Friday 30 December 2011

looking back over 2011

Yeah it’s the end of 2011 and close coming in 2012, which is a big year for me (my sons starting Kindy) but I thought, since really, it’s something that I have been looking into over the last couple of days, I thought I would put this up as a show of all the books that I have read, like, for the first time, in 2011 (though this one started up in April) they are in order of when I read them.

Thursday 29 December 2011

when I look back

So, I have been noticing that a lot of people are doing a look back over the year and giving us there favourites out of the lot of them. You know, the different genre and all that crap. 

Well, I thought, well, it wasn't pleasant because I'm not in the best of moods, and more to the point I like the idea but didn't. so instead of that crap I'm going to tell you the books that are most rememberable, being that in the next couple of days I will be doing a post of all the books that I have read this year and going over that list I hadn't realised that I had read half of them, mostly because they just were....well, they didn't hit it with me, even though I liked them a lot while reading them. 

So my most read book of 2011 was.....

ONE PIECE vols 26-39


Prod dets
One Piece series, Vols 26—39
Pub: SHUEISHA Inc, Tokyo
Author & Art: Eiichiro Oda
Cat: pirates
Format: graphic novel, paperback; chapters 237 to 377
Age Range: YA

    Synopsis
As a child, Monkey D. Luffy dreamed of becoming king of the Pirates. But his life changed when he accidentally gained the power to stretch like rubber....at the cost of never being able to swim again! Years later, Luffy sets off in search of the “One Piece,” said to be the greatest treasure in the world...

ADVENTURE ON KAMI’S ISLAND
The Straw Hats have made it to the ocean in the sky, but not everything is as angelic as they had imagined charged with the illegal entry, they are being pursued by not only the Skypiea Police, but all the other inhabitants of the sky too! Everyone wants them out, but will these outlaws be allowed to leave in peace?!

Wednesday 28 December 2011

review (replacements)


 (read: April ‘11)
      The Replacements

    Prod dets
Replacement series, book 1
Pub: 2010, Razorbill
Author: Brenna Yovanoff
Cat: fiction
Format: paperback (ful); 375 pp w/ 32 chapters
Age Range: YA                                                 

            Synopsis
Mackie Doyle is the Replacement. Though he lives in the small town of Gentry, Mackie comes from a world of tunnels and black murky water, a world of living dead girls ruled by a little tattooed princess. He is a Replacement – left in the crib of a human baby sixteen years ago. Now, because of fatal allergies to iron, blood, and consecrated ground, Mackie is slowly dying in the human world.
    
Mackie would give anything to live among us, to practise on his bass guitar spend time with an oddly intriguing girl called Tate. But when Tate’s baby sister goes missing, Mackie is drawn irrevocably into the underworld of Gentry, known as Mayhem. He must face the dark creatures of the Slag Heaps and find his rightful place – in our world, or theirs.

     my Thoughts (review)

Tuesday 27 December 2011

what I got for christmas

I know it's a little late, but since my man had the days off and well...he's really into battleship on facebook, or at least he plays it and so, he's had control of the computer (mostly because, well, I let him I guess, I could have bitched and wined, like a good woman, but fuck it, I had One Piece to read so I was cool with it)

So I got the BEST present for Christmas this year! 
 (sorry 'bout the crap photo)
See what I mean?! Awesomely cool. My sister’s man made it for me, because I, well, wanted a new blanket with a satin edging because, well, I love running that shit threw my fingers. Really, it's nice, you should try it. 

that's it, just wanted to brag a little about my present because it's just so nice and soft and cuddly and it's just one of those presents you get that you can't stop touching and using, and well, I can’t all that much because it's summer and over Christmas has actually been hot these last couple of days (miracle as this is, it sucks because I want to cuddle under my blanket.
    Well that's all
Thanks for the time

Sunday 25 December 2011

Happy Christmas Everyone!


Merry Christmas Everyone!!!
hope you are having a great day something that you can reflect upon when you have to pull down all the christmas decorations.

Saturday 24 December 2011

REVIEW (dead girls dance)


Good news, girls: your dates are here!
Bad news, girls: they’re dead.

      The Dead Girl’s Dance
 
    Prod dets
Morganville Vampires series, book 2
Pub: 2007, (razor bill) Penguin Group
Author: Rachel Caine
Cat: paranormal fiction
Format: paperback (mid); 380 pp w/ 13 chapters
Age Range: YA

                Synopsis
Claire Danvers has had her share of challenges – like being a genius in a school that favours beauty over brains, dealing with the homicidal girls in her dorm and, above all, finding out that her college town is overrun with blood-sucking fiends. On the plus side, so far Claire and her friends have managed to survive getting on the wrong side of some Morganville VIPs...Vampire Important Persons. But their temporary peace is in danger of collapsing, thanks to the arrival of her new boyfriend’s scary father and his vampire-fighting supporters.

      my Thoughts (review)

Friday 23 December 2011

Why I love ONE PIECE! #1


This is odd but I made a decision when I started doing the big reviews that I wasn’t actually going to fully review mangas because you would basically have a whole lot of....

OMG they are so awesome, really!!!! You’re a dick if you don’t read them Now!!!
Honestly they are the best, read it. Now!!!!
Ahhhhhh, this is the greatest, honestly, the best so far!!!

And so on and so on, kinda to a point that you'll never actually read my post because they are nothing but me telling you that I love'em, and you have to have guessed that I do by now, right? 

so instead I'm going to do this post ever 25 books, or so. this is were I tell you all about my deep seeded love for draw characters and how much of a love struck idiot I am. though the good news is that when we get to the 60 something books, when they come ever two months or something it will be longer between these post, so that's good.

anyway, let the fun begin.....

One Piece (20-25)


  From
      Showdown at Alubarna   to
                    The 100 Million Berry Man

    Prod dets
OnePiece series, Vols 20--25
Pub: SHUEISHA Inc, Tokyo
Author & Art: Eiichiro Oda
Cat: pirates
Format: graphic novels, paperback
Age Range: YA

    Synopsis
As a child, Monkey D. Luffy dreamed of becoming King of the Pirates. But his life changed when he accidently gained the power to stretch like rubber...at the cost of never being able to swim again! Years later, Luffy sets off in search of the “One Piece,” said to be the greatest treasure in the world....

Showdown at Alubarna
When leaving Rainbase to head off the rebels in the capital city of Alubarna, Luffy gets pulled aside by Crocodile for some cozy one-on-one time! With only three minutes to fight, can Luffy take on the sand pirate on his domain?! The rest of the crew must help Vivi stop the rebels, but the formidable Officer Agents have been waiting for them at the city gates! Will Vivi be in time to stop the inevitable clash between the rebels and the Army?!

Tuesday 20 December 2011

okay....

...my lovely, I have just been looking up books, because I have the time and am bored out of my mind. why I don't write, it's because....

 I found this on Gena Sowalter....                                                                 [infor from fan sight
 
Wicked Nights is the first book in the Angels of the Dark series--a spin off from the Lords of the Underworld. This is a June 26, 2012 release.

From the New York Times bestselling author who brought you the Lords of the Underworld comes a dark, seductive new series featuring angels poised at the brink of destruction…

Leader of the most powerful army in the heavens, Zacharel has been deemed too dangerous, too ruthless, and if he isn’t careful, he’ll lose his wings.  But this warrior with a heart of ice will not be deterred . . . until a vulnerable human tempts him with a carnal pleasure he’s never before known.
 
Accused of a crime she did not commit, Annabelle Miller has spent four years in an institution for the criminally insane.  Demons track her every move, and their king will stop at nothing to have her.  Zacharel is her only hope for survival, but is the brutal angel with a touch as hot as hell her salvation—or her ultimate damnation?

Monday 19 December 2011

REVIEW (vampire kisses)


 the begining
(26) (25/April/11)
      Vampire Kisses

    Prod dets
Vampire kisses series, book 1
Pub: 2003, HarperCollins, USA
Cat: paranormal romance
Format: paperback (mid); 196 pp w/ 22 chapters
Age Range: YA
Borrowed this from my local library             

            Synopsis
sixteen-year-old Raven, an outcast who always wears black and hopes to become a vampire some day, falls in love with the mysterious new boy in town, eager to find out if he can make her dreams come true.

     my Thoughts (review)

Lame as we know me


Hey, hi, how are ya doin'? 

let's here it quick, before we start! a random unanswerable question: Can God create a bigger boulder than he can roll?

it's come to my notice that I'm sucking something chronic with the whole reading books thing, and it’s not all that bad, I don't think, because I've never actually said that I was a review blog (okay, okay, I haven't ON my blog, but when you all come on over you think that I might be--I think, really I'm not quite sure what interests you in my blog, but anyway....)


The last couple of days I have been doing nothing by revisions with all the books that I have already written. I see this as a lame attempt to not say they words 'I'm a lazy ass who can't write anymore' not that it's true I'm also writing something new--yeah, aren't I always. I think so.

Saturday 17 December 2011

responding to a blog/vlog

hey y'all I was just watching Book Chat: series vs. stand-alone books from Misty the Book Rat, and thought I'd respond.

I was really thinking about it when she spoke, about the fact that some books just work well as a series and other tend to feel as if they are just creating it to gain money, I even thought I spoke about this because I read one like it. But I'm not 100% sure. 

I really like series when it comes to romances, the series that hold the same world, the same style, and even the same people, but each book is a different couple. I just don't seem to like, nor do I more one when a series is set in a one person mind. there are only three I have that I have done will with but mostly because they were all there when I started the series rather than me having to wait--that's when I tend to forget about it, also when I have a problem with the main characters personality, because it's never going to get better, more than not, that crap part of their personality actually gets more pronounced.

ONE PIECE

  From Instinct to Rebellion

    Prod dets
OnePiece series, Vols 14—19
Pub: SHUEISHA Inc, Tokyo
Author & Art: Eiichiro Oda
Cat: pirates
Format: graphic novel, paperback; 1216 pp w/ chapters 118 to 187
Age Range: YA
    Synopsis
Baroque works part 3 of 13
As a child Monkey D. Luffy dreamed of becoming King of the Pirates. But his life changed when he accidentally gained the power to stretch like rubber...at the cost of never being able to swim again! Years later, Luffy sets off in search of the “One Piece”, said to be the greatest treasure in the world....
Instinct
Someone has given Dorry the Giant exploding ale and he’s not happy! Assuming it was Luffy and crew; he launches an all-out attack and is soundly defeated by the rubbery power of the Gum-Gum Rocket! But mystery is afoot—if Luffy didn’t slip the giant the exploding brew, just who did?

    Catch up.... Monkey D. Luffy started out as just a kid with a dream—and that dream was to become the greatest pirate in history! Stirred by the tales of pirate “Red-Haired” Shank, Luff vowed to become a pirate himself. That was before the enchanted Devil Fruit gave Luffy the power to stretch like rubber, at the cost of being unable to swim—a serious handicap for an aspiring sea dog. Undeterred, Luffy sat out to sea and recruited a couple of crewmates: master swordsman Zolo and treasure-hunting thief Nami and lying sharp-shooter Usopp, and Sanji, the high-kicking chef.

REVIEW (Pleasure of a Dark Prince)


‘Gifts from gods always come with a price. Are you ready to pay mine?’
 (read: 16/Dec/11)
      Pleasure of a Dark Prince

    Prod dets
Immortal After Dark series, book 7
Pub: 2010, Simon & Schuster
Author: Kresley Cole
Cat: Paranormal Romance
Format: paperback (mid); 431 pp w/ 54 chapters
Whose: Lucia & Garreth
Age Range: Adult

                Synopsis
In exchange for her life, Lucia the Huntress has made a promise to the Goddess Skathi, a promise she is determined to keep. Like her saviour, Lucia is now an Archer, but her immeasurable skills as a hunter are on loan, and conditional upon her word.

If she is to defeat the evil Cruach once and for all, and save her world from apocalypse, she cannot risk her talents as a hunter. But when she meets Garreth MacRieve, prince of the Lykkae, her extraordinary strength of will is truly tested.

MacRieve is determined to win the Valkyrie and keep her safe from harm. But despite the surprising force of her attraction to him, Lucia will not give in, for she knows it is not safe for her to be with the fierce werewolf whose smouldering eyes weaken her resolve each time she sees him.

The secrets she harbours could destroy her—and those she loves –and every day brings more danger. MacRieve could help her, but will she trust him with the truth?


      my Thoughts (review)

Tuesday 13 December 2011

some more books

Since I can't seem to walk into a shop without looking at the books and mostly I end up buying 1 or 2 no matter what I just can't seem to help myself. 

anyway, I only got 2 and they were cheep as shit. 


Suzzanne McLeod, the Sweet Scent of Blood, b1, Spellcrackers series
Stephanie Draven, Poisoned Kisses, b3, Mythica series

I'm also half way threw Pleasure of a Dark Prince by Kresely Cole. I would have finished it but it seems that all her books, all the characters found there mates in the same week and so I'm now up to the part that actually matters, the parts that weren't in someone elses books. so... look forward to that review which will be coming in the next couple of says I think.

That's all for me this day. 
Oh, I also bought series 2 of Criminal Minds, not that it's a book, but the price of the series has been dropped from like $70 or $30 so I thought, why not. at least I did with series 1, series 2 I really needed because of the killer chif hanger at the end of the 1st one. 

Thanks for the time