Favorite Magazines and Such...

Mmk. So, I don't really have a favorite magazines but I will tell you which ones I read a lot... or a little, whichever. I'm just listing them as they pop into my head and not by preference by the way. Enjoy!

1. Teen Vogue

I love looking at everything that's happening in the fashion world, but it's written for a teenager. The articles they write about such as social issues are good, too. I chose this cover because Zac Efron is really really hot. I'm not even going to hide it. Whew. Smokin'. So you probably can guess that I want to see Charlie St. Cloud reallllllly badly!

2. InStyle

InStyle is fun to read. Well actually, no, I just look at pictures. Hehe. It's a good way to pass time. Especially on airplane rides and road trips! The sad thing is with these mags, is that I'm basically only window shopping, but it's always fun to look.

3. Seventeen

I've been subscribed to seventeen for a long long time now. I think with all of the magazines I read, its only for the pictures. I really enjoy their hair and make-up tutorials, though. And since I'm, er, voluptuous, they have good style advice for my figure which is always appreciated.

4. Uh... Sadly I think that's it

Of course, there's the occasional gossip rag, but other than that, that's all I tend to read.

Huh, I thought there would be more.

Okay so I hope you had a lovely time reading this and I hope to talk to y'all soon!

PS. What are your favorite magazines? I'd love some new stuff!

~Claire

Anthem & The Year We Disappeared

Both of them happen to be from my summer reading list.  PS. woo! no make-up and wet hair! ;)

Anthem by Ayn Rand= readable. slow in the first part of the book. About: In the future, everyone is equal, everyone is one together. Equality 7-2521 goes against the crowd and the rules to do what he wants to do. However: I disagree with Ayn Rand's philosophy that everyone should be selfish. I agree that it's good to go against the crowd when the crowd is doing something wrong, but I believe that you can't be so selfish all the time. Sometimes you need to work together. PS. My mother hates Ayn Rand, so I guess I'm kinda biased. HAHA. :)

The Year We Disappeared by Cylin Busby and John Busby= way better than Anthem. mystery/one-of-those-keep-you-on-your-toes book. About: John Busby and his daughter Cylin write about the year John was shot while on duty as a police officer in a father/victim's point of view and a daughter's point of view. Claire's Opinion: Great read, definitely worth it. It can get slow at some parts, but the entire book is true life so nothing is made up to make it more exciting. Actually, I read the book in a couple of days. I really loved it. Expressed how hard it is for a family to recover and move on with their lives after a tragedy/miracle.

Still working on Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (?). Ughh. I really hate this book. So boring. So confusing. Has taken me, like, two weeks to read 45 pages. I wonder if I'll finish it before school starts, but I'm not worried.

Sorry this post was so simple and short, but I'm actually watching TV. Hehe. :)

Still have to remind me to do my favorite (or not so much favorite) magazines. I might do that tonight.

Anyways, Peace People,
Claire

Finished It!

Er, ya, I think you know what I'm talking about. So, Things I Know About Love.

Livia? Or Libia? Sadly, I don't remember her name but I'm pretty darn sure it's Livia. So that's what I'll call her whether anyone likes it or not! Haha. Basically, Livia has been free of leukemia for one year now and takes the time to finally go somewhere and live her life. She decides to visit her loving brother in America where he is studying abroad at Princeton University. When she gets there, she decides to have a lot of fun and possibly a summer romance? Oo La La. All of this while (coincidentally) she records it in her blog including everything she knows about love.

Cute story line, but it was kinda hard to get really into the book, unfortunately. I wish that the author could have lengthened it a bit and gave it more heart and detail, otherwise it might have been a bestseller. You never know, though.

Hmm... I'm not sure if I will be posting soon due to lack of reading material, but I might do my favorite magazines?? Yea, that sounds like fun! Haha, so look out for that soon.

Thanks!

Tell me if anyone reads some of the books I've mentioned! I would love to chat about them!

C-Bear
(aka. as i was formerly calling myself, TheTeenBookBabe :P)

PS. on the cover art, the shoes/feet look extremely blurry! i thought that was a bit... odd. :)

When I Read, I READ :)

I'm actually very surprised at myself. I haven't been reading this whole summer. Lame. But anyways, my mummy took me to the library yesterday and Barnes and Noble the day before. Thankfully, I got some new reading material! *Fist pump* Actually no, scratch that I'm not from Jersey Shore.

From the library, I only got one reading book but then again I was carrying a large stack of photography books as well. Go photography! The reading book is called... Things I Know About Love by Kate Le Vann. I love her last name.

Haven't gotten much into it because I was majorly tired last night but I read the first few pages. Keep you posted, but I have a feeling that I'm going to like it. I mean it starts off with Livia, the main character, thinking that her plane is running into flying turkeys. Yes, I think I will enjoy it.

Now the Barnes and Noble books. I bought Reality Check by Jen Calonita (love her) and One Night That Changes Everything by Lauren Barnholdt. I even managed to finish both of them in one day :)

Reality Check is about four best friends who are found by a producer person from a new network (like MTV) called Fire and Ice. Susan (the lady who found them) is looking for a new reality show and thinks that they're little beach-town is the perfect place to shoot with them being the main characters of the show, but Charlie would be the "leader" of the pack. They all decide to do the show even after hard thinking and a Pro and Con list. But once the shooting has started and the camera's are all on them, will their friendship fall apart just like every other reality show? Remember, friends don't let friends do reality shows. I found the book to be entertaining but also one of those books where you just want to smack those girls silly. I have always loved Jen Calonita's books so this wasn't a let down for me.

Lastly, One Night That Changes Everything. Eliza manages to lose everything... Everything except her purple notebook. Before her family was going to move, Eliza wanted to change and become a whole new person at her new school so she started to write a list of everything she would do at her new school that she was afraid of doing now. Even after they managed to stay at their old town and her family wouldn't have to move, Eliza kept on writing in the purple notebook. Now, her ex-boyfriend stole her purple notebook because of what she said on her sister's website about him. Eliza's worst fears are coming true, and they're making her do everything on her list over the course of the weekend. Dun! DUN! DUNNNNN!!!! I actually loved this book, I would recommend 14+ maybe even 15+ because of some naughty content if you know what I mean... Well not too dirty but naughty enough.

Okay, that's all I've read so far! :) But once school has started I'm sure I'll read more.

Later Lizards! ( <--- i don't know where that came from...)

PS. Thanks for following me, I really appreciate it. Hope you enjoy! :)

High School and all that jazz...

Yes that's me...

It's summer now, which means I have way too much time on my hands. That's okay though, because I don't have to spend my nights slaving away at the homework. Yippee! Although, the work is never too far away. That's right, you guessed it. Summer reading list. All freshmen are required to read Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and Anthem by Ayn Rand. But being the slacker that I am, and with my lack of interest in the books, I will most likely finish them at the end of the summer. Oh well. It will keep my mind fresh.

So, latest books I've read: Giving Up the V by Serena Robar, Little Miss Red by Robin Palmer, and Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson.

Giving Up the V by Serena Robar: UM LOVED IT!! Seriously this author is my new hero. I mean for the kind of teenager romance comedy books. I was smiling the entire time with her witty and sarcastic humor! Not to mention, I fell for a couple of guys in the book. Oops, my bad. Basically, Spencer Davis (yes, she's a girl) has just turned 16, but instead of a car, she gets her first ob-gyn exam. Fun, right? Think again. Her first exam sparks ideas about when she's going to have sex for the first time, although she's determined not to give it away to some stupid boy (a wham, bam, thank ya ma'am kind of guy) who will forget about her. Until she meets Ben, a transfer student who happens to be a gorgeous, funny athlete. Wow. Could Ben be... the one? Very cute book and I would recommend it to any girl of course.

Little Miss Red by Robin Palmer: Possibly the worst book I have ever read in my life, and that's saying something. Ugh. It was horrrrrriiiibbbbblllllllle!!! Don't waste your money! Thank god I didn't...

Lastly, Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson: Beautifully written book and a wonderful eye-opener to what it really feels like to have a traumatic event occur in the worst of times, High School. Go out and buy this book! Anderson has an intriguing way of words while keeping everything witty in her novels. I was required to read this book for my eighth grade English class, but I'm sure I would have come across a time when I praised this book like all others. Laurie used a LOT of symbolism throughout Speak but I personally love it. It's like a puzzle trying to find pieces that fit together. The novel follows Melinda throughout her first year of High School after a traumatic event happened to her at a summer party. Being the one to call the police on the party, Melinda is shunned from her friends and fellow students except for her art teacher, Mr. Freeman. He teaches Melinda to express herself and in the end, find the words to speak up.

Well, I guess that's it for me, but maybe I'll get off my lazy patushka (is that how you spell it Lisa?) and actually do something other than writing about what I could be doing and do it. That might make my summer actually interesting... Hmm...

Ta Ta For Now (who uses txting acronyms anyways?)

Me

From my pile of new books. . .

Ohmygosh! Sorry to act all teenager on you but omg! I just read possibly my new favorite book, even better than the Twilight Saga. Or maybe they're tied. Ha!

The book is called Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater. For Christmas, i got a ton of books and I'm done with 2 of them. Grace, got attacked by a wolf pack when she was about 12 or 11 years old. The one wolf that saved her has been attached and always watching her for the next 6 years. When a boy at Grace's school gets attacked by the wolves and dies, everyone in their small town wants to hunt down the pack, except for Grace and one of her best friends, Olivia. Once one of the wolves get shot, Grace goes back to her house only to find a naked boy on her back porch with a gun wound. Grace then realises that it's her wolf, only now he's Sam. Realising that Sam may not be able to be human again once he turns back into a wolf, Grace and Sam try to fulfill their time together while they still have it. Sam changes when it's cold, and winter is just around the corner. Once i started reading Shiver, i literally couldn't put it down. I stayed up until the wee hours of the morning just to read the last few chapters.

My other book i received for the holidays, is a book called Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick. I have to say it wasn't as good as Shiver or a lot of my other favorite books, but it was a pleasurable read, still. I'm gonna get a little lazy and type up the description of the book on the cover. (I do not want to get in trouble so I'm saying this now: I DID NOT WRITE THIS!)

Romance was not part of Nora Grey's plan. She's never been particularly attracted to the boys at her school, no matter how hard her best friend, Vee, pushes them at her. Not until Patch comes along. with his easy smile and eyes that seem to see inside her, Patch draws Nora to him against her better judgement.

But after a series of terrifying encounters, Nora's not sure whom to trust. Patch seems to be everywhere she is and seems to know more about her than her closest friends. She can't decide whether she should fall into his arms or run and hide. And when she tries to seek some answers, she finds herself near a truth that is way more unsettling than anything Patch makes her feel.

For she is right in the middle of an ancient battle between the immortal and those who have fallen-and, when it comes to choosing sides, the wrong choice will cost Nora her life.

See, when i read books, if i like them, i finish the book completely and sometimes go back to my favorite parts. If i don't like a book, i normally stop reading them because i forget i was still reading it. I finished Hush, Hush in one day. I finished Shiver in two days. I really liked both books and i would still recommend both to anyone that is interested. :) See you later. I have books to read!! :)

TheTeenBookBabe

xoxo :P

Oh wow...

I have to be the worst blogger in history. Seriously, i haven't written another post since August. Wow. Well, that's probably because i haven't had a lot of time to read with school and everything finally kicking in.

Hmm... let's see shall we? I just got done reading one of my all time favorite book series. Have you heard of Secrets of My Hollywood Life?? I'm literally addicted to these books. Every night now, i read all of the romance between Adam and Kaitlin. *Swoon.* Seriously, if i ever found a guy like that i may die. Basically, it's about a young actress/Hollywood "it" girl looking for a normal life. . . well, semi-normal life. She goes to a public school with her best friend, Liz, as an alternate identity. She's no longer the girl everyone knows and loves on TV, but is being normal really what Kaitlin can handle? I adore this series and if I weren't trying to sort through my increasing number of book piles, i may have forgotten about them, sadly.

Another super great read would have to be Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson. It's so eye-opening and really makes you think plus I admire her writing style and voice throughout the whole book. An eighteen year old girl, Lia, is starving herself. Her best friend, Cassie, recently died from bulimia. Lia thinks she's fat, worthless, and basically nothing. All she wants to be is skinny and watch those numbers on the scale fall while her family is all fooled. After i was done reading the book, i was scared. All my life, i have had body image issues. I can't even tell you how many times i thought crash diets and these harmful eating disorders. I can't make myself gag, and i hate the thought of never having warm chocolate ooze down my throat. I'm weak, but I'm glad that i am. Girls all over the world are harming their bodies and trying to be what everyone today calls "perfect". I realised only a couple years ago i am perfect in my own way. I don't want to be like everyone else and think that skinny is the only "perfect". The book makes you think. I recommend it to anyone i know looking for a good book and possibly a lifestyle change.

Happy Christmas Eve/Holidays,

TheTeenBookBabe
xoxo