The 19th Annual Reading Games

I was talking with my friends earlier about this site and about blog names, mine being a spin off of one of my favorite book series - The Hunger Games. But when I asked them what their favorite book or series was, they say they didn't have one. One said she just didn't have one because she read too many books (yes Sydney I'm talking about you). And I think that's just absurd. I've been reading my entire life, there are some books I've read at least three or four times, and some I barely even remember. But no matter what I still have a favorite.

I'm still ashamed of myself that I haven't finished this book. When I got it I was so excited because it was given to me by a total stranger, after I told him I never really leave my house and that I just read and watch TV for fun. He said it would change my life. After I got it I started reading it that day in class, but then finals happened and I was barely even getting sleep not to mention time to read. And now that I'm on break I've been using my time to catch up on about four different TV shows. But this kid should be back in town soon after he finishes following some band on tour and he wrote his number in it so I can give it back to him (it's the guy's only and favorite book so of course I have to give it back). Anyway Kevin if you're reading this (which I highly doubt you are and I think you are somewhere in Mexico), just know that I'm at least halfway through. And so far it hasn't exactly changed my life, just made me a little more afraid of drugs than I already was.

This was the first smutty romance book I've read. My friend and I were at Wal Mart and we just decided to both read the same romance novel. She didn't like it as much, but I finished it in just a few days. I sat down planning to read just the first chapter, then all of a sudden I was half way finished. I think maybe it has a huge deal to do with the whole best friends falling in love and both of them suddenly realizing it because I do have quite a soft spot for those scenarios. Plus, just like the female lead, I lost my virginity to my best friend. I did get a little slow about 3/4 of the way through, but I finished it on my way home from school and cried in public. But then again, I always cry when I read or see anything that has to do with sad family ordeals.

Can I just say, that if you are ever told you are going to read a book for school and they start to talk about the plot. Just leave. They are going to ruin it for you and you won't even know it yet. At my college orientation I was required to go to a lecture about a book that all of us would have to read in our first quarter, He;s talking about a pretty major part so I thought maybe it wasn't all that important because he knew not everyone had read it yet. Lo and behold, reading the book for my class a month later, and that part that I was told about, just so happened to be the main plot twist of the Part One. After I got over this, it actually took me a whole week to force myself to finish this book.

Moral of this story: Avoid spoilers at all cost.