The Viscount Who Loved Me

This book was another Julia Quinn feast for my reading. I keep wondering how I can stand them, I mean I am very realistic and anti-romantic - I once on a date asked the guy :"Are you gonna kiss me now or what?"
well I didn't like him that much so I didn't care.
But it is like I can spend time with her characters, spend my time - does that qualify as a hobby? or is it even considered reading books? I reached 58 books last year and at least half were of historical romance genre. Is that considered a literary accomplishment?
Still, I was never -ever!-bookish, uni was spent in a flash just merely passing my classes to get the diploma with no effort, my read book list included Harry Potter, the memoirs of a Geisha and 2 Philippa Gregory on Henry VIII era. So from there I moved to Jo Beverly's novels- which I adored- till I tried out Julia Quinn where my fascination took its peak!Julia's books were like walk through the park compared to Jo's. Jo Beverly was more detailed and tiring (lets say..) while Julia is so much more fun and mischevious!
So hear hear to Ms Julia Quinn!
I was googling for a pic for this post and I came across this one above - so cliché... Reminds me of a friend who commented that my readings are Harlequin as in Harlequin Enterprises of romance books. Here lies my dillema whether my reading list is actually that - reading...

Links to two Julia Quinn's quizzes:
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The Maze Runner 2: The Scorch Trials

The trials begin when the group thought they reached the line and safety. That was the worse feeling: grasping safety and calamity and losing it all in one glimpse. The plot thickens with another group of girls and one boy, a mirror to their own. The Gladers follow once again the route to the solution, and Thomas's role starts to submerge as the leader and key to their trials and the supposedly cure to the supposed disease of the Flare that has infested the whole human race.
The book finishes in the end of again another end line of safety and I just want to know why this all happens!!!seriously!and I'll have to wait till Oct 2011 for that!thanks alot!

So instead of the summary I wrote a summary turned criticism....
Really I cannot figure out why when they went through all of the desert and found the save heaven they had to be attacked by mean tall light-bulb-covered monsters one for each for them to finish the trial... That's why I need to know the end of No 3- all these trials make NO SENSE and I better find out that it was worth the ride or else I'm flying to the USA (I guess with such imagination thats where he is from) and / or shaming him in every book blog I can reach in my fast-typing fingers,,,,
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The Maze Runner, James Dashner

Thomas, a kid, woke up in a place he didn't know, with people he didn't recognize and a memory that couldn't help him more than his name and his basic instincts. He now has to live in the Glader, the center of the maze that serves as the safe (from the Grinders - killers loose in the maze) living quarters for the kids sent here to survive with tools and supplies provided by the Creators all for one purpose: to find the solution of the maze and go home. Or so they thought....

The books was a mystery, and a tricky one at that! All the questions were frustrating and the characters were giving me a good run for them but in the end patience had to be adopted. I hoped the complexity of the mystery would be worth it and it totally did!!But it only made me more curious for the second book!!!!ai ai ai!!!I guess I have to oblige to my curiosity! I loved the puzzle most of all, it was tricky because at some points I flirted with the idea of skipping some parts but it wouldn't be the same - the lazy parts always give way to the build up of the good parts of a book :) Totally worth being no1 book for 2011!Happy new year!

I am bored

I see the days passing by, every morning as boring as the one before and I can't stop my self from revisiting the days when I had nothing to do and from that occupational discomfort I started gaining weight due to the fact that my first thought when I woke up was 'what shall I eat now?'
It is quite disturbing knowing that for 6 years - going for 7th, I have been gaining and loosing 14 pounds - 7 kg on average from winter to sumer again and again. I do not know what is the matter!
After year 4 I did identify the problem fully and I just observed myself that during the months of October and November I tend to eat more than usual due to stress and actually bad mood.
So on the next year (year 5 - 2009) I started weekly exercising on a weekly basis from 1 to 2 times a week - for the period October to December I might have missed 1 week at most. So the problem arose when instead of gaining the pounds from january as was custom in years 1 through 4 I began to gain weight in april and by march (i recall my best friend's birthday) I was in full scale of my overweightness....
So I ask you - what is my problem?
Well through informal psychotherapy with my friends I need a new job, my own apartment and to get the hell out of my house and family because my concern and anxieties for them are irrational and choking me without any chance to breathe.
How is that an explanation?
I am so tired...
So tired of thinking of all of this...
I wish I had a place to stay for a while to figure it out...

An offer from a Gentleman

This was an amazing book! Sophie with the Cinderella story with the Bridgerton lovely character and the 1830's debonair! I seem to consume Julia Quinns books!About this 100 books/ year challenge I might not make it but do the Julia Quinn books count?They are entertaining and feeding my romance vibe (which in real life I detest) but do they count as a book which you reach catharsis (it does offten reffer to tragedies and plays) or just any book counts?
Any the case it did prompt me to start more books than usual...:D
Well I have ordered more paperbacks from www.awesomebooks.com which is an amazing site. I first knew AwesomeBooks through www.abebooks.co.uk through which I bought most of my used paperbacks thanks to their relatively low postage charge to Europe from the UK. So last week I got a promotional email and tadaaaaa £0.59 for the first book and the rest free for postage to Europe!!!Huraiiii!!!Plus, there are promotions and sales and Bin books to chose from!!!Bought the first batch last Wed and it sais it was dispatched last Friday!Lets see how long it will take (3-14 days estimation)!!!
Will start on any book of the Bridgerton series I couldn't find to buy!!xoxo

Bridgerton Family

• The Duke and I (2000) - Simon Bassett - Daphne Bridgerton
  
• The Viscount Who Loved Me (2000) -
  
• An Offer From A Gentleman (2001) - Sophie Bekket - Benedict Bridgerton
  
• Romancing Mister Bridgerton (2002) -Penelope Ferthington - Colin Bridgerton
  
• To Sir Phillip, With Love (2003)
• When He Was Wicked (2004)
• It's In His Kiss (2005)
• On the Way to the Wedding (2006)

Misguided Angel, Melissa de la Cruz

Now I know why I couldn't finish Torment -it def sucked...
Misguided Angel flew off, I was reading it away!I missed that!

Synopsis:
Schyler and Jack flee from their protector turned captor the duchess while continuing her grandfathers research.
We learn about Venators - immortals who serve at least 50 times in good faith and gain the job/privilege of protecting Blue Bloods. Mimi is the Regent of the NY coven - she faces an abduction of a vampire and calls in Deming Chen from the Shanghai Coven to solve the case...
The narrator turns to her which is new and interesting!Deming is one of the twins we met briefly at the Coming Out party of our Blue Bloods of Masquarade.

It was interesting!!yei!!!cheers!!def recommended!!!!

EaSy AAAAAAAAAAAAAA! TOTALLY AMAZING!

I noticed Emma Stone from the 'House Bunny'(2008) and I've been waiting on this movie for a month plus!I watched it in bad quality but so totally worth it!!!!!She is my new role model!Funny, cute and totally cool!Not afraid to make fun of herself at all and charming as well!!!I would have to note that her co-star in this movie Amanda Bynes was on that track as well with movies like 'What a Girl Wants'(2003) and 'She's the Man'(2008) till she got all puffed up in the face (literally) because of plastic surgery or natural growth(the online debate goes on all around).
So this movie.... has Amanda as a total smart and self confident to the point of not carring about rummors- high-school-popularity that makes it interesting and totaly relatable to grown ups who hated high school (who doesn't). Of course it has a love twisth with Gossip Girl's Penn Badgley (I had to copy paste his name as I don't admire him at all...) but she makes it all work - like the movie is good because she is good!I can't stop using exclamation marks!!!!!!!!
Thank you for reminding me what a good movie feels like!!Easy to watch and easy to be cheered up by it!Cheers!!!!