Blog 48 - Twilight Graphic Novel Volume 2

 

Author: Stephenie Meyer

Format: Hardcover

Pages: 240

Publisher: Hachette Book Group

Publication Date: October 11, 2011

ISBN-13: 9780316133197

About the Book

Having uncovered the dark secret of her enigmatic classmate, Edward Cullen, Bella Swan embraces her feelings for him, trusting Edward to keep her safe despite the risks. When a rival clan of vampires makes its way into Forks, though, the danger to Bella has never been more real. Will she make the ultimate sacrifice to protect the people dearest to her?

The second volume of Twilight: The Graphic Novel completes the visual adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's worldwide bestselling debut novel and is a must-have for any collector's library.

My Review

Volume two was pretty much the same way as volume one was for me. I catch a few differences in the books but not much.

Things that I liked were that it picked up where volume one left off, it stayed relatively close to what the books were with the scenes and dialogue. I did like that there was more color to the pages instead of being all black and white. 

Things that I didn't like about it were the page numbers. I really wished they would have put page numbers in this one. It makes it easier when I got to stop for a moment or want to track it on Good reads like I do. I got a little creative with this though, I counted the pages and placed a post-it note every 20 pages to help me keep track of the page numbers.

Overall, I thought it worked. I really liked how volume 2 ended with prom and we still got to see the color in their colors. 

Until next time, Happy Reading!    

Blog 47 - Twilight Graphic Novel Volume 1

Author: Stephenie Meyer

Format: Hardcover

Pages: 200

Publisher: Hachette Book Group

Publication Date: March 16, 2010

ISBN-13: 9780759529434

About the Book

When Isabella Swan moves to the gloomy town of Forks and meets the mysterious, alluring Edward Cullen, her life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. With his porcelain skin, golden eyes, mesmerizing voice, and supernatural gifts, Edward is both irresistible and impenetrable. Up until now, he has managed to keep his true identity hidden, but Bella is determined to uncover his dark secret...

Beautifully rendered, this first installment of Twilight: The Graphic Novel is a must-have for any collector's library.

My Review

Now this was my first graphic novel ever read, so I have nothing to compare this to.

What I did like about this graphic novel is that the drawings and the dialogue and how they stayed true to the original book. For what was there, I liked it. It stayed close to the original book. But I’m sure there is some variation to it.

What I didn’t like about it was that there were no page numbers. I like to keep track of my readings on Goodreads as I go through them, and it was hard to do with this book because there were no page numbers.

Overall, I thought it was an interesting perspective to the original series. I look forward to reading the others if they are made into graphic novels as well.

Until next time, Happy Writing!

Blog 46 - New Blog Schedule

Hello There.

So I finally decided on a blog schedule. I will be testing it out starting the week of April 30 - May 5. I do hope that I can get some feedback on whether or not you guys like the new set up. This new schedule will go as follows:

Monday: Book Hauls (Books that I get for the week)

Tuesday: My Writing (progress on certain projects, talks of new projects, etc)

Wednesday: Book Recommendations (Self explanatory)

Thursday: Open topic day for posting on anything that I feel needs to be posted, maybe more about my writing.

Friday: Book Reviews

With Saturday and Sunday being used for planning of the next weeks posting. 

Please feel free to comment with any suggestions that you may have for Thursday or about the blog schedule in person. I figure with the next few weeks freeing up some of my time. I will most likely be posting more posting, and videos on my YouTube channel.

Until next time, Happy Reading!!

Blog 45 - Book Haul #3

Good Evening Followers,

I'm here to share another book haul with you. Let's get started shall we? I know this week isn't that big, but that's okay.

1. The Vampire Diaries: Nightfall by L.J. Smith

2. A bind up of Flowers in the Attic and Petals on the Wind by V.C. Andrews

3. Ascend by Amanda Hocking - this is the third book in the Trylle series.

These next two aren't really books per say, but literary magazines that I'm interested in submitting some of my work to one day (hopefully in the near future)

4. Alaska Quarterly Review (AQR)

5. Barrelhouse

I hope everyone got something this week that they wanted to get to read.
Until next time, Happy Reading!

Blog 44 - Book Haul #2

Hello Fellow Readers,

I'm here today to do a book Haul for you, so let's get started shall we!!

1. The Southern Review (Vol. 47 #1 Winter 2011 issue) - This is a literary magazine and one of the stories was written by my former Fiction 1 professor, and I asked her to sign her story that was published in the book.

2. I got the box set of the Pretty Little Liars Series - This includes the first four books in the series Pretty Little Liars, Flawless, Perfect, and Unbelievable by Sara Shepard.

3. Purity by Jackson Pearce

4. Gone, Gone, Gone by Hannah Moskowitz

5. The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff


That is all for this in this book Haul. Tune in next time.
Happy Reading!!

Blog 43 - End of April Update

Hello Followers,

I know that I haven't posted anything lately, and for that I apologize.

With the Spring semester coming to an end, I've been busy with finishing up assignments and a final exam next Tuesday. After my one and only exam is complete, which I was shocked about only having one exam, I will have about six weeks off before my summer classes start.

In the meantime, I will be catching up on my reading challenge that I took on like so many did this year. I'm a few books behind, so with that said, I'll be getting to those books, getting them read and reviewed, so keep an eye out for later posts.

Some GOOD NEWS!!! I almost finished writing my first book. I'm adding a couple of scenes before it's finished and I set it aside in order to clear my mind of the project before starting revisions in early June. 

With that said, I will also be starting to write my second book concept, which will hopefully be expanded into four books. I will attempt to write the first complete book in the six weeks that I have off before my classes start in late June. Wish me luck! There will blog posts along the way of my progress of certain word count milestones. 

...Now let's did I forget anything?... *thinks for a moment*

Nope I believe that's it. Tune in next time for some Book Hauls.

Happy Reading!!

Blog 42 - A Book Haul

Hello There fellow readers! I hope you are all doing well on this Saturday afternoon.

First, I would like to wish everyone a Happy Easter.

HAPPY EASTER!!

Now onto the real reason we are here. A BOOK HAUL!
So in the last week I have gotten some great titles, or so I've heard from numerous sources. I've read tons of reviews on these books. So I'm excited that I got them, and looking forward to reading them sometime in the next few weeks. 

The books I got are:

1. Incarnate by Jodi Meadows
2. Anna dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake
3. Zombie Tag by Hannah Moskowitz
4. Fated by Alyson Noel (An ARC I won on LibraryThing through early reviewers)
5. Break by Hannah Moskowitz
and finally
6. Pins and Needles by Karen Brown

The last book is actually a collection of short stories that was written by my Fiction Two professor at my school. I'm excited to read all of these books, and I will have a review up for each one as I read them. Leave comments down below, telling me what you got. 


As always Happy Reading, and Have a safe and Happy Easter.