SEREIN'S Blog

I adore books that allow me to escape from my own world. Warning: The opinions/rants/ramblings are posted by a peculiar 16 year old. 

The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
"You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but a Sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
“My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
"I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Bewitching - Alex Flinn
“In stories like Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, they always say the heroine is 'as good as she is beautiful.' I wondered if people just wanted that to be true, wanted the beautiful to be good. I wondered if they wanted the ugly to be bad because then they wouldn't have to feel bad for them.” ― Alex Flinn, Bewitching
Bewitching - Alex Flinn
"The end of the story, according to the famous author, is when the character either gets what he wants or realizes he’s never going to get it. Or sometimes, she said, like Scarlet O'Hara in Gone With the Wind, realizes she doesn't actually want what she thought she wanted all along." ― Alex Flinn

The Future of Us

(First post. Let's see how much I can screw this up.)

Sometimes, I like to go to my local library and blindly pick out random books to read. That way, I don't "judge the book by its cover." I picked The future of us by Jay Asher & Carolyn Mackler. So far, it's interesting. It changes POVs between the two main characters. I like that because I know what goes on in both of their minds.

 

I rarely read these types of books since I'm going through a Fairy tale/Vampire/Werewolf/Anything-that-has-to-do-with-magic phase. Does that make sense? Probably not but I know what I mean... I think.

 

 

Anyway, it's 1996 and there's two main characters, Emma and Josh, who have been neighbors and best friends their entire lives until Josh misunderstood a situation and told Emma that he likes her... That made things pretty awkward for both of them. One day, Emma receives a computer from her father as a guilt gift for having a child with his new wife. Josh's mother forces Josh to personally give Emma an America Online CD-ROM for her computer. After an awkward interaction and other events, Emma installs the CD-ROM into her computer and creates her first AOL account. Just as she's about to write her first email to her friend, a "small white box with a blue border pops up." Can you guess what it is? Twitter! Ha-ha, just kidding~

 

It's Facebook. Dun DUN DUUUN.

 

Emma and Josh finds themselves, fifteen years in the future, on Facebook. Josh thinks it's a prank but Emma starts to genuinely think it's real and her future doesn't seem to be so bright.

 

I'm going to continue reading now!

 

L8r, g8r

 

-N