I've started to read How I Live Now

Hey guys! I think now would be the appropriate time to apologise for my lack in posting even if I've only even done two posts and one of those two I just completed about five seconds ago. Since I sound crazily determined in my first post it's only just to recap what has actually happened between February and July.

I completely forgot ALL about the Penguin competition that I posted about. I can't even understand what I was on about in that post - which knowing me I wrote at a time when I should have been sleeping for work. I think it means that they are doing a romance competition next V-day, which I'm up for if I'm done in time...if work allows it.

Which brings me to my excuse for lacking in this blog and taking forEVER to get my novel up and ready. Work. I have a fully fledged, completely 100%, 30+ (I do overtime on a regular basis) hours a week job. Monday to Friday, which yes I know nearly everyone else on the planet has, but it combined with a fairly hectic social life makes it hard to write much, blogs included.
I shall try to make more of an effort!

Anyhoo! Back to why I titled my post what I did. I went out for dinner with friends last night and left my bag in my friend's car which had the book I was reading in it Burned by PC & Kristin Cast, the 7th novel in the House of Night Series. I couldn't exactly spend lunch time without a book to read so I picked up How I Live Now By Meg Rosoff which my sister has been nagging me to read.

I must say it is quite refreshing! to read this book after reading half of Burned. Don't get me wrong, I like the HON series, the story lines are usually pretty cool and there are yummy hunks in them to droll over, but I'm seriously getting sick of the dialogue.

When one of the main characters are talking their friends or even sometimes the older vamps they are so f-ing immature. I.e. The Twins. Guys, seriously, when one says something the other doesn't have to follow. The dialogue that the other comes up with after the first that has spoken is pure crap. Yes we get that they are twins and all without being related but they don't have to talk one after the other especially when the follower has NOTHING OF USE to say. *Big sigh* And I guess it just pisses me off that they still refer to Aphrodite as hateful. Jesus guys get out in the real world, she is not hateful. She was a total queen bitch like years and years ago! Not now... She is on your side. And how exactly do they expect her to not be hateful, when they keep calling her hateful. She gets on with Darius and Zoey so well because they aren't horrible to her. *sighs*

Yes I still will be reading the rest of the HON series. I do like them and I'm keen to see where Stevie Rae and the Raven Mocker go - I can't seem to think of the Raven Mocker as gross like all of the characters do, maybe because with the wings he reminds me of an angel... ha!

Anyways... Its just nice to read How I Live Now as a sort of refresher, maybe the universe knew I was getting sick of the HON dialogue and made me forget my bag. Now I just need an excuse for the other million times I forget things...

I'm pretty keen to see how How I Live Now is going to evolve into an amazing book. My sister is pretty keen on it. It's just with how close Daisy/Elizabeth is getting with Edmond and how she mentions him heaps makes me wonder whether they are going to have some weird cousin incest thing... I hope not, I don't want to read about that topic for a while since reading Flower In The Attic and The City Of Bones.

I'll let ya's know in a few days (apparently my sister read it in two, though I highly doubt that is attainable with my boyfriend's nineteenth this Saturday).

Oh and by the way, the picture up there is the lovely copy I got at the Bega Book Fair and to the left is the plain Penguin copy my sister bought because she's poor uni student and it only cost $10.00 (mine was still cheaper. At the book fair I got five books for $20 that included. Bargain!)