1st Book Review: All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

This was a beautiful book. It really highlights the issues todays society, and raise awareness of suicide. 'All the bright places' is a new take on the classic boy meets girl which tells the tale of Violet Markey, who is traumatised by a car accident, her sister died in, and Theodore Finch, a suicidal teen contemplating which day would be the best day to die. The reader is taken on an adventure, and Finch helps Violet to explore, and enjoy all the things she had been afraid to do, but as Violet really starts living, will Theodore get closer to dying? This inspiring and tragic book, was a masterpiece, and heart-wrenching, but will there be a happy ending? Find out for yourself!

Written by Jasmine Brame in hope to encourage people to read, escape reality and join the world of fantasy. Love ya xx

Book Challenge

It's finally the holidays! And I have three weeks to study, relax and read!! I wanted to read 53 books that sounded interesting, however there are only 21 days, and so i've cut it down to 20 books!! The books I have chosen are mainly fiction or YA (Young Adult), and a few which are non-fiction just to broaden my knowledge lol! Also because my english teacher suggested it. And each book I will post a review about! Those books are:

1. All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven 

2. The Perks of being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky 

3. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 

4. If I stay by Gayle Forman 

5. Where she went by Gayle Forman 

6. The DUFF by Kody Keplinger 

7. Is it just me by Miranda Heart 

8. Dear John by Nicholas Sparks 

9. Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser 

10. To Kill a MockingBird by Harper Lee

11. A Royal Match by Tyne O'Connell 

12. Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver 

13. Blink: The power of thinking without thinking by Malcolm Gladwell

14. Beautiful Broken Things by Sara Barnard  

15. A Royal Mess by Tyne O'Connell 

16. The sky is everywhere by Jandy Nelson 

17. To all the boys i've loved before by Jenny Han 

18. Everthing, everything by Nicola Yoon  

19. Every Last Word 

20. My Life next-door by Huntley Fitzpatrick 

Those are all the books and so far its been 2 days, I have finished one and halfway through the second!

So... Whats up?

often used phrase. Sorry, this is slightly different from my usual post. And I apologise for how my posts are all muddled. They aren't about the same stuff. theres no one topic. But thats the was life is. Anyways, whats up is an often used phrase. Not actually literal though. Very few people actually reply saying "the ceiling" and mean it. Usually sarcastic. what is the point of it though? why do people care what you're doing? Is it just as an act of respect.. or are we actually curious. Sometimes  its just to pass the time. How often do you say "whats up" a day? And what does it mean to you? Just something to think about! Don't forget you define who you are, you are beautiful and amazing. Have a great day.. Love ya!! xx

Books I want to read

• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (I heard reviews about the movie, and I new that Emma Watson was in it, and I saw quotes on Instagram and watched the film. And new I wanted to read the book)
• To kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee (When I was 10 I watched a disney movie. I think it was called Zapped. And the supposed 'bad boy' was in the park reading "How to Kill a Mocking Bird"and in year 9 {this year} my english teacher said it was her favourite book, and thats when I really wanted to read it) 
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (I was reading a list of the 50 most beautiful phrases in literature. The quote from this book was "In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars" , I just understood it)
• A Girl I Knew by J.D. Salinger (again part of the list. The one from this book is "She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together)
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath ("I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am"-some people take things different ways. The way I understood it was that this person is pushing to continue)
• And the Mountains Echoed ("Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly" - I just get it, I don't understand why mean people are usually pretty. Its misleading! Reminds me of the movie shallow Hal)
• Extremely Load and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer ("Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under he weight of all the lives I'm not living" - this is how I feel)
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen ("What are men to rocks and mountains")
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde ("The curves of your lips rewrite history")
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens ("A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it")
• Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham ("It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories")
• Beloved by Toni Morrison ("The pieces I am, she gathered them and gave them back to me in all the right order")
• Wild by Cheryl Strayed ("How wild it was, to let it be")
• Rosencratz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard ("We cross our bridges as we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and the presumption that once our eyes watered.")
• This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz ("The Half life of love is forever")
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte ("Iw ould always rather be Happy then Dignified")
• Aedh Wishes for he cloths of Heaven by W.B. Yeats ("I have spread my dreams under your feet; / Tread softly because you tread on my dreams")
• The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton ("It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes")
• The Big Sea ("For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly")
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini ("I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night")
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald ("So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past")
• Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare ("Journeys end in lovers meeting")
• The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare ("One must be careful of books, and what is inside them for words have the power to change us".)
• Pretty Little Liars (All the books)

Who reads? and Why? What does it say about you? Stereo types?

Smart people read - yes. Dumb people read - maybe picture books. Ugly people read - maybe some of them, what people look like doesn't define how smart they are or what they like to do or who people she see them. Pretty people read - possibly. Stereotypically, do pretty girls read? No. why do stereo types still define how we are today? This is the 21st century, why do we believe what happened years ago. She's a cheerleader she must be stupid. She likes shopping she must be bad at maths. Some examples made today are seen as a joke. Wow thats hilarious! Jk. Hanna Marin loves shopping, and places high value on appearance. People think she's stupid. People think she knows nothing, and occasionally she makes a funny one liner that makes her look that way but she did good on the SAT's - good enough to be called in for cheating, when she didn't. She got into many high profile collages. Why was everyone surprised? Because she likes manicures? This post here is about books. What they mean and what they say about people. My little rant up there is about why people are judged about their books and how that suggests whether they read or not. I like quotes. They're better at explaining my feelings than I am!

What it's all about

Hi, this is my new blog! I'm really excited to share this project with you because its something very personal to me. I am not good at sharing how I feel or what I'm thinking. It comes out in a rant.. basically I am the average teenager. Depression, anxiety, stress, worries, suicidal. People always tell me "deal with it", "thats life", "theres always going to be something you don't like". My question: Why? Why does it have to be that way? Why do I have to deal with it? Why is there always going to be something I don't like? We can change what it is. We can choose how to live. And we are not defined by words that are said about us, or words we see. We are not defined by social media. so... what are we defined by? We are defined by our choices. We are defined not by the words said about us but the words we say about others and ourselves. We are defined by the music we listen to, we are defined by the words we choose to read. We are defined by what we do, not what others do to us. We decide who we are. Nothing changes that. No one can change that. This is what my blog is about. My thoughts, my feelings, my mini rants, what I think about stereo types & books I like,  books I recommend, book reviews, and my fave quotes.  What has the title got to do with whats in the blog? Basically it's all about how books and reading relate to stereo types. How everything we do defines us. My next post is all about stereo types and who reads and why, and what that does to who we are and what we feel. I'll also post a copyright version of the start of my book 'Passing Time'. Have a great day, you are beautiful and you define who you are. Love ya! xx