Book Review: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

SYNOPSIS:
It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem.

MY REVIEW:
As you know, I LOATHE reading books for class. I feel like every book Ive read in school was absolutely terrible. Until this one. I loved this book! I ended up giving it a 4/5 stars! I only gave it four because I dislike not knowing what the characters look like. I couldn't picture Nick the WHOLE book and only got small details about the other characteristics. And, at times during the book, I had no idea what was going on. I had to re-read the lines a couple of times to actually understand the meaning. I had not seen the movie before I read the book so I had no clue what was going to happen. I cant even believe Gatsby dies. Those pages of the book upset me to NO END. No one ever found out that it wasn't Gatsby who killed Myrtle or did anything with her. And then Gatsby's dad comes back?! Like, what the hell? He said his parents died?! AHH! I also didn't like how out of every single person that went to his parties, not one went to his funeral. HOW RUDE. I really didn't like Daisy either. Make up your mind girl, you're either with Tom or Jay. Get with the program. I know its sounding like I didn't like anything in this book, but I really did like it as a whole. Key word: whole. I suggest it if your into reading the classics! 

Book Review: Origin by Jennifer L. Armentrout

SYNOPSIS:
Daemon will do anything to get Katy back.
After the successful but disastrous raid on Mount Weather, he’s facing the impossible. Katy is gone. Taken. Everything becomes about finding her. Taking out anyone who stands in his way? Done. Burning down the whole world to save her? Gladly. Exposing his alien race to the world? With pleasure.
All Katy can do is survive.
Surrounded by enemies, the only way she can come out of this is to adapt. After all, there are sides of Daedalus that don’t seem entirely crazy, but the group’s goals are frightening and the truths they speak even more disturbing. Who are the real bad guys? Daedalus? Mankind? Or the Luxen?
Together, they can face anything. 
But the most dangerous foe has been there all along, and when the truths are exposed and the lies come crumbling down, which side will Daemon and Katy be standing on? 

And will they even be together?

MY REVIEW:
Okay, so this is the second time I'm trying to write this review and that's really upsetting because my first review was extremely good. I will try to remember what I was saying. So first off, I don't know what to do until the last book comes out. I'm sure JL is trying to kill me and every other Daemon Black lover out there. I didn't like the beginning of this book considering it was only about Katy being locked up. Let me just be honest right now-I am selfish when it comes to Daemon and Katy being together. I only want to read the book when they are together with each other. I just felt it lacks story when they aren't together. Am I making sense? Probably not. I also love how this story isn't all about the prince rescuing the princess. Katy is a bad ass! She fights with him and refuses to stay by and let Daemon take care of everything. The love in this book is absolutely fantastic. Katy and Daemon are like, the best couple. I ENVY THEM. I seriously hope no one dies in the last book either. I'm sure someone will but no one main. None of the Black family or Katy or her mom. I will be completely done with the series. This book was probably the best one for Daemon. He is usually this keep to himself kind of guy and in this one he just said all the cheesy lines and anything else that came to his mind. I love him 75894751894 times more now. Just saying. But that ending though... I cant even. Not even going to go there. But anyway, overall I gave this book a 4.5/5 stars. AMAZEBALLS!

Small Haul #5

Finally another book haul! I was so happy to get the last three books in the Vampire Academy! I have read books 1-4 and will soon be marathoning the last two. Now, the only one in the series I don't own is Shadow Kiss. Which is unfortunate because that was one of my favorite ones! I will have to order it... Anyway, I am also extremely excited about Origin!!! I marathoned the first three books during August and when this one came out, I was broke, so Ive really been waiting for this book for three months and its been agony. And, yes, that's Divergent because I am not yet in the fandom. I'm sorry. But I will definitely be reading it before the movie. The last book I'm excited for is Water for Elephants. I haven't even seen the movie so I am hoping to read it and then watch the movie! That's it for my haul, I hope you have all been buying some good books lately! As always, you can find all the info about these books on goodreads.com. Bye!

October Wrap-Up, November TBR!

I just dont know what is going on with me. I have had the shittiest reading months lately. I only read one book this month.....ONE! What the hecky?! IM CHANGING THIS RIGHT NOW. I am going to be in the mood to read in November and December and will finish my goal for my Goodreads challenge by the end of December. I am going to read a lot of my books because I want new ones for Christmas!

OCTOBER READ:

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen--> 3/5 stars

Im not even going to set a November TBR. I will be reading a book for school, but will definitely be reading other books. I will read more than one book this month even if it kills me!

Currently Reading-->

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hes An Asshole Anyway by Elliot Capner, Misha Zelinsky and Matthew Knapp as Illustrator

Hope you guys had and will have a good reading month!

Reading Update!

     HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Its not really Halloween but I wanted to start off this post like that. I just wanted to share with you the books I am currently reading and hope to finish this month. Homework has lightened up (a little) and I have had some time to read lately. My progress:

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger: 48 out of 536 pages

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath: 18 out of 290 pages

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare (Reading with my friend katie. We are reading 5 chapters every week.): 22 out of 485 (22 out of the 82 Im supposed to read this week...)

What have you been reading this month? Anything creepy for Halloween?! I hope so! :)

Top Ten (Books I Was Forced To Read) Tuesday

     So Ive decided to start doing Top Ten Tuesday and Wishlist Wednesday. All the other days don't really interest me but these two days do. This is my first one and I'm so excited! Its not that exciting but being that its my first one, it kind of is! This Tuesday is the top ten books you were forced to read. I'm going to assume its books read in school, because outside of school, no one forces me to read anything! These are in order. I can only remember these ones, so bear with me. 

1. The Hatchet by Gary Paulsen: I had to read this in 6th grade (which was sometime ago.) I wasn't an avid reader then and hated this book. I will hopefully reread it again in the far future.

2.  Where The Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls: I also read this in the 6th grade and actually enjoyed this one. Even though I didn't like reading back then, I liked this one! I hope to reread this one as well.

3. The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen: Moving onto to 7th grade! I remember reading this for my geography class. What that has to do with Geography, I don't know, but I don't remember any of it. I remember watching the movie, but I don't even remember reading ANY chapters. I was most likely skimming the pages the whole time.

4. Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer: For my English class, I ended up reading this. I LOVED THIS BOOK. A lot of people that read this book said they didn't like and I was like "WHAT?" I think the plot was magnificent and loved the idea of the book. There were a couple boring parts, but overall I enjoyed the book.

5. Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck: Ninth grade it is. I read this for my Literature class and was probably one person out of the couple people that actually read this book. My class was terrible and did nothing the teacher said, so I had nothing better to do than actually read it. It was good. I liked the book but liked the movie more.

6. The Crucible by Arthur Miller: An enjoyable book if I do say so myself. I read this in 10th grade and loved it. I remember reading this then watching the movie. Loved both the same. I really want to own this book in the future and reread it.

7. Beowulf by Unknown: HATE, DOUBLE HATE, LOATHE ENTIRELY. This was extremely hard to read for my Honors English class. It was the poem version that we read and I ended up failing every test and almost failed the whole class. Worst class ever.

8. A Separate Peace by John Knowles: I recently read this book for my AP English class. It is up on this page if you haven't read it already. This book was really good. I don't think I will be reading this again in the future. It just wasn't my cup of tea.

9. A Doll House by Henrik Ibsen: I am currently reading this book and The Red Badge of Courage for my senior classes. We aren't really reading the book, we are groups reading the play, but its the same thing. It is good so far. Sorry I cant say a lot about this one, we just got done with Act 1 so we are working our way through it!

10. The Red Badge Of Courage by Stephen Crane: I am also currently reading this. It is based on the Civil War and is college level reading. It takes me forever to read these chapters. I will be glad to be done with this book.

Reading Update!

Hey guys! It's most likely been over a week since I last wrote something on here so I figured I'd update you. Last weekend I actually got into a book! After over a month of not reading, I finally read! It was amazing. :) I started reading The Time Traveler's Wife and got about 30 pages in. Over the past week I have only made it to page 40 but I'm managing to get through it! I am also STILL reading Red Badge of Courage for my Civil War class so I really hope we are finishing it this month. I ALSO really want to start on The Bell Jar and City of Bones for my scary reads of the month. It is currently Saturday night and I finished all my homework yesterday so I hope to spend my Sunday reading all day! I will hopefully have a book review up soon or at least one this month! That's my rumblings for this post, have a wonderful night!