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Hi!  I finished Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie.  This was a different book than what I normally read...I'm reading a lot of those hope-filled books lately.  Steven is living the high life, a drummer in All-City, trying to impress the girl of his dreams, when his little brother is diagnosed with leukemia.  This has a different format, but it gives a perspective on how his life is actually going.  The one thing I really disliked was the jump between times.  It was October, and then a few pages later it was immediately winter.  It could have had better transitions, but still, an overall good read.  I even got my brother to start it, which is a rare feat!
250 to 300 million cell phones are being used in the U.S.
Love from Justi!  21 books done, 328 days to go!

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I read The King's Dragon, a spin off book for the British televised sci-fi Doctor Who.  This book was okay, but it flows more like a show than an actual story...at times the details were rushed, with very little supporting scenes but a lot of intense story.  The problem was trying to include tons of politics in a small book.  It didn't work out that well.  Personally, this would have better been titled 'Fool's Gold.'  The Doctor lands in a planet known for hospitality...and finds closed doors.  Like I said, the plot is overdone, with the best elements the random comedic effect known for the show in general.  I'm not sure if I'll read another Doctor Who book, since this one was a downer for me.
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots!
20 books down, 330 days to go.
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19 books down, 337 days to go!

Hello Everyone!

Happy October!!  I have read four books!  The first four books in the Vampire Diaries Series.  In these books Elena (mortal) meets two brothers.  Who both happen to be in love with her.  And who both happen to be vampires.  These two vampire brothers a very vicious and competitive towards each other and will do seemingly anything to get her.  These books were okay but not much happened in "four books".  Besides the facts that a mortal girl is being fought over by two vampire brothers.
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The Bible is the world’s best-selling book. The bible is also the world’s most shoplifted book. 

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Glimpse by Carol Lynch Williams looks like a long book, but it's written in free-verse poetry, so it took me less than four hours to read...hey, I had to do homework in between every few pages!  Anyway, Hope has an okay life, money to use most of the time, a best friend, a crush...but then she walks in on her older sister holding a gun to her head.  So why is her sister now suicidal?  And why doesn't her mother want her to mention how they get money?  This book is thrilling, easy to read, and full of questions about morals and family.  So, yeah, it was pretty good.
Love from Justi!
One-third of girls in the United States get pregnant before the age of 20.
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14 books down, 339 days to go!

I read Chosen, the third book in the House of Night series...it wasn't as great as it should have been.  To tell the truth, these books are starting to feel like they merge together, with no obvious breaks in the plot.  Zoey must find a way to save her best friend, and undead vampyre thing, while appearing to be at ease with her boyfriend(s).  And, of course, she had to fall in love with Loren Blake, a vampyre years older than her.  She can't be content with her official boyfriend, Eric, or her *ex-boyfriend, a human who she's imprinted with.  Yeah, this is becoming really complicated.
Still, it was an interesting read, so I'm going to continue with this series.
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It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear. 
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Hi!  So now I just finished Betrayed, the second book in the House of Night series.  Zoey is faced with the dilemma of three guys who like her, becoming the leader of the Dark Daughters, and her fear that Neferet, her mentor, isn't as nice as she appears.  Again, the Wicca additions were wonderful, but this moved pretty fastly, the climax being the last fifty pages or so.  A lot of things were thrown at you, and, while this is only the second book in the series, it added a little too much all at once for it to be really good.  It was also pretty predictable to me...I saw what was going to happen, and I bet a lot of other readers did, too.  Enjoyable, but I hope the next book is better than this was.
J.K. Rowling is the first person to become a billionaire (U.S. dollars) by writing books.
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*Justi*

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Hey!  It's me, E.
I finished 2 more books.  Clockwork Angel, By The Time You Read This I'll Be Dead.
I have to go to bed (I have a Math Test and French tomorrow- but I have to study to night) so I have to  make this quick if I want to get in any study time/ and or get sleep tonight!
Clockwork Angel is part of the spin-off series of Mortal Instruments (it was AMAZING), and By the Time You Read this I will Be Dead is a bout a girl who has attempted suicide multiple times, leaving her scarred, mute, and in a neck brace.  She plans her next death with a website called "Through-the-light" and plans each detail accordingly.  Until she meats Santana, way after she has taught herself not to feel.  Both GREAT books.



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A snail can sleep for three years.
Elizabeth

9 books down, 349 days to go!!!

I finished another book!  Yay!  Though I'm not reading nearly enough lately...

So, I read Marked, the first book of the House of Night series by PC and Kristin Cast.  Zoey is an average teenager until she is marked as a fledgling vampyre.  Now she must leave her old life behind and create a new one in the House of Night, a, well, high school for vampyres to prepare them for the Change.  But Zoey is different than any other fledgling, and, now that she's been chosen by Nyx, she has to figure out what she was chosen to do...
This book was okay, but the climax happened a little too fast.  I liked the Greek and Wiccan, and Native American, illusions that filled the book, along with random facts from pop culture.  It took a while to fully understand what was happening, but once I got it, I thought the concept was awesome, if not exaggerated. Now I'll start working on the rest of this series...
There is a giant mushroom in Oregon that is over 2,400 years old, covers 3.4 square miles of land, and is still growing!
9 books down, 349 days to go! Love from Justi!