New Year = New Challenges
In my entire life I’ve only completed around 10 books. I’m nearly 18.
So I’ve decided to join 50bookchallenge and see if I can read 50 books in one year.
I don’t know how successful it’ll be, but I think it’ll get me reading more and not just a fic that has Panic, Fall Out Boy, The Academy Is…, Cobra Starship or My Chemical Romance in it.
This will be my main post for the challenge, here will be the list of all the books I read.
Book count:
7 / 50 books. 14% done!
Page count:
1379 / 10000 pages. 14% done!
Days passed:
132 / 365 days. 36% done!
1: Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date Started: 1/1/09
Date finished: 3/1/09
Blurb: 'There isn’t really a gay scene or a straight scene in our town. They all got mixed up a while back, which I think is for the best… And whether your heart is strictly ballroom or bluegrass punk, the dance floors are open to whatever you have to offer, this is my town.’
Meet Paul
Gay his whole life, and finding love as wonderful, confusing and heartbreaking as ever other teenager in his high school.
Meet Paul’s friends:
Joni - his best friend
His other best friend - Tony
Infinite Darlene - homecoming queen and star quarterback
The ex-boyfriend who won’t go away - Kyle
And Noah - who changes everything'
Comments: I thought this book was brilliant, I borrowed it off a friend who told me I should read it, I have to say I wasnt dissapointed. The characters were really good and all had their own thing going on. It amused me highly that the boy in this book was barely 14 and he had drag queens in his class. Sometimes I laughed and a couple of times I felt for the characters sadness. I like the way you got to see inside the main characters head and see how he was dealing with crushing on a boy who he doesnt know if the feeling was mutual. I'm now trying to get a hold of a copy of this for myself, it's under publishers decidion to be re-printed.
2: The Boy in the Dress by David Walliams.
Rating: 3 / 5
Date Started: 4/1/09
Date finished: 4/1/09
Blurb: 'Dennis was different.
Why was he different, I hear you ask?
Well, a small clue might be in the title of this book...'
Comments: This story is designed for pre teens, but I enjoyed it. This was the second time I'd read it and it amused me as uch as it did the first time. I like the underlying moral of the story that it doesnt matter what you dress like or what you do, you're still you and that's okay and that it's okay to be different.
3: The Boy With The Thorn In His Side by Peter Wentz.
Rating: 2 / 5
Date Started: 6/1/09
Date finished: 6/1/09
Blurb: 'When I was younger, I had a recurring nightmare about a far off place full of dark things. I remember forcing my eyes open to escape it... It's like part of your imagination being overactive and never sleeping. So begins Fall Out Boy's Peter Wentz' 'The Boy With The Thorn In His Side.
Comments: This was a very short read, took me about 15-20 minutes, I only really read it because I've wanted to for a while. It was very skippy, but I liked that because it added to the feel of the fucked up nightmare dreamland the book talks about. It wasnt very hard to read either which was good for me.
4: Life on the Refrigerator Door by Alice Kuipers.
Rating: 3 / 5
Date Started: 1/2/09
Date finished: 1/2/09
Blurb: Claire and her mom share the same house but they live on different planets... While Claire's world revolves around school, shopping and her boyfriend, Mom is always busy with work, work and more work. But they do have one thing in common: the kitchen fridge. It's where they leave little notes for eachother. it's how they keep in touch. Then one day Claire coes home to a note that's different from all the others.
And life is never the same again.
Comments: This only took me an hour to read because it's ade up of little notes between a mother and a daughter. I enjoyed the book, though I felt it to be a little scarce on the details, but I suppose thats the whole Idea of the book. The ending was a little sad too.
5: The perks of being a wallflower by Stephen Chbosky.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date Started: 2/2/09
Date finished: 18/2/09
Blurb: 'I walk around the school hallways and look at the teachers and wonder why they;re here. Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day... or wondering who did the heart breaking and wondering why.'
Charlie is a Freshman. And while he's not the biggest geek in the school, he is by no means popular. Shy, introspecticve, intelligent beyond his years yet socially awkward, he is a wallflower, caught between trying to live his life ans trying to run from it. Charlie is attempting to navigate his was through uncharted territory: the world of first dates and mixed tapes, Family dramas and new friends; the worlds of sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when all one requires is that perfect song on that perfect drive to feel infinite. But Charlie cant stay on the sideline forever. Standing on the fringes of life offers a uniquw perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor.
Comments: This was a recommendation off of a friend, he talked about it in his journal. I thought it was a really good book, the way it was written was in the form of letters written to person who the character knew, but the person he was writing to didnt know who was writing to them. The story itself kept me interested the whole way through with little highs and lows along the way and dealing with things teens/pre-teens have to deal with.
would recommend this book to anyone who struggles with reading or keeping interested in books as it is easy to read and the plot is brilliant.
6: Dream Boy by Jim Grimsley.
Rating: 4/ 5
Date Started: 18/2/09
Date finished: 11/5/09
Blurb: Jim Grimsley's stunning and heartbreaking novel recounts the story of a painful first love between two adolescent boys who bravely sustain each other in a world of domestic disintegration. At once haunting and sublime, Dream Boy is an amazing tale of boundless hope - and ultimate tragedy.
Comments: I really enjoyed this book. The character has a dark past and sometimes he has to escape fro his home life, mainly his Dad. You get to see how he feels so alone, until he meets a boy called Roy who takes care of him and looks after him.
The end confused me a little, but I did get it after thinking over it a bit.
This story wouldn’t be good for anybody who may get a trigger from sexual abuse.
Audio books
1: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J K Rowling.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date Started: 10/3/09
Date finished: 15/3/09
Blurb: Harry Potter thinks he is an ordinary boy - until he is rescued by a beetle-eyed giant of a man, enrols at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, learns to play Quidditch and does battle in a deadly duel. The Reason: HARRY POTTER IS A WIZARD!
Comments: I read this when I was younger in about 2 days, but I’m trying to get through all the books up to the 6th one in time for the new movie. But I know I wont via reading it so listening to it is the next level; and Stephen Fry does have a nice voice.
Man, it’s Harry Potter. I can’t really make up a huge ass comment for it. Everyone who’s anyone has read this book.
2: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J K Rowling.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date Started: 15/3/09
Date finished: 20/3/09
3: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J K Rowling.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date Started: 20/3/09
Date finished: 30/3/09
Blurb: Harry Potter, along with his best friends, Ron and Hermione, is about to start his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry can't wait to get back to school after the summer holidays. (Who wouldn't if they lives with the horrible Dursleys?) But when Harry gets to Hogwarts, the atmosphere is tense. There's an escaped as murderer on the loose, and the sinister prison guards of Azkaban have been called in to guard the school...
4: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J K Rowling.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date Started: 30/3/09
Date finished: 15/4/09
Blurb: It is the summer holidays and soon Harry Potter will be starting his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry is counting the says: there are new spells to be learnt, more Quidditch to be played, and Hogwarts castle to continue exploring. but Harr needs to be careful - there are unexpected dangers lurking...
Next books:
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk started on 4/1/09
The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde started on 1/3/09
Collected Works 2004 - 2008 by Christopher Gutierrez started on 6/4/09
Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez
Rainbow High by Alex Sanchez
Rainbow Road by Alex Sanchez
Lullabye by Chuck Palahniuk
The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite by Gerard Way & Gabriel Ba
Paul O'Grady At my mother's knee... and other low joints - The Autobiography by Paul O'Grady
The Secret Garden By F. Hodgson Burnett
The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
So I’ve decided to join 50bookchallenge and see if I can read 50 books in one year.
I don’t know how successful it’ll be, but I think it’ll get me reading more and not just a fic that has Panic, Fall Out Boy, The Academy Is…, Cobra Starship or My Chemical Romance in it.
This will be my main post for the challenge, here will be the list of all the books I read.
Book count:
7 / 50 books. 14% done!
Page count:
1379 / 10000 pages. 14% done!
Days passed:
132 / 365 days. 36% done!
1: Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date Started: 1/1/09
Date finished: 3/1/09
Blurb: 'There isn’t really a gay scene or a straight scene in our town. They all got mixed up a while back, which I think is for the best… And whether your heart is strictly ballroom or bluegrass punk, the dance floors are open to whatever you have to offer, this is my town.’
Meet Paul
Gay his whole life, and finding love as wonderful, confusing and heartbreaking as ever other teenager in his high school.
Meet Paul’s friends:
Joni - his best friend
His other best friend - Tony
Infinite Darlene - homecoming queen and star quarterback
The ex-boyfriend who won’t go away - Kyle
And Noah - who changes everything'
Comments: I thought this book was brilliant, I borrowed it off a friend who told me I should read it, I have to say I wasnt dissapointed. The characters were really good and all had their own thing going on. It amused me highly that the boy in this book was barely 14 and he had drag queens in his class. Sometimes I laughed and a couple of times I felt for the characters sadness. I like the way you got to see inside the main characters head and see how he was dealing with crushing on a boy who he doesnt know if the feeling was mutual. I'm now trying to get a hold of a copy of this for myself, it's under publishers decidion to be re-printed.
2: The Boy in the Dress by David Walliams.
Rating: 3 / 5
Date Started: 4/1/09
Date finished: 4/1/09
Blurb: 'Dennis was different.
Why was he different, I hear you ask?
Well, a small clue might be in the title of this book...'
Comments: This story is designed for pre teens, but I enjoyed it. This was the second time I'd read it and it amused me as uch as it did the first time. I like the underlying moral of the story that it doesnt matter what you dress like or what you do, you're still you and that's okay and that it's okay to be different.
3: The Boy With The Thorn In His Side by Peter Wentz.
Rating: 2 / 5
Date Started: 6/1/09
Date finished: 6/1/09
Blurb: 'When I was younger, I had a recurring nightmare about a far off place full of dark things. I remember forcing my eyes open to escape it... It's like part of your imagination being overactive and never sleeping. So begins Fall Out Boy's Peter Wentz' 'The Boy With The Thorn In His Side.
Comments: This was a very short read, took me about 15-20 minutes, I only really read it because I've wanted to for a while. It was very skippy, but I liked that because it added to the feel of the fucked up nightmare dreamland the book talks about. It wasnt very hard to read either which was good for me.
4: Life on the Refrigerator Door by Alice Kuipers.
Rating: 3 / 5
Date Started: 1/2/09
Date finished: 1/2/09
Blurb: Claire and her mom share the same house but they live on different planets... While Claire's world revolves around school, shopping and her boyfriend, Mom is always busy with work, work and more work. But they do have one thing in common: the kitchen fridge. It's where they leave little notes for eachother. it's how they keep in touch. Then one day Claire coes home to a note that's different from all the others.
And life is never the same again.
Comments: This only took me an hour to read because it's ade up of little notes between a mother and a daughter. I enjoyed the book, though I felt it to be a little scarce on the details, but I suppose thats the whole Idea of the book. The ending was a little sad too.
5: The perks of being a wallflower by Stephen Chbosky.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date Started: 2/2/09
Date finished: 18/2/09
Blurb: 'I walk around the school hallways and look at the teachers and wonder why they;re here. Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day... or wondering who did the heart breaking and wondering why.'
Charlie is a Freshman. And while he's not the biggest geek in the school, he is by no means popular. Shy, introspecticve, intelligent beyond his years yet socially awkward, he is a wallflower, caught between trying to live his life ans trying to run from it. Charlie is attempting to navigate his was through uncharted territory: the world of first dates and mixed tapes, Family dramas and new friends; the worlds of sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when all one requires is that perfect song on that perfect drive to feel infinite. But Charlie cant stay on the sideline forever. Standing on the fringes of life offers a uniquw perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor.
Comments: This was a recommendation off of a friend, he talked about it in his journal. I thought it was a really good book, the way it was written was in the form of letters written to person who the character knew, but the person he was writing to didnt know who was writing to them. The story itself kept me interested the whole way through with little highs and lows along the way and dealing with things teens/pre-teens have to deal with.
would recommend this book to anyone who struggles with reading or keeping interested in books as it is easy to read and the plot is brilliant.
6: Dream Boy by Jim Grimsley.
Rating: 4/ 5
Date Started: 18/2/09
Date finished: 11/5/09
Blurb: Jim Grimsley's stunning and heartbreaking novel recounts the story of a painful first love between two adolescent boys who bravely sustain each other in a world of domestic disintegration. At once haunting and sublime, Dream Boy is an amazing tale of boundless hope - and ultimate tragedy.
Comments: I really enjoyed this book. The character has a dark past and sometimes he has to escape fro his home life, mainly his Dad. You get to see how he feels so alone, until he meets a boy called Roy who takes care of him and looks after him.
The end confused me a little, but I did get it after thinking over it a bit.
This story wouldn’t be good for anybody who may get a trigger from sexual abuse.
Audio books
1: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J K Rowling.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date Started: 10/3/09
Date finished: 15/3/09
Blurb: Harry Potter thinks he is an ordinary boy - until he is rescued by a beetle-eyed giant of a man, enrols at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, learns to play Quidditch and does battle in a deadly duel. The Reason: HARRY POTTER IS A WIZARD!
Comments: I read this when I was younger in about 2 days, but I’m trying to get through all the books up to the 6th one in time for the new movie. But I know I wont via reading it so listening to it is the next level; and Stephen Fry does have a nice voice.
Man, it’s Harry Potter. I can’t really make up a huge ass comment for it. Everyone who’s anyone has read this book.
2: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J K Rowling.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date Started: 15/3/09
Date finished: 20/3/09
3: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J K Rowling.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date Started: 20/3/09
Date finished: 30/3/09
Blurb: Harry Potter, along with his best friends, Ron and Hermione, is about to start his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry can't wait to get back to school after the summer holidays. (Who wouldn't if they lives with the horrible Dursleys?) But when Harry gets to Hogwarts, the atmosphere is tense. There's an escaped as murderer on the loose, and the sinister prison guards of Azkaban have been called in to guard the school...
4: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J K Rowling.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date Started: 30/3/09
Date finished: 15/4/09
Blurb: It is the summer holidays and soon Harry Potter will be starting his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry is counting the says: there are new spells to be learnt, more Quidditch to be played, and Hogwarts castle to continue exploring. but Harr needs to be careful - there are unexpected dangers lurking...
Next books:
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk started on 4/1/09
The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde started on 1/3/09
Collected Works 2004 - 2008 by Christopher Gutierrez started on 6/4/09
Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez
Rainbow High by Alex Sanchez
Rainbow Road by Alex Sanchez
Lullabye by Chuck Palahniuk
The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite by Gerard Way & Gabriel Ba
Paul O'Grady At my mother's knee... and other low joints - The Autobiography by Paul O'Grady
The Secret Garden By F. Hodgson Burnett
The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows