Every Boy's Got One...

 I'm in my book-maddening mode again this holiday - the only time where I got the mood to spend times with novels and such.

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The novel I just recently finished reading was 'Every Boy's Got One' by Meg Cabot. This is the third title in 'The Boy Series'. This third title was just as good as the previous title - Boy Meets Girl. The way Cabot narrated this story and the other stories in this series was truly creative - she was using the medium of notes, diary, e-mails, sms-es, etc to tell this story from different characters - which gave us the chance to know the viewpoints of different people. It was hilarious - I mean the diary and the e-mails' contents. I guess Cabot was convincing when writing some notes from the viewpoint of the male characters. That's what I call a good author.

This story is narrated mainly from the viewpoint of Jane Harris - the maid of honour/best friend of Holly the bride. Jane was helping Holly to elope to Italy with Holly's boyfriend, Mark Levine, who also brought along his best friend Cal Langdon to be his best man. Jane and Cal had totally different view about the elopement, Jane was totally supportive of the marriage while Cal, thinks that it's too early for Mark to settle down. 

Actually, this story was inspired by Cabot's own elopement back in Italy too, but creative Cabot was not sticking to the cliche of having the bride as the main character or narrator; instead she narrated this story from the viewpoint of the maid of honour.

About the main characters, both Jane and Cal are very different but yet very similar - Jane loves cats and Cal (though he won't admit it) actually loves cats too. They are both very successful, Jane is the artist who created and drew Wondercats while Cal is a journalist who wrote best-selling nonfiction book. 

When will Jane change her negative view about Cal? And when will Cal start to believe in love and marriage again? 

Ah.. I won't give you the answer to the question above. You have to find out yourself by (duh!) reading this book..

If you are into romance and comedy, this is the perfect book for you. ;)

Legacy (Private Series) - Book Maddening Mode

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When I looked at the cover of this book, I knew that this book is going to be another typical popular rich girls involved in sorority drama + scandal + mystery + power and all the elements of students attending private school. The good thing about reading a typical genre is that you know what it's going to be like, it may not give you so much suspense like Sidney Sheldon books but it's not going to bore you to death either. Reading some typical book is like ordering that dish that you already know how it taste like but still you order it for the sake of eating it again and to make yourself full. And that was exactly what I was doing. I have expectation towards this book, but if it doesn't meet up to my expectation, then that's the downside of reading something typical. And I digressed...

So let's get back to the main focus, which is to give my review on this book.

Okay, so this book, LEGACY, is one of the PRIVATE series.

I guessed by reading LEGACY, I've skipped the earlier PRIVATE series and left blur blur with all the characters mentioned in LEGACY. That's the thing annoying about reading book series. You skip the first volume or the other volumes before that particular volume that you are reading, you are going to be left in the lurch.

The story revolves around Reed Brennan, a scholarship student who entered the prestigious Easton Academy Private School. Coming from a middle class family, she is not the typical private school rich girl type, and of course SO TOTALLY not the Billing girls type. Billing House is the sorority house for the posh and rich girls who are the member of the Billing underground society. The society is so exclusive, you have to be popular, rich and daring to be one of the Billings, but in this volume of the PRIVATE series, Reed is elected the president after the death of Cheyenne Martin, the previous Billing president. I guessed in the previous series, Reed had proven herself to be worthy of being Billing girls. In this volume, Reed could not get over the fact that Cheyenne sent her an e-mail blaming Reed for her suicide before she died.

And during this year, it was the first time the Billing girls and the students from Easton Academy were not invited to Legacy, a very exclusive and grand party that got people talking. Only the third generation of private school attendees are eligible to be invited to this party. Thus, as the new president of Billings, Reed had to find a way to get the girls and her friends to the party, though she herself was sure she was not eligible to attend it herself.

At the same time, in the midst of all that troubles, Reed felt that she was being watched, but by who?

So how did she manage to get the girls to the party? And who is that mysterious person who threw the LEGACY party and deliberately left Easton students out of the guest list? And was Reed dreaming or being a plain paranoid when she felt that she was being watched?

Read this book and better, the whole PRIVATE series, and you will find the answers. Or else you will left hanging with no answer like me for just depending on this one book to read. Hmmph.

Bookworm Attack!

[Interframe: If you haven't seen the Britain's Got Talent audition of Susan Boyle, you better watch it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY. I got this link from my aunt's facebook wall. I teared up (ahem) while watching this video. She got a standing ovation from the audience and judges who doubted her at first - after she sang "I Dreamed a Dream" from the play Les Miserables. Just through that one audition, she became a world wide sensation and from a 47 year-old-unmarried-living with a cat nobody to TALENTED Susan Boyle from Britain's Got Talent. And if people dressed up as you on Halloween, that means you're really, really famous bebeh!]

Let's just say I have a little bookworm attack this holiday. A little, cause it's not like I read 30 books this holiday, and to be exact - I just read three books lol. Finally my bookworm mode is on after being switched off for a really, really long time. I loved reading books before, especially during my high school years, and I've read most of the books in my high school library. I even signed up to become a librarian so that I could have better access to the story books in the library besides scoring for cocurricular activities, of course. But since I entered the university, I became allergic to reading books. I don't know why, but I preferred to read blogs ever since. Not that it's a bad thing, but reading books is one great hobby that I regret neglecting because reading was supposed to be more crucial once I entered the university, even if I am just reading fictional stories. I've been neglecting reading novels for fun for the whole last semester - and if it wasn't for the Literature paper that I took which require me to read 5 novels, I would have read zero books for last semester. Seriously.

But during this holiday, my love for reading began to resurface. Yes, I've fallen head over heels again with reading. Not that I would read any book that you throw at me. It's just that I began to remember how it feels to imagine things just by reading. How exciting it is to read one page to the other without counting how many pages I've read so far. And how curious I am to know some vocabularies that I stumbled upon while reading. Honestly, I am bad with vocabularies. I have limited vocabularies so do not be surprised if you see me searching for the meaning of certain words in every page of the books that I read.

Here, I would like to share the three books that I've read. They are all quite similar in a way. The three main characters are female, and the writers are witty and humourous. And no, I am not going to tell you the synopsis of this story cause I guess my sister will do that *wink2*.


Looking for the Alibrandi was the first novel I finished reading during this holiday and I like the story very much. It was not as cliche as the other teen chic novels that I've read so far. The main character, Josephine Alibrandi, is a very bright girl and unlike the other teen chic novels that I've read, where the girls are always ignorant and humourous (eg: the typical Sophie Kinsella's main characters but we still love em) this character is truly different - we really gotta love her cause she's cynical, bright, sharp and pretty. And this book has already turned into a movie. What more can I say to convince you that this book is worth every second of your time? ;)




And this will be, Sophie Kinsella's another masterpiece. I proclaim it's her best so far (though I know my sister may disagree on this claim). I love this book because it is hilarious, full of drama and chaos, and it had surprises throughout the story. You gotta read this cause I can imagine this story to be turned into a movie one day.


Ha! This is another story worth reading. Compared to the other two books, this book is more laid-back and plain but it's definitely hilarious. The story is narrated through letters, e-mails, notes, instant messages, phone messages, etc and it's a creative way to tell a story from various point of views. Though it's simple compared to the other two, the addiction effect is still the same. I guess, you can treat this book as a dessert, while the other two books as the main dishes. They are not from the same stream but I need them all to fulfill my sudden books addiction.

And if you want to know more about other English novels, here's a link (BOOKS LOVE ME) that might be helpful and informative. There's even books giveaway contest being held now at this blog! So hurry!

And yeah, actually this is a blog of my senior (A USM student from Communication School) in university and I think she's the ultimate booklover. Do visit her blog to see the reviews on certain novels that you might just fall for! Last but not least, enjoy your urm, minus-ing holidays??