Fun Fact Friday (#50)

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.  Most people dream five times a night.

2.  A group of giraffes is called a tower.

3.  Scientists have figured out how to "unboil" an egg.

4.  Australia is an island surrounded by more than 8,000 smaller islands.

5.  In 5,000 years of human history, only one disease has been eradicated: smallpox.

Fun Fact Friday (#49)

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. There's a bookstore in Australia where books are wrapped in paper with short descriptions so no one can "judge a book by it's cover."

2. Most new cars fake engine noise through speakers. They are quite silent otherwise.

3. In 2012, 22 baby girls in America were named "Kindle."

4. The richest 1% of the population owns 48% of the world's wealth.

5. The year 2015 will be one second longer than usual because of the slowing of the Earth's rotation.

Fun Fact Friday (#48)

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. Tears caused by sadness, happiness and onions look different under the microscope.

2. Half of all the world's pigs live in China.

3. The highest recorded body temperature in a human being was a fever of  46.5°C. (115.7°F)

4.  There are more than 10,000 varieties of tomatoes.

5. Spiders eat their own webs to recycle them.

Where She Went by Gayle Forman

Title: Where She Went
Author: Gayle Forman
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
Page Count: 260
Publication Date: April 5^th 2011
Obtained: Purchased

Synopsis:

It's been three years since the devastating accident . . . three years since Mia walked out of Adam's life forever.

Now living on opposite coasts, Mia is Juilliard's rising star and Adam is LA tabloid fodder, thanks to his new rock star status and celebrity girlfriend. When Adam gets stuck in New York by himself, chance brings the couple together again, for one last night. As they explore the city that has become Mia's home, Adam and Mia revisit the past and open their hearts to the future - and each other.

Told from Adam's point of view in the spare, lyrical prose that defined If I Stay, Where She Went explores the devastation of grief, the promise of new hope, and the flame of rekindled romance. (~Goodreads)

What I Thought:

I enjoyed reading If I Stay and now I’ve finally gotten round to reading the sequel. I was glad that this book was from the perspective of Adam this time as I felt we didn’t really get to know him very well in the first book.

Adam being a protagonist was definitely helpful to the story and gave me a better understanding of the connection that Mia and Adam have so that I could get more of a background on their relationship. Also, I found the story is more engaging when told from Adams point of view. Sorry, but Mia was kind dull and I felt her character lacked depth. Music, music, music. This is literally all she talks about.

That being said I can’t really say I liked Adam that much. I’d say he had more of a personality than Mia did in the first book but in this he was quite selfish and seemed angry about Mia going to Julliard, amongst other things. It was a bit weird because I imagined him to be quite understandable because, well – her family just died, but Adam tried to turn it around and make seems like it was about him and that she hated him or was punishing him somehow by going to Julliard. This is a shame since Adam seemed like an alright guy in the first book, but he lost his credibility in this one.

The two of them together was at times stressful to read because they clearly want to be together but they’re both so terrible at expressing their feelings, for one another and in general, that they assume that there’s a mutual hatred between them. The second half as the book is better and I’m glad I read it as I always wondered what happened after If I Stay. So all in all, definitely worth a read if you’ve read the first book.

Rating: 3/5

Fun Fact Friday (#47)

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://www.imbooked.co.uk/#sthash.CKbnGucn.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.

This week’s five facts:

1.  Birds don't urinate.

2.  Some snakes survive for up to two years without a meal.

3.  The first e-reader was invented in 1949.

4.  88% of New Year's resolutions fail.

5.  Cinderella is known as "Tuna" in Finland.

January Giveaway: City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare [INT ENDS:31/1/15]

Hey everyone, I thought I'd kick off January with a giveaway so this month I'm giving away a copy of City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare. This is an international giveaway and the winner will be announced at the end of the month. Remember You have to be in it to win it so if you want a copy of City of Ashes make sure you enter!

Clary Fray just wishes that her life would go back to normal. But what's normal when you're a demon-slaying Shadowhunter, your mother is in a magically induced coma, and you can suddenly see Downworlders like werewolves, vampires, and faeries? If Clary left the world of the Shadowhunters behind, it would mean more time with her best friend, Simon, who's becoming more than a friend. But the Shadowhunting world isn't ready to let her go — especially her handsome, infuriating, newfound brother, Jace. And Clary's only chance to help her mother is to track down rogue Shadowhunter Valentine, who is probably insane, certainly evil — and also her father.  (~Goodreads)

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Fun Fact Friday (#46)

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://www.imbooked.co.uk/#sthash.QStRO8QO.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.

This week’s five facts:

1.  The smallest living dog in terms of length is a chihuahua who measured 15.2 cm (6 in).

2.  Spiders are scared of ants due to the formic acid they contain.

3.  A cat called "Dusty" produced 420 kittens during her breeding life, a world record.

4.  A group of rhinos is called a "crash."

5.  There are more colors in a rainbow than there are stars in the Universe or atoms in your body.

Happy New Year!

Hey everyone! I just wanted to wish you all a Happy New Year. Last year I felt inundated with school work and things so I wasn't as prolific as I would have liked to have been at the start of the year but then things picked up from the summer onwards and I started posting much more frequently and got back into the blogosphere.

Well now it's a new year and another opportunity to be even better so I've set myself a Goodreads reading challenge of 52 books. I don't normally do reading challenges but I thought, why not?

What are you doing different this year?