not with all the other gorgeous, popular girls at their school who have Logan Morse on their radar.

But when Logan needs a science tutor and Bailey gets the job, their growing friendship begins to turn into something more, as Bailey learns that chemistry is a powerful force…

This book is a BEST for me. This book named From What I Remember by Stacy Kramer & Valerie Thomas.

I bought it last year and I never get bored of reading it over and over again. I don't know why, I just like the characters inside.

You can grab this book at Popular Bookstore or Kinokuniya Bookstore.

Book Review:

There might not be an exact science to first kisses, but Bailey’s about to experiment! This standalone addition to the Flirt series is sweet, fresh, and clean.

For fifteen-year-old high school sophomore Bailey Myers, science comes easy. But her feelings about the new boy in town, super hot Logan Morse, are a bit more complicated. For whatever reason, the newcomer’s smile makes butterflies flutter rapidly in Bailey’s stomach and causes her knees to go weak. There’s no scientific explanation for such a reaction, at least none that Bailey knows of, unless…

No, it can’t be. Bailey doesn’t get crushes. Sure, she thinks Logan’s good-looking in a jaw-dropping way, has eyes she could stare at forever, and speaks with a voice that sounds like cherubs blasting their cute little trumpets. But that’s a normal reaction, right?

And even if it wasn’t, it’s not like Bailey has a chance, not with all the other gorgeous, popular girls at their school who have Logan Morse on their radar.

But when Logan needs a science tutor and Bailey gets the job, their growing friendship begins to turn into something more, as Bailey learns that chemistry is a powerful force…

The nest book is Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.

Trust me, you will definitely want to read this book.

I will read this book because of my English assignment. So, I have to pick up one book and read and make a review of this book. Trust me, not an easy work for me. Yet, I'm feeling great to read this book. Although there is some shit happen that I can't do this book and need to read the another book which was about spiritual book. Duh. Whatever.

They have filmed this into a movie. The link is down below. You can watch the trailer here: 

You can't miss this book. It is all about love, friendships and memory.

Book Summary

The children of Hailsham House are afraid of the woods. In the days when their guardians were much stricter, the school myth goes, a boy's body was found there with its hands and feet removed. Sometimes that dark, threatening fringe of trees can cast such a shadow over the whole school that a pupil who has offended the others might be hauled out of bed in the middle of the night, forced to a window, and made to stare out at it.

When not applying peer pressure in this curious way, Hailsham children seem to have a nice life. The school places considerable emphasis on self-expression through art and, especially, on staying healthy. There are frequent, exhaustive medical check-ups. Smoking is a real crime, because of the way it can damage your body. Yet despite the care lavished on them, their world has a puzzlingly second-hand feel. Everything they own is junk. Teaching aids are rudimentary. Sometimes you get the feeling they're being taken care of on the cheap.

In fact, they are; and their fear of the woods reflects, in a distorted but fundamentally accurate way, their fate. They're organ donors, cloned to be broken up piecemeal for spares. The purpose of Hailsham is to prepare them for their future - to help instal the powerful mechanisms of self-repression and denial that will keep them steady and dependable from one donation to the next.

Never Let Me Go is the story of Kathy and Tommy and Ruth, and of the love-triangle they begin at Hailsham. Ruth is the controlling one, Tommy is the one who used to find it hard to keep his temper: they hope that love will save them. They've heard that love - or art, or both - will get you a deferral. Kathy - well, Kathy is a carer by nature as well as profession: she watches her friends break themselves against the inevitable, but never lets them go. After Hailsham, they grow from puzzled children to confused young adults. They live in a prolonged limbo, waiting for the call to donate. They're free to wander. They write essays, continue with their artwork, learn to drive, roam Britain looking for their "possibles" - the real human beings they might have been cloned from.

Their lack of understanding of the world is funny and touching. They stare into the window of an ordinary office, fascinated by the clean modern space. "It's their lunch break," Tommy says reverently of the office workers, "but they don't go out. Don't blame them either." The clones look in at the society that made them, failing to understand its simplest social and economic structures.

As readers we're in a similar position. What Kathy doesn't know, we have to guess at. This sometimes excruciating curiosity propels us along; meanwhile, Ishiguro's careful, understated narration focuses on the way young people make a life out of whatever is on offer. Nothing is more heartbreaking than received wisdom, and Hailsham students, carefully sheltered not just from any real understanding of their fate but from any real understanding of the world in which it will be acted out, have nothing else to go on.

Their sense of suspension, in a present where they neither make nor understand the rules, is pervasive. Childishly snobbish about the proprieties, they're as puzzled by what's proper as anyone else. Small fashions of behaviour come and go. Far into adulthood Kathy, Tommy and Ruth dissimulate and bicker and set teenage behavioural traps for one another.

Inevitably, it being set in an alternate Britain, in an alternate 1990s, this novel will be described as science fiction. But there's no science here. How are the clones kept alive once they've begun "donating"? Who can afford this kind of medicine, in a society the author depicts as no richer, indeed perhaps less rich, than ours?

Ishiguro's refusal to consider questions such as these forces his story into a pure rhetorical space. You read by pawing constantly at the text, turning it over in your hands, looking for some vital seam or row of rivets. Precisely how naturalistic is it supposed to be? Precisely how parabolic? Receiving no answer, you're thrown back on the obvious explanation: the novel is about its own moral position on cloning. But that position has been visited before (one thinks immediately of Michael Marshall Smith's savage 1996 offering, Spares). There's nothing new here; there's nothing all that startling; and there certainly isn't anything to argue with. Who on earth could be "for" the exploitation of human beings in this way?

Ishiguro's contribution to the cloning debate turns out to be sleight of hand, eye candy, cover for his pathological need to be subtle. So what is Never Let Me Go really about? It's about the steady erosion of hope. It's about repressing what you know, which is that in this life people fail one another, grow old and fall to pieces. It's about knowing that while you must keep calm, keeping calm won't change a thing. Beneath Kathy's flattened and lukewarm emotional landscape lies the pure volcanic turmoil, the unexpressed yet perfectly articulated, perfectly molten rage of the orphan.

By the final, grotesque revelation of what really lies ahead for Kathy and Tommy and Ruth, readers may find themselves full of an energy they don't understand and aren't quite sure how to deploy. Never Let Me Go makes you want to have sex, take drugs, run a marathon, dance - anything to convince yourself that you're more alive, more determined, more conscious, more dangerous than any of these characters.

This extraordinary and, in the end, rather frighteningly clever novel isn't about cloning, or being a clone, at all. It's about why we don't explode, why we don't just wake up one day and go sobbing and crying down the street, kicking everything to pieces out of the raw, infuriating, completely personal sense of our lives never having been what they could have been.

The next book is The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald.

You can find this book is about  aspects of class, love and sorrow.

I read this book in my English class to for the novel session. 

I will rate 9.5/10 to this book because it is a really good book. It was well described people in those years and how they was separated between rich and poor people. 

One thing I learn from this book is that never to have a high hope when something is not belongs to you. You will need to know when to let go and when to appreciate from what you have. Don't regret after you lose it because sometimes the things you lost, you will never get it back again. Gone is gone. It won't come back.

If you don't want to read it, watch it. But let me say, book is always the best than watch.

This book also filmed into a movie. You can watch the trailer here:

Book Review:

Set in 1920s America, a young Nick Caraway rekindles his relationship with his cousin Daisy. Young, selfish and rich, Daisy and Nick are far from alike, but he knows Daisy's husband, Tom, from their university days. Nick lives next to a young man named Gatsby, who is constantly throwing large and grand parties in his beautifully huge house, in which he lives alone. In a whirlwind, Nick starts to unravel the secrets behind Gatsby and his reasons for living alone.

This book series is a comic. A Japanese Anime comic named Gakuen Alice/ Alice Academy.

It was my childhood.

I have the DVD and of course the comic series.

It took me like 1 months to collect all of them except the last book I waited this January only I buy because they just launched.

For me, I love this comic/movie is because the characters. They are way way more handsome and cool.

It is about friendships. When they face any hardships, their friends will actually lend a helping hand to help instead of like I don't care. It is a little funny and crazy. 

I guess that's all for today.

Hope you like it.

Good Luck,

Blueyjerene