Contest Craze: Favorites of 2011

Favorite Books of 2011 Mini Challenge

 
This mini challenge is hosted by Cindy at her Princess Bookie blog. Stop by and give it a try!

Challenge: Write up a blog post telling me the top 5 books you read in 2011 that you loved! That were your favorite!
 IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER!!

Chain Reaction by Simone Elkeles

Love Story by Jennifer Echols 

The Hunger Game Series 

Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins

The Duff by Kody Keplinger

Contest Craze: Collections

This is the Collections Challenge, hosted by Princess Bookie herself!

Challenge:  Write up a blog post telling us all about your collection. What do you collect? Why do you collect it?

 

Collection: BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS AND MORE BOOKS!!!

 My Books are practically all Young Adult and I have quite a few contemporary romance books because those are my favorite because I feel like I can relate to them more and wish some of the things I read about happen to me too :D


Why?? Its mostly because the covers catch my attention OR its awesome summarizes I read that make the decision for me. I am a absolute bookaholic and love to purchase books

Lola and The Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins

SUMMARY: Budding designer Lola Nolan doesn't believe in fashion . . . she believes in costume. The more expressive the outfit - more sparkly, more fun, more wild - the better. But even though Lola's style is outrageous, she's a devoted daughter and friend with some big plans for the future. And everything is pretty perfect (right down to her hot rocker boyfriend) until the dreaded Bell twins, Calliope and Cricket, return to the neighborhood.

When Cricket - a gifted inventor - steps out from his twin sister's shadow and back into Lola's life, she must finally reconcile a lifetime of feelings for the boy next door.

MY THOUGHTS: WOW I am in love with all the books Stephanie Perkins wrote because Lola and the boy next door was amazingly great. All the characters were interesting to read and especially when there is Anna and St. Claire in this book as well. Starting off with Lola which my thoughts of her was that i could totally get where she is coming from because in the book she is trying to find herself and i can picture alot of us teens in the world trying to figure out who you are as an individual. Shes was a great character read even though some of the choices she made in the book i felt torn. Also i love reading about the costumes she puts together it was fantastic reading about those aspects as well.  Now moving on to the boys, Max and Cricket. Ok Max is the much older boyfriend and when i was reading about their relationship it was like ok, but i kept thinking to myself omg Lola you can do so much better than him. AND THEN THERE IS CRICKET...gosh i just loved reading about him because i was swooned once he came into the book..just read it and you'll see...


Overall: hmm overall I greatly appreciated reading this book and it met my expectation of being a awesome read. This book and Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins is at a tie because i loved both books very much. And i cant wait for the thrid complementary novel by Stephanie


COVER: Amazing cover because the outfit and wig totally describes Lola and Cricket is so swoon worthy jus looking at him on it.