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review: rooftops of tehran

book info: on sale: now copy from: public library pages: 348 review written: 21.12.17 originally published: 2009 edition read: Penguin NAL 2009 title: Rooftops of Tehran author: Mahbod Seraji In a middle-class neighborhood of Iran's sprawling capital city, 17-year-old Pasha Shahed spends the summer of 1973 on his rooftop with his best friend Ahmed, joking around one minute and asking burning questions about life the next. He also hides a secret love for his beautiful neighbor Zari, who has been betrothed since birth to another man. But the bliss of Pasha and Zari's stolen time together is shattered when Pasha unwittingly acts as a beacon for the Shah's secret police. The violent consequences awaken him to the reality of living under a powerful despot, and lead Zari to make a shocking choice... my thoughts: This book was first published in 2009 and I remember adding it to my list around that time but never actually reading it since I preferred checking out library books to ...
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The Secret

The Secret

topic: paid to blog

This is a concept that I don't really like, as in the Blogger sense, it means to post up adverts all over one's blog and get paid for them. Several times, I've been baited into getting interested about getting paid for blogging from several companies. One time, this woman told me she'd pay around $40 to put an advert on my blog for a few months. And I didn't want some ugly button marring my blog for a set amount of time in which I can do nothing to get rid of it. This AdSense thing on blogger explains how to make money using this program: Blogger provides a simple way for you to make money with your blog. AdSense is Google's content-targeted advertising program. If you use AdSense, you don't have to select keywords or categories for your ads. Instead, Google's servers determine what your posts are about and display the most relevant ads to your readers. For example, if you blog about baseball, you might see ads for “Major League Baseball memorabilia” ne...
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500 Followers!

Thanks to that lovely Feature and Follow Blog Hop, I have now reached 500 followers! It's been something I've been trying to achieve for nearly a year :) I am so thrilled! I realised my mistake in the 500 follower giveaway, as I said it'd end when I reached 500, but my new followers can't enter. BUT I think everyone has waited long enough, and my books are just stewing around waiting for new owners. I'll announce winners tomorrow! Thank You I want to thank everyone for sticking with me through thick and thin. I know I've been bipolar on blogging, on and off very often, and I may have given people the misconception that I don't care and/or don't enjoy blogging, but I do. I've told myself that maybe I should stop and call it quits like I've seen many blogs do. An old affiliate of mine did that, and many other notable blogs that had reached magnificent peaks: but I haven't. I'm going to keep this up because I truly enjoy the book blogging c...
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feature and follow

  Parajunkee and Alison Can Read are doing this fantastic Feature and Follow  blog hop which is basically a way to meet new bloggers and follow (and get followed) I think this is brilliant. Especially, as you all know, I'm attempting to achieve five hundred followers! To all you blog hoppers visiting: Hello and thank you for stopping by! This week's question IS: Q: You are a matchmaker — your goal, hook up two characters from two of your favorite books. Who would it be? How do you think it would go? Graceling by Kristin Cashore Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder Katsa from Graceling and Valek from Poison Study! Why? Because they've both got that killer instinct, that intense strength and skill. They're both protective of the one's they love, and I'm sure they'll protect each other (dangerous people are always in danger) :) For those who haven't read one or both of these books: READ IT P.S. You should enter my 500 follower giveaway Thank you very much :)
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topic: unbearable books

Everyone has known what it feels like to open up a book, a book one has heard so much about, like how amazing it was and such, and opens it with great expectations. And then, the first page is dreadful. The next page is worse. And if possible, the next twenty pages are so dismal, that it's a struggle to go on. I hate these books. And I'm prompted to write this because I'm attempting to read one called The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies. I have struggled so much, and I'm at around page sixty. Honestly, it sounded like a great book from the summary on the back cover, but now I don't know what to do. The question is: Does one still read a book, if all interest is lost and the book is hard to trudge through? My answer: No . It's not worth the time and effort. I'll start books, and try to read them, but if it's not good, there's not point. Too often, I'll say "Oh yeah, I've read the first few pages of that, but it was really awful" to som...
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treehugger

Here's a song that makes me happy :) I don't usually share music that I like, but I think this should be an exception. If you want better quality, go to the little wheel icon and change it to 360p ^_^ And remember, don't forget to enter any of my giveaways ( fracture and five hundred follower ) Have a great day, friends :)
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arc giveaway: fracture

To celebrate summer with a chilling story, I think, would not be something to do. I've decided against this, however, and am giving away an ARC of Fracture by Megan Miranda. It's been ages since I've had a giveaway, so here goes! Eleven minutes passed before Delaney Maxwell was pulled from the icy waters of a Maine lake by her best friend Decker Phillips. By then her heart had stopped beating. Her brain had stopped working. She was dead. And yet she somehow defied medical precedent to come back seemingly fine. Everyone wants Delaney to be all right, but she knows she's far from normal. Pulled by strange sensations she can't control or explain, Delaney finds herself drawn to the dying. Is her altered brain now predicting death, or causing it? Then Delaney meets Troy Varga, who recently emerged from a coma with similar abilities. At first she's reassured to find someone who understands the strangeness of her new existence, but Delaney soon discovers that Troy'...
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topic: faeries

I love good faerie stories. They're far more complex and interesting than the typical vampire or angel or werewolf thing (should I call this grouping of topics, VAW?) Honestly, there hasn't been a single faerie book that I've read that wasn't terrible. Some examples of my favourites. The Lament books by Maggie Steivater are more cultural and emotional, and brilliant. The Wicked Lovely books are rich with just mad fun and wicked fantasy plots. The books following Tithe are equally amazing! Melissa Marr and Holly Black are goddesses of Faerie fiction. I love them both to death! topic: faeries  All my topic posts have been complaints, but this is not one of them. I think it's because faerie books are more difficult to write that there aren't so many generic ones out there. Wings, by Aprilynne Pike, is amazingly creative, with the concept that faeries are plants, or function like plants. She writes lots of details into it that weaves sense into fiction. why do...
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