Scarlett Fever by Maureen Johnson
This is the second in the Scarlett series - this one I actually had to buy so you know I must like it :) I don't have a lot to say about this book except for that it was really funny and I am looking forward to the next in the series.
This book had a lot of good lines - a few of my favorites:
"He was spraying the delicate orchid on the coffee table with water, pumping the bottle hard, as if the orchid had said something offensive about his mom."
"Your brother has an audition tomorrow for Crime and Punishment! He is reading for the part of a young pervert! He'll enjoy that!"
"'I am making a new start,' she said to the computer. 'If I try to look at the video I need you to explode.' The computer made no promises."
"I'm not always going to be like 'this,' Scarlett said. 'I've been useful to you, right?"
"I'm probably going to stick with the plant." "Nature's toothbrush' Scarlett said. 'Or something like that."
Thursday, February 25, 2010
No. 23: Suite Scarlett
Suite Scarlett by Maureen Johnson
This was a FREE book I got several weeks ago and then never got to because I was reading Little Women FOREVER. But I finished Little Women this morning and then read two more books tonight. That is just how I am - wildly inconsistent.
This book was great!!! It is a young adult book, about a girl named Scarlett who lives with her family in a falling apart hotel in Manhattan. The family owns the hotel and even though that seems awesome it is not and they are poor and have to do a lot of work. Which does not sound funny, but this book was actually very funny. It is a series - there are two out now and hopefully more to come!
This was a FREE book I got several weeks ago and then never got to because I was reading Little Women FOREVER. But I finished Little Women this morning and then read two more books tonight. That is just how I am - wildly inconsistent.
This book was great!!! It is a young adult book, about a girl named Scarlett who lives with her family in a falling apart hotel in Manhattan. The family owns the hotel and even though that seems awesome it is not and they are poor and have to do a lot of work. Which does not sound funny, but this book was actually very funny. It is a series - there are two out now and hopefully more to come!
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
No. 22: Little Women
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
I have been reading this book for almost the whole month. I liked it, but it was long and not an easy read by any stretch of the imagination. But thanks to a fairly self sufficient student government class I am subbing for, I was able to finish.
I don't think I have ever read this book before, although I seemed to know what happened. Maybe because I saw the movie a million years ago. I have been reading it for so long that I can't really remember what I wanted to post about. I thought it a bit heavy on the moralizing and made me feel kind of crappy about my own failings. But the plot was interesting and I enjoyed it. A very sad part came during a class I was subbing for today and I almost cried, but didn't want to embarrass myself in front of high schoolers so I held back :)
My favorite lines:
"dear me, let us be elegant or die."
"Don't laugh, but your nose is such a comfort to me."
I have been reading this book for almost the whole month. I liked it, but it was long and not an easy read by any stretch of the imagination. But thanks to a fairly self sufficient student government class I am subbing for, I was able to finish.
I don't think I have ever read this book before, although I seemed to know what happened. Maybe because I saw the movie a million years ago. I have been reading it for so long that I can't really remember what I wanted to post about. I thought it a bit heavy on the moralizing and made me feel kind of crappy about my own failings. But the plot was interesting and I enjoyed it. A very sad part came during a class I was subbing for today and I almost cried, but didn't want to embarrass myself in front of high schoolers so I held back :)
My favorite lines:
"dear me, let us be elegant or die."
"Don't laugh, but your nose is such a comfort to me."
Thursday, February 4, 2010
No. 21: Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
One of the coolest things about kindle is that they have tons of free books available - mostly classics. I thought I would take advantage of this and read one of my all time favorite books. Pride and Prejudice is so good - there are so many excellent lines!!! I used (for the first time) the highlighter feature of the Kindle - you can highlight passages and then it keeps track of them and later you can access a list of all the highlighted sections.
For your reading pleasure - here are some of my favorite quotes:
"I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person."
"I could easily forgive HIS pride, if he had not mortified MINE."
"it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life."
"And now nothing remains but for me to assure you in the most animated language of the violence of my affection."
"Without thinking highly of either men or matrimony, marriage had always been her object"
"Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all."
"In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."
All excellent quotes - takes me back to high school when I had a notebook where I collected my favorite quotes from books and movies. I think I am going to employ the highlighter feature more often so I can put good and especially bad passages in the blog.
One of the coolest things about kindle is that they have tons of free books available - mostly classics. I thought I would take advantage of this and read one of my all time favorite books. Pride and Prejudice is so good - there are so many excellent lines!!! I used (for the first time) the highlighter feature of the Kindle - you can highlight passages and then it keeps track of them and later you can access a list of all the highlighted sections.
For your reading pleasure - here are some of my favorite quotes:
"I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person."
"I could easily forgive HIS pride, if he had not mortified MINE."
"it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life."
"And now nothing remains but for me to assure you in the most animated language of the violence of my affection."
"Without thinking highly of either men or matrimony, marriage had always been her object"
"Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all."
"In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."
All excellent quotes - takes me back to high school when I had a notebook where I collected my favorite quotes from books and movies. I think I am going to employ the highlighter feature more often so I can put good and especially bad passages in the blog.
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