So I felt like blogging about books, because as you all know reading and writing are pretty much my main interests, and with having a whole day at home by myself, I have the time to kick back and surf for books on Amazon while listening to a few book-related podcasts like Mugglecast and The Mundanes.So I just went to Chapters on Saturday night between my (finally!) graduation dinner at East Side Mario's, and the movie Maxwell Smart. Pretty funny, and pretty good gnocci. So, there I saw many many many very interesting books that I wanted to buy, some of which I'd heard of, some of which I hadn't. In the end, I could only immediately get one, and that was Write Naked, by Peter Gould. Very good book, and especially intriguing for young writers. A little typewriter and pen action, a little romance (it is called Write Naked), and just an all around good story to get you thinking and off the beaten track. Excellent muse.But of course, that book wasn't necessarily the best of all the options and I won't know until I've read all of them, but it was instead the one I picked by numbering them. So, here's the list of books I will be purchasing shortly on Amazon:-Blue Bloods by Melissa De La Cruz-Masquerade: A Blue Bloods Novel by Melissa De La Cruz-Seven Tears Into The Sea by Terri Farley-Wicked Lovely by Melissa MarrMy list of others that I don't currently have enough money to purchase is:-The Declaration by Gemma Malley-A Great And Terrible Beauty by Libba BrayAnd obviously many others. By the way, it's a lot cheaper buying books online, and you can often get completely free shipping and it arrives very quickly. Try Amazon.ca.Sophie, the new Artemis Fowl comes out July 15, and it's called Artemis Fowl The Time Paradox. Yup, more time travel, but this time the real problem is dealing with his evil, younger self.Cassandra Clare is coming out with a new Shadowhunters series from back in the past (hundreds of years ago) called The Infernal Devices, with the first book, The Clockwork Princess, coming out in 2010. Here's a bit she put up on the characters to give you a basic idea of what it's about. There's more detail on her Google Groups website.Tessa: Tessa is American. She travels from New York to London when her
brother Nathaniel goes missing. Tessa has a cloud of long curly brown hair,
grey blue eyes, and a heart-shaped face. Tessa's parents are dead. They died
in a carriage accident when she was a child, which she witnessed. She was
raised by her brother and her Aunt Ida, a hypochondriacal old woman, and was
never allowed to see other children. So Tessa is very self-reliant,
reserved, and dreamy. She lives most of her life in books and her head.
Tessa is a warlock, but has no visible nonhuman characteristics.
Jem: Jem was brought up in the Shanghai Institute. His mother was Chinese,
his father British. Jem's parents were killed by demons in Shanghai, and
Jem was tortured over a series of days with demon drugs that left him
permanently addicted. This hasn't made him bitter or vicious the way Will
is, though. He's more resigned and philosophical. The drug he's addicted to
drains the color out of his hair and skin and eyes, so he's very pale, with
silvery hair and eyes — but he is half-Chinese, and that's visible in the
way he looks despite his coloring. Jem wears the kind of clothes Victorian
gentlemen wore in that era, with some touches that connote his heritage,
like a jade pendant around his neck, and clothes with what the Victorian
Brits would think of as "foreign" tailoring.
Will: Will is beautiful and dangerous and tormented and bleak. Much bleaker than Jace. He lacks the human connections Jace has made over the course of his life. Will hates everyone but Jem. Will works hard to make other people hate him and has his reasons for doing so. He thinks the worst of everyone and assumes everyone will follow their worst impulses at all times. His bitterness has made him a little wild; he likes to go out drinking and flirting and sometimes doesn't come back for days. Will's parents were Shadowhunters who left the Clave and brought Will up as an ordinary human boy. After they were slaughtered by demons when he was twelve he joined the Clave in order to revenge himself on demons for their deaths. He also blames himself for the death of his best friend, which he caused. Will has black hair, pale skin, blue eyes, and is slender and tall.
This has been a very long blog, so I hope you managed to get through all of it. Look some stuff up!
-Emma
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