Archive for March 2013

Book Review: Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare

3/30/2013
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THE INFERNAL DEVICES ARE WITHOUT PITY.

THE INFERNAL DEVICES ARE WITHOUT REGRET.

THE INFERNAL DEVICES ARE WITHOUT NUMBER.

THE INFERNAL DEVICES WILL NEVER STOP COMING.

Tessa Gray should be happy — aren’t all brides happy? Yet as she prepares for her wedding to Jem Carstairs, a net of shadows begins to tighten around the Shadowhunters of the London Institute. A new demon appears, one linked by blood and secrecy to the Magister, the man who plans to use his army of pitiless automatons, the Infernal Devices, to destroy the Shadowhunters. He needs

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Book Review: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

3/30/2013
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It’s just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery....

Narrated by Death, Markus Zusak’s groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a young foster girl living outside of Munich in Nazi Germany. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist – books. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library, wherever they are to be

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Book Review: (double) Clockwork Angel and Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare

3/16/2013
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Magic is dangerous—but love is more dangerous still.

When sixteen-year-old Tessa Gray crosses the ocean to find her brother, her destination is England, the time is the reign of Queen Victoria, and something terrifying is waiting for her in London's Downworld, where vampires, warlocks and other supernatural folk stalk the gaslit streets. Only the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the world of demons, keep order amidst the chaos.

Kidnapped by the mysterious Dark Sisters, members of a secret organization called The Pandemonium Club, Tessa soon learns that she herself is

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Artwork: Flying Towards Love

3/15/2013
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My SECOND photomanipulation - OMG.
Here are all the image credits. GAH.
http://browse.deviantart.com/art/Fish-png-177597268
http://absurdwordpreferred.deviantart.com/art/Butterflies-png-177594528http://panna-acida.deviantart.com/art/Texture-01-80537216http://mossi889.deviantart.com/art/fish-292036485http://evelivesey.deviantart.com/art/Flying-Parrot-178998378http://netzephyr.deviantart.com/art/STOCK-Raven-Flying-with-Alpha-Layer-188264521http://michelle-long.deviantart.com/art/fly-205105347
http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/42900/42988/golden8_42988.htm

Basically, I created this for a school project on the golden ratio using a golden spiral as a layer. It turned out actually okay, so I decided to post it here. This is pretty close to what I originally had in mind, a multitude of creatures all flying in a golden spiral towards a certain special something. I made it on PicMonkey, so I decided at the last minute that the

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For Ash - a Short Story

3/11/2013
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On March 7, 2013, a fellow NaNoer, Ash, lost her fight with leukemia.

I never met her. I wanted to contribute something to her memory, though. And this is what I came up with.

Rest in peace, Ash.

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**NOTICE**: Considering how this story turned out, I've taken it off this blog for the time being and have submitted it to a magazine for consideration. Thanks for all your wonderful feedback!

UPDATE: I made a cover for this - I'll post it on

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Book Review: Beta by Rachel Cohn

3/09/2013
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Elysia is created in a laboratory, born as a sixteen-year-old girl, an empty vessel with no life experience to draw from. She is a Beta, an experimental model of a teenage clone. She was replicated from another teenage girl, who had to die in order for Elysia to exist. 
Elysia's purpose is to serve the inhabitants of Demesne, an island paradise for the wealthiest people on earth. Everything about Demesne is bioengineered for perfection. Even the air induces a strange, euphoric high, which only the island's workers--soulless clones

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Book Review: Insurgent by Veronica Roth

3/09/2013
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*spoiler warning* GO READ DIVERGENT. NOW. I ORDER YOU TO.
One choice can transform you--or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves--and herself--while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love.

Tris's initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. War now looms as conflict

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Book Review: Lord of the Flies by William Golding

3/09/2013
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Lord of the Flies, William Golding's classic tale about a group of English schoolboys who are plane-wrecked on a deserted island, is just as chilling and relevant today as when it was first published in 1954. At first, the stranded boys cooperate, attempting to gather food, make shelters, and maintain signal fires. Overseeing their efforts are Ralph, "the boy with fair hair," and Piggy, Ralph's chubby, wisdom-dispensing sidekick whose thick spectacles come in handy for lighting fires. Although Ralph tries to impose order and delegate responsibility, there are

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Book Review: Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

3/09/2013
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When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin the perilous descent from 29,028 feet (roughly the cruising altitude of an Airbus jetliner), twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly to the top, unaware that the sky had begun to roil with clouds...

In this definitive account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest, Jon Krakauer

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