A Week in the Life of a Booknerd

I have been on a reading spree (having finished 7 books in a matter of two weeks) you would not even know I was pretty occupied by my work. I was busy in all sense of the word but... I don't know. Maybe sometimes you feel like doing something that makes you feel good and you just do it. It transports you into a different world; it opens your mind into a lot of different concepts and things. It is addicting and it will make you forget. You could never blame me.

So these are the books that has occupied my in-between and afterhours of work (in a particular order of when I have finished reading). This is my attempt to try to collect my thoughts and post "short" reviews, also to update my blog with new stuff of which I have not really done in the longest while:

A fast-paced series that has caught my interest maybe too much that I even have finished it way too fast, faster than my friend who has introduced me to it. I said yes so that we could watch the film adaptation next year together. It has the ingredients of a good read: characters with cool names to love and/or hate, an interesting plot, perils and conflicting ideas. I'd like to think the series is doing well until it has reached the last few chapters of Allegiant, where...this thing has happened. Maybe because I was not expecting that it would happen. That it could actually happen. Or maybe I have been expecting more, that it could have ended the other way. Or maybe Roth has put a lot of emotions and expectations on the second book that could not be surpassed (which is my favourite of the three, by the way) that after reading the last one I ended up questioning myself if the third book is even necessary. Or maybe that is how dystopian stories work, and it has just begged to differ from the others hence the twist... I love happy endings but now I don't know anymore.

Every book has its dainty part, then there are the lows. It also has the tendency to be repetitive, violence that would make you cringe and then there are parts that will make you nod your head in agreement.

Finishing this, though, I have realised something. Harry Potter has the Houses. Hunger Games has Districts. Divergent, factions. And why is that? Because we all want to feel that we belong. We want to be assured that we are not alone and we could be grouped by whatever traits or qualities that the majority of us have. In the same way that every individual (as the word itself would imply) is also different and we can't be just that one thing, we are a mix of all things (hence a Divergent).

Right now I am still in the middle of being impressed and disappointed and Abby has told me reread it after a few months and maybe I will. And then we'll see if my feelings about this book, or series, will change.

"We should try not to see those differences because they will only divide us."

"Everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving

anyone is to recognize the same evil in ourselves, so we're able to

forgive them."

It is a series of interconnected stories of the different characters, but I have this notion that each could go as a stand alone. YA genre, with lots of kissing, lovemaking (especially the third one. It's just too much..in-porn-mation, I mean information. Ughh..) and fluff. I may have enjoyed the fluff but there are things that...I don't know, still bothers me even though I know that it is a part of our lives, of the grown up life. Hahahaha. It has surprised me that I have actually went to finish the series knowing how... anyway, it has been a fast read, and we should finish what we have started so.... Of the three I'd say Ten Tiny Breaths is the best because of how the story is put together and the plot and the ending has been justified.

Don't even get me started with this one. It has just made me love The Beatles even more if that is even possible. I may not be the kind of fan who knows all of their songs (in fact, I haven't heard them all and still waiting for my copy of all their songs from my best friend) but I'm the kind of person who's heart swells with joy when being exposed to a lot of fun and enthralling facts. I'd like to say that because of this book, it has  ade me appreciate them not only as musicians but as imperfect, talented individuals who's made a couple of good and bad decisions in life and has made their impact not only in the music industry but in the lives of the people.

This is a spinoff that could be a stand alone novel from the Hopeless series of Colleen Hoover. It is..an okay book; a short (300+ pages!), light read that one could finish in one sitting.

I'm an old-fashioned person when it comes to love and although I know how liberated people from different places can be, it still surprises me of how straightforward they could be and how losing your virginity to anyone (because I believe in purity before marriage. IKR? Crazy.) is not much a big deal to them. But then I'd like to believe I am open minded enough to understand why those has to be included and I'm talking about the majority of the YA stuff in general. R-e-s-p-e-c-t, I guess.

Next in line are books from Chris Colfer and A.S. King. And maybe I'd get a hand on Battle Royale and Warm Bodies again and a couple of Murakami's and get to finish them. ;)

Ohhhh by the way, merry Christmas! See I have been too busy to even put up a "wishlist" blog. But I am ever glad to have received one of the things that I have included in our Monito/Monita activity in the office: a Mockingjay pin.