Currently Reading: Divergent-Veronica Roth

What if one decision would determine how you lived the rest of your life? Beatrice Prior finds herself facing this choose and not knowing what to choose. There are four groups for you to choose from all with different characteristics. At 16 all children are faced to choose to stay in their faction or change factions. Their choose is their final choose, they can't go back to their old factions, separating families and friends. This is the first book in the trilogy about Beatrice (Tris) Prior and her choses in life. I started reading the first one and finished in a day and right away started the second. Now I am eagerly awaiting the third novel to see how it will end!

Divergent
Insurgent
Untitled (Divergent #3)

Currently Reading: Roses by Leila Meacham

Roses-Leila Meacham

Let me start by saying-EVERYONE should read this book. This book quickly became one of my favorites. It begins in during WWI in a small town in Texas with Mary Toliver's story. You slowly learn the towns history and the importance of the three founding families in Howbutker, Texas. Mary Toliver and Percy Warwick fall into a quick, dramatic love and Mary is forced to choose between her love for Percy and her love for the Toliver plantation. They never marry and have to deal with their loss and deceit. They hope for a better love story for their children and grandchildren. Roses  reminds us of a time where love and family pride were what mattered most in life. A moving love story filled with struggle, loss, and happiness is sure to please every audience.

Currently Reading: Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

Attachments- Rainbow Rowell 

I was drawn into this book by the first chapter. Attachments is like no other book I've ever read of (or heard of). Lincoln's job is to monitor everyone's work email and report suspicious behavior and inappropriate emails. Jennifer and Beth know that their emails are being monitored but still can't help sharing hilarious (and sometimes inappropriate emails with each other). Lincoln, a quiet night worker, can't resist falling in love with them. But by the time he realizes his feelings for Beth, it's too late to introduce yourself. Attachments takes you through all the emotions with it's witty dialogue and charm and it shows you what love really means, even if it's with someone you've never met. 

Lauren Conrad

This weekend I had the chance to meet (well get a book signed) by Lauren Conrad. Many know her from The Hills, but she also has written some book series. She wrote the L.A. Candy series and has just published The Fame Game, which I just bought a copy of! The L.A. Candy series is a great beach read about Jane Roberts, a 19 year old girl who moves to L.A. and unexpectedly becomes a reality TV star (sounds a lot like LC's life!) It's a fun and easy summer read filled with drama and love.

7 Books Everyone Should Read

I am currently in the middle of a book right now that is taking me longer to read than I expected. So instead of talking about that book (since I'm still not 100% sure of what is going on) I am going to make a list of all the books I think that everyone should read in their lifetime, whether in school or not. I definitely can't list them all but here are the ones I can think of:

1. The Great Gatsby-F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. Catcher in the Rye- J.D Salinger
3. The Hunger Games-Suzzane Collins *Series*
4. Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen
5. The Beautiful and the Damned- F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. The Kite Runner- Khaled Hosseini
7. For One More Day-Mitch Albom

Currently Reading:

The Best of Me-Nicholas Sparks

I have to admit I'm definitely one of Nicholas Sparks' biggest fans. What girl wouldn't want one of his novels to be their love stories, except for the exceptions where the two characters don't actually end up together (*cough* Dear John *cough*), but besides that I'm pretty sure ever girl would love for him to write their love story. His novels have been made into some great movies also, well maybe not great but certainly good chick flicks that I could watch over and over again. 

Okay, on to The Best of Me. Its a story of high school sweethearts. The story starts when they are 40 years old and living differently lives in different places. Dawson Cole can't stop thinking about the girl he loved when he was 17. Amanda Collier lives her live half heartedly with three kids and an alcoholic husband. Both are summoned back to the town they got out of when their friend, Tuck, dies. As a teenager, Dawson Cole spent his live hiding from his abusive family in Tuck's garage. The Cole's were hated and feared in the small town of Oriental. Amanda Collier was raised by high class parents. The Collier's were part of the "royalty" in the small town. The two are paired together for a school project and begin spending more and more time together, eventually falling in love. Amanda's parents have big life plans for her (Duke, a career, a family) and Dawson isn't part of those plans. One thing leads to another and Dawson and Amanda are separated. Amanda heads off to Duke and Dawson ends up in prison (and eventually an oil rig where he lives a quiet, lonely life thinking about Amanda and what could have been). 

After 25 years apart their is still a strong bond between them they realize as they are thrown back together. In only a couple days they begin to realize what could have been and both begin questioning the choices they made in their lives. 

Also, I hear it might be made into a movie!! I haven't finished the book yet, but I know I will go see it as soon as it comes out. If I were to cast people as these characters I would cast: 

Dawson: Hugh Jackman (how much more ruggedly handsome could a man get?) 

Amanda: Teri Hatcher 

Tuck: Anthony Hopkins 

Ted: Kenau Reeves 

Abee: Michael Sheen 

Frank: Andy Garcia 

Amanda's mom: Meryl Streep 

Hunger Games

With the movie for the Hunger Games movie approaching quickly I decided there was no better way to start my blog. Although I read these when they first came out I'm still beyooond excited for the movie. If you haven't read these yet GO BUY THEM RIGHT NOW, I promise you will not regret it. Every chapter gets better and better. I wasn't able to put it down. If you don't know what it's about, here's my short description (it's pretty hard to describe in a short amount of time though, so bare with me). 

The country has been divided up into 12 districts. Each district has a different characteristic, something they excel in. Every year the Capital (in district 1) holds the Hunger Games, a battle between 2 people (a boy and a girl) from each district. The tributes, the 2 chosen ones, are selected at random from a box.  The novel starts off with Katniss (played by Jennifer Lawrence), the main character, stepping in and volunteering when her sister is selected to participate in the Hunger Games. The novels tell of her life after that, it is forever changed because of the Hunger Games that she is now a part of. There is also a romance happening during all of this. Gail, the handsome older boy that she has been friends with forever (played by Liam Hemsworth), and there's sweet Gail, the baker's son, who also is a tribute (played by Josh Hutcherson)