Playlist for The Virgin Suicides!

The Virgin Suicides

Listen to This!

So far away- Carole King

Make it with you- Bread

Cable car- Anberlin

Be my Escape- Relient K

Fully Alive- Flyleaf

Love,

Tina!

The Virgin Suicides

The Virgin Suicides

by Jeffrey Eugenides

Rating: So So

Difficulty: Normal

Pages: 249

Synopsis

In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters--beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys--commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece together the mystery of the family's fatal melancholy, in this hypnotic and unforgettable novel of adolescent love, disquiet, and death. Jeffrey Eugenides evokes the emotions of youth with haunting sensitivity and dark humor and creates a coming-of-age story unlike any of our time. Adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola, "The Virgin Suicides" is a modern classic, a lyrical and timeless tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologizes suburban middle-American life.

Review

Sorry i've been gone so long but The Virgin Suicides really took me a long time! This is the story of the five Lisbon sisters, it is a compilation of evidence about them and their descent towards their demise. It is told from one of the boys who witnessed the sisters' slow disenegration and felt the overwhelming obsession that came with knowing the mysterious Lux, Mary, Therese Bonnie and Cecilia. Part fact, part hear say, the book is actually quite eerie and scary- down to the little details about Lux's inhibited sex life and the mystery behind the first suicide of Cecilia. Now the reason why i gave it a "so so" rating is just the smiple fact that it really does move kind of slow. It's very anti-climatic but I guess it's the whole subtly of the story that makes it good. It's not a total bomb because like i said, it's just creepy and at some points you can almost see yourself watching these girls and there strange lifestyles but it does tend to move at a sluggish pace. If your interested in the subject of suicide or mysterious deaths this would be a grat book to read and if you already saw the movie it might be some good behind the story reading!

Summary for 48HBC!!!

Sooooo...

My 48 hours isn't quite up yet but i have school tomorrow and i won't be able to post later or before noon on monday:(( So let's calculate my hours shall we?

Saturday

8:15 am- 11:20 am - Reading Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

11:20- 1: 15 - Cleaning house and taking a shower! (haha)

1:15- 1:45 - Reviewing Speak!

1:45- 2:25 - Began to Read Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin

2:25- 2:50 -Eating :)

2:50 - 3:50 Reading more Elsewhere!

3:50 - 7:00 - Blogging some more!

8:20-10:20 -Finishing up Elsewhere

10:22-12:10 - Reading Tuck Everlastin

Sunday

7:45- 9:55- Reading Flipped

9:55-11:20- Cleaning (ugh parents!)

11:20- 1:00 - Finishing Flipped

1:00- 2:30- Blogging, Reviewing

3:00- 6:10 Reading Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

So if my calculations are correct...that would give me...5 books in 17 hours and 38 minutes!!!! Wow thats alot of reading man!!!! Wooo hoo! So now im done but i will definitley being doing this again! It was fun while it lasted but im kind of happy to take a little brak from reading...at least until monday!! :)))

The Books i read...

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan

Good Luck to everyone!!!

Playlist for Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

Listen to this!

I want to hold your hand- The Beatles

Pictures of you- The Cure

Just like heaven- The Cure

How fucking romantic- The Magnetic Fields

Brighter- Paramore

48HBC: Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan

Rating:Great

Difficulty: Normal

Pages: 183

This is my fifth and final book in the 48 hour reading challenge! Good job to all the participants!!!

Synopsis

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist is a comedy about two teens thrust together for one hilarious, sleepless night of adventure in a world of mix tapes, late-night living, and, live, loud music. Nick frequents New York's indie rock scene nursing a broken heart and Norah is questioning all of her assumptions about the world. Though they have nothing in common except for their taste in music, their chance encounter leads to an all-night quest to find a legendary band's secret show and ends up becoming the first date that could change both their lives.

Review

So earlier today i read another story that also has two points of view (Flipped) out of those two i can definitely say this one is my favorite! Nick and Norah is a fresh and originaly book with a awesome soundtrack!! It was made into a movie which has two of my favorite actors in it- Kat Dennings and Michael Cera! This book is all about the music scene through out Manhattan and it kind of sucks you in with its dialogue and hilarious characters! Nick, a straight guy in a queer- core band, has just been dumped by his hot girlfriend Tris. He thought he was in love and was still groveling over the loss when he meets Norah, a straight edge catholic school girl, with a serious attitude and a "frigid personality". How they meet consists of one of my favorite lines from a book "Will you be my girlfriend for the next five minutes?" Ha! After that they are immedietley churned into this wild crazy night full of Ex's, Where's Fluffy (their favorite band) and crazy friends! This is a really exciting and funny book filled with alot of laid back humor and teenage love! Read it please!!!

Playlist for Flipped

Flipped
Listen to this!

You went away- Tehan and Sara
You belong with me- Taylor Swift
Where does the good go- Tegan and Sara
That's what you get- Paramore
Who I am hates who I've been- Relient K

Playlist for Elsehwere

Elsewhere
Listen to this!

Why can't I breathe- Liz Phair
You only live once- The Strokes
She you're gone- Avril Lavigne
When we die- Bowling for soup
Time won't Let me go-The Bravery

Hope you like it!!!
Christina