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I finished Rules. Such a good book. But I expected something besides anything to do with boyfriend related things, friendship troubles. Well a little bit of friendship troubles. Family troubles, rather. And, well, not a lot about boyfriend-girlfriend things, but it's mentioned. It was a good book.
First of all, I'm not that fond of Kristi. She is kind of stuck up. No. Not stuck up. Just. She is just not a person I would want to be friends with. For some reason. Not a good first impression.
And, I don't like Ryan, either. He's mean. Especially to David. And he acts so nice around Kristi, probably because they were going out, to what I understood. And he makes Catherine sound like the jerk, instead of revealing the truth about the real jerk. A mean one.
Well, I guess they are meant to have such personality. It's a book. The characters make up the plot. So, they are meant to be mean or stuck up or whatnot.

Jason is nice. I think he likes Catherine. Oh, obviously. I wonder if he will ever be able to talk. Maybe not. I don't know about stuff about people who can't talk. Or autism. I don't know if they can be cured or not. I wonder.... Anyway, ohhh..... never mind. I don't know what to say!

Oh! I love the "Rules for David" at the front of the book. It's cute. Or just funny.
And I love how David always puts a toy in the fish tank and runs to Catherine saying, "No toys in the fish tank!" It's his little way of saying that an unknown absolutely-not-a-fish thing (toy) was in the fish tank put by a mysterous little kid (him, of course). Funny.

I hope you enjoyed RULES, too!

(If you have read the book Rules by Cynthia Lord and would like to rate the book, please put the book rating in the comment box thingy. The check list thingy that says, Rate it!)

I just noticed - all of the books that I read have a one-word title. Inkheart, Pretties, and now, Rules. I am already reading it. You should know that, if you read the previous blog entry. =D

Small apology: I am a little bit ahead of this blog. I am already on my third book. So, I need let my blog catch up, so I will summarize a week's worth blog. 

So, I finished the book Pretties. By Scott Westerfeld. Of course, you know that. Obviously. If you have read this blog. And I know this is random, but it seems that only I have done the poll. If you have a favorite genre, then publish it! Mine is Fantasy, realistic fiction, and mystery. Well, you can only pick 2~3 things.... And DO NOT check all of the answers.
Is anyone reading this? Besides my family members, I mean. Ohhhh~ I don't know... It seems nobody is really reading this. PLEASE FOLLOW THIS BLOG OR WHATEVER YOU WANT, BUT JUST MAKE A NOTE SO I KNOW THAT AT LEAST SOMEONE IS READING MY BLOG. Oh,,, sorry If you are offended, but I just put it in capitals so you know I am serious.


Back to the main subject...
Pretties. I think it is a pretty good book. Although I knew what was coming up. ! WARNING: People who have not yet read the whole book pretties might consider not to read the following paragraph.! As in, skip the next paragraph.
           I knew. I saw a pattern right from the second book. Or so I think.  Anyway, I noticed. First, Tally is an ugly. After a lot of things happening, (including betraying Shay,) Tally becomes a pretty. Then, in the next book she becomes a Special. Well to what I know. And I saw the "sneak peek" of the next book and it starts out with stuff like, "Tally, you smell nervous." Obviously nobody but a special would be able to smell nervousness, unless you are some amazing -- person.... or a magician, which I doubt. =D But I heard there's another book called the Extras, and I wonder what that's about... Another specimen of perfection? I don't think so, though. I think that it is like people who are not ugly or pretty. Just extra. But that sounds so cruel to call a person an extra. It sounds -- inhumane. If that's a word... =D Oops, sorry if you don't really like smiley faces... I just LOVE writing them -- I mean typing them. Back to the subject...
           Okay you are now safe to read this paragraph if you have not yet read the book Pretties and want to read it. Pretties is an awesome book, and I suggest reading it. Only it has a lot of parts where Tally "sucks faces" with this one person. If you are wondering what "sucking faces" with someone is, I'll suggest, look in an idiom dictionary. I'll leave the research to you. But it is a pretty good book. And it is kind of a cool world. I wish sometimes that I could live like them for just a day or two. Feel like a character in a book. OOhhhhh~ I would really like that. But that won't happen. Maybe in a few million years or so, but I doubt in this century... 


GO PRETTIES!!!!!!! haha that was kind of random...
PRETTIES IS A VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY... (oh, you get the point) GOOD BOOK!!!!!

New book! 
Pretties
By Scott Westerfeld


I am now reading Pretties, by Scott Westerfeld. 
It is a pre teen book? or was it just teen? I don't know... just reading it anyway,,,
For those who haven't read the first book in the series, read the first book. I think the second book would make much more sense if you read the first book first.
It is Uglies by Scott Westerfeld.
Oh, and by the way, the summary will include the book Uglies, too...


Summary  = It is about a girl named Tally. She lived in the future. For us, it is the future. (Heh, it's wierd that I am using the word lived for the future.) For them, it is the present. A perfectly normal life for them - with talking walls, talking rooms, interface rings, and the best of all - the surgery. This place is a world of absolute beauty. You would call it absolute beauty because -- ohhh... it's a long story...    Long ago, (for their time, which is probably still the future for us) the pollution filled the air enough. It was a second away from blowing up from too much pollution - air pollution, litter, and whatnot. Just in time, a person discovered a -- something-- that if you released it into the air, it would make the air clean again, just how it was when the dinosaurs were there (which is our past, obviously). Of course, that made a whole new world. People were making very good sure that they weren't making the huge and fatal mistake they had made a long ago. So, these people made a new thing. This new thing... will be explained in the next paragraph.
             Now, back to the present day (in the book-- the book's present day, I mean). What I will explain is what I was talking about from the previous paragraph that I said I would explain. So here goes. A new world. Divided. Uglies and Pretties. Almost like semi-species. This world is extreme beauty. Whoever is normal is ugly. When you are born, you are born ugly. When you turn twelve, you become, officially, an ugly. Like a species name. An ugly. In this case, you and I are uglies. But, when you turn 16, (ha ha! sweet sixteen~! =D) you get a surgery. It makes your muscles a little bit stronger, your nose in place - perfectly, and they give you a surgery, basically, to make you pretty. From then on, you are called a pretty. 
But, being perfect - isn't perfect. Just because you are pretty, how does that make you avoid revenge? Avoid violence? Avoid littering? Well, during the surgery, they also fix your brain. To make you "playful" and not-thinkingy... After the surgery, all you think of is what to wear to the next party, what new clothes you should buy. Now, in this time, that would make you sound... stuck-up. But, in this world, there is no subject of money. Nothing with trade or whatsoever. Just get. How? Real tech! Turns out, technology make everything better. There are holes in the wall that make your clothes for you, (cool ones, don't think of baggy towel-shirts... ='?) and you can just get whatever you want. No store thing or whatever. You don't go to breakfast - breakfast comes to you! The surgery keeps you in shape, by the way... You don't get overweight. 
So, Tally finds out about the secret with your brain. When she is an ugly, she goes to a place where the Rusties were. (This is where we come in - we are called the Rusties. From the past.) There, she meets some pretty-runaways, who had made their own mini civilization - but only people who were ugly. So, if you leave a person ugly, then their minds become like us today! They begin chopping trees, but a little... And Tally likes it! She makes friends there, too! (okay, that previous sentence sounds like a kindergardener... but whatever) There, she found two adults who had a cure for the "brain damage." She was to become pretty, then eat the pill-cure, for a test. She had volunteered herself. So, she became pretty. 
That is where the second book, Pretties starts. Where Tally eats the pills, and discovers a whole new world of betrayal (which she did already in the book before, but I just didn't mention it... you don't need TOO much detail). Not BETRAYAL betrayal, but -- I can't tell you. You'll find out!
I'm reading it, too!

Okay, just so you know, I am making a change of plans. I apologize for how long I haven't written in this blog. Well, actually a few weeks. You've probably been waiting a lot... (just sarcasm... I doubt anyone is reading this and waiting for it... except maybe my family members...) Anyway, back to the change of plans. This is the first month, so there will be a lot of changing and organizing going on,,, just to warn you. I have decided that I'm not going to go TOO detailed. Then it would be basically writing the whole book... which would not be something you would want in a blog... you could just borrow it from the library~... =D
Anyway... Inkheart... I haven't been on this blog... but I have been writing.  I sometimes write (usually) in my notebook and then copy that onto the blog. 
Inkheart ended the way I wanted. Not exactly, because Basta got away, and so did the Magpie. That probably leads to the next book... Inkspell, or was it Inkdeath? I think Inkdeath is the third book. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that Inkspell is the second book. Anyway... (I am writing a lot of "anyways") 
Also, Dustfinger, somehow, gives an impression upon me as a bad guy. Not those bad BAD guys like Capricorn, but ...            Do you know what a but not is? Scared is frightened, but not horrified. Horrified is related to scared, but it isn't exactly the meaning of scared. Therefore, horrified is a but not of scared. You might think this has nothing to do with the previous conversation, but now I shall mention...             Dustfinger is a but-not of a bad guy, such as Capricorn. Do you know what I mean? I hope you do... He is like a person who supports someone when he needs to, but when it comes to betrayal, he is an expert. Actually, not an expert, but he is "good at" betraying. For example, Dustfinger (at the end...) stole Mo's book (Inkheart). He shouldn't have, but he did, for his sake. To take himself back to his own world... I think. I don't know if what Meggie told him (that he was to die in the book) really changed his mind. He seems like he still wants to go back to his book.


Overall, Inkheart is a GREAT BOOK!


If you haven't read it, then go ahead! Nothing to harm you! Although I suggest if you don't like Fantasy books, I don't think you would enjoy it much. (From an experience... Someone told me that they didn't like the book... at ALL... which seemed frugal, but people have different opinions, after all...)
If you HAVE read this book, there is the rating thing under this blog entry. Rate it! not on this entry, but on the book. A special rating thingy, you would call it. (=O thingy is not such a good word, but I'm using it anyway... XD)
Hope you enjoyed it!

Inkheart

Inkheart--
Dustfinger is suddenly a little bit selfish. Not selfish,,, but somehow like a master - to Farid. He treats him as a servant. A servant he doesn't really care much of, but cares for at the same time, if you know what I mean...
I noticed that Farid is very eager to go along with Dustfinger. Why? Maybe the fire astonishes him. Maybe he likes Dustfinger;s "brave" acts. Maybe he likes his horned marten. I think he likes Dustfinger because he doesn't treat Farid as harshly as, probably, his former "masters." I don't think he ever tasted freedom, by himself what he wants (Farid).


Predictions- 
The part when Mo tries to reach the author of Inkheart-
I think that the person would not have the book.
Prediction correct.


This prediction goes way to the end, because I still haven't been able to do anything to prove it or whatever...
I think that Fenoglio will rewrite the book with Capricorn dead so Mo can read the bad ending...

Ohhh...
I read Inkheart, but not all of it...
I have SO much to do. Actually, not much, but not enough time. I am going to write two times a week, or try to. The title will be for the day I am setting it for. I write my blog stuff "to-write" in another notebook, so even if I don't have time, I can just write in my notebook and later, would post it on the blog.
So far, Inkheart is fun.
First, it was fun. Then, it started getting a little bit boring. You know, the usual: they go outside, get away. But when this one character (I'm not telling you who, because you might not have gotten up to it, and I don't remember what chapter it is in) shows up and twists the story a bit, things get back to normal - fun and exciting...
INKHEART IS THE BEST!!
Though I noticed at school yesterday, some people don't like it... :( Sad for them, not to offend anyone, but I guess they don't take much of fantasy books like this.
Sorry for the delay, if you were waiting.
But I doubt anyone would be reading this...




And, I have something to say, if you are listening... I thought I would read at least one book per week (because I usually do), but I can't seem to end Inkheart. Maybe this book is long.   ........ Of course it is! =D
I thought I was near the end - I realized I read less than half of the book. I'm still wondering what the other half would be filled with. The plot moves along slowly, everything in great detail...
Whew~
This goal might just be a little extravagant... But it CAN somehow be possible - I mean, it IS possible! I think... =]

Happy New Year! 
And happy first-day-of-reading-project!
How time flies so quickly...
I have started reading my book. Actually, a few days ago, but I will count this book as one of the 55 books I will read.


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I am warning you, if you don't want the story to be spoiled by me and my writing (actually text), then you better read the book as you read this blog. I will write a quick summary of so far, and I will also write observations and whatnot... It will also tell you what chapters I read, because the entries will be on those chapters.




Inkheart by Cornelia Funke.


It is probably a fantasy book, because so far, evil people, people who can eat fire, as well as otherworld creatures are jumping out of books in the story. 
I noticed that all, no, most fantasy books are long. Lord of the Rings, Hobbit, Harry Potter, and now, Inkheart. They are long because, I'm guessing, the author has so much to tell in their book. Writing is almost like making your own world. It comes out of your mind, out of your head. You can make the bad guy how you like, or you can make a happy ending. No one can stop you from making your own world on paper. That is one reason I like writing and reading books. Not that I'm a professional author, no. I just write my own little stories which turn out the way I want them to. 
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Inkheart- Chapters 1 ~ 16


          This won't be some fantastic summary that will go on for millions of pages, but a simple summary. Since, whoever you are, you are reading Inkheart, up to chapter 16, I don't really need to introduce the characters very well. There is Meggie, Mo, Dustfinger, Elinor, Capricorn, Basta, and, of course, many others. 
          I am wondering how the story is going to end, and I have just barely a blurry image of the actual problem in the story. I know, though. I know a little bit how it is going to end, because the book told me. That wouldn't make sense. On the back cover of the book, the summary told me that... Should I tell you? Oh, I might as well spill the beans. If you don't want to know, then skip the rest of this paragraph. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ... ... ... ... .... ..... ...... .......  .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..It said that she had to rewrite        the story. I am guessing the second story would be called Inkspell (it's just a prediction), which is also the next book to this book, the sequel. My prediction is that Meggie has to rewrite the story and make a bad ending for Capricorn and his subjects, and Mo would read the story aloud to Capricorn, which makes the same thing in the book happen to him. 
          So far, this story is very exciting! One thing for sure, I feel bad for Dustfinger. He must be so desperate to go back into his world, or rather, book, since he followed Capricorn's order. Not that he wouldn't, because everyone can easily fear people like Capricorn.
Another thing for sure, I hate Capricorn. No, maybe hate is a too much of a strong word. I greatly too much despise and loathe Capricorn. I do not like people who are mean and demanding and EVIL. But Capricorn plays an important part of the story, so he is conspicuous, not the easily seen conspicuous, the prominent conspicuous, if you go by definitions.
Not much to say, besides what I just typed. ^.^
So far, this book is a 10 out of 10!