Viewer's Choice

I am bored. And when I'm bored I do things like this:

I have a list of my twenty favorite books of all time. What I want you to do, semi-dedicated reader, is have you choose which one you think is best. I'll be putting them up four at a time and you can vote for your favorite of those and then I'll move on to the next part at the start of May. Round one begins today and ends April 2 around 10:00.

The books are:

GOING BOVINE by Libba Bray

AUDREY, WAIT! by Robin Benway

SPEAK by Laurie Halse Anderson

JUST LISTEN by Sarah Dessen

After a bit of debating with myself I decided you can only vote once (sorry). Hopefully this will be more interesting than if, say, I decided, because that would be boring. Have fun!

Your Friendly Neighborhood Imbecilic Book Blogger/Psycho Type Person

OOPS I FORGOT

Notable things I forgot:

WILL GRAYSON, WILL GRAYSON. This April 6. If you are a John Green fan and haven't heard of it AMAZON IT NOW./INDIEBOUND IT NOW. It is epic. I read excerpts. Trust me.

THE SIX RULES OF MAYBE. As of 56 minutes ago it is out. :D :D :D Already ordered it off Walmart.com (long story.) CANNOT WAIT!

THE UNWRITTEN RULE is also out, though I have already been reading it on Pulse It and trust me it is THE EPIC.

All 3 of these are THINGS YOU SHOULD BUY THAT ARE BOOKS.

Plus if you want a larf go here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/11/the-13-funniest-help-want_n_493654.html?alacarte=1#s72942

OKAY, END POST FOR REAL.

Lots to Do

There is lots to share with you today, blog reader, and so I shall divide this post into several parts.

PART 1: The Reorganization

Exactly what it sounds like.

I am creating a new way of rating books. I call it 'The Report Card system.' Basically the way it works is...
Well, let me show you. As an example we'll use the always reliable Paper Towns.

REPORT CARD FOR PAPER TOWNS

ORIGINALITY: 9/10
ENDING: 9/10
VOICE: 10/10
CHARACTERIZATION/CHARACTERS: 10/10
PLOT: 10/10
ENJOYED?: 15/15
OVERALL THEME: 5/5
IMAGERY: 10/10
STYLE: 10/10
TONE: 5/5
TOTAL: 98/100 * A+ * OUTSTANDING NOVEL CITATION

Pretty simple. When a book gets a 95 or higher it recieves an Outstanding Novel Citation. I will keep all the ONCs in the sidebar.
And here we go...

PART 2
The Book Review

Today's review is of SCARLETT FEVER by Maureen Johnson, AKA, 'You Say Madcap Like It's A Bad Thing.'

SCARLETT FEVER by Maureen Johnson
Point/Feb 1 2010/352 pages
WAY TOO LAZY to get a link...go B&N/indies!...hint, hint...
SUMMARY:...do we really need to get into this? I mean, blogger won't let me paste so I have to type the crapping thing out every. single. time. Oh well, what I do for you all...

OKAY, HERE'S THE SUMMARY: Ever since Mrs. Amberson, the former-aspiring-actress-turned-agent, entered Scarlett Martin's life, nothing has been the same. She's still in charge of the Empire Suite in her family's hotel, but now she's also Mrs. Amberson's assistant, running around town for her star client, Chelsea--a Broadway star Scarlett's age with a knack for making her feel insignificant. Scarlett's also trying to juggle sophomore year classes, her lab partner who is being just a little TOO nice, and getting over the boy who broke her heart. In the midst of all this, her parents drop a bombshell that threatens to change her New York life forever...

THE REVIEW: Loved it. Do I really need to say more?

Apparently so. Gah.

Okay. So Scarlett's back. Loved her in Suite Scarlett, which was 353 pages of FUN and AWESOME. And strangely enough, when I sat down to write this review, I noticed one thing...I honestly couldn't compare them. They just seemed so different, despite the fact that they were both technically similar. I guess the thing is that Suite was pretty light, more so than many of MJs books. Okay, that's a lie. It was light, but not excessively so. But compared to Fever it was.
Am I making any sense? Thought not.

Hoo boy. Here we go...*MILD SPOILERS*

Scarlett Fever was great. Loved the characters. Wanted to kill Max in all the right places. The book was a gem. But when I finished i went over to my shelf and got out Bermudez Triangle, another MJ book. And that's what made me realize what SF was missing. Something that 13...Envelopes, Firebird and Suite all had, and Devilish to a point. And you know what that is? No. Because I don't either. But if I had to personify it I'd say it was kind of a spark. There was something that Fever was slightly lacking that most of MJ's other books had.

BUT FORGET MY RAMBLINGS. SF is great and MJ is brilliant. Read it. SRSLY.

And now for the report card...
*dumdumdum*

REPORT CARD FOR SCARLETT FEVER

ORIGINALITY: 9/10
ENDING: 8/10
VOICE: 9/10
CHARACTERS: 10/10
PLOT: 9/10
ENJOYED?: 14/15
THEME: 5/5
IMAGERY: 9/10
STYLE: 10/10
TONE: 5/5
COVER: 4/5
TOTAL: 92/100
A

And that's that. :D...backs away slowly...


Okay, then, fine. On to the next part.

AN AWARD.

Recently I was notified that I was a recipient of the 'One Lovely Blog Award.' Notably this is interesting and it merely appears to be a chainlettery meme that basically means I will have to find a bunch of other book bloggers to give the award to. Since it is 12:45 AM I am not up to it now but hopefully it will be addressed in an upcoming post. To the bequeather-on-me, a Non-Sarcastic 'Thanks!' :)

NEXT PART: POSSIBLE VIDEO BLOG
Notable is that there is a POSSIBLE VIDEO BLOG in the works. Stay tuned!


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