I'm drinking out of this cool orange glass that reminds me of like medeival feists or something and then I'm sitting with my mini lion beside me and I feel like Royalty.
Hello people of earth, how're you today? Today is a big day in a good and bad way.
Good: ITS MAH BIRTHDAY WHOOP WHOOP. IM GOING TO SEE THE FAULT IN OUR STARS AHHHH
Bad: MY FRIENDS ARE HAVING BOMBS BLOW UP THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD AND I MIGHT END UP HAVING A DEAD FRIEND AND NEVER GETTING TO GO TO THE FUNERAL AND IM FREAKING OUT.
Great timing, Terrorists -_-
I have a lot to speak about but I was watching Draw My Lifes of my favorite youtubers and it made me think about my life and I think i realized something about myself.
I think I realized where my very first taste of needing to write for awareness of the horrible things that happen in the world- growing up watching nikita and my favorite character was sold into forced prostitution in Russian when she was a kid. Throughout the show she's very passionate about going back in to save those that are still forced and she really influenced my world- and now here I am writing child abuse and sex slavery stories. Yup. I was doing dishes when I realized that connection and had the Aha! moment.
I read a book last week and finished it just before I had to leave for camp. 8 days later I'm still in a book hangover where I can't get into any other book because I'm still blown away by that last one. Have I piqued your interest yet? hmm? hmm? Goodie, now I can talk about the book.
It is called Between Shades Of Grey by Ruta Sepetys.
I've talked to seven people about this book and each time they FLIPPED OUT thinking I was reading a poorly written porno that was originally a twilight fanfiction and im like RAWRRR I DONT DO THAT CHIZ GIVE ME SOME CREDIT STUPID MEEPLES!
I swear everyone needs to read this book. If anyone has any interest in politics then war is bound to come up eventually and before they give an opinion they need to see this book.
Lina is a teenage girl who is in a world where Stalin and Hitler are two demons fighting over who can rule hell. The soldiers come in the night, grabbing Lina and her brother and mother and take her and others around the town and drop them on a train. They're unbelievably cruel and the conditions are awful but things arent any better when they get out. They're put on a potato farm, living in a hut and trying to survive abuse and starvation and sickness and the blizzards with no fire or insulation or anything.
But thats not the only thing, there are *SPOILER* that happens but im not going into that.
I've read war books and never had one captivate me like this. The writer portrayed a child's confusion and the mother's kindness and everything so wonderfully. Love slipped in like it always does but it was realistic. No one started blushing when they made eye contact. No makeout scenes. It was real and it fit the world they lived in and it was amazinggggg
Ruta did a ton of research so that the cruelty was realistic, not someone just trying to sound like the big bad wolf but she didnt do what i do which is go into a ton of detail. In one or two sentences she tore my heart in two and then sewed it back together. Another thing is it's not predictable at all. I thought i had the ending figured out by the time i opened the book AND BOY WAS I WRONG. I WAS SOOOO WRONG AND IT BLEW MY MIND AND ITS BEEN NEARLY A WEEK AND IM STILL STUCK UNABLE TO READ SOMETHING ELSE BECAUSE IT THREW ME FOR A LOOP SO MUCH.
FARMBOY LEANT ME TWO BOOKS, GAME OF THRONES AND SOME OTHER AND I RENTED A LOT OF LIBRARY BOOKS BUT I CANT READ THEM AT ALL SO INSTEAD I BLOG AND RANT
OH GEEZ, CAPS LOCK IS STUCK.
WE ARE EXPERIENCING TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES, PLEASE HOLD WHILE WE FIX THINGS.
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