Friday, August 30, 2013

The Fault In Our Stars

This summer for my summer reading assignment for school we were given freedom on what book we wanted to read. I went to book stores and talked to friends but ultimately I couldn't decide what I wanted to read. After much time thinking I saw the book The Fault In our Stars sitting on the shelf begging for me to read it. The front tof the book was colorful and looked nice and I 'kinda' read the back so I went into the book without knowing much. This book turned out to be the best book I've read so far. It's a teenage love story. What girl wouldn't love a teenage love story? John Green, the author, makes you fall in love with the main characters and you feel as if you're their friends. Green writes the book so beautifully and the writing is easy to read through. I actually finished the boo in one day because you dont want to put it down. Typical books that make people cry, I typically dont cry because thats just how I am but with The Fault in Our Stars I became an absolute puddle because it's a very emotionally involved book(I probably wouldn't read this book in public haha). Without giving too much away here's a quick summary. After being diagnosed with cancer Hazel's parents decided to send her to a support group where she meets Augustus. Augustus and her quickly become friends and go to Ambersterdam where they fall in love. In Amsterdam Hazel receives devastating news before they return, so when they get back to America it's a sad time for Hazel and Augustus but they make it work by reading books together, play video games, and talking with their friend Issac. To figure out the rest you have to read the book! If you do read it, let me know your thoughts and feelings. Thanks for reading my blog

Thursday, August 29, 2013

Hello everyone!

Hey there everyone! My name is JiA'nna, I am a 17 year old teenager from Princeton High School in Cincinnati, Ohio. This year I am a senior and plan to go to college the following year to become a nurse. I'm interested in becoming a nurse, but also want to be a book store owner so the first part of my life I'm pursuing my passion in nursing than retire from nursing and open my own bookstore and live the rest of my life in my bookstore. I'm involved in many activities at my school, I'm on my school's water polo team, I'm involved in a lot of volunteer work and I'm in my school's A'Cappella choir.
Only being 17 there are many different crazy things going on in my life, applying for colleges, friends and finishing my senior year, but something that I've always been very passionate about is reading. Reading has always been important to me and will always be important to me. My momma is an absolute reading fanatic so books and reading have been in my life since I was younger; but it all truly happened for me when our TV was broken and wouldn’t get fixed for a while. It was a really rainy day and I was having terrible cabin fever being stuck in the house all day. The only things in the house were books and toys, I picked one up to be able to sit next to my momma in her reading chair and finished it that day and ever since I’ve been hooked and reading like crazy.
Like I’ve said previously I love to read, look at other people’s reviews and will try to write my own reviews on books. This is my main motivation for creating this blog so I can learn more about the book world; new authors and new books. I'm very excited to write this blog and I hope you enjoy it. Any feedback is wonderful, and I hope you enjoy my blog.

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

iBooks

In the book world having a smartphone is awesome. Two apps that im in live withe are iBooks, an Good Reads. I am absolutely in love with iBooks, it's an easy way to take a book along with you whenever you're going somewhere. Bored? Pull out your IPhone and read a book.It's highly convenient to be able to always have a book on you. Even though it doesn't give you the great feeling of holding a book in your hands and hearing the spine crack to life it's still a way to have it with you. Its really convienent to have on a road-trip. This weekend I am staying in Columbus, Ohio and couldn't bring a lot of things so I went and downloaded some books on my phone so that I could have a book with me. The other app I love is Good Reads. Good Reads is a really awesome app, it has good suggestions for a next book and you can join groups of other book-lovers. I hope everyone has a good weekend!