The Taming Of The Tights

This book is a sequel to the third book in a series after, 'Withering Tights' and 'Midsummer Tights Dream'. Louise Rennison is also the author of the more famous 'Georgia Nicholson' series. I personally think her books are more appropriate for teenage girls, they are so funny and i feel as though i can relate to the main character because she is very long legged and clumsy. I read this book in one day because i just couldn't put it down, i really wish they'd make a movie out of it. 

I found Tallulah Casey (main character) highly entertaining and very interesting, despite being quirky, clumsy, skinny and a bit odd she still managed to have guys interested in her and managed to get a boyfriend. She is very strange and doesn't really mind what other people think about her. I also find the family Tallulah stay with very very interesting. The family is made up of a mother, a father and two very rude, knee clinging twins. The father is always sewing and knitting things and the whole family is always going off to do different 'wilderness' activities. 

Louise Rennison always makes up language for her books and characters which is another reason why the books are so interesting. She makes up words as well as makes up sayings for characters, for example, one of Tallulahs friends Honey can't pronounce her r's so she says w in stead, "it's waining". Well of course it reminded me of the Georgia Nicholson series, but thats because they are linked and the same sort of language idea, things about boys, fashion etc etc and also Tallulah is Georgia's cousin so it does refer to Georgia in the series. I think the setting is effective because it is different and the way it is described you can really picture the rolling hills, the sheep the trees, the fog.

I find the titles in the series very clever becuase it is a play on words, the first book "Withering Tights" was originally "Wuthering Heights" and same with "Midsummer Tights Dream" was originally "Midsummer Nights Dream" and for this one "The Taming Of The Tights" it was originally "The Taming Of The Shrew".

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, i thought it was highly entertaining, cute, romantic and clever. 

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

This book is a classic and is something everyone should read. I watched the movie when it came out and I fell in love with it, I am obsessed with Leonardo Dicaprio and this is what actually motivated me to read the book. This book is definitely one of my new favorites, I couldn't put it down. It really opens your mind and the love story is so beautiful and the description of the outfits and people and settings is incredible. I found Nick Carraway a interesting character, he is honest, tolerant and inclined to reserve judgement, he often serves as a confidant for those with troubling secrets. The story is through Nicks eyes. I also find Gatsby and interesting character, he is so mysterious no one knows where he comes from, what he does, or how he made his fortune and he is also romantic and he has a strong image of what he wants and in his eyes it will happen and he doesn't really think about the consequences. Gatsby thinks that whenever he asks a favor of someone they expect something in return. Gatsby is a protagonist, overly wealthy and famous for the partys he throws. Gatsby met a beautiful young lady called Daisy while training to be an officer in Louisville, he fell in love with her. Nick also learns that Gatsby made his fortune through criminal activity, as he was willing to do anything to gain the social position he thought necessary to win Daisy. There are so many beautiful and deep words in the book which I adore, the beginning and the end of the book include these. I love the setting of this book, it is set in 1920's New York State, the way F. Scott Fitzgerald described the way people acted, the atmosphere, the fashion. 

Favorite Quotes from the book:

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” 

“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” 

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.” 

“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”

"I wish i could have done everything on earth with you"

"Gatsby looked at Daisy the way all women wanted to be looked at"

An Abundance of Katherines - John Green

I find it really hard to do reviews of John Green books because they are all so beautiful. I loved this book by John Green, I found it really interesting and different to his other two books I've read 'Looking for Alaska' and 'The Fault in our Stars'. Most of him books are more romantic and affectionate where as this one was different, it was more of an adventure story. A main part of the story was about Colin Singleton who had been dated and dumped by 19 girls all called Katherine. I found Colin a really interesting character, he was a 'child prodigy' I liked how he was so smart and so nerdy and he was witty and I think that is what makes him such a humorous character. I learnt many different words in this book, since Colin was so smart there were many words he used I'd never heard of before as well as things said in other languages but for these they had things at the bottom of the page explaining what it means. Colin tries to create and prove a mathematical theorem he hope with predict the future of any relationship and I think this was one of the most interesting parts of the book. The setting of the book changed a lot which I liked because you got to picture the place. I enjoyed the end of the book because the relationship that I was expecting to happen didn't end up happening, so their was this interesting sort of twist at the end. The book made me think about things and it made me imagine the scenery. I suggest reading the book. 

Looking For Alaska

I can't actually write a blogpost on a review of this book because firstly I read it quite a while ago and secondly words can't describe or explain the beauty of this book

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Books I Have Read So Far This Year

Books:

• Ketchup Clouds - Annabel Pitcher
• The face On The Milk Carton - Caroline B Cooney 
• Whats Up With Jody Barton - Hayley Long
• The Worst Thing About My Sister - Jaqueline Wilson
• Wonder - R.J Palacio 
• Scarlett - Cathy Cassidy 
• GingerSnap - Cathy Cassidy 
• The Twice Lived Summer of Bluebell Jones - Susie Day
• Small Blue Thing - S.C Ransom 
• Perfectly Reflected - S.C Ransom 
• Scattering Like Light - S.C Ransom 
• How To Keep A Boy As A Pet - Diane Messidoro
• The Time Travelling Fashionista - Bianca Turetsky
• Looking For Alaska - John Green 
• An Abundance of Katherines - John Green 
• The fault in our stars - John Green 
• Far Rockaway - Charlie Fletcher 
• The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Treasure Yourself - Miranda Kerr
• The Taming of The Tights - Louise Rennison 
• The Weight Of Water - Sarah Crossan 
• Geek Girl - Holly Smale
• The Look - Sophia Bennett 

Geek Girl by Holly Smale

I finished reading Geek Girl a few weeks ago and it is now one of my favourite books! I was hooked from the start, did you know cats have 32 muscles in each ear, well neither did I until after I had read this book! The thing that I found so interesting about this book was that the author had based her book on what had happened to her. I enjoyed the book since I am a model and It was really interesting to see what her experience was and it was realistic with her family life and social life, she wasn’t living a life of glamour. I thought the main character Harriet was very interesting because of her geeky personality. Harriet is a geek, she knows facts nobody else knows and has serious trouble making friends, apart from her best friend who is actually the very opposite of Harriet. Her best friend has wanted to be a model since she was six and everyone had told her she looked like one, since then she had dieted and read through fashion magazines practiced walking and everything else a model needs, even though they are opposite they are best friends, this is a relationship I find particularly interesting in the book.  Geek Girl reminded me of another book I have read called “The Look” by Sophia Bennet, which is also about modelling and in both books, both girls find out that they dislike modelling. I think the title of the book is effective because you think it would be about a geek at school but once you’ve read the blurb you realize it’s about a geek girl who gets accepted into a top-modelling agency and is going to be huge in the fashion industry. The book made me think about modelling and the reality of it. It’s a tough industry, all about how skinny you are and how well you photograph and it’s not actually a life of glamour like most people think. Overall I think it was a entertaining and just great book which I would read again.  

The Fault In Our Stars by John Green

I have just finished reading The Fault In Our Stars by John Green and it is by far one of the most inspiring and touching books I have ever read. One of the reasons I loved this book because it wasn't a tearjerker until the very end. Even though the book is about cancer and it should be tear-jerking, John Green made the two main characters very interesting and humorous, when a part of the book should have been sad it was funny, most of the time. But when Augustus (one of the main characters who has cancer) broke the news to his girlfriend it was a shock, I won't tell you what the news is because that would be ruining the book, but I will tell you that from then on the mood of the book changed, even though the characters were still being funny, occasionally, it felt a lot more sombre. The thing I liked most about the two main characters was their use of language, for example "observation: standing inline is a form of oppression" or "Mrs Lancaster you are an impressively punctual person" I found that this type of speech gave the characters personality. The book is written from 16 year old Hazels point of view. Hazel has terminal lung cancer which makes it hard for her to breathe, she has been battling cancer since she was thirteen, which is my age and it makes me think about if it were myself in that situation. She has an oxygen tank attached to her via the tubes though her nose because in Hazels words "my lungs suck at being lungs", this is the kind of language which she uses a lot in the novel and I think it makes her a engrossing character, Hazels mum makes her go to a cancer children support group meeting where she encounters Augustus Waters. That’s all I want to tell about the plot. The book made me think about a lot of things, to many to recall and write down, but as cheesy as it sounds, one of the things that it did teach me and i quote "living our best life today". 

As the tide washed in, the Dutch Tulip Man faced the ocean: "conjoiner rejoinder poisoner concealer revelator. Look at it, rising up and down, taking everything with it"

"whats that?" Anna asked.

"water," the Dutchman said. "well and time"

   - Peter Van Houten, An imperial Affliction

Far Rockaway by Charlie Fletcher

Far Rockaway written by Charlie Fletcher was a great book which I thoroughly enjoyed reading. I found that when i was reading the book I asked myself lots of questions such as, what would i choose? Who would I trust? Why did she do that? The book got you thinking and you put yourself in the characters shoes. I found the beginning of the book very captivating as it started off with a lot of action that you needed to pay attention too, the beginning of the book surprised me which mad me want to keep reading. From Indians with clubs too a pirate with one leg, this book has some very fascinating characters, my personal favourite was a pirate named Silver who always kept me on edge because I wasn't sure whether I would trust him if I was the girl. There were a lot of parts in the novel where I couldn't put it down, I would say to myself "3 more pages and then put it down" but  I would end up reading 3 more chapters instead, although one of my favourite parts had to be when she was on an island getting chased by Indians who had returned from the dead. The book did not end as I expected, I found myself wondering about her grandfathers words and why he did what he did, it left me wondering why the two pirates gave up so much for this girl they barely knew. There were quite a few different settings in the book and each one was very different from the last, you are expecting from the start of the book for the story to  just be set in the city but she ends up climbing a cliff in the dark woods and walking up a bay of black sand and red flowers. This story did change my opinion about things, it made me think about living a life worth living. It made me think about death and what actually happens, do you just wake up somewhere else or as someone else or does everything just go black? Overall I though this was a great book and i highly recommend it! I leave you with a quote "real girls rescue themselves"