M vs. K: the unusual blog of the month

Do you remember when M said we would be having a book swap once a month? No? Well she said it in the post right below silly goose. Keep up with the trend! Well today is that day. BOOK SWAP DAY!!!!!!!!
Seeing as how we are in the computer lab at our public library and it seems socially unacceptable to talk, we are going to be responding back and forth as a conversation to explain our book swap selections. And so it begins...
Why hello there M! I didn't see you, hahaha yeah. Yes that was my lame attempt to make a joke...just laugh and go with it. Anyways the joke I have selected for you is *insert silent drum roll-hey we're in a library!* ................ When It Happens by Susane Colasanti (I always feel like I spell her last name wrong...huh oh well).
This looks well um...interesting from the cover, but ive always been admonished for judging by that, so instead i'll just smile and nod :) The book i have for you, is one that i'm very glad you will be reading during the winter when it's cold because it takes place in Minnesota and the book revolves around snow. Too bad we don't have any of that here...just cold weather (as we experienced on the walk over here.) *another silent drum roll-we're STILL in the library*...................Icing on the Lake by Catherine Clark. I thought i had already written about it in a former posting, seeing as how i've read it twice now, but upon looking, i guess not.
Icing on the Lake looks...interesting. Haha, I kind of just wanted to copy what M said. What can I say? She's a trend setter ;)  However, in all seriousness this does seem like a pretty good read. On the cover, under the title, it says "Cold feet, and hands, and ears...but warm hearts." I must admit I am a sucker for the romance genre. It just makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside (if you were here you would be able to see the lovely face I just made while typing that). That's very true...her face was welll....lovely sure. See? M agrees that I made a lovely face :D It's just how I roll. Anywho (hehe I love saying that).....I forgot what I was going to type.....let's just throw it over to M
Ah so i have to be the scapegoat? i see how this is...not cool. whatever, i'm sure i'll get over it. sooner or later. within the next ten years. i hope. sure. well, moving on...I picked Icing on the Lake because of the part of me that, like K, loves romance novels. I'm a sucker for cheesy lines and chick flicks, what can i say? Basically this book is rather predictable, but worthwhile. (there's someone sighing loudly in this room and its rather hilarious...*M and K hold in giggles* just thought you should know...) back to what i was saying. Kirsten, the main character goes to Minnesota to stay with her sister and nephew for a couple weeks and soon gets to know some of the local boys and well, you know, i can't tell you the ENTIRE plotline. that's the point of lending you the book: so you can read it. also, when we finish reading each others books and meet for our next book swap, we will post again and share our opinions of said books. i just hope K likes it as much as i did. i mean i bought it, didn't i? thats saying something for me. the library gets my business 9 times out of 10, not the bookstore. And CUT!
I'm not quite sure if M saw the pointed look I gave her when she stopped talking about the plot, but oh! Believe me, it was there!!! Okaie doks, now on to talking about When It Happens. See, thing is, I can't....Well I can, but I won't....not really at least (hehe M just gave a frustrated *silent* sigh unlike the person over there who is being rather disruptive...) Okay here's what I can tell you:
1. The book is in two alternating points of views (Tobey & Sara)
2. It is in fact a romance book *insert my lovey dovey face here*
3. I just realized that we both chose romance books the day before V-Day *mind has just been blown!*
4. I enjoyed this book very much so. I mean how could I not? However, I must admit I got a little frustrated when....you'll see ;)
5. Oh! Oh! There's a really funny, but rather awkward part that I wish I could see your face when you read it....I would say videotape yourself while you're reading it, but that's just weird...and would take forever.
Well, I didn't give much info. to M, but hey you gotta love me <3
yeah, yeah, yeah. supposedly that sisterly love is there. we'll see as i start reading the book. and no, i will not videotape myself. you would get like 3 hours of me staring intently at a book, occasionally turning a page. it would be A) super boring and B) really disturbing for you to watch. it's like disturbia or something. oh and i must say that the likelihood of both of us choosing romance books was pretty great to begin with. regardless of the fact that tomorrow is a national holiday that neither of us (as far as i know, at least) will be participating in. just saying. anyway, that's about all i've got. i can literally feel the good ideas draining from my brain...a slow drip...i feel like a heart moniter is beeping somewhere about to level off....beep.......beep.....................................
It's not nice to write funny stuff that I cannot laugh out loud at! *pointed look*
Don't deny the love!
I think we're going to have to agree to agree on that one, the whole videotaping thing (haha, see what I did there? No? Oh, well then nevermind....)
Yeah, I will not be participating in the festivites tomorrow mainly because I have never been a big fan of the holiday...I mean they jack up the prices on candy (and I have a mean sweet tooth that needs to be tended to, but I'm a cheapskate so...) and flowers!!! Just saying...anywho, the only thing I did for the "special" (you should be able to hear the sarcasm leaking from my voice...like seriously...kind of hard to miss) day is buy carnations at school for a few friends and that's only because they threatened my life if I didn't (I like living so I spent the buck fifty on it). So um.....yeah I think I'm out of topics to talk about here....how depressing. I guess this is a wrap on M and I's first book swap *cue the applause*
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8) Paper Covers Rock and 9) Cold Tangerines

Wow, well now i feel like such a slacker (which i am) since K posted and i haven't posted in a while. To be honest, i'm kind of tired of apologizing for my long and unexcused absences, so i'm just going to say now that i don't know when i will next post, but it probably won't be soon. i know me and my laziness--just putting that out there. so, to start this post, i'll give you some background just for the heck of it...

wearing: plaid pj pants and a sweatshirt
location: bed

listening to: "O Children" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (this song was in the movie HP Deathly Hallows Part1 when Harry and Hermoine start dancing in the tent...i looked up the name of the song and put it on my Grooveshark). This will change throughout the post and i'll probably make references to what song i'm listening to, but thats simply because i really like music.

Ok, so onto important business. I have a book to add to the "55 Books in a Year List"!! Finally.

8) Paper Covers Rock by Jenny Hubbard
It's her first novel and i think she did an impeccable job. I originally grabbed it off the shelf for three reasons:
1) i needed a fun, short read to get my mind off of finals
2) it was on the New Books shelf in the Young Adult section, which i was casually looking at.

3) the cover really caught my attention (yes, i know, how shallow)

Let me just say that it exceeded my expectations, yet was very surprising. It's more complex than one review can include, but here's a link to a review i wrote over this book (yes, i'm being lazy and don't want to type it again...). It's going on the list because it has made it into my Top 10 Books of All Time, and that's pretty hard to do, so congrats Jenny Hubbard. Oh and i would like to apologize for the typo in the review in the link (it should be "running" not "rinning"). i didn't type it; i hand wrote it and then someone typed it and put it up on the website. so, not my fault. i'm just so OCD about things like this that i just had to point it out.

I'm currently reading Pride and Prejudice con mi madre and we are talking through it as sort of a book club and watching clips of the movie (Keira Knightley version). Also, as a free reading book i'm re-reading Just Listen by Sarah Dessen (for like the 2nd or 3rd time). Also, for Biblical Literature (Bib Lit) class, i'm reading parts of the Bible. For example, for last class, i had to read Exodus 13-19. Also, for English class, we were reading Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, but we finished and turned in our papers (thank goodness!) and are now starting a new book, My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult. If you ask me, it's a very weird book to read for an English class. i feel especially bad for all the guys in my class seing as how it's kind of chick lit. Anyway, my point is, i'm juggling a lot of literature right now and my backpack is guaranteed to have at least two books in it at any given time :) Also, i'm trying to figure out whether to take AP Lit or regular English next year.
Oh! So K and i have come up with an ingenious idea to execute. Every month we will meet at the public library and have a book swap. She will bring a book and i will bring a book and we'll talk about the book we just got finished reading and why we think the other person should read the book we brought. We will meet on the 13th of every month. So, next Monday we will have our first swap, and who knows, we might blog about it and let ya'll know how it goes. This is going to be very experimental at the start, but i'm sure we'll figure it out eventually.
Also, i got to go to a book store today and got two new additions to my collection of books: Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen and Girl at Sea by Maureen Johnson. Both of these books i've read twice already, but they are just so good that i needed to own them for future readings.

9) Cold Tangerines by Shauna Niequist

While i was there, i looked for Bittersweet by Shauna Niequist. I read her other book, Cold Tangerines, and i loved it. It was a book of short stories about her life and it was very entertaining and enlightening. I highly recommend it. When i heard she had a new book, it immediately went onto my list, but i still haven't gotten to it yet and i'm not sure if my public library would have it or not.

Oh, and i do own Sarah Dessen's newish book, What Happened to Goodbye, but i'm saving it for Spring Break so i can read it on the beach :)

Oh and i forgot to mention it, but i would also recommend the book Dreams of Significant Girls by Cristina Garcia. It was another New Books Shelf acquisition and it was decent, but not as wonderful as Paper Covers Rock. I think it's worth you reading, but i warn you, because there's some slightly innapropriate content that you should be aware of, so if you're not 14 or older, i wouldnt want you reading this and neither would your parents. On that note, i bid you all adieu.
Happy Reading,
M

P.S. I was the one that added the countdown to the release  of the next Gallagher Girls book. K and I are very excited about this, if you hadn't noticed!!!!!!