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Guys this book I finished is so good. It is definitely on my list of favorite books. It is "Delirium" by Lauren Oliver. Oliver is a genius writer let me tell you. 

This book is about love being a disease and that this whole society they live in needs to be cured from it. It is such an interesting topic that I loved very much. I recommend 10 times over again. I think you all would enjoy the novel very much. 

I really like the part where love is something bad but in reality it's something everyone needs in life to survive. 

Favorite character: ALEX! Because he is rebellious, a believer, and loveable. I enjoy his character and what he represents. He is a hero in this novel. I love him. 

This book had a lot of good quotes be prepared: 

Favorite quotes: "Hearts are fragile things. That's why you have to be so careful."

"Every choice is limited, that's life."

"If you don't look too closely, it's all right, but start focusing and all smudges and mistakes become really obvious." 

"Someday, even this pain will be taken away." 

"A world without fear. Impossible."

"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me - such bullshit." 

"Everyone is asleep. They've been asleep for years. You seemed ..... awake." 

"But it does not tell you this: that love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself." 

"What's poetry? Ive never heard the word before, but I like the sound of it. It sounds elegant and easy, somehow, like a beautiful woman turning in a long dress."

"Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side. Before and after - and during, a moment no bigger or longer than an edge." 

"-- life, the relentless mechanism of existing- isn't about you." 

"I know that life isn't life if you just float through it. I know that the whole point -the only point- is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go."

"I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs." 

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Hey guys this book was such a quick read and by one of my favorite authors, Lauren Barnholdt. It is "Two-Way Street."

This novel is a teen romance where ex couple Jordan and Courtney take a pre-planned road trip to college together full of secrets and deciding whether they will fight for each other or not. 

It's such a quick read just shy of 300 pages. I loved the story behind it and the way it was written. Lauren writes each chapter either before the trip (which explains how they got together & backstory), during the trip (where they aren't so friendly), and after (which I'm not saying anything because spoilers). Anyway if you are in the mood for an easy and quick read this would be a great book to pick up or any book by Barnholdt. 

Favorite Character: Jordan. I don't know what it is about me and the guy characters in books but I love them. Maybe it's because I want to have them be real or the way they are written. I don't know but Jordan just knows who he is and doesn't change I like that. 

This book wasn't that quotable but I was able to find at least one I really liked. 

Favorite Quotes: "I'm just saying don't turn your back on things just because you're hurting."

Happy reading and on to the next book! :)

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Hey guys sorry i havent posted in awhile, ive just been super busy. Anyway i finished another book whooooo. It seems like this next completed novel took me a lot longer to finish then i thought. It was "Wild" by Cheryl Strayed. This book is about the author hiking the PCT, aka the Pacific Crest Trail. She does it for reasons that are never actually clear in the book. It was only a difficult novel in the fact it is hard to follow. For example, shed be talking about the present and where she is, then the next sentence  is about her past. It goes between those two things and sometimes i got lost.

This book is about adventure and troubling times. Its about conquering your fears and facing triumphs. It was a wonderful book and an amazing, life changing story Cheryl went through. I loved how brave she was and how even though she wanted to give up several  times she never did.

I recommend this book for anyone who is going or has gone through difficult times, i recommend for adventurers seeking life changing stories, and i recommend to you, the reader of my blog. Its an amazing true story thatll open your eyes to everything you could dream off.

Hey guys and there's a movie for it starring Reese Witherspoon, it's bound to be good! If you've seen it let me know! I'm sure I'll be watching it soon :) happy reading!

Favorite Quotes: "I would want things to be different then they were. The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods."

"Id loved books in my regular, pre-PCT life, but on the trail, theyd taken on even greater meaning. They were the world I could lose myself in when the one I was actually in became too lonely or harsh or difficult to bear."

"..the wilderness had a clarity that included me."

"I think its neat you do what you want. Not enough chicks do that, if you ask me- just tell society and their expectations to go fuck themselves. If more women did that, wed be better off."

"Maybe I was more alone than anyone in the whole wide world. Maybe that was okay."

"Grief doesnt have a face."