Bargain Book Haul

Since I am afraid to put my face on the internet, you are going to have to read this book haul instead of watch it. Sorry for the inconvenience.

We  have this little bookstore in town that sells donated books for cheap prices, and I went with $20. I returned with $14,  fourteen books, and 9 cassette tape movies. They had a thing in the store where you could pay one dollar for a bag to put some books in from a selected area, so I got almost all of my books from that part. They also had a sale of cassette tapes. It was 3 for $1. Including a Harry Potter book, My total was $6. Pretty sweet if you ask me.

Here are the books I bought, in no particular order:

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

Contagion by Robin Cook

Shark Girl by Kelly Bingam (basically Soul Surfer but by another author)

Land's End by Michael Cunnigham

Redemption Song by Bertice Berry

Boomsday by Christopher Buckley

Pig Tale by Verlyn Flieger

Echelon (Still not sure how to properly pronounce it) by Josh Conviser

Sister Bernadette's Dog Barking by Kitty (ironic) Burns Florey

This is Where I Leave You by Johnathan Tropper

Memories of Anne Frank by Alison Leslie Gold

Let me Tell You a Story by Tony Campolo

American Bloomsbury by Susan Cheever

I will leave the Goodreads and the Bookdepository links at the bottom of this post for each book. Please feel free to check out the books, and even get them if you are interested.

The movies that I got were the following:

• Grease 
• Cats
• Starwars: Episode 1
• Spiderman
• Oklahoma
• Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
• Peewee's Big Adventure
• Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark

Know that this wasn't very interesting, but I just that that I might warn you about what is yet to come.

Thanks for... reading?





(Thanks to amazon.com and goodreads.com and other sites for the pictures of the books. I DO NOT OWN THESE PHOTOS NOR THE RIGHTS TO THEM. All credit goes to them)

Here are the links that I labored over for you:

The Time Machine:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2493.The_Time_Machine?ac=1
http://www.bookdepository.com/Time-Machine-Wells/9780141199344/?a_aid=mindlesshootenanny

Contagion:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66469.Contagion?from_search=true
http://www.bookdepository.com/Contagion-Cook-Robin/9780425155943/?a_aid=mindlesshootenanny

Shark Girl:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/615359.Shark_Girl?ac=1
http://www.bookdepository.com/Shark-Girl-Kelly-Bingham/9780763646271/?a_aid=mindlesshootenanny

Land's End:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/111081.Land_s_End?from_search=true
http://www.bookdepository.com/Lands-End-Michael-Cunningham/9780099464662/?a_aid=mindlesshootenanny

More soon.

BOOM.

...

Really busy...

I finished Camp NaNoWriMo if you were interested.

Promise more in future.
Promise.
Maybe.

Week 3-4

AHH IT'S TOO CLOSE TO THE END!!

I'm still behind.
Of course.

I am supposed to be at 27,000 words, and I am at 18,000.
I am planning on writing more often and for longer. I might pull a late-nighter.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

Calm down... I can do this.

Word count: 18,021

Camp NaNoWriMo 2013 Week 1-2

I am behind...

I was on vacation for the first week and a half, so I am incredibly behind. I am supposed to be at 14,677 words, and I am at about 7,000 words. I am going to work on that.

Current words: 6,923

Camp NaNoWriMo Day -1

Camp doesn't start until tomorrow, but I started early so I could get ahead for the busy days to come. I wrote about 800 words so far, but I want to  do the ewpd (estimated words per day), which is 1,130. I couldn't listen to music while I worked, so I watched Pocahontas and Pocahontas II. I need to start focusing if I want to complete this.

I don't have my laptop with me, so I am stuck in an uncomfortable office chair. My family is visiting my grandparents, so I'll be doing most of this at their house. I should have come more prepared. I have not prepared at all.

Tomorrow, it begins!

Yay...

Word count: 768

(BTW I am a Pantster! Go team!)

Camp NaNoWriMo 2013

Camp NaNoWriMo starts June 1st! Are you ready? Me neither.

This is two questions that you are probably wondering right now.

1. What is NaNoWriMo?
2. What are you doing for your novel?

NaNoWriMo is a sort of program where you can try to write a novel in a month. NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month. The big program starts in November, but the camps are a good way to get warmed up for the big one.

There is a set 50,000 word goal, but you can adjust it to where you feel comfortable. Since this is my first year trying to do anything like this, I am starting at a 35,000 goal. Hopefully in November I can get to the full 50,000.

You can check out what I am doing at my camp profile here:
http://www.campnanowrimo.org/campers/any1canbastar




I will be doing weekly updates both here and there, so stay posted, and see you soon!

Printed with Text

An Introduction

I am a young adult who loves books, and want to share my opinions. I know there are other people out there (in the real world. *shudder*), who also do, or younger or even older people who are interested in what we "young whippersnappers" are interested in these days.

Yes, this in a book review/critic site.

I almost stopped reading a few months ago because I got caught up in the internet. I was watching YouTube for hours a day and almost only read books I was required to read for Language Arts. I think I only read about 10 other books in all of 2013. I feel really bad about that. Really. Really. Bad.

As a child, I read tons of books, one of my life's greatest achievements is that I read all the Magic Tree House books that were out at that time. That was about 50. I spent all my time at the school library, and I seemed to always have my nose in a book. I didn't really do that last year.

To be honest, I miss it.

Now, thanks to several book-related YouTubers, (Ophillia Dagger, booksandquills...) I have begun to read again. Since I still spend a lot of time on the internet, I think that a blog would keep me on it. The internet ruined my reading life, but now, it is going to keep me on top of my reading. I will be telling you all what books I am reading, doing reviews, and doing book recommendations. This is, however, a young adult book website, so if you are younger or older, I apologize in advance if you lose interest.

These are the books I am reading now:

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
An Abundance of Kathrines and Papertowns by John Green
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglass Adams
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 
and two more I cannot remember.

So cheers to a new year of reading!