Showing posts with label john green. Show all posts
Showing posts with label john green. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Three Kings Day

Happy Three Kings Day everyone!

I'm not going to lie, I'm not exactly sure about what Three Kings Day is, or what you're supposed to do. For me, I 'm just glad that I don't have to go to school.

Quick Book Update:

Got Looking for Alaska in the mail yesterday, and I am super excited to read it. I've wanted to read it for a really long time now, and just the fact that it's keeping me company on my bed makes me feel happy =]. I'm almost done with Katherines.

In other news, awhile back I was one of Seventeen Magazines beauty testers, and what we all did is going to be featured in the March issue. However, I just received another email from them asking if the beauty testers would make videos of the products they liked, and show us applying them. I'm going to be working on my video today, and if I get featured on the website, i'll be sure to tell you guys! Out of the products they gave us, I especially liked this MARK cosmetics lip stain they gave us. However, I don't see the product on the MARK website, since I believe the products we got to try were all new.

Getting closer to our theatre festivals, which I am super stoked about, and I'm celebrating one of my best friends birthdays with her on friday with a few others, and we're getting manis or pedis! Hope everyone has a super happy Three Kings Day!
k
(if anyone wants to let me in on what three kings day actually is, that would be really nice!)

Monday, January 04, 2010

Greetings, and Salutations

(Charlotte's Web ^)

The world is spinning 'round, and today the world spun to me the idea that I should start a blog. So here I am. Hello. I'm Kylie, but you can call me Kai! This is my blog! It's called 'The Show Must Go On', because, yes, I am one of those crazy theatre kids!

However, this blog is going to be for talking about what's going on with me, and other miscellaneous things!

And on the topic of books, as my New Years Resolution, I've decided that this year I am going to read 100 books! Currently, I am on book numero uno. Which puts me a little behind, as because I should be reading one approximately every 3ish days. So off to a relatively good start!

1. Paper Towns By John Green

Right now I am reading another John Green novel, An Abundance of Katherines. After that, I've taken out two other books from the library, Along for the Ride and Dancing Naked, and I'll update on that later, after i've read them!

As far as Paper Towns goes, I thought it was pretty amazing. John Green created this really amazingly creative and mysterious character that you never truly understand, which I think lets you put on that imagination cap! Plus, I think it's really good to get some books from a boys point of view. I haven't read many great books from that perspective recently, other than Libba Bray's Going Bovine, which was also very high on the amazing charts. I've only just started reading Katherines, and so far, it's really good. You can find out more things about John Green here, and I recommend you do! You should also consider subscribing to him on Youtube, vlogbrothers, a project he does with his brother, Hank Green. In other news, I have Looking For Alaska on its way from Swaptree!

For those of you who don't know, Swaptree is a book swapping website, where you can post a wishlist of books that you'd like to get, and set up trades with the books you already have. This is really great right now, because of the economy and the environment. You only have to pay for the shipping of the item, and it saves another book from being published. I'm sure it's not the greatest thing for authors, but I think they'd rather be at least read, rather than not at all. However, I may not be right on about that. Personally, when I find a book I really love, even if i've read it already, I probably will purchase it.

Other books i've read recently include Shiver by the excellent Maggie Stiefvater. All I can say, is that I did not want to put it down, and when I was forced to because it was over, it killed me inside! Although I did find out that this summer, there will be a sequel titled Linger. That I am VERY excited for! You can read about them here.

Just to let you all know, not all of my blog posts will be about books, that's just what I feel like writing about now =].
k