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Monday, August 13, 2012

Thoughts on ereading, ebooks, and ereaders

Lately I've been seeing around youtube book vloggers and sometimes on bloggers talk about the new day and age of reading, ereaders. We all have Kindle, Nook , iPad , and ect. many places. Or at least if you live in a large community or city. The lightweight device that can hold you entire library and more is a fairly new development and has gotten a humongous hate and love.

So I'm going to back track and tell you about the beginning of ereaders for me. This might take a while,and if you don't really care there are many book reviews of great novels on this blog, go check those out. Now, I was very skeptical like most book lovers about what eink and a kindle would be like for the future of books. I worried that in a decade or less that there will no longer be bookstores and libraries. I worry that there will be a time wear they relate books as a machine and not a paper story with a cover, freshly printed smell, and smooth pages. That is still very worrying now, and I can totally see where you are coming from if you don't like ereaders.

Playlist: Faelorehn by Jenna Elizabeth Johnson

I had reviewed Faelorehn a couple of weeks ago, and thought that it would be pretty easy and fun to make a playlist for the novel. Well, boy was I wrong. I had so much trouble and unable to think or find any song that stood out to complement a scene or a character. I only have two songs that I'd like to share because it's better than not sharing at all. Please if you have any song that really stood out when you read Faelorehn by Jenna Elizabeth Johnson please leave a comment below. I will also link the review I wrote for the novel here.

Autumn Leaves by Ed Sheeran

This is just an amazingly soft and sweet song that sets the mood of the novel.

Ghost by Ingrid Michaelson

"And I'm lost, broken down the middle of my heart"

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Review: Faelorehn by Jenna Elizabeth Johnson

So I just finished this book last night and it took me a while I have to say. I think I started it back in the beginning of June and worked my way slowly till last night. Oh, I don't really know how to start with this so I'm going to start with the author, Jenna Elizabeth Johnson.

Miss. Johnson I have to say that you have very strange interest in Irish folktales, but we all love what we do, and I guess writing something like this or any fiction takes some craziness to a degree. Her writing style wasn't anything too abstract or difficult, it wasn't like something that Cassandra Clare would write, but it was on the better side of authors I've read. I felt that the pacing was done well, I got very tired of reading mundane things at the beginning of the novel, because even though it shows who Meghan is, I feel like it was just too dull for my taste. Maybe it was just me, but I had trouble pronouncing all the Old Irish names in my head. It took awhile to just deal with all of the names, but I just learned to memorize the way the letters were organized and not how I'd speak it.