The Hunger Games by Suzzane Collins

Rating: 5 Stars

I can't believe that I've waited so long to read this book! The time wasted seems absurd. When a book keeps me up 'til 2 in the morning, at the edge of my seat, well my bed, makes me ignore being yelled at to turn out the lights and commands my attention it definitely deserves 5 stars at least. The Hunger Games was no exception. I haven't read a book so captivating since Harry Potter but it doesn't beat Harry, mind you. This is a diehard Harry Potter fan talking here and apparently a Hunger Games one as well!

Panem had thirteen districts with the Capitol at the top of things and I emphasize on had. After the districts came together to overthrow the Capitol, District 13 was obliterated and the rest of them were in shambles, well most of them.

Long story short, the Capitol is full of a bunch of greedy power hungry, heartless loonies, with a few exceptions. Body alterations that you wouldn’t believe I mean they take surgeries to look perfect, a few dyes their skin colour, even guys wear make-up as a norm.

To remind everyone of their huge mistake the Capitol punishes everyone by forcing them to give up a boy and a girl from each district to participate in The Hunger Games, where they fight to the death until only one remains. So the people of Panem watch their children die before their eyes. Can you imagine being helpless, having no choice but to give up your kids for slaughter?

Along For The Ride by Sara Dessen

Rating: 4 Stars

For some reason I've always steered clear of these kinds of books, chick-lit, I had this idea that all of them are boring and cliche.I've seen 'Along for The Ride' a while, and it always tugged at a part of my mind, practically screaming "Read me! You wouldn't regret it, I promise! Perty please!" well I gave it a try and to my surprise I wasn't disappointed!

This is my first Sara Dessen and I really admire how she captured Auden. You could relate to her, how she felt about her parents’ divorce to her social isolation.

Oh, and Eli! Even I have a crush on him! He’s totally unlike that jerk brother of his, Jake.He really cares about her. He made Auden realize that she has a second chance to have a childhood she didn't have. The guy was sort of a reck at the begining, not talking to anyone since the accident until Auden came, which was kind of sweet. She helped him as much he had helped her. Now he talks and begins to joke around like he used to, before Abe's death.

I also liked how Auden and Eli didn't get into all that boyfriend-girlfriend routine, holding hands and kissing all the time and going gaga over each other eek!That's what really turn me off of with these books.

Her dad was a selfish bastard and he was going to make the same mistake twice! He needs his nine hours of sleep, sheesh! Heidi needed more than he did by far and deserved as much. She was on the verge of a meltdown, but lucky Auden was there.

The Mediator: Shadowland by Meg Cabbot

 Rating: 4 Stars
*Mild Spoilers* To be honest I didn't realize she wrote The Princess Diaries,not that I read them.I never really expected to like ghost books much so I was in for a supprise,I totally enjoyed this one!I've always loved witty and sassy heroines, who don't take nonsense without giving you their special of knuckle sandwich!And Suze fits the bill.

So now Suze just moved to sunny California from crowded New York since her mom had remarried.It was easier for them to move since her mom was a reporter when her step-dad was a carpenter with three kids,boys to be a bit more specific,would be more harder.

At first sight she nicknamed her new brothers Dopey,Sleepy and Doc,which pretty much covered their personalities.Doc,his real name was David, is my favourite!He was probably,no definitely, Suze's favourite stepbrother as well.
Suze was hoping to get away,or at least to get a break, from her normal routine.She's a mediator,she solves ghosts' problems and send them off wherever it is that they're supposed to go.They usually come crying and screaming for her help-literally- and there's no way she can refuse,them ghosts don't give in easily.Sometimes she's forced to get physical with certain stubborn ones,you remember that knuckle sandwich I mentioned?

The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K Rowling

Rating: 5 Stars

*Spoiler Alert*
I just loved this book! Just yesterday I got myself a copy and couldn't put it down! Mrs J.K Rowling's works always had that effect on me. The introduction gave me a peculiar feeling that washed over me in waves and made me want to cry, especially when I came to the part I read about the Second Wizarding War and when I read the bit that reminded us what Professor Dumbledore said about truth to his ‘favourite and most famous pupil,' and we all know who that was. Then I recognised that what I felt was nostalgia.


I thoroughly enjoyed Professor Dumbledore's notes, this had also given me this feeling of home sickness when he refers to Hogwarts, when I know that everything's over, but then again, it never really would ever end to me, in my hearts of hearts

The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak

Rating: 5 Stars
Today, Sunday the 10th July, around 1:55 AM, I had finished the most beautiful book I’ve ever read. A book, though breathtakingly beautiful, it showed mankind at its worst and its best. How? I have no words that could tell you. Maybe the words were there, but they weren’t enough, no amount of them could ever be.

I couldn’t find one word that could that could describe the way this book made me feel as I burned through its pages full of life and death and as I read every single word it held so dearly.

Words, words, words. It was also the story of Liesel’s love affair with words and yet the words themselves could not do her story any justice. I’m sure, sure as Death, sure that even from the moment I read the first words that I was then a lifelong fan of Marcus Zusak. Making Death the narrator was truly original, very unusual indeed. He gave Death a personality, a personality that was interesting and that had drawn my attention and approval from the very start. Deaths was kind, had a sense of humour and believe it or not, he had a heart.

Now I attempt to share and describe my thoughts and my feelings. It was like riding some sort of emotional rollercoaster that had begun slowly and gradually gained momentum. Happiness had been constant after the cloudy days, but that didn’t mean that sadness and despair wouldn’t catch up. They did. Oh, yes they certainly did.

Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

Rating:5 Stars

Charlotte's Web is definately one of all time favourites!A story of the unlikely,but heartwarming and admirable, friendship of the loveable pig,Wilbur and a clever and caring spider,Charlotte.It reminds us how fortunate we all are for having friends of our own.Honestly though,I'll think twice before I swat away a spider ever again.

Link: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24185.Charlotte_s_Web

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

Rating:5 Stars
Loved it though it was devastating to see Fred,Tonks and Lupin dead!!!It answers all the questions the previous books posed!!!Fantastic!
Thanks Mrs.Rowling you are truly the best!!!

Link:http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/818056.Harry_Potter_and_the_Deathly_Hallows

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

It was a rather difficult read.This is my first encounter with one of Dickens' work,but to be honest I couldn't pass page 120 and it was with great difficulty I even reached that far.I've attempted twice,but I guess it's one of those books I'll just put down and try it again later.

Link: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2623.Great_Expectations