Dork Diaries 3

These books are really cute. Even if they are for ages 9+, I enjoy reading them. It makes me wish that I could draw and wrote in my journal more. But my life isn't nearly as over dramatic as a 14 year olds is. In this one, there is a talent show going on at school and Nikki wants to win because then she can get a full scholorship for the school, but of course Mackenzie (the mean popular girl) tries to ruin it for her. Its funny.

The Chick And The Dead

This is the second book in the series, and it was OK. I found a lot of the characters annoying. And as far as the 'who done it' mystery goes, it was pretty easy to figure out.

Pepper gets another visit from a ghost who needs her help. This time it's Didi who wants Pepper to prove that her sister is the one who stole her best selling book idea.It was interesting enough that I wanted to finish it, but not really that exciting.

Night of the Loving Dead

This is the first book I've read in the series and i liked it. it was different. It falls into the Supernatural category, which isn't something i usually, but for once its about ghosts and not vampires or werewolves.

Pepper can see dead people, and they want her help solving mysteries for them. This one has to do with a mad scientist who wants to be able to connect to the other world and does experiments on a bunch of homeless people. It was kind of sad actually as once hes done testing them, he kills them. Pepper gets mixed up in all of this. There's a nice twist towards the end.

I didn't mind her to much, but she is kind of snobby and cares to much about looks. I want to hope that the author makes her a little more chill in the other books.

You Learn By Living

This book was OK. I didn't find it super life changing or anything. Its a pretty simple basic book, targets to the point where we should learn as much as we can, and face our fears, and try new things. That's what I like about Eleanor Roosevelt. What I've read about her, it seems as if she was a shy girl, but as she got older, she wanted to learn as much as she could and do new things and stop being afraid of things. Basically she lived her life.

My Year With Eleanor

Maybe 2 or so weeks after I got let go from my job I happened to be up in time to watch some of the 4th hour of the Today show and they had the author on and I kind of took that as a sign that I should read this book.

When Noelle gets let go from her magazine job just before she turned 29 (my age!), she's not quite sure what to do. One day she's at a coffee shop and on the chalkboard was the quote "Do One Thing Everyday That Scares You" by Eleanor Roosevelt. She took that as a sign that she needs to for the person she used to be. She realizes that she doesn't go out as much as she used to, and even her friends have mentioned that she's not as adventurous as she once was. So she decides that starting on her 29th birthday that for the next year she is going to face a fear a day.

So this book tells of some of her scary adventures like shark cage diving (which sounded fun until I watched Jaws this past weekend, lol), skydiving, climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, taking Trapeze lessons, doing stand up, etc.

Since Eleanor Roosevelt was what gave her the idea, throughout the book she tells the story of Eleanor, who I didn't know anything about before reading this and she seemed like a pretty cool woman.

While I don't have the funds or friends willing to do scary stuff like this with me, I really do think of the quote that started it all often. I'm afraid of everything, people, the dark, etc. So I often remind myself to stop being scared, to go out and do things, even if its hanging out with someone I don't like when it means I can hang out with friends I do like at the same time. And hopefully I will keep this up throughout my life and do wild things like she does, because if you are going to be alive, you might as well live life.

An Uninvited Ghost

I really liked the first book in this series so I was excited to hear about the second one, but I just had a hard time getting into it. There was just to much going on.

In this one, Alison's guesthouse is open for people to stay in, so she has a group of Seniors staying and the two ghost that live there do shows to entertain the guests. One day a mysterious ghost named Scott comes to Alison and her ghost friends for help finding out if he had killed someone during a planned prank. Then a reality show ( a knockoff of the show Jersey Shore) comes to film at her B&B and one of the stars goes missing. And then the lady who Scott was worried that he had killed shows up and ends up dead. So Alison, along with the annoying detective, have three mysteries to solve. Way to much going on. Got a little lost. Hopefully the next one isn't all over the place.

Buttercream Bump Off

I don't know if I was just very distracted when I read this book, but I had a hard time getting into it. It wasn't bad, I like the series and that characters, it just wasn't interesting this time. Mel and Angie own a cupcake shop and this time around the guy who Mel's mom goes on a date with ends up dead, and then Angie starts dating his son who might be the murderer. So Mel and her friend Tate, who realizes that he has feelings for Angie, try to solve the mystery of who really killed the rich old man. All while making and eating cupcakes. I'll still read the next one in the series when it comes out