Addicted to Reading discussion

We are reading the 4th Vampire Academy book, Blood Promise in August but for those of you that want something different, we will also read another book again. I was thinking The Knife of Never Letting Go, it's a dystopian that everyone says is amazing. Please post any other recommendations for another August BOTM here.

I love Blood Promise. And I've never hear about The Knife of Never Letting Go, so I will have to check that out!

the knife of never letting go seems great.
or, we could read the da vinci code or the kite runner.

I love the idea of The Da Vinci Code because I remember when the movie cane out, and, as usual, my mother wouldn't let me see it.

why wouldn't she let you see it?

oh, and i just came across "the professor and the housekeeper" it looks like a good book to me.

Exactly. But I was 6 or something.

So we have, Bloodlines, The Knife of Never Letting Go, The Da Vinci Code, and I second the Housekeeper and the Professor. The whole idea of the story is really interesting.

I'm just gonna put all these books into a poll now because August isn't that far away.

*sing-song voice* It's only 2 days away! And 12 until my birthday!!!

coincidence. my brother's birthday is the same day! and this year he's super excited bcuz it's exactly on the eid day. (that's like having your birthday on Christmas for one year.)

On the 10th? What's the eid day? There are SO many girls at Marsden with their birthdays in the same week as mine (we celebrated my form teacher's birthday today- she gave us freddo frogs), but none have their's on the exact same day.

ooohh......
yes, th 10th! i have an impression that leos are always average geniuses. yes, taht's teh word. average geniuses.
eerrrr.....eid day is exactly like christmas but it doesn't have the same date every year. because it's according to the lunar calender.

Interesting.

Yay! My birthday falls on the lunar christmas!!!

remember that it's KIND OF christmas.
what i meant was, that eid is for muslims like christmas is for other people.

I love the idea of having Christmas (or the equivalent)on a different day every year- it means that people who are born on the 24/25/26th like my aunt don't miss out on gifts every year (I know that sounds really materialistic but have you ever not received a gift from someone you so completely expected to? It's heartbreaking, especially when you're too young to understand why).

I know. When you're young you just expect EVERYONE to give you presents.

yes, it is!!!!!!
and it is really cool when you receive it from someone you don't expect! i just recieved some money from an aunt and now i'm gonna save up to buy an e-link reader! woohoo! because i'll get a lot of money on eid too, and i'm the youngest so i don't have to give any! and then i'll be the one who can read all teh books she wants!!!!!!!!!!!
yeah, sorry i get emotional at that topic. :P

I get very emotional about books too. ;)
You don't have to GIVE gifts just because you're the youngest?!?! I want your life! Even my little brother (he's 6) has to give us gifts- they're usually little $2 Shop trinkets, but it's the thought that counts.

aaaawwwww, that's really sweet.
well, yeah. i don't have to, i use to make cards when i was younger, but now i don't have any time.
i can but everyone is like "oh, she's our little sister!" so yeah, i'm the spoiled devil of the family!
actually, there is my little niece who is the cutest thing ever, and i would like to give presents to other people specially my mom n dad but then mom comes and says "you don't give gifts bcuz you don't have a job yet!"
i'm like "ok!'
haha

Lucky. My younger sister gives me gifts but they're just stuff that she and no-one else really wants.

aaawwww but it's adorable that she gives gifts to you! i am making an iron man glass painting for my brother now. needed to gt my mind off the internet!

What's an iron man glass painting?

it's just a glass painting.....i.e. I'll paint iron man on a piece of glass.

Interesting. Does it turn out pretty much like a normal painting on paper or canvas?

yes! it's just a piece of glass exactly like a piece of paper.
P.S. i've got henna all over my hands! i love the smelllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!! yyyyyyyaayaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyy
and, i got admission in my fave college! woohoo!!

Congratulations! I assume by college you mean university?

uh, no. by college i mean 11, 12. the last two years of hight school? it's called college around here.

thanks! :)

Ooh. In NZ we call high school the same thing all the way through, and tertiary studies are usually either Polytech, an apprenticeship (apparently the government's trying to make them popular again), or university.

ooooh. here, it's "secondary school" upto 10th.
11 and 12 are "higher secondary school" but is just called "college.
and then u get into university.....
but the college i'm going to, is a university but also offers higher secondary school. and oh my god! uptill now, i think it's ging to be like mean girls haha! jk

Do you plan to stay at the same college for uni then?

no. it's the best for 11 and 12 but i wish to go to a better university! i hope so! hehe