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Current Reads (13)

1 Name: Elunore!HIwambGeWE : 2012-08-13 18:08 ID:q0ShMzwg (Image: 1024x768 jpg, 215 kb) [Del]

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So, I was surprised when I couldn't find a thread like this.

Basically you take a picture of the book (or upload one from Google)that you are currently reading, write a short summary(or copy and paste one), tell your opinion on it so far.

I'm currently reading "This is Not a Test" by Courtney Summers.

Summary: It’s the end of the world. Six students have taken cover in Cortege High but shelter is little comfort when the dead outside won’t stop pounding on the doors. One bite is all it takes to kill a person and bring them back as a monstrous version of their former self. To Sloane Price, that doesn’t sound so bad. Six months ago, her world collapsed and since then, she’s failed to find a reason to keep going. Now seems like the perfect time to give up.

As Sloane eagerly waits for the barricades to fall, she’s forced to witness the apocalypse through the eyes of five people who actually want to live. But as the days crawl by, everyone’s motivations to survive begin to change in startling ways and soon the group’s fate is determined less and less by what’s happening outside and more and more by the unpredictable and violent bids for life–and death–inside. When everything is gone, what do you hold on to?

I like this book, a lot. More than I've liked a book in a while. However I did dislike the way the author skips the first entire week of the outbreak. Like, why skip the part with the most action and carnage? Other than that, Summers has a unique and vivid writing style, especially since it's written through the view of someone who doesn't really care.

2 Name: Hatash : 2012-08-13 21:04 ID:nTouMeJH [Del]

>>1 are you sure your book says that this isn't a Test? Because what if your teacher makes ya read it and turns out it has a test on it?

3 Name: Elunore!HIwambGeWE : 2012-08-13 21:22 ID:q0ShMzwg [Del]

>>2 Totally sure. That'd be horribly ironic though.

4 Name: Bulma!gfkvD0.aME : 2013-08-04 07:46 ID:qVmCDlW/ (Image: 200x364 jpg, 11 kb) [Del]

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I like the idea of this thread alot. Shame its never gone anywhere.
I am currently reading Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. Barely a third or so through but never the less enoying it.

5 Name: Miss Sugar Plum : 2013-08-04 09:48 ID:B4VWAuKu (Image: 296x450 jpg, 33 kb) [Del]

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"The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.

But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway—a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will. Despite themselves, however, Celia and Marco tumble headfirst into love—a deep, magical love that makes the lights flicker and the room grow warm whenever they so much as brush hands.

True love or not, the game must play out, and the fates of everyone involved, from the cast of extraordinary circus per­formers to the patrons, hang in the balance, suspended as precariously as the daring acrobats overhead.

Written in rich, seductive prose, this spell-casting novel is a feast for the senses and the heart."

6 Name: Bulma!gfkvD0.aME : 2013-08-13 01:31 ID:qVmCDlW/ [Del]

Bumpover

7 Name: Dark-wolf-girl!8NBuQ4l6uQ : 2013-08-16 16:36 ID:VmAOyOIT [Del]

rebel heart

8 Name: Omnia Ravus!hSmVND53jI : 2013-08-17 02:55 ID:sxwbaI50 [Del]

Bump. Prehistory by Colin Renfrew, nonfiction FTW. So far it is interesting.

9 Name: Bulma!gfkvD0.aME : 2013-09-03 21:40 ID:vbcHIark (Image: 640x480 jpg, 19 kb) [Del]

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Breakfast At Tiffany's - Truman Capote
As an aspiring writer I hope Ill enjoy this...

10 Name: Sketch : 2013-09-08 00:07 ID:11Olxbxa [Del]

Admittedly, I'm re-reading the Harry Potter series. However, I do plan on reading Little Women, Insurgent, Mockingjay, The Lovely Bones and a whole bunch of other books.

11 Name: *Lyrics*Of*Pandora* : 2013-09-08 07:50 ID:nsesdflL [Del]

Umm...what am I currently reading? Seraphina by Hartman and Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare... those
are the only two I'm reading currently reading...though I have started like 4 or 5 others.

12 Name: anubis!AnUBiS6/LQ : 2013-09-08 12:48 ID:5d4jc+jU [Del]

Currently reading Game of Thrones but I keep getting distracted by my friend's manga collection.

13 Name: Tyk1337 : 2013-09-08 15:14 ID:/sYAUF7J (Image: 269x401 jpg, 32 kb) [Del]

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George Orwell's 1984.
I was inspired by certain recent events and just so happened to be on a classic literature kick. Planning on reading A Clockwork Orange next.

Course, I'm always reading some light novel on the side. I think it!'s the sixth volume of Sword Art Online I'm on right now, give or take. Loving both so far.