quote of the day

"Remember that boos are for ghosts and cheers is where everybody knows your name."
              -Zack, Little White Lie

*Little White Lie is a Starkid production, shot like a tv show
**Zack is played by Brian Holden, who is such a boss

words of wisdom

"Here in the real world, all equals are created animal, but some are more animal than others."
            -Humble, It's Kind of a Funny Story

shamelessly plugging

Ok, so me and my friend C.W. are formulating a plan to try and get Team Starkid on Glee.  We've clearly got too much free time on our hands haha.  However, we've got a tumblr set up, so if you'd like to support us, follow at gleekid1713/tumblr.com and message us about helping.  We'd greatly appreciate it.  Also, we're in the process of making a twitter, so once that's set up, I'll post the name for that as well.  If there are any GleeKid fans, please comment or anything. 
signed, GleeKids rule

life as a Starship Ranger

As you all know, life as a Starship Ranger can be filled with adventures.  However, mine is usually not haha.  Right now, I'm just watching Starship while babysitting.  Oh, joy. haha.  Anyways, not much is happening in my life now, so I guess I'll end this post now.
signed, a boring Starship Ranger

words of wisdom

"I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than someone perfect and ready to explode."
         -Craig, It's Kind of a Funny Story

Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler

Nothing ever moves in a straight line in Karen Joy Fowler's fiction, and in her latest, the complex dance of modern love has never been so devious or so much fun.

Six Californians join to discuss Jane Austen's novels. Over the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable, and love happens. With her finely sighted eye for the frailties of human behavior and her finely tuned ear for the absurdities of social intercourse, Fowler has never been wittier nor her characters more appealing. The result is a delicious dissection of modern relationships.

Dedicated Austenites will delight in unearthing the echoes of Austen that run through the novel, but most readers will simply enjoy the vision and voice that, despite two centuries of separation, unite two great writers of brilliant social comedy.


I realize the above summary sucks haha.  However, the book itself is actually good and entertaining.  I'd give it 4/5 stars.

Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

Ella Minnow Pea is a girl the age of 18 who begins the book by writing a series of letters to her cousin Tassie, who has journeyed off-island to the Village. Her first letter explains her concern for what is happening to the cenotaph of the founder of their lofty language, Nevin Nollop. His famous sentence is tiled on the monument on the island of Nollop to exhibit its existence. As the story proceeds, various letters begin falling off the cenotaph. From there on the five High Council members decide that the aforementioned falling of the tile is a sign from Nollop that these letters should not be used any longer. They see it as a challenge to better the citizens of Nollop and anyone who is to disobey these laws will have infractions to deal with. "We slowly conclude that without language, without culture--the two are inextricably bound--existence itself is at stake" (Malin 153). Through this interpretation and other events which take place during this novel, a series of word-plays and crazy actions by citizens form this book into an entertaining piece of literature for all.



I absolutely loved this book.  We had to read it for our AP English class, but I would've read it anyway. My friends and I loved it so much, that we are actually trying to do it as well hahaha.  Wish us luck with that :P.I'd recommend this to anyone, for sure. 5 out of 5 stars.

paper towns by john green

Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life–dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge–he follows.
After their all-nighter ends and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues–and they’re for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees of the girl he thought he knew.


In my humble opinion, this book was well written.  It kept my short attention span occupied, however the ending did disappoint me personally.  I won't ruin it for you, should you decide to read it yourselves, but I was hoping for a more dramatic ending.  I'd definitely give it 5 out of 5 stars though.

books!

considering this is still "Tales of a High School Bookworm", I'll post some book thingys and my rates and whether or not I think they're worth reading
signed, be right back

boys 41

The awkward turtles I have had were with J.B.  Once was in the lunchroom when me and my friends were leaving to go to a classroom; he was staring at me while I was walking towards the doors.  This is extremely weird because he still has a girlfriend.  Also, a few days before school started, he texted me out of the blue asking if I was still with T.E.It was soooooooooo weird considering they're actually close friends and whatnot and me and J.B.are hardly acquaintances anymore.  I sincerely hope that he's not still harboring a crush on me and that this is the last time you will read his initials
signed, too hopeful