90% of the time Reading is the winner, except on Monday's, when I am usually asleep before my head even hits the pillow.
Right now, I am waiting to finish UnWholly by Neal Shusterman before I go to sleep. It's 12:30 in the morning, and I am about 175 pages from being finished. I can probably finish those in about an hour, but I'm starting to feel tired. So my choses are: finish tonight, read a few more pages and then sleep, or just go on to bed. I do work tomorrow night so I should probably get to bed, but I want to finish this book tonight so I can start another tomorrow...
This isn't the first time this problem has happened. As I said before reading usually wins out. Some nights I will finish a book around 10 or so and start another, and can't put it down, so it's 4 in the morning when I finish shut my eyes. This usually ends up me waking up with a headache behind my eyes. I guess you have to experience a little pain sometimes when doing something you love to do.
Anyone else have this problem with me?
Oh... Reading won again, and I'm going to finish UnWholly before I turn off my lights and study the back of my eyelids.
--Rue.
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Love Triangles in Young Adult
Remember Team Jacob or Team Edward...
It seems that a lot of Young Adult novels seem to have a love triangle. Why is this? I mean I know that when I was a teenage I was never in a love triangle. I just finished a YA novel that had the start of a love triangle, but nothing really happened with that storyline. It may later on into the series, but why does there have to be a love triangle. I am tried of them in YA, but I think that I am a minority in this. So love triangle will remain in YA novels.
--Rue.
It seems that a lot of Young Adult novels seem to have a love triangle. Why is this? I mean I know that when I was a teenage I was never in a love triangle. I just finished a YA novel that had the start of a love triangle, but nothing really happened with that storyline. It may later on into the series, but why does there have to be a love triangle. I am tried of them in YA, but I think that I am a minority in this. So love triangle will remain in YA novels.
--Rue.
Thursday, June 12, 2014
"Unwind" By: Neal Shusterman
I just finished "Unwind" By Neal Shusterman, and I wanted to jump up on here and write a little about it. This book is amazing, and I would recommended that you read it. I have not been left feeling about a book like this in a while. It made me think about life. It also made me think about the stance on abortion. If you are needing a book to pick up, I would suggest picking this one up. Currently, this series had three books to it, but I believe that there is going to be a least one more, which will be released sometime this year.
--Rue.
--Rue.
Friday, June 6, 2014
How I am going on my Book goals for 2014.
At the beginning of the year, I set some goals for myself on what I wanted to read and how many I wanted to read. As you have read, I want to read 25 books for the year. I also wanted to read certain books in 2014. Since the year is half way gone I thought that I would share how I was doing.
As of June 1, 2014, I have read a total of 17 books. I am planning on doing a page tab to list all the books I have read for the year. Today June 6, 2014, I read my 20th book, so I am only 5 books away from finishing my number of books I wanted to read for the year. I should pass that during June. Also another goal I set for myself for the summer is to read 25 books alone, if I pass that goal, I will have read 35 books. I have already read 10 books this summer, and that's in less than one month. I started reading for fun again in mid May when I was finished with my finals.
Here are the following books or series I wanted to finish reading by the end of the year:
--Rue.
As of June 1, 2014, I have read a total of 17 books. I am planning on doing a page tab to list all the books I have read for the year. Today June 6, 2014, I read my 20th book, so I am only 5 books away from finishing my number of books I wanted to read for the year. I should pass that during June. Also another goal I set for myself for the summer is to read 25 books alone, if I pass that goal, I will have read 35 books. I have already read 10 books this summer, and that's in less than one month. I started reading for fun again in mid May when I was finished with my finals.
Here are the following books or series I wanted to finish reading by the end of the year:
- Finish the Mortal Instruments Series by Cassandra Clare
- Finish the Delirium Series By Lauren Oliver
- Allegiant By Veronica Roth which would finish Divergent Series
- Finish the eve series by Anna Carey
- Reavealed by PC and Kristin Cast (House of Night Series, this is the next to the last book which comes out sometime in October)
- Harry Potter Series. I know this should have already been read, but in my Welcome post, I explain why I haven't read it.
- I am currently listening to on Audio Book City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare, which is the next to the last novel in the series. At the beginning of the year, I had only read\listened to City of Bones. I am probably going to end up having to buy City of Heavenly Fire real soon, because I cannot wait for my library to get it on Audio book or in book form.
- I have decided not to finish the Delirium Series. I started listening to the second book, but I couldn't not get into it. Also Delirium, the first book, took me forever to read and forever to get into it. I will futher explain why I will not be finishing this series in another blog post to come soon.
- I did finish Allegiant, and I was disappointed to say the least. I am planning to fully review it in a later post.
- A couple of days ago I finished the Eve triology, and this has probably made it into my top 10 triology\series. I read the last book in the triology in less than 2 hours. I couldn't put it down. I don't think a lot of people liked this one, but I loved it.
- I have not read Revealed yet, but I do plan on purchasing it soon. I own all the other House of Night series. I have to have it read before October when the last book comes out.
- I have not started the Harry Potter Series, yet. I am thinking about listening to it instead of reading it. Like I said in my welcome post, I have seen all the movies, and liked them, so I will probably like to listening to it better than reading it.
--Rue.
Thursday, June 5, 2014
GoodReads
Follow me on GoodReads where I tend to do a quick review on what I am reading. Also keep up with my progress and how I feel on what I am currently reading.
https://www.goodreads.com/ruesworld
Peaceful and Happy Thoughts,
--Rue.
https://www.goodreads.com/ruesworld
Peaceful and Happy Thoughts,
--Rue.
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Welcome to Rue's Book World.
Hello,
I am Jamie, aka Rue. Rue is a nickname I have had since I was in about 8th grade. I am a 25 year old college graduate who is crazy and going back to get my second bachelor's degree in History. This is my third blog. I started my first blog almost three years ago, which is a Beauty blog, but mainly deals with my gigantic nail polish collection, which has gotten too big. My second one is more of a personal blog where I rant or just write about stuff going on in my life. This blog wouldn't really fit in either of those two blogs, so here we are. Rue's starting a new blog.
I love reading, BUT I have not always loved to read. I did not start loving to read until I was almost 20 years old in college. I did read for fun a little before, but it was only like one book a year. I had elementary and high school to do that. In elementary school we had to read so many books on our own and then take tests on them. In high school, our English department would not pick books out that I was interested in at the time. There is one exception which was Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird. I loved that book, and it is probably my favorite book. My love for reading started to develop with the Twilight series. I wanted to read the book before I went to watch the movie, so I read it over Thanksgiving break of my sophomore year of college. After starting that I also started reading the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris, which True Blood is based on. I finished Twilight series over Christmas break, and my love of books continued.
In 2012, my world was turned upside down, when I lost my mamaw, who was not only my grandmother, but she was also the woman who raised me. She was my second mom, and it was a difficult time for me and my family. I turned to books to get away. They are my get away, and I think that is why I tend to like dystopian novel A LOT!
Last year I read over 25 books. I am back in college, so I don't get to read as much as I like to. If I get to read one book every two week or so I am good. I do listen to audio books, so that is one way I can keep up my reading.
My original goal at the beginning of the year was to ready at least 25 books this year knowing since I am back in college and I would only get to read one book every two weeks or so. But if the summer goes like I want it, I will be over it. I am wanting to ready 25 books this summer alone.
That's a lot of books, so I must own a lot. Not really. I go to my public library, and borrow a lot of the books I read. I also tend to trade a lot of my books from a local used book store, especially ones that I thought were only ok, and I know I will never read again. So I trade them in to get credit to buy new, well new to me, books so I can read them. Why keep them if they are just going to gather dust on my shelves. But one day I would like to have a library that has floor to ceiling bookshelves with them completely full. My dream library is like Beast's Library in the Beauty and the Beast.
I tend to read a lot of Young Adult fiction for fun, which are either dystopian, as I said above, or Vampire and other supernatural. I am a huge fan of Nicholas Sparks, and I have read almost all of his novels. With that being said, I generally do not like Historical Fiction, which is weird for I am a history major in college right now. I also do like High Fantasy novels. I know it's a well liked book series, but I did not like "The Lord of The Rings" I couldn't get into the book or even the movie. I am still out on the Harry Potter Series though. I read the first book in seventh grade, and it took me forever to read, so I did not finish the series. I have though seen all the movies, and I love them. This is one of my goals this year is to finish the series. If I don't finish it, I would like to make a serious dent into it.
I tend to listen to several books on audio books while I am traveling to work. I am usually reading one book and listening to another. I will disclose in any reviews if I listened to it or actually read the book.
Peaceful and Happy Thoughts,
--Rue.
I am Jamie, aka Rue. Rue is a nickname I have had since I was in about 8th grade. I am a 25 year old college graduate who is crazy and going back to get my second bachelor's degree in History. This is my third blog. I started my first blog almost three years ago, which is a Beauty blog, but mainly deals with my gigantic nail polish collection, which has gotten too big. My second one is more of a personal blog where I rant or just write about stuff going on in my life. This blog wouldn't really fit in either of those two blogs, so here we are. Rue's starting a new blog.
I love reading, BUT I have not always loved to read. I did not start loving to read until I was almost 20 years old in college. I did read for fun a little before, but it was only like one book a year. I had elementary and high school to do that. In elementary school we had to read so many books on our own and then take tests on them. In high school, our English department would not pick books out that I was interested in at the time. There is one exception which was Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird. I loved that book, and it is probably my favorite book. My love for reading started to develop with the Twilight series. I wanted to read the book before I went to watch the movie, so I read it over Thanksgiving break of my sophomore year of college. After starting that I also started reading the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris, which True Blood is based on. I finished Twilight series over Christmas break, and my love of books continued.
In 2012, my world was turned upside down, when I lost my mamaw, who was not only my grandmother, but she was also the woman who raised me. She was my second mom, and it was a difficult time for me and my family. I turned to books to get away. They are my get away, and I think that is why I tend to like dystopian novel A LOT!
Last year I read over 25 books. I am back in college, so I don't get to read as much as I like to. If I get to read one book every two week or so I am good. I do listen to audio books, so that is one way I can keep up my reading.
My original goal at the beginning of the year was to ready at least 25 books this year knowing since I am back in college and I would only get to read one book every two weeks or so. But if the summer goes like I want it, I will be over it. I am wanting to ready 25 books this summer alone.
That's a lot of books, so I must own a lot. Not really. I go to my public library, and borrow a lot of the books I read. I also tend to trade a lot of my books from a local used book store, especially ones that I thought were only ok, and I know I will never read again. So I trade them in to get credit to buy new, well new to me, books so I can read them. Why keep them if they are just going to gather dust on my shelves. But one day I would like to have a library that has floor to ceiling bookshelves with them completely full. My dream library is like Beast's Library in the Beauty and the Beast.
I tend to read a lot of Young Adult fiction for fun, which are either dystopian, as I said above, or Vampire and other supernatural. I am a huge fan of Nicholas Sparks, and I have read almost all of his novels. With that being said, I generally do not like Historical Fiction, which is weird for I am a history major in college right now. I also do like High Fantasy novels. I know it's a well liked book series, but I did not like "The Lord of The Rings" I couldn't get into the book or even the movie. I am still out on the Harry Potter Series though. I read the first book in seventh grade, and it took me forever to read, so I did not finish the series. I have though seen all the movies, and I love them. This is one of my goals this year is to finish the series. If I don't finish it, I would like to make a serious dent into it.
I tend to listen to several books on audio books while I am traveling to work. I am usually reading one book and listening to another. I will disclose in any reviews if I listened to it or actually read the book.
Peaceful and Happy Thoughts,
--Rue.
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