An Abundance of Katherines : 19 and Counting...

No quote for this one because it's buried within the confines of a suitcase with is in the hold of the unfinished bathroom across the hall. Will I ever put my room back together?

But this book, oh this book, is amazing. It's so different from anything I've ever read. First off, it's hilarious. The characters Green presents to the audience are filled with all these quirky characteristics that make them interesting. Secondly, the story is great and original. And, lastly, there are footnotes. Yes, footnotes. This book has footnotes explaining certain things in it, which adds to the amount of laughs you get from it.

The story starts with a child prodigy. A super-smart child who can anagram anything. (i.e. Joe Biden = I need job.) It also includes a rather funny Muslim who likes to insult his own culture. Basically, they go on a roadtrip the summer before they both hit the books and run off to college. That's when they find a place called Gutshot, and the main character (Blasphemy! I can't remember his name.) has an idea. He decides to make a formual for when I girl plans on dumping you.

I'll leave it at that and just urge you to read it. (:

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.

Paper Towns : Viewing People in a Different Light.

"Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved myseries so much that she became one."

Now, once again, this isn't what I'm currently reading, but I like to review a different book each week. I'm still reading Suite Scarlett. Read what I wrote about it down there.

But, this work of art is so good it took me forever just to find a quote, because all of the book is just that amazing.

Paper Towns is the twisted tale of two very different people that were once childhood friends, but slowly drifted apart after both found a man dead in the park on a playdate. Soon, they became very different people as they moved on to bigger and better things, like the tremendously terrifying walk over hot coals called High School. Margo, now the pretty and popular girl of the school had become a mystery to those around her. No one really had an idea about what she was really like, not even her friends. Then there's Ben, the band geek and all around nice guy, and he's been chosen to solve the mystery of Margo. Many hilarious things soon ensue that involve beer kegs, the world's largest balls, and the world's largest collection of Black Santa's.

John Green, the writer of this book, is amazing. I've gone to see him with a friend of mine, and have my copy of Paper Towns and An Abundance of Katherines signed by him. (He has terrible handwriting.) But, he's also the other half of the vlogbrothers. If you're heard of them, you're officially amazing, and if you haven't, go here www.youtube.com/vlogbrothers and check them out.

This book is actually a little raunchy, so I suggest this to anyone who has parents that approve! ;D

Suite Scarlett : Droop On, My Lifeless Friends.

"This book is dedicated to anyone who has ever played a dead body on stage or screen. It takes a big actor to lie on the ground and pretend they're dead. Droop on, my lifeless friends."

More Maureen Johnson, yes. I'm slowly falling in love with her books. She writes in this overly witty manner that could charm anyone into reading the books she writes. It's just the way she strings together words and paints these scenes with the characters she's got her hands on, it's quite amazing, and quite hilarious.

Johnson takes characters like the ones in Suite Scarlett, her newest book, throws them in a hotel that's slowly loosing it's income, and magically has this story. It isn't just one story going on, either; many of the characters in this book are parts of subplots that just all string back to the bigger picture, which is a lot of what real life really is like. That, in addition to the witty and flawed characters, gives the book a big shot of realism.

But, as for the story(suppose I should mention that?), Scarlett, and the rest of the four children living in, running and owning the Hopewell hotel with their parents in New York City, when one turns fifteen, they become in charge of a Suite within the hotel, taking care of any guest that comes upon it. But when this declining Art Deco hotel built in the Roaring Twenties recieves a guest staying for the entire summer in Scarlett's glorious Empire Suite, her boring friendless, vacation-less summer becomes a whole lot more busy.

I'm, honestly, not very far into it, but, hey, it's great so far and I suggest it to anyone whose up for a great story about washed-up actors, Art Deco Hotels, and just life and all it's humurous games.