Love★Com By: Aya Nakahara

Series Name: Love★Com (Lovely★Complex)

Author: Aya Nakahara

PAPERBACK

Publisher: Shojo Beat

Amount of volumes in series: 17

Amount of pages: approx 200

Geared Towards: Teens (13+)

Extra Info: Diana also reviewed it!!

Summary: Risa Koizumi is the tallest girl in her class, while Atsushi Ôtani is the shortest guy in her class. Their class has already put them together as the "All Hanshin-Kyojin" (A Japanese comedy duo featuring a really short guy and a really tall guy).

Because of this reason both of them hate each other. But during Summer, both are stuck in the same summer school and Risa falls in love with a guy taller then her and extremly good looking, Suzuki. Determined to get chummy with him, Risa joins forces with Ôtani (who also likes her friend, Chiharu Tanaka). Soon their budding friendship becomes something else, something they can't fight even if they tried.

Wdebo's Review: The only reason I read this book was because I just finished Hana Kimi and I had a void in my heart from it. So when I read Diana's post for it I was like sure it sounds ok and she had given a 4.5/5 on it so I decided to read it. I am so glad I did, because once I started to read it, I just COULDN'T put it down I just feel in love with it, with the story line, the characters (especially Ôtani-I know its weird when people say manga characters are cute, but he is totally adorable!), and just the dialogue and just everything! Such a good book!

Pros: It has just this Shojo charm, and its so sweet and cute. You can dive right into the book (except the first page was weird) and get into it right away, not like Hands Off! Which I found hard to understand and hard to get into. Even thogh at the end I also fell in love with it.

I love the character of Risa she is such a memorable character and so real, even though she is so dumb that *spolier warning* she couldn't figure out that she likes Ôtani and Ôtani couldn't figure out he likes her *spoiler ended!* (Just a min would that be counted as a con?)

I don't really have any cons so I'll talk about the characters...

Risa Kozumi: (Pictured) Our heronie of the story. The tallest girl of the class and just looking for love from someone who is taller then her.

Atsushi Ôtani: (Pictured) The hero of our story. The shortest guy of the class, looking for a girl who doesn't care that he's short. He's also a amazing basketball player.

Chiharu Tanaka: The friend of Risa and the object of Ôtani's affection. She is also totally afraid of guys.

All in all, if you've never read shojo or are a shojo vetren I highly reccomend that you read Love★Com, it's highly entertaining and sweet!

Grade: A

Wdebo :)

P.S. I've never watched the anime but I am going to, if you have can you tell me how it is?

Lollipop (Bang Bang Tang)

So I did Hey Girl last week so I've decided to do Lollipop, their male counterparts this week enjoy! :D

So Lollipop consists of six guys (isn't their name soo ironic?) The six members include: Ao Quan, Wang Zi, Xiao Jie, Xiao Yu, Wei Lian, Ah Wei.

All six members were in Brown Sugar Macchiato with Hey Girl and all six of them were in Brown Sugar Chivalries. Wang Zi (In english it means Prince) was also in They Kiss Again (The sequal to It Started With a Kiss).

There is also a show that is called Muo Fang Bang Bang Tang (Immitating Lollipop)-I am actually a total sucker for that show I have no idea why, its just very interesting. It's way funny and they totally show off their childish sides.

I think this song is really cute by Lollipop called Na Li Pa (Not scared)

Please Comment!!

Wdebo :)

Cute MV! Wu Yue Tian rocks!!

So, I found this MV on YouTube yesterday and I am like obsessed with this song!! It's just too sweet and cute, its in Hokkien, so I don't understand any of it, I can just understand some of the chinese writings, but thats all.

The song? Le Se Che By: Mayday. 垃圾車 means garbage truck and the beginning melody is the song they put on garbage trucks in Taiwan!!



The MV is about a girl who hasn't really had a good birthday b4 I guess, so a group of ppl who used to be frogs (Mayday) decide to help her have a good birthday. So one of the guys is in charge of her, and he falls in love with her. She falls for him so she kisses him, but kissing him makes him turn back into a frog, and then she's angry cuz she wanted to spend her bday with him. Then the whole group comes and celebrates her bday, she cries, then tears makes him turn back into a frog. It sounds really weird in words but its realli sweet and cute!!

And ignore the talking part, they r just introducing the song...

Other songs by them that I have featured include...

Si ben dao yue qiu (Elope to the moon)
Lian Ai ING (Dating-ING)

Wdebo :)

In My Mailbox 一 (1)

Ok, so I feel so out of it, becuase everyone's on thier like tenth "In My Mailbox" and here I am on my first, oh well. I stole the "In My Mailbox" idea is from The Story Siren.

So, its been a very slow couple of weeks, cuz my parents make sure I have to do all my homework and stuff so I'm not really allowed to read that much.. (gasp right?)

So here it is...

Elijah's Coin

I finished it and realli enjoyed it! You can find my review here

The Fairest Star: Friends & Enemies Part 3

I don't know about this one, because I have never read the first two parts, so I don't know if I'm gonna like it or not.

Hana Kimi Volume 23

Ah! I'm so excited to read it!! The VERY LAST volume to the Hana Kimi series!

So thats the only books I got, what about you? What books did you get this week?

Wdebo :)

Elijah's Coin: A Lesson For Life

Title: Elijah's Coin: A Lesson For Life
Author: Steve O'Brien
HARDBACK
Amount of Pages: 125
Publisher: A&N Publishing
Publishing Year: 2009
Geared Towards: Teens and up
Extra Info: If you buy the book you get two coins modled after the coin in the book.

Summary (From B.O.B):

"One hour from now I am going to change my life forever.

I am lying on my back with my fingers intertwined behind my head. I wait.

One hour from now I am going to be in charge of my life.

I glance to my left and my digital clock clicks from 12:59 to 1:00 AM I smile."

Elijah's Coin tells the story of Tom, a young man who has suffered a tragic loss and is spiraling out of control. Angry, anti-social, and rapidly descending into a life of crime, Tom seems lost until he encounters the mysterious night watchman Elijah King. With a strange coin Elijah has given him. Tom sets off on a journey of self discovery. Through coming to know others whose lives were also transformed by meeting Elijah, Tom begins to find himself. Still, he feels desperate to locate Elijah begins to find himself. Still, he feels desperate to locate Elijah again-a quest that ultimately leads to a shocking discovery.

Part Two of the story shows how Tom lives the message he has learned, learns to trust his own instincts, learns to trust his own insticts, and becomes a mentor to other individuals on the verge of being "lost." A serious conflict between his new values and a thirst for vengence arises, however, when Tom finds himself face-to-face with the darkest figure from his own past..

Wdebo's Review: From the beginning of the story where you meet Tom and what he does, to the end where he's a totally diffrent person with his life worked out, you just get sucked into the story and want to keep reading it until the last page.

Pro: Tom is well developed at the first part he is significantly diffrent then his personality and attitude in the second part. The story is well devloped and you have a sense like you are getting closer to the characters and they could just be people you lived next to, because they are just so real!

Con: The storyline gets kind of repetitive sometimes (between the first two ppl he is with), but its not that big of a deal.

All in all, I wouldn't call this book a "Lesson for Life" but it is pretty heart warming and a good really short story to read.

Grade: A-

Wdebo :)

An Abundance of Katherines By: John Green

Title: An Abundance of Katherines
Author: John Green
PAPERBACK
Amount of Pages: 215 (Plus extra reader thingies)
Publisher: Speak
Publishing Year: 2006
Geared Towards: Teens (14+)




Summary (Credits to B.O.B):

19 Katherines and counting...

When it comes to relationships. Colin Singleton's type is girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact. On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washed up child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and an overweight, Judge Judy-loving best friend riding shotgun-but no Katherines. Colin is on a mission to prove the Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, which he hopes will predict the future of any relationship, avenge Dumpees everywhere, and may finally win him the girl.

Wdebo's Review: This book was so predictable and cliche but cute. The moment you hear that girl's name you can guess exactly what is going to happen in the book, but in a way that can be good and bad, the good thing is it plays off my needs for a happy-sweet-could-never-be-true kind of ending where the nerd gets the girl, but then the bad thing is it is so predictable that in parts you just want to throw it down and say, "God, so you're gonna get the girl stop being so stupid and get a move on it already!" Yeah that's what I think about predictable/cliche endings...

Pros: It was like I said in the beginning cute and cliche, total chick lit material. It is funny and witty and you can really understand Colin as a person and his BFF.

Cons: Whenever I read a book I like to be able to like at least one of the characters, but in this story I don't know, I just couldn't connect to any of the characters and all of the were very annoying to me. Colin just seemed like a whinny like kid, even in the parts where you are suppose to feel sorry for him I just wanted to shake him and say "Grow up!" Also, the theorms at first were cool and fun but then after a while they got really monotonous and boring.

All in all, if you are looking to a fast easy read that ends in a happy ending you should pick up An Abundance of Katherines!

Grade: B

Wdebo :)

Hey Girl! (嘿Girl)

To tell you the truth I kno zilch about Hey Girl, but I only saw them in Brown Sugar Macchiato with Lollipop, so I'll let Wikipedia tell you some facts about them...

Hey Girl is a girl group from Taiwan (duh). And it is composed of nine members- Gui Gui, Xiao Jie, Mei Mei, Apple, Xiao Xun, Ya Tou, Xiao Man, Tong Tong, and Da Ya. They came from a talent show called Wo Ai Hei Se Hui it is hosted by Blackie.

All of the members are in Brown Sugar Macchiato with Lollipop :D And Gui Gui is in a new show called 霹靂MIT (Xiao Gui is also in it.) and Xiao Xun was in a show called 18 censored or not (I'll spotlight it sometime) with Ah Ben and she was also in Go! Fried Rice with Jiro!

The group has split up into two groups called Fen Hong Gao Ya Dian and Tian Xin Hong Zha Ji

In Fen Hong Gao Ya Dian there is...

Da Ya
Gui Gui
Ya Tou
Xiao Man
Apple

In Tian Xin Hong Zha Ji there is...

Mei Mei
Xiao Jie
Xiao Xun

Tong Tong used to also be in TXHZJ but she left because of something and is now on a show called "Momo Kids" (It's a kid's show).

My favorite song by them is called 123 mu tou ren (123 wood man-It is actually a kid's game where you walk around and then if you see a person you point at them and say "123 mu tou ren" then you take three steps towards them and see if you tag them, if you do then they're out if you don't they have a chance of saying that and trying to catch you! It's REALLY fun...)

Please comment and tell me what you think! :D

Wdebo :)