Beez: Looking for Alaska 

John Green

First drink, first prank, first friend, first girl, last words! A poignant and moving crossover novel about making friends and growing up from American author, John Green. Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words — and tired of his safe, boring and rather lonely life at home. He leaves for boarding school filled with cautious optimism, to seek what the dying poet Francois Rabelais called the “Great Perhaps.” Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young. Clever, funny, screwed-up, and dead sexy, Alaska will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps. Looking for Alaska brilliantly chronicles the indelible impact one life can have on another.

This is going to be a hard book to write a review on. I have wanted to read a John Green novel so bad. His covers, the titles and all the buzz going on about his books was so hard to resist. But I wanted to read it as in a book book. So I waited patiently and Lo Di Da I was rewarded. (Pshh! Beez and Patience? Puhleaz)

I want to start by saying Hats off to you John Green. Beautiful writing. Captured my heart. If I were to list all my favorite lines from this book, I think I'd just have to copy paste the whole book. It was that amazing. The lines, they leave a imprint on your mind. This book is going to be with me for a long time probably forever.One thing is clear; I am going to read all of John Green books.

Confession time.

I didn't really fall in love with this book at the starting. I liked it. And I wanted to read it. But it wasn't exactly gripping and breath taking. I liked it and I was interested but that yearning wasn't there. At the end of Before it started getting all the more amazing and at After I was hawk eyed.

This book is in two parts, Before and After. There's some day before and some days after. I thought tat was a brilliant idea. It also leaves you hungry to know before what??

Another thing I thought fantastic about this book was Mile's addiction to last words. I can totally see why he likes them so much. There's such a mystery behind those words. I especially loved all the last words mentioned in these books. 

"I go to seek a great perhaps."

Before this book the only great persons last words i remembered was Steve Jobs,

"Oh wow! Oh wow! Oh wow!"

I think I'm going to be obsessed about last words for a long time after this book.

One of my favorite characters is 'the colonel'. He is Miles room mate who's real name is Chip. He a great friend. He's also very funny. He drinks Ambrosia to dull his pain. Ambrosia as in milk with vodka which tastes very sour, unlike in Percy Jackson where it happens to be a sweet yummy drink that cures injuries. The colonel has many depths. He's a great guy. Especially his pranks and bizarre thoughts and ideas. The football game part was soo funny. I nearly fell of my chair when I read that he'd been thrown out of 37 games before. And since I was in the middle of class that certainly was bad timing. 

Alaska.

Thats her name. I just love it. And she chose it. How cool is that? I want to chose my name. Though if i had i would have chosen a very lame one that i would have grown to hate lots more because i would have been at fault. I hope you know that Beez is not my real name, how much ever i want it to be. Right. Alaska. 

Alaska is best described as a force of life. 

She's crazy, wonderful, moody, shocking, colorful, mind boggling and so many other words. She's one of those characters you can never be successful in describing. She's always going to be mysterious. Its no question why Miles falls for her. Alaska is soo full of life and spontaneous and has a million ideas and theories. She's that person who you'll always be in awe of. 

Alaska has many depths. At first she is that beautiful breath taking girl who is reckless and smokes and drinks. But as you get to know her you discover many layers to her. The story of how her mom dies is heart breaking. She's not perfect in any way but she is vibrant and different. 

I had a feeling that she was always with odds at herself.She blamed her self for certain things. I think she was confused. She didn't really know what she wanted.

I couldn't believer her when she was making out with Miles. she had a boyfriend and she got Miles a girl friend. And 'to be continued' was just so unfair to Miles. 

I love Alaska but i certainly wouldn't want to be her.

Now to the protagonist, Miles aka Pudge. Miles is skinny and that's why Colonel names him Pudge. Personally i think Pudge sounds like plump and that the opposite of Miles. Pudge is a great guy. He's a real nice friend and he is obsessed with last words of people. He moves to the boarding school to find his Great Perhaps. He has a certain depth to him. He is intelligent, deep thinker and has a physiological brain. He falls for Alaska very soon and it isn't hard to see. He loves her unconditionally though most of her is in his head. Sometimes i feel sorry for Pudge. He falls for this drop dead gorgeous girl who has a boy friend who leads him on every time but never actually does anything except for a few kisses on the last day! 

Miles is a complex guy. I could understand why he was fascinated with Alaska. Though maybe if he had been more of  man and grown some ball and kissed her before things could have been different for him. 

He definitely needs to grow some balls.

I liked all the other character especially Lara who still likes Pudge after he pukes on her. She is just so sweet. I even like that weird almost dead religious studies teacher who gives those confusing questions who's answers make you run around in circles. 

I loved the book. 

My advive is you have to read it. While you do that, John Green here i come.

4.75; cant wait to read his other books!

Lots of love and buffriedoes(inside joke: requires reading)

Beez.

Raven: Carrie

A novel by Stephen King

Publication Date: April 5th, 1974

Pages: 290

Targeted Audience: 16+

Summary: Stephen King's legendary debut, about a teenage outcast and the revenge she enacts on her classmates.

 
Carrie White may have been unfashionable and unpopular, but she had a gift. Carrie could make things move by concentrating on them. A candle would fall. A door would lock. This was her power and her sin. Then, an act of kindness, as spontaneous as the vicious taunts of her classmates, offered Carrie a chance to be a normal and go to her senior prom. But another act--of ferocious cruelty--turned her gift into a weapon of horror and destruction that her classmates would never forget.

I hadn't really planned on reading this book. Yes, lots of people love Stephen King and his horror books, but I had given up on horror books a long time ago. The one horror book that I had read didn't faze me a bit. I had even tried reading it at midnight, but nada. But this book? I tried my best to avoid reading it at night but after the end of the book I had nightmares. 

Anyways, Carrie White is a bullied girl in Chamberlain. She has a good fashion sense and like every other girl she wants to be popular but it isn't possible because of her domineering ultra-religious mother, who makes up stuff about the things she does not like and goes around saying that it's written in the bible.

The story begins with Carrie getting her periods in front of the girls in the locker room. She is bombarded with sanitary pads and tampons by girls screaming her to "plug it up!" however, no one knows that it's her first time. She obviously knows about it but at the moment when she was being ridiculed like this she couldn't really think about what was happening. Just like this moment, there are many other moments where you have to think deep. It's kind of like poetry. The lines have been written but it's our job to figure out what it really means. 

The characters are well expressed. These kind of characters make me want to think more about them. Even after the book was over, I kept thinking about them like they were real people. About what made them who they were and how their life would have been so different if they hadn't done the pig blood thing. 

I absolutely love the ending. There is so much destruction that I was momentarily reminded of my favorite book-character-arsonist Jesse from My sister's keeper. But except for the fire there was no other similarity. 

For this book to be really horrifying you need to have a great imagination and a silent surrounding. The imagination to actually feel the horror and the silence... so that you can be freaked out by the slightest noise. 

Carrie is my first Stephen King book and I was kind of shocked when I realized that he had written this book waaaay before I was born!! Heck it is even before my mom was born!! And my dad must have been in elementary school. I can't imagine my dad in elementary, I wonder if he was a bully then... and I imagine that my mom was a flower in paradise if she wasn't born then. Hehehehe! Me so immature XD.

Back to the point. It is a great book. Maybe you will be scared and maybe you might not but that is no reason to not read an amazing book like this. I rate it a 4!

Stephen King Quote: True sorrow is as rare as true love.

Lots of Love & Pasta

Raven (Who will be smacked by her mom of she is found blogging)

Beez:- Twenties girl 

Sophie Kinsella

Lara Lington has always had an overactive imagination, but suddenly that imagination seems to be in overdrive. Normal professional twenty-something young women don’t get visited by ghosts. Or do they?

When the spirit of Lara’s great-aunt Sadie—a feisty, demanding girl with firm ideas about fashion, love, and the right way to dance—mysteriously appears, she has one request: Lara must find a missing necklace that had been in Sadie’s possession for more than seventy-five years, because Sadie cannot rest without it. 

Lara and Sadie make a hilarious sparring duo, and at first it seems as though they have nothing in common. But as the mission to find Sadie’s necklace leads to intrigue and a new romance for Lara, these very different “twenties” girls learn some surprising truths from and about each other. Written with all the irrepressible charm and humor that have made Sophie Kinsella’s books beloved by millions, Twenties Girl is also a deeply moving testament to the transcendent bonds of friendship and family. 

I have always felt that Sophie Kinsella's book are ridiculously fun which gives you immense fun and hysterics while reading but if you ever tell the story sound very lame and ridiculous. Its not a bad thing. I have no idea how she takes such an idea and fabrics such a fun tale from it. This is real talent. And her books will make you laugh in such ways and will result in people give you odd looks (I'm talking from experience). 

In this book we meet Lara, a hopeless headhunter who's life is in shambles. She's a mess. The book begins with her going to the funeral of her great aunt Sadie who she only once saw and that being when she was a baby. The book starts at such a funny note. It guarantees that its going to be good. Then Lara sees a ghost. Namely a ghost of her great aunt Sadie. And Sadie is well....

Not much like a ghost. 

She bossy and screams and pestering and opinionated. She gave me the hysterics. I couldn't stop laughing when she goes and yells at people to do something. And boy is she good. Shes also very lively and free spirited. She has vivid and crazy ideas and she makes you do what she wants you to do. Shes spontaneous, bubbly and adamant as hell. Quite a ghost huh?

Lara is not like Sadie. Lara is a softie. She's still hung up on her ex and refuses to move on or admit he doesn't love her. Lara is very weak willed. She easily does whatever Sadie yells at her to do. She doesn't realize she has the upper hand. She doesn't take the upper hand. Her best friend blatantly uses her and she falls for it and doesn't take any action. But Lara is determined. She has ways and she manages to do it however. Not bad ways. Just a different way. 

What makes this book all the more fun is the mystery. There is not quite a mystery in the starting but as Lara discovers stuff it gets so much fun. The book is a whirlwind. Its extremely fun. It has a funny twist. And yes there is a very cute guy. And the way she meets the guy will blow your mind. Sadie will make you laugh till you cry. Lara's actions will make you tut tut a lot. 

I felt this book was an amazing read and i don't regret it. I'd recommend it to anyone in fact I already convinced a friend to read it and so she is. I don't think everybody would like it but I'd say if you're a YA and teen fiction and comedy fan this is your cup of tea. Its a great way to chillax and vent out some air. In fact I'm going to tell Raven to read it too. (Read it R). 

This review is slightly shorter than my usual but thats not because I'm not so very enthusiastic about it. My keyboard is actually giving me a hard time. And I have to be some where. 

So till then.

P.S. For you to look forward for something- Looking for Alaska, John Green is coming up.

Lots of love and marshmallows

Beez.