Top ten best and worst things to do with books (not in order)

Top ten best:
1. When you walk into a bookshop, and you see all the books by one of your favourite authors lined up in a row, and there's one you haven't read yet.
2. When you recommend a book to someone, and they really enjoy it.
3. When you discover that you're not the only one obsessed with books, there's others out there too.
4.  When you spend ages and ages in a bookshop.
5. When the next book in a series comes out, and you've been waiting for ages. (P.S. Hurry up, Anthony Horowitz and Aprilynne Pike, can't you release your books just a bit sooner?!)
6. When an author announces that they have decided to make their book into a series.
7. When, incredibly, the next book in the series is even better than the first!
8. When you have just bought a book, and there are no bent edges, nothing wrong with the spine and no grubby fingerprints.
9. When someone buys you a book voucher for your birthday.
10. When you just read a book that you have read a hundred times, but just keeps getting better.


Top ten worst:
1. When Borders shut. On Christmas!   :(
2. When Ottakers shut.
3. When books have bent edges, broken spines, creased pages, folded down corners, grubby spines and torn pages, etc. 
4. When someone has borrowed one of your books and it comes back with bent edges, broken spines, etc.
5. When a book you love has a horrible cover.
6. When an author writes an amazing book, but finishes it with a lousy ending.
7. Any books that end with: 'And then he/she woke up, and discovered it had all been a dream.'
8. When you see someone vandalising a book. Grrrrrrr!!!!
9. When you have been waiting ages for a book to come out, and then they say: 'Sorry, but it isn't ready to be published yet. We're moving the release date so it comes out in three months.'
10. When you come across people who don't like reading, or think it's boring.

Hopefully this has revealed to you the full extent of my madness.
Once again, bye for now,
Mary

Artemis Fowl

Artemis Fowl is a brilliant book of sarcastic humour and wit. What's not to like?

The main character is, obviously, Artemis Fowl. Unusually for most books, he is actually the antagonist of the story, but it is written so that although he is a criminal, he is still a likeable character.

Through the course of this book, Artemis is 12, and a child prodigy. He is a criminal genius, and although he already has millions of pounds, he wants to reinstate the Fowl's status as one of the top richest families, after his father's ship crashed, taking himself, and the project in which he had invested millions, with it.

Artemis plans to get money by 'acquiring' it off the 'People'. These are a race of several different species of fairy, who are armed and dangerous. The main protagonist, Captain Holly Short, is an elf. She is also an officer of the Lower Elements Police Reconnaissance Squad, or LEPrecon. The book follows Artemis's attempts at getting the People's ransom fund, by kidnapping Holly. Threatening the People's exposure to the humn race, or 'mud men', Artemis will do whatever it takes to separate the gold from them. The LEP have to act fast. Artemis knows every rule their race has. They just have to stop playing by the rules...

   I would recommend this book to anyone, especially those who like a laugh. This is one of my all-time favourite books. I hope you enjoy it too!    

I Am Number Four

This is the first book review I've done on here! I have decided to do it on ‘I am Number Four’ by Pittacus Lore, because the film is coming out soon and I want to write this first.

This is a young adult sci- fi book about an alien/boy called Number Four. (He has to change his name a lot so during the course of this book his name is John.)

It is about a group of nine aliens, called ‘the Gardes’, (who look exactly like humans) who came to Earth from the planet Lorien after the ‘Mogadoriens’ attacked their home planet. Three of these died before the book begins. The book focuses on ‘Number Four’. They have to be killed in the order of their numbers, so he knows that he is next. They don’t have contact with each other, but every time one is killed, the others will have a ring burnt into the flesh around their ankles.

To avoid being caught by the ‘Mogadoriens’, Number Four has to change his identity a lot. In this book he is ‘John Smith’.

Each Garde has a ‘Cepan’ (an adult teacher from Lorien) who trains them, so eventually they can all get together and overthrow the Mogadorians.

It is the first in a series that is going include six books. I would recommend it to anyone who likes a really dramatic action type sci-fi. It is cleverly written, and it is obvious why it was chosen to make a film out of, because the book reads almost like a screenplay.

P.S. I really doubt his name is really Pittacus Lore, but if it is, that’s even cooler than Aprilynne Pike!

Bye for now J

Mary

Hello World!

Just so ya know, I'm new to this blogging stuff, so if I haven't got as many clever things as the rest of the all-singing, all dancing book blogger community, then that's why.
As you have probably already guessed, this is a book blog! (or it will be as soon as I have figured out how to add in other pages and links). Hmmm... wouldn't it be cool to have a calendar that counted down the days until books were released... Maybe sometime in the future.
Anyway, if any of you recommend any books, then just write a comment in the box, and if you're lucky I might get around to reading it and even eventually writing a review.That's in the hope that anyone can be bothered to read this thing.
So, at the mo I am reading 'Tunnels' by Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams and 'the silver sword' by Ian Serraillier. The books that I am waiting for to come out soon are 'Scorpia Rising', the last book in the Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz, and 'Wild', the third book in a series by Aprilynne Pike. (I know, cool name, isn't it!)
Anyway,got to go now. Be back soon! :)