Member: JessicaLouise23

Yeah, I do find that a bit. I was diagnosed with bipolar II (halfway highs, full-on lows) when I was about 13, and up until the age of about 18 I was a walking disaster area with it. Then anxiety and agoraphobia, and I've always been a touch OCD about certain things. Like before I go to bed everything's always in the same place - my jewellery is in the same place, my slippers are neatly lined up by the bed, and if something's wrong I stay really wide awake until I've sorted it! A girl at uni had bipolar too but I didn't get on with her much - she was a bit silly about the whole thing, and plenty annoying in other ways too!

I definitely wish more people shared my love of books! Apparently there are plenty of people out there, just none near me it seems. My friend down the road does like books, I guess, but not really the same stuff. And she never remembers what they are even if she loved them! She'll get the title or the author WAY wrong and I'll just stop and think, 'well, you can't have loved it that much then!' Is that really bad?!

It was definitely partly being fed up with myself that got me really fighting the agoraphobia. I didn't want to be so bloody useless any more, and I was getting cabin fever pushing me the other way so I wanted to be able to get out again. I mean, I've never been one for pubs and clubs and gadding off all over the place, but I wanted to be able to at least be normal again, be able to go to town or to the cinema without it being a major crisis.

Still, the very worst times of all have been the depressive ones when I couldn't read either. Jeez, that made me even more miserable. I've always been a reader - Mum taught me to read well before school age - and I used to take a book with me everywhere, even if we were just popping to the shop in the car. When we went on holiday I wasn't carsick so I could read all the way there - even to Cornwall once, which was about eight hours! Mum reads quite a bit, especially now she's working here instead of at the hospital (she managed surgery timetables and stuff), and I persuaded her to join LT so she could keep more up to date with what was popular so she'd know what people were asking for or talking about in the shop.

I do indeed have pets. I have an old ginger tabby called Marmalade (very cute, dribbles a lot, has a pet hair bobble called Bernard), a little black stealth bomber called Pippa (half-Siamese, makes a lot of noise, likes mice), a duck called Daisy, a lame goose called Sid, and some chickens. A couple of summers we've had clutches of ducklings that were abandoned in one of the hospital quads where Mum worked, and my sister Hannah hand-reared one in her bedroom. It was called Jemima and she used to carry it round in a black feathery scarf round her neck!

I'm keeping my fingers crossed on the 'not being ill' thing. I had tonsillitis when I was at uni and this 'swallowing a golf ball' sore throat is what it felt like then. I don't seem to have any other cold symptoms but I've had this sore throat for three days now, like my throat's swollen rather than that raw tickly on you usually get. It's woken me up two mornings in a row at 4.30am, and I've had to get up for tablets and a cup of tea for an hour before I could go back to sleep (actually not that bad - an hour's extra reading time and when I get back to sleep it's always that morning sleep full of interesting dreams!). I'm going to keep taking painkillers and watch out for the little yellow dots on my tonsils like I had last time. Eeeek...

Back to my book and the packet of Hula Hoops I've got stashed under the counter... :-)

xxx

posted by elliepotten at 8:54 am (EST) on Nov 16, 2009

Hi Jess! I was at York uni, the rest's a little complicated. I did a year and a term of English/History of Art, then I had a bad episode of bipolar depression (we got it all over here!) and had to take the rest of the year out. I stayed in York for a lot of it though, since we were renting a house and my boyf was there too. I worked at Sainsbury's for part of it, and spent lots of time wandering in the sun and reading by the river. Then I went back after the Summer of the Accident and started a Sociology degree instead, but that first term was when the agoraphobia struck! Fortunately they let me finish the term from home, so overall I've almost got enough credits to have made up a degree. Maybe one day I'll finish up via Open Uni or something.

My boyfriend and I were already a little less in love than we were, so to speak, but when I left we made the decision to call it a day. He lives in Birmingham and was doing nanotechnology, engineering, that kind of thing, so not only would I barely have seen him, but when he loves computer games, hates books and when he finishes uni he'll likely end up in a city, maybe even abroad, working for a technology company. And I am most definitely a country girl, and I love my books, so that wouldn't have worked that well! I still message him every now and again, he was a nice guy, but I think we did the right thing in the end. It was just hard losing him AND all my uni friends at once, y'know? I have a friend down the road here but we're steadily growing apart and barely see each other now. One of my uni friends has visited so far, and a lovely girl I met there and who actually lives locally, has gone to Edinburgh to work now! She lived about half an hour away, then her mum and sister moved to Bakewell, where our shop is, but she'll only be back for visits, like at Christmas.

I got that medication on prescription, so I get four weeks at a time free now, with five more repeats on my prescription, rather than paying £3 a week for the branded version. Which is definitely better. Going up to the school wasn't TOO bad - just one or two teachers there (none of the vile ones!) and the librarians remembered me. But we were there a long time, sifting through all these grubby old books under the computer counters round the edge of the library and under the cloakroom area in the staffroom! And we went up the vets to pick up some tablets while we were out, and I had to sit in the car and watch this totally useless driver for the RSPCA load cages into her van so badly that a poor little bunny fell off the top and the cage rolled down into the van and landed upside down. Stupid woman.

Anyway, back to my book and my hot chocolate, I have such a sore throat right now, what I wouldn't give to be at home watching T4! xxx

posted by elliepotten at 7:50 am (EST) on Nov 15, 2009

OK, just in case your email is telling you I wrote you about twelve messages... well, I did. The first time I copied your message across into mine so I could reply without missing anything, but when I posted half of it was still in the middle of my bit! Then I posted to explain that. Then I reposted it but forgot to private it... then I did it right! ;-)

posted by elliepotten at 4:46 pm (EST) on Nov 10, 2009

There is nothing worse than a whiny main character. I'm just glad they stopped at two movies, any more would have been terrible. But I hope you decide to give Meg Cabot another try.

posted by kase_ie at 10:03 pm (EST) on Aug 2, 2009

Yea, Audrey definitely is. Sometimes it is hard to find an original character. But I felt the same way about the Princess Diaries movies, they didn't really need to make the second one. I'm excited you're going to read Pants On Fire, I liked it a lot.

posted by kase_ie at 9:45 pm (EST) on Jul 19, 2009

I have no idea because I've never read them. But I'm guessing she's somewhere in between 15 and 18. I know that helps a lot lol. They seemed young to me too, which is why I haven't read them. Her other books are good though. And All-American Girl has a sequel called Ready Or Not, if you're interested. It's pretty short, but good.

posted by kase_ie at 7:01 pm (EST) on Jul 17, 2009

Yea I saw that, thanks. And I thought Airhead was just a novel when it first came out, but she turned it into a series now that she's finally finished with the Princess Diaries. My favorites by her are Pants on Fire, the Mediator series, Avalon High, and All-American girl. But any of them you find are good. Queen of Babble is an adult series she wrote, and it's the only one I've read so far. I love the way she writes; she's very funny.

posted by kase_ie at 10:04 pm (EST) on Jul 12, 2009

Yeah, I normally really like fantasy. I just haven't read any in a while. I'm definitely making a list of new books to get though, thanks to you =]. One author I really like is Meg Cabot. She writes teen and adult books (including the Princess Diaries, which I have personally never read.) But all of hers that I have read were really good.

posted by kase_ie at 6:41 pm (EST) on Jul 10, 2009

Well, I just finished reading the Audrey,Wait! book by Robin Benway. It was really good so you should read it =]. I'm just getting into Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict. I haven't gotten far enough to tell if it's gonna be good or not. I'll definitely try both the Luxe and the Vampire Academy series. I think I tried to message you on there... not sure if it worked. If not I'll give it another shot. What have you read lately?

posted by kase_ie at 9:31 pm (EST) on Jul 8, 2009

Yeah, I usually loan out books to friends (just so I'll have someone to talk to about them), but lately I've had to be more careful with who I let borrow. So far two books have gone unreturned, and it bothers me a lot. And thanks, I've thought about reading the Luxe series before, I just never really got around to it. Same with the vampire ones. I'm usually a little hesitant now when I see vampire books because I've looked through some and a lot of them seem like they just want to be Twilight. Especially considering that ever since Twilight got popular there have been an explosion of new books about vampires. But it's nice to know there are still some good ones out there. And if you're in need of a few recommendations, feel free to ask. I know of several books that aren't in your library that I think you might like. I'd also like to try that site you gave me, it sounds really cool. I like the fact that there are actually sites out there that aren't about internet dating or whatever. =]

posted by kase_ie at 2:59 pm (EST) on Jul 6, 2009

Yea tis a pain that- i always find tons of books i want just when i shouldn't be buying them *grr*
Hehe i would have loved to have nicked him but i doubt my dad would take kindly to me keeping a cat in the house.
Ah right dang shady buggers for getting books first. What book did she lend you? anything interesting? Yea i hardly ever loan books out for fear that they might come back all messed up it happened to one of my HP books when i lent them to a friend of my mum's. Her young son tore part of one of the front pages out (thankfully it was a blank page) but it still annoyed me.
Aww hun *hugs* well we'll have to just keep our fingers crossed that nothing too bad happens anytime soon to either of our respective grandparents.
It doesn't surprise me that she is involved in all the hoohah on the Lex - the couple of times i was there last week i wanted to just shout at her "what the hell is so bloody good about axlrose for pete's sake?" gah i'm getting sorely tempted to just sneak on there and delete my account and not tell anyone cos i doubt they'll notice for a while, except maybe naureen she actually emailed me after the 20th june when i said i'd be back and asked me why i wasn't yet which i thought was sweet. But other than her i just don't really know any of the others well enough to really be bothered about keeping in touch cos they've all formed their own little groups with nicknames and inside jokes or whatever and i just don't have the patience to manoeuver all the group politics.
Yea that sounds like a fab idea either way we both end up with more books lol.
I reckon i will enjoy reading it methinks i'll put it on my set of drawers to be read soon.
My weekend was alright. Work on saturday was long and rather boring but it's all getting me money so complaints shall be short. My friend's birthday dinner was ok but i got rather annoyed with my bf cos he practically forced me to eat some of the birthday cake which had jam in (i have always said that i don't like jam and therefore don't eat cake with jam filling but he was constantly nagging me saying "but have you tried it?") and after i ate it and hadn't gone "ewww don't like it" he kept making stupid comments calling me a jam-lover until he finally realised it was pissing me off and stopped.
Yesterday was a fair bit worse, I was already feeling a bit crappy but when i took some of my painkillers i felt a whole lot worse and was actually sick. My mum says i was a nasty shade of green - so i had a lie down on the sofa with a hot water bottle and had a nap. Woke up feeling a bit better and i was fine until i took some more of my painkillers (i can't swallow tablets so i take those nurofen meltlets) then i immediately felt crap again but thankfully wasn't sick. After that i got straight into bed with another hot water bottle and basically slept from 9pm til 9am although i think i woke up a couple of times during the night.
I find it highly ironic that i said you might be ill if the insomnia kept up for too long and it was *me* that ended up being ill and you had truck-loads of sleep! tis a strange world

posted by LadyViolet at 2:41 pm (EST) on Jul 6, 2009

Haha np at all. I just wish some of my friends read as much as I do. They always borrow from me, but I never find anything they have that I haven't read. Which means I'm really glad I found this site. So if you know of any I should try, please tell me. I'm just starting my last I got last week, and could use some suggestions. =]

posted by kase_ie at 6:05 pm (EST) on Jul 4, 2009

Yea i noticed that as well how odd. *glares* lucky bugger I've got to be a good girl and not buy anything until i get paid in 2 weeks cos i'm £30 away from being broke and i'm not happy about it. I haven't bought anymore books since i went to Stones on wednesday!
I think he snuck in through the back door while i was pegging out the washing although he must have been invisible cos i never saw him lol
We have to wait until January!! ugh that's awful! Darn the americans! yes shush trying to provoke me into sin :P
It is so heartbreaking seeing how frail my mum's parents are nowadays - they're older than my dad's parents (who are much livelier anyway) and have a fair few health problems which don't help at all.
Oh blimey you could do with having a window open nearby so some of the heat can vent.
Oh yea i'd heard it mentioned that there was some argument going on the other day. you remember that girl with the axlrose banner who was a bit annoying? well she posts in the teenage thread loads and never seems to shut up about bloody axl rose- doesn't she realise we *don't* care? I probably won't go very often anyway cos i really can't be bothered to sift through all the madness.
Yea we so should! It's only a 30 minutes train journey for me to get to B'ham and the Almighty Stones so we will have to organise something soon. I get my results on August 20th *gulps*
Hehe you're not helping my bank balance!
No i haven't read it before- the copy was my sister's who never really read it entirely and it's been battered about a bit but i'm keeping it nevertheless. I am looking forward to reading it though.

posted by LadyViolet at 4:18 pm (EST) on Jul 3, 2009

Hehe if i wasn't supposed to be avoiding buying new books (which i failed at yesterday) i would so order it on the spot but i need to be a good girl and wait a while or my parentals will flay me alive cos my car insurance is due and i need to chip in a fair chunk of it.
Lol The Twins of Oddness - i like that!
I was up rather late last night trying to get my library books read (which i did in the end) i did get a few little bugs which i swatted at a bit but no humungous moths at least.
Yea, this morning our neighbour's cat somehow snuck into our house and i found him at the top of the stairs cos i heard some wierd thumping and went to investigate and there he was! I had to try and shoo him outside but he was pretty worried so i didn't try to pet him. gave me a bloody heart attack though lol.
Oh i know! ACSOL is just so beautifully written!! hmm i hadn't thought about that i'm thinking it was just meant to be a stand-alone book. I do wanna read the Fetch though cos that sounds really good although hopefully if i wait long enough it will be out in paperback by the time my TBR pile is diminished enough for me to justify buying it.
I hope he does but he's having carpal tunnel problems where his hands lose all feeling every so often which is really dangerous if he was driving although i think he's not driving anymore thankfully.
Yea i thought that you must have had another technical malfunction :P I didn't actually delete my account the other night cos when got on there some of the people i used to speak to on there were all sad that i was leaving. But i think i do need to do it though cos i will only really post in a couple of places so it's just not worth it. I get much more out of LT & YAR (although i don't post there anywhere near as much as you do lol) but i do thank have to thank the Lex for enabling me to "meet" you and at some point we will have to meet properly cos i mean we're about 40 mins away from each other!
I am gonna try and get hold of as many Sarah Dessen books as i can when i have the funds available i want to try and get them all in the same cover style as the ones i've already got you know? to satisfy my OCD lol
Ah tis a hard life for us addicts never able to be sure if we really *have* read a book or not :P

posted by LadyViolet at 4:42 pm (EST) on Jul 2, 2009

WHAT?!?! OH MY FECKING GOD!!!! IT IS AN ALL!!! *sits on hands to prevent self from ordering it there and then* gah that is soo not fair!!! i just bought two books the other day, the parentals are not gonna be happy with me spending another £5!
I think i alternate with what side i lie on during the night although i think i probably lie mostly on my right as well. Lol it is odd what we have in common :P but you're right we are generally strange people.
OMG what an evil moth!! ugh i'm glad moths don't frequently sneak into my room or i'd end up flinging quite a lot of things at them. I was flailing a newspaper at flies at my nan's on Sunday cos they were irritating me that much while i was trying to read *grr*
Yea the name really suits him, my bf's parents hate silly cat names like socks or fluffy etc. so we were all trying to come up with a good proper name. I haven't got any pets unfortunately my mum doesn't really like dogs (neither do i really) but my dad hates cats so we can't have either pet which is a shame. So i just have to fuss other people's pets lol
Yea Niall seems more like someone i'd go for compared to Seth. I have two books i took out at the start of the month: Kira-Kira and Scandal of the Season, they looked rather interesting although i haven't really been in the mood to read them but i'm gonna have to cos i would rather not take them back unfinished.
Yea i hope so cos it'll cost me more money to buy the new version since i already have CoA.
That's exactly why i never want to smoke cos i don't want to go through what my grandpa did- although my other grandad smoked possibly a pipe for quite a while and has never had cancer although he is quite ill at the moment, which is worrying.
Ah awesome! you'll have to tell me what you think once you've finished it :)
Ooh sounds intriguing.. will have to locate it on the Zon and stick it in my rather sizeable wishlist lol.
Yea it was fun on there for a time but now it does seem a tad bit childish and i actually don't like the layout of the forums with all the siggies and avvies cos they distract you quite often. Thats what i like about the LT forums cos they're much clearer and simpler.
Oh i really liked it, i loved all the Wish catering crew. God the library girls were such bitches! that scene where Wes goes to the library to ask Macy a question and they practically force him to ask them the question and then sit there totally stumped is absolutely hilarious!

posted by LadyViolet at 12:41 pm (EST) on Jun 30, 2009

phew i am glad for that! lol
i think i had the same quilt during winter as i do now , mostly cos i was too lazy to change it cos it meant i would have to disembowel the drawers under my bed (i have one of those divan things rather than a bed frame) If i got too cold i would put my dressing gown on and sleep in that - i sleep in a tiny ball shape anyway so i tend to stay quite warm lol
Oh god i hate moths my bf doesn't mind them or spiders and thinks i'm being a tad wimpy if i flinch away from them. I also despise pigeons and seagulls - i nearly had my head taken off by a bird the other day as it flew horribly low above me *shudders* I'm mostly just a cat person and i love my bf's gorgeous grey cat Isaac (i suggested that name :D ) although i did get woken up at 5ish this morning cos isaac was standing on my shoulder, probably wondering what the heck i was doing in his spot as he often goes into my bf's room early in the morning and curls up on the empty side.
Hehe yea i think cos we don't really see much of seth in IE i found Niall more appealing, although i can't say i liked Irial very much. FE may be one of my next reads but i *still* haven't read my two library books which have to go back on Thursday, perhaps i can read one tonight and the other tomorrow night *ponders*
Aww crap! maybe if we're really lucky Smiths will already have some of the Brit covers in their shops which we can get hold of cos i really don't want to have to buy the mis-matched covers *pouts*
Luckily for me none of my close family have died from cancer although my grandpa had throat cancer several years back but thankfully he's fine now, i think i was too young to understand what was going on when my grandpa was ill so i don't think it affected me too badly.
Hehe okey dokes i'll stick on the pile by my bed for reading as soon as the library books and GRTB! book have been done.
Oooh awesome hopefully i'll get round to that soon enough. Four? an interestingly even number, usually it's five or three for many series' i've read (except my TP books which are mostly quartets) dang i hope they're gonna be out in a nice short space of time.
On sunday night i went back on the Lex for a little while although considering how far behind on threads i am, with no chance of *ever* catching up. and because of how little interest i have in the majority of the threads I decided that i'm gonna delete my profile permanently tonight so if you wanna come back for one night as well and we can say goodbye to the Brit thread properly lol

posted by LadyViolet at 10:53 am (EST) on Jun 30, 2009

hehe oh yea, that was my *old* free-time black hole before i discovered LT, and frankly i'm really glad i did find it or i would have turned into a rabid squealing twigirl with no hope of a cure.
Oh dear yea the hot wether isn't gonna be helping at the moment and although i only have a thin quilt i hate leaving my windows open at night cos all manner of icky bugs can get in.
Yea hopefully she will be around more often once JD's at college or after she's graduated, cos i know the books carry on past the end of her education.
Ah right awesome either of them would be a good book.
WHAT?!?! *twitch* they had better not change the covers before we get City of Glass cos then the first two won't match the third!!! I have the british cover of CoA but the connections thing on here was showing me to have the american so i had to change it. OMG I JUST LOOKED AT THE ZON!! WTF ARE THEY DOING?!?!! gah!!
I can't remember if i was upset when Princess Diana died but i reckon her death was worth the world's grief but since i grew up seeing MJ as a bit (understatement) of a wierdo i find it hard to feel sad at his death. Hehe you can be as cheesy as you like i'm not gonna criticise you for it :P
It has just occurred to me that i can't take *my* bf to see My Sister's Keeper for the exact same reason (and i mean exact) cos i know how sensitive he can be and i'd hate for him to be upset by the film. I need to read the book soon actually so i can go see it.
Ah yes i finished it this afternoon, i really liked it and i totally agree at certain times i also liked Balthazar better than Lucas but i am looking forward to reading Stargazer. Do we know how many books there will be in the series?

posted by LadyViolet at 3:03 pm (EST) on Jun 28, 2009

hehe i probably would go into seizures if my account spazzed out on me and i couldn't log in- its practically my drug nowadays and the withdrawal symptoms would be murder .
Aww hun yea you need to try and get some sleep during today (hopefully by now you've already had a good long nap) Yea when i'm properly exhausted my brain just can't focus on the words and that is very irksome to me.
Haha yea i reckon SH is even better than the first book, hopefully CT will be *even* better than that!! Yea i was glad we finally met Hope, i was thinking for a while that we might only ever hope to see her which amused me with it being a slight play-on-words with her name, but that was perhaps me being very wierd at half 5 in the morning lol.
Well i was thinking about starting FE soonish so maybe if we go on a faerie kick to spread out the JD awesomeness it'll lessen the withdrawal when we run out of the books *sad face*
Yea i really liked TBOATD possibly the same as i did Princess Academy, Shannon Hale is awesome at describing the worlds and her characters (the POV character at least) are very likeable. I'm tempted to try and find the Stories by the Brothers Grimm cos Hale's books are based off some of the fairytales they collected.
Yea there's only the 7 (unless there are others i don't know about) if you request them at your library they should be able to cobble together a whole trilogy.
Oh god i know i was up til 2 last night watching the live feed from the BBC about it and talking to a couple of my friends about it although we quickly got bored of that topic and randomly started talking about all the major news stories of the last 30 years or so lol. My parents weren't all that bothered about it cos i don't think either of them are fans of his music. After seeing his face all over the papers today and the reports *constantly* on the BBC news i'm actually a bit sick of hearing about it already and he only died yesterday.
Well today i spent most of the day at my bf's again and we got through another 2 discs of Lost so we've only got 2 to go and then we will start on season 2 WOO! then i had work at 5 and i got home about half an hour ago... and i still haven't had any dinner yet hmmm need to sort that out lol.

posted by LadyViolet at 3:40 pm (EST) on Jun 26, 2009

hehe oh you silly thing! i keep my LT page signed in all the time nowadays cos it's easier, my LT home page is also my browser homepage cos i use it so often lol. I know *exactly* how you feel about the lack of sleep cos i didn't get to sleep until it was actually light this morning (but you'll find out why as soon as you read the BAA threads)
Yea i know ugh stupid twihards forcing us to hide what books we like *grr*
*giggles* :P
Lol no i don't recommend it- she can really chew someone into little pieces if they piss her off thoroughly enough.
Hehe yea i did and OMG i adore JD!! i was literally shaking with laughter and trying to keep quiet. Yes marcus *definitely* got more appealing as he reformed himself. Oh Pepe!! i loved all their chats in french especially "J'etait...le Geek" , Jesus le christ! my god that cracked me up :D Yup Manda=hobag extraordinaire :P Hmm i'm not sure really- i'm tempted to go for my Shannon Hale books cos they won't take long and they're nice happy fairytale stories.
I really liked my canavan book- i felt like they could perhaps be another book at some point although i can't remember how many unanswered questions there were. She hasn't got *that* many books out, only 7 with this new one. A good place to start is with her Black Magician/Magician's Guild trilogy which starts with "The Magician's Guild". Her other trilogy is the one i was reading the other month - "the Age of the Five trilogy" if the Magician's Guild books are more medieval-esque fantasy then these are like Greek/Romanesque fantasy. The first book is "Priestess of the White".
aww dang blast the film industry when they cause us to like books less than we would had they not cast them badly.

posted by LadyViolet at 12:40 pm (EST) on Jun 24, 2009

Yea it is a tad scary seeing the uber twihards acting all mental and it does sort of give a bad name to the fan base so that those people who have enjoyed the books but who aren't anywhere *near* as fanatical about them are still branded with the same "crazy twigirls" image.
Ah yes the joys of younger brothers and sisters, lol that is why i tend to go round my bf's house cos his parents are less "protective" *coughnaggingcough* than mine. But when he does come round to mine on the odd occasion i do have to keep my ears perked for anybody coming upstairs to avoid such situation *wink wink nudge nudge* :P
Yea also if i told my mum about the irritating things she might even have a go at him herself ! she had a mild go at one of my friends who works with me cos she inadvertently caused me to trip and fall (she was chasing after me for the chocolate on my magnum) and i got a stonking bruise on my hip and a scraped knee. I'm definitely better off sticking with the girlfriends lol
Hmm well i actually finished the Magician's Apprentice last night/this morning *and* my amazon package arrive today YAY!!! so methinks i will crack open Sloppy firsts tonight as per your request/order lol. The library books have until the 2nd July so i should be able to get them done by then.
Oh i know!! you just keep wishing that it doesn't happen but you know damn well that it will *sobs* Ugh i feel so sorry for you for having your image of Henry ruined by Eric Bana - i don't really like him at all and I think he's totally wrong to play Henry, far too bulky and completely unbelievable as a librarian for pete's sake!!
Oh you should have seen the pile of books i had to put away yesterday and now i've got to fit in all my new ones before the cleaners come tomorrow *eep* my mum had a bit of a go at me earlier cos of my excessive book buying because i need to be saving money to pay my car insurance, road tax and car service bills which are due next month although my parents should be paying some of that since my dad will be using my car while i'm at uni so it's not fair if *I* pay for all of it (plus the fact that i *can't* afford to pay all of it in one go) But i've told her i won't be buying any books for a while so hopefully she won't get all pissy with me again too soon.
Hehe i know although it's not much point catching up on *all* the TV cos while i'm at uni i won't watch any so i'll just get behind again. Me and my bf watched the first 8 episodes today before i got called into work *grrr* to be fair though i did say i would do the shift *if* the normal girl couldn't make it cos she called in "sick" on saturday (not sick but really tired apparently from some college related stuff) but although no one confirmed whether i was doing it or not i was sort of expecting the phone call at 20 past 4 saying "where are you?". What was even more annoying though was that by the time i got there they didn't even need me that much but i still had to stay until 7. hmph i was not best pleased.
Lol i did watch it in the end and bloody enjoyed it too! I haven't gotten around to watching the Notebook yet but i will do soon. On sunday my sister and I went to see the Hangover (even though it's a 15 and my sister is not far past 14) she looks that old nobody even thought to ask. Twas really quite funny although some bits were like cringy "omg you did *not* just say that!" and we saw several awesome looking films in the trailers at the beginning which we're gonna have to go see over the summer. I haven't read the book of that yet so i don't want to see the film until i have.
Now i'm going to add all my wonderful new books !! *happy dances* then i'll be off to Confession :P

posted by LadyViolet at 3:06 pm (EST) on Jun 23, 2009

ugh i know!! sometimes i wish that i had never actually read the damn books so i could have prevented the two month spell last year when i was actually rabid about them cos now my mum keeps saying "oh you like those twilight books don't you?" around other people when i'm trying to distance myself from all that madness.
Aw now i have a mad urge to watch the film tonight!! The book is fairly different although i can't remember *how* different but both are really good.
Ah rite yea i can imagine that hmm hopefully when i get round to reading FE it'll remind me what she looks like lol.
Hehe exactly!! that's i what i told him "they're NOT supposed to be trained singers it's all for FUN" My parents really like him but i'm mostly around his on saturdays cos he hasn't got any siblings who can come wandering in and out of his room like my sister does, so i don't reckon they notice it. Even if they did it's possible they'd say i was over-reacting or being too sensitive although i haven't exactly sat down with them and talked about it.
Haha ok right i shall put that at the top of the pile although i'm in the middle of my new Trudi Canavan book and i have two library books i need to get through soon cos i don't want to take them back without starting them.
Oh god i know!! i sobbed so hard when i got to that chapter - but i'd had a horrible sense of foreboding for a while because of that chapter where Clare wakes up in the night hearing someone shouting her name and when she gets outside there's her dad, brother and an older version of Henry. oh but the book is soo beautifully written i love it ! Henry is one of my fav characters and thats why i'm not too keen to see the movie cos Eric Bana is *not* my Henry >:[
Ok i will remember that - i just feel really bad if i don't reply right away cos if i forget about the message it could be days before i remembered and i wouldn't want you to think i was ignoring you or being too lazy too reply.
Hehe yea i now have all six shelves of my book cupboard filled 4 rows deep and i may have *just* enough space to accommodate my 10 new books when they arrive either tomorrow or wednesday. although after that i have no idea where i'm going to put them all *eep*
Tomorrow i'm going round my bf's for a dvd day , i keep complaining about how far behind i am with Lost (i've only seen the first 2 seasons cos i own them on dvd) and my bf has never seen it so we're gonna watch all four seasons through so maybe when we get to the end the fifth season will be out to watch lol.
I might stick Stardust on now actually lol

posted by LadyViolet at 2:16 pm (EST) on Jun 22, 2009

Hmm yea i supposed it is although as soon as some of the more fluff-headed cullenites start reading it they'll get put off by the lack of any romance in the first 50 pages and the sheer unlikabilty of Heathcliff himself. I know i found it a pretty hard book to get into although i hope to try again sometime in the future.
Ah yea i know who you mean- i really like the stardust film and the book though the book is pretty different. Hmm for some reason i picture Donia having black hair but i can't remember what colour hair she has in the book- once again my over-speedy reading has left me missing out on various details.
Yea exactly! i can laugh at the comments that my bf makes about my height, he calls me stumpy lol when im only 2 inches shorted than him some of my girlfriends are even shorter than me! But yesterday he came out for dinner with my family and me and then came back to my house. Me and my sister had already planned to watch Mamma Mia (for the lols of singing along :P) but i *know* that its the kind of fluff film that my bf hates so i was worried that if we made him sit through it that he'd be making faces and wishing he didn't have to watch it. But he said that he didn't mind watching it if it's what we'd already decided to do. I could tell he wasn't enjoying it and he made a couple of complaints about Pierce Brosnan's lack of singing ability and asked how much of the film was left on a couple of occasions. gah i wish we hadn't bothered to watch the film cos i didn't really enjoy it as much because i was sat thinking how much he didn't want to be watching it although he swore blind afterwards that he didn't resent having to watch it and actually said i hurt his feelings by implying that he was going to spoil the film for us (which i don't think i did in exact terms but i did bring up his mocking voice that he does when he hears a song he hates). But the evening wasn't all bad cos we had such a giggle after the film was over - we were just about really random things and he made me laugh so much by being daft and doing silly voices (which we are prone to do quite often).
Yea all my exams finished on Thursday so i'm free!!! I ordered quite a few books lemme think... well i got Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, City of Ashes, The Goose Girl, Book of a thousand days, The Truth about Forever, The Way of the shadows, Evernight, Stargazer and The Count of Monte Cristo for slightly random reasons (its a freaking doorstop of a book so even if i start reading bits of it alongside other books i'll still be reading come september lol) Hopefully that lot will be here tomorrow YAY!! *happy dances*
Hehe i had noticed your "slip-up" lol i think we both need a book amnesty for a month or two so our finances have a chance to recover somewhat.
Yea i know now we have buckets of time for reading!! although i do have some exam checking to do for my parents (they mark accountancy exam papers in june and i get paid to check their adding up lol) but once that's over i'll have even more free time.
Ooo awesome!
I have to apologise for my late reply on Friday i had work til 8 and i had to get up uber early on saturday for work cos i'd been asked to come in for 7 to do the papers so i didn't have time to reply on friday night. Both saturday and sunday i was out for most of the day although i was actually asleep all sunday morning (thats counts as being "out" lol). so here i am now replying :D i'm all on my own today but i'm gonna have a sort out of my room to get rid of all the school stuff i no longer need and i need to rearrange things in my book cupboard *again* cos i have a stack of 15 books which won't fit in my cupboard. so lots of ocd fun for me!! :P

posted by LadyViolet at 6:22 am (EST) on Jun 22, 2009

Hehe for the twilight addicts in Stafford there is a table in one of the stones which has a load of vampy teen books - but what's rather worrying is that i own all but one of the books on that table (the lone book i didn't own is that new edition of Wuthering Heights - it's got a gorgeous cover and then it's fricking ruined by a red circle proclaiming it to be "Bella & Edward's favourite book"! argh i could have thrown it across the shop!)
Yea i reckon Teddy would be good for her - wierdly enough i think i associate the word Teddy with Kellan quite a bit these days. He just looks so sweet and cuddly lol Hehe what i keep doing is seeing the book character as the celeb that someone else (e.g. on YAR) has picked as their choice for a film version. I can't remember which books i've done that with but i know i have done it.
Lol no we are not... :P
Well i haven't had chance to fully explain all of the things he says that hurts my feelings but i did at least tell him something. I don't normally mind if he takes the mick with me i find it just as funny but i'm just sensitive to jokes about either my weight or my tastes in books and music etc. I know he's not trying to be mean i just don't think he understands what *I* constitute as being a joke. I had this kind of problem before i left my old high school my best friend would keep making odd little comments about my appearance in what she thought was a jokey style. But it just made me feel really self-conscious and unhappy. She was part of the reason i left after year 8 although i never told her it was her supposed jokes that felt like borderline bullying to me.
Lol ah it was about time you cracked i've been feeling like a terrible sinner all week (although i did make it ten times worse today) I kind of had my post-exam amazon splurge today cos some of the books i wanted only had a few left in stock and i didn't want to have to wait 3 weeks for the books to arrive. So i spent £64 on 10 books which considering there is one hardback and two of the JD books in there is pretty good methinks. I am gonna have to abstain from buying *ANY* books for the rest of June and for most of July (exceptions can be made for Storm Glass :P) argh i need actual medical help!! :S
Oooh i hope you get some more read - it just gets better and better with each page :D

posted by LadyViolet at 2:19 pm (EST) on Jun 17, 2009

I bet! A trip to london is always worth it lol
Bwa ha ha ha!! i've never seen someone ask for a rec in Smiths cos it's only little and most people seem to go in there for the lottery machine and the papers rather than the books but i would laugh so hard if i saw one of the staff just point someone over to the bestsellers cos they didn't know what to reccy. We would be pretty good i think especially if we've got a site like LT or YAR on tap for other books that we *haven't* read.
Hehe Penelope and Lina can both die for all i care cos they are seriously messing with my hopes for Diana and Henry! Teddy seemed like *such* a sweet guy in Envy i do hope we see more of him - perhaps he can make Elizabeth feel better, although frankly if Anna hadn't KILLED WILL IN THE FIRST PLACE THEN WE WOULDN'T HAVE THIS PROBLEM!!! sorry i had to stress about that i cried so bad at the end of Rumours :'( WHY???? *sobs*
Yea i know better (most of the time) than to start reading a book when i'm not at home cos i'll always get so engrossed that everything around me will be forgotten and then i'll get admonishing comments from whoever i'm with at the time. Didn't you realise already? WE'RE NOT NORMAL PEOPLE lol :P
I didn't say anything specifically about the book side of the problem but i did mention to him about the music dissing (he almost physically dragged it out of me and wouldn't have left me alone if i hadn't said anything) i was rather irked with myself about how meek and timid i sounded when i explained- when he gave the usual "it's just a joke, i'm sure you can take a joke" malarky i felt like such a child overreacting about stupid little things. It may be a joke to him but i'm more sensitive than most about those kind of "jokes" which poke fun at the actual person not just the type of book or music.
Aww thanks - although at the rate i'm going i'll have more books than i can read this summer *without* my amazon order lol i also bought a copy of Just Listen from the British Heart Foundation shop for £1.50!!! and it's in really good nick and all so i'm mega chuffed :D No i didn't get Untamed in the end - i may order them off amazon later this summer as it's not highly urgent at the mo.
OMG READ IT!!! INSTANT ADORATION OF HENRY DeTAMBLE IS OBLIGATORY!!!! lol sorry for all the caps talk in this message i'm getting a tad overexcited as i really *love* Henry :P
Gah decisions!! i'm so crap with deciding which book i would want to read so just read them all back-to-back lol

posted by LadyViolet at 1:33 pm (EST) on Jun 15, 2009

Wow sounds awesome i hope you do really well in the competition :D
Yea it's a good thing that there are *some* bookstore people who know books or else everyone would be buggered if they asked for a rec.
Hehe the TILL OF DOOM!!! :P
We're only going to be in Warwickshire, i want to go back to Warwick castle and there's a few other interesting places nearby. We're only gonna be staying in a Premier Inn in Evesham which is nicely in between Warwick and Stratford. We need to get the hotel booked really but i haven't got round to it yet lol.
well with both of them heading off to join the army who knows what'll happen although if anyone else dies I AM GOING TO BE ANGRY!! >:[ Oh i wouldn't put it past Penelope to do something like that she's a manipulative cow and i hope dearly that she gets a boot in the arse from someone! Ugh Lina is also a pain - i was so glad when she suddenly lost all her money when her gentleman friend died but she was only poor for one freaking week!! argh how irksome.
Hehe my bf would be pretty narked if i was reading while i was at his so i keep my books at home. On the front of books and my bf i think it's finally occured to him that it hurts my feelings when he makes comments about the books i read cos earlier when we went to Smiths he made a joke like "you could read a "real" book" when i was contemplating buying FE but then turned right around and said it was a joke, i don't mean it, don't be mad at me. It is an improvement at least.
Yes i have read IE and it was pretty darn good and as you will have just read i went into Smiths a little while ago and I will admit that i bought FE - it was there on the shelf i wanted it and i bought it!! gosh darn i have *such* a compulsive book buying disorder! I was trying to find another book to get the Buy 1 get one half price offer and even considered buying the UK Untamed so my copies would match- my bf actually encouraged me to do it cos he's ocd about that as well! lol
Yea i saw Book of a Thousand days today in Smiths but i will get it off the Zon cos its cheaper.
Oh i noticed the July book club nomination thread - gah i want Storm Glass sooo bad!!!
Oh i know!! please Richelle spare our heartstrings and make it so Dimitri isn't really a Strigoi!!! *crosses fingers and toes*

posted by LadyViolet at 8:34 am (EST) on Jun 15, 2009

oh that is perfectly alright me dear - i understand if you're too shattered even to read *le gasp* then it's understandable that you've been too tired to go on the computer. ooo a hair-dressing competion! fun times or stressful times??
Hehe i know that would be part of my motivation for working in a bookstore, the discount!! You get the impression sometimes that the people working in Stones don't really care although i have chatted to some who do seem to read a fair bit. I would probably be broke within a week of getting paid if i didn't make sure to save some money for essentials lol
Yea i can be like that first thing on a saturday, my brain is so fuzzy that simple maths is impossible- the urge to count on my fingers is overwhelming!
*manic giggles* soon our cult of Book Addicts vill be able to take over ze vorld!!! MWA HAHAHAHA!!! sorry slipped into the transylvanian accent there :P
Oh yea i am!! my mum says i can read as much as want although she won't be very happy if i spend loads of money buying books cos i need to save up to pay part of my car insurance and for my half of the holiday that me and my bf are gonna take in september.
Oh i know!! i'm so narked that we have to wait that long to find out what happens with Diana and Henry!! gah but i soo loved how penelope got her comeuppance. Wicked Lovely was really good, i need to hunt down a paperback of Fragile Eternity and get that read so if anything else comes out then i'm ready :D
Hmm well i definitely want to get the Jessica Darling books and whatever else is near the top of my wishlist (it's pretty long so it's hard to remember it all). I didn't spend *that* much!! out of the five new books i've added 3 of them are library books so it's not too bad although i did kinda order two more books today off Waterstones.com - they had the Trudi Canavan book i've been wanting at a cheaper price than amazon so i bought it :( and my own copy of Parasite Positive (cos i wouldn't mind re-reading it in the future). So in the last week i've possibly spent £30 on books *eep*
YES!! do buy Princess Academy it was brilliant, fantasy-esque with hints of magic and Miri (the main character) is so wonderful to read about and the twist at the end is excellent and i never saw it coming. I want to buy my own copy along with some other Shannon Hale books. She's been mentioned quite a bit in the groups on here and i'm intrigued..
I saw Demon's Lexicon in Smiths and thought "hmm Jess has just bought that why not jump on the bandwagon?" it looks like something i'd like so i don't think i'll regret it.
What really?!? omg that's AWESOME!!! just as long as the new books don't end up pushing the potential of the series too far so it seems too implausible or cliched cos that would be awful! *happy dances*
Off to the confession box!!

posted by LadyViolet at 4:35 pm (EST) on Jun 12, 2009

Yea it gets really uncomfortable being sat down in jeans for a long time cos they dig in and leave horrible red marks. i literally come home and change straight into my trackies at the moment, a couple of my girlfriends have said they do the same lol.
I will do my damnedest to ensure that you start to feel happier despite all that's been going on by being generally crazy and thus vaguely amusing :P
Yea any job involving that kind of book-related work is my idea of heaven, none of that boring office work for me!
I'm better at remembering random facts and stuff, dates don't tend to stick in my memory as well. hehe since i haven't done maths in like 3 years my mental maths skills are pretty appalling lol it can take me a fair while to add up the amount of money someone has given me at the Co-op and i look well stupid when i forget how much a i counted and have to start again :S
OH yea!! Grandma Redbird is simply awesome, she can be the Great Mother Goddess who is technically in charge of every other god or goddess but likes to let them do their own thing and give advice when needed. (i have given this waaay too much thought...)
By tomorrow it'll only be 8 days!!! WOOOO!!! til uber reading time!!!
Speaking of book-related awesomeness... have you noticed the little collections icon that has appeared on you profile near the top? the long-awaited collections feature has now arrived!! we can organise our libraries *Even* more into books to read, wishlist (books we really want to buy or read), books read but unowned, favourites, or simply leave it as it is. It looks so amazing i'm gonna have a play with all the different features later on and i will have to add all my wishlist books at some point *crazy ocd twitch*

posted by LadyViolet at 3:04 pm (EST) on Jun 9, 2009

Ooo sounds awesomely cool :D
Yea if i ever got a chance to go shopping i would probably smarten myself up a bit but since i don't i spend of lot of time in hoodies and trackie bottoms (my new best friends for slouchy goodness :P)
*hugs* well you know you've got me here to vent at if you are feeling frustrated hun :)
My potential back-up plan is to throw myself at the door of the nearest library (of decent size my town library is pants) and beg them to employ me and train me up as a library assistant (i think you need a degree to be a qualified Librarian) i would actually go insane with joy at being able to spend my working day with books and all the awesomeness of cataloguing and whatnot. I know i'm odd but it's FUN!! *squees*
Hehe it's Hairdresser Jess to the rescue!!!
Yea thank god i came to my senses fairly quickly - i was very lucky really cos i had only really been going out with him for 2 weeks or so before i went on holiday for two weeks and during that time i was able to see that it was a moment of stupidity when i agreed to go out with him.
I know i left my history revision too late cos there's *so* much to remember and i found it really hard to get in all the facts i needed in the time i had. I wrote quite a bit but a lot of it may be rather vague and rambling cos i couldn't remember exact facts and dates :S
We will have to go and find out... DAYTRIP!!! :D
OOoo sounds good i'll have to check it out and possibly put it onto the wishlist. YEA GOD!! you keep reccing me books when i'm supposed to be going book-free !! but only 10 days til my exams are over W00T!!!

posted by LadyViolet at 3:16 pm (EST) on Jun 8, 2009

Hehe lol well i can see the picture and it looks really nice me dear. Loving the hair colour :D You don't look plain - i look like a total scruff half the time, i've been wearing my leaver's hoodie for the last two weeks lol. It's just for special occasions that i get all dolled up, i'm too lazy most of the time. I might try and upload a different pic onto here, one that's more recent and in colour or i might upload it on YAR hmmm *ponders*
Aww well they're just idiots- just because you're not at uni doesn't mean you're inferior to them. Some people who don't go to uni end up doing much better in the future than those with degrees, practical skills can be more important than loads of studying and a piece of paper saying "well done you have got a degree, now go join the other thousands of unemployed graduates" I'm not really sure what i would do if i didn't get into uni, but i do have an idea of a potential back-up plan.
Oooh well if you can do colour then that'll be good cos i was thinking about getting my hair dyed a darker brown over the summer - i'm sick of the "meh" colour it is now lol. God i sound like *such* a scrounger
Well i didn't really have anything in common with him and i knew practically nothing about him so it doomed to failure from the off- plus the fact that he was a twit really :P
Yea i do like having a bit of a self-pitying session when i'm feeling crap and then i can tell myself to get over it and cheer up lol. S'all good in small doses. I'll probably have one tonight considering the hash-up i've made on my history exams - although i've been told by a load of my friends "oh you'll have done better than you think" i am now extremely concerned and will have to kick ass on my last history exam to have any chance of getting at the most a B, and i'm gonna have to pin my hopes for the second A onto my chemistry which may be a tad over-optimistic. This is all assuming i've done enough for an A in French though :( ARGH!!
Haha yea i'd avoid the Zoey statue as well - she can be the patron deity of drama :P . Yea!! they'd be brill second-in-commands- rofl i know you'll walk in and be looking for the confession box and then *dang* remembering that it really isn't a cathedral. Wouldn't it be hilarious if there were people who worked there called Bill, Bert and Brenda?? i'd laugh myself silly if it were true.
Oh it's fine hun, i shouldn't have been on my computer at all over the weekend but i was on several occasions. I was just about to log off when i got your message last night but i left it until today to reply since i badly needed my sleep yesterday. gah i need to chill tonight then back to work with a fervour tomorrow.

posted by LadyViolet at 8:47 am (EST) on Jun 8, 2009

What is hilariously funny is that in my general studies exam on thursday i chose this as the essay title for the second part "contemporary fiction is poor, compared with fiction in previous periods. Discuss the validity of this statement (or something to that effect) BOY did i go to town on it! i had a good old rant about how reader's expectations have changed and how people don't usually have as much time to sit down and read classics just cos they're more "intellectually enriching" plus i chucked in my thoughts about how it's unfair to call a novel poor based solely on its "literary merit" and how people should not have "good" taste dictated to them by so-called "experts" - yes i'll admit i was thinking vaguely spiteful thoughts at the time but i didn't rub it in his face afterwards.
I think you made the right decision hun, although having a uni degree looks good on a cv if you have to slog through the 3 years putting all of yourself into getting the work done then its not worth it. If you really love hairdressing then people should be happy for you - i know i am (any chance of a discounted haircut? :P jk)
I'm not sure whether it's good or bad that i have only gone out with *one* loser but prior to said loser there was a big void in the romantics department, thankfully that experience didn't taint my expectations of other guys, ahem *guy*. Aww you think? i thought a was a bloody coward for not being able to say the words out loud.
Yea you're right it is better to keep schtum until the summer when we have the time to discuss things and none of the stress to distract us. I know he means well when he says it'll be alright but i'm just one of those people who find those type of comments irritating and unhelpful.
Hehe i'll probably get a bulk order from Zonuk so it costs less :P if i order it a little ahead of time then they'll be here by the time i've finished lol
Ooo yea like the books themselves are our Holy Scriptures! I reckon the heroines can be our Goddesses and we'll still visit them fairly often since they are our role models and they'll have lots of good advice for us :D Oh yes the Mystical Scroll of Prophecy!! that'll be near the main alter methinks. Rofl we are getting a *leetle* bit carried away but who cares??
I know a handful of girls who read them and i've seen people in Stones buying them occasionally - i even pointed out a copy of Betrayed to a girl who didn't see it on a higher shelf once in the Stones near Lady Godiva in good ol' Coventry!

posted by LadyViolet at 3:52 pm (EST) on Jun 5, 2009

Exactly!! I was talking to one of my friends today about book-buying and she told me how she'd bought a couple of books the other day that were like fluffy romance novels and how she didn't give a toss if they were badly written cos its good just to read for the escape.
Well i liked him from around March of yr 11 (bearing in mind that i never saw him during the summer hols which were extra long) after we came back for yr 12 i hadn't actually spoken to him (via myspace back in the day :P) for three weeks so i kinda thought "what's the point since i haven't got a chance" so during september and october i didn't speak to him much at school - at the start of october i was actually going out with a guy from work (which turned out to be a very stupid mistake on my part since i didn't really even know him but i was just so surprised that someone *actually* wanted to go out with me that my brain went offline for a few weeks). Thankfully after i came back from florida at the start of november he split up with me (via text i might add) i was really glad cos it saved me the bother of doing it myself lol. I started talking to my soon-to-be -bf a lot more and before the christmas hols of that year he actually gave me his phone number. Both groups of our friends were reckoning on us to start going out at any time and i think we both knew that the other liked them. After christmas my friends started nagging me to ask him out and im sure his friends were doing the same. One day (thursday 17th Jan 2008 at around 9:45am) i finally thought "stuff it i'll do it" we went and sat in the canteen cos we both had a free, we were talking for a while and eventually i got up the nerve to ask him- mind you i didn't have the confidence to ask out loud (i took a pen and wrote it on my hand) after i showed it to him he was like " i was going to ask you but was too nervous" then he ended up turning it round so he was asking me out as well. In the end it was a joint effort lol /end storytime. can't help but wax lyrical about that :P
Yea i will have to but not until after the exams are over perhaps. I told him a bit earlier about how i would prefer it if he didn't keep saying "everything will be ok" with regard to my exams cos he doesn't know for sure and it annoys me because i'm worried about things will turn out and all this optimism doesn't make me feel better no matter how noble the intent. I will have to see tomorrow how he is with me since i did tell him via text so i can't gauge his reaction and i have a feeling that he will have been a bit hurt by me saying it.
Ooh yea tis good when you don't have a constant reminder of things that make you angry, the less you see of her the better.
Argh i know! i think the second i get home on the 18th i will immediately log on to amazon and order a HUGE batch of books and as soon as they arrive i'll lock myself into my room and read them all there and then lol
Hehe me like that idea, a shrine perhaps to our literary deities? with maybe valek as our chief God? hmm the possibilities are there for a whole pantheon of gods. lol we'll have our own fully-fledged cult soon enough
Maybe cos their popularity has suddenly increased over here- i mean i've seen them in the 100 best-sellers in Smiths for ages now perhaps Atom realised that the fans over here can't wait until august and September to get the books which are already out in America??
It will be one of the first to be bought in my end-of-exams book spree :P

posted by LadyViolet at 4:09 pm (EST) on Jun 3, 2009

Hehe well of course you'd think that otherwise you'll be saying your own taste in books is crap lol.
Well i know that even if i wasn't going out with him that i'd want to be friends with him cos he's so sweet and funny (although can be rather odd sometimes but i'm not one to criticise on oddness :P) I liked him for a good 9 months *before* we started going out and it was our combined shyness that prevented us from asking each other out sooner than we did. So i think i can safely say that i would probably be able to get over the irritation but maybe i will need to have a chat with him before i can completely let it go or else if he continues to do it then i may probably lose my temper with him. Perhaps once he knows that what he says actually hurts my feelings then maybe he'll take care not to do it in the future and be less snotty towards my interests.
Yea i agree - he told you straight out, she avoided you and then lied about it - it doesn't take a genius to work out who to listen to. If you just forget about it and focus on happy things then you'll feel much better :D
*does new book dance* yay for you!! now off to the confession box with ya! *boots Jess off to the box* well buying books is a *lot* kinder to your waistline when you want comforting than chocolate is :P now we have an undeniable reason for our addiction!!
Hehe us addicts gotta stick together in our crafty ways
I say we get a *massive* poster of it to hang from the cathedral ceiling ;)
Argh i know!! now i feel all twitchy cos my copies don't all match and the brit covers look sooo pretty!!! *sad face*
Oooh methinks that'll have to be added to the TBB list - dang *sigh*

posted by LadyViolet at 5:10 pm (EST) on Jun 2, 2009

What is even more frustrating about when he rags on my book and music taste is that he's not *directly* saying "your taste in music and books is crap" he makes comments like"Jane Austen is a really boring author" when i mentioned that i was reading P&P or if he hears a song on the radio that he thinks is trash he sings along in something i call his "mocking voice" to express his contempt for it but does he apologise when i point out that i actually *like* that song? NO! By these snide little remarks he makes me feel like my choice of reading is inferior to his and his "wouldn't touch it with a bargepole" kind of attitude makes me so mad.
This issue is what caused most of my doubts on that saturday- the fact that our interests in books and music and films are glaringly different and we can't talk about things we've both read which is something i really love doing (like with you and with other friends who read the same books as me) means that we lack that ability to debate things because we haven't read enough of the same books. For other people that kind of thing wouldn't matter too much but to me it does because i'm not the kind of person who likes going out socialising every night, i'd much rather stay at home and talk to him about stuff that interested me without being made to feel immature or silly for not knowing certain things.
I do really love him to bits and its always fun being with him, but when things happen that irk me I find it hard to forget about them and they just create doubts in my mind as to whether it will still work when we go to uni. What if i met someone who's personality and interests were much more similar to mine? Would i throw away over 18 months of a happy, loving relationship for someone else just because i could talk about fantasy novels with him for hours on end? argh i hate thinking these things but i can't help it- it feels logical to analyse the possibilities "just in case" you know? But i would really hate myself if i did do something like that in the future cos i know it would completely break his heart and that is just the cruellest thing i could ever possibly do.

Oh hun don't listen to that girl and her bile - it's highly likely that she's trying to cover her ass by making it look like your bf is making the whole "secret fling" things up. From everything you've said about him I'd be willing to trust him to tell the truth - plus the fact that i think girls have more of the cunning, secretive turn of mind required for that kind of stunt so i'll stick my money on it being all her input. So just take a deep breath and push it out of your thoughts for the time-being so you can enjoy your book cos you can't let her spoil *that* for you as well.
God i know!! argh we should write a blog or something of all the crazy and bitchy things we've seen recently.
*blushes* ah yes... about that... i may or may not have fell into smiths when i went into town at lunch and i also may or may not have fell into the library as well but thankfully no one in my house knows i've got them so keep it to yourself *conspiratorial wink* I shall shortly be making another trip to the confession box
Oh yes i have seen it.... my sister made me watch it twice in a row and my my ! Our lovely Taylor is looking mighty fiiiine :P i think you're right the chant may not be needed after all... have you seen Feybie's banner on YAR? OMFG i would so worship it in the Stones catherdral lol.
ALSO.. did you know that the publication dates for Untamed and Hunted got bumped up to the 29th of MAY!!! i couldn't freaking believe my eyes when i saw it on amazon and i actually saw them in Smiths today *grr*. I know a couple of girls in yr 12 who've read the first 3 books and were really gutted at having to wait until august to get the 4th one - i told one of them last week about the date change and she was so happy about it I feel really pleased that my book addiction has cheered someone else up. It's proof that reading as much as we do isn't *all* bad :D

posted by LadyViolet at 2:34 pm (EST) on Jun 1, 2009

No we haven't really have we? *sad face*
Yea i think it was perhaps more that i hadn't told him earlier which upset him since he'd gotten his hopes up that i was coming round so i guess he was really disappointed when i said i wasn't. Although i do think he was being a bit dim in not noticing that when my parents drove me round to his to pick him up so we could go together that i didn't have any bags to leave at his! I mean come on how could he *not* notice that?!?
Yea it was good to talk to my gf about it she even agreed with me on certain points (one being the way he sometimes makes me feel childish and immature for reading the books i do or the music i like) She and another one of best friends had even noticed it when he does it although i'm fairly certain he doesn't mean it maliciously cos frankly he wouldn't *ever* be truelly mean to me (i seriously hope not anyway).
Yea i think that was his reasoning by the "oweing" statement and probably quite accurate to his words as well lol.
Argh yes they are horribly confusing sometimes.. yea we're all good now although he has a rather annoying tendancy to keep asking me "what i'm thinking" "what's wrong" etc. etc. when i *really* don't want to talk about it cos i like keeping certain things to myself GAH!! is it a crime to want some time to myself and my thoughts!! /end rant
Yes its probably a very good thing that all this drama happened *after* you had a week to chill or you might have been really ill from all the stress of everything and that would have been awful.
Aww hun you shouldn't think like that- it really isn't good for your self-esteem *hugs* just remember your bf is sensible enough and wonderful enough to know that she's a bitch and deal with her accordingly which is to tell her to pack up her bile and bugger the hell off! It is better to hear it straight from him rather than through twisted gossip which may blow everything out of proportion and cause you to fall out with your bf as well which would be even worse than falling out with a friend who isn't worthy of the title.
One of my best friends has been feeling pretty crap recently when she found out that some girls who she thought were her friends have been bitching about her when she's not there (they're really stupid girls cos they bitch where people who *are* loyal to her are able to hear and can tell her what they're doing) It's all started since she got a boyfriend a month ago - they look so sweet together and I'm really happy for her but it really upsets me at what those bitches are doing cos it's totally unfair to say those kind of things about her when she's actually found someone who makes her happy. One of the girls who's doing it is that girl i told you about before (the drink-slinging harpy :P) she's probably really bitter and jealous that my friend has a bf and is happy so she makes herself feel better by pickin at faults that are complete bullshit most of the time. The silly cow couldn't get a bf that would stay with her for any length of time even if she paid *and* drugged him- she's so infantile and petty that no one in the right mind would want to go out with her. Ugh now i feel rather a bit like a bitch now for saying all that but the majority of it is true and i could get a hell of a lot of people who would agree with me.
Now i need to end on a brighter note so this post doesn't feel like a *complete* mope-fest/bitch-fest.
IT'S NEARLY SUMMER!!! THAT MEANS UBER BOOK READING TIME!!!! :D *does happy book dance* there. soo much better lol

posted by LadyViolet at 6:09 pm (EST) on May 31, 2009

Ah well my post-ball tears were also bf-related. On the Thursday he'd asked me if i wanted to stay round his after the prom and at the time i said yes but on Friday it occured to me that it may not be the best idea since i don't find it easy to get to sleep at his house cos i like it to be quiet but the central heating system at his house gurgles like something crazy. Plus the fact that he's a morning person and will happily get up at 7 in the morning whereas i'm a total night-owl and hate getting up before 10 if i don't have to- his window has only got a blind and the sun shines underneath it something rotten at early hours so i get woken up and feel like crap. I didn't get round to telling him I wasn't staying until half 11 at night when the prom was nearly over, mainly because i was avoiding telling him cos i didn't want to ruin the evening. But he was still really hurt that i didn't tell him and it really upset me to think that i'd hurt his feelings so i ended up crying. Thankfully by saturday night we'd sorted things out cos that boy being the most kind-hearted sweetest guy in the world forgave me about 10 mins after i told him although he did say that i owe him now (should i be a little annoyed at that?) I did have some scary moments of doubt about us though on saturday when i was talking to one of my girl friends but i think it was just cos i was stressed, tired and kinda miserable. I vented some of my feelings about little things that irritated me which made me feel better. *gah what a rant* tis good to talk about it though- not that i can talk about it to him though since it would *really* hurt his feelings and i couldn't bear to do that.
Hehe exactly! I actually managed to work out how to drink alcohol without getting the horrible aftertaste at the back of your throat although i got vair wierd looks when i explained it to people *rolls eyes* I'm really glad you got a chance to unwind a bit after everything that was going on with uni.
Yea if you liked it that much then i reckon its a sure thing that i'll like it - i'm a sucker for gooey romantic movies although i will end up crying i can soo see it happening.
*weary sigh* ah well if i can get away with having an amazon splurge then who am i to tell you off for doing the same ? :P
Whoa that is *not* the kind of news you want to get when you've just been on holiday. Aww hun *hugs* at least you know that your bf is totally loyal to you for telling her to get lost but i don't blame you for being angry with her- not one bit. If you had *my* temper then your friend would currently have no eardrums cos I would have flown completely off the handle at her nerve to try something like that behind my back. Not that i'm saying you should have a shouting match with her cos i know that's not inkeeping with your temperament and if she's [supposed to be] a good friend it wouldn't be the most sensible thing to let this destroy your friendship but she should know how totally out of line she is.

posted by LadyViolet at 4:55 pm (EST) on May 31, 2009

*is splatted onto the floor with enthusiasm of hug* Dang it is good to be able to talk to you again! I'm uber envious of the tan, i'm still pastier than raw chicken *grumbles* The weather's been pretty good although i do remember some rain...
The ball was pretty darn awesome up until various people got so drunk that daft things happened and more than one person ended up crying by the end of the night (myself included although it wasn't because i was drunk only two vodka and cokes for me :D)
On the revision front... ahh it could have been better i suppose but i did get *some* done each day maybe when i go into school during the week and revise there i will get more done cos my computer and books aren't around to tempt me *dang crafty things they are*.
hehe *blushed* i guess not but at least my amazon order arrived and i was able to smuggle it into the house without the parentals finding out... yes i may have read two of the three books in the last 24 hours *gulps* but i'm not gonna get shot...yet...
yeah how on *earth* have you coped?? I fell prey to my urges on wednesday when i went to Newcastle (under-lyme not upon-tyne) went into Smiths and came out with two Nicholas Sparks books (one being The Notebook)
OMG i loved the book, it made me cry near the end, god it was sooo sweet and romantic and *squee*, I have got the film on dvd so when i get time i will definitely have to watch it.
*does welcome back from holiday dance* oo it is great to have you back Jess LT just hasn't been the same without you! *hugs*

posted by LadyViolet at 12:38 pm (EST) on May 31, 2009

Yea i guess so - there are a couple of people i know who i reckon i will lose touch with since i only ever talk to them at school and don't see them outside of it so i don't really know them very well even though we've been "friends" for 5 years.
Hehe it's usually those run-on sentences which are the oddest things i come out with and are often vaguely amusing (to me at least)
Heck another one for the Wishlist *adds to ever-increasing list* methinks i need to create a master list of all the books that i either want-to-buy or want-to-read but don't really care about owning, i've got several mini-lists in various places but i think they need combining in one place.
Oo it sounds so pretty!!
It's like a proper formal ball with girls in posh dresses and guys in suits and tuxedos- my dress is full-length so i've gotta make sure i don't trip myself up which is likely knowing my propensity for clumsiness :P
Yea funny how these things work out eh?
Well i've looked for several books off there that aren't available but i did mooch a copy of The Lovely Bones by Alice Seabold cos i wanted to read it and hopefully that won't take too long to arrive once the person gets back to me. I got emails today saying that two of the three packages i sent out have arrived and they've given me positive feedback which is great :) The selection isn't fantastic cos most people don't really want to give away the best books so it's better for finding more obscure books you don't normally find elsewhere.
Sounds like an excellent dystopic book which i'm gonna have to get *sigh*
Ah yes *sad face* well i hope you have a lovely holiday, kick back, relax and get some reading done :P and i shall look forward to talking to you when you get back hun. *hugs*

posted by LadyViolet at 3:36 pm (EST) on May 21, 2009

I just hope that my other friends find the time to email back cos once you get to uni and meet new people , all your old friends who you don't see very often may just fade out of your memory and i wouldn't want that to happen.
Hehe no the YAR peeps seem like a generally more intelligent and tolerant bunch than some of the Lexites who have a large population of 13yr old girls who think that twilight is the best piece of literature ever written in the history of the earth and will gladly burn those who disagree with them at the stake for heresy. blimey that was a long sentence lol.
I'm trying to be good and wait until my exams are over but i could perhaps get away with being sneaky and ordering them a few days before my last exam so they arrive on the day i finish but then that runs the risk of them going out of stock in the meantime ... argh dilemma!!
Heck no! be gone all products of a cosmetic nature! proper birthday presents consist of books or book vouchers :P I know i'm gonna tell my parents to only get me either money or book vouchers that i can spend anywhere for my birthday cos it's pointless people keep asking me when i don't want anything.
Yea i think it will be since i now know the basic plot pretty well so it shouldn't be too hard to get through. It seems to be almost the same with bit edited to accommodate for the zombie scenes but once i've finished reading P&P i'll be able to say more definitely how similar the two books are.
Well today a load more tickets got sold cos my bf (being head boy and all) got stuck with the tickets and list of names and the money box and told to sell as many as he could. There may be more sold tomorrow so perhaps it won't be too terrible although the only food at the ball is going to be a cold buffet *ugh* and since there's a bar for those old enough and with ID so people may be getting plastered which in the case of some of my friends is a *very* bad thing since they do stupid stuff when they're drunk.
Egad! i know!! although if i have nothing to do on my computer all week maybe i'll actually get a significant amount of work done which is highly desirable at the moment cos i'm not feeling too good about my history or parts of my chemistry.
Ah yes BookMooch - tis a rather interesting site where you can list and give away books you no longer want and earn points with which you can "mooch" books you want off other people. The only thing you have to pay for is the packing and postage of the books you send, but depending on whether you ship internationally or not the costs are not *too* bad. I've already posted off 5 books to people who mooched them within the first day of me putting books into my inventory so now i have points to spend but unfortunately finding books i actually want is proving difficult so far.

posted by LadyViolet at 5:04 pm (EST) on May 20, 2009

It's fine - I knew you weren't ignoring me cos I was speaking to you on YAR :D
I don't usually bother with msn cos literally the only people who speak to me on there are my sister, the guy who lives down my street who used to be in my class til he went to a different sixth form and a couple of my guy friends and on the odd occasion an old friend who i see a handful of times a year. And since i see all my close friends everyday at school i don't really need to email them either but i expect in October that i'll get into the habit of emailing people more to keep in touch once we're all off to Uni.
Hehe yea i wouldn't want to storm into the Lex ranting about the film where there's the more rabid obsessives who will rip us to shreds for dissing "their film" :P
I looked on ZonUK earlier and they're both in stock!! along with Jessica's Guide (etc.) argh!!! i seriously don't need the temptation!! *gnaws hand*
*mental note get Jess the Immortals book for her birthday next year* ;)
Yea i am still reading it and its so awesome and hilarious. I keep recognising lines from the new film which makes me feel pretty smart lol but i don't know if they're the same lines as in the proper P&P which i will have to read soon (or attempt to read again since i failed the first time :P)
Oh i know!! BP is definitely a high priority at the moment although Carpe Corpus (morganville 6) is supposed to be out on June 2nd though its showing as "currently unavailable" on ZonUK at the mo... eep! Plus It Girl 8 - Adored is out at the start of July... Dang soo many books this summer!!!
Right ok I won't be on Friday night either since it's my Sixth Form Ball that evening- it is looking to be a rather... interesting night since apparently there's only been *19* tickets sold so far and there's about 80 kids in my year. During the half term i'll be pretty busy with UBER REVISION so hopefully that'll keep me distracted from LT *crosses fingers*. The following saturday i'll be back at work after we re-open next thursday so i'll probably be too shattered to go on the computer anyway lol.

posted by LadyViolet at 5:08 pm (EST) on May 19, 2009

*skids into profile* I'm here and I'm replying *NOW*
Luckily for me i'm not that social or popular so the majority of people who add me on facebook never speak to me they just add people they recognise for the sake of numbers. I only speak to a handful of people on msn as well- my sister spends all her time on msn as nearly all of her friends are on there.
Hmm that's a point although we can always vent our emotions on NM on YAR in the appropriate thread which saves reigniting old addictions :P
Well you know already that i bought new books since i've taken my sweet time replying to this *oops*
Gah i *need* to get hold of Evernight and Stargazer!! *sad face*
OOOooo!!! that sounds so awesome! thank god for the jan publication date or my bank balance would be in even worse shape!
Cool sounding book i may have to check it out. You ordered it off 'Zon didn't you? well if you read it before i get hold of a copy tell me what you think k? (due to the annoying number of syllables required to say Amazon UK and US respectively i shall now use the abbreviations ZonUK and ZonUS :P)
It is! yea it may smell nice but that's all its good for!
Lol the second my last exam is over i'll be on amazon ordering a massive stack of books and won't give a damn about how much it costs me.
Ooo can't wait for Tempted!! there's a couple of girls in yr 12 who i know have read the first three HoN books and are impatiently waiting for august and Untamed. They're rather jealous of me for having both Untamed and Hunted :P
Hmmm it sounds like Zoey is back to her usual boy/man juggling ways *rolls eyes* doesn't that girl realise it's all gonna end in tears if she doesn't pick one soon?
There! sorry it took me so long to reply *blushes* i will try to be quicker with my replies in future.
Also what day are you going on holiday? so i don't get worried if you don't reply for like 5 days lol

posted by LadyViolet at 9:33 am (EST) on May 19, 2009

I spend the most time on here, i do post in a few places on YAR mostly your book thread lol but i don't post anywhere near as much as i did on the lex. Quite a few of my friends are on facebook so occasionally i'll talk to someone on there or MSN messenger. I haven't lurked in months it's just lost its appeal and when my exams are over i'll probably go back and announce that my temporary disappearance will turn into permanent absence.
Ooo cool I'm going up to Stafford with my bf tomorrow and there's a library, TWO waterstones and a Smiths so heaven help me if i spot something i want (i'm actually really hoping i can find Evernight :P)
Yea i know! I would hate to get bubble bath and make-up off people cos a) i'm a shower person so bubble bath is pretty pointless cos it'll never get used and b) anyone who knows me will (hopefully) remember that i hardly ever wear make-up so buying me make-up is also pointless cos i already have far more stuff than i'll be able to use before it goes icky. It does show that little effort was put into the present but then if you don't actually want anything or can't think of anything for people to get you then its inevitable that someone will buy you bath stuff out of desperation. For christmas i only buy presents for my closest friends because i have a better chance of getting something i know they'll like ( i bought a copy of twilight for my 3 best friends last year although unfortunately by now the hype for the series has worn off the interest in the book ) not to mention the fact that there's around 15 people in my group of friends so buying suitable presents for all would cost a fortune and would take a huge amount of questioning people to know what to buy them :S
Unfortunately you're probably right - my willpower will crumble soon i have no doubt once the exams are over (in little over a month!!!) that i'll revert back to my extreme book spending much to the dismay of my parentals lol

posted by LadyViolet at 3:07 pm (EST) on May 15, 2009

Lol i usually spend hours on the computer in the evening which is definitely not good at the moment but i'm often just browsing LT threads.
Ooh poor you!! i hope you get to have your book fix soon lol
hehe so would I ! nothing short of the apocalypse will keep me from a book i want to read !
Yea i have so much trouble trying to buy my friends birthday presents cos i don't know what kind of books or music most of them like and i don't like to buy them generic presents like bath stuff etc so i end up asking them what they want so i don't get them something they already have or won't like.
Yea thank god for that lol.
Well the first book is called Pagan's Crusade and it's about this boy Pagan who's apprenticed to a knight fighting in Jerusalem during the crusades - it sounds pretty good dang i may have to order it *gnaws hand*

posted by LadyViolet at 5:49 pm (EST) on May 14, 2009

argh dang blasted technology! i thought it was a little odd that you were posting on YAR but not here but i didn't want to say anything at the risk of sounding rather like a petulant child.
Oh i know i cried at the end when you realise that he never actually made it back to England in the book that was a bit confusing to me and the film clarified it really well. I'm gonna move Atonement up the re-read pile methinks cos i rather fancy having another read of it. Yes Briony is such an insufferable child you want to scream at her stupidity.
Hehe that's a good idea i could just imagine you running into the airport and demanding to get on the next flight to England with the Bronze Horseman in your hand cos you've *just* finished it :P
Well i'm pretty crap in the gift-giving department so i'm not gonna be much use to you i'm afraid. I ordered my bf's birthday present today off amazon and i'm hoping to god that he doesn't buy the video game i've got him in the next few weeks or i'll be so distraut. I don't reckon he will though cos he said that it would only distract him during his exams. I'm tempted to give him the box and say that i'm keeping the disc until the end of the exams but i think he'd not be too happy about that- he's probably as possessive over his xbox games as i am over my books :P
I know!! gah july had better hurry up! ooo just thought how many books are coming out in June and July that i want.... Storm Glass, new Morganville, new GG book, new It girl book... blimey i'm toast for this summer - thank god i'm gonna be working loads to earn enough money to offset my spending lol.
Argh i *need* to find it!!! also today while i was browsing amazon i came across this historical fiction series set during the crusades and it sounds really good and its really quite cheap only problem is i can only find 3 of the 4 books so hecks knows if i'll be able to find the last one. :( they look soo interesting and i wants them *hmph*

posted by LadyViolet at 3:30 pm (EST) on May 12, 2009

hehe :P i'm sure its just a bad cold *crosses fingers* even if you did have swine flu i reckon you wouldn't feel *that* rotten since our healthcare is good enough to deal with it pretty quickly.
I know she is so silly you just want to shake her til her teeth rattle! even so the book is interesting through her perspective.
Lol how will you manage if you finish it early on in the holiday and can't get the sequels for a week?? :P
Aww it's sort of the other way around with me and my bf cos i've got a job and so have the spare cash to randomly give him surprise sweets (i wouldn't dare to try and buy books or CDs)
Yea i'm sure you'll be able to scrape together £6 lol
Exactly!! there's so many good reasons to be in fantasy-world (valek being a big one :P)
hehe *shakes head* we are just *too* strange for our own good

posted by LadyViolet at 2:38 pm (EST) on May 7, 2009

lol - just a cold is it? we don't need any of that swine flu nonsense here :P
I loved atonement and the film was really good and didn't ruin the book for me which makes it a very rare film indeed.
Oh i want that book!!! darn it you'll have to tell what you think if you read it before i get a copy.
Awww your bf is *such* a sweetie!! :D
Who wouldn't miss Valek? :P
Yea i'll remember the name this time and i know what the cover looks like so i'm gonna scour the library and Smiths again on saturday lol
Well if you pre-order it off amazon their price guarantee says that you will get charged the lowest price available so no worries!
*le sigh* unfortunately he does and i don't think he fully understands why i like reading the books i do so much- he thinks i need to spend more time in the "real world" as he puts it. hmph :(
Hehe yea we both should be in some instituion for our own safety but frankly i'm not giving up without a fight lol

posted by LadyViolet at 6:34 am (EST) on May 7, 2009

Thats a pretty good idea - i'm actually re-reading it at the mo and knowing me i'll probably read it all tonight even though i had a late night yesterday.
Hmph! no valek until the third book! what does she expect us to do in the meantime?? Ooo i would *adore* that woman if she wrote more books about Yelena and Valek *crosses all digits*
Tis a cunning idea methinks - i almost had a trawl of the charity shops in the high street earlier for lols but i needed to be a this meeting effort at worj for half 4 so i didn't have enough time :( I searched both the library and Smiths for the Bronze Horsemen and couldn't find it although i didn't remember what the author's name was and i didn't know what the cover looked like so i tempted to look again more carefully.
Hmm yea *twitch* it sounds so awesome i just need to get it and find our for myself! bank balance be damned!
Exactly! i have many books i need to read so i may as well spend my time more wisely.
Awww noo the temptation of cheap books!! *refrains from running to amazon* im gonna have to check this out
Hehe nothing better than a random girly day out :P
lol i have plenty of randomly posh sounding words - i'd beat Damien in a vocab test anyday
*smiles sweetly* i'll try to be good :D my bf gets a little narked with me spending most of my lunch break on the computer replying so thats why i tend to do it in a free where he can't glare at me disapprovingly :( i consider myself suitably chastised on the subject of productivity during frees :P
Yea i really liked it by the time i finished it. Since my skills at writing a brief description of a book are minimal i was lazy and copied this from the amazon page :P
When Auraya was chosen to become a priestess, she could never have believed that a mere ten years later she would be one of the White, the gods' most powerful servants. Sadly, Auraya has little time to adapt to the exceptional powers gifted her by the gods. Mysterious black-clad sorcerers from the south plague the land, and rumours reach the White of an army being raised. Auraya and her new colleagues work tirelessly to seal alliances and unite the northern continent under their banner, but time is running out. War comes to the lands of the White, and unless Auraya can master her new abilities, even the favour of the gods may not be enough to save them...Trudi Canavan, author of the bestselling Black Magician Trilogy, embarks upon a wonderful new fantasy series set in a classical world of magic, heroes, gods and forbidden love.
There are only 3 books in this series, Priestess of the White, Last of the Wilds and Voice of the Gods. BUT Trudi Canavan has another called the Black Magician trilogy which is really awesome and i recommend it highly as well *evil grin* mwa ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!

posted by LadyViolet at 5:32 pm (EST) on May 5, 2009

Ooo will you be reading fire study slower than usual to try and drag it out? i know i didn't want it to end :( i neeed storm glass!!!
Yea it is! although if i find the Bronze Horsemen and its sequels on there for a lovely cheap price then i'm sure my fickle nature will give me cause to love them once more *grumbles* i wish i could be strong and stay mad but im sure i'll fail.
Hehe yea although i should say to give your purse to your friend i know full well i wouldn't want to hand it over or i would have some cash hidden on my person :P
I spoke to one of my friends who's also trying to read WH and she says she's ground to halt in the middle cos she's lost interest- i may give it another go then perhaps give up on it it's got to go back to the library next week anyway.
Yea something like that- it's even more annoying for me cos i want the american cover to match book 2 (book 1 is the british version) BUT i may be willing to compromise and just make do with the brit copy for expediency and cost.
Ah i went to see 17 again with my sister in the easter hols. Although there are some cringy-ohmygod-zac-efron-is-acting-like-... moments but it is pretty darn funny plus the zefron is undeniably rather good to look at :P even if he does manage to look unbelievably blank and dreamy in photos.
Lol yea they're really comfy and just plain funky :D my dad thinks they look horrendous with the paint splattered effect but all my friends think they look awesome so i will definately be wearing them til they fall apart.
Hehe i was very good today and although i did come on here at lunchtime when i saw your threat to scold me (which had me giggling cos the word scold is just terribly amusing to me :P) i decided to leave it and reply later when i got home and *ta da!* here i am replying when i'm not at school :D
I actually finished it last night *coughthismorning* but i don't think i should be starting the second book just yet - i'm gonna give WH another chance and then who knows what the heck i'll read next, perhaps Envy?

posted by LadyViolet at 12:42 pm (EST) on May 5, 2009

Hehe i'm pretty sure she gets her comeuppance good and proper although i can't remember the exact details *re-read twitch*
Grr i really hope amazon doesn't pull any sneaky stunts that make me want to get out my torch and pitchfork again. Cos no matter what they do to butter me up like suddenly make available a book i really want, i WILL NOT BE SWAYED FROM UNLEASHING MY TERRIBLE WRATH UPON THEM!!! *rarrr!*
Yeees we will have to watch them more carefully methinks...
ooo the Bronze Horseman... what's it about? DANG I ASKED THE DOOM QUESTION! :S
Yes i'd recommend reading Jane Eyre definately then maybe looking at WH in case you find it odd or difficult to get through.
The third GG carlyles book is coming out this month in america which i need to get hold of *twitch*
I do rather like ranting sometimes lol :P
Well we went to see Ghost of Girlfriends Past with the ever-lovely-to-look-at Matthew M..i can't spell his last name but you know who i mean right? A load of my sis's friends were there so she sat with them while i sat on my own like a proper billy-no-mates :( it was an alright film -funny and sweet but nothing majorly brilliant about it but i do love Matthew whatshisface's southern accent sooo much :P tis wonderful to listen to.
Before i went to the cinema i went up to Hanley with my mum & sister and got some more shoes- i has new rocket dogs!! :D they're these awesome paint-splattered lace-up pumps which feel pretty sturdy and dead comfy, plus my dad hates them so i'm gonna wear them all the time *just* to be irritating :P
Gah school tomorrow... oo but i do have a double free first and no french class cos she's doing the GCSE speaking exams this week! excellent! just gonna have be uber productive though :(
Hoping to get some more of my Trudi Canavan book read tonight- i'm getting used to the style now, it has a group of main viewpoint characters that keep cropping up but then there's these random people you only see once which is odd and there's not much indication when you're switching viewpoint characters or location but its usually new block of text = new character POV.

posted by LadyViolet at 5:12 pm (EST) on May 4, 2009

Hehe exactly!
Yea but don't worry what goes around comes around and Roze can't escape it.
According to Amazon UK Storm Glass is available to order although it's currently out of stock but i don't know if they're gonna suddenly turn around and say its not available at all like they did with Hunted. *after checking amazon* how very odd it says not in stock now but order and we'll ship it when it's available- yet the publication date says 17th July quoi?
Yea i saw that competition mentioned dang it we could have had a serious chance of winning! but the cover would have been the american one which won't match the study books *twitch* and you know how irritating that is lol
Lol boy do i know how *that* feels ... dang reverse psychology - tell me i can't have something and i will instantly want it more than anything..
I haven't started envy yet and i've read a bit more of Wuthering Heights - its not gripping me as much as Jane Eyre and the characters are grating a bit but i will try and get through it and maybe it will improve. Last night i started reading this book by Trudi Canavan called Priestess of the White which is part of a trilogy i bought last year and haven't got round to reading yet. it's a pretty chunky book and so should take me several days to read it although with my french speaking exam next monday i really shouldn't be reading at all.
Hmm that'll have to be one to borrow from the library before i buy it just in case...
Yesterday i was working all day - it was pretty frustrating cos we're closing next week for the re-fit and the shelves are pretty empty. I'm usually on the kiosk all day and would normally be dealing with cigs, lottery, paypoint as well as normal shopping but our lottery and paypoint got shut off too early and our stock of cigs is very limited so i spent most of the day turning people away cos i couldn't serve them cos it had all been switched off! This saturday is going to be even worse cos there'll be practically nothing on the shelves, we won't have any newspapers, the last cig delivery was friday and i put most of those out yesterday and by saturday there'll be almost nothing left except dozens of packs of these tiny matches we sell. Ugh i'll be stood there all day being probably the only till on cos apparently they're taking off all the other tills in the last week until there's only one left.
Sorry ranting at length there :(
Today has been sort of productive cos i've got my student finance form sent off and my forms for the co-op transfer done so i don't have to worry bout that too much. but my actual school work quota is pretty minimal though i have been researching some stuff for my french speaking test on the internet (hence i "fell" onto LT *blushes*)
Tomorrow i'm going out in the morning to buy some new shoes since the ones i bought from New look are fast on their way to following my rocket dogs. Then my sister and I are going to the cinema and hopefully in the afternoon i'll get a fair bit of work done *crosses fingers*

posted by LadyViolet at 2:34 pm (EST) on May 3, 2009

*gulps* well since i'm taking a joint honours in French and History i'm perhaps a bit buggered- well the history will probably involve a lot of reading which i should be ok with :P
Ugh Roze is even more awful in FIre Study lol. Hmmm i thought... gah i must check whats going on with Storm Glass!
Haha oh the decisions! - start the books where you don't have the sequels and risk having to spend more money to get them or start the books where you *have* the sequels *ponders* the answer seems obvious if you want to save up money to buy stuff for holiday then reading Evernight or Wake would be best cos then you can read the sequels after without worrying about your dwindling book fund :P
Oh... *blushes* i may have bought Envy today when i saw it Smiths *hides* my excuse is that it's a new month so i can allow myself up to £20 worth of books each month and once i've spent it thats it. Whether i'll stick to it or not remains to be seen :P
I bloody did! and now i've finished re-reading Magic Study i'll get on with Wuthering Heights.
Had a good day?

posted by LadyViolet at 1:36 pm (EST) on May 2, 2009

Haha it's ok it's probably good for me to know what i'll be facing in the autumn lol
Ah i know he's just plain odd is my bf :P
Oo really? yea it gets so much more interesting doesn't it?? hehe i know there should always be a generous amount of Valek in every book :P I absolutely loathe Roze she is an unbelievably evil cow >:[
I'm going to have trouble resisting buying some books over the next few weeks cos the 3rd Luxe book is coming out along with Storm Glass and possibly a few other books i want. dang it ! *chews hand*
Well i read a couple more chapters of Wuthering Heights last night and i'm intrigued by Heathcliff even though he's a loathsome bastard so i'll read some more tomorrow. Tonight i'm reading more of magic study lol

posted by LadyViolet at 3:38 pm (EST) on May 1, 2009

Yea i understand - deadlines just aren't really helpful if you are finding something difficult and it's taking you a while to do an assignment .
Oh blimey that would get pretty harrowing after a while.
Hehe i hope the stress goes after the exams - my bf is a notorious sufferer of post-exam stress he's fine up to the exams but then afterwards he's a nervous wreck thinking he's mucked everything up until the results day when it turns out he's done brilliantly *rolls eyes* silly thing he is.
Ah Valek can take care of himself :P Oh i love the horses lol. Give Leif a bit of time he does improve .
Ooo that is quite tempting if you want all of her books lol.
*evil snicker* hehehe....
Thankfully none of my friends have been as ill as that girl in the book so may not be too harrowing to read hopefully. Do tell me though me you've read it.
It was just my misfortune to be only starting to read close to midnight and that it was my mum who came into my room to tell me to go to sleep. My dad usually doesn't take my books and i can always start reading again after he's gone :P

posted by LadyViolet at 5:10 pm (EST) on Apr 30, 2009

Yea i reckon still doing some work at the hairdressers will be ok since its not *that* stressful is it?
I know what you mean - studying all the psychology behind mental conditions is probably pretty difficult to stay emotionally detached about especially if you know of people with those problems. I'm actually quite glad that i didn't take psychology for a-level in the end since the amount of courswork and reading i would have had to do would probably have been far too much for me to cope with.
I will try to stay calm about things but i'm pretty quick to get worked up and may get stressed before i realise it.
hehe just stay patient you'll see them eventually ;) Yea Leif is rather irritating i do want to slap him about quite often.
Ooo really? i'll have to go a have a look at that!
good on ya hun keep resisting! *voice of reason* No buy it buy it!! *voice of insanity* argh ignore the addict she's not thinking straight!
haha yea lol i might try and find the film of Speak cos i reckon with all the angst in it Kristin may actually be perfect for it :P
ooo... that sounds depressing yet interesting.. considering how many of my friends have had problems with eating disorders it may be quite upsetting to read.
I lost the battle with my re-read demons last night and picked up Magic Study again -only got to page 32 before my mum came in and took it off me so i wouldn't carry on reading after she'd gone to bed :(

posted by LadyViolet at 6:39 am (EST) on Apr 30, 2009

Well... wow that is a big decision... but i completely understand that if you're feeling so stressed that it's making you ill then taking a year out is probably a good idea especially if you're not really enjoying your course because it really wouldn't be good if you ended up in the hospital from over-working yourself. Have you thought about what you'd want to do eventually?
I'm glad you're feeling happier tis good when you can get rid of the pressure and think clearly again. Man i wish i could properly relax but i've got to wait til the end of June for that :(
Yea i know you do lol
Oh thats good at least being able to read now - i'd hate to be so ill i couldn't read eep!
Yea it was amazing i'll probably re-read it over summer it was *that* awesome. yea for a debut it was stunning i wonder if she has written anything else yet?
Thats a good idea it's nice when you know what they're quoting lol
I got a bit bored earlier and felt like going on a rating spree :P
Ah you bought Wintergirls? i've read one book by Laurie Halse Anderson - Speak but that was a while ago. What's it about?
Hope you're feeling much better :D *hugs*

posted by LadyViolet at 4:42 pm (EST) on Apr 29, 2009

Hehe no i would find it quite distracting having to keep looking around for unruly children - if you sat with an umbrella between you and any water sources then you may be ok lol
Sounds awesome i hope you have a nice relaxing holiday and get some books read without having to worry about work and the like.
I'm currently sat in the study room with my history stuff around me and i'm going to stay here until i get it bloody done! I am developing a terrible habit of leaving my history hmwk until the last second and literally running into the lesson and handing my essay in - still warm from the printer. Its really quite worrying and a bit stressful lol.
Hopefully my ability to seemingly do minimal revision and still get pretty good grades will stay with me for the next few weeks or i'm complete toast and my mum will actually flay me alive then hang, draw and quarter me and stick me in the town centre as an example of pure stupidity. *gulps* no pressure then.
Tis indeed the palace of addiction :P
Ooo tell me what you think once you've got a fair way into it!!
I finished it last night just before midnight and O_O WOW!! i am unbelievably happy i bought it! Absolutely magical and the ending was like what? really?! OF COURSE!! definately one of my fav books of the year even though its only april- it's gonna get read again this year for sure.
Yea Jane Eyre was really good and its mentioned loads during The Thirteenth Tale which was cool.
Yea twas most tiring - this weekend should be still tiring but cos i'll be doing normal revision not solid french so less depressing *crosses fingers*

posted by LadyViolet at 6:29 am (EST) on Apr 28, 2009

Oo blimey splashing kids would be the bane of my life- if anyone got my book wet woe betide them i would flay them alive *evil grin*
Sounds great- i've never actually been to mainland spain will have to at some point methinks. Yea chilling on the beach sounds like an excellent idea i could use some time to chill but i've gotta get through the next 7 weeks without having a major breakdown which is seeming more unlikely every day when i get nothing done. :(
Hehe maybe they're not online every single night like we seem to be *blushes* dang i'm addicted to this place
oo what's that Willow about? gah i asked even though i *know* i shouldn't gosh darn it!!
Hmm indeed decision decisions... well i know the Luxe took me a while to get into the first time i tried but that may have just been how i was at the time. I need to locate myself a copy of Envy soon since the paperback is coming out. MMmm Valek... do i hear a re-read a-calling??
Oh i know! I'm about 220 pages in (i started it about quarter past 4) and OMFG! why o why did i have to pick it today when i have a 20 mark history essay to write for tomorrow!! I'm never going to get it done while this unbelievably engrossing book is sat beside me demanding to be read!! I had seen it mentioned loads on LT and it sounded like something i might want to read so i bought it wholly on the recommendations of the LT populace.
Haha sorry i don't mean to make you feel bad - to be honest i haven't read an Austen book myself yet although i do have a compendium of her works but i may leave it until summer to crack open. After i've finished The Thirteenth Tale (possibly later tonight at the rate i'm going) i'm going to start Wuthering Heights since its a library book and will need to go back.
Ugh my weekend felt like half a life-time. Work was so repetitive and irksome since our paypoint (for bills and tv licenses etc) has been shut off even though we're not shutting for another 2 weeks so having to tell people over and over again that "sorry our paypoint's down so i can't do it for you but the essentials store still has a paypoint and so does the wine shop up the road" ARGH bloody technology!
Then sunday i spent most of the day at my french teacher's house doing practice for our speaking test which is in 2 weeks - felt like half the day was a complete waste of time. Then after having dinner at me nan's got home and tried to make a dent in my history hmwk which i simply cannot do. Gah god only knows how i'm supposed to learn a year's worth of lessons :(

posted by LadyViolet at 2:05 pm (EST) on Apr 27, 2009

Oo yea i do like sitting against my radiator when its on full whack and reading cos i stay really warm :D but sitting in the sun is definately more fun.
Yea do that do that!! I haven't been to the b'ham stones in aaages . hehe yea 3 weeks is not the longest length of time to prep for a holiday - where you going?
Lol yea they look mildly over-enthusiastic compared to our psychosis :P
*evil laugh* ah ha! i have now laid a cunning plan to trick you into buying more books!!
aww that sounds a bit annoying - i got home from my uber french revision session and my brain is now permanently altered :S i don't really want to do any work tonight but i have to cos i've got a history hmwk that i need to do a *lot* of prep for cos i don't know a lot of what i'm supposed to :(
Ugh Kstew is such a pain in the bum that girl just irks me no end!
Hehe yea although i don't have high hopes for it i do still like getting movie news for it .
Oh i have a slight confession - i may have...accidentally .... gone into Smiths yesterday... and bought two books....*hides* I CAN'T HELP IT!!! I HAD A 20% DISCOUNT CARD THING WHICH EXPIRES TODAY SO I JUST *HAD* TO USE IT!!! :( spent £11 which wasn't too terrible but still awfully weak of me.
hows your weekend been?

posted by LadyViolet at 12:10 pm (EST) on Apr 26, 2009

Tis an excellent time really shame it can't be summer all year round :(
Oooh it may actually b possible !! hopefully any copies you do find are in decent condition. In the town near me we are practically infamous for the number of charity shops we have in the high street there's like 8 different shops on the same street and naff all other mainstream shops apart from Smiths now that Woolies has closed.
Hehe no we are not. I'm actually quite pleased we've got bout half a dozen other people in our group although i reckon we scare most of them too much for them to post :P
*zips lips* not saying anything lol , I think Valek is my favourite male character at the mo without a doubt :D nothing more awesome than a guy who is fully capable of kicking people's ass from here to Hong Kong just to protect you. Although its still good that yelena can manage pretty well without him there unlike Bella .
Last time i went into Stones Graceling *may* have been in the 3 for 2 offers in the Sci-fi and fantasy sections so who knows it may still be there ...:P such temptations!
I can't actually remember what the Brit covers look like *note to self browse amazon*
Unfortunately for me i realised last night that i can't even do much work on sunday cos i've got to go to my french teacher's house from 10 til 4 for this bloody speaking test revision crap. so i'm gonna have to loads tonight since i did naff all yesterday :(
I haven't got round to watching the special features yet *must do that...* that sounds really bloody daft has CH even *read* the freaking book!!
I do want to see New Moon but i don't at the same time cos i just think it will ruin it all over again and i will not be able to stomach seeing it again.
But i suppose i can manage to sit through it if they keep the yummy shirtless men coming :P

posted by LadyViolet at 6:50 am (EST) on Apr 24, 2009

Yea it may take me until summer to put together a list of summer reading but i reckon i can manage it. I know i have a few series i need to re-read i.e. the HP books and possibly LOTR and hopefully i'll get a load of overtime to bump up my funds :P
ooh plotting tis so much fun hehe - im uber glad i did find them earlier cos it has saved me a bucket load of money. Cheer up i wonder if any second-hand shops would have any? it could be a summer mission to scour all shops with books in for the elusive british TP books!
Hehe we should compile a list of all the sneaky techniques book addicts can use to get their fix and keep a low profile from the "normal folk" of course it must *never* fall into the hands of the enemy *looks around nervously*
Ouch that doesn't sound fun :P
Yea i thought that twist was hilarious - how sneaky of Valek to use fear to keep the food tasters from running away. I was so glad Janco survived it just wouldn't have been the same without him Yelena needed her big brothers lol.
Yes Valek did kill him i think, i'm not sure if he kept testing him to make sure he was doing his job properly or if it was cos he was spying for Star.
Yes Fire is a sort of prequel to Graceling - at the moment there are 3 books planned Kristin is writing the third at the moment (i'm following her blog that i found) but she says if she has more ideas for the series then she may write another book.
*addiction twitch* argh how tempting!! i need to find out how much it'll set me back gah darn amazon for doing this to us!!!
Yea the amount of crap she gives us is insane! the files are enormous from all the picture files she uses - she scans whole pages from textbooks into the computer and just whacks them on a slide as they are so they need to be shrunk down >:[ damn woman.
Cos i've neglected my homework too much over the last few days i am gonna have to work loads tonight tomorrow and on sunday to keep myself from drowning in stress. such deep joy NOT!

posted by LadyViolet at 6:19 am (EST) on Apr 23, 2009

Yep thought it through good and proper - dang... shame that - ah well considering how much free time we're gonna have in the summer we can perhaps get ahead of our quota before uni starts back *crosses fingers for getting into uni in the first place*
Eep lol she really did have some issue methinks..
Hmm well my library which is titchy has a couple of her books but they're the later books which is not great if you want to start from the beginning. If you have some pretty big libraries near you then they may have a bigger selection and they could always see if other libraries in the area have enough of TP's books to cobble together the whole lot. It would be exceedingly expensive to order them all from america and their covers just aren't as pretty as the british ones were - although some of the newer edition Circle of Magic books have some nice covers lol
Hehe i actually did switch the covers in the end although me dad didn't spot me with my book out anyway. Glad to be entertainment for your family :P
I can't remember the last time i went properly tan - it may have been my Duke of Edinburgh expedition last july cos we were out in the sun for quite a while, i got a pale patch from where my watch had been lol
Yea i did like Rand up until i found out about Star and the blackberry poison incident- twas still a shame when he died though he did redeem himself slightly by trying to warn Yelena away. Yeah she is possibly one of my fav female characters of all-time now - nobody kicks ass like she does :D
Tis my pleasure to spread wonderful books to people who'll appreciate them , i give my thanks to amazon for waving them around my recommendations so frequently that i just caved and bought them :P
Hehe yea well i'd already got half-way through Terrier when i put it to one side while i read Bloodhound that was 500 pgs but i think it took longer than normal cos i had to do other stuff and keep hiding it when people came in :P
I'm also being sneaky - im on here, YAR and supposedly copying french vocab from this gihugic powerpoint presentation my teacher gave to me which has 68 freaking slides!! dang my back aches - im sat up against my radiator and my stupid bony spine doesn't like it :(

posted by LadyViolet at 3:22 pm (EST) on Apr 22, 2009

Hehe wow... that does sound good although if we didn't have any money we'd be running into stones, nicking a book and then running like hell to get away and read it lol.
Yea i know ! although i reckon it may have been pretty confusing for her since he's basically been her brother all these years... gah i don't have a clue what was going through that girl's head.
Hehe yea you do need a whole summer to read them all - although you may have serious difficulty getting hold of them all over here now since Tammy no longer has a british publisher so the copies i have are not available readily in shops. Tis quite a conundrum...
Lol when i used to be on the Lex every night i was always listening in case my dad came upstairs to check on me so i had time to get a more school-related window up on the screen *chuckles* i'm such a terrible student
Ooo i could do with a decent tan - i look pastier than chicken most of the time and it takes a heck of a long time for me to go brown *grr* yea regular trips to somewhere sunny and quiet is definately a must.
Really? oo i really like Janco with his rhyming while he fights gets me giggling no end.
The short stories are not much more than five chapters each - the Ari, Janco, Maren one is all on one page on the website and the Valek one is five chapters on a separate website which is linked to Maria's site. yea the covers are awesomely cool - i like poison study the most too dang i do love me some funky cover art :P
Now i must dash Tortall is calling...

posted by LadyViolet at 3:16 pm (EST) on Apr 21, 2009

*evil giggle* no they would not... :P
Quoi? *le gasp* are you quite well Jess? addiction not running really strong right now?!?! what is this blasphemy?! lol just kidding its probably a good thing to have lulls in the book urges or we would be totally bankrupt all the time.
Yea i spose that kind of pressure combined with everything that happened to Emily would make for a very stressful situation that would push her into that mindset.
Well done to you for resisting - i started re-reading Terrier last night around half 10-sih and realised that i wouldn't get it finished before stupid o'clock so i may abandon it when i get home and hopefully find Bloodhound waiting for me *crosses fingers*.
I should probably work downstairs but i like being on my own cos its annoying to have someone reading stuff over your shoulder.
Yea the second i've finished my exams i'm getting a box filling it with all the books i want to read and driving somewhere quiet and preferably sunny and read all day long. :D *daydreams* ahh good times...
mmm valek.. :P OOhh!! if you do a search for Maria V.Snyder on google and go onto her website there are links for two short stories she's written in the Study universe, one is about Ari, Janco and Maren (will you have met them yet i wonder???) the other is about Valek and a little mission he did between Poison Study and Magic study . i read them last night - they're pretty good if somewhat short :( i wants more Valek lol.

posted by LadyViolet at 7:42 am (EST) on Apr 21, 2009

Oo that's an idea- hmm i'll probably have to send my parents to florida with an extra suitcase just for my books lol.
Oh yea i've seen Jessica's guide to dating on the dark side - its actually on my amazon wishlist i think you can actually get it over here although it does take longer to be dispatched. hmm... i must investigate..
Hehe Mel actually burnt Emily's diary after she read about her suicidal feelings so she technically committed a crime by destroying relevant evidence to Emily's mental state. Yea i preferred Chris to Emily - it just seemed so difficult to understand *why* she couldn't tell anyone about the baby and then wanted to kill herself it just didn't make sense to me.
Lol i knew you'd love it :P luckily i spend most of my time at home in my room so my parents aren't constantly hovering over me checking my work so they don't really know if i've got a book lurking nearby to be snatched up once they leave *blushes* its a really bad habit i have but so difficult to break out of.
I'm currently itching to re-read Terrier in light of a wonderful email i received earlier from amazon- Bloodhound has been dispatched!!! *happy dances* its getting hard to resist chucking down my chemistry book and grabbing my book out of my cupboard to speed-read it all before 2 in the morning lol.
Yea its part of a new spin-off trilogy there's a second books called Sea Glass coming out in September of this year - seriously do we *need* to know this!! it's really not helping is it?!?! gah i should be quiet now *gags self*
Bugger it it's 9 now so i'm gonna down tools and hitch a ride to Tortall :P say hey to Valek for me

posted by LadyViolet at 4:00 pm (EST) on Apr 20, 2009

Yea i saw the november date for Wake and was like WTF? its soo stupid!!
A short and sweet vamp read - can't go wrong with it really!
Aww thanks im hoping amazon will get their act together soon or im gonna be uber upset :( *hugs*
Oo heck yea!! and Tempted if its not already posted... what else?? gah!
Yea i finished it yesterday afternoon - i was rather naughty and read it whilst "doing homework" so sshh! don't tell anyone! *looks around shiftily* i was pretty happy with the ending although it did seem to tail off in a slightly odd way. after the trial ended. my god Mel was *such* a cow!! i really didn't like her and how she was towards Chris and Gus i know her daughter got killed but surely 18 years of friendship is enough to make you realise that he wouldn't have maliciously murdered Emily.
Lol yea Poison study is one of those books you have to work hard to put down - i think the first one is my favourite but i think a re-read of the other two is necessary for an accurate verdict ;)
I'm going to try harder this half-term to use my frees productively- i mean i have 17 hours free a fortnight so the amount of revision i could get done in that time is tremedous!
Oh yea i've heard about Storm Glass - its set in the Study universe with a girl called Opal as the main character- you meet her in Magic Study although she's not a major character then. It sounds pretty good and there may be cameos from Yelena *squee*
Yes... after you've bought the other Study books then you will have to go cold turkey for a while ... or at least give it a good shot :P
Hehe lol i would love to see that! poor aching postie getting a cuppa in repayment for your addiction.
Ooo that would be soo awesome - being able to snap up a copy of your highly anticipated book before anyone else *dreams*
I got some work done - more than i sometimes get done on a sunday but nowhere near as much as i could with the time i have :(
I want to start reading something tonight - i'm trying to decide between a general fiction new-read or a Tammy Pierce re-read for old-times sake... ooo decisions, decisions...

posted by LadyViolet at 7:31 am (EST) on Apr 20, 2009

Just a random extra comment after browsing the amazons - what the hell is up with amazon uk?!? you can buy Fade in hardback but you can't get Wake?? what the chuff! thats really *really* irritating cos i want to read it and i can't bloody get it without paying fortune to amazon.com!
And i had a look at that book Uninvited you mentioned - darn you girl it looks good and i want it now!! *shakes fist half-heartedly*
argh my love-hate relationship with the amazons is currently in hate mode since i can't get the books i want and the books i can get are taking too fricking long to arrive >:[ blast them all!!!

posted by LadyViolet at 5:00 pm (EST) on Apr 19, 2009

ooo i can't wait!! dang i wish august would come quicker!!
I KNOW!!! *grrr* ooo i could strangle the peeps at amazon right now!! Well after i finished re-reading Poison Study i picked up the Pact last night and i've got about 150 pages into and i'm liking it so far :D i am in the mood for a fantasy book tonight so i may grab Terrier (the book before my new Tamora pierce book) and re-read that so when my book *finally* gets here everything will be fresh in my mind.
W-O-W that is quite a lot of books you bought there :P ah well if you've been working uber hard this holiday then *of course* you are entitled to treat yourself with books - although now you will have to abstain until june then you can go on a uber splurge .
Aww you'll have to buy him a trolley for carrying your amazon packages and offer him cups of tea by way of apology for giving him back problems :P
They so would! if i worked in Stones i would try and nudge them into keeping track of book that come out over there earlier and perhaps keep a list so if certain regular customers wanted certain books they could ship a load over for them. Huh though that may be slightly impractical for the store if there were only a few people who wanted the book. gah i'm wittering due to my sleepy state.
Hehe aww i'm sure you wouldn't look *that* tiny!
Lol hell yea ! :P
ARGH!! i just had major realisation while i was out to dinner with practically all my friends that my so-called revision this easter has been utter crap and useless and i'm going to have a serious heart attack (or just a panic attack - i dramatise somewhat) in the next few weeks because i have my french speaking exam in early May and i'm nowhere near ready for it. Tomorrow i'm gonna have to work like the clappers to give some semblance of having done something in the last two weeks! :( *meep*

posted by LadyViolet at 5:39 pm (EST) on Apr 18, 2009

Well it doesn't look like it can end too well but i am still hopeful that Richelle Mead will take mercy on her poor fans and give Rose her happy ending.
hehe aw your poor postman!! I got an email today off amazon saying that my delivery of Bloodhound will be delayed - obviously they've got to get it shipped over from america so it'll take a bit longer for me to get *sad face* in the meantime i'll just *have* to re-read the Study books :P
lol good thing i didn't watch them then- i wouldn't want the mental trauma.
Argh the stupidity of amazon.co.uk - why can't they keep a load of the american books in stock so we don't have to pay a huge load of money to get them from amazon.com, evil tricksy people >:[
Hehe you'll probably look as crazy as i did carrying round a sword - it's hard to look 18 when you're flailing a 3ft wooden sword :P
Yea he looks well chuffed when i ask if we can play on his xbox- i reckon girls like us are a guy's dream, actually willing to play video games and able to hold our own to boot !
It's probably a good thing that my Tamora Pierce book is gonna be late arriving cos maybe tomorrow i will get a fair amount of work done, that and the fact my dad isn't at work tomorrow means i'm gonna have a prison warden keeping an eye on me all bloody day - deep joy :(

posted by LadyViolet at 4:32 pm (EST) on Apr 16, 2009

Yea hopefully though Lissa will get a reality check in Blood Promise and remember that the whole world doesn't revolve around her.
I've noticed that the bookshops only seem to stock the last book FIre Study and its usually in the Sci-fi and Fantasy section rather than general young-adult or adult fiction sections but it may be an idea to get them off amazon cos its slightly cheaper and with Prime you get them the next day *gleeful twitch* I should be getting my new Tamora Pierce book tomorrow!!
Lol i didn't watch any videos on the website it seemed pretty OTT with the whole subscribing to the school newsletter thing - i mean heloo its *not* a real school so there's no need to go all crazy with pretending it is.
What conversation? *uber subtle wink* :P
Lol argh i'll have to scour amazon for Evernight and Stargazer as well cos i haven't seen them in shops... yet (i'll keep looking) how odd that second books in series keep appearing yet the first ones are nowhere to be found??
Ooo you'll have to tell what you think of 13 reasons why and whether its worth me hunting up a copy.
I know!! its more a LoTR sword than a PotC pirate cutlass type effort but i'll still have fun flailing it around the place :P Oo if only you could get Stark as your archery teacher.. *slight swoon* that would be pretty good motivation.
Yea i get uber competitive in most games although when it comes to games like Halo or whatever i can't do the actual mission things on my own so i tend to play with my bf on Co-op cos he's already done it before and so knows what to do - yea he's done on the hardest difficulty and when i play its on normal or easy so it probably feels a tad less exciting for him cos there's less to kill but meh lol
I got home a few hours ago and i'm gonna go to sleep soon- perhaps, i've nearly finished graceling (i've been having a book fix most days while i was on holiday) . tomorrow i really need to get some work done cos i've done nothing all week *eep* and somerfield have called me up to do a 4 hour shift tomorrow evening at 5 cos they need almost everyone on to help with mass reduction of stock prices leading up to our closing in May. Plus my new book will come hopefully so i'll have to try really hard to resist reading it straight away - maybe i can hold out until friday and saturday evening.
gah the troubled life of a book addict!!

posted by LadyViolet at 5:21 pm (EST) on Apr 15, 2009

I know! *sniffles* i will definately not be able to cope with reading that!
Yea i thought Lissa was *such* a cow to ask her to stay with her after how much of her life Rose has given up to look after Lissa - i'm glad Rose told her to bugger off.
hehe you'll have to tell me what you think when you've read it - although i'm fairly sure you'll like it if not love it.
yea what was with that? i thought she would look more native american considering her heritage but she doesn't really.
Rose is possibly in my top ten fav female characters- girls like her are the kind of people you can admire for dealing with all sorts of problems without completely losing her head.
*evil snickers* yea start at the foot and keep going up until she agrees not to direct it (or is unable to direct it due to blood loss :P)
Lol sorry- after seeing the books you added recently you know Fade and Wake? i really wanna read them cos they look really good! gah we're not helping each other really are we?
OMG Warwick castle was soo awesome!! I bought a wooden sword!! *uber nerd twitch* i had a go at the archery as well ooo its soo fun!! dang i wish i knew where to get a longbow!
Lol i've never played on guitar hero sounds like fun- i amused my bf no end on saturday night when i asked if we could play on Halo 3. Its a good stress reliever to shoot the heck outta wierd aliens :P
I haven't read anything today either! *le gasp* i may have to pick up graceling later tonight. me and my sister are going swimming in the hotel pool in a bit so i won't be able to read anything for a couple of hours *gnaws hand*

posted by LadyViolet at 2:23 pm (EST) on Apr 14, 2009

*hugs and comforts distraut Jess* there there don't worry lets just hope spoiler guy is right (i didn't read all the spoiler carefully so i haven't completely spoilt Blood Promise for myself) Argh curse Richelle Mead for putting us through this trauma!! >:[ I totally agree with you - there's NO way that Dimitri can really be a Strigoi i utterly *refuse* to believe it!
Yea Poison Study and the other two books are amazing!! I'm pretty sure there is only the three books *sad face so wish there were more* they're about 400 pages each but they're so awesome it's pretty easy to get through them. I finished the third book earlier today and i so want to go back and re-read them all again! but i have only got the 2nd & 3rd book with me darn!
Hmm may have to give it a look at some point in the future perhaps, i had heard that it was pretty *eek* in places so i'll know to look away at those points.
Yea i thought that Zoey looked far too old, Eric looked really wierd as well. Jack Twist looked so sweet! Stevie Rae did look rather like i'd imagined her but i was pretty meh about the others.
Yea i know what you mean - I am fairly sure that i like VA more than HoN cos there's much less drama-trauma in the VA books and Rose is a really feisty independent character and Zoey seems to be getting a bit more crazy with each book.
I know!! Seth & Alice are such awesome characters it is so wierd that she couldn't manage to make Bella less of a whiny over-dramatic weakling.
Hehe fangirlish-ness can be excused when it comes to Taylor :P
*prays for inaccuracy of rumours* please say the producers have some sense and realise that twilight *wasn't* that great a movie so giving her the reins will only cause more outrage from hardcore fans of the HG.
YES!! BUY THE STUDY BOOKS!!! :P
Graceling is to the best of my knowledge is a stand-alone book but its also a debut novel so perhaps there will be another in the future. I think its on a similar thread to the study books - a fantasy book where people have magical gifts called Graces. One girl has a particularly powerful and dangerous Grace and is being used by - bugger i can't quite remember what it's about lol. Either way it looks pretty darn good!
Nah i don't mind telling you what they're about! Its really awesome to share books that i really like with other people cos then I have someone to talk to about them and how wonderful they are!
I might not start Graceling until tomorrow but i probably won't get much read cos we're going to Warwick castle and hopefully it won't be too busy *crosses fingers*
Oh me too! i love old styles houses and castles we went round the Shakespeare houses today in Stratford which were pretty interesting and they had such gorgeous gardens. My mum managed to stump the staff at one of the house by asking them what staffordshire china company made this figurine of Shakespeare on a shelf- none of them had a clue and the records they had about the artifacts in the house didn't say what make it was so they're gonna find out and phone her in a few days *giggles* rather embarrassing but soo funny!
I haven't been that museum but i have been to Sudbury childhood museum which is not too far from where i live - it has loads of old children's toys and there's this old schoolroom as well. I've been there quite a few times over the years and i've probably bought 3 slates from there like they used to use in Victorian school lol
*joins in history nerd urge * :P

posted by LadyViolet at 6:09 pm (EST) on Apr 13, 2009

Ah the wonder of wireless technology!! currently sat in my sister's and my hotel room on her laptop tis uber awesome! :D
Oooh Poison Study is so brilliant! It's about this girl Yelena who is soon-to-be executed for murdering this guy for currently unknown reasons. She gets given the choice either be executed or become the new food taster for the Commander (he runs the country of Ixia in a rather military fashion) since the food might be poisoned at any time she gets trained in the detection of poisons by the chief assassin Valek. Incidentally he poisons her during their first meeting with something called Butterfly dust which needs a daily antidote (held only by him) for her to live so she can't run away. It's a really complex and engrossing book and her past is revealed slowly throughout the book and Yelena herself is and awesome character. I've also finished Magic Study which is the second in the trilogy (only 3 books which is a blessing and a curse cos they're so damn good!) and I'm gonna have finished Fire Study by tonight - eek i wish there were more books argh! dang got a new fav series!
I haven't seen the Passion of Christ but wierdly enough i saw it lying about my house not too long ago lol ironic that.
Darn amazon and their evil cunning plots to make us spend all our money on their wonderful bargains!!
9 books? aw man we gotta wait for 3 more books!! thats gonna take us until 2011 or something to reach the end .
Honestly Vamp bella is still pretty annoying cos she seems to just get over the supposed *uncontrollable* thirst for human blood in like three seconds!! it seems like too much of a deus ex machina for her to miss that out and then blame it on her super shield.
Yea i'm sure she wouldn't mind - she'd be too engrossed in Taylor's body to even notice there were other people with her *snickers*
What?! ARGH!! NOOOO!! that woman will destroy the awesomness that is the HG!! she'll all "indie" on its ass and ruin it >:[ darn that woman can't she just leave bloody well alone??
Hehe i did notice that rather interesting "books to have on a desert island" tag how long did it take to type that out 54 times or did you just copy and paste it each time?
In the end i had to bring 3 cos i started reading Magic Study last night even though i was totally shattered it was just too tempting so i was up again til 2 although i didn't finish it until early today while we were driving down to the hotel. The other two books i brought with me were Fire Study and this book called Graceling which i saw mentioned on here several times and it looked right up my alley so i bought it off amazon with the Study books.
Ugh the traffic while we were driving down was abominable - we got stuck in this massive tailback from this accident on the M42 where a petrol tanker had caught fire between junction 5&6. everything was stationary for like 20 odd minutes and and then really slow once we got going again. The rest of the journey was ok though we had lunch in warwick and then found the hotel - which is so gorgeous, its like this old country estate with this massive mansion (we're not in there cos its used for posh events such as weddings and the like) we're gonna go have some dinner soonish and i'm gonna get booted out of the chair by my sister who wants to sort out her hair lol.
I await your hysteria :P

posted by LadyViolet at 12:56 pm (EST) on Apr 12, 2009

Yea i know what you mean - my eyes are so achy right now from wearing my glasses for a good portion of the day :( ugh i wanna sleep but can't cos i've gotta finish packing up my stuff for going to Stratford tomorrow.
Well done you - i decided to be stupid and stayed up til 2 (eep!) reading Poison Study (which btw is awesome but you really don't need to know that right now :P) so now i'm shattered and its all my own stupid fault *sigh* i will never learn...
I'm going to avoid amazon for a few weeks to resist the temptation but i reckon i may crack fairly quickly - i found a box set of the first 3 seasons of Supernatural which i have heard about on the Lex and YAR and it looks so awesome that i want to see it. Amazon has this box set for less than £30!!! what a bargain!!! gah darn one click purchases so easily done...
Hmm i dunno if Zoey is the A-ya but it wouldn't surprise me *that* much if it suddenly struck her in the next book lol. Yea i did see the poster - it doesn't look quite how i imagined her since she's only 17 and the girl on the poster looks a fair bit older. You should see the HoN website its got these profiles on all the characters with pictures to represent each one and they have the tattoos. www.houseofnight.com its at unfortunately doesn't give much idea on how many more books there will be.
Yea the only good bits of New Moon are the legends bit and the chapters after the cliffdive. Bella is most definately someone i would slap and tell to get over it and get a life! Seriously she is so grey without Edward - there's absolutely nothing to her, no interests, no friends, nada!
Hehe nah i wouldn't mind if i got to see those abs twice. Heck all three of us could go see it and get a massive chant going :P "TAKE IT OFF!! TAKE IT OFF!!!" *sighs wistfully* ah what good times that would be...
Ah i will probably get round to that soonish but tonight i'm so whacked i'm gonna collapse into bed in a min without touching my book.
Even though im not at home for the next few days, my sister is taking her laptop with us and my mum is lending us her 3G card thing which allows us to use the internet so i will still be able to check and reply to messages so it won't be like i've disappeared :D
anyways night! tell me when you've finished Shadow Kiss then we can *cry* *dies* together :(

posted by LadyViolet at 6:53 pm (EST) on Apr 11, 2009

Lol it's more like my drug - therapy implies that its good for me. The amount i read quite possibly isn't too good for me since it takes away my attention from other things quite like a drug does to your reflexes.
Hmm sounds rather intriguing...
Hehe i can't decide whether to tell you to read it now or wait til tomorrow cos i know *i'm* crazy enough to be reading until 1 in the morning when i need to be at work fairly early the next morning but i would feel bad if i told you to do the same and for you to feel pretty naff in the morning from lack of sleep :S
Oh yea i've seen that mentioned on the YA forum no idea what it's about mind you... i have so many books on my TBR pile that i won't dare go and look.
Darn the fickle nature of Smiths!! why can't it be good all the time so i don't have to drive miles to the nearest Stones??
Hehe yea thats a good theory - gah i know!! what on earth is gonna happen in Tempted since Kalona has fluttered off somewhere and i can't remember what happened to Neferet- is she still alive? maybe Kalona comes back and tries to lure zoey into "joining the dark side" dun dun dun!!!
I don't know if i want to read the rest of the saga again cos New Moon is mostly Bella whining about the hole in her bloody chest so it gets on my nerves. What's also quite wierd is that i've read a fanfic which is like an alternate BD where she doesn't get pregnant and i have to say i actually liked it better than SM's BD lol
Oh yea we so should do that!! Although my sister has demanded that i come home the weekend of its release so i can go see it with her as well. No doubt she'll end up breaking my hand during the film when Taylor comes on screen cos she'll get that excited. *cringes* i really don't want my hand broke
Ooh i could with marking my favs as well - i haven't bothered much with ratings either hmmm now is *not* a good time to go on tag frenzy..

posted by LadyViolet at 3:45 pm (EST) on Apr 10, 2009

Hehe glad you finally got your fix - i reckon if you hadn't read something by tomorrow you might have turned completely wild :P
Oo what's Heart shaped box about?? is it something i might like? argh i shouldn't be asking this!! the *last* thing i need is to add more books to my wishlist!!
I highly doubt that my parents will let me buy any more books (unless i do it vair sneakily) yup we definately should not be allowed to roam free among innocent non-addicts its just not safe lol
Dang the degradable nature of shoes :(
I can't actually remember if i've bought a damaged book out of desperation- i know i did for my bf - i saw this sci-fi book he really wanted, he'd been waiting for it to be published in paperback cos he has some wierd aversion to hardbacks (me - i have no patience so i will buy a book as soon as regardless of solidity of cover :P) anyway there was only one copy of the book he wanted in my local Smiths and it was slightly damaged but i wanted to get it for him so i bought it despite the damage. But i did get rather peed off when i saw it in Stones in the 3 for 2 offer to boot >:[ darn smiths.
Yea i do like Stark he was really nice in Untamed and at the end of Hunted he's pretty sweet as well. I may have to switch my allegiance from Heath to Stark *le gasp* . Erik is *definately* getting on my wick as well - darn jealous boy, seriously he needs to grow up!!! I think i like Untamed a bit more than Hunted although i do really like the ending of Hunted. It will be interesting to see what they're gonna do next in Tempted (which we have to wait until October for!! ) how many are there gonna ?
Yea she's still re-reading favourite bits of the saga- i haven't actually read them in several months although i may have re-read of Twilight soonish cos it was always my fav of the four.
Subconsciously? ;) that's right... lol
Yea the main talk is gonna be all about the Dvd and the filming of New Moon which frankly i'm very apprehensive about seeing since Kristin is gonna be in angst stuttering heaven and will probably never a whole sentence out during the film which will *ruin* it completely. the only plus side to that film will be Taylor running around shirtless *swoon*
Hehe oh the wonder of borrowing!
Oh if you're wondering what's with all the many, many books that have suddenly appeared in my library - i went a little mental last night and catalogued nearly all of my non-fiction shelf which is a good 50 or so books as well as my school books so now i have basically my entire cupboard on here :D and i had a serious tagging twitch so everything is tagged up like crazy lol.

posted by LadyViolet at 6:26 am (EST) on Apr 10, 2009

Hehehe tis true if i don't read something in a while i do go a little barmy until i just snap and grab the nearest book.
Yea its now thursday and i've *still* not done enough work to fill a bucket. Gah i will have to take some work with me to Stratford. I'll probably take my french speaking questions and all these set texts i have to read and make notes on for History although the chances of me getting the majority of them done is quite slim. I may also limit myself to taking only 1 or 2 non-school books with me so i *have* to do my work after i've finished them.
I hate it when a fav pair of shoes falls apart- i bought these funky rocket dog pumps from Florida last october and i recently had to stop wearing them cos the inner lining was coming away from the heel. I'd been wearing them pretty much every day since i got them so they were definately worn to death lol but its a shame cos they were really comfy and sort of went with everything i wore. :( i wish i could find another pair.
Lucky you i can get wound up pretty easily when i'm driving but i'm calmer normally so i'm not permanently in a state close to explosive rage hehe.
Yea i hate it when you find a book you really want but its damaged and its the only copy - its hard to decide whether to leave it and risk not finding it somewhere else or buy it and be unhappy that it's damaged.
Oh i know! twas fate methinks :P Hehe i bet a paid a *lot* less than you did for it *shakes head* :P
Stark is... interesting sometimes i wanna beat him silly and other times he can be really sweet - gah its so confusing! Erik was such a jerk in Hunted! I was so glad when Zoey had a go at him for trying to boss her around but i also got annoyed at Heath for being all smug when they re-imprinted. Oh and major lols at Stevie-Rae and Aphrodite :P Yea the Nun was Mary Angela - i realised later on after i wrote that message that i got Kramisha's name completely wrong (well the start of it Sharmisha is not that far off Kramisha) Daft name really if you can't remember it once you've finished reading.
Elsewhere is about this girl Liz who gets killed in a hit-and-run accident and ends up on a ship to Elsewhere- the place where everyone goes when they die, where everyone grows younger until they get sent back to earth as babies and the whole cycle begins again. It was pretty good actually the way it was written felt a bit odd at times with the viewpoint or whatever but since it was Gabrielle Zevin's first book i could look past that.
My sister is on the third book i think - she's gonna take a few with us to Stratford. She was juggling her Rennison books, Twilight and New Moon at one point and got a bit confused so i think she's just reading one book at a time.
I need to limit my computer time but unfortunately some stuff i need for my school work is on the computer so i tend to drift onto the internet really easily. I can switch off my wireless connection for some stupid reason i don't always do that :S argh why am i so silly??
I've been having second thoughts about going back to the Lex - i think i may not bother in June i've gotten bored of the Twilight Mafia now its all newbies and totally random stuff and I only tended to post there , in the British thread and the What are you reading thread so it makes sense just to leave it properly and be one addiction less for when i start Uni.
I actually pre-ordered the Dvd for my sister's birthday and it came on monday morning she's already watched it god knows how many times but i only watched the dvd yesterday. I don't really like it loads cos i know how much good stuff was missed out but i will watch the specials features to get a giggle.

posted by LadyViolet at 9:16 am (EST) on Apr 9, 2009

Hehe well if you were still MIA in a couple of days i might have put up signs for a lost book addict- highly dangerous unless approached with a book in hand :P
Considering i was supposed to be doing uber hardcore revision this week i've failed miserably. I was out all day yesterday, i went out today with my sister but hopefully i'll get a bit of work done soon. I've got thursday and friday to work. Saturday i'm at somerfield all day then on Sunday i'm going on a mini-holiday to Stratford with my family until wednesday! Gah my work time has been appalling up to now!
Usually i don't really like the Trafford centre very much cos there's not that many shops that i want to go to that i can't find much closer to home. I like Birmingham more cos i don't have to drive there and the waterstones is awesome!!! :D
hehe ooh you should see me driving i get *terrible* road rage!! I come out with some seriously shocking swearwords when i'm driving and some pillock tries to cut me up. the air in my car while i was driving home yesterday would have been so blue it was black lol.
Yea i definately was more interested in getting to the end than taking in all the details. When i read them again i will take my time a bit.
Yea it makes me so happy to open a parcel from amazon cos i know its exactly the books i've been waiting for so no horrible surprises :D
I know!! I was so unbelievably chuffed when i found it! It cost me £15 which is a bit naff cos of the exchange rate *grr*
Oh yea and i did read it all last night *blushes* OMG wow!! my brain got a tad scrambled reading it cos the number of guys that Zoey seems to be juggling is getting almost dizzying lol. Did Sharmisha's voice (or whatever her name was) get on your nerves? It irked me that P.C & Kristin wrote her talking like a stereotypical black person which is not only a bit rude i think and was pretty hard to read as well.
Lol darn the stupid spring madness! I bought 2 more books today when i went up to hanley with my sister - she was really good and hardly complained while i was browsing although she did give me a two book limit in 'Stones lol. I got Pretties by Scott Westerfeld and Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin and i want to make that my limit for this week *crosses fingers that willpower will hold out*
I do wear my glasses a lot of the time cos I have to drive to school and wear them in lessons or i can't see a bloody thing of what the teacher's writing. Although it does make my eyes ache if i wear them for too long so somedays i leave them off for several hours and blink a lot :P
I was up fairly late last night from reading Hunted so my plan to get an early night failed pretty much. I've started reading Elsewhere as well so i will probably carry that on later as well- luckily it only seems a short book so i won't be up til stupid o'clock slogging through it.
Tomorrow is gonna have to be serious work day or i will get shot by parentals i will have to leave my computer switched off until much later or i will get distracted so quickly and the day will disappear :(
Hehe yea i thought "stuff it" and just joined although i doubt i will be on there loads as there isn't as many threads as on the Lex hopefully i won't get crazy addicted to that as well.

posted by LadyViolet at 12:39 pm (EST) on Apr 8, 2009

Oh that's alright!! I figured you must have gone away or something since you don't usually vanish for no reason. Have fun in Skegness?
I only got home bout half an hour ago after being at the Trafford centre most of the day - it did take me 2 hours to drive home since we got a bit confuzzled and went north instead of south on the M60 :S Had a scary moment when a car started to pull in front of me from the left lane just as another car tried to do the same from the right and it was *VERY* close to being a crash - i pretty much bricked myself at that thank god they weren't going really fast so they managed to avoid each other.
Lol. Yea i did read it uber quick in possibly 2 and half hours but i may have skimmed large chunks of it so i wouldn't do too well at remembering what happened.
Oooh i've been awful over the last couple of days - i ordered 6 books off amazon and 5 arrived today!!! *happy dance* the other will arrive next week when it gets released. GUESS WHAT I FOUND THE 'STONES AT THE TRAFFORD CENTRE???? HUNTED!!!!!!!! OMFG!!! I literally died and went to book heaven when i saw that stand with a load of the american hardbacks of Hunted i snatched one up and wouldn't let go and now its mine!!! *evil laugh*
Its really ironic cos i was looking at a really pretty copy of Jane Eyre in the massive Smiths in the Trafford centre and debating whether to buy it or not - i didn't in the end cos i wanted to be good and end the spree of 9 books i've bought in the last week *blushes*
Ooh cripes yea i would get your eyes checked out hun cos you really don't wanna find yourself in a situation where good vision is imperative. Hehe i have some nice plastic frame glasses which i used to wear and they looked pretty good on me but the stupid lense keeps falling out if i knock them so i don't wear them anymore. My current glasses are just plain purple frames and are a tad bit boring :(
Well my weekend was pretty boring - work all saturday, slobbed out all sunday, tried to do some work on monday (i failed miserably) then today my entire group of friends (minus 2 who couldn't get lifts or didn't want to go) descended en masse to the Laserquest at the Trafford Centre. It was really fun although i've been bloody boiling all day and wearing my specs so long that my eyes ache something chronic. I'm tempted to get in bed now and just read several of my new books *manic giggle twitch* :D

posted by LadyViolet at 2:01 pm (EST) on Apr 7, 2009

Oh yea the whole Stigoi decapitation was pretty cool and Mia really has changed for the better and im glad Rose is mature enough to see it.
On shadow kiss: *grabs chair and flings it at wall* NOO!! HOW COULD SHE DO THAT?!? IT'S EVEN WORSE THAT WE THOUGHT!!! when you read it you'll see what i mean. Oh and as a update on my previous comment i finished Shadow Kiss at bout 20 past 1 this morning *blushes*
Tasha and Adrian are pretty cool - Adrian can be rather annoying sometimes but he's sweet to Rose at least. Ugh the Moroi Queen is *such* a bitch in Shadow Kiss - like you wouldn't believe how horrid she is.
Hmm i'm not sure how many ItG there'll be - maybe she'll go to the end of the school year or until Jenny gets kicked out or something.
Hmm yes after i've bought some essential series updates i may give in and buy them.
Oooh awesome i just love getting packages from amazon it feels like christmas :P
Haha that's the idea!! just smuggle them home then stuff them in the middle of a load of other books and no one will ever know they're new....
I made a list this morning (wasting frees YET again) with the books i want that are coming out soon (in order by month but i will get the dates for everything soon) and then all the books i want that i can get now . I'm gonna order two books this weekend that i need - the new Tamora Pierce book and the 3rd Nightworld omnibus. then i might buy some if i happen to "fall" into Stones (as so often happens :P)
Hmm i'm not sure - i would be really happy to ask for a job in the library since i will probably spend most of my first year in there working cos i probably won't be able to trust myself to work in my room. I've got a fair chunk of money saved up from 2 years of working at somerfield and two Baby bond things which matured last year plus another bond that i set up in January which should mature in September and give me some security for a while. My parents also say they'll help me work out a budget and allowance system for my living costs so i should be okay.
As long as i actually work productively this holiday and in the weeks after then i should be able to manage.
Grr i wish i could write with both hands it would be soo useful i could multitask my homework :P
Ohh i know exactly what you mean about the waffling! I also tend to jump around in my thoughts so i start one sentence, but part way through i think what i'm saying is rubbish and suddenly stop and go off saying something completely different. its very confusing for my bf sometimes and rather embarrassing for me :(
Hmm it's a toss-up for me, VA does seem better written and more mature and I perhaps like Rose a bit more than Zoey. And you cannot resist the charms of a sexy, RUSSIAN (i stress it because it's an awesome accent to have) bad-ass guardian like Dimitri - although Richelle Mead is going to have to do something incredible in Blood Promise to keep her in my good books or im gonna go on the warpath... >:[

posted by LadyViolet at 7:20 am (EST) on Apr 3, 2009

I was right!! Damn thats a shame cos he was so sweet! :( i literally *just* finished reading Frostbite (an hour earlier than i guessed) now knowing me like i do and considering the vaguely addictive feeling i have right now i'm very likely to go and grab Shadow Kiss right this second and read it before i go to sleep *grumble stupid girl that i am* so don't be all too surprised if i reply tomorrow that i finished it at half 12 in the morning or something along those lines lol.

posted by LadyViolet at 4:52 pm (EST) on Apr 2, 2009

ah buckets! its just not fair!! I have been reading Frostbite since i got home around 6ish *blushes* yes i know i should of been working BUT i couldn't help myself alright!!! I think i've guessed who dies but i didn't guess about Natalie in the last book so my suspicions about M... could be wrong. Yea i really don't want to admit to myself who i think is going to die in the next one *sniffs back tears* i will be a wreck after reading that. I will have Frostbite finished by 11 i think :P
Luckily for me i got most of my GG while i was in america and i got all my It girls (except Infamous which wasn't out then) last october while i was there so i haven't had to pay enormous shipping charges- have had awkward moments in the airport when we had to shuffle my books around the luggage one year when i bought 10 while i was away... It was just a good year for finding stuff i wanted!!
So far there are 3 books each in the Ilona Andrews and the Lisa Sherin series but there will be more to come .
Hehe as soon as he's finished ask him how it was then run off with it :P
Lol i know! between the Lex, LT and each other we probably have at least doubled to number of books on our TBR piles, i am tempted to make up some kind of calendar to remind when books i want are coming out (i did actually think about this while i was walking to my car earlier- i am *that* sad)
Cripes i reckon a full-on book ban from my parents would stick for maybe two weeks then i would snap and buy something without them knowing. although i do need to budget my money a bit better cos i don't want to burn through all i've got saved up for Uni.
I really hope im going to get loads done this holiday or i will be ripping my hair out in may from stress and i really don't react well to stress - i will end up catatonic and will perform even worse in my exams :(
hehe although a few days wanton reading can't hurt too much hopefully :D *just try and stop me!*
Yea i get that "computer mind-melt" i sit there trying to type something and can only think of diddly-squat. Darn you ambidexterous creature!! i may be better at swinging a bat with my right arm but i can't for the life of me write with it!! >:[
Yea he's fine with it- he can talk crap like a pro i would just stutter and witter total nonsense but he can make crap sound soo intelligent you wouldn't realise he was just waffling :P
I know !! i do like this series a lot - its not quite as angsty as HoN is. Rose doesn't have all the dramatics over boys like Zoey does. yes she does have boy issues but she's not getting all mushy over every guy she meets you know?
Nah its alright. knowing me i wouldn't have got that much done anyway - the abilities i have to procrastinate are beyond belief...

posted by LadyViolet at 4:26 pm (EST) on Apr 2, 2009

Huh... how much of a main character dies in Frostbite? or is it just a minor character? Maybe its only at the end of *this* book where someone dies *crosses fingers* gah i need to start it tonight!!
Last night i was reading this stand-alone vamp book i have called Sucks to be me by Kimberley Pauley (who's actually on LT) its about this girl Mina whose parents are both vamps and they've been hiding her from the Vampire Council since she was born (non-vamps are not supposed to know about vamps and all duh) but she now has to choose whether or not she wants to become a vamp...in 4 weeks. She has to go to these information classes with other kids who are thinking about becoming vamps. Thats my crappy synopsis :P it's really good and funny. Mina is a really awesome character and it's almost a shame that its only a stand-alone book cos i would love to read more about her.
Ag you reminded me !! I will need to order the 3rd GG Carlyles book soon of amazon.com!!
The two fantasy series i was looking at are by Lisa Sherin and Ilona Andrews. I think that the Sherin books are more medieval fantasy with magic and the Andrews books are Urban fantasy with magic. They both have strong-sounding heroines - none of that "ooh noo i need my big strong man to come and save me!!" nonsense which is good lol.
Ooh yeah have a read of Eragon! It's rather lengthy (plus the two others in the series :P) but still pretty enjoyable. Eragon himself can be a bit silly at times (can't accept that the girl *doesn't* like him!) but his dragon is awesome so i can forgive him hehe.
OMG that book sounds really good!! Sad but good!! Dang it girl!! not helping my TBR situation at all are you?!?!
Eep another .com splurge? When i have to order my next load of stuff off amazon.com my parentals are not gonna be best pleased - hopefully if i can wait til august to bulk order what i want- OR!! (i just thought of this) i can give a list to my parents to buy for me while they're in Florida!!! :D what an excellent idea!!
yeah i foresee a terrible breakdown in my book amnesty next week. Easter hols with nothing much to do apart from school-work...i'll be on a train to Birmingham faster than you can say "where's that waterstones?"
Yea i know!! It would be awesome if someone created some software that you could plug into your mind which could visualize your thoughts- it would make things soo much easier to explain lol.
I really love writing things on paper but i often think faster than i can write so i have a tendency of missing words out. That's where typing can be good. Although most of my ideas for my story are on bits of paper - i could do with getting it all sorted out and typed up where i can make sense of it all.
Luckily i don't have to do any public speaking (thank you whichever deities ordained that prefects at my school don't have to :P) thats for the head boy & girl and their deputies to do (hehe my bf is the head boy so he gets all *that* fun :P)
What?!?! NOOOO!!! that means im gonna have to find another series to get hooked on!!! oh wait is that really a good thing or not?? :S Gah maybe she gets a lot of the story wrapped in the next two books. 400 pages is fairly chunky compared to the Morganville books which aren't usually much over 300 pages each.
Lol it's ok about the uber-long post - i actually printed it out so i could write an answer on paper first and now im typing it up (with awesome touch-typing skills i must say hehe) it took me 40 mins to write originally and its only taken me 15 mins to type up lol.
eek i think my post is pretty lengthy as well

posted by LadyViolet at 7:39 am (EST) on Apr 2, 2009

ARGH!! WHAT?!?! Someone dies in Frostbite!!! right the next book i read after my current one is gonna be Frostbite i MUST read it!!
Hehe i think i'm probably safer not registering quite yet anyways i have my 50 book challenge on here to deal with although i'm doing pretty good since i got 14 books read in March and that wasn't even from the start of March so if i keep up this rate of reading i should be a shoe-in to hit the 50.
Im actually quite good at avoiding spilling things on myself but i do walk into everything and trip over bags and things like that lol.
Oh i had a right annoyance today - during my frees (in which i *should* have been working but wasn't) i was browsing my recommendations on Amazon and found two fantasy series which look like something i would really like and there's 3 books in each so far and i have a horrible feeling i will crack and buy them soonish. I added them to my wishlist which now has 20 something books on it :P
Hmm i haven't got everything planned properly yet so actual writing won't start until the summer hols at the earliest. I tend to play scenes in my head like little film clips but it's actually really hard to translate that onto paper but i have got loads of snippets of scenes i wanted to write. I need to sort out more aspects of the world first and some characters as well. It's a shame i can't make little mock-up films for certain scenes cos it would be easier to show what i wanted and be able to write it after its visible. I tried to write a bit at school but i am just so tired during the day that i can't concentrate. :(
I'm gonna collapse into bed now with my book- i had to help out at this presentation evening at school where i was basically serving drinks and tidying up all night and i was wearing my wedges so now my feet wreck!! *grr darn heels*

posted by LadyViolet at 5:26 pm (EST) on Apr 1, 2009

Hmm i agree that the girl on the front of Vampire academy just seems like Rose but i can't quite picture what the others look like on the covers of Frostbite and Shadow Kiss :S gah my brain is soo faffed up today.
Argh so much to read not enough time to do so - *sighs*
hehe i had a look at the site last night - there's a thread comparing Jace from the Mortal Instruments trilogy and Shane from the Morganville vamp books i loled at that - I love Shane he's so awesome but has a horrible habit of getting into the most trouble :P
I say we both register and invade the place ;) cutlasses at the ready Arrr!
Yea i am pretty clumsy :( i am fully able of tripping over on flat surfaces and i acquire all sorts of bruises in odd places from knocking into stuff.
Lol its annoying that it hurts when you jump off a swing when its 6 feet off the ground :P
yea most teen sections in England are really titchy - mainly cos there's a *lot* more teen authors in America who never get published over here so we only have Brits and the more popular american authors. *grr* not fair.
Oh i love sleeping but its just irritating that i seem to be always tired and then when i try to go to sleep it takes me AGES to drop off and i end up getting more awake rather than tired. Like last night- i got into to bed at around 10ish but i didn't fall asleep until gone midnight!! ARGH!! so now i'm shattered and no amount of caffiene is going to help.
Although on the bright side (ironically enough i'm sat in a pool of sunlight lol) my creative brain cells have decided to come back off holiday and i keep thinking about my fantasy story and i have managed to get a few scraps written late at night. However this does not help my school-work since i should be concentrating on that *grumbles* stupid lack of prioritisation.

posted by LadyViolet at 7:13 am (EST) on Apr 1, 2009

Hmm tis a nice cover although it doesn't give much away about the story, the others didn't either really but i do like the covers and they're glossy which is cool lol.
I reckon i should get on with it ok- i read Vanishing acts when i was a bit younger and i think i liked that one but my memory is only good at remembering facts its crap for remembering thoughts or feelings.
Ahh !! don't tell me!! i may have to bump it up the reading list depending on how desperate i get to find out what happens.
Ooh that sounds interesting i may have to have a lurk there as well lol like i *need* any more distractions to keep me from working!!
I feel pretty tired most of the day before i get to me wakeful period around midnight, my bf worries that i could be anaemic or something if im tired constantly but my parents don't seem too concerned... so lovely to know really
Aww i'm sorry - i make up for the fact i have wierd talents by being incapable of walking somewhere and not finding something to walk into :P
Oh i *love* the swings!! whenever we crash a playground late at night i always tend to run to the swings and see how high i can go!! i love jumping off them while im still moving and flying forward a bit although i get a bit nervous of doing while im still quite high incase i go splat :S
Well my bf tells me that he's been to a Barnes and Noble bookstore in Florida that is the same size as a massive Toyz R Us store near us and is full of books. I've also been to a bookstore in Florida called booksamillion which had a pretty large teen section - the shelves were possibly 25 feet long and five or six rows tall. Unfortunately i've only been to Florida so i can't say how big bookstores are in other states :D
Well i'm proper shattered - i'm very tempted to forego any reading tonight and just go to bed now , although i have got to tidy my room first maybe tomorrow when im a bit more awake i will actually get some work done .

posted by LadyViolet at 3:43 pm (EST) on Mar 31, 2009

Ooh i hope they don't do a Hunted cos that will anger me considerably if i wants a book and they dangle it front of me then take it away before i can get it then i would be vair vair narked >:[
Err i dunno i am tempted to not bother with it since it looks just a little too fusty for my tastes. I want to start reading the Pact so i may just take it back to the library and perhaps try it again in the future.
I really want to read the rest of the Vampire academy books...but i don't at the same time you know? I *really* don't want to get to the end of Shadow kiss and end up bawling my eyes out then have to wait til July to find out what happens next. I also need to read Blue Bloods although i will do that after the VA books have been read.
Wow that kind of insomnia would be so cool- i might actually get work done during the day if i had that much time at night to read. although i reckon it was probably not too good for your health getting that little sleep for 5 months :S
Lol i take the mick out of my bf when he tries to raise one eyebrow - bless him he just can't do it :P
Dang we're stuffed then really aren't we?
Lol sounds awesome there's no trolleys at any of the playgrounds we end up at though shame really :P
Yep sorry bout that but on the bright side they have *much* bigger bookstores over there :D

posted by LadyViolet at 8:39 am (EST) on Mar 31, 2009

I know the title for the forth book sounds soo intriguing... i reckon that publication date is US only since i don't think Richelle mead has a british publisher- dang more to order from america :P
Well i was perhaps going to start Crime and Punishment but i can't be bothered to steep my already stodgy brain in more hard-core classic literature so i'm gonna read Lord of Misrule (5th morganville book) to get me a vamp fix. Should probably finish it tonight cos its pretty short and damn addictive lol.
Even though i was up til 2 last night (this morning ?) i will still probably stay up til after midnight tonight - i'm so daft like that i know staying up late makes me a right grump in the morning but i *always* feel really awake around 11!!! its so wierd
Yea exactly - i empathised with what she was going through but i just didn't like her all that much. And i definately didn't like Zoey - she had a tendency of saying some really insensitive things and being pretty selfish at times.
hehe my lips are sealed :P *locks lips up and chucks key*
Lol t'would be very awesome if he did convert to the dark side ;)
Oh i remember some other wierd shiz i can do- i can raise one eyebrow quite a bit and i can wiggle my ears :D i have enough wierd party tricks for the pair of us don't worry lol.
My knees are my worst creaky joints they crack really loudly if i crouch down which is rather worrying at times. My knuckles keep needing to be cracked at the moment- i reckon excessive typing and reading are gonna bugger them up if i'm not too careful. Arthritus is something i'm likely to suffer in the future since i do have a family history of bone-related illnesses- Dang not looking forward to that.
Well my friends and I are a pretty random bunch and we have big sleepovers from time to time where about 10 of us all sleep at whoever's has the space to fit us all in. I think this time with the glowsticks may have been on Bonfire night in yr 12. the firework display we'd been to was a bit pants so we left early (damn good thing we did an all since some sort of riot broke out later on) we were walking around this housing estate and decided to muck about on the kids playground. It was fairly late but we didn't need to be up for school in the morning so it was ok. We were climbing around on the pretty tiny playground when my friend got her phone out and started playing the POTC music. Since i had a glowstick and the music just incites a violent urge to cross blades with someone i started attacking another friend who also had a glowstick. It dissolved into a bit of a crazy mess with people jumping and climbing all over the frames with the music blaring out until we all got a bit tired and wandered back to the guy's house where everyone was sleeping over. We have an odd habit for messing about on children's playgrounds at silly hours - at new year 2008 one of my guy friends had a sleepover for most of the group and me and one of my best friends ended up rollerblading round this playground at 3 in the morning- me in a mini-skirt and now badly laddered tights lol. I whacked my head that night trying to be clever and rollerblade under this bit of the climbing frame- i slipped and clonked my head on a metal pillar. Twas vair funny and hardly hurt :P
hehe yees damn ye England!! *shakes fist angrily* unfortunately America also has daylight saving but it doesn't come in until after ours does. sorry not helping there :P

posted by LadyViolet at 2:41 pm (EST) on Mar 30, 2009

I'm hoping that the third book is a cliffhanger where the person gets brought back in the 4th book (when is that coming out!! gah must find out!!) although having to wait ages to find out is probably not good for my blood pressure lol.
Yea i finished it last night and i was *uber* happy - not only is it a fantastic book but the fact that i kept with it all the way is quite impressive since i haven't read many classics. The last one i read was Tess of the D'Urbervilles and dang was it depressing!! lol
Oh i was like that! i just found it hard to like the main character - i felt awful that i wasn't more moved by the book but...i just wasn't. eep!
WOW well done!! im not sure that i would have managed to resist :P
Hehe lol that is probably plenty for him to be going on with- awesome maybe you'll have him converted to our book addict lifestyle quite quickly lol. Aww thats so sweet of him, so technically you did get a book but you didn't buy it yourself ;) sneaky.. i like it
Rofl we are so very odd. I can curl my tongue and i can do some freaky tricks with my eyes whereby i roll them back so all you can see is the white bits. And another where i can make only one of my eyes twitch in one direction. I creep my bf out soo bad when i do that :P nah no double joints my bones are far too crappy and creaky to allow for such flexability they just crack a lot and make me worry about future arthritus.
Really? lol i'm glad *i'm* not the only one either. My friend has a bit of the music on her MP3 player and we were listening to it last week and having a right laugh. There's also a very interesting story involving that music, several glowsticks and a playground at midnight :P
Oooh babysitting...fun lol. Yea i got a big fat NOTHING done yesterday - i can't believe how many hours i wasted doing naff all *grr*
ARGH!! stupid bloody daylight saving made me late to school this morning!! i had put my clock forward but my sister hadn't so after i fell back asleep at 7 (i tend to switch my alarms off then fall asleep until quarter to 8) she didn't come into my room until 20 to 9(!!!) thinking it was only 20 to 8 so we had to dress like lightning and dash to school . I was half an hour late to chemistry and bloody exhausted by all the running about i did . On the bright side i did get an extra hour of sleep this morning when i overslept :P

posted by LadyViolet at 6:12 am (EST) on Mar 30, 2009

Too right there had better be a good reason to kill off a main character! If it happens just to create some angst then i am gonna scream!!
I'm *still* not bloody finished with Jane Eyre - gah it's actually frustrating how long its taking me. Normally with a book that size i could have it done with three evenings reading but it seems to never-ending with Jane Eyre. It's not that im not enjoying it - it is just taking a bloody long time to read!
Oh lucky you!! What i wouldn't give for several hours uninterrupted reading time! Yea you'll have to walk around with your hands in your pockets to avoid giving in to temptation hehe . Concentrate on finding books for him and ignore all the pretty books you would want to read :P
Really?!? Lol when im using just a fork i use my left hand although most other people swap it to their right hand.
Yea i would rather not have to re-read *all* of AGATB again before i can read the other two cos they are pretty chunky books that will take up a lot of my time which could be better spent on reducing my TBR pile in other areas *coughFrostbite&ShadowKisscough* :P
Work was alright yesterday - nothing very interesting happened really. The most exciting things all day were when a woman came in and tried to get a roll of obviously forged money changed (i never saw her but she tried it at two tills) so we had to get the police in to look at the CCTV. And 15 mins of stress for me when the Lottery machine decided it wanted a time out and wouldn't work for a while. Nothing stresses me out more than malfunctioning equipment while im working >:[
Went to my bf's later - we had indian takeaway and watched the first Pirates of the Caribbean film lol. I just *adore* the music in that film! It just makes you wanna grab a sword and start fighting with someone! lol
So hows your weekend been?

posted by LadyViolet at 7:41 am (EST) on Mar 29, 2009

Hehe yea i 'spose that is rather annoying if you *really* wanted to be an 80's baby :P
Eek yea it is bad - tis a main character and NO IT CAN'T HAPPEN I WON'T LET IT!!!! they can't die noooo!!! *rocks crazily* ahh :(
Eventually i will get round to reading my jane austen books - but the language she uses is slightly older and a tad bit more difficult to follow.
It would be so lovely if people started to talk like that again - the chavs have destroyed the english language but maybe in the future some bright sparks will encourage people to rediscover its wonderfulness :D
O_O you're nearly as cack-handed as me!! I'm a leftie when it comes to writing, but i am right-handed for sports it's really odd cos i can never work out how i would play sports left-handed :S I can type pretty well with both hands- my touch typing has improved massively thanks to the Lex :P
Hmm well the only spy books i know are the Alex rider books or the Young James Bond - they may be a smidge young though. Perhaps if you found him some of the original Ian Fleming James Bond books for spying classics? Hehe its a shame my bf has better taste in books than me cos i can't really recommend anything to him so i just tell my girl friends about the awesome books i read.
Ah yea i've heard of the Noughts and Crosses books - don't really know what they're about either . I know there's four in the series but other than that i know nothing. Not sure if i want to read them though...
Hehe yea i think its just the size of the book intimidates me so im too scared to start it in case it takes me weeks to read it lol

posted by LadyViolet at 5:07 pm (EST) on Mar 27, 2009

Lol i'm pretty content with being a 90's baby - the music may have been cheesier than the 80's but it still was awesome :P (at least when you're little nowadays you want to deny all knowledge of it)
Yea you just feel helpless you know? It is just like watching the proverbial trainwreck - you can see the disaster that's going to happen but there's practically nothing you can do to stop it.
Oh good - im glad i've got a legitimate excuse to beat them if necessary *evil grin*
Argh i think i may be a tad reluctant to get to the end of Shadow Kiss cos i really don't want it to happen :(
Really? YAY!! *happy dances for Jess* yea the covers are pretty funky lol
Yea i really want to finish Jane Eyre tonight after i get home from work - i read a load more last night, i was really getting into it and i didn't really want to put it down :D It's actually quite easy to follow - the language is that awesome old-fashioned kind that is understandable and sounds so poetic and lovely that you wish people spoke like that still.
I think each Bronte sister only published one or two books so i don't know if Charlotte wrote anything else. But Emily wrote Wuthering Heights which is going to have to be a must-read classic for some time in the future. And i don't know what Anne Bronte wrote... hmm must have a nosy.
I know!! quick question for further levels of freakiness- are you a leftie or a rightie??
Yea the cover does look like a 12 yr old boy's adventure story but it is nothing like that on the inside. Ooh that's good... do you reckon he would like fantasy books?? Cos there is always the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini - that's got a male lead character and dragons and evil beasties and a fair few battles to satisfy the male gore quota lol.
Yea that may be the only upside to having less money - a chance to demolish my TBR pile so when i get more money i can build it back up again :D
Yea it does usually take me only 3 hours or so to get through books with 300 pages or less since they are usually pretty easy, quick reads to get a girly or vamp fix. But certain types of book like historical fiction, or my general fiction books can take me much longer since i have to concentrate more and therefore read slower. Gah the maths involved in calculating this type of thing will give me a serious headache :(
Oh heck i've been putting off rebel angels for weeks now - im gonna have to re-read AGATB soon so i know what the chuff is going on when i do finally read it lol

posted by LadyViolet at 7:45 am (EST) on Mar 27, 2009

Yea im a 90's baby lol. I know!! it is soo freaky how much we have in common *eerie twilight zone music plays*
Whoa that's gotta be so tough for her- it is a shame if she won't get help, it would break my heart to see one of my friends get that messed up and not do anything about it. One of my best friends was anorexic in yr11 it wasn't really that she starved herself it was more that she did loads of running and only ate small portions of food but just seeing her get that thin was awful- some of the other girls in our group weren't that supportive so i ended up being the one telling her to get help and try and get better. Thankfully she is a bloody smart girl and was able to work out how much she had to eat every day to put the weight back on and still be able to do her running. She's completely better now and is a damn good cross country runner.
Yea im not a bad nowadays since my bf doesn't really like violence so he doesn't like me getting so angry that i want to smack someone- unfortunately prefect duty does nothing for my temper since all i get is flack from the lower school snots. *grrr*
Yea i reckon its got the potential to be as awesome as HoN - i just hope the end of Shadow Kiss doesn't depress me so much that i can't bear to keep reading them ..eek that would be awful.
Hmm i wonder... i think maybe not since her other books look pretty adult (with titles like Succubus dreams what else can they be? ) may have to take a look anyway for comparison.
Yea it's taking a fair bit of restraint - i've read a bit more of Jane Eyre before my dinner and im hoping to read some more later. I will probably buy it afterwards since im really liking it.
lol at least my number is lucky. although frankly i prefer the number 3 it just seems nicer .
Wow really?? again with the freaky similarities!!
Heck don't we know it? the anxiety attacks we've had over waiting for books...
Yea you'll have to tell me if he likes it - maybe i can persuade my bf to read it even though i doubt he's read a YA fiction book in his life...
Yea i know my loss of funds would terrify me *panic attack* well it would only be until after my exams then i would either go back to somerfield (soon to be Co-op) or get another job somewhere else that would be useful work experience. Hopefully i can make my money last until then.
I need to work out the length of time it would take me to read certain books so i would know how many to plot for each week... i will still probably put down far too many books lol

posted by LadyViolet at 3:36 pm (EST) on Mar 26, 2009

Yea when my parents light candles downstairs the smell drifts upstairs after a while and its pretty overpowering.
Our group's birthdays are spend out quite a lot - I'm the oldest then there's at least one birthday every month but not all of us get invited to every bday party so it is hard to get photos of everyone. I have this one photo of most of my friends at a 14th birthday party which is pretty good although we all look really young lol.
Ah my ex-best friend was more at the opposite of things - she started hanging out with all the badass people and since i was far too much of a goody-two-shoes to go out at lunchtime with her we eventually drifted apart. Since i left she's gone majorly emo-esque with loads of piercings and she wears bucket loads of eyeliner.
I tend to get angry quite easily if i feel someone is being a bitch to me or to one of my friends - so i stick up for them although i never beat up anyone. My violence was more towards the guys in my science classes (who were mostly idiots) if they got on my nerves i tended to thwack them one rather than tell them to shut up since i thought it would work better. It didn't really do much lol.
My confidence during yr 7 & 8 was pretty low but thankfully i'm a lot more happy with myself nowadays although i am prone to depressive moments when my workload feels particularly oppressive.
Dang blast the autumn can't come fast enough!
You finished it? AWESOME! I was actually a bit shocked when i found out it was Natalie i was properly duped by her dim, nice image & her dad had seemed really nice as well! damn good writer if she can surprise us that well!
mmmm Dimitri lol - i hope he does get with Rose or i will be soo unhappy.
Argh i may have accidentally read what the ending of Shadow Kiss was and im severely hoping i misread it- im not gonna go back and find it again cos i don't want to ruin it but i reckon i will be crying at the end of it :(
Oooh you'll have to tell me whether its worth a read. I'm still on Jane Eyre although im hoping i will get it finished by tomorrow night. I very nearly succumbed to temptation and read Frostbite but i mangaged to put it down :P
hmm i am tempted perhaps to get it...
I realised after i'd said it how daft it was - the 23 should have been a dead giveaway lol. Wow stalkerish number 23!! my birthdate is the same for several other members of my family me, my cousin, my mum & aunt (they're twins) all were born on the 7th of the month so thats kinda spooky as well lol.
We can hope she's probably finished the second book today (she's at home with her version of "man-flu") and mum is gonna take her to buy the next books at the weekend but she's annoyed she has to wait until then
Ah yea i can see why he might not want to read the potentially soppy love-story - giving him the Hunger games is a good move cos Katniss doesn't have anywhere near as many romantic notions as Bella does.
Im contemplating quitting my job at the mo just so i have the extra time to revise - the amount of reading i've got to do and note-making i need to do for my revision seems impossible to get done in just the week and sunday (when i never get anything done usually)
Hehe i will have to be thinking of what i will pick for next month later this afternoon.

posted by LadyViolet at 9:02 am (EST) on Mar 26, 2009

I've got this spiral candle stand with rainbow coloured tealights which my friend bought me for a birthday a few years ago - its never been lit since i don't really like candles (the thought of one starting a fire terrifies me) but its a pretty good decorative item.
It's kinda odd cos i don't really have that many photos of me and my friends - i don't have my own camera and we don't all tend to go out as one big group so that results in distinct lack of pics . I may have to rectify that this summer before we go our separate ways (me and one of my best friends were discussing ways of getting between coventry and Liverpool today)
Ah i am far too judgemental to even talk to the "popular" people- i just get the feeling that i won't get on with them, so i don't talk to them, then they think im stuck-up and bitch about me, i don't take any crap off them and bitch back and there you have my PE lessons from yr9-11 :D it was highly amusing cos i get really competitive in sports so any rivalry between me and the bitchy girls got close to physical violence sometimes >:[ twas vair fun lol. That was back when i had a horrible propensity (hehe Damien and his vocab words) for being a leetle bit too violent and would have loved to smack one of the girls who hated me right in the face.
i'm glad you found some good friends- hanging round fake people too long is probably pretty toxic for your self-esteem :D
Yea Rose is so awesome she kicks arse and is still really passionate about her duty to Lissa. *sighs* Dimitri... how wonderful it would be if all men were as fit as he is with a sexy russian accent :P Mason just feels like Mike Newton to me but he's sweeter and probably not quite as shallow as Mike.
I'm really glad i ordered all three in one go that way i won't have to wait - i shall try and contain my glee if i read them first.
oooh Amazon Prime sounds like a really good idea for me considering how much i buy of there - just today i ordered a box set of all 3 extended LotR films for under £20!! it was such a steal i couldn't resist :P
oo very belated happy birthday for January!! What date was it??
I think she is enjoying quite a bit - i don't know about a book addict maybe a book enthusiast she's not quite as nerdy as i am :P
Lol ok i will read the Pact first. I may draw up a list later *if* i get some work done which i really should do since today i think i've literally done naff all in my 4 bloody frees!

posted by LadyViolet at 4:13 pm (EST) on Mar 25, 2009

hehe yea i've a collection of kinder egg toys on my desk, a collection of shells and pretty looking rocks on my windowsill and various other bits of randomness around my room. I am definately a magpie :P
Well my old high school was quite a long way away from where i live and i just wasn't really happy there anymore so i switched to my local high school which starts at yr9 so it was great for me since everyone in my year was new so i got to start from scratch and make new friends- much better friends than my old ones whom i been at school with for 9 years *sigh*
i'm gonna read some more of Jane Eyre tonight - i may have ...finished... Vampire academy last night when i decided to get my vamp fix there and then and im so glad i did. It is so awesome - i can't wait for you to finish it :D
Heck yea we is cool aye!
She got the new colouful Nano (pink which is her favourite colour) I reckon she has lost count of how many times she's read Twilight- i know i have :P When i saw her this morning she was nearly finished with the first book in her Rennison omnibus so i reckon i will have to be taking her to Stones to buy the next books soon enough. Since she started reading Twilight her reading speed has picked up astonishingly -it use to take her ages to read anything but she's motoring through these books like nobodies business!
Hehehe i bet that was amazingly fun i need to copy in my wish list or waiting-to-be-published list into my journal *nerd twitch*
Ooo crikey that doesn't sound good i will have to move that up the TBR pile . *note to self write out list of books to read in April - include JP books*

posted by LadyViolet at 9:42 am (EST) on Mar 25, 2009

Hallelujah!! it worked!! darn pms-ing computer! lol
yea i found the dvd in Matalan of all places and it was dead cheap :D i had these miniature playsets with figures of Anya and Demetri and i've still got them in a box with other random trinkets i can't bear to get rid of
I've no idea why its so cold up there i reckon they don't put the heating on much and since its a fairly big room it takes a lot to heat up. I've never actually had much interaction with our school librarian so i don't really know if she's a grumpy woman lol. In yr 7 & 8 i was at a different high school and an even bigger nerd than i am now - i spent practically all my lunchtimes up in the library and i was actually a librarian in yr8 got the badge still somewhere. The head librarian could be pretty sharp with naughty kids but she was nice enough to me.
Ah darn bad weather its been sunny here all day but still really cold. I started reading Jane Eyre yesterday and i've read some more this afternoon and i have to say i am enjoying it which surprises me since i had horrible fears that i would never be able to wade through the old style of language but i'm coping quite well. I'm only up to pg 100 and since its nearly 500 pages then it may take me a few days still to finish it. I might sneak a quick vamp read in somewhere to get my fix and so i can have the fulfillment of being able to say i have *finished* a book.
Ah i do ignore them - my dad keeps makes jokes about wanting me to catalogue his CDs in the summer although he may actually be serious about that but either way they still mock me :( *sniff* book addicts are just not appreciated anymore .
Hehe thats a good idea - explain it with a guy analogy and it'll make loads of sense. Ah well at least he doesn't think you're a total nutter..
Yea she did thanks - she got loads of jewellery , a new ipod, and few other things. She was pretty chuffed with the new book my parents gave her(the Rennison omnibus) and says she will read it after she's finished Twilight (for the umpteenth time)
Ah i may have to read that soon then - i could do with making a To-read list for each month and sticking to it, like having some vamp books, then some general fiction, fantasy, historical fictio etc. have a nice mixture and still get through my TBR pile (it stands at around 40 books currently).
Gah the terrible book-film adaptation curse!! let's hope it doesn't strike again!!

posted by LadyViolet at 3:35 pm (EST) on Mar 24, 2009

Oh dang and blast that computer of yours!! Has it no sympathy for your addictions?? lol yea get the technologically able friend to have a go at it for you. Don't worry i shall understand if you don't reply later on :D
Yea i will put it on my amazon wishlist for when i ever permit myself to buy more books (which may be a while considering my bank statement yesterday :O )Hehe i *still* love the film - after my video player ate my VHS i was so depressed but then a couple of years ago i found it on dvd so i bought it :P Oh i sing Once upon a December quite regularly, i'll randomly start singing it in the car or something lol
Hmm yes i think we are getting a little preoccupied with Taylor's lovely buff bod :P
I did try to go up there earlier to get my history homework done- but there was a class full of snots and it was actually sub-artic temperatures up there so i didn't stay. I ended up sitting on the floor outside our study room with my back against a radiator and got nearly a page of writing done, which for me is quite an achievement.
I bet you'll have read it by tonight if you're that enthusiastic about reading it.:P
wow it sounds so cool (lol only we could find book journal's cool) i should write my looong wish list into my journal when i've got a minute.
My parent's were telling my bf about my book journal last night when we all went out for dinner for my sister's birthday. They were all picking on me for being such a nerd :(
Ah the story about the JP book is that my mum (bless her cotton socks) is a bit absentminded occasionally and accidentally bought 2 copies of My sister's Keeper cos she forgot she already had it. So since she didn't need two i claimed the second copy and added it to my library :D

posted by LadyViolet at 8:14 am (EST) on Mar 24, 2009

OMG i want The Fetch!!! it looks really good - i think the Russian Revolution is pretty interesting and Anastasia is one of my fav children's films so frankly i think that counts as reason enough to buy it :P
hehe yay for the haircut!!
Ooo those posters look much nicer than the Twilight ones did Rob doesn't look anywhere near as much of a psycho like he did in the early ones last year.
Unfortunately for me i can still get distracted at school cos i get onto LT at school (it fuelled my Lex habit before i banned myself from it) its a shame the library is a bit crap cos i could probably get work done up there but its always freezing up there and its not always very quiet. Meh maybe i should just wear a jacket and install myself up there.
Yea i will start one tonight *i will* hopefully i will get it done by the weekend - have a vamp fix then start the last book.
MoaTA was pretty good - not as awesome as ACSoL but still excellent to read. Its really spooky how i picked up two completely different books yet two of the main characters in each book have the same names.
hehe you'll just have to use the excuse that it's " a librarything thing" lol

posted by LadyViolet at 9:40 am (EST) on Mar 23, 2009

Oooh that Laura whitcomb book has gotta be worth a look - i shall have a nosy at breaktime.
Yea she was pretty happy with her presents although the page of the Twilight calender with Jacob on will depress her since she hates his long wig lol
hehe i know! i would be like noo... i only have a few pages left... don't let me die!!
Lol that's probably for the best - we don't need you having a breakdown over how much you've spent on books.
Exactly - the entire film will be a waste of money if there isn't a shot of Taylor shirtless.
Thanks - i know i should get work done but after reading ACSoL my brain was so mushed i couldn't concentrate on my work. I am just not very good at being productive in my free periods and it takes me ages to get any homework done. At home i hardly ever get anything done cos i get distracted so easily and end up either reading or staring into space.
Hmm how odd...lol i might look up what it means later
Yea the cover is so creepily beautiful and the book itself is brilliantly written. I need to get my vamp fix soon but i would like to get my library books read.
Lol well yea i could have looked through the windows at least.
Yea i am a terrible procrastinator when it comes to serious literature - its just so much easier to speed through a teen book than wade through 400 pages of 18th century prose.
Lol don't worry im just as much of a dork :P I know what you mean i would have been vair freaked out if i were Zoey.
You did?? LOL he's probably thinking you've gone round the twist hehe .

posted by LadyViolet at 5:57 am (EST) on Mar 23, 2009

Yea he's definately somewhere around that age group - i'm not completely sure but fairly.
I got her the Peter Pan dvd, pre-ordered Twilight (which won't be here for another week or so), the twilight director's notebook, and a british twilight calender which starts in July until next december.
*sighs* ah yes we were doing so well! then we failed lol. Meh never mind maybe we can make it through the next two weeks without buying anything else. Yea two books isn't that bad - i've done much worse than that, £54 in one go at the Ultimate 'Stones although i think i may have bought one book that was for my bf so it wasn't *all* mine hehe. Exactly ! dang all those brilliant books which come in groups of threes and fours or mores!
*chanting* Take it off! Take it off! :P that will be me watching new moon anytime Taylor is onscreen fully clothed.
Yea that is one that my sister likes to play! It's so naff yet once it's in your head you're buggered until you hear another crap catchy song to replace it with *grrr*
That will have to be on my to-do list post exams - eek i had better work this side of the exams to ensure i don't get shot by parentals if i mess things up *chews hand*
The only dreams i remember are the extremely wierd ones - i recall one from last week where i dreamt i had lost two of my back molars and there were just big bloody holes left *shudders* i seem to have quite a few dreams about my teeth its really quite odd and what's worse is that i get so freaked out by them that i have to check in the morning that my teeth are still all there... yep therapy sounds like an excellent idea.
You have it already?? READ IT READ IT READ IT!!!!!! My god it is ...just beyond amazing!! i cannot fault it in the slightest i want to search amazon's reviews to see if anyone was mental enough not to like it.
Yea it was a bit of a let-down but luckily the tickets weren't crazily expensive so it wasn't like we wasted a load of money on it.
I know!! the New Look was bloody huge!! All the stores near me are waay smaller than that! the shoes display was unbelievably big how many stillettos does that place sell??
What?? you mean i was *that* close? dang it!
I kind of "fell" into both we walked up the street to where Primark was on our way to the Transport museum so i got to browse through both shops.
I'm not sure if i will start Memoirs tonight or start one of my last two library books - both are now the heavy-going literature which may take me a while so i put it off until i have enough time to read it in as few sittings as possible.
Ug i hate pigeons soo much they scare the crap outta me when they fly around your head - im always scared they're gonna poo on my head or something *shudder*
Rofl it would be ironic if he had seen me . You should ask him if he saw any brunettes with a grey cardie and a purple handbag - of course while maintaining the illusion that you *are* actually sane :P

posted by LadyViolet at 5:59 pm (EST) on Mar 22, 2009

Ah yes Jeremy Sumpter - ironically enough my sister adores him as well and told me to buy her the live action Peter Pan film where he is peter pan for her birthday (and i just wrapped her presents a minute ago) He's actually 19 or 20 i think but has that baby-face which makes him look younger.
I reckon he could work as Peeta although his voice used to annoy me (as far as i remember i will have to re-watch some stuff he's in)
I saw Parasite Positive in 'Stones earlier (where i did *not* buy two books!!) i had a look at the back but i want to cut back a bit on the new series i pick up - i'd rather i keep to those i've got so far instead of starting lots of different series and then bankrupt myself to stay up-to-date with them all.
Lol just couldn't resist eh? well i can't talk i did crack my non-buying run and buy two new books in Stones. *blushes* my dad actually said today that i need therapy. finally he realises lol.
Hehe yea he does a bit sometimes - ah well so as he forgets his shirt for most of New Moon i won't mind listening to him speaking :P
The annoying thing about a lot of dancey songs is that they are soo catchy you end up singing them against your will! *grr* my sister laughs when i start randomly singing along to Basshunter or whatever when she plays music off her phone in a morning - i find it highly irritating.
Yea i could do - i may try running my ideas past my two Twi-convert friends since i reckon it might be the kind of thing they would read. So long as it's constructive criticism rather than what my guy friend said "this Pippa girl is a right bitch!" - he had read a snippet scene i wrote about one of the main characters having a bit of an argument with someone else (possibly a guy who was being a twit) and i think she socked him one, or something of a similar ilk i can't quite remember now *twitch need to re-read notebook* But the fact is that saying she's a bitch is *not* helpful in the slightest as it doesn't give me a good idea of how she was received and what i could do to improve. Then he went on to say i shouldn't spend so much time planning!! Erm sorry mate but planning is what is going to stop my story from being as flimsy as a wet tissue! I shall probably not go to him for creative criticism again.
Hmm maybe we do? huh t'would be pretty cool if i had another dream in the future which helped me with my story - although most of my dreams are really random and thats when i can remember them which isn't very often.
Gah that sounds really cool!! mine's nowhere near that interesting!! ah well its serving its purpose.
I started reading one of my new books in the car back from coventry and i am determined to finish it tonight!
The Doctor Who exhibition was actually a bit disappointing since it wasn't very big and there was really only a load of mannequins of the monsters, a few props and a couple of talking Daleks. It would be more appealing to younger children but for me and my sister it was like - meh .
I found me some new shoes in New Look - this funky black and white converse-esque pumps which are pretty comfy . I wasn't in much of a clothes shopping mood so i pleaded with my parentals to be allowed to skip off to Stones hehe. Bought A certain slant of Light and The Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac while i was there - i started reading A certain slant of light on the way home and i am hooked - it's a really original idea and i really want to keep reading!
I nearly got two pigeons to the face while i was trying to escape to the bigger waterstones - my sister wanted to look round Primark and that place makes me feel claustrophobic i asked if i could book browse (i'd already bought the books so i couldn't buy anymore :( ) I hate pigeons so i had a right spaz trying to avoid getting hit by the feathered rats *shudders*
Hows your weekend been?

posted by LadyViolet at 3:21 pm (EST) on Mar 22, 2009

Oh yea the cast would be better if they found new actors to play the kids since they might be able to get the raw energy needed for the characters across better than trained child actors. Yea some really famous actors you just can't believe in when they're cast as characters in book-film adaptations cos you're so used to seeing them as another character.
Yea i'm glad for Evermore's originality in that respect the teen fantasy genre could do without being flooded by loads of twilight-esque books. Gah i really hope we find out what's in it in the next book.
Yea when Rob is Edward he looks pretty good but as himself he looks like a bloody vagrant! Hmm occasionally Taylor's voice does irk me and i don't really know why...
Luckily i was so shattered last night that they didn't keep me up past midnight - they had to keep the noise down since my parents went to sleep and they do not like to be kept awake by shrieking teenagers.
Oh yea i love Bella's lullaby for its calming effect - i would love to buy the score for the film off itunes but i reckon it would cost a fair chunk.
I'll listen to bits of almost every type of music- except club music (you know like trance or whatnot) and really obscure stuff which i don't really understand.
Hmm interesting i shall have to have a peruse of New Look and other such places tomorrow lol.
*evil smile* i may yet do that.... *manic laughter*
I have loads of bits of paper but i don't like to show them to anyone - when i did show stuff for one of my ideas to a friend i rather stupidly chose my guy friend who likes sci-fi rather than fantasy so he didn't really see the characters the same way a girl might have. If i had the time and enthusiasm i might be able to write out my fantasy story but i reckon i may be lacking in opportunities unless i go a bit mental this summer hols after my exams and start it with a vengence.
I sort of had a SM moment with my fantasy story - i needed a name for the third main character and i had a dream where i was looking down a list of girl's names and i picked out what i wanted and i remembered it the next day which was amazing.
Yea i could never write chick-lit i'm just not girly enough to be able to write something without it being full to the brim with cliches - it would have to be fantasy or historical fiction or nothing.
I found it in the smaller Stones down on the Precinct it's with all the oldy-worldy looking stationary. i just happened to spot it and was like - dang i gotta have that!
haha that's a side effect of the Lex - you are able to type soo much faster lol.
I'm near incoherent now so i better get off to sleep so i'm not shattered for tomorrow.

posted by LadyViolet at 8:07 pm (EST) on Mar 21, 2009

Yea that is what's going to worry me about the film - if they tone the brutality down to cater for the younger fans than it will totally lose the whole atmosphere and point of the books which is a dystopic world where the masses are kept under control through the fear and violence of the Hunger Games.
Yea the Uglies covers are... slightly odd but cool!
I want to know what is in that red drink! it's gonna bug if i don't find out soon gah! I'm glad Damen isn't a vampire i don't know if i could have coped with another story like that.
Haha god i know!! My sister came running into my room one day with her laptop and showed me this video of Taylor Lautner on Youtube showing off his newly bulked up biceps and abs *drools* dang it was a good sight lol. We can be Team Taylor and still be Team Edward - Rob irritates me slightly cos of his lack of personal hygiene.
Normally i don't listen to music while i'm reading cos i get distracted if a song comes on that i want to sing to- i have this horrible habit of singing along with loads of my songs on itunes (not too well) if im supposed to be working i often sit there singing instead of working *blushes*
I like bits of quite a few types of music. I really like Snow Patrol and i've got a couple of Muse albums on my itunes, i also have all the Now... albums from 56-70 although many had a load of stuff on that i never copied. I tend to like songs rather than bands or albums. I loathe certain R 'n' B artists like Akon *grr i could poke that man with really sharp sticks*. I have the Twilight soundtrack which has been played many, many times and several other bits and bobs that i listen to a lot. It's difficult to pick a "favourite" band or artist . gah that was a load of gobbledegook! What kind of music do you like??
I have a pair of Rocket Dog pump things which i love cos they're dead comfy and don't hurt my feet but the inner lining is coming apart - i'm hoping to get some more shoes like that plus a pair of nice ankle boots cos my old pair is also falling apart .
Hehe its rather likely that i will find myself in waterstones again though i may try and persuade my sister to look for books she might like.
Yea Blair could get quite scary in her schemes to keep control of things. Thats probably right lol.
Crikey that would definately knock me for six - i don't anyone personally who's got pregnant young so i can't say i know how they cope but i know that i would never be able to hack it day to day . The stress would drive me crazy before long.
Really? i always wanted to be an author when i was younger - although i was never any good at finishing stories. I would spend ages planning it but never really wrote anything out properly.
Wow that is so cool - i never got anything published during primary school but my sister and my cousin both had poems published in one of those anthologies of kids poems. Which was irksome since i was the "bookish, writer child" :P
I would love to write a book - you should see the drawer i have with notebooks and bits of paper covered with notes and ideas for a fantasy book that eventually i may get around to writing. The idea has been brewing for a good four or five years now so hopefully i will be mature enough soon to write something that isn't a cliched copy of a story i've already read. Do you find that you have a burst of enthusiasm for a story and for about 2 weeks you have loads of ideas and then... you think it's all rubbish and put it back in the drawer for another few months?
I am determined to keep my challenge thread up-to-date. I found this awesome little book journal in Waterstones while i was in Coventry - you can write in books you've read, books you want to read, books you've borrowed and there's a general notes section as well. I've been writing in there as well since i started my challenge and hopefully if i get any recommendations for books i can note them down and try to find them.
Meh - i'm used to crazy long posts lol

posted by LadyViolet at 3:49 pm (EST) on Mar 20, 2009

Exactly when you're really into a story you can't help but read really fast so you can find out what happens.
Ooh really? If SC is doing the screenplay it may be alright cos she will know what to keep and what should go- but if she is not experienced with writing screenplays she may want to work with someone who does so that they can weave everything in without it feeling odd. That film will *have* to be a 15 or something with all the bloody deaths unless they tone it down a bit on-screen or else all the 13 yr olds who've read it and not really noticed the extremely violent deaths of the tributes will possibly get quite a shock lol.
Yea i like the HoN & HP covers that we have (i know that the HoN ones have essentially the same pictures but the fonts are diffent on ours) The english HP covers seem more modern and less hardcore fantasy-looking as the US covers do.
My friend has finished Evermore now - she liked it and says she guessed what Damen was doing when he had Haven's blood all over his face (me i think i got confused around that time and may have actually thought he was a vamp - i was probably still too much in vamp book mode )
Lol i only really talk about books with my three best friends - all of them have read Twilight now (one hasn't yet read the other books) so i can recommend other books in a similar vein to Twilight and they are likely to enjoy them.
My sister and her friends are likely to be shrieking over videos of Rpattz and Taylor Lautner on YouTube (my sister *adores* TL to the point where she gets all faint at the sight of his lovely 8-pack!!)I may have to stick my ipod on and read until i pass out, lol what a hardship :P
I'm in Coventry again this sunday - the Doctor Who exhibition is at the Transport museum and hopefully i will get the chance to do some shopping beforehand - i need new shoes as i've worn my usual pairs out :(
Blair freaked me out a couple of times - she's a bit neurotic at times and her ambition to get into Yale drove her to slightly crazy things from time to time.
Are they really?? wow i didn't know that! its probably pretty hard to juggle two series of books and be able to publish two books a year without help. Maybe she helps edit the It Girl books to check consistency of the GG world with the It girls.
I know of at least one girl who was in my year who left partway through yr11 when she got pregnant and apparently she's got two kids now. I would never to be able to cope with a kid at that age - my parents would hit the roof since they want me to make the most out of my education and having a baby would kill that idea.
Awesome! never look a free book in the mouth- ask her if she's got any other books she fancies giving away lol it'll save spending money :P
I'm too lazy to keep a proper diary -i write in one for a couple of weeks then forget about it for 2 months or so and then the cycle repeats itself.lol hopefully this challenge will be good for my stick-to-it-ivity . Don't worry you're not the only geek at the party ;P

posted by LadyViolet at 7:55 am (EST) on Mar 20, 2009

Yea i probably should slow down with my reading cos i can miss stuff sometimes and if it's important to the story i get confused then have to jolt myself out of the reading to go back and work out what i missed.
Hahaha i could just imagine that - a whole house filled with teetering piles of unread books as your book addiction rampages through bookstores across the country until a simple trip to the kitchen becomes a slalom and obstacle course of the most expert difficulty where any mistakes could lead to sudden death-by-books. Wow that was a mouthful lol
Yea exactly that! Mine is on Katniss cos the book seems to like it that way (when its folded the other way it just doesn't seem right you know?)
I'm a terrible book magpie i specifically bought a Tamora Pierce book twice so i could have the british cover which is uber funky and colourful (and so it matched the rest *ocd twitch*)
She hasn't started it yet - she a load of homework last night apparently but maybe she will have read some by tomorrow. We are just infecting all of our friends with our book addiction lol.
My sister's birthday is on monday but she is having a group of friends over tomorrow night for a sleepover (joy - i have to get up for work on saturdays) so i reckon my mood at work is going to be less than cordial if those little buggers keep me up later than i normally stay up. *evil face*
Hmm fav character from old GG? I would probably say Jenny cos she seems like the only genuinely nice person out of all of them, and possibly Vanessa i loved her different-ness. From It Girl - again Jenny cos she's carried over from GG and i also like Kara (you know who is sort of Brett's gf for a bit) she has that "vanessa-esque" attitude as well and i loved how she put Heath in his place (dang it which book was that in?? )
My year 11 was probably the same - half-chavs who didn't go to sixth form and half-decent kids who did. The good half had degrees of hard-working-ness. The ones who worked really hard and did really good, the ones who worked really hard but were only average, those who didn't really work and did average, and those who didn't really work but still did really good. I kind of fell into the latter - my revision for GCSE was rather haphazard in places yet i still did pretty good.
I don't know what the girls did after they got spat on - i only heard about it a day or so after the event and i'm not friends with who it happened to so i never got all the details but i reckon they were rather annoyed to say the least.
*looks around nervously* NO! i haven't been spending!! I ..fell... into the library and i ...fell... out again with four books. I decided to put in the books i've borrowed either from the library or friends recently so i can keep track of what i'm reading (in case i want to buy them later :P)
I'm doing one of those 50 books challenges on here - go have a nosy round the group i'm there somewhere although i am mostly posting to myself at the mo cos no one seems to be looking at it :(

posted by LadyViolet at 6:17 pm (EST) on Mar 19, 2009

yea those type of books i can get through really quickly - it's the more serious books which take me longer cos i have to concentrate harder so i understand everything.
Gah yea a house! *gulps* if i ever have enough money to buy one i probably won't have much furniture just lots and lots of bookshelves and of course a few comfy chairs lol. And i'll make sure that the bathroom isn't above my library incase of pipe breakages (i read a woman's thread on 75 book challenge and her library had got leaked on by a pipe breaking and pouring water everywhere so THAT MUST NOT HAPPEN TO MINE!!)
Yea i know the British cover (and the american one come to think of it) look pretty masculine but it is actually written from a girls POV. I managed to get my friend interested in it earlier when i showed her the funky british cover (with its folding flappy awesomeness) she's a bit of a magpie like me and drawn in by pretty looking books :P
yea i reckon the Rennison books will be right up my sister's street i shall have to confiscate the twilight books and make her read it on her birthday and then i'll tell you what she thought when she's done.
Yea the original GG books are more for our age but the Carlyle Triplets are only 15 i think but they all act older anyway so i guess we can forgive ourselves for reading them lol.
Believe me i was shocked - thank they didn't do it to me cos i may have stormed up the stairs after them and beaten them into pulp! Most of yr 11 are chavs so i basically hate the lot of them - they think they're all tough and can get away with anything but its highly likely that three quarters of them are going to mess up their GCSE's and end up working in McDonalds by the summer. There are very few kids in yr 11 who are staying on for Sixth Form.
oooh sounds good could be one to stick on the long list of books i would like to read.
*blushes* ahem well yes... I have finished that book....and i may have also re-read the Hunger Games as well. ARGH!! im such an addict!!! :(

posted by LadyViolet at 8:23 am (EST) on Mar 19, 2009

hehe silly computer *glares at Jess's compute* Be good!!
Well i read the clique book in around two hours straight after i got home from school then i started reading Infamous possibly around half 10 and i had finished it just after midnight.
Hmm i wonder if the paperback of Hunted has the poster in as well?? that would be awesome
Yea i did actually read all the Doctor Who books i bought although considering how they were only 250 ish pages each it didn't take me long to read them and then i put them in the cupboard and didn't get them out again.
Pfft! use money sensibly?? that'll be the day :P
The Hunger Games was exactly what i was going to give her next! I hope she likes it when she does read it... When i was in Coventry my parents asked me to help them pick out a book for her birthday that she might like so that they can keep her reading after we prise twilight out of her hands. We found an omnibus of the first two Louise Rennison books - you know Angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging.. and the like. She has seen the film of it and really liked it so im hoping the books will appeal to her as well.
lol I have already drilled into my sister the Golden Rules for borrowing my books and she is very good and uses bookmarks instead of folding corners (one bookmark i bought while i was in France last year so it's nice to know my presents are useful lol)
Yea its a guilty pleasure my girly books (Gossip girl, the Clique and It girl) i know i am probably a smidge old for them but who cares they're fun to read and so terribly addictive cos you always want the next one to find out what happens next.
Prefect duty was semi-productive in terms of reading time - the first ten mins of lunch saw quite a few kids try their luck coming through my door (im supposed to stop the lower-school kids coming in through the back doors of the school and make them walk all the way around to the main door where possibly another prefect is waiting to send them away lol) but after that i could settle down into a chair and i managed to get the first 20 pages read - which for me is actually quite bad but i did get distracted a bit when my two friends arrived (one is also a prefect and the other came armed with Evermore freshly borrowed from me) . The lower-school kids at my school could all do with a mass thrashing cos a large majority of the yr 11 are absolute chavvy swines and i would love to take a cattle prod to many of them (as would several teachers i bet) they give nearly every member of staff a hard time and are vile to the prefects (a couple of girls got spat on during duty earlier in the year) *grrr*
Ooo sounds interesting... I borrowed a book off my best friend (the prefect one) its a book written by a junior doctor in a british hospital and its like a diary of his first year as a proper doctor - it's really funny in places but quite sobering at the same time when you think that events like that are happening in our hospitals. I've nearly finished it *blushes* to the detriment of my homework so maybe i will get something done soon...

posted by LadyViolet at 3:55 pm (EST) on Mar 18, 2009

Hey it's ok if you computer was having a spaz that's excusable lol
Yes twas probably good that you couldn't get your Lex & LT fix if it meant you got some work done - i on the other hand got so depressed with trying to write answers for french speaking Q's that i read TWO books last night (yes i did say two)
Oooh i will have to order Hunted when i next need to have an Amazon.com run which will perhaps be July/August time when the next It Girl and Gossip Girl & Clique books will be out although if i wait until August for Blue Moon then i may as well leave off buying Hunted until September when i can get the funky British paperback Gah the logistics of my book addiction are terrifying!!
Yea hopefully AN is going to weave in Ever & Damen's backstory throughout the series to keep us hooked and eager for more info *crosses fingers*
Ah i'm the same i don't want to get rid of any more books - with the exception of 24 Doctor Who books i bought during a fit of craziness last year (not all the same time of course but over a period of several months) i need to Ebay them since they cost too much to just give away (£7 a pop eek!)
Lol i may end up like that soon - having a shouting match with my cupboard *rolls eyes*
Oh wahey! Always good to have extra twilighters to chat to - convert them all!! i won't give the Host to my Bf to read since he didn't like SM's writing style in MS so he won't like anything else she writes. Perhaps if i can prise the Twilight books out of my sister's hands for 5 minutes i can start her off on the Host...
I've read all the Alex Rider books and i'm waiting for when Anthony Horowitz gets his arse around to releasing the next one *grr* I need to have a re-read methinks since it's been a while since i've read them, i really liked them the first time around so hopefully i still will like them.
Last Night i had a girly night - read the 10th Clique book and later on read Infamous so now i have my girly quick reads out of the way i can start on some more Vamp books :P or perhaps some Historical fiction cos i'm gonna start my Dissolution book this lunchtime while i'm on Prefect duty (snoozefest) to pass the time lol

posted by LadyViolet at 8:00 am (EST) on Mar 18, 2009

yea the Twins are a bit shallow really they can be ok but their constant bitching about Aphrodite gets old pretty quick.
Yea there is a preview of it in the back of Evermore.
I reckon there may be more exploration into Ever's past lives in the next book - she doesn't remember her previous lives so maybe she will start to remember in Blue Moon. She was a bit moody sometimes and swung between really liking Damen and being really paranoid that he likes other girls quite a lot which irritated slightly.
Yea i know I'm gonna fail at not reading - the best i can manage is getting work done before i try and read in the evenings.
Yea the bite marks on the girl's neck are really cool! my blue bloods book and the three vampire academy books are sat on my drawers at the mo cos i have spectacularly ran out of space in my book cupboard *blushes* a reshuffle is desperately in order to regain some control.

posted by LadyViolet at 8:32 am (EST) on Mar 17, 2009

Yea red vamp Stevie Rae is just a tad more sinister than before but she's still likeable. The Twins can be a little mean a times to aphrodite which irks me cos i actually kinda like her now she's not as much of a bitch.
Yea i finished Evermore last night - wow i really can't wait for Blue Moon its coming out in August (probably america only)my only qualm with it was the sense that i had seen the main plot point before . There is a story in the 2nd Nightworld book which has an vamp guy in love with a human who keeps getting killed in numerous incarnations by a jealous female vamp who wants the guy all to herself. Eventually they end up together but the human doesn't want to become a vamp. Luckily i like Evermore too much to care about that aspect.
I think you should try and read it again after Hunted and maybe you will get into really quick second time around. Riley was alright - she irritated me occasionally. I liked Miles (again another Damian) he was always on Ever's side unlike Haven who got all jealous about Damen.
Not sure what i'm going to read next ... maybe i should lay off the books for a bit and get some solid work done *chews hand* i don't know if i can!

posted by LadyViolet at 5:03 am (EST) on Mar 17, 2009

Yea i think i like all the characters (except Neferet of course) but Heath is probably one of my favs along with Damien- i just think he is soo awesome!
Im trying to be a good girl at the mo and clear some of my TBR backlog but i will have to order it at some point soon - perhaps around easter time...
Yea i did feel a smidge disappointed at the lack of Heath in this one :( I hope whichever one of them likes Heath wins and gets to write Zoey being with him rather than Erik - he was *such* an arse in the first half of Untamed.
Yea it's been gorgeous today - i took Evermore with me to school and needless to say as soon as i got it out productivity dropped to nil and i received serious threats to my health from a friend who though i should be working (true but i couldn't help myself). I am really liking it so far and im determined to finish it tonight although i do have some urgent french work to do for tomorrow (so nice of my teacher to give us clear instructions about out homework) so i may have to leave it until later and then i might be up until past 1 in the morning.
Thank god for the delay between publication in the US and over here when it comes to american authors! lol
I need to get the second and third of the Uglies books - i liked the first one so i do want to get the others.

posted by LadyViolet at 12:44 pm (EST) on Mar 16, 2009

Ag i know!! how could they DO that to Grandma Redbird!!!!! She's so lovely even Aphrodite likes her and she doesn't like anybody really!!! God weren't those Raven Mockers creepy as heck?? I got damn worried when zombie-Stark shot Stevie-Rae - i was like "NOOO YOU CAN'T KILL HER AGAIN!!!" Hunted is gonna stretch my nerves to the absolute limit!
I have one issue with Untamed though - all those product placements started to get on my wick after a while. Where they big up The Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr that irked me somewhat. Also don't you just *love* Sister Mary Angela?? she is like another version of Grandma Redbird
Ah my mum told the dad of this other kid while we were having a campus tour (or meander is perhaps a better word) about me wanting a bike to use at uni, but not a modern bike, one of those old fashioned bikes with a basket on the front - all vaguely oxbridge-ish you know? Twas rather embarrassing to be talked about while i'm less than 10 feet away :(
Yea it has been lovely this weekend- although i was at work during the daylight hours yesterday and today i spent much of the day in woodland shooting at people with a paintball gun so i haven't had much time to bask in the sun .
Erm yea... homework... still haven't done anything... will probably have to do something soon or i'll be a dead goose.
Oooh that Westerfeld book sounds gooood.... dang it i have ran out of space again for books i don't need any more temptations!!!

posted by LadyViolet at 2:53 pm (EST) on Mar 15, 2009

Hey just got back from paintballing WOW!! (will talk about later)
Yea i had one of my best friends who's uber smart plus a couple of other girls i know who are clever. The lone guy in our group literally screamed with joy when a question about Eurovision came up (its his addiction he knows practically everything there is to know). I was best at the history questions except i didn't know what year John Lennon was killed (1980 turns out).
I FINISHED UNTAMED!!!! OH MY FECKING GOD I NEED HUNTED LIKE NOW!!!!!
I stayed up til nearly 2 last night finishing it (i started it on friday night but i couldn't read too much) OMG Neferet is *such* an evil cow!!!! All that crap she was telling Shekinah (sp?) about Zoey being possibly the evil one and its HER!!!
Oh you were right about the cover it is really soft and just falls open.
I really liked the look of Warwick - yea the buildings are pretty 70's retro but im not too bothered bout that as long as the facilities are modern. No i don't think there was anything Lime green but i only saw a small section of the campus where the humanities buildings are so further exploration could turn up some lime greeny buildings lol
Yea i went with my mum and dad although i wish i could have left my mum at home- bless her she's lovely and all but she has a habit of talking to anyone and telling them vaguely personal things and sometimes embarrassing things about either me or someone we know. I did want to be swallowed up by the ground at some points *shakes head despairingly*
Yea paintballing was AWESOME!!! most of the people from our big group of friends were there and there was also a group of other people who were going to be playing as well. They were a right scary bunch - loads had piercings everywhere (seriously one guy had a bar through the top of his nose) they split into male-female groups whereas our lot mixed it up a bit. My team had the huge guys from the other party so we had the advantage for the first two games. I got one of my guys friends right on his helmet - i was most pleased :P During the the forth game one of the other women slipped and actually broke her ankle so we had to stop playing for a while. Our group went back in to play the last game and i managed to shoot my ex-friend in the shoulder as we stormed their hiding place *evil chuckle* unfortunately she got me square in the chest but i think it was only cos i was standing at nearly point-blank range.
Overall a very good weekend :D except now i need to get a fair chunk of homework done :(

posted by LadyViolet at 11:56 am (EST) on Mar 15, 2009

Hey!! Sorry about the lack of messages until this late hour - i didn't get home on Friday until half 11 after this quiz thing. Twas pretty hilarious my team came third after two groups that had teachers so i feel quite proud lol.
I'VE GOT UNTAMED!!!! I got a gihugic load of mail from amazon while i was out at my open day. I got the rest of my Amazon.com order *squee* and the two books i ordered from Amazon.co.uk last week. I actually have Untamed on my knee as I type!! OMG!!! if i don't finish it this weekend I AM GOING TO DIE!!!!
I had a right laugh while i was in Coventry town centre itself. I did kind of *fall* into both Waterstones *giggle* but my dad bustled me out before i could buy anything. In the store by that statue of Lady Godiva i was standing by this girl who was looking at the House of Night books i heard her tell her bf that she needed Betrayed but it was on the shelf above where she was looking. In the end i couldn't bear to just stand there - i grabbed the copy of betrayed off the shelf and waved in front of her until she took it off me . :D i felt pleased with my good deed of the day.
I also had a lol moment when i was walking down the Precinct - i suddenly remembered i'd been there before when i went to the Belgrade theatre last year with school and we were allowed to wander off to find our own dinner.
I'm glad you're feeling better - i'd go stir crazy sat at home for too long although im sure i have accumulated enough books to entertain me for a fair chunk of time lol.
Well i've gotta catch some zzz's now cos i've got my friends birthday party tomorrow - at 9:45am!! *eek!!!* we're going paintballing so i can burn off some stress *evil laugh*
When i've finished Untamed i shall come running squealing with joy.
*happy dance*

posted by LadyViolet at 8:01 pm (EST) on Mar 14, 2009

Oh yea i know!! I mean its so daft sometimes it's harder to know what the hell they're saying cos the txt speak is so frequently used nothing makes sense! gah i have no hope for them.
From yr 9-11 i had the same english teacher she was nice and all but rather a bit dopey and sometimes didn't turn up to the lessons cos she forgot where we were or what week it was. Not a amazing teacher but there are worse.
We looked at Romeo & Juliet for one piece of coursework in yr 10 and macbeth for the SATS in yr 9. Also we looked at like one scene in Great Expectations for another bit of coursework. gah twas rather boring really.
Yea i've just got my younger sister - i can't call her my little sister cos she's taller than me and can pick me up bodily off the ground *gulp* she is quite scary sometimes lol. Have you got more than one brother?
Oh yea the magic of re-reading *sighs in relief* good i was really not looking forward to reading JW books again i read far too many when i was younger and now they make me cringe slightly.
Exam results were actually pretty good. I got 104/105 for my French resit which is AWESOME!! i got a C last august for that paper so i was well chuffed . My chemistry resit got me an A so i now have an A overall for my Chem AS. The AS general studies (its pointless for me cos it doesn't affect my uni offers) i got possibly a B overall . In my chem module 4 i was 1 mark off a B so i'm gonna re-sit in June. On the whole i am pretty happy with that lot :D
On the down side Untamed hasn't come today so i can't read it :( maybe tomorrow so i can read it on the train to Coventry. Got me Warwick open day tomorrow *dances* should be awesome. but i may not get round to replying to any messages until late cos i will be going out after i get back from coventry.

posted by LadyViolet at 4:11 pm (EST) on Mar 12, 2009

Ah yes those type of semi-illiterate chavs are irritating at best. It's a lost cause to try and convince them that books are interesting we are better off trying to convert others who would actually get something out of reading, to the wonder of good books.
My year 4 teacher in primary school used to be someone i talked to about the Harry Potter books a lot with. My memory of primary school is very limited so i can't really remember much of what else we talked about.
I got a little sick of the required reading i had to do in yrs 10 & 11 we did coursework on Educating Rita and an exam on Of Mice and Men - i don't think i ever want to look at those two pieces of Literature ever again in my life. It's odd how English lessons over here are so different to America - they read through loads of books during a year while we just do a couple for exam purposes.
Oh rite the good old reverse psychology lol. Tell him you're re-arranging your make-up or something else suitably girly and he may be too freaked to come in *evil giggle*
*le gasp* not the JW books!!! i only got rid of all mine in January! you can't make me read them!! YOU CAN'T!! *hides*
Ouch that's harsh. Aww you poor thing :( *hugs* i hope it gets sorted out soon cos it's definately not good to be falling behind at uni. I'm pratically buggered if i don't keep up next year.
ARGH!! I hope Untamed has arrived today - the 2nd & 3rd Vampire Academy books came yesterday so maybe the others are close behind *hopes*
I've gotta go get my AS resit results in a min and the results of my A2 chem module 4 *chews hand* i really hope i don't have to re-resit anything :(
Although if i do alright maybe parentals won't mind me reading Untamed instead of hmwk tonight :D
Cripes !!

posted by LadyViolet at 9:05 am (EST) on Mar 12, 2009

Haha i just got a hilarious mental image - waterstones with Jasper standing by the tills comforting distraught book addicts and handing them a foot long list of other potential books. lol
Yea i'm the same- can't write a decent review to save my life !
Ugh what a cow! i cried at the end of HP 7 but luckily i was at home and only my sister was around to mildly ridicule me for my mushiness. Whoever thinks that books are boring frankly need their heads checking.
Hell yea i get "spontaneous re-read syndrome" quite frequently e.g. just as i was writing about HP7 i was reminded that i *really* want to read the whole series through again. gah my list of re-reads is going to be gihugic!
lol yup you do sound rather like an addict *manic smile*
Yea just lock yourself into your room and put a sign up saying "ENTER AT YOUR PERIL" that should discourage interruptions :P
*crosses fingers* i'm really hoping i do get to Warwick cos not only is it close to home and my bf (when he's at uni) but there will be of course that added bonus of addict sessions with you! If we still have any money left by this time next year i will be most amazed lol
Although my sister is fairly clumsy and sometimes gets taken up to the hospital by my parents i haven't really gone with them before so i am just not used to being in hospitals. I never get properly ill and i've never broken any bones (except my front tooth in a cricket accident and a cracked skull that *wasn't* my fault - i was dropped on a hearth) My sister though is ill quite often and she's missed quite a lot of school over the years (she's only yr 9 though so it's not too bad).
Oh you're not grossing me out , my bf had that ages ago before i knew him. I hope it goes ok for you - it must be a right annoyance having ingrown toenails. Considering it's your first operation of any kind then it's justifiable that you're nervous. I had that cancer jab on tuesday and i was really nervous beforehand but now it seemed a little daft since it barely hurt and my arm hardly aches at all. Maybe you'll be lucky and it won't be too bad.

posted by LadyViolet at 4:57 pm (EST) on Mar 11, 2009

Haha maybe they should keep keep records of the books coming out for specific people (i.e. addicts like us) so that they can tell us when to come and get our fix lol
Gah yea that is so irritating - people who want to read the book want to know wether it's good not everything that happens it the story cos then there's no point even reading the book if the review tells you everything you need to know.
Lol yea we nerds have all the oddest jokes that are only funny to us and we know all sorts of random interesting stuff. if people don't like it then its tough isn't it?
Yea it does seem so daft to ruin a good thing with stupid mistakes that needn't have happened.
I really liked Just Listen - her characters are so ...alive her writing is a lot better than some authors i've read recently. After i've cleared some of my *ahem* backlog of books (which i keep adding to) i may order some of her books off amazon.
Yea it's not really surprising that many british twilighters only heard of the books when all the film hype started in force cos SM being american not all of the american teen authors are published so widely over here and they get passed over.
Sorry didn't mean to sound so horrified it was just a little shocking even for a fellow book addict - as much as i want Hunted *now* i have enough of other books to keep me distracted in the meantime while i wait for slightly slower shipping cos im a bit of cheapskate when it comes to spending large quantities of money when its not completely necessary.
haha i will not want to be the person who tries to talk to you on saturday if you've got hunted firmly in your grasp :P
Ironically enough i think there isn't actually any Wilson books in the teen section of my local library - how odd lol
I tremble to think how much money i've spent on books over the past year or so - i bought around 30 books over the course of the summer holidays last year but i bought a third of that in one week this year *gulps* once i'm at uni i will *have* to kerb my habit a bit or i'll be skint.
Yea i may start reading that tonight unless i'm so shattered that i crash beforehand.
Today has been totally insane - my sister hurt her neck trampolining this morning and she got took up to the hospital - i had to go up there as well with my nan and we were waiting around a lot while they took x-rays. In then end all that was wrong was a soft tissue injury - we came back home and damn am I tired. It felt like i spent half the day up at the hospital when it was only like 2 hours sheesh those place make you feel so lethargic.

posted by LadyViolet at 1:56 pm (EST) on Mar 11, 2009

I am bloody awful for that - whenever anyone asks me if i have any questions about something my mind goes critical and wipes it of anything constructive. Only hours later will I remember something i wanted to ask.
Lol i would have laughed if you'd yelled at the shopworkers *giggle* darn people just don't appreciate people's addictions!
Yeah spoilers do sometimes get on my nerves - i sort of had a go at someone on a group for the mortal instruments for posting a rather important spoiler on a topic about COB without any warning signs. Admittedly it was the *most* cliched spoiler since Star Wars (can you spell Luke & Leia anyone?) but it still irked me that if i hadn't read the book and wanted to know about it being told the plot twist straight out would ruin all the enjoyment of ebing surprised. Even though you would have gone "yup saw that one coming"
I know full well i'm a nerd and i am perfectly happy with it :D yea i may wierd people out sometimes but meh lol
The friend who i had to take home on sunday is a bit like that with other guys. She has a bf herself and said (whilst heavily drunk) that she loves him to bits but really wanted to give this guy her phone number cos he was fit. That to me is rather daft if you want to keep hold of your bf. Sometimes i want to shake the damn girl and tell her to get a grip.
I'm reading Just Listen at the mo (pootled into the library on a whim) but i will get round to Rebel Angels soon if Untamed doesn't arrive in the next week.
I read the first three books over two days (it was the summer hols so i had nothing to do) then i just *had* to buy BD during my lunch break on saturday. I think up to the middle of september all i read was the twilight books over and over again. I can't remember which was the first non-twilight vamp book i read after - possibly one i bought in america which then catalysed my vamp book buying frenzy of the following months *blushes*
£62!!!! on TWO BOOKS!!! *falls off chair* i spent £72 on SEVEN!!!! did you get the priority shipping or something cos i only got the expedited cos the other would have cost me £90+.
Hmm im more inclined to believe the amazon reviews in regard to COB cos the Lexiconers are mostly younger than us and are less critical of what they read so they perhaps won't spot the bad qualities in the writing that someone older might. god that makes me sound old and snobby :(
Lol i keep getting recommended Stray and another Rachel Vincent book by amazon soon i'm gonna crack and buy just to stop them telling me about it all the time!!
When i went to the library today i also found the first book in Rachel Caine's Weather Warden series - since i really like her Morganville books i'd thought t'would be a good idea to try her other series.

posted by LadyViolet at 4:45 pm (EST) on Mar 10, 2009

Yea although i can't quite think of some of our stranger Britishisms right off the top of me noggin (lol) i know we have rather a lot of them.
Gah evil useless buggers!! I'm sorely tempted to get the American hardback then when the english publication comes out buy that and Untamed and Ebay my american copies so that all of my books match *twitch*
I reckon that one person was being over-critical I don't really want to search for reviews for it cos they have already told me a few things which happen in Untamed and I need to stop spoiling it for myself.
Yea i think it's pointless to waste loads of money on drinks that can leave you feeling like crap when i have soo many books i want to buy! Luckily my bf doesn't like alcohol either so we're usually the two sober people at parties lol.
It's more my girlfriends that get wasted and throw themselves at guys rather than the guys hitting on slutty girls. Most of my guy friends are alright and are not too horrible when drunk.
I may read Chosen again in a couple of days but currently i'm of a mind to read Rebel Angels - i randomly brought it to school with me today cos i had three free periods this morning but i've spent the whole time trying to catch up my chemistry notes. My brain is now *actually* dripping down my face lol.
Breaking Dawn took me from about 11pm til 5am one saturday night. Unfortunately for me i had a cricket game the next day and i was sooo tired it was ridiculous *sighs* my own stupidity will be me undoing methinks.
eep! amazon.com totals scare me... *hides*
On the City of Bones front - i've been reading reviews about it on amazon and there are quite a few that say that it's pretty pants. Saying that it reads like mediocre fanfiction and it rips ideas from Harry Potter, Buffy, Star wars etc. I'm now thinking i may borrow it from the library and read it before buying it cos i really don't want to buy a book which i hate and then be stuck with it.

posted by LadyViolet at 8:37 am (EST) on Mar 10, 2009

Ah rite maybe certain publishers use a less rigid binding system than others so thats why they don't need a good cracking... lol
Yea the americans do have some bizarre phrases, but i think we also hold a fair sized corner in the wierd market with Britishisms hehe
Eek if i have to buy more books from america i'm gonna have to persuade my parents to lend me a credit card again, but considering how much i spent last week i doubt they'll lend me one anytime soon :(
Haha no not always. I'm usually driving back from parties so I can't drink but i don't really like alcohol anyway so its not too bad for me. Just give me a couple of J2O's and I'm happy as Larry :D Nah your not boring! You're a damn sight more interesting than some of my friends when they're off their heads with the amount of booze they've downed. Ugh i just find it so unattractive when girls get so drunk that they throw themselves at any guy even if they have boyfriends , it makes them look like they've no self respect.
I will probably have a good reading session tonight - i'm not as tired as i was last night so looks good for finishing Betrayed.
Yea i got a bit fatigued while i was reading Pillars of the Earth (which is 1000 + pages) but after having a break from it then going back to it i really started motoring through it. It was one of those long books that you just can't stop reading so it doesn't feel quite as long. Sometimes I've had three books on the go and I'll just swap between them easily.
Argh i know!! I find books that look really interesting then i think wait i shouldn't really buy another one until i've read the gazillion i've got but usually my crappy willpower gives out in the end and i buy it anyway lol
Yea i'm gonna take a heavy, blunt object to Amazon.co.uk soon if they don't buck their ideas up.
If you spend more money than i did the other week then you'll know to be worried :P

posted by LadyViolet at 3:42 pm (EST) on Mar 9, 2009

Aww hell no!! i just looked on Amazon.co.uk and i can't even FIND the hardback of Hunted that comes out tomorrow in America there's only the paperback in September. ARGH!!!!
also i looked on amazon.com and saw that the sequel to Evernight (Stargazer tis called) is coming out March 24th gah oh the innumerable books we have to buy!!
Sorry for the double message but i felt incensed by this outrageous behaviour on the part of Amazon UK. >:[ THIS MEANS WAR!!!!

posted by LadyViolet at 9:11 am (EST) on Mar 9, 2009

Hmm i may have to look more closely at my books when they actually arrive *grr shipping needs to be faster!!*
Sometimes they do edit the book to "englishify" the type by sticking in the extra "u"'s in stuff like colour and favourite but not everytime. SM's books haven't been edited like that cos all the american spellings are still there. And stuff like drug instead of dragged is usually in american books - they have some wierd-ass grammar at times but i reckon its mostly left in the british publications.
Argh! i really hope i don't have to order anymore books from America ... although the cost of shipping is related to how many books you buy cos the more books you have the heavier the package so the more expensive it is to ship it over.
I think that was the point the reviewer made that everything happens right at the end and the rest of the book was babbling about boys and stuff. Gah hopefully we shall think otherwise.
I will have to try and read it when i have nothing else to do and several hours to take a good crack at it otherwise i'll put it down after an hour then ignore it for weeks.
The Party was pretty good - the two guys whose birthday party it was got soo wasted that they had to be carried out of the loos at one point, poor guys could barely move and one of them looked like badly reheated Death. A couple of my friends were there and got pretty drunk as well - i had agreed to take one of them home but when it came time to go she was not all that co-operative, luckily by threatening to leave her behind she soon came running lol.
*le gasp* You...didn't... WANT... to read?!?!? OMG who are you?? :P some nights i am so uber sleepy that i can't be bothered to keep my eyes open. Last night after i got home i read a little of Betrayed but couldn't stay awake for very long.
*sighs* dang her she finds all the good books and just *has* to tell us about them. *shakes fist half-heartedly* gah i haven't the energy to scold her. lol

posted by LadyViolet at 7:22 am (EST) on Mar 9, 2009

hehe *grr world!!*
hmm i hadn't actually noticed that about my american books - one book i bought over there has been read so much that there is a massive crease in the spine and i can actually see the binding strings on a certain page *sniff* it distresses me immensely cos it's my absolute *favourite* book.
I have a horrible feeling that it won't be available in any bookshops cos they only seem to have the paperback coming out in September so i think we will have to be watching Amazon like hawks. I also read a review somewhere on here that was pretty negative about Hunted so i really hope its just someone who is overly critical of their reading material. *crosses fingers*
Yea i still need to read the rest of the Libba Bray books- The Sweet Far thing is just soo freaking huge it scares me to pick it up lol! I've also got a few "adult" books i could read... must compile list to read... *twitches*
I had work all saturday then i went round to my bf's - watched 300 (twas really good and i rofled at David Wenham running around in a nappy - he was Faramir in LOTR) stayed the night and only got home this afternoon and dang am i tired!
Oh yea i've heard of City of Bones, the second is City of Ashes and the new one coming out is City of Glass. Hmm may have to have a gander at that as well.. Darn you SM stop recommending us books!! we already have far too many to keep on top of !!

posted by LadyViolet at 1:36 pm (EST) on Mar 8, 2009

First off terribly sorry for the delay in replying. I saw your message just as i had to switch my computer off before i went out on Friday night. And i have only just got home after leaving at half 7 yesterday morning.
Hmm i reckon that would likely happen we humans are sometimes too daft to realise that we need to look after something to stop everything going wrong.
Hehe i would love to be able to get the books i want from america without having to pay the excessive shipping costs - although that would mean i couldn't get the british stuff i wanted without paying a fortune. Argh such a dilemma!!
Hmm Hunted *must* be found!!! if i have to mug the workers of every bookstore i find then so be it.
I also suspect i will change my favourite house of Night book quickly to Untamed upon its arrival :P
The gig was actually alright, not the best band in the world and they sure weren't the nicest people to look at lol but we had fun.
Im going out again tonight to another party cos there are loads of people's 18th birthdays on either the 4th or the 8th of march. i probably won't get chance to re-read much more of Betrayed tonight :(
After i've read Untamed i will probably read the Vampire Academy books... hmm then what??
Had a good weekend?

posted by LadyViolet at 11:55 am (EST) on Mar 8, 2009

*grr* yea damn unreliable technology
I never got much chance to look round the shops while i was there - in any case i wouldn't really want to cos the exchange rate is so poor that i wouldn't be able to get much for my money.
Yea i think we would be a little too optimistic to hope that they will clear all the souls out of Earth cos there is just too many. And it is probably too much to ask that the souls and host conciousness co-exist because its not fair to the host who can never act out their own intentions with their body as they are literally piggy-backing the soul who has control of everything. If maybe the souls gave back half of the humans and they created cities for them to live in and agreed to trade with them but otherwise leave them alone maybe that could work...
Gah hope is such a dangerous thing !
That is just plain odd- i mean you can get Infamous over here cos i've seen it but you can't get the one before it. It's exactly the same problem we have with the HOuse of Night books. We can get Hunted over here but we can't get the book before it! argh why oh why do they torture us so?
Hmm it still just says 24th March *grr too far away* im not sure which one is my fav possibly Chosen (so far) but i have a vair sneaky suspicion that will soon change...
Its quite funny im actually having second thoughts about going to the gig- im not sure if i can really be bothered to drive all the way to hanley stay a few hours then drive all the back again. It sounds like so much more fun to just go round to my friends house and go on Singstar for a while and chat Twilight.
Ooooh that does sound interesting - sort of Twilight, House of NIght (for a spooky school) and Spence (as in AGATB) all rolled into one. *adds to list*
Thank gawd we can't get it yet hehe

posted by LadyViolet at 7:31 am (EST) on Mar 6, 2009

My whole computer hasn't crashed while i was on the Lex but my web browser certainly has - sometimes while i was right in the middle of posting a message the bloody thing froze up and i had to retype everything. It's even happened while i was on here *glares at computer*
I went to Paris possibly four times last year lol - a couple of times it was cos we were passing through on our way back from Limoges but one time was a history trip. I've never been to the south of France but apparently during the summer its pretty chock full of tourists. But considering all the financial hoo-hah at the mo maybe it will be quieter this summer.
Lol yea she is - im bloody glad my bf knows what she's like else i would get immensely frustrated when he didn't believe me when i told him how she was towards me.
Yea that's what i was thinking- maybe she could look at another group of rebel humans somewhere else and see how they coped only having different problems to deal with.
From what i've heard SM is working on something to do with mermaids- what the hell that would turn out like is beyond me. I think she's waiting for all the talk about MS to disappear before she starts working on that again, although i do wish she is secretly working on it and is gonna surprise everyone with it in the near future.
Argh that is soo annoying!! *curse you british publishers!!!*
I re-read Marked last night cos i wanted to have everything fresh in my mind before Untamed arrived, unfortunatley i can't start betrayed tonight cos i'm goin to this gig with a few friends (well two friends and the non-friend) and i will be shattered by the time i get back. ugh sleep is such an irksome concept.

posted by LadyViolet at 4:19 am (EST) on Mar 6, 2009

*le gasp* oh heaven forbid your computer dies on you!! :O
Yea i went out to dinner one night with Lea and her parents while i was there - luckily Lea was at college in Limoges where my work experience was so i could meet up with her, normally she lives nearly and hour and a half away from there.
aww that guy does sound sweet- sometimes it does take a while for the french to stick just keep at it and i know you'll be fine :D
Ah well if it was just that particular library then thats not too bad - snobby gits :P
Oh my bf knows exactly what she's like (she did pour a drink down his back at a party several weeks ago) he normally is nice to everyone but she really gets on his nerves so he never speaks to her.
OMG damn it amazon ship the bloody books FASTER!!!! *chews hand* gah i need it NOW!!!
I finished the Host last night i really liked it the ending has the potential for a sequel but i think it would be a struggle to find some more jeopardy to put the characters in without it seeming cliched. It was good how there was another rebel group.
Ah hehe Jeb and that gun *chuckles* jamie was the sweetest kid ever. Deffo Team Ian - jared could be a right arse although he did help Wanda when the others wouldn't. It was really funny when Kyle and Sunny got together and he's all like sweet on her. Never expected that monster to find his heart.

posted by LadyViolet at 8:01 am (EST) on Mar 5, 2009

Oh blimey i used to get so anxious when my computer decided to freeze up while i was trying to post - its soo tiresome to have to retype a post when your web broswer has a heart attack on you and closes itself. *glares at broswer*
Hehe yea i just have to have *something* to throw my energy into or i will just sit in a corner reading all time - although i could probably be working cos that would be pretty sensible... i am such an idiot.
Nah it was a coincidence - i was doing work experience in a library of sorts and it just happened to fall during the week when my birthday was. On the night of my birthday i went into town with the two other girls in my french class (it was a big trip with loads of students) and we had dinner. i didn't really want to do much else cos i'd had a family party before i went away. Lea is a couple of months younger than me and i don't mind you asking questions lol
Lol i know what you mean it definately wouldn't be healthy for me to be around that many books, i would spend all my wages the second i got paid hehe. Hmm how irksome that librarians wouldn't believe that young people are actually interested in working there >:[
I wouldn't mind having a good old yell at her and possibly cause a few accidents *whoops did i just spill my scalding hot tea on you?* kind of thing but my bf doesn't like me being violent (bless his cotton socks) so i just ignore her. She is one of those people you *think* is really quiet and non-threatening but if you get to know her a bit you find out she can be god-damn loud and horribly childish and vindictive. She would come out with some wierd-ass logic to justify why she would be right and i would be in the wrong. Ugh how she irks me *evil thoughts*
Yea i know i was so caught up with the plot that i never saw any mistakes - may have to look harder next time..
Argh!! such torture having to wait!! *shakes fist angrily* curse you amazon for making me wait!!!
No of course you wouldn't mind buying your own copy... :P
Haha Carlise =Jeb and Seth = Jamie i so get what you mean. Kyle is rather like James and i think the Seeker is a lot like Victoria. Jared is getting annoying but Ian is so sweet. I've been reading a fair bit this evening and im just around the bit where they get back from the raid and Wes is dead . I'm liking it quite a lot but the Seeker had better die or something soon cos she's seriously getting on my wick JUST LEAVE HER ALONE ALREADY!!!

posted by LadyViolet at 4:37 pm (EST) on Mar 4, 2009

Oh that's ok Jess i was out until half ten last night so i wasn't really on my computer until much later.
I am probably already addicted to LT lol *shakes head despairingly*
I bought a xmas present for her cos i wanted to and i also sent her a birthday present cos hers was on the 28th december. But i can't remember if she sent me one but i didn't mind cos she bought me a pair of really nice earrings and a necklace for my 18th birthday last year (i was in france on my bday).
I would LOVE to work in a bookstore!! i guess you would get a discount and probably be able to find out when books you want are getting released. I would most likely scare the snot out of most of the customers though with my psycho addict ways *hehe*
That is my guess for the reason behind her hostility but i haven't had the inclination to have a good yell at her about the stuff she does.
I heard that there were typos in Breaking Dawn but for the life of me i can't remember seeing any! but i haven't read them in a while so i may have to re-read soon. My sister is wearing the darn things out she's reading them over and over again lol.
Phew! i shouldn't be relieved that you haven't had time to get a proper book fix but i am cos that means i only have to wait a bit longer until we can both obsess over how awesome Untamed is !!
I know !! HEDWIG!!! in the first two blood chapters!!! and Moody as well!! seriously what the hale was going through her mind??
Yea i really liked Uglies i'm gonna wait before i buy Pretties since im gonna read my amazon load before i buy new books. i have a feeling Pretty Tally will get on my nerves significantly in the next books since Pretty Shay was already peeing me off at the end of Uglies.
I started reading the Host last night, it's alright so far i find the memory things of Melanie (those bits written in the different font) really quite clunky to read but other than that im ok with it.

posted by LadyViolet at 5:49 am (EST) on Mar 4, 2009

Hehe yea i did i must have looked well strange when i went into 'stones clutching 3 copies of Twilight and one of New Moon (it was a xmas pressie for my friend Lea) the guy at the till was like "so have you read twilight?" i soo wanted to scoff at him -what the bloody hell was he thinking? of course i've read Twilight!!
I like hanging round with my little group of close friends more than the big group cos i tend to get insane urges to beat the snot out of one girl whose hated me since i started going out with my bf last year. But one of my good friends is still friends with her so she often hangs out with her instead.
Ah at least your bf will give it a go - i told mine to read bits of Midnight sun but after reading those he said he didn't like it and wouldn't read Twilight itself- i didn't want to force him cos he is pretty fussy about his books. He is a much more critical reader than i am and so is more concerned about the "quality" of the stuff he read. I'm not a fussed if the plot is a bit sketchy in places or if the characters are a bit flat. Unless every aspect of a book bores me then i don't mind what i read.
Oh i do that - laugh randomly at stuff i'm thinking luckily i can laugh silently so unless people notice the slight shuddering then they tend to know im laughing.
Yeah random pointless deaths are almost insults to the readers who've become so connected with these characters - to have them killed in such a blase manner is quite heart-breaking.
Yup we do need help - a *lot* of it lol :P

posted by LadyViolet at 6:41 am (EST) on Mar 3, 2009

Hehe i added it to my wish list on amazon as well though since i tend to make frequent trips into bookshops i shall keep my eyes peeled as well and come screaming into here if i see it lol.
There's only a few of my friends who i would be able to recommend books to cos i know them well enough to know if they would like the same books as i do. And out of those few i already gave them Twilight for christmas haha. My group of friends is a bit of a conglomeration of little groups of threes and fours and a couple of people who flit between them. Not all of us really get along so its difficult for us all to hang out as a big group .
Haha luckily for me my bf is also a bit of a book nerd so he loves book shopping - but i reckon he would get a bit huffy if i was taking ages to browse and didn't buy anything. I was silly (and addicted) enough to go on the Lex at school where he could see me and since i had a habit of talking about stuff that happened on the Lex he knew a fair bit about my addiction *blushes* It's probably a good thing that your bf doesn't know about - the less he knows the better :P
Yeah if you're at a really exciting part of the book then you don't feel tired cos your heart is racing with the tension but most of the time its great for making your eyes droop lol. I've lost count of how many times i've wished i didn't need sleep so i could read as long as i wanted without feeling tired.
It gets remarked upon several times a day that i'm off in my own little world lol its easily recognisable when i'm gone cos i start staring into space with a very gormless look on my face. Its really quite odd cos my brain starts remembering totally random stuff and when i get asked what im thinking i have to say "nothing" cos i will look like *such* a lunatic if i told them what was really going through my mind lol.
:( JKR was absolutely evil during those last few chapters - i mean not only Fred, but LUPIN!!! and you never even see how he dies they just go into the great hall and BAM! there he is next to Tonks both dead and leaving their son as an orphan. That's just plain mean it's as though she needed a to kill a quota of characters and picked random names out of a hat.
Oh cripes i am semi-terrified of having a house fire and i feel like a right selfish person to admit that i would also be more concerned about the loss of my books than my other things. im rather glad im not the only one.
I would be so devastated if my eyesight worsened to the point that i couldn't read for myself, audio books would be good to fill the void a little but many of the books i have aren't available on audio cd.
Ah i reckon that is a pretty good reason to work for family members lol.

posted by LadyViolet at 3:13 pm (EST) on Mar 2, 2009

Yea i saw today that the paperback is coming out soon - maybe the hardback has already been out here but only for a while so now they're bringing out the paperback. Im not sure how many there are going to be but i may have to have a gander about to find out.
I hope so too - although today i suggested that one of my best friends buy the first two House of Night books to give to another of my best friends as a birthday present. Hopefully she will buy them as well so i will be able to talk with her about their awesomeness when im not on the computer :P
Darn boyfriends! don't they understand we addicts *must* get our fix or we go insane?!! lol i don't think my bf approves of my over-zealous spending recently he thinks i've gone stark raving bonkers (not that i wasn't before lol) he also thinks im getting as addicted to LT as i was with the Lex.
Haha i know!! i can't help it- i was really awake when i got home and reading tires me out so i always like to read before bed regardless of how late it is.
Im a bit older than my bf he's gonna be 18 in June and i'll be 19 in october (eep!) We do hang around with the same people outside of lessons but he knows loads of other people in the year cos he went to middle school with many of them and was in lessons with them from yr9-11. He's a lot more social than i am- i don't feel comfortable talking to people i don't really know cos i think that they might not like me or think im rather odd (cos i do tend to ramble some random shiz fairly often).
I do get pretty emotional when im reading books that i really like - i cried reading the last HP book cos i could not believe how many people JKR just went round and killed , I mean she killed FRED!!!! HOW COULD SHE!! I think i got pretty angry while reading THe Pillars of the Earth as when this arse of a guy came and ransacked the town where the story was mostly based. Actually i think i went through most emotions with TPOTE and its a bloody good book if it can do that to a person.
Hehe yes safety of books takes priority over safety of our persons *ALWAYS* :P
Me and my friends are rather rubbish for organising things - about half of us can't drive yet and we are spread out over nearly a 10 mile area. I was supposed to be booking these tickets for a gig im going to with a few friends next friday but i keep forgetting so we're gonna just pay at the door cos it'll be a damn sight cheaper that way really. I haven't had a saturday off work in over 2 years (not including holidays) it would be great to be able to hang out with my friends during the day.

posted by LadyViolet at 11:49 am (EST) on Mar 2, 2009

Yeah i saw that while i ordering my stuff off amazon.com and there's apparently gonna be a forth book called Splendor coming out in October time. Although i swear i've seen Envy on sale in waterstones - maybe i was hallucinating or i dreamt it (i somtimes do that, dream something and then wonder the next day if it was really true).
I got an email earlier that says my order has all been shipped from amazon so hopefully it won't take much more than a week to get here so i can be reading the Greatness soon enough.
There's usually a load of Philippa Gregory books in the fiction sections so you shouldn't have too much difficulty finding some.
It was a pretty good party last night - it was a joint 18th bday party for two people in my year (they're not really friends but we're on friendly terms) my and my bf got a joint invite so we both went together. didn't get home til after 12 so i was a leetle bit tired this morning lol.
Yeah i do like having my own space and i get quite pissy with my sister if she starts meddling with stuff in my room or if she keeps coming into my room when i want to be alone so i can read. I go to my bf's house every saturday night but i don't really go out in the evenings during the week.
Yeah i do love my waterstones card i've got nearly enough points to redeem £10 off a book - i'm surprised it hasn't melted with overuse this past week i've literally spent over £100 i think on books.
Hmm i haven't seen the film but i wasn't hugely impressed with the book really it didn't have all that much going on and it didn't quite have the impact i expected at the end. Maybe the film is able to get the true feeling across better than the book because i expected to be crying at the end but i just wasn't - i found it quite sobering but it didn't move me to tears.
Yeah i heard that the host is pretty slow at the start but improves as you get further in.
Oh yeah i forgot that - i used to ring my bf in the evenings from the house phone (cos we have free calls after 6pm for up to an hour) honestly we could barely fill 15mins with decent conversation i just sat there occasionally interjecting the silence with my favourite word - "mush". We see each other every day at school so there's nothing that we could really talk about that we haven't at school .
lol it's ok i sound pretty moody a lot of the time - it does seem pointless spending ages on the phone when it could be cut down to a quick email or text.

posted by LadyViolet at 5:31 am (EST) on Mar 2, 2009

Hey yeah i did finish Rumours last night and OMG i am semi FURIOUS that i have to wait for Envy (the 3rd book) cos that bloody woman damn well near broke my heart at the end and now im so anxious to see if actually gives one of the characters the comeuppance she deserves for being such a bitch. But it was still pretty good despite the fact i actually cried at the unfairness of the ending.
ah right well i shall let you know my thoughts when it arrives.
I've got to get some work done now cos i've got a party to go to later so i may not reply to any messages after this one until tomorrow. Knowing me though i may still end up cracking a book when i get home at around midnight hehehe.
I know it will be tough for me to make it through the next couple of weeks without getting all anxious about not being able to read it but hopefully i've got enough books stockpiled to placate me until then lol :P
I'm like that - i like being all antisocial hiding up in my room with my books. I find it difficult to summon up enough energy to go out all the time and kids would wear me down really quickly. That's not to say i don't want any ever but hopefully if i do they will inherit my ability to sleep through the night real early on so i won't get woke up at 4 in the morning every day lol.
I actually bought The Pact today (along with two other books - curse those pesky 3 for 2 offers ) i will have to work out when im gonna read it considering the huge number of books i've bought recently. I also bought the Boy in the Striped pyjamas (and i've already read it ) it was so saddening cos it reminded me why i hate 20th century history - that fact that humans can do that to each other depresses me immensely . I noticed you have it in your library -have you read it yet?
I also bought the Host cos i felt it was about time i did.
I got both of my Luxe books in Waterstones so there's no cause for anxious waiting for deliveries from amazon ;)
Oh yeah im glad im not the only one. I don't know why exactly - i suppose im scared of dialing a wrong number if i call someone's home number that i haven't rung before. And i sound really wierd on the phone . It's pretty irrational really lol. Ah well all the freaks together eh?

posted by LadyViolet at 12:26 pm (EST) on Mar 1, 2009

Dang it you know my bad habits! hehe
Yea thats the good thing about him being a cousin - you don't have to live with him!! not that i don't like little kids its just that i have limited patience for them cos i find it hard to muster up the enthusiasm required to play with very young children.
Oh yea i saw that post that stuck up for us Yay her!!
Well as you may have noticed from my recently added books i ordered : Untamed *squeal*, Evermore, Infamous, the 10th Clique book (i know they're for younger teens than me but they're deliciously addictive), and the first 3 Vampire academy books.
According to Amazon the dispatch date is monday but they won't arrive until (at the latest hopefully) March 27th!!! I don't know if i can wait that long!!! *wails* ahhhh!!!
I hope for Waterstone's sake as well that they sort it out soon or they will lose two of their best customers!!!
I may have to buy The Pact for myself and lend it to mother dearest if she wants to read it.
I ..er.. kind of already was on the Lex for a little bit but i may stay off there now cos i have a nice round number of posts lol

posted by LadyViolet at 4:14 pm (EST) on Feb 28, 2009

Hey you! aww lucky you i've been at work from 8 this morning til quarter past five so i am *shattered* i may actually have an early-ish night tonight!
Cool i only have two cousins and they're both grown-up (age-wise, mentally they're both about 5 lol) having a cute little baby cousin to fawn over would be pretty awesome - until they started to bawl and scream then it wouldn't be as fun :P
Yea i went and read that post on the Reading thread - geez uptight much? it is book related talk and its not our fault there is no general talk thread about books (or the BAA) and the thread doesn't exactly move very fast so its like there's gallons of pages to sift through.
Ah that reminds me i need to ask my mum about The Pact now that she's actually awake haha
LOL silly girl forgetting that the book glows!! if you turn it so the front cover faces down then you should be alright cos i think its only the front with the glowing writing.
I might get the first Vampire academy book during my amazon splurge later (will explain momentarily) the Nightworld books are really pretty good even though they are rather short .
Oh see i told you it would probably pick again if you persevered!! :D that can go on my list then
Some time soon (i.e. in an hour or so) i shall be ordering stuffs off amazon.com with the help of my mum's trusty mastercard that has £75 on it (they've forgotten the Pin for it so its ideal for internet shopping, i shall be ordering a fair few books in an attempt to see if i can get free shipping for spending a certain amount.
Yea i noticed that waterstones.com does take an inordinate amount of time to ship books - i used the website to order a load of books that a friend wanted (so i could get the points from it) most of the books weren't in stock and nothing arrived for weeks and weeks and then suddenly the books came into stock ... and... they cancelled the order cos the card i'd used to order them i had pretty much emptied the account cos i had a new card. Then when i came round to re-order the 7 books that still hadn't arrived 3 were no longer available online, then out of the 4 that i was able to order 3 weren't in stock again!!! ARGH!!
Due to the length of time it's taken me to write this i have been able to have dinner and ask my mum about the JP book - she presumes that she doesn't have it cos i didn't find it in the cupboard where her books get dumped after she's read them.

posted by LadyViolet at 2:44 pm (EST) on Feb 28, 2009

Yes it *such* a trial to drag yourself onto the Lex how can you bear it? :P
Well i definately wouldn't turn down a tour guide especially if said tour guide knew where the bookstores were ;) although seriously it is a pretty good idea...
Yea lol the font is fairly creepy though it makes sense since it is a book about vampires...
It would be a good idea to hoard the other books ready for when you burn through the ones you already have cos there's nothing worse than finishing a book rather late at night and having a serious craving to read the next one (even though sleep would be a good idea) and you haven't got the next book.. my how annoyed i was the other week at that.
Hmm im not sure which has been my favourite... House of Night is definately up there at the top... actually scratch that they are my favourites hehe
Which has been your favourite?
Ah right so starts off good but drags around the middle... perhaps it will pick up again towards the end?
Yea i will do when i get round to reading Rumours.
Erm... not too sure at the mo i've got 35 books in my cupboard (although that does include some books that i wouldn't read for lols) that are to-be-read and 7 that need finishing. Plus a hefty list of books that i need to buy mostly off amazon cos the bookstores don't tend to stock them.
I will have to get back to you on that lol it will depend on what i feel like later when i switch off me computer.

posted by LadyViolet at 11:28 am (EST) on Feb 27, 2009

Morning!! yea twas awesome to be back for a bit - i shall be on again tonight as my presence is urgently required in the Mafia as i am actually the maid of honour for Nic's wedding lol.
It will be soo amazing if i do go to warwick though we may end up racing each other to the bookstores if there's a book we both want hehe.
I will live on campus for the first year then sort something out for the second year. Stafford is not exactly where i live but its the closet big town and it would be a fair commute in the mornings so living away from home is the best option really. (it's ok my geography is not exactly world class either :P)
Lol it is quite a creepy glow though isn't it? im glad that i put it away after i spotted mine glowing cos it would have really freaked me out if i could see some ghostly light somewhere in my room. I really hope they bring out the funky covers for the other two cos i do want them to match *OCD twitch* I got the first 3 for christmas and literally read them back-to-back in the timespan of less than 24 hours (eating and sleeping interrupted at intervals). I was well pissed when i finished cos i had to wait to get the fourth book.
Oh is evermore not that good then? hmm it sounded really awesome when it was mentioned on the Lex darn it i may still order it just to read it anyways.
I finished the Luxe this *coughmorningcough* its actually really good once you get past the fact that the main character Elizabeth is a bit of a lifeless plank of moral propriety. The second book is supposed to be more about her younger sister Diana who is a much more interesting person to read about.

posted by LadyViolet at 6:40 am (EST) on Feb 27, 2009

hehe yea wait til the twilight books come back - if they're not too battered then lend out some other vamp books. I envy libraries cos they have those special plastic covers to protect their books - i should go into my local library and mug them for a load of covers.
Lol i've probably racked up a pile of books i've half-read over the last year.
yes the four that i've got all will glow in the dark if you leave them in bright light for ages then stick them in a dark place. I don't think there is the fifth and sixth books with those covers... yet cos i reckon they are on a staggered publication like the bloody house of Night books *grr*
Oh im exactly the same a pretty cover will draw me in soo much more than a dull one. that's why i love my Tamora pierce books cos the english versions have uber funky covers (i do love the books for themselves of course - the covers just make them better)
Yea i like to get the nicest copy on the shelf the one that doesn't have any nicks or creases or *le gasp* bent pages!! but if it is the only copy i may just leave it if i can get it somewhere else.
Yea when i've finished the Luxe i'll let you know what i think there's actually a third book coming out at some point called Envy. but i won't get that unless i get through the first two.
haha probably you will !

posted by LadyViolet at 1:53 pm (EST) on Feb 26, 2009

lol i hope you don't get any either
It will be good to have someone to obsess with over twilight in real life - not that it isn't fun being able to talk with people about it on the lex or anything but you can't be on the lex all the time .
Argh i still need to order untamed or im gonna go mental!!! amazon is most odd at times *pouty face*
yea i have a tendancy to do that - if i start a book then switch to something else before i've finished it then it sometimes takes me ages to get back to it. I starting reading Innocent Traitor back before christmas and i never finished it.
Yea my Morganville books glow in the dark! its wierdly cool after i'd finished Feast of Fools rather late at night and switched my light off i suddenly noticed all the freaky glowing and remembered thats what the covers do!
I'm trying to read the Luxe again cos i started it last year and i never finished it so i want to read it so i read the second one as well. hopefully i will read one of my new ones next.

posted by LadyViolet at 6:14 am (EST) on Feb 26, 2009

Lol funnily enough you already have the two books i've just bought - question is have you read them or not?? i think the House at Riverton sounds pretty good cos it's got that historical feel to it and i reckon the Memory keeper's daughter is gonna be a bit of a tear-jerker but i shall have to read them and see...

posted by LadyViolet at 6:18 pm (EST) on Feb 25, 2009

Hmm i dunno sorry..
Lol ironically enough that's how i managed to get her to read Twilight. She saw the trailers for the film and said i had to take her cos it looked really good. After she'd seen it for the first time she was like "OMG i have to read the books" although she didn't want to read twilight straight away cos she though it would ruin the film for her (with all the stuff they missed out and everything) so i read a fair chunk of New Moon to her though she made me skip the middle Edward-less section to get to the Italy scenes near the end. She read the last two by herself although it did take her a while. When she eventually read Twilight (after a lot of nagging) she practically killed me for "not telling her to read it first!" i *did* tell her but she wouldn't listen! gah siblings can be right annoying sometimes. lol
Hehe some time in the future...
Argh amazon is *such* an evil temptress it taunts us with the uber cool covers then cruelly won't give them to us until August and September. I went into Smiths earlier today (cos they seem to be the only people with Chosen) and asked if they knew exactly when it would be available - same as amazon Aug 6th Untamed Sept for Hunted and there's a new one Tempted 1st Oct *excited giggle*
Oooh 9 you say? that sounds most intriguing... well we will have 6 by the end of this year so it may all be over in a year or so :(
I had heard that the Hunger Games was going to be a trilogy but chunky books are excellent so it partially makes up for the lack in numbers.
Well i must confess i did buy some more books today only 2 which is good but they weren't on my list of To-Buy books. they shall appear on the connection news momentarily..
Haha i did that -spent ages trying to get all the right covers for my books although there still is a couple which i couldn't find...

posted by LadyViolet at 6:00 pm (EST) on Feb 25, 2009

hehe i knew you would be just as excited as i was.
I know about Loren!! ugh that man ticked me off! he was all sexy and charming then BAM utter arsehole he almost bloody deserved that decapitation. I know it is sad that Zoey's friends at the House of Night aren't talking to her but at least Stevie-rae is no longer a freaky undead dead person!!! She's some new type of vampire how cool is that?? I know omg i wasn't expecting that to happen to Aphrodite and i think i nearly had a heart attack when Eric changed. I *really* hope she finds Heath again in the next book cos you don't know what happens to him after the imprint is broken.
Argh!! i need to order Untamed Nao!!
hmm Neferet sure has the guts to kill vamps... dang that woman is turning out to be evil as hell...
I might read the second nightworld book next methinks...
Yes Feast of Fools is a morganville book - they are pretty good though the cliffhangers are gonna kill me one day cos she puts the characters in uber danger... then the book ends and you have to wait for the next one to see what happens to them - my god i almost threw the book across the room last night!!
Yes the Mafia is insanely addictive - we are basically a big family of vampires living in a huge mansion - we have pets (boths animals and humans) there are crazy world domination plots, wolf pack warfare and currently wedding plans lol . Its pretty much one huge random roleplay game that involves a heck of a lot of Nutella and a good dollop of mayhem .

Question: what the chuff is with // that?
im confuzzled

posted by LadyViolet at 3:06 pm (EST) on Feb 23, 2009

Yeah i've got pretty much all of my books up now except a few that i couldn't get to work and the 24 doctor who books i have (i couldn't really be bothered to put them on here.
Well done to you on actually being able to put it down - i didn't have such discipline when i was finishing Feast of Fools ..er this morning technically *cough2amcough* when i read the last line i nearly threw the book across the room in sheer frustration. Rachel caine sure knows how to leave you hankering for more.
Message me when you've finished chosen later - i know isn't Loren a right arse? ugh i wanted to shake Zoey for being a silly girl.
I may be on the Lex again next weekend as there are events happening in the Mafia for which my presence is mandatory (unless i want to be beaten severely)
Ah ha i worked out a sneaky way to edit my previous message - i had to dash to history right when i was trying to post.
I know what you mean about being able to take the time to type out your thoughts- i ramble incoherent nonsense all the time and so invariably freak certain people if they don't know me very well.
Im very tempted to "borrow" my dads Amex card again to order untamed, infamous and whichever other books i need off Amazon.com cos my patience will not last til august or whatever stupid date amazon.co.uk has given for the release date of untamed.
Hmm if the BDB books aren't all that great i may just read the first one and leave it cos there's use throwing my money away.

posted by LadyViolet at 8:04 am (EST) on Feb 23, 2009

You found Chosen!?!?! THAT'S AWESOME!!! God you *have* to read it as soon as!! I swear you will be uber happy when you've finished it!!
Hmm i don't remember that in AGATB maybe i read through it too quickly to notice it. I didn't like Gemma's brother he made me wanna hit him for being a superior snotbag lol.
I now feel the need to have an amazon splurge lol sod the shipping fee from America I WILL HAVE UNTAMED!!!
Yea i am actually pretty shy when it comes to speaking to people in real life - i find it easier to talk to people on the internet cos i can get my words out without making it sound like a gibbering mess. I tend to talk too fast and end up stuttering a bit cos i can't my words out clearly . Although once i get to know people then i am pretty difficult to shut up lol.
Yea i'm intrigued by everyone saying how good the BDB books are and i'm still determined to read every vampire related book i can get my hands on lol.
I'm gonna go a little mental later when im cataloguing my other books i think i have nearly 30 books to put on and if i don't get it all done tonight i will not be a happy bunny...
wow this is a short post lol!

posted by LadyViolet at 9:28 am (EST) on Feb 22, 2009

Whoa that is spooky lol - i know loads of people with Louise as a middle name it seems to be a fairly popular choice though not many people have it as a first name... how odd.
yea i like keeping my books in good condition i get really annoyed if i accidentally bend a corner. One of my tamora pierce books is slowly falling apart cos the binding is breaking in one place- its really annoying cos it's my favourite book and i don't want it to break but if i have to i will buy a new copy when it does fall apart. lol
Oo i need to order that as well it's on my to-buy list (which has nearly 30 books on it lol) i have a load that i need to order off American amazon - untamed, infamous etc.. gah soo many books!! I do love series for similar reasons the more books there are the more you get to know and love the characters which makes them more enjoyable to read because you really care about what happens to everyone. the series with less books are slightly better for my addiction cos it's gentler on my pocket. lol
I feel that i can't actually go into a bookshop without buying something so even if they don't have the book that i wanted i still try really hard to find something i might like although that can end badly cos i could end up finding a book a love that has loads of others to go with it . Yea i don't like waiting for books when i know i can get them now. If they're in hardback i don't care that they're more expensive i still buy them- my bf waits for months to get the paperback copies of the books he wants - i haven't the patience lol.
Last July Lea came over to stay with us but we haven't organised anything yet for her to come back and visit-that'll be something i will need to do at some point in the future.
I knew you would be as crazy as i was when i told you lol. I found it 'Smiths but you could always beat up the staff of borders and Waterstones to see if they find a copy for you... I wonder if Untamed will come out earlier since Amazon lied about Chosen *hopes and prays* oh my booky senses are tingling!!
Hehe i reckon i would have scared that lady if i'd started talking to her so it was a good thing im too darn shy to do it. lol
hopefully later my dad will hand over his credit card so i can upgrade my account so i can put the rest of my books on here *excited laughter* oh this place does wonders for my psychoses
Oh thats another thing which annoyed me when i went shopping- bloody waterstones had 5 of the BDB books but NOT the first book!!! >:[ they had the second one which is useless to me without the first. Then 'Smiths didn't have any of them so i was most pissed about that. lol just needed to rant there.

posted by LadyViolet at 7:55 am (EST) on Feb 22, 2009

Ah it's ok my proper name is Rachel (i added it onto my profile page) what's even more ironic bout my name is that i share your middle name- I'm Rachel Louise May (greedy i know to have two but not my fault)
I know exactly what you mean!!! I LOATHE it when people bend corners to mark their page - i actually shouted at one of my best friends for doing that to *her* book she has now learned the error of her ways lol. people know better than to dare to bend pages on my books (not that i lend them out very often)
Yea i saw that post about Evermore and i thought it looked really good as well - great i just knocked a few books off my to buy list today (i've got some uber news that i will get to) and now i will have to add that to the list!! and the other books as they come out *rolls eyes* like i needed to start buying any more series...
hmm i don't really know if i've done that at halloween it'd be fun though cos i can freak myself out fairly easily and i'd probably get a kick from it.
Ah well... it was the book buying act itself which was needed for your fix so the fact that you haven't read it yet is irrelavent lol
yea Lea's english is pretty good so we email in a bit of a mixture of french and english sort of franglish... haha
Pillars of the Earth does have a sort of sequel that's based in the same location but it's set about 200 years later so none of the characters are the same.
I had another book splurge today when i went shopping in Derby (very odd place to go when you live near stafford mind you but meh..) Got Uglies by Scott westerfeld, the second Luxe book (it's sort of like gossip girl in 1899), the next Vampire beach book, another historical fiction book, and by far the most incredible.... i found it in WhSmiths (which is usually pants but came up trumps today) the one, the only...
Chosen by P.C. & Kristin Cast!!! i had a freaking heart palpitation when i saw it- i mean it's not supposed to be out yet and there it was!!! so i grabbed it and refused to let go of it... lol
Another funny thing while i was in waterstones - this woman was looking at the teen books and i swear she looked at most of the books i've bought in recent months, the hunger games, the vampire beach books, house of nights books (i felt like telling her that the third book wasn't out over here yet but i didn't want to look like a freak) so i stood there smiling like a lunatic... definately should be introduced to a padded room.
I know what you mean - i can right loads when it comes to talking about books with you but its nearly killed me this week to right two 700 word essays! my parents wish i would put as much focus into my school work as i do reading but ... its never probably gonna happen lol.

posted by LadyViolet at 3:56 pm (EST) on Feb 20, 2009

W00T!!! it worked!! oh now im happy... lol you can't rely on technology at all these days.

posted by LadyViolet at 5:27 pm (EST) on Feb 19, 2009

oh buckets!! curse this stupid web browser!!! gah this is soo not helping my mood!! >:[

Right i shall try to remember what the heck i wrote this morning...
Well the rest of it went something along the lines of..
nobody had really heard of the book which the Secret of Moonacre film was based off but they made it as a film anyway.
*evil laughter* that would have been hilarious to see *clueless girl puts book back* *Jess shifty eyed looks around* *then snatches book off shelf and "casually" sprints to the till* lol poor girl didn't stand a chance against a hard core book addict...
My school set up the original exchange which had the british students going to france at easter and then the french students came over here in July - any other visits after those two would have to be sorted by the students themselves although i don't know how many of the exchange students kept in touch with their partners. I keep in touch with Lea via email and text cos we got on really well (similar taste in books again) and im really looking forward to going back to france again to visit her.
It's great that you're feeling better - i can sympathise with the tiredness, i was up til 2 this morning doggedly trying to finish the mammoth Pillars of the Earth (which is a great historical fiction book btw). lol i never learn that if you stay up late reading you are invariably gonna feel crap in the morning.

I believe that was pretty much what i wrote before *narrows eyes* now computer if you dare to mess me about again im gonna have to have stern words with you...

posted by LadyViolet at 5:26 pm (EST) on Feb 19, 2009

Hehe its a good thing i found plenty of other books to distract me or i would have been nearly rabid having to wait until march to get the last Nightworld book since i bought the first in October last year..
lol Exactly!! I love talking about books too although if people ask me what a book is about i'm bloody awful at explaining it so it sounds pretty stupid. I just say yeah it's really good so go buy it for yourself and find out what it's about! lol
Eh maybe the movie peeps are running out of original film ideas so now are just plundering any book that sounds interesting i mean that Moonacre whatchamacallit (wow my spellcheck didn't object to

posted by LadyViolet at 6:19 am (EST) on Feb 19, 2009

*angry muttering* pox riddled useless web browser decided to crash on me so i have to type this out all over again >:[

I really liked the Nightworld books the stories are a bit shorter than what i normally read but they're still really good to read and the characters are easy to connect with. Yea they are re-prints with funky new covers they were originally published in the 90's methinks. The third volume is coming out on the 5th March (if my memory serves me well) and is already added to my amazon wish list lol.
I totally agree it's really great to find someone who shares the sam fanatical love of reading (and buying) books and the fact that we like many of the same books makes it even better cos one can recommend books to the other and its pretty likely that they'll like them.
Sorry to tell you... but you probably *are* insane :P I know for a fact that i'm certifiably mental so you can't be far off
After actually looking at the last Libba Bray book i think i can safely say that my previous statement of the trilogy being mashed into one film is impossible since A Sweet Far Thing is nearly 900 pages on its lonesome not even counting the other two. Methinks they'll bung the first two together for the film and wait to see if its received ok and then make the last book as a film on its own - or not if nobody really gives a damn either way as the case may be like you said the books aren't hugely popular.
Hehe parentals have *no* idea of the lengths we book addicts will go to in order to get our fix... rob a bank, beat small children out of the way if they dare to take the last copy of a book we want... etc in a similar vein of psychotic behaviour (i worry myself daily lol)
I guess it was a combination of the fact that i had compulsory french lessons from year 5 to year 9 and that i could pick it up really quite easily so i enjoyed it because i was good at it.
Yea i've been to France several times last year alone- history trip to Paris, then exchange program in the Limousin region (i'm still good friends with my penpal and hopefully i'm gonna go visit her this summer), last october i did some work experience in Limoges in a library of all places :D so what if it wasn't a proper public library? it had books and i got to play with the awesome scanner thing librarians use. (see? certifiable i am!!)
Oh i don't mind your questions im pretty nosy as well i can't help myself if i want to know something it will bug me til i find out. lol
Most of my messages seem to be near novella length since i try to answer each bit of your previous message and that added to my usual tendancy to wax lyrical (love that phrase) about everything makes for v.lengthy posts.

posted by LadyViolet at 4:15 pm (EST) on Feb 18, 2009

Sorry for the double post but i can't help it MY BOOKS HAVE ARRIVED!!! *happy dance*
I just needed someone to share my glee with cos they're here!!!
now where the hell to put them... *ponders*

posted by LadyViolet at 1:22 pm (EST) on Feb 18, 2009

I have a horrible tendancy of thinking about other things when im supposed to be doing something else - i can be sat doing some homework then my brain is suddenly off thinking about a book i haven't read in months or playing back a film i've watched its soo strange and irritating!!
Yea i reckon having to catch up on a load of missed work will not be fun in the slightest- im fortunate enough to rarely get ill so i get to go to school every day - joy..
Hmmm another book-film adaptation t'will be interesting to see what they do with it. I wonder if they will try and mash together all three books into one film since it's not such a well-loved series like Twilight so the fans will not demand (whilst waving pitchforks) that they make films for each of the books. I'm probably not gonna be overly narked if they fluff it up but i will be irritated on principle lol.
Hehe i got like that once when my mum ordered a load of Tamora pierce books for me off the internet and then "hid" them (very badly in a cupboard) in an attempt to stop me reading them before getting my work done. I snuck the books out one at a time, read them then put them back without her ever noticing.
i will admit im fairly good at french - not outstanding but i can lump some the blame for that on my teacher who is pretty much useless and gives me reason almost everyday to throttle her. i put up with her cos i really do want to be able to speak it fluently and to be able to read it and write it without too much difficulty would be great as well. History is my favourite subject - both my teachers are really good (or so i think there are others in my class who would disagree).
I've got quite a lot of historical fiction as well although i couldn't get all of them into my library since my historical fiction is on my bottom shelf and was the last lot i was cataloguing before i reached the 200 book limit darn it- i need to ask my dad again to borrow his mastercard to pay for membership so i can put the rest of my books on cos its really irritating my OCD lol.

posted by LadyViolet at 1:09 pm (EST) on Feb 18, 2009

i am exactly the same- i have the concentration span of a bleeding goldfish i will start out doing one thing and end up staring out the window or flicking through bits of paper or books within about five minutes! i irritate myself no end but i can't seem to stop doing it!
Oh no! i hope you feel better soon!
I've though about ordering the Uglies books cos they seem to be of a similar vein to the Hunger Games although i've heard that the forth one isn't as good as the original trilogy. At some point i may consider taking a look at those vampire Academy books and also those Blue Bloods vampire books by Melissa de la Cruz. Im becoming a serious vampire book hoarder lol.
My dad is rather resigned to my continual book purchasing habit but he does threaten me constantly with confiscation of books - he actually kept my It Girl books in his wardrobe until i asked for them at which point he gave me them one at a time to read. (after the first three i just took them without waiting for him :P)
That sounds really interesting i thought about taking psychology for AS but then i decided to do physics instead (really bad idea that was) but im applying to study French and History at Uni so i'm setting myself up for a seriously painful four years .

posted by LadyViolet at 4:08 pm (EST) on Feb 17, 2009

Yea the lack of new homework is something to be glad about in any case but if i still can't get the work i have done then its all for nothing. My mum's actually getting worried about me cos im suddenly finding it nearly impossible to write a simple essay and that im spending hours trying to work on it and coming back with nearly nothing done. I refuse to mention the fact that if the internet is on it's highly likely im getting distracted by all of its wonderfully distracting sites every five minutes cos i know she would have my internet permanently switched off.
Uni is gonna probably leave me gibbering on the floor within a week- i'll become even more a recluse than i am now and sleep will become a distant memory.
i was hoping to lift my Lex ban for a bit this week if i got my work done but unless i pull a serious miracle out of the bag today and tomorrow then it ain't gonna happen. :(
i had an email saying my amazon books have been shipped!! *happy dance* hopefully they will be here by friday or saturday and hopefully i will have done my coursework or they will be confiscated on arrival by parentals who know my bad habits :[
Just out of curiosity (and part nosiness) what do you study at uni?

posted by LadyViolet at 7:08 am (EST) on Feb 17, 2009

Yeah i'm off for half term although its not going to be much of a holiday since i've gotta do two pieces of French coursework before sunday or i am dead in soo many ways- i made a deal with my french teacher to hand both in after half term as a way of making up for not getting the first done by the deadline so i've dug myself a huge hole and thrown myself in head-first.
lol its so good to have a bf who can cook isn't it? i was in charge of stirring the bolognese sauce in the pan but my bf had done all the chopping up of stuff before i got back from work so there wasn't much to do that involved great amounts of skill. I reckon if i tried to do it again at home i would fail miserably (mostly cos i feel that we have sub-standard equipment at home :P)
i haven't signed into the Lex but i have lurked a fair bit as a guest - i properly killed the british thread for a week after i left lol. my resolve is weakening all the time and i fear it won't be long before i crack and run back in screaming.
I ordered some books of amazon uk the other day cos i couldn't be bothered to go out and pay full price for them from Waterstones. i'm now going to be anxiously waiting for the other two Libba Bray books, the forth Morganville vampires book and the second NightWorld book. *chews hand* darn it i hope they're all in stock.

posted by LadyViolet at 10:49 am (EST) on Feb 16, 2009

Hey - that sounds like an excellent plan i need to order a few books off Amazon.com so i might do the same, get chosen and Hunted over here then order Untamed from america although i'm very tempted to stuff waiting for Chosen and order all three from the US. I was planning to go to birmingham specifically for the mega waterstones on tuesday but my two friends who were going to come with me have bailed so i'm gonna have stay at home and try my damnedest to get my coursework done.
Unfortunately for me i think my parents are going to go to America near the end of august this year and i don't know the exact date that Catching fire comes out over there so im not sure if they will still be over there when its released. *crosses fingers and hopes*
Weekend's been alright - work was utter brain death so unbelievably boring that i was praying for an armed robbery or something to liven things up. I spent the evening with my bf (as it was valentine's day obv.) we cooked our own dinner and it actually really nice - my cooking skills are , basic to say the least so it was a great achievement for me lol. Today has been a day of general laziness - im supposed to be working on my coursework but i've spent quite a lot of time messing about and possibly lexlurkingalthoughishouldn'tbuticouldn't...
How's your weekend been?

posted by LadyViolet at 4:18 pm (EST) on Feb 15, 2009

Oh heavens forbid i get mismatching covers! *le gasp*
i'll be running to Amazon USA with my dad's credit card in hand :P
yea Amazon Uk is being rather wierd not having older books in a series then actually having the newer books. hmph!
Normally i go to Florida every year with my parents and sister cos we have a villa over there and i get to raid the awesomely huge bookstores over there. But this year cos im startin uni i won't be able to go during october half-term which is when we normally go and earlier in the year i have all my A-level exams. So i won't get to go at all for a while. I'll be giving my sister a list of books she has to find lol.

posted by LadyViolet at 5:44 am (EST) on Feb 13, 2009

Lol it's alright chuck any question you like at me and i'll try to answer.
I got all six of my It Girl books from America and the covers on mine are different to yours...
Hmm how odd i just looked on Amazon Uk and it does show Tempted but not for sale directly from Amazon... then it has Infamous which is the new book further down the page that you can buy from them!! Again another example of Amazon stupidity!
Gah how irritating

posted by LadyViolet at 3:18 pm (EST) on Feb 12, 2009

Interview with a Vampire isn't specifically part of a series (its ok you don't have to buy loads of other books) but there are a couple of other books which are vaguely related - The Vampire Lestat features one of the main characters from Interview with a Vampire (ironically enough ,Lestat) but the two books don't follow on from each other. Well at least i think they don't i don't recall hearing that they are part of a series so i shall say no.
Basically Interview with a vampire is stand-alone book (wow i could have saved myself all that waffling) lol.

posted by LadyViolet at 3:18 pm (EST) on Feb 11, 2009

I have heard of the Notebook from the Lex as being a really romantic film but i haven't seen it or read the book. I may have to add that to my ever-growing list of books to read lol. I am absolutely awful for complaining about films that muck up the books they were based on- it makes me a very annoying cinema buddy i tell you. I can soo see myself shouting at the screen while watching New Moon when it comes out and they've botched it. I actually have visions of me yelling at Kristin when it gets to the part where Edward leaves, cos i can just see her doing her stunned fish impression and spending five minutes trying to the get the words "you... don't... want...me?" out like she did at the end of Twilight. At that point i would get up and walk out in fury.
I do like watching films though only certain films are ones that i like to watch more than once. The Lord of the Rings films i have seen *many* times i can actually recite a lot of the lines (much to my bf's annoyance) and im full of random trivia about the films. Though i will always choose a book over a film i think.

posted by LadyViolet at 2:44 pm (EST) on Feb 11, 2009

lol thats the way to do it!! although i will admit Atonement is actually pretty good at keeping to the book. Of course it can't have all of the internal dialogue as the book is supposed to be written but Briony but they do a bloody good job of getting everything across its actually one of the few book-film adaptations that i like.

posted by LadyViolet at 9:25 am (EST) on Feb 11, 2009

I know what you mean about Betrayed - how could they do that to stevie rae?? And Neferet better get what's coming to her soon or im not gonna be happy. Im extremely tempted to order the other ones off the US amazon even though the covers may not match *chews hand*
Frankly although Eric is really cool i hope she stays with Heath cos he seems like such a sweetheart.
I have read Atonement which is awesome its so heart-rendingly sad at the end but a beautiful book nevertheless. its good to watch the film as well but afterwards as it did help me understand some confusions i had about the timeline. I haven't read Interview with a vampire yet but it is on my to-be-read list (quite far down that list mind you) apparently the film does it no justice and from reading a few pages like i have i've already noticed differences so if you haven't seen the film yet wait until you've read the book - although you may end up not liking the film afterwards. lol darn book-film adaptations.

posted by LadyViolet at 6:13 am (EST) on Feb 11, 2009

She's an american author and not widely known over here but her fanbase in America is a fair size a lot of people have followed her books for quite a long time cos her first book came out in 1989 i think and since all her books can be lumped into one of two universes people kind of want to get all of them. The two universes she write stories in are Tortall and Emelan. Tortall was the first world she created so the larger half of her books are written for that one. There are 3 consecutive quartets from Tortall then a pair of books which follow on from the end of the third quartet. She also is writing another trilogy in Tortall but its set about 200 years before the events in her first book - the first from that trilogy is called Terrier and the second, Bloodhound comes out in April. Her second world is based around the country of Emelan -there are two quartets and two newish stand alone books and there are two more planned in the future. If all of that confused the heck out of you have a look in my library all of the books are there.
Two of my best friends have quite similar tastes in books to me- one more than the other cos she has a lot of fantasy books like me though i think i have more books than the pair of them hahaha i end up getting a lot of american authors cos of my holidays in florida

posted by LadyViolet at 3:00 pm (EST) on Feb 10, 2009

Its awesome that you've even heard of Tamora Pierce - all my friends just look at me blankly if i mention her! Yeah they are a *lot* of books 25 to be exact with a new one coming out in april. Although her books could be classed as for young adult cos most of the heroines are slightly younger than us i don't really care cos they are great books and so re-readable its crazy.
Yea my bf does kick my ass in an intelligence contest haha.

posted by LadyViolet at 5:20 am (EST) on Feb 10, 2009

He was rather blah about Midnight Sun he didn't really like her writing style so i reckon i wouldn't be able to persuade him to read the Host plus he likes his sci-fi pretty hard-core - im talking seriously mind-blowingly difficult science stuff that you would have to have a pHd in Physics to even know about. lol
Oh i know what you mean about Alice, Ashley greene simply *is* Alice everytime i read the books now i see her if she was just a teensy bit shorter she would be truly perfect but i shan't nit-pick about that. New Moon had better be good or poor Chris Weitz won't live long enough to regret it as he'll have a million strong angry fanbase on his doorstep the day after the film comes out. I really want them to get all the emotional scenes right like chapter 3- if i'm not bawling my eyes in in the cinema then it buggers the whole film in my eyes. Plus if Kristin doesn't learn how to speak in whole sentences then im gonna be uber ticked off. sorry i like to rant about the films its part of my book OCD i am almost duty bound to loathe any book-film adaptation cos they are nearly always utter crap. (except for lord of the RIngs cos those films are awesome and the books although good are extremely difficult to wade through).
I got a bit bored last night so i picked up one of the books by my ultimate favourite author Tamora Pierce (i love Stephenie's books and all but i have *all* of Tammy's books and i've read them loads of times) her books are fantasy and all of them have strong female heroines. This book is called Trickster's Choice and there are about 12 other books that precede it but you don't need to have read them to understand what's going on although it does help cos you already know about some of the characters mentioned. I did kinda stay up til nearly 2 reading it so i was shattered this morning but what the heck haha.

posted by LadyViolet at 3:30 pm (EST) on Feb 9, 2009

yea i'm gonna work on trying to block the Lex in a bit hopefully i can find a way of doing it.
hehe my bf loves his xbox as well but he also loves his sci-fi books- he is a rather odd guy (much like me then). I did manage to get him to read some bits of Midnight Sun (after much nagging) but he won't read the books proper. He agreed to take me to see the film when it came out knowing i would complain about it when i had seen it- i did whinge a bit about the bits they left out or butchered *cough cough meadow scene cough*. Bless him he does put up with me though :P
Thats one of the annoying things about starting to read a series when there are already several books out cos you have quite a bit to catch up on before you can get the newest book. Its also annoying when you have to wait for several books from several different series to come out and you have nothing to read so you go out and buy a book that is *also* part of a series so you have to buy all the other books from that!! ARGH!! its a never ending circle!!

posted by LadyViolet at 10:28 am (EST) on Feb 9, 2009

Yea i will admit that today im feeling a little deprived of the Lex's awesomeness. But last night i cheated ever so slightly.... my sister's computer failed cos her bloody macafee security is naff - it doen't block normal pop-ups and even though she said she had blocked the Lex i still was able to get onto it. I didn't log on i promise but i did lurk around a bit on the Mafia and a couple of other places but eventually i got bored and went off it. My sister didn't manage to work out how to block it so im gonna have to give it a go. i took it off my favourites bar on my browser so i don't see it every time im on the internet but i will need somethin more permanent methinks.
Kudos to your boyfriend!! Thats so awesome that he would get your books for you cos you couldn't get them yourself. Unfortunately for me my boyfriend has wildly different tastes in books and wouldn't know which books i would want unless i left a list lying around which kinda ruins the surprise element. My excessive book buying habit does get me in embarassing situations sometimes - one of my best friends got me a book for my birthday last year and i had already bought it (although i hadn't got round to reading it) so she had to give me the present she had intended to give me for christmas. It was even worse when my boyfriend bought me a book for our year anniversary last month. He knows how much i love everything Twilight and had bought me the Twilight movie companion...which...i had bought last october in america. Luckily my sister now loves twilight so i gave her the american copy and kept the new one for myself but heck i wanted to dig myself a hole right there. It was so sweet that he took the initiative to buy me something twilight-related but hadn't thought to check what i already had . gah the perils of book addiction.

posted by LadyViolet at 1:59 pm (EST) on Feb 8, 2009

Well i only just got home from work so i haven't had much chance to start feeling the insane urge to go onto the Lex. my sister is still trying to work out how to block it on my computer so im using hers which already has it blocked. Give a few more hours and i will be clawing up the walls lol

posted by LadyViolet at 1:15 pm (EST) on Feb 7, 2009

Nah i was at school again today...grrr stupid teachers why couldn't they get snowed in?
Yea when the weather starts messing with your addictions thats the time to start hating it even if it does look really pretty lol

posted by LadyViolet at 2:02 pm (EST) on Feb 5, 2009

Hmm well Twilight isn't as relatable to as many people unlike Harry Potter where boys and girls of all ages can enjoy them. With twilight there is a definate bias towards females who read them but I spose in America the books are like Harry Potter cos of the sheer number of people who read them over there. In england Twilight's not as well known so Harry potter is still more popular. I love both Twilight and the Harry Potter books (which at some point soon im gonna have to re-read) although i like how Stephenie ends Breaking Dawn better than JKR ended Deathly Hallows ( i.e. no mass slaughter of loads of really awesome characters with little or no explanation).

posted by LadyViolet at 3:37 pm (EST) on Feb 4, 2009

Yea i liked aGaTB (shortening the title elsewise i'll be here all night typing it out) i got a tad confused in some places where i read too fast to catch what was going on but on the whole its really good - sometimes the characters seem a bit too modern for 1895 but i don't really mind cos its not supposed to be 100% historically accurate.
Yea i have always loved to read - the earliest i can remember is reading the first Harry Potter in year 4 or something but i know i was reading lots before then . Wait i remember i got busted in RE one time in primary school for reading during the lesson (im such a badass lol). I don't really know who i got my reading habit off cos my parents don't read that much, spose it was just me being an overly curious child.

posted by LadyViolet at 4:14 pm (EST) on Feb 3, 2009

as you may have noticed by my post on the Lex i've finished A Great and Terrible Beauty (i can't believe they modded our god damn it's- oops)
I will try and get hold of the other books in the trilogy as soon as poss but they may have to go on the looong list of books i want to buy (its almost as long as my forearm seriously!)
If i can't find some of the books i want on english amazon or in the bookstores then i will ship them over from the US though i think some books are sometimes different heights and have slightly different covers which then won't match with my english ones argh!! that will set off my OCD really badly ... lol im normal honest

posted by LadyViolet at 1:40 pm (EST) on Feb 3, 2009

Lol yea a sane person would have resisted testing the firewall but noo im the crazy person who has the willpower of a badly-set trifle and so had to try it. im such a idiot lol
I had a similar problem with the gossip girl books i first bought the fifth one at the airport on my way to america and while i was there i got the first four, then i had all the annoying waiting between the new ones being published i had to get a couple from england but most i bought en masse while i was on holiday , it does irritate me that they have all the best books and we have to wait months to read them unless we're prepared to fork out money for shipping from america hmph.

posted by LadyViolet at 3:49 pm (EST) on Feb 2, 2009

Awesomeness!! i've just found out my school's firewall doesn't block LT!! (what an idiot i am to find another excuse not to do work at school tsk tsk)
I do work every saturday though depending on what hours the bosses give me i do sometimes work friday night for two hours .
It's gonna kill me waiting to get hold of Chosen!! and then there's Untamed and the new one Hunted coming out in march or april for the lucky americans hmph..

posted by LadyViolet at 8:51 am (EST) on Feb 2, 2009

Well i work at the vair glamourous location of somerfield (rather naff supermarket chain soon-to-become-the Co-op-possibly) its not too bad though a couple of my friends work there as well on saturdays and the pay is great - it funds my book habit quite nicely :P
Betrayed is really good - it gets a bit sad at the end and unexpected people go all nasty on you and i can't wait to see what happens next!!
Im probably gonna read A Great and terrible Beauty next , either that or The Twilight Watch (its part of this supernatural trilogy with all sorts of sorcerers, witches, shape-shifters and even Vampires. oh and its set in Russia)
I should probably get to sleep soon as well so i have a semi-clear head tomorrow and can get some work done in my free lessons cos i certainly got pretty much naff all done today.

posted by LadyViolet at 5:15 pm (EST) on Feb 1, 2009

oo yea those pesky 3 for 2 offers haha they try very hard to bankrupt me!!
This weekend has been mostly unproductive (as most weekends seem to be for me) I work all day saturday so nothing gets done then and i didn't wake up today til nearly one in the afternoon! i've been trying to get one of my three history homeworks done (with a lot of failure in that area) i kind of started reading Betrayed and put off my homework a bit longer.
Hopefully once i ban myself from the Lex i will actually do work when i get home every night instead of jumping straight on the computer.
You done much this weekend?

posted by LadyViolet at 4:50 pm (EST) on Feb 1, 2009

Yea im still gonna be on here - its not quite as addictive as the Lex so im allowing myself some good book-related nerdishness lol
Im tempted to buy some of the Black Dagger Brotherhood books and obviously not tell my parents what they're about (i have heard that they have "mature" themes ;P

posted by LadyViolet at 4:31 pm (EST) on Feb 1, 2009

BOO!! Guess who?? have you read A great and terrible beauty? cos i bought it on friday and hopefully will get round to reading it soon

posted by LadyViolet at 2:46 pm (EST) on Feb 1, 2009