Musing Monday (May 20th)

Musing Monday is a meme by Should Be Reading.

Musing Mondays asks you to muse about one of the following each week…

• Describe one of your reading habits.
• Tell us what book(s) you recently bought for yourself or someone else, and why you chose that/those book(s).
• What book are you currently desperate to get your hands on? Tell us about it! 
• Tell us what you’re reading right now — what you think of it, so far; why you chose it; what you are (or, aren’t) enjoying it.
• Do you have a bookish rant? Something about books or reading (or the industry) that gets your ire up? Share it with us!
• Instead of the above questions, maybe you just want to ramble on about something else pertaining to books — let’s hear it, then!

I'm going to go with the what I am currently reading and why I chosen it. I am currently reading I Am Legend  by Richard Matheson. I choose this book because I was told by my fiancé that I would like it since I'm a horror fan and I enjoyed the Vincent Price move based on the book. I mentioned it in my previous post. I think it's just now starting to get good. At first I wasn't so sure it was going to be good because it's narrated by a man who is all alone and how he's just living and has little desire to survive. It's hard to read the mundane life of someone who isn't doing much. Know that I've gotten a little further it's picking up and I am enjoying it, but just haven't trouble finding the time to read it. 

Why I've Been MIA

Not sure how many followers I still have here, but here's why you haven't heard much from me lately. I was busy trying to finish my last history research class so I could FINALLY graduate. Which in case you were wondering I graduated. With help from a friend at work I got a B in my class. I'm sure if she didn't help me edit my paper (writing is not my thing when it comes to school) I probably would have just barely passed or failed and have to take it again. I went to graduation last week and while I wasn't thrilled with going through the ceremony, it's boring especially when you know no one there, I am glad I went through it.

A good movie

Because of all the time I was putting into that class I had no time for fun reading. I have started a few books and finish very few. I hoped to have a few of the books I had started, but never finished one. That didn't happen I still have 3 I think to finish as well as the book I just started to read, I Am Legend, which I have been told is more like the Vincent Price movie, The Last Man on Earth instead of the Will Smith version I Am Legend. I'm a huge horror fan and Vincent Price fan so I decide to read the book, which I received this Christmas from a holiday book swap on GoodReads!


I hope to also get some actual reading down now that school is finally over and while I'll be busy at work with summer camp, I should had time to read. Well as a mom you try to find as much time to read as possible. I'm still doing the TBR Challenge, but due to no reading I haven't been doing the recaps or anything. I should get on that. I also haven't done any memes or anything to at least keep things going and I'm sorry for that, but it's hard to do things when I have no time for anything. So if you see nothing from me from now until July come yell at me. It means I have gotten lazy or forgotten what I promised I would do.

So hopefully I'll have some reviews up here even if I don't do them on the youtube channel!

Rough Waters Book Review

The book is by Kara Lynn Conyer and its about a 16 year old girl names Allanis who convinces a renowned marine biologist to take her on a research mission to figure out why this stuff called "the fouling" is stopping all ocean related industries. What they find is the cause is nothing they ever expected. Mermaids who thought humans caused an oil to pollute the water wanted a war with the merpeople.

There seems to be a little more marine biology and scuba than mermaids but that's okay for me. I skimmed over the scuba descriptions on how to dive because I'm a certified diver and I know how it's all done.

Overall this book was very interesting and I think it was done well. Not my most favorite book but good enough to keep me entertained. If you want an easy read with some mermaids and marine biology, check the book out.

Outpost

I am late in posting this since I finished this book several weeks ago, but I was busy and it was hard trying to find time to write a review. This is the sequel to Enclave.

Synopsis: Down below, she was considered an adult. Now, topside in a town called Salvation, she’s a brat in need of training in the eyes of the townsfolk. She doesn't fit in with the other girls: Deuce only knows how to fight.

To make matters worse, her Hunter partner, Fade, keeps Deuce at a distance. Her feelings for Fade haven’t changed, but he seems not to want her around anymore. Confused and lonely, she starts looking for a way out.

Deuce signs up to serve in the summer patrols—those who make sure the planters can work the fields without danger. It should be routine, but things have been changing on the surface, just as they did below ground. The Freaks have grown smarter. They’re watching. Waiting. Planning. The monsters don’t intend to let Salvation survive, and it may take a girl like Deuce to turn back the tide. (Taken from Goodreads).

Review: I actually began reading this book and forgot who people where and how the first book ended. It took a few chapters and Deuce going back to the past for me to remember all the details. I am not sure if the first book just had no lasting impression on me, or if I just needed a recap sooner in the book. 

Overall the book was good and I think it had a lot of good elements. I was surprise that the romance did not bother me as much as I thought it would. I can see where Deuce is coming from finally feeling love and understanding what many of us take for granted and wanting to be able to be herself no matter what other's think of her. 

What surprised me is that the events and things happening in the town were bases on things that really did happen. I was shocked to discover that, but then again I feel that many people write things based on some kind of truth. 

I am looking forward to the next book to see what happens. There is a lot to learn and I feel that Outpost just kind of ended where it could of gone on a little bit more. 

My Rating: 

TBR 2013 Challenge January Recap

Hopefully I will be able to do this once a week, but if not well lets hope I do a better job this year. I was able to get 5 books read this month and hopefully I can continue to do so. Here's my list.

Sedona Through Time by Wayne Ranney
Divergent by Veronica Roth
The Zona by Nathan Yocum
The Kill Order by James Dashner
Insurgent by Veronica Roth

Pretty interesting list. I hope to finish more and if I can do this well I will change my goal of 20 books to 50.

Insurgent

Shortly after  I finished Divergent I bought Insurgent on my kindle so I could continue the story. I know the 3rd book comes out this year, but I needed to see what happened next.

Synopsis: One choice can transform you--or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves--and herself--while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love.

Tris's initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. And in times of war, sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become even more irrevocable--and even more powerful. Transformed by her own decisions but also by haunting grief and guilt, radical new discoveries, and shifting relationships, Tris must fully embrace her Divergence, even if she does not know what she may lose by doing so. (Taken from GoodReads). 

Review: I was very happy with this book. I flew through it very quickly and I was very impressed by it. I felt that Tris was still like a fictional version of me and I was thinking the entire book if I would make the same choices as Tris did. 

There were more twists and turns in this book that I did not see coming. I never knew what was going to happen next which is a good thing for me. If I see something coming I get bored with the book. 

Divergent

I finally was able to read this book and a book in general. I wish I had more time to read, but I haven't, not yet at least.

This book has been long on my to be read pile and I was hoping to finally finish it. If you are doing the read along, please do not read my review. I finished the book weeks too early and I don't want to spoil anything for those who haven't read it yet.

Synopsis: Tris aka Beatrice has reached her 16the birthday and all 16 year olds must test to see which fraction they belong to. Tris has an odd result and chooses to leave the fraction she has grown up in. She realizes that something bad is going to happen and the world as she knows it will change.

Review: I cannot believe I waited so long to read this book. As soon as I started the book it only took me a few days to finish it. It felt good to finish a book that quickly since lately I have been reading books that take me forever as you can see if you look at my goodreads current reading tag.

For me I identified well with Tris. I feel like growing up and now inside I am a tough woman who is capable of a lot of things I've just never done them or tried. On the outside everyone sees me as a girl that is too kind, isn't able to do anything tough or physical. I kept feeling like Veronica Roth sat down and talked to me before writing this book.

I enjoyed the fraction part and I wish they expanded on how they decided on how start the fraction rather than having it that people make their own chooses. I wonder what happen that made them decide that it was better to separate things.

The one thing I wasn't into was the ending. I get that it's a series or is going to be, but the ending just ended to me. Like there could be more to say before it was ended. I am sure we've all read books where it just ends and you are trying to see if you are missing a page. That how I felt. I guess once I get Insurgent I will know how the two books connect better.

My Rating: