Online Book club

I have decided to start an online book club. I will say the book I am reading, urge others to read it and will discuss it.
Feel free to read.
This weeks shall be The Mortal Instruments series. I am on book 2.
No spoilers!

Not me, nor anyone should

If you like a book I will NEVER judge you on the type of book or what book you pick.it could be books I happen to hate like twilight or it could be books I happen to love like Alice in Wonderland. But no matter what I will not judge you. I am a firm believer in everyone's individual opinion. Do what makes you happy. Read what makes you happy.

No thank you, I would not like a cuppa

I don't like tea. I genuinely do not like it. I wish I did, not because of the health benefits or anything like that. I wish I liked it so my sister will stop bugging me. It's just my sister, who loves tea, constantly asks me how I can even read books with a clear conscience.

You are welcome

A craft I have been doing recently is drawing the characters from books and turning them into bookmarks.
Here's how to do it.
1) Draw or print up the characters from the book.
2) Next, cut from a cereal box a rectangular strip of cardboard.
Make the strip approximately the length of the book, BUT slightly longer.
3) Cut out the characters.
4) Use clear tape to cover and laminate the characters. Tape birth the front and the back.
5) Tape it to the strip of cardboard and voila. You have your very own customized bookmark! :-)

Not me, nor anyone should

If you like a book I will NEVER judge you on the type of book or what book you pick.it could be books I happen to hate like twilight or it could be books I happen to love like Alice in Wonderland. But no matter what I will not judge you. I am a firm believer in everyone's individual opinion. Do what makes you happy. Read what makes you happy.

The inner workings

I wish I could go into the mind of a writer. Like Edgar Allen Poe. That would be astounding. Or Lewis Carroll. That would be my dream.

Whoomp there it is

Im rereading Tha Fault in our Stars. (Amazing book by the way- so powerful and funny. You kind of feel guilty laughing at the jokes.) Anyway it amazes me what is inside people's brains. I have many ideas for books myself. It's just to many though. One idea replaces another with another and another. I wish I could think up a book concept and it would be real.

Why sis?

My sister hates reading. On her phone instead. Read woman.

A dying language

I was reading an old Time Magazine and it talked about  how a language dies out every like ten minutes. I find that devastating. I know English and Hebrew, but thats it. I wish I could learn every language on Earth. Im terrible at languages though. I dont know why, I love them. It still kills me that languages die out.

I guess I was wistful of reading

Wow. Even my doodles in class are books. Id say that this may be a little overboard, but reading has no downside.

I finished!

Okay so here is the final picture for All Summer in a Day.
The girl in the doorway is clearly Margot after she was just let out of the closet. Her face, her reaction is hidden but we can see the faces of the classmates that locked her in the closet. They are curious and guilty simultaneously. Margot is facing the newly started rain, having missed its breif end. The Golden Girl at the bottom of the stairs is the sun. She is so far but so close. A wistful hallucination if you will.

I love this short story, along with the somber feel of it.

All summer in a day

Im currently in the middle of a drawing from Ray Bradburys short story All Summer in a Day. Its about a young girl who moves to a planet that rains year round. All the other kids detest her since she remembers the sun. On the rainy planet the sun only comes out once in like seven years. One day the sun comes out, but when that happens the other kids lock her in a closet.

The story lacks a her reaction to being let out. I drew that. Well, I am drawing it. Ill upload a finished version later.

An update on Nancy Drew

UPDATE:
So apparently, I already shared my love with Nancy Drew with you, a few pages back.
So in my earlier post, you can see something new. My pictures I drew relating to her.

I LOVE NANCY DREW

I am fairly sure I haven't posted anything about my favorite heroine, Nancy Drew. She is my favorite. My idol. My childhood. I had a detective petiod for awhile due to her. I have read her books and her spin off series. I positively love Nancy Drew. I even play her video games. Actually they are really challenging and a lot of fun.
Ive drawn pictures, many pictures, of our favorite heroine. She is smart, classy, clever, sly and beautiful. She is my hero. I can't believe I haven't mentioned her books. One of my very favorites. Also I love her style. I try to dress in her classy sweaters and Oxfords. She was such a major influence in my life. This right here is the power of books. The absolute impact they have on people like me.Nancy Drew is my hero.
I live her mystery stories. If I can make this a piece of advice, Read Nancy Drew.

The fortress of knowledge

I wish more people read books. Reading is so important, I can't stress it enough. A goal of mine, to positively impact the world in a personal way, is to build a library. I want to build a castle, fill it with books and open it to the public. This one dream would accomplish so many ambitions of mine.

Its a dilemma

I'm not sure if I enjoy starting a new series or continuing an old series more.

Here, there, everywhere

I went on a trip this weekend and I forgot to bring any books. Huge mistake.
Here is some advice: Take a book wherever you go.

One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish

Doctor Seuss is such an under appreciated literary genius.

I am Daphne Grimm today

Okay so today my hair is in two braids and I'm wearing a red sweater with a white collar. Something seemed kind of familiar then I realized what it was. Im dressed like Daphne Grimm from the Sisters Grimm series! This was completely accidental but totally AWESOME!

Although in reality I look more like Sabrina from the series. This was still an amazing coincidence!!!:-)

NOT really a comparision

Reading is comforting. If I ever just want to forget my troubles and venture off into a distant world, books let me do that.
People compare reading to television, but you really shouldn't -its so different. (I'm not saying you can't get absorbed into television.) You just can't really get lost in movies like you can in books. With books, your full, focused attention is on the task at hand, yet for television, it takes a lot more to become absorbed then it does for books.

A Divergent goverment

So I saw the trailer for Divergent, and my friend has been nagging me to read it for a while. So I just finished the first book - pretty cool. Its a world split up into factions divided by personality (Honest, brave, nice, etc) I was thinking about it and that's a pretty cool idea. Although its a little bad, considering what happens in the book, it would probably be effective. Everyone would have friends with compatible interests and that would be handy. All in all, its a pretty intriguing system.

the benefits of reading

A piece of advice:
Reading is a good way to avoid people.
You are rarely bothered if you are reading.
Since reading is so scarce these days, people assume it is for school or important.

Egyptian Eyelashes

So my sister loves make up and everything that I don't. I was in the bathroom and I saw in the trash can a tiny, hairy thing. Thinking it was a bug, I peered closely at it. Upon further inspection it was revealed to be a false eyelash. Clearly my sisters. I looked at it and the only thing I could think of was the scene in the Egypt Game edge April is obsessed with her eyelashes.

The power of books

So when I read, I get so incredibly absorbed into books, I can barely explain it. Its like I am there, experiencing it myself. I don't notice anything else and I lose track of time. Books are so incredible, I can literally visit another world through the pages of a book. Its so amazing.

The End

I was watching When Harry met Sally and I was thinking about what he said. When he talked about reading the end of a book first so if he dies, hell know how it ends. I did that today AND CAN I JUST SAY TO NEVER EVER DO THIS. IT IS HORRIBLE AND I CANNOT BELIEVE I DID IT.

I will never, ever read the end of a book first again.

Flowers

Everytime I step on a flower, a little part of me dies. So I thought up something poetic.

Your childhood ends when you step on a flower and react with apathy.

My own canto

So in my English class, we learned Dantes Inferno. For a project we had to make a canto of our own. I put hipsters in my canto. We had to make it in terza rima, such as Dante did. But I also made mine rhyme. I want to share it with you all.
Here it is.

Hipster Hell

I looked upon this newest world

in a circle so obscure

it's name I had never even heard.

Where they dressed in terry robes

plain and white as paper be:

they paid for their scorn.

This level carried all the hipsters,

I approached one warily and with

caution asked, "Excuse me mister."

Frightened, he had suddenly shouted

"Who goes there?" At quick glance

I saw that his vision was clouded.

He squinted, saying, "I cannot see

but a trifle." Focusing, the man

asked, "And who might you be?"

I told him quickly and asked of

this level of Hell that I was now in.

He pointed hurriedly above.

He spoke, "If you had judged

your fellow friends, then well

pal, you are now fudged.

If all that you had cared for

was to be haughty well then

you shall regret feeling superior.

I, along with many others

had spent our life judgmental

and scornful of our brothers.

I thought myself better

with my scarves and my blogs.

Now all that I am is just a regretter.

I now pay for my hipster crimes

with monstrous torture and horrible

punishments for the rest of time.

Up the rocky mountains you spy

there is all of the newest

computers, but void of wifi.

We dwell upon this mountainous range

we are all dressed as equals

no one different or strange.

Within the pits between these mounts

we can climb down to a place

 of skinny jeans- massive amounts.

But if we try to touch

these magical clothing, they run

away and give us no warmth.

Next to this  skinny jean pit lies

a burning hot latte river that is

flavored like those wretched pumpkin pies."

He scowled but I felt no pity for his sinning

I walked up towards the mountain

peak, practically grinning.

After treading the hills I reached

the cyber café with all its complex

computers, yet to be breached.

They shined and they glistened

like Paradise must be to a man

close to death who suddenly breathed.

But the man cannot reach this shining

and mystical salvation so near,

so he goes about sulking and whining.

I turned to my guide who began

to speak. I rolled my eyes at

his irksome explanations again.

I watched the robed men reach upon

the machines with a small hope

but alas, there was none.

I watched pitilessly for these hipsters, I too hate.

I do not feel sadness for these men who

 felt so very high, superior and great.

As I followed my guide along to the next zone

I watched the man that I conversed with

look  at me as he moaned,

"We thought we were great

we thought we were so cool

but all that we did was utterly hate."

A double edged sword

I have to read every single night or I can't fall asleep. And even then it is hard since I am so revved up by reading that its hard to fall asleep. Its a no win situation.

The price of knoledge

Barnes and Noble is far too expensive. I'm buying books - books should cost less, so more people are able to read them.

Beauty and the book

One of my favorite Disney princesses. She is intellectual and loves reading.
Belle is definitely a mascot for book lovers.

Pencils that are Zen

To everyone out there looking for some intellectual, inspirational reading material on the internet.
Go to Zenpencils.com
I love reading their inspirational comics.
 zenpencils.com

I sleep among the novels

Hanukkah passed recently and all I asked for was a gift card to Barnes and Noble. I live at that place.

Digitopolis

I was sitting in class and our college counselor came to talk to us.
She was talking about the SAT Subject tests and that a language is easier if you are form the place where it is spoken, clearly. So the kid beside me turns to me and asks, "So would the calculus tests be easy if I were from Digitopolis?" I just grin and say, "Phantom Tollbooth?" A special bond created by books passed between us - this is why books are great.

Hot Chocolate with Matilda

I was reading Matilda (I love that book. If you have not read it, then do.) Matilda is a child genius whose parents are terrible. So she gets books from the library to read and nurtures herself. I was at the point where she was alone reading, drinking hot chocolate and being perfectly snug. I felt an overwhelming need to make hot chocolate and read with Matilda. So I did. The affects that books have are astounding. Here, I only made hot chocolate, but who knows what books could do. Books have power.

The only proper definition

Books:
A portal to an alternate universe where you can experience the magical life of another.

"Best book ever"

I think my favorite thing is when books have super obscure reviews. Its like "Best plot in decades" - The Laundromat on Fifth street. Or "Dramatic plot twist"- My friend, Gerald, from middle school.
Then there are those authors who totally parody that. It's so great. NOTE: I f you have not read the back of Tina Feys, Bossypants.... DO IT!!

A comparison of my picture and the actual one

To further emphasize my predictions of the movie Frozen.

I realize this is not so connected to reading and such. But don't forget the Snow Queen.

I PREDICTED FROZEN!!!!!

I would like to share something with you all. So the other day I saw the trailer for the movie Frozen. It looked good and since I like the tale of the Snow Queen I decised I want to see it. So earlier I was looking through a few old drawings of mine from October and I found these pictures.
LET ME JUST SAY THAT I PREDICTED FROZEN!!!! I DREW A SCANDINAVIAN PRINCESS ( since I am Swedish and thought to make one) and AND I EVEN DREW THE SNOW QUEEN (since I love to draw fairytales)!!!!!
I predicted Frozen. OMYGOODNESS

Literature class

I love literature class.
It is literally a class devoted to studying books.
So great.

Jack and Annie facts

I know a little bit about everything all due to the Magic Tree House series.

These are downright awesome!

When I stumble across something I find interesting I often screenshot it or take a picture of it. So that I can come back and marvel at it. I have screenshots of many interesting book pictures.

I take no credit for these. I only found them online.
They are quite amazing. I have included a few.

Convincingly unconvinced

My sister hates reading. We are total opposites. So over the summer in an attempt to stimulate her inate love of reading, I sent her a plethora of reading quotes and inspirational book related texts. Check out some of our conversations!

What I hate about travelling

The number one thing I hate about traveling is not the long lines or the tediousness of the airport. No. Its the fact that I have to carefully decide which books I should bring. Its an awful process. I feel like I'm deciding between  my children. "Sorry Jim, we love Karen more and would rather have her travel with us." I mean I hate it. And the selection process.... what if I want an adventure book? What if I want a mystery book?
Its so complicated.

NANCY DREW!!

I love Nancy Drew so much, she is definitely one of my favorite heroines. Besides being totally kick ass she  was smart and pretty and a detective. Ihad a detective dream for a while due to her. I love her books, I have so many and I play her videogames. What can I say, I love feeling like a detective

The leather bound life

I would really love to have old, semi brittle, leather bound versions of all of ny books. It would be amazing to read Macbeth in a ye olde type book.

Everthing I...

Accidentally, I created some colloquial phrases. I wish to share these in case you are ever in need:

Everything I drop, falls.
Everything I touch, breaks.
Everything I grow, dies.
Everything I light on fire, burns.

Feel free to borrow them.

What counts as a book

I was organizing the books in my room (by genre for those of you who are curious) and I got to the comics. I personally feel that a comic CAN count as a book, if it is worthy. Existential type comics such as Calvin and Hobbes counts, definitely. Actually, Calvin and Hobbes is a perfect comic, in my opinion. It is clever, funny, sweet, moving, intelligent and mischievous. It is perfect. That definitely counts as a book. I also have some comics of The Simpsons. Those, while hilarious  I do not count as books. They are only humorous, there is no real content. No intelligence beyond the humor.

I do not feel like magazines count as books. Well, that is not entirely true. I think that, once again, intelligent magazines such as National Geographic counts. But something like People or Cat Fancy do not. Those have nothing beneath the surface. They are simply entertaining and not even that much.

Graphic novels count. Positively. I often draw art to my books. A graphic novel is just a book that has been fully arted.

Why we read

I was talking with my father the other day and he asked me why I liked to read.
I thought it simple at first but its a pretty deep question.
Why do I like to read?
After thinking a bit I have come to this:
The possibility of a whole world that's accessible simply by understanding words printed onto paper. A world where fairies are real or aliens run amok or shadows come to life. Its a truly amazing thing actually. We all wish magic was accessible to us - that we could create monsters or slay dragons or have adventures. I want to go on a quest, find a new country or meet my doppelganger. I want an exciting life full of adventure. I think we all do. Some part of us understands that we are in a dull routine that ultimately ends with nothing major happening in our life. We try to justify it by work and school and money, but really none of that is truly necessary. If we want adventure nothing should stop us. If I want to travel to Ireland and meet a leprechaun, the only person standing in my way is myself. Well, in my particular case it would be myself and authority figures. But that's why we read. We want to experience something we cannot.
To adventure, to live, to truly DO something.
We want to learn, to investigate, to experience, to journey through the world of characters and imagination.
Books let us adventure off into a imaginary world so we can actually start to experience life.

Advice for bookworms!

May I recommend another peice of advice....
5) Spend the weekend reading. Read for at least an hour a night. Read in the shower. Read on the moon. Read during the apocalypse. Read whilst morphing into a cat.  Read anytime... except when driving in the car. No one likes getting carsick.

Technology will never replace books!

The best kind of books are real books. Nooks and Kindles are not good. Not at all. The feel of a book and turning the page and the smell of knowledge is wonderful. No matter how hard technology tries, books will persist.

287

I own approximately 287 books. I'm not sure if that's a lot or not a enough.

My dream Library

You know reality is kind of bad. I wish I could form my own universe. I would have A forest in a magical land filled with fairies and elves. Within this forest would be a castle/ library. I would stay there with my fairy friends and we would all read books together and watch movies and go exploring. My library would be amazing. I would have every book ever on infinitely tall bookshelves and ladders and slides to get you to different sections. Quotes from books and painting and book sculptures would be everywhere. Beanbags and pillows would be there too. There would be trees and plants in my library. My magic friends would also be obsessed with reading. It would be magical.

Fablehaven. A sick day devoted to books

So over the course of the past two days,  have been sick. I don't call it sick though, I call it extended reading time. I read the Fablehaven series today. So good. I am reading the fifth book. I finished the fourth today. I had a mini freak attack at this one mad part. This.book is written by Brandon Mull. Hes pretty darn good. I LOVE fantasy and fairy tales. This book is chock full of magic awesomeness!

The Girl who could FLY!!

This is my absolute favorite book! :-) I have read out dozens of times and still cry every time. Books are amazing that way. This book is spectacular. Ive always wished could fly. I have dreamed of flying with Peter Pan and soaring through the clouds. I relate to Piper so much. When she is forced to conform I cry. Always. Dr Hellion has also made me experience positively every known human emotion towards her.This book is my spirit animal.  Love this book. Read it and read it again.
Oh and for those of you still in doubt, read the interview with Victoria Forrester in the back. Its hysterical!

SPOILER ALERT ON HIVE

Okay so I just finished the second HIVE book and OMIGOD!
SPOILER ALERT...if you haven't read it, that is.
Its FILLED with plot twists!  First Wing dies. Then he doesn't. Then the Contessa is evil! OMIGOD THE CONTESSA IS EVIL! Not even good evil, but bad evil.
At that moment I just got up and walked around whisper-yelling "Omigod The Contessa!"
You know when a apart in a book is so good that you have to get up and freak out over it. Yeah, well thats what happened for twenty minutes.
There was something that was supposed to be shocking, but I sort of guessed it already so it wasn't that big - with Cypher, I mean.
It ended on such a mad cliffhanger, that I just finished and went, "I NEED that next book. Now."

MORE Lemony Snicket reading quotes - beacuse I can!

“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”- This is now on my list of fears!
“Sometimes words are not enough.”
 “The book was long, and difficult to read, and Klaus became more and more tired as the night wore on. Occasionally his eyes would close. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over.” ( He does this and it is great. Darkness is mentioned? Two pages pure black. A reflection discussed? He mimics the passage upside down below it!)
“One of the world's most tiresome questions is what object one would bring to a desert island,because people always answer "a deck of cards" or "Anna Karenina" when the obvious answer is "a well equipped boat and a crew to sail me off the island and back home where I can play all the card games and read all the Russian novels I want.”
 “There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different.”
 “There are those who say that life is like a book, with chapters for each event in your life and a limited number of pages on which you can spend your time. But I prefer to think that a book is like a life, particularly a good one, which is well to worth staying up all night to finish.”
" But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book about the law. Books about the law are notorious for being very long, very dull, and very difficult to read. This is one reason many lawyers make heaps of money. The money is an incentive - the word "incentive" here means "an offered reward to persuade you to do something you don't want to do - to read long, dull, and difficult books.”
“Of course, it is boring to read about boring thing, but it is better to read something that makes you yawn with boredom than something that will make you weep uncontrollably, pound your fists against the floor, and leave tearstains all over your pillowcase, sheets, and boomerang collection.”
 THIS MAN IS A GENIUS!

Some Lemony Snicket reading quotes - a combination of two of my favorite things

"A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded."
 “Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
 “Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
 “If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.” “A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.”
“All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.”
  “It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.”
" Well-read people are less likely to be evil."
“No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read.” 
“For some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears,' for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house.' The moral of 'Snow White' is 'Never eat apples.' The moral of World War I is 'Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand.”
 “The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it feels as if the ideas contained in the book are disappearing as the pages turn to ashes and the cover and binding--which is the term for the stitching and glue that holds the pages together--blacken and curl as the flames do their wicked work. When someone is burning a book, they are showing utter contempt for all of the thinking that produced its ideas, all of the labor that went into its words and sentences, and all of the trouble that befell the author . . .”
 “They're book addicts.”

The movie dilemma

When books are turned into movies it is 99 percent of the time a disappointment. I never expect good things from a book gone movie. Most of the time wrong details piss me off. If they leave out details or events it irritates me. But the number one thing that bothers me about books made into movies is the people who have ONLY seen the movie and think they know everything. Then, since the details are wrong the person who only saw the movie is wrong and CAN NOT EVEN ACCEPT IT!
Here is some advice:
2. If you make a book into a movie, get all the details right.
3. If you have only seen the movie, read the book. I will guarantee it will be more amazing.
4. If you have not read the book, do not argue with those who have.

The higher institute of villainous education

I read every single night and I read very fast. So I am always looking for things to read. I started the second book of the
H.I.V.E series. OMIGOD!!!! It is so good.  I Really liked the first and the second is so far so good! Read it! Read it now! This book makes me so curious as to what will happen.

Changed the better, I do belive you can be changed for the better...

So on my sisters gift, I altered it a tad. The book had a ton of references to the Nancy Drew books written in the 30s. (Which is the time the book is mimicking.) So I wrote a note everytime a refrence is made, she will know. Check it out!

An advice piece

Looking at the name of my blog, I realized I am not actually posting any advice for bookworms to live by. So I shall start peppering my posts with a few advice pieces.I start now:

1. Although the wait is inconvenient buying books online is a great thing.
              -You can get books unavailable in stores, save money on gas, and add to the ever growing     carbon footprint!

You are welcome.

Happy Hannukah

Okay so this is one of the few series my sister actually likes. This graphic novel version of Nancy Drew.We have the first few books but not this one. The previous book had a preview of this one. She and I wantdd this so bad! I finally bought it online and in the spirit of the holidays, it shall be my sisters Hannukah present. I pleased since I can say I got her a BOOK!

oh and I LOVE NANCY DREW. So expect more Nancy posts in the future.

Am I alone in this?

Does anyone know the agony of a series and the next book is not out yet and it is purely torturous?

Update on Beyonders

Update: I have just finished the Beyonders ( A world without heroes). It was pretty good. But it ended on a cliff hanger.... now I have to get the next book. They treat books like television shows. Books take so long to read. You can't just end it on a cliff hang like that! I NEED to know what happens!
I need this adventure and mystery to have an answer!

Lemony Snicket's amazingness

I would like to share my favorite author with you all. I positively LOVE Lemony Snicket. His series are so great. I love "A series of Unfortunate Events and ATWQ as well!". He writes in a stream of consciousness style. So he will start talking about one thing and he will give analogies. The analogies will be something like buying bread, or vacuuming the carpet or chasing a monkey down the hall of a library. Its so fascinating and always cracks me up.  Here are some great ones by Lemony Snicket.
"He was as greedy as he was fictional."
"Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness."
 " I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.”
“If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.”
  “A passport, as I'm sure you know, is a document that one shows to government officials whenever one reaches a border between two countries, so that the official can learn who you are, where you were born, and how you look when photographed unflatteringly.”

I mean it. This man is my absolute favorite. Lemony Snicket, you and Edgar Allen Poe will always be amazing.

Ill be waiting...

Hey let me know, you readers out there, about any good books to read and or review.

A review on Life as we knew it series

One series that I really liked was the "Life as we knew it" series. The books are basically post apocalypse after the moon is knocked closer to Earth. I know that sounds futile but it messed up all the waves and  drowned half the planet. It also meddled with the volcanoes causing chaos. The series was fabulous... well most of the series was. NOT the last book. The final book, "The shade of the moon", recently published, was TERRIBLE. I hated it. Even the editors hated. Everyone hated it. It really was that bad. I reccomend the series, but a warning, if you read it, do NOT read the last book.