Listening to: Hotel Song - Regina Spektor

So I am currently cleaning my room or at least I should be.. It looks clean on the surface as long as you don’t look to hard you wont notice the desk covered in assorted crap, the overflowing laundry basket, the cracker crumbs on the floor, the books piled up so you can’t open the closet, the barely closed dresser drawers, and the closet which is a walk in by name only. I feel bad letting it get this far and my mom promised me she would take me by barns and noble tomorrow if I clean it up.. Once again my unread book supply is dwindling..

I am almost done with The Luxe, Hero, The Queen’s Soprano, The A-List, and The Sweet Far Thing. So about 500 pages of reading left.. I will finish The Sweet Far Thing today no doubt, it’s getting really good but I don’t want to give anything away ;).. I’m not quite done with the other two but here is my review of each..

The Luxe: This book is ok.. It’s set in manhattan at the end of the 19th century. Basically Gossip Girl with balls and horses. It’s rather predictable and the charicters are very steriotipcial. I’m really not that wild about it, there are tons of better books set in this time period *cough* A Great and Terrible Beauty *cough* I wouldn’t really recommend this book to anybody, it’s like 400+ pages long and plotless. Final verdict: 4/10 (The balls and manhattan count for something..)

Hero: This book is about a teenage boy with a homophobic father and has been hiding from him that he’s gay. He also happens to be a super hero. This book puts a good twist into an old story. I would recommend this book to anybody 14+ it isn’t really something you would read to your 8 year old as a good night story, it can be violent at times and also deals with racism and sexism. Overall I would give this book a 7.5/10 It can drag on sometimes and the plot moves along very slowly.

The Queen’s Soprano: Wow! I love this book. It takes place in 17th century Rome. Angelica’s voice is beautiful beyond belief but the pop has banned women from performing in public and her talent could get her killed. She falls in love with Theodon, a French artist, who listens two her sing from behind closed shutters. Her mother is trying to sell her off to the highest bidder to marry and is determined to control Angelica. Angelica runs away from home and joins the court of Queen Christina where she is allowed to sing freely. But even then her life is in danger. Many people want her silenced. So yeah pretty suspencefull I would recomend this book to people +13 it can be a little graphic at times and it might be a little disturbing for people younger than that (no offense). I would give it a 9/10 I really am loving it and it shows how sexist the society really was.

You already know what I think of the other book so I won’t review them..

I am currently in love with block quotes for some reason! They are so pretty and they break up my blog nicely..

The revamp is moving along, slowely. I am at a dead loss of what to do for the next layout. I am still getting the rest of the pages worked out and I am planning on fixing up the brush previews and font previews and other minor tweaks like that.

Yesterday I stayed up until after 4 in the morning watching movies with my neighbor Evan (He is Annalisa’s older brother. You may of heard about her in my blogs and she comments sometimes..) . I’ve known him since third grade (we were in the same class)..

We watched The Simpsons movie twice.. It was really funny and then we watched some documentary on OPB about some bridge in China and then we watched Cheaper By The Dozen 2. It was better than I thought it was. The ending was fairly fluffy but some parts were really good. It wasn’t as good as the first though.

So tata for now I better get back to my room cleaning..

~Athena