05.14.09
Hello
I kind of feel like blogging lately, but not on BWB, because I don’t feel like book blogging. And I spent a long time trying to find a template that I liked, and I got so tired that I decided to just get a simple one and start blogging. So I did.
http://merissalong.wordpress.com/
I think I like it.
03.02.09
(Rather late) announcement
I was just dropping by, and I guess I feel guilty. This post that I wrote halfway before being called away (I think I wrote it on Thursday or something) sums some of it up pretty well:
I admit it! The last time I posted was, uh, January, I think. Around the beginning of January.
To give a review, it was basically about my (maybe) changing back to blogger from wordpress and how I would tell you guys when I decided. Then I disappeared.
I tried to make sure you guys knew that I didn’t suddenly die by continuing to comment on some blogs, although I admit that I did discontinue a lot of stuff. I assure you, it’s all explainable.
I am
Judging from the last fragment, I was called away in a gigantic emergency. But don’t worry, nobody died, or anything like that. I think I was supposed to wash the dishes.
And by no means can you ignore the dishes!
Anyway, yes, I am still deciding between wordpress and blogger; although right now I’m leaning toward wordpress, because I do love its beautiful dashboard layout.
But I’m not going to decide anytime soon. Because I have decided to stop blogging for a while. Or I think so. (Maybe this marks the beginning of starting to post again? I know I’ve just read Laurie Halse Anderson’s Chains, so…)
By the way, even if I do start blogging again, it’ll probably be pre-written on paper and then quickly typed up, read over, and posted, as I have decided I spend way too much time on the computer, and I need to stop.
So I’m not sure if that’s the best explanation ever, but I hope I have explained it (although thinking about it, the explanation is only in the previous paragraph. But who’s going into details? I am not. Hopefully you will not either. Humor me, your friend who is currently inflicted with heavy indecision.)
Merissa
PS – This has nothing at all to do with anything, but I have to mention that the weather forecast predicts snow. Snow! And perhaps school will be delayed tomorrow, so I can sleep in. Lovely, lovely snow. (But I do not want them to cancel school, because then they’d take another day off spring break! Yes, another. They have already taken one day off. 
) But on a positive note: Go snow!
08.23.08
Nobody’s Princess-Esther Friesner
by Esther Friesner
She’s Helen, princess of Sparta, destined to become the queen. But Helen finds the tasks women are supposed to do-weaving, embroider, etc.,-boring. Instead, she wants to learn how to fight, how to battle, like her older brothers.
So Helen sets out to do what she wants, counting on sheer determination rather than her looks or the gods. And while her attitude may alienate some, they also earn her some invaluable friends.
This book is about the girl who would become Helen of Troy, the girl who would eventually bring about the destruction of a great city with her beauty.
I found a few faults with this book. One, I think, is because this Helen was different from what I’d expected. The Iliad basically portrays Helen as nothing more than a pretty face quickly overcome by Paris with Aphrodite’s help. The Helen of Nobody’s Princess, by contrast, was intelligent and fierce with a big temper. So maybe I was prejudiced, but Helen of Nobody’s Princess didn’t seem to be able to become the Helen of the Iliad.
Another thing might be because I’m a little bored of princess who want to do the stuff boys do. While it’s been some time since I picked up such a book, and this book was definitely unique, I still found a rebellious princess like Helen a little bit of a cliche.
So I wouldn’t recommend this book to someone tired to such princesses, like me. And now that I think on it, I probably wouldn’t recommend it to anyone one very pious because of the easy use of Greek gods in this novel. But to someone who likes those adventurous, girl-power novels? This book was descriptive and fun. I’d say, “Go for it!”
06.09.08
Hello world!
Hi! This is my first post, so I’ll give a brief explanation of what to expect.
My name is Verity, and this is a book blog, so most posts will be book reviews. If they aren’t, I guarantee they will at least be book related.
On each review, I promise to add a description of the book, along with thoughts on the literature and plot, plus opinions on it. (They might be a little biased because of personal preferences; I can’t promise that they won’t be.) But I promise to do my best to be fair.
Along with the reviews, I’ll also do my best to include links to authors’ websites (if they have ones), personal interviews with the author, and others’ reviews (so you can get a fuller view of it).
An overview… I expect to post a review on The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey(by Trenton Lee Stewart) tomorrow, and possibly Dragon Flight (by Jessica Day George) later this week.
Thank you for visiting my site. 
Verity
