Reading Slumps, Night On The Towns, and a New Katniss Stone Book

Hello!

I'm just starting to get back into blogging so this may be a bit rough.  As you may have guessed from the title I've been in a bit of a reading slump.  I've been writing a lot more and apparently reading fanfictions doesn't count for reading in 'the real world'.

Also, I went to Night On The Towns!  There are some pictures on my instagram (_Saradactly__) if you want to check that out and maybe give me a follow.

Finally, I'm working on a new Katniss Stone book and fixing up Selected for publishers to take a peek at. 

Until next time,

Katniss Stone

Hate List by Jennifer Brown

Hello!

Today we are going to be discussing Hate List by Jennifer Brown. Now, this is my first official review post of 2015 so let me explain how we are going to do this before we begin. At the beginning of the post I will state the book that is being reviewed, show a picture of the book being reviewed, and give a short non-spoilery summary of the book. After all of that there will be a page break. If you specifically clicked on this post there won't be a page break, but you will be aware when the spoilers start. Alright, enough of that, let's get into the story.

Hate List is written from the point of view of Valerie Leftman, a high school senior whose boyfriend committed a school shooting. Despite knowing just as much about the shooting as everyone else, and her own serious injury, she's seen as guilty because of the list. The list was just a silly little thing to Valerie, but it was what Nick used to pick his targets. Now, after a summer of hiding from everyone else, Valerie is forced to return to Garvin High, and face the guilt of the previous year. While navigating through forgotten friendships, family issues, and memories of the boy she once loved, Valerie must grasp the tragedy that took place, and her role in it, in order to move on with her new life. 

John Green Is Writing A New Book!?

Guess what bookworms? John Green is writing a new book!

The book is untitled and we know nothing about it except that he's writing it, but even that fact is enough to leave nerdfighters excited.

John Green has confirmed this himself on Tumblr saying

....I like writing stories. It is pretty much my favorite thing to do. Hopefully I will write many, many more books—so many that you become tired of them and all become Hipster John Green Fans and say, “His early stuff was okay but after TFiOS he just became a hack.

It's time for a happy dance!

In the meantime, we'll just have to wait until some more information pops up.

Thanks for reading,

Katniss Stone

P.S. What do you guys think of me doing pictures frequently? Do you like it or does it ruin the post?

Out takes:

It's been a while

What's happening my booklion friends? Unless you're new here, you may have noticed I haven't posted in a long while. I could blame this on homework and school and make up some lie that I have a life outside of my computer and books, but instead I'm going to tell you the truth, which is I've been too lazy to write on this blog. Sorry for the long wait, but now that 2015 is here I'm ready to get things up and ready. 

This year I'd like to post to this blog twice a month (excluding January). What would be absolutely fantastic is if you recommended books to me. In an attempt to be a bit more organized this year, I'm also going to be coming up with an agenda for this blog.  I've just now begun work on the agenda and would really love it if you could help a book lover out! Here's my rough draft of an agenda:

February

Girl Online by Zoe Sugg

I've recently become a fan of Zoe and would love to read a book with some of her ideas in it. (yes I am aware she used a ghost writer)

Blackbrooke by Emma Silver

I don't normally read in the horror genre and Emma sent me this book a while ago, so I might as well read it and review it for you.

March

Shattered by Teri Terry

I've enjoyed the Slated trilogy books since the beginning and I honestly don't know why I haven't devoured this sure to be thrilling book. 

An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

April

I Was Here by Gayle Forman

Anyone who watched Christine Riccio would know "Gayle Forman has a new book!"

The Memory Key by Liana Liu

May

Paper Town by John Green

It seemed only fitting to review his book just before the movie came out.

The Heir by Kiera Cass

As much as America Singer annoys me, I enjoy The Selection books, and this one just so happens to be released on May 5th. 

June

The Orphan Queen by Jodi Meadows

UNKNOWN

July

UNKNOWN

August

Hello, I Love You by Katie M. Stout

UNKNOWN

September 

UNKNOWN

October

UNKNOWN

November

UNKNOWN

December

UNKNOWN

As you can see, later on in the year my agenda gets a bit, well, blank. Again, I'd love it if you'd recommend something to read, or even make the agenda more to your liking. A few of these books don't even come out until later, so keep that in mind if you would like to revise this. 

Keep Calm and Read On,

Katniss Stone

If I Stay

Okay, so some of my fellow Bookworms / Booklions may have heard of If I Stay by Gayle Forman. Well, you see before we discuss this beautiful piece of literature, let me tell you my If I Stay story; The day  night I bought If I Stay  was when I saw the trailer at the movie The Fault In Our Stars. I had already heard about the book through various BookTubers and it was high up on my Goodreads to read list. I didn't really know what the book was about, because the trailer made almost no sense, and if it would have normally I was to hyped up for TFIOS that I wasn't really paying very much attention. So anyways, when I got home from the TFIOS movie I went to the Kindle Fire Book Store and found out that If I Stay was on Sale!!! Clearly the universe just wanted to buy this book. So I did. And that's my If I Stay story.

So I haven't actually finished the book, but I have gotten far enough in the story to cry when I watch the trailers. I do not know the ending of the story. Please DO NOT comment the ending or I will forever hate you. Look below for an accurate description.

My reaction to people who spoil books without me asking them to.

Also, I can't really quite decide yet what I want her to do yet, and I feel like if its going to be like this if I find out:

So, I am perfectly willing to discuss this book with you, but please note I am at this part so DO NOT SPOIL it for me! I'm on page 64. (exactly 25%) I am at the part where Mia is talking about the time her mom snuck her into a casino, and how the ICU is like that.  DO NOT SPEAK TO ME FURTHER THAN THAT!  Also please do not comment with Have you read about {insert part I haven't read here}? that spoils it!

Anyways, if you hadn't heard of If I Stay before this, it is a fantastic work of literature and you should read it sometime!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~{If I Stay}~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Keep Calm and Read On,

Katniss Stone

The Night Before Our Stars & Other TFiOS related news.

Calling all TFiOS Fans! In case you haven't heard, June 5th is The Night Before Our Stars. The Night Before Our Stars is obviously the night before the TFIOS movie. It is 8:30 (my time which is Eastern) and nothing is that special about it until the end.... Here's what's going to happen:

• LIVE Q&A  (John Green, Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Nat Wolf, Joshua Boone, and Wyck Godfrey. John Green, Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, and Nat Wolf hope to do it in a bounce house, so we'll see. )
• FREE POSTER
• CHARM BRACELET

IN OTHER TFIOS NEWS......

• TFIOS SOUNDTRACK IS OUT MAY 19. YOU CAN INDIVIDUALLY BUY 5 OF THE SONGS ON AMAZON NOW, AND FROM WHAT I'VE HEARD, THE SONGS ARE GREAT. 
• SAM CUSHION HAS HIS SOUNDTRACK FOR TFIOS (FAULT IS IN OUR STARS) AND IT IS AWESOME! WHILE THE SOUNDTRACK HAS NO WORDS AND IS PURELY INSTRUMENTAL, IT IS GREAT TO LISTEN TO AND I THINK TFIOS FANS WILL ADORE IT!
• EVERYONE WHO HAS SEEN THE MOVIE SAYS, AND I QUOTE FROM CHRISTINE RICCIO, "THE MOVIE IS THE BOOK"

BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE!

Here are links to pretty much everything I talked about in this post (Just click on the words to go to the website):

• Night Before Our Stars
• Livestreamed Concert (Soundtrack songs and interviews!)
• The Fault in Our Stars Soundtrack (Amazon.com)
• Sam Cushion's TFIOS Soundtrack (Amazon.com)
• Christine Riccio's Video
• YouTube Videos of All of the Songs on the Soundtrack:

1. All Of The Stars
2. Simple As This
3. Let Me In*
4. Best Shot*(Sorry! Couldn't find on YouTube :(  
5. Long Way Down 
6. All I Want
7. Boom Clap*
8. While I'm Alive
9. Oblivion
10. Strange Things Will Happen
11. Bomfallarella
12. Without Words
13. Not About Angels*
14. No One Ever Loved*
15. Wait
16. Tee Shirt
17. What You Wanted (Not officially on the soundtrack but it is in one of the trailers so I put it here.)

* - Available on Amazon for individual purchase.

So, have fun with all that while I go listen to Boom Clap and What You Wanted five hundred times on YouTube because I refuse to buy it unless I buy the whole soundtrack. MAY 19th TWO DAYS..........

Bye!,

Katniss Stone

City of Fallen Angels (SRLR 1 or 3)

City of Fallen begins with Simon and Isabelle on a date. While they are talking about Luke and Jocelyn's wedding, to subjugates come and force Simon to meet a vampire named Camille. When Simon goes and meets her, she asks him to join her to defeat Raphael. She gives Simon 5 days to decide. Meanwhile, Clary, Jace, Luke, amd Maryse find out there has been a recent string of dead Shadowhunters. When given the chance to talk to one, they find out someone named Camille did it. At one of Simon's band practices, a guy named Kyle auditions for the role of lead singer. He gets the part and allows Simon to move into his apartment. I hope Kyle doesn't turn out to be evil. 

City of Glass (Stupid Reading Log Review 3 of 3)

City of Glass continues with Sebastian / Jonathon and Jace fighting, Jonathon is about to kill Jace when Isabelle comes up and slices his hand off with her whip. Sebastian hardly notices and continues to fight, until Jace uses a trick Valentine taught him and kills him. Meanwhile, Clary finally makes it to Lake Lynn and Valentine captures her. She faints, and when she is awake again she cannot speak or move easily. Jace comes and tries to rescue her, but Valentine proves he can even kill his own son. He uses Jace's blood in the mortal cup. Them he summons Raziel says Valentine is too demonic for an angel, kills him, and offers Clary a wish come true. She wishes for Jace. The angel tells her to close her eyes and when she opens them he is alive. This book ends at a celebratory party. I think this book ends to happily for a Cassandra Clare book. I sense danger soon in the next book (I was right)

It's Raining Cupcakes (Stupid Reading Log Review 1 of 1)

It's Raining Cupcakes is about a girl named Isabel, whose mom opened a cupcake shop in an old laundromat. Throughout the book Isabel describes stages in her life using cupcake analogies! About half way through the book, Isabel decides to enter a baking contest to win a trip out of old boring Willow, to busy New York. Isabel's mom urges her to enter a cupcake recipe, so It's Raining Cupcakes (the name of the shop) will get good publicity. Isabel makes fantastic chocolate jam tarts, but settles for a s'mores cupcake instead. It turns out, her mom submitted the tart recipe for her! Isabel's tarts win the contest and she is able to go to New York. I hope there is a sequel about New York. I would recommend this book to people who enjoy baking, because this book includes recipes and baking analogies. 

City of Glass (Stupid Reading Log Review #2 of 3)

When Alec brings Simon to the Clave , it turns our the new inquisitor is OUT OF HIS MIND and locks Simon in a jail cell. The inquisitor threatens to starve him if he doesn't lie about the Lightwoods. Meanwhile, Clary draws a rune to portal to Idris. She ends up in a poisonous lake and starts hallucinating. Luke takes her to his sister's house where she cures her and lets Clary stay with her. The next day, Clary sneaks out of her window to see Jace. I wonder what Jace will think. I hope he is not mad. I would recommend this book to Cassandra Clare fans because she continues to write awesomely in this book.

City of Glass (Stupid Reading Log Review #1 or 3)

City of Glass starts with Clary preparing to go to Idris to meet Ragnor Fell, a warlock who can cure her mother. The only problem is that her long lost 'brother' (at this time I had no clue that they were not siblings) Jace doesn't want her to go. He tells her friend Simon to convince her not to go. While Simon is there, a bunch of demons attack. Jace, Alec, and Isabelle are able to fight them off, though Simon is injured. Jace brings him through the portal to Alicante. In Alicante, Jace has to explain to the Clave why a downworlder is there. I hope Simon will be okay.

City of Bones (Stupid Reading Log Review #1 of 1)

     City of Bones is the first book in the Mortal Instruments series. It starts off on the main character, Clary's, birthday. Her best friend Simon heads off with her to Pandemonium. While in Pandemonium, Clary witnesses a murder. She tells Simon and he goes to get a security guard. While Simon is gone, Clary starts yelling at the 'people' who just committed the murder. Their names were Jace, Isabelle, and Alec. Jace explains to her that nobody else can see them. When Simon gets back, he and Clary go home. The next day Clary and Simon go to a poetry reading for their friend Eric. Jace shows up and takes Clary outside to talk to her.  While they are talking Clary's mom calls and tells Clary not to come home. All Clary hears is a large CRASH in the background before her phone dies.  Frantically, she grabs Jace's censor, which she thinks is a phone, and runs home. 

Just Wanted You To Know

Hey everyone! I just wanted you to know that from this day on I will review any book (as long as it's appropriate) for you. Even if it is not published and can only be found on Wattpad, that's okay. If you comment on any post at all, or send me an email (that email thing will probably work better) I will be sure to read it. 

When You Reach Me

So I finally finished When You Reach Me  by Rebecca Stead and I would give it about 3.38 stars. I was kind of hard to read, but still entertaining just the same. When You Reach Me is about a girl named Miranda who suddenly gets these notes from a stranger. It includes a lot of stuff about time travel and it goes really deep sometimes. I would recommend this book to science fictions lovers probably because it has a lot of concepts I didn't quite understand, but science fiction lovers would. All in all it was a pretty good book.

The Book Thief (Stupid Reading Log Review #1 of 1)

The Book Thief is about an orphan named Liesel Meminger, and it takes place when Hitler was Germany's leader. One day, while Liesel and her brother Werner were on a train to go to their foster parents, Liesel's brother dies. While at his graveside Liesel sees a book, so she steals it. It is called The Grave Digger's Handbook. At her new home, Liesel's papa discovers the book and teaches her how to read it. When she is finished she wants another book. An opportunity to steal a new book comes soon when the Hitler Youth must go to a book burning. Liesel stays behind and notices an unburnt book. She steals it. I hope she will steal more books.

Allegiant (Stupid Reading Log Review #3 of 3)

     Tobias found out that Uriah is dead and feels guilty. Tris decides to go to the city. She also decides to erase the Bureaus memories. To do that someone must go to the weapons lab. Caleb volunteers to get sprayed with Death Serum so he can spray the memory serum all over the Bureau. I think the plan will work.

Allegiant (Stupid Reading Log Review #2 of 3)

Tris and Tobias had their genes tested and found out that Tris was technically the only actual Divergent. Nita goes to Tobias and tells him to meet her. She takes him to Marcus' trial! I hope Tobias is okay.

Allegiant (Stupid Reading Log Review #1 of 3)

My teacher was reading this at the same time as me, so I made sure not to put many spoilers in it.

     Allegiant is from both Tris' and Tobias'  point of view. While wandering around Erudite headquarters Tris gets attacked and kidnapped by Allegiant. They tell her to meet them at midnight, where she made her confession. She goes wit her friends and finds out the leaders are.... I hope she joins the Allegiant.

Good Curses Evil (Stupid Reading Log Review #1 of 1)

   Good Curses Evil is about a kid named Rune who goes to Dread Master's School for Wayward Villains. He gets busted in the Dread Master's (his dad's) class for doodling a cat-a-bat. Eventually, he gets a plot, along with Chad. He finds out Chad is his brother and gets mad at his dad. I hope he doesn't get hurt. I wonder why his dad never told him about Chad.

The Elite and The Prince (Stupid Reading Log Review #1 of 1)

      The Elite

      The Elite ends with America getting an assignment to come up with a plan to help Illea in someway. She doesn't know what to do, but at the last second she comes up with a plan: to destroy the castes!!!  When she presents this plan on The Report the king is furious! He takes Maxon into his office for a talk that gets America sent home. Just before she is going to leave, Maxon tells her she can stay. Then the book ends and makes me wait until May for the next book. (Yes I put that in my actual reading log) I think the king should rethink his attitude.

The Prince

     The Prince is a novella about The Selection. It starts with Maxon's birthday party. He meets his friend Daphne. Daphne explains that she is in love with him. Maxon is sad because since Daphne is the daughter of the king of France, he cannot marry her. The book goes through the first chapter of The Selection and includes 2 chapters from Elite. I think the author did a good job. I hope she writes more novellas. I would recommend this book to Selection fans because you wouldn't understand the book unless you read The Selection.