So, many
people may ask why everyone is so crazy about this book. Of course, not all
right. But, I’m one of the fans. At first, I saw many people read this book and
they said it is a good book. I don’t know in which way they mean good. Recently,
my friend told me that John Green’s books are nice. So, I went to bookstores
and try to find this book, badly, they said sold out. One day, I saw they have
this so called John Green’s collection. Of course, TFIOS is included. Without any
thought, I bought it. I just bought it. I never read the review of the books or
what. I just bought all of them.
In the
previous post, I had written one of the books from the collection named Looking
for Alaska. Trust me, it is a must read. So, this TFIOS is one of them. I’m
kind of curious why this book always sold out so fast! Like fucking fast.
Every night I will read one chapter before I sleep
since I started to read the book. I feel the excitement before I start to read
a new chapter. I still on my way.
The story is narrated by a
sixteen-year-old cancer patient named Hazel, who is forced by her parents to
attend a support group, where she subsequently meets and falls in love with the
seventeen-year-old Augustus Waters, an ex-basketball player and amputee.
The movie
is coming soon. So, I shared a trailer of this movie. It's COMING SOON!!!!
Besides,
you can find some of the famous sentences and words in the book. So, here are
they. Haha. You can find them in somewhere in the book and hopefully in the
film.
Seriously, I love this couple so much!
Ansel Elgort is so handsome and he is just 20 years old! Haha! May be I still have hope ? Kekeke... (wicked smile). Shailene Woodley also a pretty girl. I watched her first film was Divergent. A good film too. Probably not her first film. I mean I first watch her in a film is that.
They both have attractive smile. Don't you think so. <3 I LOVE THEMM!!
I'm so freaking excited! Can't wait it to be show in cinema!!!
By the way, their soundtrack also sound freaking nice! You will definitely want to listen second time, third time ........ billions! I downloaded the official songs from YouTube just because I can plug to my TV and play them in a big screen! Woohooo!!
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.
Last
Friday, I went to have tea time with my friends. We decided to eat at a place
that we never visit before. So, there is a dessert shop named Kula Cakes where they sell different
types of cakes. One of the most MUST TRY
is their Mango Cheesecake. Their Mango
Cheesecake tastes fabulous. I can’t stop eating once I eat it! Like seriously.
I very love their cheesecake. I can be said that I’m craving for it every time
when I feel like I wanna eat dessert. Trust me, you must try! For drinks, you MUST try their Pandan Cooler. It is made from pandan. They
will add those little tiny seeds which is very good for health. Thumbs up!
Next round,
we went to Starbucks. They have a deal
which every Friday, they have 50% discount at every Frappuccino. So, of course, we can’t
miss out. It’s fucking cheap! For a large drinks and it costs only RM7, CAN’T
MISS IT! My all-time favorite and the only drinks at Starbucks is Special Made:
Vanilla Frappuccino. My trademark drinks. Every time I order,
people will ask “What’s that white drink?” Haha!
We had like
a small gathering together because I meet my secondary school’s friends. They are
at Starbucks too. So, we decided to sit together and crazy again. The weather
out there is super-hot, so, nobody is willing to sit outside. We are the one
who kind of crazy to sit under the sun without complaining. We chat, we selfie
and we talk non-sense. Of course, I met 2 new friends from friends of mine. It was
a really good time spending together.
All of a
sudden, I miss everything in secondary school.
I have a
lot of great memories with my friends from primary until high school, even
until now.
Times fly
back to the time when I was entering secondary from primary school. I’m just a
little girl who doesn't know a lot of things even the simplest BM I also not
very good. That school was a girl school and everything were in either English
and BM. Mostly is BM of course. I am an Chinese primary graduate, so of course
my BM doesn't really that fluent compared to Malays. It was very hard for me to
study at a totally different study environment. So, I was very lonely at the
very beginning.
After some
weeks, finally, I find some friends who are speaking mandarin just like me; I was
feeling so happy that time. All of us are new students who came from different
f schools. It was a new study environment which we need to meet new friends,
new teachers and new part of life. Within the years study together, we did help
each other a lot. It means that we are getting closer and closer.
We were
spending great times together. We did laugh together and sometimes argue
together. Life just can’t live without some arguing. Arguing makes we grow. Times
fly. One thing that we don’t need to care in girls school is that our sitting
position. Girls school of course don’t have guys which means we can sit like a
boss we want or just slap butt together. Who cares right? We don’t care and
nobody care in that school. After PE, we just change clothes in class.
Every
single memory in high school, I still remember in my mind. Of course, not
everything, my memory isn't that good, so mostly I remember. In class, we were always like having a small
picnic. We brought foods from home and shares in class. We eat Maggi, Nasi
Lemak and etc in class. It was prohibited of course, yet we still do. I mean
against the law. Life is boring if you don’t break some laws. I mean school
laws, not the country’s laws. It is a small case in school. We don’t really
bother much that time. In Add Maths class, obviously, most of us didn't listen
to what the teacher says because most of us don’t know the shit about the
teacher said. He is too smart until we don’t understand every shit he said to
us.
Meanwhile,
the noises we made are not the scolding or arguing sound, most of the time is
our laughing sounds. We do have loud laughing sounds especially me. I was known
as a big laughter. Everyone knows it. For me, if we can laugh, we laugh. For someone
in this world, they may not have this opportunity of laugh. So, laugh whenever
you feel to. That’s you. Don’t bother what others judge you. Sometimes, in
class, we can just like laugh all of a sudden without reason. You know who you
are. Yes, YOU! I hate the most is that when the teachers want us to change
place. I really dislike it. So, we do have our own seats in different class. Yet,
we still changed a lot of seats.
Now, all of
us have grown up. Some of us are in college, in university and in Form 6. We have
our own life to live. I somehow miss the time. We can have our freedom to do
whatever we want to. We study together, be rude to teacher together (not very),
lunch together, selfie together and eat in class together and so on. We don’t
have to worry so many things. Now, you need to worry your career, your future
study and your future. The matter is that whether we want or not, is because we
must! Once we grown up, there are many things for us to think about and to
worry about.
Here, I want
tell my every single friends I know. Thank you for your helping and caring. I really
appreciate everything. Sometimes, I may say something that hurts you, I’m sorry
for that deep down. I hope we can always keep in touch. No matter when or
where. Just keep in touch. I feel very happy to have you as my friends. Haha!!
cheers!
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