my excitement for this stretched around the world forty times

pg. 1- 69

This book is really good first of all... i can see why it is so popular, i don't know what it is about this book which makes it so good, but i just can't put it down. it's not like it has this fantastic plot but its amazing.
anyway, the book begins in this dystopian world, where basically your whole like is planned out for you. As soon as you turn seventeen, you can choose whether or not you want to be put in the pool to be matched with someone else in the country. it is basically like the government is picking who you are going to marry. the main character, Cassia, has just turned seventeen so she applies for this and she o her luck is immediately selected to attend a match banquet to meet her match. to her surprise, and basically everyone elses, she is matched with her best friend, Xander. this is a very very very very rare occurrence considering the fact that the whole country is involved in this. usually girls are matched with people in other provinces and what not, but she was not. she takes this news strangely. she kimd of wanted to be like every one else...
with this news she goes to visit her grandfather who is supposed to die the next day. apparently, in the future everyone is made to die at the age of eighty which is kind of cruel... there is also so many other things about this future that are strange. apparently, they thought there was just too many books and poems and paintings and everything. too much history. so a long time ago, they hired a select few to sort out a hundred of each of these things to keep. now they only have that many things to watch and read. how boring of a wold to live in.

love isn't always what it seems

weekend blog assignment-- spellbound

1. Ashley White and Neil Kadakia

Overall, their motivations were basically the same: to win the spelling bee, but in both cases, it centered around different areas. In Ashely's case, she spent most of her time at school preparing for the bee, and studied alone at home. Her family needed the money and supported Ashley because she was very good at spelling and she wanted to pursue it to the national spelling bee. her main motivation was to stand out in the inner city school she went to and to win the prize for her family.

For Neil, it was a little different. His family did not need anymore money. His father was constantly spitting words at him and asking him to spell them, hiring teachers for him so he could learn as many languages as possible and just making studying the number one priority in his life. He did not know anything else except words. It seemed that Neil's main motivation was to win the bee to make his father proud and not disappoint him.

Matched

I think i am going to start reading this book. Someone recommended it to my mom and said it was similar to the Hunger Games trilogy. after looking into it, i could see a lot of similarities and it seems interesting. this one is also part of a trilogy, but the only problem is that the second one will not be released until november. tear. but if i like it, i shall read it again! this is what it says on the back:

Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is her ideal mate . . . until she sees Ky Markham's face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black.

The Society tells her it's a glitch, a rare malfunction, and that she should focus on the happy life she's destined to lead with Xander. But Cassia can't stop thinking about Ky, and as they slowly fall in love, Cassia begins to doubt the Society's infallibility and is faced with an impossible choice: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she's known and a path that no one else has dared to follow.

what is interesting me the most is the review on the back of the book. it says: "matched is a page-turning, dystopian love story, written with the soul. finally, a brave new world that readers from Twilight to The Hunger Games will claim as their own."

Those are my two favorite books. of course i am reading this book. and of course i will love it. it better not disappoint me.

pg. 545- end

he has a clear shot, a clear shot to end the very source of what caused the most discord in this new universe. but he can't even think about taking it. he sees just what Jack saw in Andrew the day of his disappearance. everything fades around him, like everything freezes. his mother's voice is now the only thing he can hear. but he refuses to listen to her, and Jack didn't even tell him how to beat it. she tells him to come with him repetitiously, that he can finally get out of there, but again he refuses. and then Caine comes into the conversation, asking questions, but this mother is not answering any of them, she just keeps insisting on the both of them to come with her. Caine is talking to Sam now, he wants him to go with her, he wants to rule. This mother keeps insisting, but they both keep saying no. and just then she turns into some sort of monster. the monster says: I'm your future. You'll come to me on your own in the dark place Caine. You will come willingly to me." and just then the monster fades, and they survive, they survive the disappearance.Back to the battle, but Sam still can't kill Caine. he lets him go, telling him to go back to Coates. go back where he belongs and that he could easily get to him.The book ends with Drake following Pack leader somewhere out into the desert into the darkness.this book is weird... i know. i'm not sure if i will be continuing the series.

who actually reads the books...?

check out this book art.

you can see at: corcholat.com/%2521PPM how they did it. this whole entire set up is books on a wall that have been painted. i think it is pretty awesome.