Favorite place to read.

Everyone has a different place to read, when I was a kid I would sit on the futon in my parents spare room next to the record player/5 disc CD player. I'd put 5 CD's in the CD player and one of my favorite vinyls press play or put the needle on the track. I'd sit back open my book and be absorbed, next thing I knew I went through both side of the vinyl and 5 CD's.

But that was then and this is now. Now that I live with only my son and I in our own home, my favorite place to crack open a book is my bathtub. I usually have a bubble bath while I read, the only problem I have with my bathtub is that it's sides are narrow, instead of supporting my back it just gives me neck pains.

My second favorite place to read is my dining room. I don't have much for a dining room, I have a highchair and a 2 person table with 2 red glittery chairs (it's a retro set). Although these aren't the reasons why I love it so, it's because I have french doors that open to my back yard and transparent white curtains, so the sun just pours in. I make myself a cup of coffee and bring out some tea biscuits, only after I've fed my son, and so when preparations are complete I read my wonderful book.

So I guess my bathtub is my night reading place, and my dining room for my mornings. Where's your favorite place to read?

Review: Chibi Vampire, Volume 14

Chibi Vampire, Volume 14 by Yuna Kagesaki

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



This review is for the complete series.

I give it 2.5 stars out of 5.

I enjoyed this book to a certain point, the fact that their was a defective vampire who was the complete opposite of a vampire, was cute, creative, and fun. So this "defective vampire"'s name is Karin, she can walk under the sun, she survives on food and has no ability controlling bats. That isn't the weirdest part of Karin the vampire, instead of drinking blood like a normal vampire she injects her blood into her victims, but in most cases she has major nose bleeds.

The characters are funny, you've got Karin's grandma whom I love, and her grandpa at the end (won't say more except read to know what I mean), Karin of course more in the beginning, Anju's the quiet one of the family and has the whole loli thing down, Ren's a pervert, their father's a wimp, and their mother's a b**ch. So really it's sort of a typical comedy family, besides the fact their all vampires.

Now why did I find this manga worth 2.5 stars, it's because it jumps from one genre to another. I'm usually not a fan of genre jumping, which didn't change for Chibi Vampire. The story starts off as a comedy, gags here laughs there and some odd encounters. The story continues with Karin saying (not word per word) this isn't a romance or I hope this doesn't turn into a romance. Of course you know it'll become a romance, which is okay in my book, most stories have a little romance. But then it takes a turn for the serious, don't get me wrong there's still comedy, but I started losing interest with the couple thing and even more interest with how serious things were getting.

Originally I was going to give this series a 2 because it was okay, that's all I thought of it near the end, that it was okay. But the way it ended pulled at my heart strings and I got attached in the last manga book, I was so sad and felt so sorry for all the people/vampires affected. I decided then that I was going to give the whole manga 3 stars, but here's why I didn't. The last manga was chalk full of minis and in all honesty I don't like short stories, I can deal with oneshots. But short stories in writing I don't like because I can't get into it. But short stories for manga's that relate to another manga story, is not something I enjoy too too much.

So my final thoughts and opinions on this manga are read it if you have the time, it's a nice funny manga. Don't expect too much, the story's really slow, but if you have the time and patience, odds are you'll enjoy and maybe even love it.



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Review: The Cheerleader

The Cheerleader by Caroline B. Cooney

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



I've decided to read Vampire novels for one month, The Cheerleader started the month. This story revolves around Althea a loner high school girl with no friends, who just wants to be popular. Go figure she lives with, you guessed it a vampire, oddly enough you never hear of parents or siblings. The vampire offers to give Althea the chance to be popular in exchange for her to sacrifice people to him. The people will only be tired a little bit or so he says, with this in mind she agrees and so the story begins.

I don't want to spoil anything for the readers so my thoughts on this book and why it's worth 3 stars. It was a short read, enjoyable, I didn't quite like Althea. She honestly reminded me of my high school life, but that isn't why I didn't like her. It's the fact she became a loner and instead of going out and trying to find a friend, she wanted to skip all the little guys and go strait to the popular group. I was a loner in high school but, I dealt with it, my friends were all graduated, or from a different school with the exception of 1.

I've got to say though I love the vampire, the fact that Caroline B. Cooney kept on repeating that the vampire had "mushroom colored skin" annoyed me a little, after all there's many different kinds some are red, but I know what she meant (those white ones that have a tint of gray). I miss vampires with capes, who kept to the dark, and had a malicious feel to them, this book had that. Every vampire novel the vampire has a certain reason how\why they are strong or where they get their strengths from, now in this novel I found it sort of cheesy (won't say how\what don't want to spoil). It's not that I've read this in another vampire novel, it's just cheesy non-vampire twist, so I guess it's kay.

The reason I gave it 3 stars is because of the vampire really, I just really liked him. I know I should go through plots, writing styles, main characters, and yaddy yaddy yaddaa. But honestly I find the vampire made the book and it was an enjoyable read.



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Review: Honey Bear Book of Rhymes

Honey Bear Book of Rhymes by Dorothy Taylor

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



I've got to say there's nothing very special about this book. Although the fact that I've had this book my whole childhood and I've read each nursery rhyme a hundred times over to the point that it's embedded into my mind, has caused me to give it 4 out of 5 stars. If I can read a book for 19 years and going and not burn it ... it's met it's quota to entertain a hundred fold.



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Review: My Very Dear Bad Boy

My Very Dear Bad Boy by Kamaro Kikuchi

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



I was a cute 4/3 onshot manga collection, that kept some of the same characters. I've got to admit it was pretty entertaining, it got me chuckling at some parts, a little too light hearted for my taste. Don't get me wrong I enjoyed myself. It was defiantly a good read.



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Review: The very best picnic

The very best picnic by Eugenie Fernandes

My rating: 5 of 5 stars



This was a book I used to read all the time as a little girl. I loved the fact that the main character's name was Jessie, which by chance everyone called me. I always hoped to have a picnic just like Jessie's mom made for her daughter... of course it didn't happen but, I've loved the story for years and probably years to come.



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Review: Blood Beast

Blood Beast by Darren Shan

My rating: 2 of 5 stars



I love the Demonata series, so don't get mad about the two stars. I found it entertaining, but it was the slowest of the series. Although I've got to admit it got me re-reading the Demon Thief for obvious reasons if you've finished the Blood Beast. Although their names were different I always had my suspicion when I read Slawter but shrugged it off. I know that the Blood Beast was written as too slowly excite us till the end, so that we may be prepared for the Demon Apocalypse. I did like the fact we saw a little more of Grubbs internal troubles and struggles.
I'd like to keep this to a no spoiler review. Butt all in all 2 stars out of 5. It was good but it wasn't great.



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Review: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



I've got to admit I prefer the Disney Alice over the original. In the original Alice she acts like a know-it-all, and is somewhat rude. I enjoyed reading this book, but besides the fact that animals where speaking, the Duchess had a huge head, the queen's guards and other workers were a deck of cards, the Cheshire cat, Alice growing larger and growing smaller, the tea party and its guests and that the roses grew in trees, it was a pretty tame story. If I were to read when it was first published in 1865, I am quite sure of myself I would have loved it, but as things go this was not the case. Sadly to say I was born a little more than a century after that date. But 3 stars for a book over a century old is good.



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