Okay, I've been very lazy about blogging. If I don't get it over with now, I'll forget what I did this summer and spiral down into desperation, filled with regret for wasting my life.
Which is only half-true, so let's start with the books.
Well, this was excellent, OBVIOUSLY. The introduction was a bit boring, but perhaps necessary. Anyway, our copy has a cover picture of Buttercup (in a white dress and wreath of flowers) and Westley (in sexy pirate-clothes) with their arms around each other and gazing bravely off into the horizon. I was reading this as the semester ended to help me not go mental, and everybody just had to remark on the cover. They said it looked like some sort of swash-buckling, corset-ripping romance novel. I tried to explain it was a comedy, but I could see in their eyes (and great, big smirk) that nobody really believed me. Gah.
Book 21: Airborn, by Kenneth Oppel
I re-read this because the third book in the series was delivered a few weeks ago, and I wanted to refresh my memory before digging in. I remembered basically nothing from Airborn except that I really, really liked it when I first read it.
See, the thing is I guess I was 14 or so when I read it the first time, which fits into the target audience for the book. I'm 18 now and the story was cool, but the narration wasn't stellar and the main characters annoyed me because they were immature (which is to be expected, seeing as they're 15). The redeeming bit is that it has PIRATES! in it, but I don't think I'll finish the series for now.
Book 22: The Opposite of Invisible, by Liz Gallagher
It's one of those girl-enters-adolescence novels (that sounds gross, sorry. It's not). It was predictable, and the characters were typical, and overall it was pretty similar to the other books of this genre. This was on the better end of the spectrum, though.
Book 23: Peeps, by Scott Westerfeld
This was really, really, REALLY good! It's well-written, well-researched, has vampires and has parasites! It talks about the biology of several parasites and now I want to be a parasitologist (predictably).
Book 24: Good In Bed, by Jennifer Weiner
This started out as a nice, normal chick-lit book and progressed rather in the usual fashion until the end, at which point it got weird. Very weird. But it was still good.
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