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Saturday, October 7, 2017

An Abundance of Katherines by John Green (Book Review) Turtles all the Way Down Countdown 2/4 (with video)

Today, I'm reviewing "An Abundance of Katherines."
This book is probably the lightest of all John Green's book even though it still tackles the big theme of the meaning of live. I think the main character is sort of depressed but it doesn't appears too much as a sad and overwhelming sort of depression like it does in his other books.
An Abundance of Katherines is a mixture between a road trip and a math problem which makes it a fun read. I think dating 19 Katherines even though possibly unpractical in real life is a funny concept.
The novel is enjoyable even though the ending feels a little rushed.  






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Friday, October 6, 2017

Vampire Friday: Vampire Heart 142



Welcome to a new part of Vampire Heart unedited. Have you been bitten yet?
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Summary of the previous episodes: Viorel has been tortured by his supposed family who wanted to have him burn in the sun. Strangely enough the sun didn't burn him as expected but Viorel has no memory of who he is. Following the advises of his supposed father, he left Sighișoara and is now traveling to the West. After some skirmish in a previous city, he found refuge on a boat. Viorel is now in Vienna. The little problem is that the guy at the inn was a bit of an asshole and helped capture Viorel thinking he was a vampire, which he is but nobody needs to know. Now there is a huge man (which I call the colossi) taking care of Viorel and a priest. They brought a girl. Torture my holy water... Fail. Viorel managed to confuse everyone, now he would like to get out of here. But the girl seems pretty useless. They still managed to escape and he left the girl to the care of the boat lady before going back to have two words with his captors but his power of persuasion were failing him. The priest wanted to crack a deal but Viorel is not really up to help his enemies. He finally got some blood but he can't risk to stay in Vienna. He travel to Linz were he stays a bit to learn German.
Viorel wanted to go to Praha but redirect himself toward Augsburg instead where he wants to get a horse, except that the horses are a bit scared of his vampirism and maybe something else. Viorel is really not a horse expert. Then he comes into an altercation with couple of people, he wants some fear in his blood. The girl Viorel has found seemed to enjoy the game. Viorel prepares for the nightmares that come with a feast of blood, in a rush to leave, he cross the dukedom of Lorrain.
We introduced Sorina, three weeks after the beginning of Viorel's escape.
Viorel dreamed of Sorina and woke up not really remembering anything. Traveling to Paris, he arrives at "La cour des miracles". He is rescued by a stranger who turned out to be Nicolas Flamel, the alchemist he was looking for. Nicolas does some strange experiment without Viorel's agreement. Some people are looking for Nicolas's secrets. On the other side of Europe, Sorina awakes and Viorel's past in haunting him. Viorel discovered that he can change into a wolf but that's not the easiest thing to handle.

Now, let's continue with Vampire Heart, right where we left of last week

“I didn’t want people to know what was happening here, they would have thrown us at the church. He was the one bringing him here in the first place he was amused by their accents. I said I wanted them out, he had always bad acquaintances. But once they had been invited in, it was impossible to have them leave.”
“Vampire need an invitation but for your house it doesn’t matter, it is written on the top of your door, vítejte, it’s really not a good idea to keep a sign like that here.” I said interrupted him.
“That’s how you entered”, he said.
“Yes.”
“I’m grateful for that, and you didn’t touch my wife either. Why are you different from them?” He asked.
“They are here because they are looking for me, I have to put things right”, I answered.
He put the documents in a satchel.
“They are all yours.” His hands were trembling while handing it to me. He was expecting me to jump on him.
“Your brother said he was looking for the ones who transformed him, he wasn’t really happy about having been transformed.” I said. Something in his story sound a bit funny to me.
“I have no idea about that, they feed on him in front of me that’s for sure the same way they feed on my wife but that was much longer, then they took me out of the room and when I came back he was gone with one of them they said they had to go for an errant but at that time of the night, it was pitch black, I’m not sure what happened to him. When I saw him tonight, attacking this woman, feeding the way they do with those deformed teeth going out of his mouth, I couldn’t believe it. I didn’t recognise him as my brother any more but I knew others who would so I carried him her.”
He was looking at the rest of his brother. He was discomposing a lot slower than the old vampire, the blood and the water were forming a flack under the couch, it had a very strange colour as the light reflected on it.
“I’m glad you finished what other started, I wouldn’t have had the heart”, the man said.
“I advice you absorbed the water and blood with ashes and then through them back to the fire.” I said. He was very noisy with the cleaning and that was disturbing me a little.


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Looking For Alaska by John Green (Book Review) Turtles all the Way Down Countdown 1/4 (with video)

As you might now, Turtles all the Way Down, John Green's new book is coming out on the 10th of October so I decided to have a Countdown review of all of John Green's book (The one that are solo written) just before the book comes out. I'll probably not get my book on the 10th but hopefully I'll have it soon enough and be able to review it too.

So I'm starting this Countdown with a review of Looking for Alaska which is by far my favorite of John Green's books and the first I ever read. I read it in a couple of hours. Actually, I was waiting for a friend to get out of class when I read it so I was interrupted but went back to it as soon as I could.
This book is mind-blowingly good. I loved all the characters, they looked so real to me and the story was a lot of fun. I mean yes, it's just teens trying not to be bored but it's just so funny. This book contains a count down which sort of inspired me to do my own Countdown reviews. The main character's little thing is to memorise famous "last words" so it's sort of funny but also very fitting with the story. 






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Thursday, October 5, 2017

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie (Book Review) (with video)

Today, I'm reviewing "The Murder of Roge Ackroyd" by Agatha Christie.
This is one of the Agatha Christie's book that I hadn't read yet. I'm not really sure how many more books from her I have left to read since I would have to compare the French and English titles as I read a lot of them in French.
This book is the fourth book in the Hercule Poirot series. You can read the Hercule Poirot book in non particular order though as they aren't really linked together since Poirot investigates different murders in different settings.
I had trouble to read this books. I started multiple times but I never actually managed to finish it until now. And I can understand why it is called the best Agatha Christie's book even though there are a lot that I really like.
It is on this list:

Hercule Poirot is Agatha's Christie's famous detective. He is Belgian so sometimes speaks words in French or has a weird English phrasing. People around him always tend to underestimate him even if he is pretty famous for solving cases. They all think he is a bit bizarre in the way he acts and speak which doesn't lead them to take him seriously but of course he doesn't care much because he knows his own abilities.
The story is pretty mind blowing. I mean for most of the book it's just a normal Agatha Christie story with Poirot going around gathering clues and talking to peole in the usual way. Though, when he finally tell you who the murderer is, it's totally over the top and you never could have guessed. In other Agatha Christie's book you can't get either but at least, you suspected. In this one, you can't even suspect. It's really amazing and you should just go and read it.





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