Blue is For Nightmares : Of Wicca and white lillies.

"That's when I know for sure. If I want to save Drea, I'll have to do it myself."

This is the last book I have stashed away to blog about, so probably some lyrics or a painting next week. D:
Anyway, this book is the start a four-book series, all of which are fantastic books. This author is one of my favorites, because she wrote my favorite book every, Project 17.
This one is about a girl who practices Wicca. Yes, all you people who think that's terrible and witchcraft or whatever can stop reading right now. Her name is Stacey, and she keeps having these premonitious dreams about her friend, Drea being taken away. In these dreams, she sees white lillies, which are supposedly the flowers of death.
Slowly and slowly, Stacey's dreams become more descriptive, and some seem to cross over into her reality. Turns out that someone is stalking her friend Drea with phonecalls and lillies showing up at their dorm. As the day the stalker wants to present himself to Drea becomes closer, Stacey soon realizes that she's the only one who can save her.
It's a great book, I highly suggest it and any other books written by this author.

Unwind : Do we die? Or do we live? We do both.

"The seconds Civil War, also known as "The Heartland War," was a long and bloody conflict fought over a single issue.

To end the war, a set of constitutional amendments known as "The Bill of Life" was passed.

It satisfied both the Pro-life and Pro-choice armies.

The Bill of Life states that human life may not be touched from the momrnt of conception until a child reaches the age of thirteen.

However, between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, a parent may choose to retroactively "abort" a child...

...on the condition that the child's life doesn't "technically" end.

This process by which a child is both terminated and yet kept alive is called "unwinding."

Unwinding is now a common, and accepted practice in society."

Loonnnggg quote, sorry about that. It's really hard to explain the amount of awesome put into this book. It's by Neal Shusterman, who is such a creative author, he should get some award for it.

Unwind is about a futuristic America. This book dives right in to one of the most controversial topics in society today: abortion. In this futuristic world, there has been a second civil war between the two pro-life and pro-choice sides. Like the quote says, it was long and bloody, and one simple thing fixed it all; they called it The Bill of Life. This states that, if you do not want a child, you can get rid of it, just not by way of abortion. But, between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, a child can be unwound. Unwinding is the process of taking a child apart and using them for donor parts. (Gross, I know, but when the book does explain it, it's not bloody or disgusting at all, it just really sends shivers up your spine.) These children are sent to an Unwind Camp, where they basically wait to get chopped up.

This book focuses on three different children who are sent to be unwound. These children are often called "Unwinds" by the world. The first kid's named Connor, and he is being unwound by his own parents. There's Risa, who has lived in a state home her entire life, is being unwound to cut orphanage costs. Then there's Lev, who is being unwound because he is a Tithe. In the bible, apparently, it says you should try to give ten percent of everything to your church. Lev's parents had ten children. Byebye, Lev.

These three unfortunate souls run away from their unwinding to a sanctuary where everyone is an unwind, and even get a taste of the dreaded Unwind Camp. You even meet a few other amusing characters on the way.

This book is absoluetely amazing. I suggest this to anyone who likes Sci-fi, or is just interested in this kind of stuff. It's great, this author is great, and I suggest you check it out.

Unfortunate English : The Gloomy Truth Behind The Words You Use.

No quote from this one because it's currently locked up in a suitcase, along with the rest of my books. We're gonna paint my room this weekend and you really don't care. (:

I was thinking about what we needed to read this term. Then I realized I didn't do the one for last quarter. Oops. Here it goes!

I picked up this book at The Afternoon, expecting something hilarious or down right vile and horrendous, because, well, I got it at The Afternoon, you go in there and expect the unexpected. I got both. This book is a sort of dictionary; it tells you the true origins and the meaning of the word. And, I tell you, some of them are pretty funny and disgusting and disturbing all at the same time.

I'm finding it rather hard to write about a nonfiction book. But the idea of this one was really great, it's not written by a doctor or anything, so I suppose it isn't quite the most officially type of book, but whatever. It's entertaining.

I suggest this book for anyon willing to help this author become rich and to anyone whose morbid and hilarious all at the same time. (:

The Westing Game : Sixteen Heirs, One Killer.

"SEVENTH - And now, dear friends, relatives and enemies, the Westing game begins."

I have had no time to read, so I'm going with something old, again. The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin is one of those mysteries you just can't put down. The writing isn't superb, but, like Neal Shusterman books, the originality and ability to bring this story to life through words makes up for even the worst of writing styles. (And I am in no way saying that either author is terrible at what they do, I'm just saying it could get a little better.) Any one person who could come up with such a twisted plot as this one deserves and award, and bygolly, she got one.

As for the plot of this, it's about a place called Sunset Towers, a sort of fancy apartment building with maid service and doormen and such, and the people who live there. Sixteen people were invited to live in this place, which happened to be about a mile down from the mansion owned by Sam Westing, the mysterious owner of a paper product company that went missing many years before. Minus this detail, all sixteen lead normal live.

That was, until, on a casual Haloween dare, Turtle Wexler, the youngest living in Sunset Towers spent the night in the Westing mansion. What she found was not a pleasant sight. Samuel Westing was dead in his bed, peaceful as ever. Being as this was, the very next day, all sixteen people were called down to the main dining hall to read the will. Turns out, all sixteen were heirs.

Except for one. In Sam Westing's will, he makes his heirs play a masterful game of chess in order to find his killer, whom of which is hidden within the sixteen heirs.

Tried not to give too much away, sorry if I did! I suggest you read it and think about the not-obvious whilst doing so.