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October 26, 2016
Manga Mondays
I would like to announce to the whole universe that your dear President is going to participate in this amazing Tag/Meme Bailey has made for her blog, Nerd in New York, and it’s *drumroll*:
As it says it’s “Mondays” you will see me update (or schedule updates) my blog, instead of posting my usual Literary Lines as part of my “Presidential Break.” The said lines will be part of Book Update Wednesdays, particularly in those weeks I haven’t scheduled any Book Review.
For the rules, visit Nerd in New York.
Manga Mondays a new meme created by Balie (me) talking about Anime/Manga. Manga Mondays: Pretend F.A.Q (because no one really asked questions) What is Manga Monday? Manga Monday is a new meme crea…
Source: Manga Mondays
October 25, 2016
Bookish Tag: Bookish Book Lover Tag
I would like to thank Book Huntress for letting me participate in this Bookish Book Tag, the very first Book Tag I felt compelled to participate ^_^ You can read her responses here.
RULES
Use the Banner
Answer the Questions
Use Lots of Book Covers *smiles*
Tag Your Bookish Friends!
QUESTIONS
1) What books are you currently reading?
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2) What’s the last book you finished?
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3) Favourite book you read this year?
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4) What genre have you read most this year?
According to my Goodreads account, it’s Fantasy and Adventure
October 24, 2016
Another Achievement: N5試験に合格しました。
My father received a sealed document from Japan Foundation a couple of weeks ago and he asked me what it was for. Thinking that certificates would be distributed much later, I told him they had probably sent me invitations to study. When I got home last weekend, I found this instead. ^_^
October 23, 2016
After all, the perfection of love is not being loved, bu...
After all, the perfection of love is not being loved, but being a Lover.– Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before
October 18, 2016
Review: The Last Ever After
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Presidential Rating:
Date Read: 19 August 2016
Favorite character: Hester, Anadil, Dot (the conven basically) and Lady Lesso… Can you see a pattern here?
Summary:
In the epic next chapter of Soman Chainani’s New York Times bestselling series, The School for Good and Evil, everything old is new again as Sophie and Agatha fight the past as well as the present to find the perfect end to their story.
As A World Without Princes closed, the end was written and former best friends Sophie and Agatha went their separate ways. Agatha was whisked back to Gavaldon with Tedros and Sophie stayed behind with the beautiful young School Master.
But as they settle into their new lives, their story begs to be re-written, and this time, theirs isn’t the only one. With the girls apart, Evil has taken over and the villains of the past have come back to change their tales and turn the world of Good and Evil upside down.
Readers around the world are eagerly awaiting the third book in The School for Good and Evil series, The Last Ever After. This extraordinary new journey delivers more action, adventure, laughter, romance and fairy tale twists and turns than you could ever dream of!
Summary from Goodreads.
Verdict:
The concept for the Last Ever After is superb, make no doubt about it. Sophie and Agatha’s friendship once again has a different twist to it and this time, something deeper than what has been shown in the first book and established in the second book. Still however, I felt overwhelmed reading new information shoved into my head in the third book. It seemed to me as if all these notes and ideas were crammed in the last part instead of being evenly distributed in the entire series. Take for example, it is revealed (spoiler alert!) that Stephan actually has better affection toward Agatha but I could not recall it being mentioned in the first two books. Probably I have to read the books again and find hints here and there but as it is, I can’t afford to do that anymore (given my clamoring TBR list).
At last, Agatha and Tedro’s affection for each other has been justified in this book. It turns out it is not just the hormones of adolescence affecting them but something much deeper. I always need to remember that the series is all about 15-year-old kids trying their hands on friendship and love that last for ever after.
Goodbye Cinderella. To every sense of the word. For those who have read the novel, you know what I mean. For those who haven’t, prepare yourself for a completely different Cinderella, someone who’s too Good she is willing to trade places with her step-sisters, the kind you’ll hate so much you don’t want to read her name on a page but you’ll end up loving and missing at the end of a chapter.
I do like the little scenes between Lancelot and Guinevere. And although I will never love Merlin-and I might be the only one who doesn’t – I have learned to love his taciturnity and how he has managed to boost everyone’s confidence, not the Dumbledore kind but let’s not start talking about amazing wizards because I am certainly going to lose.
My biggest concern in this book is Sophie’s inconsistent language. There are times when she gives hifalutin speeches to the point I consider her a philosopher but there are also countless moments when I see her as a complete dunderhead.
Nonetheless, despite certain issues regarding consistency of characters, I have to say the series has been an easy read for me and the fact that it has given a different take on fairy tales is a plus.
October 17, 2016
A skull dislodged from the pile and clattered to the flo...
A skull dislodged from the pile and clattered to the floor, where it rolled to a stop at my feet and stared up at me.
Hello, future, I thought.
Jacob, Hollow City
October 14, 2016
161014 Student of the Week
Claire: I will exercise tomorrow.
Me: I don’t believe you.
Claire: It is ok if you don’t believe me because I don’t believe myself, too. (lol)
October 7, 2016
161007 Student of the Week
“I don’t want to finish it because it is so good a book that I always want to be in that kind of feeling.”
Phebee, ESL Student
October 3, 2016
The true purpose of money is to manipulate others and mak...
Horace, Hollow City
