Tuesday 13 July 2010

Books Im DYING for!

Heyy Guys!!!

As you have probably gathered, im a book addict! And so, that means that I spend half my time reading books and the other half waiting for the next book in the series to come out... which is sad. Since nothing in my life is very exciting, I will make a list on the books I cant wait for! =) Btw, its bigger than me recomendations list... =P

1) The Last Sacrifice
Last book of the Vampire Academy series and it is written by Richelle Mead. It comes out on 7/12/2010

2) Awakened
Part of the House of Night series and writtten by P.C and Kristen Cast. Out on the 4/01/2011

3) Jealousy
Written by Lilith St. Crow. 3rd book of the series of Strange Angels. Out VERY soon (=D) 29/07/2010

4) City of Fallen Angels
4th book of the Mortal Instruments series. Written by Casssandra Clare. Out on the 29/04/2011

5) Clockwork Angels
Also written by Cassandra Clare. First book from the Infernal Devices series! out on the 31/08/2010

6) Torment
Follows Fallen by Lauren Kate. Out on the 28/09/2010

7) Crescendo
By Becca Fitzpatrick. Out on the 19/10/2010

8) Bitterblue
3rd book by Kristin Cashore and follows Graceling! Going to be published on the 01/04/2010

9) Iron Crowned
3rd book from the Black Swan Series. Also by Richelle Mead and out on February 2011

10) Kisses from hell
Its going to be written by various authors and it is going to come out on thee 24/08/2010

11) Succubus Revealed
Yes, Richelle Mead again. out on September, 2011

I really cant stand waiting and im dying to read them all!!! ARRGGHH!!!

Google them, all of them belong to some series and they are all totally reasonable to read. scratch that, they are VERY addictive and definately worth the time to read them! =)

Monday 5 July 2010

Book Recomendations!

Heyy Guys!

I rarely travel during holidays and i find reading a VERY good past time. In case you are looking for something good to read (like myself), here are some recomendations!

1)House of Night Series - PC and Kristen Cast
I actually have a post about these series somewhere. Take a look at it! Oh! take a look at the site as well: www.houseofnightseries.com . There are 7 books: Marked, Betrayed, Chosen, Untamed, Hunted, Tempted and Burned. The 8th book is apparently called Awakened and it is going to be published on the 4th January, 2011. Cant wait for it!

2)Vampire Academy, Georgina Kincaid and Black Swan Series - Richelle Mead
a) Vampire Academy - These books are about this young guardian Dhampir named Rose Hathaway. Her best friend, Lissa, is part of the Moroi, specifically, the royal Moroi. During her educationaly, or not so educational, years at St. Vladmirs, she meets with another Dhampir, Dimitri Belikov. He is her mentor, but yeah, they do fall in love. The site is: www.vampireacademybooks.com . There are 5 books: Vampire Academy, Frostbite, Shadow Kiss, Blood Promise and Spirit Bound. The Last Sacrifice is comming out on the 7th, December, 2010.
b) Georgina Kincaid - These are about a succubus called Georgina Kincaid and her life and how she tries to have a normal life, despite her paranormal personality. Her archdemon, Jerome, and his angelic co partner, Carter both make sure the Georgie stays safe and does her work. She has vampire, imp, incubi, angelic, demonic and human friends which help her get by her daily life. She also meets the famous bestselling author Seth and falls in love, but can she deal with a non physical realtion? More importantly, can he? There are 5 books: Succubus Blues, Succubus On Top, Succubus Dreams, Succubus Heat and Succubus Shadows. There is no site for these series but you can find all the info on www.richellemead.com
c) Black Swan Series - Eugine is a shaman. But not a usual one. Although she works in the human world, she soon becomes tied to the fairy/ gentry one. Her presence nerves various fairy people for reasons linked to her ancestry but she has no idea why suddenly the spirits she banishes from the human world start calling her name, as she goes by Oldie Black Swan. Not to mention that suddenly all male elements and spirts are trying to get her into bed. Her love life is torn between Kiyo, the kitsune and Dorian, the king of Oakland. Up til now, only 2 books were published: Storm Born and Thorn Queen. Again, no site: www.richellemead.com

3)Graceling and Fire - Kristen Cashore
a) Graceling - Graceling takes place in 7 kingdoms: Wester, Nander, Estill, Sunder, Middluns, Monsea and Leinid. There are people in these lands which have an eye of each colour called Graceling. A Graceling can be Graced with mind reading, fighting, or running backwards and climbing. Katsa is graced with Killing. She is on a mission to rescue the missing father of the Leinid King. She does not know why the father of the Leinid King was kiddnaped, but fears it has something to do with the one eyed king... This is Kristin Cashore's site: www.kristincashore.blogspot.com
b) Fire - It takes place much before Graceling and is set on the kingdom of Dells, where monsters habbit. Monsters and uniquely colour animals. Fire is the last human monster, and she can read feelings and thoughts of other people. Her flamming hair attracts all kinds of other monsters, as monsters crave each others blood. When the throne of King Nash is being threatened, Fire joins forces with Brigan, Nash, Clara and Garan to defeat their neighbours Mydogg and Genetian. Kingdoms aside, a mysterious archer seems to be shooting different people and clounding their minds with a kind of "fog".

4)The Cardturner - Louis Sachar
Alton has been forced to call his uncle Lester Trapp since he was a little kid, even though Lester isnt even his uncle, he is his mothers uncle. Uncle Lester has diabetes and is blind and is at the brink of death. Trapp is also a very well known bridge player, even being blind. Toni, his previous cardturner, is skitsophrenic and some how lost her job. Alton is then his new cardturner, paid 57 dollars for every bridge game he takes his uncle to, and slowly discovers how to play bridge himself. Louis Sachar wrote various books worth reading and here is his site: www.louissachar.com

5)Mortal Instruments - Cassandra Clare
Consits of 3 books: City of Bones, City of Ashes and City of Glass. Clary, Jace, Izzy, Alex, and Max are all Shadowhunters; Nephlim, part angel, part human. They work to banish spirits and restore peace in the human world. Simon and Luke are Clary's best friend and father-like figure, but are both downworlders and do not get along with Jace and Co. Yes, yes, Clary and Jace do fall in love, but a horrible twist happens. The forth book City of Fallen Angels is out on the 31st, March, 2011. The official site is: www.mortalinstruments.com


6)Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan
Percy is not an average teenager. He as dyslexia and ADD. He has changed schools various times. He is a Demigod. Percy, along with his best frieds Annabeth and Grover are always setting out to save the worlds of both gods and humans. Percy Jackson series has 5 books and an extra guide: Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters, Percy Jackson and the Titans Curse, Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth, Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian and Demigod Files. Here is Riordans site: www.rickriordan.com

7)Strange Angels and Betrayals - Lilith St. Crow
Dru and her father know about the real world. One night, Drus dad comes back as a zombie and she is forced to kill him. Since then monsters keep attacking her. She befriends a Emo Guy called Graves (lol much?) and vamp, Christophe. She soon finds out that she is not normal. The 3rd book, Jealousy, comes out on the 29th, July, 2010. The site: www.strange-angels.com

8)Fallen - Lauren Kate
Luce has seen shadows her whole life. She was sent to this new school for crazy people because she 'killed' her boyfriend. Her room mate Ariana is kept under a eletricity emiting bracelet. There are security cameras everywhere. THe new student, like her, Daniel feels extremely familiar to her, but she doesnt know why. The second book, Torment, comes out 28th September, 2010. The site: www.laurenkatebooks.net


9)Hush Hush - Becca Fitzpatrick
Nora and Vee are best friends and lab partners. This changes when their bio teacher decides to change the seating arragements for the next topic: sex. Noras new partner is the myterious exchange student, Patch. Nora starts seeing Patch everywhere and accuses him of stalking her. She dislikes Patch because of his arrogance and yet, feels very attracted to her.He seems to know a lot about her, without even knowing her. Apart from Patch, Nora is being followed by a mysterious man with a ski mask. What will she do about Patch and about this ski man? The second book Crescendo is comming out 29th, October, 2010. The site: www.beccafitzpatrick.com

Yes, most of them are for girls. After all, I am a girl =)
Hope youll find these helpful.
Bye!
Lissa

PS can anyone explain to me, why are teenager girls (like myself) soo addicted to vampires and things of the likes?

Wow! Time passes by sooo. quickly


Heyy guys!
Its been such a long time!! I havent written here since what? March? Wow! So instead of writinhg about the events in different posts, I will quickly and briefly describe what happened between brasilia and now. Well, basically NOTHING. I did have a birthday party and it was pretty good =) take a look: -->

Ah! There was the prize giving at my school, yes on the last day of school before we had holidays. Im proud to say that I did get the Music and McCann prize this year =D My friends, specially Rafael and Filshill also won several prizes! Im sooo proud of them =)


Hm, my best friend is also moving to another school, which is sad, but at least shes stil in Brazil! We had this goodbye party at my other friends house.

And alas, HOLIDAYS! Back to blogging, watching LOADS of films, reading even more books, waking up at 12:00 and doing absolutely NOTHING. Up til now, I've read 18 books and i will make suggestions on my next post.

So, that is about it =)
Talk to you guys later!
Lissa (a.k.a. Xinezah)

Sunday 14 February 2010

We Are The World 25 For Haiti

Hey guys!

Reccently, Haiti suffered from a terrible earthquake. i dont know if youve heard about thins song on itunes or youtube, etc. But well... its basically the song We Are The World (yes, by M.J.) sung by VARIOUS artists, both singers and actors. The song is filled with various personalities through music and it is A*M*A*Z*I*N*G!!! All of these stars show their support for Haiti in this song.


the song stars:
Justin Bieber,Nicole Scherzinger, Jennifer Hudson, Jennifer Nettles, Josh Groban, Tony Bennett, Mary J. Blige, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Barbra Streisand, Miley Cyrus, Enrique Iglesias, Jamie Foxx, Wyclef Jean, Adam Levine, P!nk, BeBe Winans, Usher, Celine Dion, Orianthi (on guitar), Fergie, Nick Jonas, Toni Braxton, Mary Mary, Isaac Slade, Lil Wayne, Carlos Santana (solo with a guitar), Akon, T-Pain, LL Cool J, Will.i.am, Snoop Dogg, Busta Rhymes, Swizz Beatz, Iyaz, Kanye West, Austin, Bizzy Bone, Ethan Bortnick, Jeff Bridges, Zac Brown, Brandy, Kristian Bush, Natalie Cole, Harry Connick Jr., Hayden Panettiere, Kid Cudi, Faith Evans, Melanie Fiona, Sean Garrett, Tyrese Gibson, Anthony Hamilton, Keri Hilson, Julianne Hough, India.Arie, Randy Jackson, Taj Jackson, Taryll Jackson, TJ Jackson, Al Jardine, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Joe Jonas, Kvin Jonas, Gladys Knight, Benji Madden, Joel Madden, Katharine McPhee, Jason Mraz, Mýa Freda Payne, A. R. Rahman, Raphael Saadiq, Trey Songz, Musiq Soulchild, Jordin Sparks, Robin Thicke, Alex Williams, Rob Thomas, Vince Vaughn, Ann Wilson, Brian Wilson and Nancy Wilson.

Its really something to hear.
you can see it on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glny4jSciVI&feature=sub
I loved it and i hope you love it too!

Friday 8 January 2010

Stop! Listen to the Music

Hey Guys!

Today was a almost a whole day teaching my grandmother english, playing online stop and listening to music. Well, with today, i can conclude that:
1) My grandmother is a fast learner
2) The people who play online stop cheat a lot i mean, how do 8th graders know all the names of Brazil's Presidents (you have to have a school account to play this one?!
3) I need to upload more songs onto my ipod.

At the end of today, i am left with a 7 paged word document with extremely simple english; 4 lists from a to z of brazils presidents, collective nouns, body bones, countries and capitals and elements of the periodic table (if other kids cheat, why cant i?); and a head full of songs. hows that for relaxing holidays?

Apart from that i have some suggestions for songs, btw, they arent all very recent, but the old songs are the best.

from soundtracks:
tomorrow never comes (the rocker)
someone to fall back on (bandslam)

pop:
party in the USA (miley cyrus)
three (britney spears)

rock:
ignorance and another day (paramore)
remember december (demi lovato)

old songs:
anything from queen
anything from paramore
anything from phil collins
black or white (mj)
(cant think of any others)
Oh! i forgot!
Afterlife (avenged sevenfold)
This reminds me that just recently, Avenged Sevenfold Drummer, Jimmy "the rev" Sullivan died (RIP). I thought it would be nice if you could all hear some of avenged sevenfold's songs, including afterlife. I promise.. they rock!

Well, thats enough of me,
good night peeps,
Lissa (a.k.a. Xinezah)

Thursday 7 January 2010

Stuck at Home And Unhealthy Diets

Hey Guys!

You know what i just figured?? nowadays, kids who are stuck at home (such as me) spend more time facing a screen than not facing a screen. Like my typical day at home is like:
wake up at 11:00
have lunch
watch tv while having lunch
go onto the computer
play wii
think about taking my dog out for a walk an then deciding to play ds
play piano
play ping pong
listen to my ipod while reading
more computer
dinner
more tv
more computer
bed/sleep.

I think i made my point.. heehee.
Like all my friends are also addicted to vid games and computers.. like what happened to going out for a walk, or drawing, or reading, or going to the park and play some ball, etc?? Either we are getting lazier or technology is starting to take control of us....*eek*! thats a freaky thought!!

Another thing which annoys me a lot is the present diet. like, people start to blame mc donalds for making unhealthy food, but have you ever thought that youre the one choosing to eat there?! When youre complaining about the unhealthy snacks, why dont u order a salad instead of a big mac?! See my point?!? then people diet because of their diet.. althought dieting does work, its not particularly healthy. like totally cut the extra fat but dont cut the veggies or the meat!!! i mean, puh-lease!!! Have you tried BURNING the calories instead of dieting to AVOID them? sports are super healthy and will totally help you burn calories. sports will also help you socialize better and avoid screens (hmm.. my two points are now starting to join.. hmm)!!!

I guess i thought i needed to share this with ppl...

Oh! and bout my day today... I WAS NOT STUCK AT HOME!!! *yay* I actually went to play tennis and it was my dads bday!!! unfortunately i spent most of my day playing wii w. my cousin and my brother and we finally ended the game rock band (btw, ppl who are thinking bout buying rock band or guitar hero, go for gh!!! the songs are better and the notes are better... sorry rb, but ur not that good).

Gotta go,
bye peeps,
Lissa (a.k.a. Xinezah)

House Of Night Series

Hey Guys!
Recently I have been tired of reading the same books: Harry Potter, Eragon, The Golden Compass, Inkheart, etc. Luckily i found this series, which totally owns twilight.

At first when i read the blurb of the first book, Marked, i thought that it was going to be exactly like twilight and all those other vampire cheesy books, but this is NOTHING like that! The House Of Night Series is catchy, intriguing, sexy, new and hip. In other words.. TOTALLY AWESOME! Its about this girl Zoey Montgomery, who just wants to fit in. Her mother re married a man called John Heffer and ever since she has changed completely. The only person Zoey trusts is her Grandmother, Sylvia Redbird. One day at school, a tracker vampyre marks Zoey. She then goes to the only vampyre school in that area: The House Of Night. She gets to start a new life with a new name, new school and new habbts. There, she makes new friends but unfortunately, her wish of being normal is not happening. Zoey is the only third former fledging who has a filled in mark. She is already loathed by the most popular group: The Dark Daughters. How will she manage to fit in?

The series already has 6 published books. Hope you guys like it, I totally loved it!!! This is the website of the books if you are interested: http://www.houseofnightseries.com/

So thats all.. til the next time,
Lissa (a.k.a. Xinezah)

Wednesday 6 January 2010

Me: Lissa (a.k.a. Xinezah)


Hey Guys!

I'm not a particularly good writer, but i guess that writing blogs isn't something that requires an enormous amount of talent and its meant to be something enjoyable. =P
Another thing you should know about me is that i constantly say im going to write in my journal, diary, blog everyday. well guess what?!?! i end up not writing everyday so... sorry peeps.

I think that writing this blog will be great cuz i can finally take some weight off my shoulders. Also, its gonna be a much more productive way of spending my holidays.. heheehhe

well... i kinda gotta sleep so...
good night peeps,
Lissa (a.k.a. Xinezah)