Long Time

Hola! Bonjour! Hello!
It's been a long time since I've blogged hasn't it? It's that time of the year again where everyone is back to school and sadly I fall under that category of everyone. But wait, wasn't I in school in summer and I managed to blog? Yes indeed I was, however the number of courses have increased and the difficulty of these courses is, let's say, five times harder. However, don't fret my beautiful friends! Just because school is occupying most of my time doesn't mean I won't blog here and there. I do have some spare time on certain days and on those certain days I told myself I would blog, tend to my needs with beauty/fitness, DIY projects and of course resting. I had to make a timetable for myself this semester only because I'm really bad at time managing. You'd be surprise on how well you follow it after you create one! Although today isn't my spare time to blog I'm doing it anyways. Why? Because I was supposed to be at work, however I caught some nasty flu or bug and I've been sick for weeks. I'm getting better, I hope.

ANYWAYS that's enough of catching up time with me. I want to get to the actual business of this post. Which is: books!
My last two post was about me doing a book review on "Time for a Change" by Erica David. At the end of my review I said I would do an upcoming review on "Objects of Worship" by Claud Lalaumière! I have exciting news for my fellow book lovers who want some good reads! I finished this book AND I managed to finish another book "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel! So this will be a two in one book review!
(Brace yourselves, I think this will be long)

Objects of Worhship - Claud Lalumière

First of all I want to say this is not an ordinary book(it's a good thing). 
If you guys are into dark fantasy and twisted(in a good way) stories then pick up this book!
Objects of Worships contains twelve short stories that dive into different categories such as religion and god, humanity and relationship, natural environment, animals and zombies.
I was a little skeptical about reading this because of the word zombies in the synopsis but I found myself enjoying the two short stories that contained zombies.
It was hard not to turn a page when I was holding this book.
I was intrigued. From the beginning of the book to the end my curiosity of what story was about grew more and more as I completed each of the twelve stories.
Claud's writing is very unique and sophisticated.
The tone is pleasing to read and never a dull moment.
Claud knows how to end his stories with a nice finish, not allowing it to be too long.
Be warn though it's not your everyday fiction book.
Like I said it's a dark fantasy with twisted ideas!
3.5/5

Life of Pie - Yann Martel

I've always wanted to read this book. I remember two years ago I was searching for a pdf file because I was too cheap to actually buy the book.
Lucky for me my friend bought it and lent it to me(this was still two years ago).
Fast forward to now I just finished the book today and started five days ago.
I probably would've finished earlier but I only read when I'm travelling to school/work or anywhere.
Anyways I watched the movie before reading the book and I got to say I'm glad I did or I would have been kind of disappointed.
Like all movies it left out key scenes that I thought were important.
The movie is vague from my memory but by reading the book, it brought back to life of some of the scenes in the movie that were stored in my head.
Yann Martel's writing is extraordinary. My eyes followed every word and I didn't skim anything. I was infatuated how he described Pi's journey on the boat with the tiger.
He made it seem so real, picturing in my head was easy.
Like Objects of Worship it made me want to turn the page.
I was surprised each page.
I cringed, I smiled, I laughed, I even teared up reading this novel.
4/5

There you have it folks.

Be prepared next book review is:

Don't mind my sheets or my ugly thumb. 

Catch you later mes amis<3

Time for a Change - Erica James

Something that I'm getting back into is reading! I used to be a reader back in high school only because they had this program called Accelerated Reader where everyone in the school has to meet a minimum of points and it's worth 8% of your English mark. Ever since then I've been reading books from left to right. After I graduated I became lazy to pick up a good novel with a cup of tea and just read. However I just got back from my road trip and I brought two books with me. I finished one and I'm on my second one where I'm halfway through it.

The first book that I finished is called:

Time for a Change by Erica James

The book is pretty beaten up and that's only because I got it at a Second Hand Book Store!

I love going to those Second Hand Book Store because they sell novels that are usually $20-30 for 99 cents.

Time for a Change is about a woman name Hilary who discovers a secret about her husband: David that can ruin her marriage. She finds out that her husband is having an affair and doesn't know what to do. Turning to her friends and family for advice they give her two options

1)Ignore it

2)Confront it.

The novel follows Hilary on her dreadful journey keeping this horrible secret just to save her marriage.

What I really liked about this novel was the whole cheating aspect and Hilary ignoring it. I don't know why but I'm kind of a fan of cheating movies/books ONLY because I want to see how they act and how they will get their justice and respect back from their spouse/partner. 

Some things I didn't enjoy about this book was that it kept jumping characters. In one chapter it would be about Hilary and the next chapter it would be about a different character(e.g Cindy[the neighbour she confided in who shares the same fate that Hilary is going through]). I also didn't appreciate the ending of the novel. I thought it was pretty random on what happened between the characters and some events in the novel weren't really necessary. In fact I thought they were totally irrelevant to the plot. 

I had heard good things about Erica James and I know this isn't one of her best books but I don't regret reading it because in fact it was interesting on how Erica portrayed Hilary. It's not a common thing that any person would just turn a blind eye on their cheating partner.

Out of 5 I give it 2.5/5!

Let me know if any of you guys read this book or read any other books from Erica James!

Next book review:

Toodaloos

Shed

Woo-Hoo! Even though this week is really busy I have a good feeling about this.

7) My favourite book

This is really hard because I have several books that I enjoyed. I'm trying to stay true to this question so I'll just give one that I remember and the one that impacted me the most. The book that I'm going to pick as my favourite is called: "Finding Alaska" by John Green. I don't know if this book is popular but I heard a lot of my friends and people reading this book(of course this was after reading the book and that's why I was so stoked when I found out they read it too!). Basically this book is just about this guy name Miles who's referred to as Pudge, moves to a dorm. He makes friends with his roommate known as the Colonel and they form a group that consist of: Miles, Colonel, Alaska and Takumi. They're all friends who basically drink and smoke together. Miles has this weird ability to pull out any famous last line quotes from historical or famous people. Miles gets incredibly infatuated with Alaska and she promises him she'll have sex with him if he solves this riddle about a labyrinth. That's pretty much half of the book. The other half is spoiling everything and I don't want to do that because this is actually an interesting book to read. It's not even that long. I picked this book not because of it's romance but because of the mystery and in a way its kind of relatable. Oh and because I almost lost this book and I found. "Finding Alaska." Pun intended. No? Okay.