Book Binge

             Hello lovely readers! Life has been extremely busy this week, it's amazing how everything is so fast paced! The play is over, I am thankful to say. It was fun but very time consuming. Unfortunately, I did not have time to exhale as this term is wrapping up, tests and all work is due tomorrow, I have state tests that greatly affect graduation in a few weeks, and a very inconveniently placed Spring Break is planted in the middle of it all. Wow, did I really just complain about Spring Break? How foolish! It will be nice to have all this pressure lifted for a mo'.
            My brain also decided to have a huge reading binge. I tend to have odd reading habits. It so goes that I will hardly touch a book in months, then all of a sudden I just can't get enough and I'm devouring a novel a day. You can see, as how I'm very busy, I do not have time to sit around reading books all day, but my book-binges still make themselves most prominent. My last binge lasted from early spring to late summer,  and a lot of those books were really good. Many of them are now having sequels or sequels to sequels coming out now or very soon, and so they have resurfaced to my mind.
            Here are some books I've recently read/read last summer:

• Delarium and Pandemonium, Pandemonium being the sequel. About a society where love is considered to be disease.
• Divergent and Insurgent, Insurgent being the sequel. About a city where people are separated into factions based on personality stereotypes and how that is problematic.
• The Hunger Games and its correponding books. Very popular, and not unworthy of it, either. About children killing each other due to unfair government.
• Matched and Crossed, Crossed being the sequel. About a girl who lives in a city where significant others are chosen for you by the government.
• Maximum Ride series, which is about a band of genetically mutated and abused children on the run from just about everyone and try to save the world.
• Of Poisedon was about a girl who gets mixed up with a fish guy and she finds something fishy about herself, too.
• A lot of books by Robin McKinley
• The Girl of Fire and Thorns was about a girl with gem stuck in her belly button.
• The Selection was about a girl who was "honored" by being chosen to be one of the prince's suitor, but as she harbored a secret relationship with someone else, found a few problems. I rather favored this one.
• Entwined by Heather Dixon. I adored this book. About twelve sisters who secretly dance in a magical room they found with a handsome man. But is this man all he seems?
• Harry Potter. I am currently rereading this series. It's too good to just read once!
• Wake by Amanda Hocking. About a girl who's life is turned upside down by three sirens (the Greek myths)

            There were of course more, like Animal Farm, The Outsiders, and such, but those are classics, and the ones listed above are fairly new and/or have sequels coming out, which leads to my next list.

            Here are some books I have waiting in line to be read:

• Requiem, the final book of the Delarium trilogy I mentioned above.
• Convergent, or so I've heard because the title isn't solidified yet, is the the final book the the Divergent trilogy mentioned above. Hasn't come out yet, though.
• Reached, the conclusion to the Matched trilogy mentioned above.
• Nevermore, the final book of the very long Maximun Ride series
• Of Triton, the next book in the Of Poisedon series which is fairly new and rumored to have five books.
• The Elite, the sequel to The Selection, and is not out yet. :( I am particularly excited for this one.
• Lullaby, the sequel to Wake, and isn't out yet.
• the rest of Harry Potter that I haven't finished (Half Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows)
• Mary Queen of France, a novel that looks interesting that my uncle sent. Apparently she was my great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandmother or something.
• Beautiful Creatures, which I saw the movie for. It was about a young witch who is worried about a curse that will turn her bad.
• Heaven is for Real, about a young boy who has a near-death experience while in surgery and visits Heaven. Based on a true story.
• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Enough said.

            If my binge isn't over by the time I finish these in about two weeks, perhaps I shall tackle something more classic and literary, like To Kill A Mockingbird or Great Expectations, the book my father tried to read to me when I was little but I kept crying because I felt he was Joe.

Be brave!

      Ari