Jimmy Lin

So, one of my favorite Taiwanese Drama is My Lucky Star. Which he stars in. Since I have never reviewed it before here is a summary....

Xia Zhi Xing (Yoo Han na) is a con artist who sells imitations for a living, Tian Qi (Jimmy lin), is the second and youngest son of the CEO of the biggest jewelry company of Asia (i think its called Simmons). They meet, by fate, when Zhi Xing is running away from her failed attempt at selling jewelry with her partner and boyfriend, Shi San ge (Huan Yu Rong). They later meet one year later and are thrown together, by handcuffs!

I seriously loved this TDrama and Jimmy was just amazing as Tian Qi. It was really well acted and there are parts where you just can't help but shed a tear for.

Here is the beginning episode... (I'm really sorry I can't embedd it, but here it is with eng subs)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sEdojHSVOU

Here is the song he sings for My Lucky Star, Dui Wang

Here is some info from DramaWiki

Name:林志穎

English Name: Jimmy Lin

Born: 1974-Oct-15 (He does not look 35)

Profession: Actor, singer, professional race car driver

Wdebo :)

If you want me to spotlight someone, please comment and tell me, and I'll check them out! Because I am running out of ppl!

100th post!! Down to the Bone

Title: Down to the Bone
Author: Mayra Lazara Dole
HARDBACK
Amount of Pages: 351
Publisher: Harper Collins
Publishing Year: 2008
Geared Towards: 14+

Summary (From the front flap):


Here's what it means to be a tortilla.


It means you're a girl who loves girls.


Which means you get kicked out of Catholic school faster than Mother Superior Sicko can say "immoral".


Which means your wacko Mami finds out.


Which means you're kicked to the curb with nowhere to go, and the love of your life is shipped off to Puerto Rico to marry a guy.


But this is Miami, and if you have a bighearted best friend and a loyal puppy at your side, and if your broken heart is still full of love, you just might land on your feet.


Wdebo's Review: This book was interesting (to put it simply). There was a certain awkwardness to it, but it was still good. The writing was good and the narrator, Laura, was raw and talks from her heart, which is good, none of that mysterious feeling crap that is in some books. Which I hate because you have no idea what the character is thinking, and they are suppose to be the MAIN CHARCTER and yet you have no idea what they're like.

Pro: It was unique and well written. You can understand what Laura was thinking, and (like I said in the top) her feelings aren't ambiguous like they are in some other books. I enjoyed all the spanish words, and me actually being to understand some. [It made me feel like my Spanish 3 skills were actually coming in handy :P ] It made you understand what the meaning of family and love really is.

Con: Some parts were just awkward and could do without. Tazer [a boi who falls in love with Laura] was so forceful and blunt, it made me embarassed just to read parts about him/her.

All in all, this was a pretty good read. I would reccomend it to anyone who is in need of a middle length summer read. [Yeah! Read this book during the summer or vacation time].

Grade: B+

Wdebo :)

In My Mailbox 三 (3)

I'm sorry I haven't been posting my "In My Mailbox" for the last three weeks. Last last week I didn't recieve anything so I didn't post, but last week I borrowed a lot from the library, but I didn't post anything because I was on vacation and this week yeah here I am!!

I stole the idea of In My Mailbox from The Story Siren.

The Recieved:

Promise of the Wolves

I recieved this book and when I first saw the cover I was like "ew," but then when I strated reading it I really got into it. Such an interesting narrator.

The Borrowed:

Dreamland

I read it and you can read my review here. It wasn't my favorite Sarah Dessen book, but it was ok.

Down to the Bone

I finished it and my review is coming up soon.

Hands Off! Vol 2

Yeah! It was totally as good as the first.

Fat Kid Rules the World

Finished it and loved it...read my review here

Dead Girl Walking

I totally loved it...read my review here

The Bought:

Love★Com Vol 14 (Chinese)

Hurray! I haven't bought a book in forever! Since Love★Com is only available up to Vol 11 in English I was thinking it would be great to get a volume that isn't available in English!!

Wdebo :)

Dreamland By: Sarah Dessen

Title: Dreamland
Author: Sarah Dessen
PAPERBACK
Amount of pages: 250
Publisher: Penguin Group-Puffin
Publishing Year: 2000
Geared Towards: Teens (13+)

Summary (From the back of the book):

Wake Up Caitlin.

Ever since she started going out with Rogerson Biscoe, Caitlin seems to have fallen into a semiconscious dreamland where nothing is quite real. Rogerson is diffrent from anyone Caitlin has ever known. He's magnetic. He's compelling. He's dangerous. Being with him makes Caitlin forget about everything else-her missing sister, her withdrawn mother, her lackluster life. But what happens when being with Rogerson becomes a larger problem than being without him?

Wdebo's Review: I found this book to be like a YA book style of a Jodi Picoult book. It was really deep and compelling. The theme was deep and thought provoking like many of Sarah Dessen's books.

Pro: The story was sweet and great and compelling and dives into the depths of abusive teen relationships and the agony it gives the the abused.

Con: I found this story hard to get into even though I did love the story plot. Cailtin annoyed me a lot, and the whole "rebel cheerleader" that everyone called her, yeah, that doesn't apply to her. Just because she chain smokes and skips practice doesn't suddenly make her a "rebel cheerleader" I feel that phrase is such an oxymoron, if you are a cheerleader you aren't really that much of a rebel no matter what you do.

All in all, if you enjoy Sarah Dessen books it does have a spark of her flair you might also like this book if you enjoy books about big issues like abusive teen relationships and leaving your home etc.

Grade: B-

Wdebo :)

Fat Kid Rules the World

Title: Fat Kid Rules the World
Author: K.L. Going
PAPERBACK
Amount of Pages: 183
Publisher: Penguin Group-Speak
Publishing Year: 2003
Geared Towards: Ages 13+

Summary (From Back of the Book):

Punk Rock! Or Not.

Troy Bilings is seventeen, 296 pounds, friendless, utterly miserable, and about to step off the subway platform in front of an oncoming train. Until he meets Curt MacCrae, an emaciated, semi-homeless, high-school-dropout, guitar genius, the stuff of which Lower East punk rock legends are made. Never mind that Troy's dad thinks Curt's a drug addict, and Troy's brother thinks Troy's the biggest (literaly) loser in Manhattan. Soon, Curt's recruited Troy as his new drummer-despite the fact that Troy can't play the drums. Together, Curt and Troy will change the world of punk, and Troy's own life, forever.

Wdebo's Review: I first picked this book up because of a list of teen books I should have read, so I read it! And I am really happy I did because it was one of my most favorite books I've ever read.

Pro: Strong, raw characters that are really real especially in their harsh surroundings. My favorite character defidently is Curt, I don't know why, but I just fell in love with him.

Con: I found the writing to not be consistant, the beginning was exciting and suddenly it became boring and then it became exciting. The middle was hard to get through.

All in all, I really enjoyed this book, I would reccomend this book for anyone who likes books about outcast against the world. Or just anyone else!

Grade: A-

Wdebo :)

Rainie Yang

Rainie is one of my most favorite girl taiwanese idols. She can sing and act. Her dramas are really spectacular. She is most famous for her role in Drama Beside You, she is also in a drama called Miss. No Good which ended a few months ago, and she was in a drama called Why Why Love. She is now starring in a drama called ToGetHer with Jiro Wang from Fahrenheit.

Her ex-boyfriend was Xiao Gui which she had to break up with because of her contract.

From DramaWiki...

Name: 楊丞琳
English Name: Rainie Yang
Extra Info: At 15 she auditioned for a group called 4 in Love and got in. She changed her name to Rainie to fit in with the weather named girls in the group.

Ai Mei from Devil Beside You. Starring Mike He.



Another song I love by her is called Tai Fan Nao (Too Troubled) but no one will let me embed it :( so if you want to listen, just go to YouTube and copy and paste it in!! Lots of them already english subbed it!!

Wdebo :)

Please comment!

YEAH! A Review!! Dead Girl Walking

Title: Dead Girl Walking
Author: Linda Joy Singleton
PAPERBACK
Amount of Pages: 295 (not counting sneek peek of Dead Girl Dancing)
Publisher: Flux
Publishing Year: 2008
Geared Towards: Ages 13+
Extra Info: The sequal Dead Girl Dancing is out!!

Summary: Seventeen-year-old Amber Borden is just your averege teen. She has her family and one horrible sense of direction. So when she dies and her horrible sense of direction makes her end up in the body of the most popular girl in school, Leah, she has to do whatever it takes to get back into her own body, which is about to be harvested for her heart.

Now, Amber is going to have to employ the help of cute-geeky Eli (a guy who she lock eyes with over the chocolate buffet, who also happens to really like AMBER but not LEAH), geeky best friend and total computer nerd Dustin, and BFF Alyce. But first she has to make sure that they believe her story. What's a girl to do?

Wdebo's Review: I really did enjoy this book, it seems that there are a lot of books about dead people and waking up or switching bodies, but this one is a totally diffrent twist of it. The whole finding yourself in a diffrent body because you got lost was a really diffrent spin to that un-original dead person story.

Pro: I loved this story, seriously, I could totally connect to Amber. A geeky girl with an unhealthy obsession for chocolate and all she wants is to succed and all she has is a bunch of self help books, yeah that's me. (minus the self help books).

Con: I do not like the cover at all! The little "Dead Girl" sign at the top is going to give me nightmares. It looks like an anorexic cheerleader with an over the toply big head with a really bad over bite. Apart from that, I truely enjoyed the story a lot. However, I seriously hate how no one listens to her story, I mean if someone who NEVER talks to you or looks at you and suddenly gets all teary eyed and screams at you that they are your dead best friend who got stuck in a diffrent body, well I think I would stick around and listen.

All in all, this book was great. I would reccomend it to all of those who enjoy these dying and resurecting chick lit books. I am seriously in love with Eli like how I was in love with Christopher from Airhead. AHH!! I really want to read Dead Girl Dancing...RIGHT NOW!!

Grade: A-

Wdebo :)