Book Breakups - Week 5

"Book Breakups" is a weekly meme hosted by Pure Imagination. Have you ever stopped reading a book because it was so boring, you couldn't finish it or for whatever reason just stopped? This is what this meme's about.


One Book I've broken up with:


Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen


I broke up with this book, because, well...


I guess I was kinda too "young" at that time (I think I was 12 :S) to really understand this book. I had seen the movie (the one with Kiera Knightly!) and really loved it, and so I decided to read it. I managed to get through halfway, but then I stopped. I would really love to continue it though, now that I would understand it more and have "matured" in book reading. I just have to find time...






but anyway, here's a blurb (along with praise :P):


"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
So begins Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's witty comedy of manners--one of the most popular novels of all time--that features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of eighteenth-century drawing-room intrigues. Renowned literary critic and historian George Saintsbury in 1894 declared it the "most perfect, the most characteristic, the most eminently quintessential of its author's works," and Eudora Welty in the twentieth century described it as "irresistible and as nearly flawless as any fiction could be."

"The wit of Jane Austen has for partner the perfection of her taste."
--Virginia Woolf


Well, that's one more breakup! Which book have you stood up?? Leave a link/comment!

Book Breakups - Week 4

"Book Breakups" is a weekly meme hosted by Pure Imagination. Have you ever stopped reading a book because it was so boring, you couldn't finish it or for whatever reason just stopped? This is what this meme's about.


One Book I've broken up with is:

Reckless
by Cornelia Funke


I broke up with this book, because well...


I bought this book in India when I was on holiday. I started reading it immediately, because I loved Cornelia Funke's Ink Trilogy. And...


I didn't understand what was going on. At All. The Book kinda didn't make any sense. I knew it was kinda about Jacob and Will Grimm, but what TIME setting was this? It seemed like a weird mix...


Well, I hope that I can pick up this book again one day and resume reading it, because it really does seem promising.


Here's a blurb:

Beyond the mirror, the darkest fairy tales come alive. . . .

For years, Jacob Reckless has enjoyed the Mirrorworld’s secrets and treasures.

Not anymore.

His younger brother has followed him.

Now dark magic will turn the boy to beast, break the heart of the girl he loves, and destroy everything Jacob holds most dear. . . .

Unless he can find a way to stop it.

Well, that was the end of one of my relationships. What book have YOU stood up? Leave a link/comment!

Book Breakups - Week 3

"Book Breakups" is a weekly meme hosted by Pure Imagination. Have you ever stopped reading a book because it was so boring, you couldn't finish it or for whatever reason just stopped? This is what this meme's about.


One Book I've Broken up with is:

The Dark is Rising
by Susan Cooper


I broke up with this book, because well...


I just couldn't get to finish it. I was moving from Canada to Singapore at this time and HAD to pack it in the box containing all my books. I saw the movie when we were staying at the service apartment in Singapore and I loved it! It makes me want to read the book, and give it another try...even though people say that it's nothing like the book, but oh well.


here's the blurb:


On his 11th birthday, Will Stanton learns that he is the last born of the Old Ones. At once, he is plunged into a quest for the six magical Signs that will one day aid in the final battle between the Dark and Light.


That's a really teeny blurb, but whatevs. Any-hoo, what book have you stood up? Leave a link/comment!

Book Breakups - Week 2

"Book Breakups" is a weekly meme hosted by Pure Imagination. Have you ever stopped reading a book because it was so boring, you couldn't finish it or for whatever reason just stopped? This is what this meme's about.


One Book I've Broken Up with is:

Seeing Redd
by Frank Beddor


I broke up with this book, because well...


I didn't have time to finish it. I'd already renewed this book TWICE and I just couldn't finish it. I really loved The Looking Glass Wars, but I couldn't remember some of the details and therefore, Seeing Redd just didn't make so much sense. I'll re-read The Looking Glass Wars one of these days and THEN read Seeing Redd.


here's the blurb:


Wonderland finally seems as if it's getting back to normal. Queen Alyss is back on the throne, and reunited with her childhood sweetheart, Dodge. But the fight for Wonderland is far from over. King Arch, in nearby Boarderland, is conniving to overthrow everything for which Alyss and her friends have fought so hard. Even worse, King Arch has found an ally in the recently returned Redd, who has been biding her time and gathering new and evil assassins in the Catacombs of Paris. With enemies circling and danger looming, someone close to Alyss lets her down-and threatens the future of Wonderland forever.


What's a book that you've stood up? Leave a link/comment!

Book Breakups - Week 1

"Book Breakups" is a meme hosted by Pure Imagination. Have you ever stopped reading a book because it was so boring, you couldn't finish it or for whatever reason just stopped? This is what this meme's about. 


One book I've broken up with is:

The Secret Life of Prince Charming
by Deb Caletti


I broke up with this book, because well...


I enjoyed it. I actually did. But because there were so many things going on, I just couldn't get to finishing it. And just when I had the time, I had to go to India for the holidays and my suitcase was already overpacked with books! So when I came back, it was time to return it to the library and I couldn't remembered what happened in the book. It was great at the beginning, and I really do hope that I return to this book!


Here's the Blurb:


Maybe it was wrong, or maybe impossible, but I wanted the truth to be one thing. One solid thing.

Quinn is surrounded by women who have had their hearts broken. Between her mother, her aunt, and her grandmother, Quinn hears nothing but cautionary tales. She tries to be an optimist -- after all, she's the dependable one, the girl who never makes foolish choices. But when she is abruptly and unceremoniously dumped, Quinn starts to think maybe there really are no good men.

It doesn't help that she's gingerly handling a renewed relationship with her formerly absent father. He's a little bit of a lot of things: charming, selfish, eccentric, lazy...but he's her dad, and Quinn's just happy to have him around again. Until she realizes how horribly he's treated the many women in his life, how he's stolen more than just their hearts. Determined to, for once, take action in her life, Quinn joins forces with the half sister she's never met and the little sister she'll do anything to protect. Together, they set out to right her father's wrongs...and in doing so, begin to uncover what they're really looking for: the truth.

What book have you stood up lately? Leave a link/comment!