Showing posts with label book review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book review. Show all posts

Saturday, December 8, 2012

Death! Ruin! Destruction!

COWER, BRIEF MORTALS.
I hate almost everything about the holidays, but they have some good things about them. To wit:
1. Presents.
2. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett. I love this book so much it isn't even funny.
3. Hark To The Bells. That's a favorite song, carol or otherwise.
4. The Nutcracker.
5. A Christmas Carol. Who'd pass up a chance to see another festive Grim Reaper?
6. Holiday break.
7. Christmas lights.
8. Chocolate coins.
9. Decorating trees.
10. Saturday Night Live Christmas special, which we watched last night.
11. FIRE!!!
12. Snow.
13. I've run out of things.
What I don't like:
1. Santa.
2. Latkes. I detest latkes.
3. 99% of all holiday songs.
4. That the aforementioned crappy songs are all they ever play on the radio or in Barnes and Noble.
5. 99% of all holiday movies.
6. That Hanukah is never on the break.
7. Barbie's A Christmas Carol and The Nutcracker. I actually screamed "HOW CAN YOU DEFILE THE JOY OF THE HOLIDAYS?!?!" when I saw those.
8. The cold.
9. Socializing with relatives. This is normally okay, but in large groups? I DO NOT LIKE THE GROUPS. I get uncomfortable at my own birthday party.
10. That my otherwise awesome family-friend neighbors always show the horrible Christmas movies.
11. Droning in Hebrew.
12. Advent calenders.
13. Candy canes.
Oh, I shouldn't be so ambivalent about this! After all, I am Eggnog, according to the 'What Hot Beverage Are You?' quiz I took once. So, I should like the holidays.
Right.
I'll stop pretending to be Scrooge rather than the Ghost of Christmas Future and let you get on with your life, shall I?

Friday, September 28, 2012

Truly, My Name Is Slim Shady

Look at this! It. Is. Awesome.
Just so ya know...
Mom got a shipment of books for me and Chestnut to read/her to review for her blog. I will review all of them I feel are worth it.
Also awesome: The Moonrise Kingdom soundtrack. It's on Rhapsody, and YOU MUST LISTEN to part 7. It is so beautiful.
Also awesome: Reading Animal Farm for Humanities. Completely awesome so far. Also, my teacher has this wonderful color-coding for genre thing that is a lifesaver for a genre nut like me.
Also awesome: Book based on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She is cool, but she will not change the burning hatred I feel for Seishiro from Tsubasa.
Hey, did I just mention Animal Farm and Tsubasa in the same post? I WIN.

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

The Skull And The Octopus

JUST BECAUSE...
Books I Love
1.On The Day I Died,Candice Fleming(Read. This. Book.)
2. Midnighters, Scott Westerfield(Amazingly sci-fi-y while still being fantasy enough for me)
3.Beauty Queens, Libba Bray.(So damn funny)
4.The Soldiers Of Halla, D.J. MacHale(He brought my favorite character back to life, and she gets a huge role in this book.
I need to stop this list now, to explain about Kasha. She was a cat...a alien panther with ninja skills. Who can resist the alien panthers with ninja skills? If you aren't obsessed with black cats, ninjas, and sci-fi like me, perhaps you. She was my absolute favorite character in Pendragon. Then, she died in a rockfall. Skip forward a few months. I have finished the Warriors series 3(I hate that series, for reasons detailed here.). Hollyleaf, another awesome black cat with ninja skills, has died. In a rockfall. Skip forward another few months. I am feeling very depressed, due to something I cannot remember. Then, I realize: There is a literary conspiracy against awesome black cats. I was outraged, snapped out of my depression, and began making posters.
I'm sorry if I made you question my sanity.

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

It's Norse Mythology Week! I Just Made That Up!

I suppose you are all wondering where the hel I have been. I have been reading Runemarks(Oh my, that book is so good I may buy a copy), making a school-fantasy manga(you just have to sometimes), and making up a new holiday! It is Norse Mythology week now, and will be until next Wednesday, so go out and say 'hel' as many gratuitous times as you want! Watch Thor! Read The Children of Odin and Runemarks! What the hel! It's Norse mythology week!

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Alert Alert: New Functions And An Event!

New Function #1: Fictional Shakespeare. Fai will probably appear in every play,though. However, Eragon, Tomoyo, Eva-nyan, Kuron-puu,and Usagi will have lots of roles too...
New Function #2: Book Review!
Event: I will go to my sister Chestnut's  graduation Thursday June 21st, so be on the look out. I'll be the one in all black reading a smuggled in copy of Inheritance.

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

We Review:The Mediator Book 5!

MEG CABOT, YOU ARE A COMEDIC GENIUS. However, aside from the comedy, the shifter thing was a total letdown. I was hoping for Paul to be actually the spawn of Satan, but he wasn't, which sucked. Seriously, the Alice in The Last Apprentice thing was so cool that I hoped for another demon child, but it was not to be. Now I am sad. Here's a transcript of a chat between me and my friend to cheer you up, she also has a blog but I do not know the URL. I changed all names, so... Ta da!
22:46 Petronella: Hi
  did u get this
  hello?
  hi ANSWER
22:47 ARE U THERE
  HELLO?
  ANY ONE THERE?!
22:48 Necrogirl: Oh.MII CHAN FROM NEKO RAMEN RULES
 Petronella: HUZZAH!!!!!
 Necrogirl: Im weird
 Petronella: U ANWERD
 Necrogirl: 42
  wth?
 Petronella: I <3 Taisho from Neko Ramen.
22:49 I think that's how u spell his name
 Necrogirl: I I heart Mii-chan
22:50 Did i put in a extra i there?
 Petronella: yes
22:51 Necrogirl: i am thinking of noodles
  i am typing thknd ehilt koojjnh khtbd ringor/
22:52 

15 minutes
23:07 Necrogirl: kill

14 minutes
23:21 Petronella: :) :D
23:22 ok? I fixed grammar and spelling mistakes, and I apologize as to how late we are up. And no, we were NOT on drugs or possessed.

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Wednesday Pointless List: Tokyo Mew Mew edition!

WHAT I LIKE ABOUT TOKYO MEW MEW:
Zakuro is BLOODY AWESOME. She's like a girl version of Yue from Cardcaptor Sakura.
Pudding. Tart. BEST COUPLE EVER!
Mew Mew Kindergarten at the end of each volume.
Speaking of kindergarten,that one scene where Tart attacks Ichigo.
WHAT I DISLIKE ABOUT TOKYO MEW MEW:
Tokyo Mew Mew A La Mode. Even thinking about Mew Berry makes me break out in hives.
Ichigo's love life.
The fact that Zakuro is always given short shrift.
Masaya Aoyama. Ick.

Monday, May 28, 2012

A Hate Letter To Ichigo Momomiya

&*@# you. Why on earth do you think you can refer to yourself as 'oh-so-powerful'? You aren't just breaking the Magical Girl Code Of Conduct, you're being a jerk, and guess what? NONE OF YOUR WAY AWESOMER FRIENDS REFERRED TO THEMSELVES AS POWERFUL. NONE. Now what does this mean? That your friends don't feel the need to prop themselves up on ego? That you compulsively one-ups all of your so-called 'friends'? That you have a sense of girliness that makes you use hideous phrasing?
I will not even begin on the fact that you have no obstacles between you and the three hot guys falling at your feet, while the immeasurably cooler Evangeline had her true love disappear for 12 years and when she saw him again, he was only a hologram. The far cooler Syaoran had the girl he loved's memories of him erased. The incredibly cooler Arisa Uotani- All right, I'll stop. Hey. Speaking of magical girls. YOU AREN'T EVEN #$@^%%ING CLOSE TO THE POWER OF *&@@$ING SAILOR #@@$ING MERCURY, AND SHE'S THE @$@$ING WEAKEST SAILOR GUARDIAN. YOU SHOULD JUST CRAWL INTO A HOLE AND #$#@ING DIE.
Thank you very much.
 UPDATE: Actually Pudding referred to herself as powerful, but it would be dumb to not think she would. She's Pudding.

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

We Review: The Monster

Okay, my mom has a literary blog, so my house gets wonderful deliveries of books that aren't even out in hardcover yet, i.e., Troubletwisters book 2. I read one of these, and my comment is:
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD GET SOME OTHER TROUBLETWISTERS IN THERE. You think readers will be happy with just two magic kids? They won't, believe me. In a book 1 this is OK, but out of that it is NOT.
Other than that, the book was great. It gets extra points for having a mutated axolotl in it. Mutated axolotl! Mutated Axolotl would actually be a great band name. It could play weird arrhythmic void rock. MUTATED AXOLOTL: THE INSANE TOUR.