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There is a rumor I heard from one of my best friends today that TFioS could be required reading over the summer! She apparently borrowed the book from one of my other best friends (interesting because I didn't know they were friends) to get a start on her summer reading. Do you know how excited I am. TFioS! Required reading! Excuse me while I hyperventilate.
submitted by Melody, age 14, The Haunted Mansion
(June 6, 2013 - 2:58 pm)
(June 6, 2013 - 2:58 pm)
You guys get to read AMAZING books for school in the US?
Over here in India, we get books like "Flower Babies" by Anne Fine. (It's about a bunch of 4th graders. We were in 7th when we had to read it, btw.)
I'm soooooo freakin jealous of you guys. :(
(June 12, 2013 - 6:26 pm)
@ tårdis, Why don't you read awesome books in your free time? I have a frined who lives in India and right now is reading Percy Jackson, I believe.
(June 13, 2013 - 10:07 am)
Ido read awesome books (i.e. John Green books), but I have this dream of whoever the head of the English department is acknowledging that there are better books than stupid flour babies.
Btw, is your friend Indian, or are his parents there for work? I kinda fit both categories. (I'm half Indian and my parents moved to India from Philly cause my dad got a job here.)
(June 19, 2013 - 6:45 pm)
"I.e." basically means "in other words." While I certainly agree that John Green books are awesome, do you really think they are the only awesome books out there?
(By the way, how long have you lived in India?)
And i.e. stands for the Latine id est, which means "that is." So Ima's definition is exactly right. Latin lives today!
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(June 20, 2013 - 12:09 am)
I admit that they aren't the only good ones out there, but they're the ones I've been reading since my friend gave me Looking for Alaska, and Michael Grant books (the Gone series and Bzrk), have been the books I've been reading lately. I was reading Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan when I posted that, so I just used John Green as an example.
I've been living here since I was four or five months old, so that would be around 13 years, give or take a few months.
(June 20, 2013 - 9:59 am)
If you want to use two letters to mean "for example," you can say "e.g."
(June 21, 2013 - 5:11 pm)
@Tårdis, my friend's parents moved to America for work, and then moved back to India. I belive they are orginally from India, though.
(June 20, 2013 - 8:28 pm)
I also watched all the Mental Floss videos the other night. They were really good. I showed them to Blu and now she is also a fan of John Green. Haven't showed her any videos of Hank, though, so I don't know if she's a fan of him.
Speaking of Hank, his song about Looking for Alaska makes me cry. There are so many of Hank's songs on iTunes I don't want to use up all my money buying them, but I may buy that one because it's pretty awesome.
(June 15, 2013 - 9:26 pm)
Haven't heard that one. I can play Video Game Books, This Isn't Hogwarts and Strange Charm on the guitar, though.
(June 17, 2013 - 4:28 pm)
If you've read the book, it's the saddest thing ever. It's on So Jokes. I finally bought it after deciding what and how many songs to buy by him on iTunes for like half an hour. On Sunday morning, I listened to it on repeat and scared my mom because every time the chorus came around, I would bawl my eyes out.
(June 17, 2013 - 6:35 pm)
For some reason I didn't cry. I'm not a crier. It was really good sounding, though.
(June 19, 2013 - 3:41 pm)
Yeah, I'm over-emotional....
(June 24, 2013 - 11:10 pm)
I started being really emotional about it after a couple of listens.
@ Theo W.:
I re-read The Fault in Our Stars a month ago, and I would literally go into shock when I put the book down. Then I was really depressed and crying and stuff at the end. Even though I'd read it about two times. I tend to get emotional about things the third time around. I've read Looking for Alaska twice...
(July 3, 2013 - 5:36 pm)
I finished THE FAULT IN OUR STARS and I wanted to cry except I can't cry whenever I wanted to cry. Though the ending was expected past the middle of the book.
Also, I can't help but feel irony. John Green is making HIS mark by making Hazel not want to make her mark? I can't describe it, but it's jsut so ironic in my mind.
I had to read a chapter of another book to take my mind off it.
Obviously, it didn't work, since that was last night.
(July 1, 2013 - 9:58 am)
@Theo
I didn't expect the ending. I expected... What's the best way to put this without spoilers? That this book would end like her favorite.
(July 2, 2013 - 12:23 pm)