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Happy September everyone!   I'm four days late in wishing you all this, but nonetheless! Here is my favourite month, the month of my birth. I was born on the 6th and the number six has always been my special number that I treasure. I'll be turning seventeen this month! There's so much I need to be thinking about at this point in my life and its so overwhelming and I hate thinking about it so I'll stop. Anyway--have a happy September! I hope to post at least two book reviews this month! Thanks for sticking with me thus far--I haven't participated in blogging recently. It's been this downward decline since middle school, but I'm still here and so are you! I love you all! -Kirthi

credit: Josh Olins book info: on sale: now copy from: Amazon pages: review written: 16/8/13 edition read: New Directions Paperback originally published: 1938 Paris (Just a small FYI: I read this book many months ago and never got around to doing a review.) Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogues his every feeling and sensation. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which "spreads at the bottom of a viscous puddle, at the bottom of our time--the time of purple suspenders and broken chair seats: it is made a wide, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil stain" Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature (though he declined to accept it), Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher, critic, novelist, and dramatist,  holds a position of singular eminence in the world of French letters. La Nausee, his first and best novel (1938), is a landma...

book info: on sale: now copy from: book trade at school library pages: 277 review written: 15/6/13- edition read: First Back Bay Paperback Edition originally published: 1951 Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories? Particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme ? With Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is fully of children. The hero-narrator of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, second-hand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it...

Hello readers!   It's been ages since I've done a giveaway, and I thought with Google Friend Connect going away, I'd like to ask you all to follow me on Bloglovin! This giveaway is for a hardback (with jacket and all), perfectly brand new like copy of The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey. When her widower father drowns at sea, Gemma Hardy is taken from her native Iceland to Scotland to live with her kind uncle and his family. But the death of her doting guardian leaves Gemma under the care of her resentful aunt, and it soon becomes clear that she is nothing more than an unwelcome guest at Yew House. When she receives a scholarship to a private school, ten-year-old Gemma believes she's found the perfect solution and eagerly sets out again to a new home. However, at Claypoole she finds herself treated as an unpaid servant. To Gemma's delight, the school goes bankrupt, and she takes a job as an au pair on the Orkney Islands. The remote Blackbird Hall belongs to ...

book info: on sale: now copy from: book trade at school library pages: 259 review written: 24/5/13--2/6/13 edition read: Harper Perennial Modern Classics originally published: 1932 Far in the future, the World Controllers have finally created the ideal society. In laboratories worldwide, genetic science has brought the human race to perfection. From the Alpha-Plus mandarin class to the Epsilon-Minus Semi-Morons, designed to perform menial tasks, man is bred and educated to be blissfully content with his pre-destined role. But, in the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre, Bernard Marx is unhappy. Harbouring an unnatural desire for solitude, feeling only distaste for the endless pleasures of compulsory promiscuity, Bernard has an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress… Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) was born in the upper-middle class of English society...

my road of blogging, there's many more posts to come :) Hello readers and visitors!    I feel awful because I haven't been visiting as many blogs as I'd like to. I'll definitely put more of an effort today! And for those who haven't been lazy like I have and have found your way to this post: I admire you so much. Thanks for stopping by! How do you not only grow an audience, but how do you keep them coming back for more? I'd like to say I've only lost 1 follower since reaching over 650. And I keep saying that the only reason I seem to be able to keep this many is by being myself and being honest. I know that sounds absolutely over-said and sappy, but its true. Honesty is key in keeping an audience. If you have been around for years, how do you keep your material fresh? My material consists of reviews, and reviews are always fresh. They're just my analysis and opinion about a book: it varies for each book. There are some things that I repeat way too of...

This a genre I love so much, and I can't wait to discuss it! I'm not into reading recently published for many reasons. Mainly because its too expensive and because I'm focusing on classics. I feel like classics are the foundation to reading and I'm embarrassed that I don't know many classics. Granted, I have read many more than the average teenager, but its not enough for a bookaphile! Are there any books I'm excited about (this year)? I'm a massive Hosseini fan, and when I heard that this was coming out, I think a part of me died from excitement. An unforgettable novel about finding a lost piece of yourself in someone else. Khaled Hosseini, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make resonate through generations.  In this tale revolving around not just parents and children but brothers and sisters, cousins and...