The One Where You Tell cutie What To Do

Posted 23 September, 2010 by Danny in / 8 Comments

Morning Bookworms.
*yawns*
This morning as I sit at my desk
trying to blink the sleepy out of my eyes
whilst listening to the baby do her thang
it has suddenly dawned on me:
I haven’t read a book all week.
*flabbergast*
I know right?
And it’s not like I don’t have a stack of books
sitting right in front of me!
I could blame it on lack of time to read,
but truth be told, I can read like the wind
and I never have time to read.
I force it into my schedule.
So what’s been up with me?
I think my brain just needed a little break.
All these stories swimmin’ ’round my noggin’
and I started to feel like I was having an identity crisis.
Have you ever had that happen to you?

Today I need a little help.
The following are five books that are sitting on my desk
waiting, nay, begging me to read them,
but I’m just not sure where to begin.
So who wants to tell me what to read next?

1. Jekel Loves Hyde

Description:

Jill Jekel has always obeyed her parents’ rules – especially the one about never opening the mysterious, old box in her father’s office. But when her dad is murdered, and her college savings disappear, she’s tempted to peek inside, as the contents might be key to a lucrative chemistry scholarship.

To better her odds, Jill enlists the help of gorgeous, brooding Tristen Hyde, who has his own dark secrets locked away. As the team of Jekel and Hyde, they recreate experiments based on the classic novel, hoping not only to win a prize, but to save Tristen’s sanity. Maybe his life. But Jill’s accidental taste of a formula unleashes her darkest nature and compels her to risk everything – even Tristen’s love – just for the thrill of being… bad.

2. Beautiful Malice

Description:

Following a terrible tragedy that leaves her once-perfect family shattered, Katherine Patterson moves to a new city, starts at a new school, and looks forward to a new life of quiet anonymity.

But when Katherine meets the gregarious and beautiful Alice Parrie her resolution to live a solitary life becomes difficult. Katherine is unable resist the flattering attention that Alice pays her and is so charmed by Alice’s contagious enthusiasm that the two girls soon become firm friends. Alice’s joie de vivre is trans-formative; it helps Katherine forget her painful past and slowly, tentatively, Katherine allows herself to start enjoying life again.

But being friends with Alice is complicated – and as Katherine gets to know her better she discovers that although Alice can be charming and generous she can also be selfish and egocentric. Sometimes, even, Alice is cruel.

And when Katherine starts to wonder if Alice is really the kind of person she wants as a friend, she discovers something else about Alice – she doesn’t like being cast off.

3. Crossing the Tracks
Description:
At fifteen, Iris is a hobo of sorts – no home, no family, no plan. After her mother’s early death, Iris’s father focuses on big plans for his new shoe stores and his latest girlfriend, and has no time for his daughter. Unbeknown to her, he hires Iris out as housekeeper and companion for a country doctor’s elderly mother. Suddenly Iris is alone, stuck in gritty rural Missouri, too far from her only friend Leroy and too close to a tenant farmer Cecil Deets, who menaces the neighbors, and Iris suspects, his own daughter.

Iris is buoyed by the warmth and understanding the doctor and his mother show her, but just as she starts to break out of her shell tragedy strikes. Iris must find the guts and cunning to take aim at the devil incarnate and discover if she is really as helpless – or hopeless – or homeless – as she once believed.


4. Something, Maybe

 Description:

 Everyone thinks their parents are embarrassing, but Hannah knows she’s got them all beat. Her dad made a fortune showing pretty girls–and his “party” lifestyle–all over the Internet, and her mom, who was once one of her dad’s girlfriends, is now the star of her own website. After getting the wrong kind of attention for far too long, Hannah has learned how to stay out of sight…and that’s how she likes it.

Of course, being unknown isn’t helping her get noticed by gorgeous, confident Josh, who Hannah knows is her soul mate. Between trying to figure out a way to get him to notice her, dealing with her parents, and wondering why she can’t stop thinking about another guy, Finn, Hannah feels like she’s going crazy. She’s determined to make things work out the way she wants….only what she wants may not be what she needs. 


5. the Language of Trees
Description:
Echo O’Connell knows that the summer holds its secrets. They are whispered in the rustling trees, in the lush scent of the lilacs, in the flurry of the mayflies batting against the screen door, and in the restless spirits that seem to clamor in the scant breezes on hot evenings. It is in summer that she returns home to Canandaigua, to confront these spirits, both living and not, and to share a secret with her first love, Grant Shongo—a secret that will forever change the lives of many people in the town and put to rest the mysterious disappearance of a little boy more than a decade earlier.

Grant, a descendant of the Seneca Indians who call this place “The Chosen Spot,” has also come back to face his past. After a broken marriage, he has moved into his childhood home, a lake house that has withstood happiness and tragedy. He knows the spirits of the past must be dealt with—that of the little boy who disappeared all those years ago; the boy’s sister, who never overcame the loss; and the love Grant still has for Echo. But before the healing must come the forgiveness. . . . 

In conclusion:
1. I *heart* reading.
2. Buuuut sometimes I get confounded by my ‘To Read’ list.
3. There are a million books sitting on my desk.
4. I am overwhelmed.
5. I want someone to tell me what to read.

Sooo, what should I read, Bookworms?
Have you read any of these novels?
Do any of them strike your fancy?
Or you got a better book to suggest?

Until next time —
Keep it classy, Bookworms.
Yours truly,

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8 Responses to “The One Where You Tell cutie What To Do”

  1. The two I've read are Jekel Loves Hyde and Beautiful Malice. I really liked Jekel Loves Hyde, just not as much as Fantaskey's other novel, Jessica's Guide To Dating on The Dark Side. Beautiful Malice, in my opinion, is one of the best books that I've read this year. Even my [picky] best friend loved it!

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  2. Jekel Loves Hyde – only because Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Darkside was so laugh-out-loud funny. If nothing else, it might bring a smile to your face.

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  3. Isalys

    Ooh, decisions decisons! I say Jekel Loves Hyde 🙂

    {Super cute post by the way}

    Also, I hope you don't mind a little self-promoting! I did a book review VLOG for Gail Carriger's "Blameless". If you have 8 minutes to spare, please check it out and let me know what you think 🙂

    Thanks!
    ♥Isalys

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