Christmas in April

I was able to spend the weekend with my cousin, be in the city, go to the art store, get the world's most incredible art set (which I'm still currently starring at in total awe.) and I got not one, but two new hard covers*. Sigh. Christmas in April? Possibly. 

I haven't gotten much further in The DaVinci Code because my bedroom is a mess, and the book was unfortunately MIA for a few days. I found it this morning, however, lodged away between my matress and the wall. Wow. How Clean Is Your House has nightmares about stuff like this. Lol jk. It isn't that bad.. Haha.

So the two new books I have are The Kingdom of Ohio and The Dream of Perpetual Motion. Both have incredible covers. I can't wait! Lol.

And how time flies when your on vacation... Today is the "Last Day" of the Hush, Hush Book of the Week thing. You should all go read this book. Please? The summery may sound highly cliche, but it is really a fantastic novel. The sequel comes out in the fall, I even have a little countdown clock on the side. Go to your library, and get Hush, Hush.
Ok. I'm done now. Adios.


-Chase

*Of course, there was the not so fun incident at the dentists, this afternoon. Since when does novicane take four+ hours to wear off? It is far too difficult eating a giant burger with only half your face working...

In Which We Learn of Designers, Dead Guys, and Deviants

Last night, I picked up The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown,  which has been guility sitting on my shelf for a rather long time. Most of the "good books" in my house are in my room. Its like I'm hording them, unitentionally, or something like that. When my mom or dad finish a good book, it ends up in my book case.*
I am not complaining.
So last night I was going through my books, and I came across The DaVinci Code. As I said, it's been sitting there for a while, so I finally decided to read it.
Now I know that it is the second book, and I normally never read the sequel first, but I know the story of Angels and Demons... So I guess my question is, for those of you who have read the books, can a reader follow The DaVinci Code without reading the first book? Because I started it last night, and I'm pretty much addicted to it already. (Even though I'm not that far into it, I love the premise, and the whole bit with the dead guy at the Louvre...And the plot thickens..) But I don't want to go through with it if there are sections that I won't understand, having not read Angels and Demons first.  

And now for something completely different...

Gahh... I watched Project Runway last night OnDemand.**
-Possible Spoilers-
Wth. That's all I have to say. Heidi and Nina should listen to Micheal. They should have listend to Micheal, and put Jay through to Fashion Week. Ugh. I was ticked. I'm not denying that Mila isn't a good designer. She is***. But God, she can be obnoxious. And what was really weird, is her color palet. Or lack of, I should say. Her collection is basically 98.6% Black and White only, and when Tim visted her home it was all black and white too. Her dog is a dalmation. Whats up with this? I agree with what the judges said, about her very retro style... But how on Earth would she manage to put out 6 different collections a year. Can she even use color? Ughh. Anyways.
Seth Aaron all the way :-) .

Hey! Look what I learned to do.
Upload pictures from my phone... Woohoo.
This is a big step for me, because now I don't have to walk down stairs to the basement to use the scanner. Nope. I just click with my camera, upload to Photo Bucket , and viola!
I've been having a very lazy day. I think I left my room twice. Once to go to the bathroom, the other time to get a bagel from the kitchen. I've been sitting on my bed with my laptop, and sketchpad... Maybe I'll actually get around to uploading stuff to my Deviant Art account today.
 Below, is just an upload from my cell. I was too lazy to use the scanner, so the resolution is a bit fuzzy...




Alright. Well I'm off to enjoy more of vacation, adios.

-Chase
*Whenever I see books lying around the house, I move them to my room. I can be slightly OCD about books in that sense.
**FiOS On Demand, just another thing I'm unhealthily obsessed with. Lol.
***Why does it seem like her and Irina, from last season, would get along nicely?

Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick

So, as I've mentioned about 700 times, Crescendo is the sequel to Hush, Hush, and is going to be released on November 16th, 2010. I was on Becca Fitzpatrick's website, and stumbled across the synopsis of the book*...      

Nora should have known her life was far from perfect. Despite starting a relationship with her guardian angel, Patch (who, title aside, can be described as anything but angelic), and surviving an attempt on her life, things are not looking up. Patch is starting to pull away and Nora can't figure out if it's for her best interest or if his interest has shifted to her arch-enemy, Marcie Millar. Not to mention that Nora is haunted by images of her father and she becomes obsessed with finding out what really happened to him that night he left for Portland and never came home.

The further Nora delves into the mystery of her father's death, the more she comes to question if her Nephilim bloodline has something to do with it as well as why she seems to be in danger more than the average girl. Since Patch isn't answering her questions and seems to be standing in her way, she has to start finding the answers on her own. Relying too heavily on the fact that she has a guardian angel puts Nora at risk again and again. But can she really count on Patch or is he hiding secrets darker than she can even imagine?

Yay. (:

-chase





*I was wicked excited, and was like "Omg! Crescendo! Crescendo! Ahha!" My cat gave me a rather terrified look. Maybe I shouldn't do that again.

There's much more to life than...

...than hot, glittery, dead guys.

I think by now, most of the Twilight craze has died down a little. Ok, maybe not, especailly with the release of New Moon and such...
I think I should take this brief moment to point out that I can't stand Twilight. At all. I could go into a nice long rant about why I don't like it, but that might take way too long. And also, I know people who do like it, and they wouldn't appreciate it if I tore it apart on this blog*.
Alright. Enough of this.
So as you may or may not have already heard, Stephenie Meyer has her latest Twilight book to be released in June. "The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner." (Image in the right corner.) Well good for her, I say. Looks like someone knows how to make money in this economy. Jeez.
To be honest, I have had enough vampires to last a life time.
I went into Borders last week and was afraid I had instead walked into Hot Topic by mistake**
One friend of mine described it as: "Twilight threw up."
I think I have to agree.
What is happening to YA?

Some YA Books That Fans of the Twilight Saga May Enjoy

(I'm not doing this sarcastically. These are books I reccomend to people who read Twilight.)

A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray

-My rating: 9/1o

-Genere: Fantasy

Rebel Angels by Libba Bray (Sequel to AGATB)

-My Rating: 10/10

-Genere: Fantasy

The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray (Sequel to RA)

-My Rating: 9/10
-Genere: Fantasy

The Blood Confession by Alisa M. Libby

-My Rating: 10/10

-Genere: Fantasy/Historical Fiction.. sorta..

(Ok. So what I think I've decided to do is write up summeries of these different books, and a few others, just because these are awesome books. And my rating and the genere isn't 103% helpful... Lol. Ok. I think that's the plan.)

Happy April,

~chase

*Your welcome, Ami and Becka. Lol. jk!
**Nothing against Hot Topic at all. They have awesome tshirts. Lol.

For the sake of writing, and for the love of procrastination...

Okeydokey then....





*four hours later*





I will find something to post about! I swear!








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Alright, when all else fails-


talk about a book.















Fahrenheit 451.
The temperature at which books self cum bust.


Right now I'm on like page ..ermm.. 23?


I love older books. But some are rather hard to really sink your teeth into I think. So when I started 451 (at midnight last night) I wasn't sure if this would be one of those classics that I would read the first two pages, then relize that I had no clue what was going on. (ex. when I attempted to read Beowulf.) But I think that 451 isnt that way at all. It is captivating. And I love it.


Altough perhaps one could argue that my instant love of this book simply comes from the fact that it is sci-fi, and the author wrote several scripts for The Twilight Zone along with the screen play for Moby Dick .......................................... (: