A New Set Up and a Few Good Things

 Right now things are pretty awesome. A few days ago I got a bran-spanking-new desk and cleared out half my room. Everything is so clean and new-looking it just makes me happy to be here. Having a desk is so nice because before I did all my homework and writing while sitting on my bed, and if you've done that before you know how uncomfortable and annoying that can get. It's funny how much better I feel sitting at it and working, it's like a whole load of stress just got lifted off my shoulders.

 (The lighting is really weird because it's night and if I didn't use flash on my camera you wouldn't see anything, so please excuse that)

Man, I'm just in a really good mood right now! Other then the desk I got a new book shelve which can actually hold most of my books! (my collection has grown a lot over the years...) Hmm, sorry this is so short but my carpal tunnel is acting up again. Anyway, that's all for now! I have a lot of things on my mind and if I keep going who knows what kind of shit I'll talk about.

Thanks for reading,

Laura.

The Compound

 The Compound by S.A. Bodeen. There is so much to say about this book I can't even find proper words. I finished it in one sitting and bawled like a baby at the end, which is good. I love everything about this book from the characters to the way it's written. I'm so glad that I picked it up because honestly, it was a seriously good book.

 While reading it all the emotions of the characters and the rising tension were almost overwhelmingly real. I strongly recommend the book to teens that like apocalyptic thrillers and mystery. But, is a part in the book that may not be for the faint-hearted, so if you're easily startled by things like that, it may not be for you. Nonetheless, it's a great book and I hope more people read it! I give the book 5/5 stars.

"Starred Review. Bodeen, acclaimed as the writer of such picture books as Elizabeti's Doll, turns out a high-wire act of a first novel, a thriller that exerts an ever-tighter grip on readers.

 

 Eli, the 15-year-old son of a billionaire techno-preneur, has spent the last six years with his family in the massive underground shelter his father has built, knowing that nuclear war has destroyed the world he knows—and killed his grandmother and his twin brother, who couldn't reach the compound in time. With nine years to go before the air outside will be safe to breathe again, the food supply shows signs of running out, but Eli's father has a solution—provided they jettison all morals and ethics. Repulsed and already suspicious, Eli begins investigating his father's claims, and sets up a family death match against a man who grows increasingly irrational and sinister but no less powerful.

 

 As far-fetched as the premise may be, Bodeen keeps Eli's actions true to life and uses clues planted fairly and in plain sight. The audience will feel the pressure closing in on them as they, like the characters, race through hairpin turns in the plot toward a breathless climax." - Publishers Weekly.

 

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Any who, on another note, I won't be able to post anything for awhile for a few reasons. One of them being I have a mild case of carpal tunnel, and it really, really, doesn't feel good to be on the computer. Oh! I finally saw that my blog settings were made so only blog members(?) could comment, so if you've ever tried but couldn't, sorry! Thanks for reading,

 

Laura.