Book Klub 10, plus other... emotional? things

I'll do the simple things first. Ladies and gentlemen, I am now over a fifth of the way done with this project!

Books Read:

1. Darkest Mercy, Melissa Marr
2, 3, & 4. The Iron King, Daughter, and Queen, Julie Kagawa
5. Cryer's Cross, Lisa McMann
6. Haunting Violet, Alyxandra Harvey
7. City of Glass, Cassandra Clare
8. Crashed, Robin Wasserman
9. Wired, Robin Wasserman
10. Carnival of Souls, Nancy Holder*
11. One Thing or Your Mother, Kirsten Beyer*

*These two, along with Blooded, which is soon to be book number 12, are out of Buffy the Vampire Slayer 3, which is written by three people total, and they're all listed as authors of the book, but those two are the authors of those specific stories. Blooded is written by Nancy Holder and Christopher Golden.*

So, if you're new to this Blog, I was challenged by two friends, Thorny (not her real name, but we call her that, and privacy reasons) and Lex to read fifty books within a year. I began this project on July 23, 2011. I must update them and you guys on my current progress every Saturday until I've completed it, otherwise, they're going to punish me, and the punishment is entirely up to them.

Also, if you're new, I'll do a little re-cap on each book (Although, I'm warning you, the things I read are more fantasy, like dragons and wizards and angels and such):

Darkest Mercy, of the Wicked Lovely series: This series bored me immensely towards the middle of it. Darkest Mercy is the last book of the series, and I had the courage to pick it up again a couple months after I'd finished the fourth book. From what I remember, this book was alright, but I didn't like the series in general.

The Iron Fey books: These books did everything right. They're about fey, or faeries, and all three of them that are out at the moment had me captivated until the very last page. Once the fourth one, The Iron Knight (I believe) comes out, I do intend on buying it. Also, they also seem a little special to me, as they're near the last books I bought from a store chain I've been visiting since I was little, which is now closed permanently.

Cryer's Cross: This book was short, only about two hundred pages, but I sincerely think it's my favorite out of these so far. It had the right quality of suspense (I sound like such a dork -_- ), and it captured the OCD factor perfectly as well. Or, so one of my friends with OCD says. It had an eery quality as well, which, well, it should have. I do suggest reading this one if you need something to kill some time.

Haunting Violet: This one was, ehhhh, okay, I guess. It was another sort of ghost thing. It was terribly boring for the first seventy pages or so, and then the ending just sucked. Somewhere in the middle it got mildly interesting, I suppose. Obviously, this was a ghost book.

Crashed and Wired: Apparently, I missed that there was a book before Crashed. Oh well. This idea was okay, I suppose -that humans could be brought back to life, in a different body but with the same thoughts, but as machines- but it was kind of dragged out. It didn't really get to the point fast enough, and there was a lot of useless drama going on in it that really wasn't needed for the basic plot.

Carnival of Souls and One Thing or Your Mother (first two books in Buffy 3) : I loved Carnival of Souls. The idea and phrasing were fantastic, and since I'd known Buffy before (thank you, Thorny!) It didn't really bug me to be starting at the third book. The other one was a little, ehhh, emotional and gooey drama, but it Buffy IS supposed to be in high school, and there's certainly enough of that in any high school, just we're all not Slayers. This one was pretty good to, with the idea and all, and I do suggest Buffy the Vampire Slayer, no matter which way you look at it from - TV series, books, whatever.

Now, for what I'm sure you all want to know: Why I'm getting slightly emotional today.

Tonight is a band competition.

Ooh, a gathering of nerd herds.

But, it means a lot to many of us, particularly the upperclassmen. And the nerd herd n00bs just don't understand.

For the past fifteen years, longer than most of the n00bs have been alive, our nerd herd has gotten a superior rating. And I don't think we're going to tonight.

We've tried everything - showing them the video from this competiton from last year, where we all had just a shitload of passion, and we knew what we were doing.

The seventh grade n00bs this year, with the exception of a girl who I seriously thought was in fourth grade when I saw her the first time, who is a piccolo player, and one of the five n00b clarinets, just don't get how much this means. Not just to the seniors or upperclassmen (I'm not a senior. Sadly) this year, but the ones from years and years ago. I think, if we don't get it, we're all going to personally murder the seventh graders. With our instruments, probably. And I don't think any of us are even going to hesitate. (So imagining one of the clarinet players with a piccolo jammed through her neck right now.)

Even BETTER, it's being held indoors this year, and our director's already decided we're going to march it. Which just doesn't work. In the second song we play, we have a company front, which is every kid in the band lined up from one side to another. And we don't fit in a gym. At all.

So my hopes aren't too high at the moment.

~Murderous KK, Land of a Thousand Nervous Dances, Somewhere, USA.