Fun Fact Friday (#27)

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This week’s five facts:


1. In the beginning Starbucks only sold roasted whole coffee beans.

2. Sign language has its own grammar.

3.A group of ferrets is called a business.

4. Logopobia is a fear of words.

5. Pieces of bread were used to erase pencil lead before rubber.

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This week’s five facts:

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Fun Fact Friday is a meme hosted by Lettora at I’m Booked! If you’d like to join and do your own Fun Fact Friday, just ask! At I’m Booked! Every week we’ll give you five new, fun facts.

This week’s five facts:

- See more at: http://im-booked.blogspot.co.uk/#sthash.SKH5MAiA.dpuf

Fun Fact Friday is a meme hosted by Lettora at I’m Booked! If you’d like to join and do your own Fun Fact Friday, just ask! At I’m Booked! Every week we’ll give you five new, fun facts.

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Fun Fact Friday (#26)

Fun Fact Friday is a meme hosted by Lettora at I’m Booked! If you’d like to join and do your own Fun Fact Friday, just ask! At I’m Booked! Every week we’ll give you five new, fun facts.

This week’s five facts:

1. Tennis was first played with bare hands.

2. Ommatophobia is the fear of eyes.

3. Some pirates used earrings because they thought that wearing them would improve or even cure bad eyesight.

4. The number or hash-tag symbol, #, is known as an octothorp.

5. A single strand of spaghetti is called spaghetto

Review: If I Stay by Gayle Forman

Title: If I Stay 
Author: Gayle Forman
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
Page Count:  201
Publication Date: April 2^nd 2009


Synopsis:

“Just listen, Adam says with a voice that sounds like shrapnel.

I open my eyes wide now.
I sit up as much as I can.
And I listen.

Stay, he says.”

Choices. Seventeen-year-old Mia is faced with some tough ones: Stay true to her first love—music—even if it means losing her boyfriend and leaving her family and friends behind?

Then one February morning Mia goes for a drive with her family, and in an instant, everything changes. Suddenly, all the choices are gone, except one. And it's the only one that matters.

If I Stay is a heartachingly beautiful book about the power of love, the true meaning of family, and the choices we all make.(Goodreads)

What I Thought:

So in the beginning Mia has everything going for her: Cooler-than-cool parents, an adorable little brother, a best friend and a boyfriend to boot. Then her whole world comes crashing down when her family gets into a car accident.

Fun Fact Friday (#25)

Fun Fact Friday is a meme hosted by Lettora at I’m Booked! If you’d like to join and do your own Fun Fact Friday, just ask! At I’m Booked! Every week we’ll give you five new, fun facts.

This week’s five facts:

1. On average an alligator can get through 2000-3000 teeth in their lifetime.

2. Sherlock Holmes never said 'elementary, my dear Watson'

3. By comparison there are about a million ants per person

4. Butterflies range in size from a tiny 1/8 inch to a huge almost 12 inches.

5. Potatoes have more chromosomes than humans.

New addition to Princess Diaries for 2015

Princess Diaries fans hold onto your seats because it looks like Princess Mia is making a return in 2015 with Meg Cabot’s new addition to the series about Mia life as an adult. Time has really passed and next year will be the 15^th anniversary of the first book and with this she is bringing out Princess Diaries XI: Royal Wedding. 

According to Ms Cabot's website the first book will follows Princess Mia's plan for a wedding as someone attempts to steal her throne.

The other book FROM THE NOTEBOOKS OF A MIDDLE SCHOOL PRINCESS is aimed at younger readers and tells the story of Mia’s long lost half-sister, Olivia who has just discovered she is also a princess.

As a big Princess Diaries fan, this is something I’m definitely looking forward to next year.

Fun Fact Friday (#24)

Fun Fact Friday is a meme hosted by Lettora at I’m Booked! If you’d like to join and do your own Fun Fact Friday, just ask! At I’m Booked! Every week we’ll give you five new, fun facts.

This week’s five facts:

1.       A jellyfish is 95 percent water

2.       A librocubicularist is a person who reads in bed.

3.       Beavers have orange teeth

4.       Starfish don't have a brain. They have special cells on their skin that gather information about their surroundings.

5.       The first typewriter was called a literary piano

6 Reasons I Hate YA Fiction

Come on. We all have our own personal pet peeves when it comes to reading a book. It could be the plot, the characters, maybe the writing. In the past few years YA literature has blown up amongst people of all ages and the demand for it has really grown. While I don’t actually hate YA (99% of the books I read are YA) there are a few things that definitely tick me off when I’m in the midst of a book, and it seems that more and more writers are falling into these traps.

1. Mary Sue – She’s strong, she’s independent and she’s impossibly gorgeous. Who is this girl? Mary Sue of course.

I’m going to have to start with the biggie. Mary Sues have plagued our books for years but it appears they are especially prevalent in YA.  She’s perfection. This girl literally has no real flaws. Not like real people anyway, and the ones she does have somehow enhance her character. Like a quirky eye colour or being a ‘perfectionist’ (flaw? Come on).

Mary is intelligent, kind and beautiful but she has a dark secret. She bites her nails.

This is an example (albeit a ridiculous one) of a non-flaw. If it has no hindrance on her as a character in the story, it’s not a flaw. Make her real. Maybe she’s bad with weaponry, not traditionally beautiful or not very personable, just anything interesting. Your classic Mary Sue can save the world single-handedly and get the guy in the end. The same applies to guys too so watch out for those Gary Stus.