Midnighters Widgets

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In honor of the Jan 2 release of the brand new Midnighters paperbacks, here are a trio of countdown widgets for your websites and desk tops!

And because I never posted it, click on the thumbnail below for a full-size version of the new Touching Darkness cover.

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To complete this purely self-promotional post, here are multi-store links for The Secret Hour, Touching Darkness, and Blue Noon.

That is all I have the brain for right now.

As of 6PM US Eastern Standard Time, Leviathan is 18,569 words long!

334 thoughts on “Midnighters Widgets”

  1. I remain in eager anticipation of more Leviathan news…not that I’ll be reading it anytime soon! O.O

    And hurray for paperbacks too. ^_^

  5. Those are really awesome!! I like them alot. I’m going to steal the one of Jonathon, because he’s very prettttyyyyy. But I’m probably going to keep calling him Rex despite the acrobat symbol, because that’s who he looks like.

    So, my friend Richa borrowed my TOTALLY wrecked Uglies book which I acidenatlly left in the rain [I almost cried at the damage] and she absolutely loves it! She’s in love with David, of course, because she has good taste :] . She’s reading the other three over the break.

  6. Woopsies. I forgot to say, Hurray for Leviathan!! I can’t wait for it! I’m going to get it as soon as I possibly am able! Oh, and I will definately NOT leave it outside in the rain, because I refuse to be that stupid ever again
    Westerfeldian books are too precious to be bogusly left in Texas weather!

  17. me gusta! pretty…idk why, but i like the melissa cover best…i guess the colors are bolder or something.

    yeah, whatever happened to the derring-do promise? thank you for pointing that out, savvy-la!

    so, scott-la…where are the hidden “derring do”s???

  18. i can’t wait for leviathan…even the name intrigues me!

    oh, and i have reigned supreme over my spanish teacher! seriously, like at the beginning of class she called me out to the hall and i thought it was b/c she’d found some hidden grade i missed, but as it turns out, she put the decimal in the wrong place when she entered the participation grade for everyone in our class (that was my 97 grade), so it ened up being counted 1000 times! so everyone’s grades were screwed up, i was just the only one who thought to tell her about it. for some people, the participation grade brought them up, for others, it brought their grade down (me). so now she’s redoing the grades of the people whose grades were lowered by her mistake, but those whose grades were made higher stay the same, since it’d be cruel to do lower their grades for her own mix-up. so now i have a 100. well, 99.6, but teachers here round up.

  19. i must’ve described that in the most confuzzling way possible, but that was me rambling. i’m just excited, b/c most of my friends are happy b/c their grades will be higher now.

  22. thats cool but kind of pointless i mear it just a new cover not evan that great
    please dont kill me new book cover fans
    today i wore my dess shirt i love it
    i wrote a fanfic for midnighters for an anecdote in english hope my teacher has read them or phycokitty might scare her or if she has hope she likes it:D

  23. I found the sweetest song in the whole world, and everyone should listen to it, because the lyrics remind me seriously of Uglies for some reason. I think I’m think way outside the box in it, but I do that alot with song lyrics.
    Actually it’s alot more Pretties than Uglies. It’s both, just mainly Pretties. The first two. Anyway, you get it. Now listen to the song!!

    Beauty In The Break by The Scene Aesthetic

    It’s a slow soft song, but ti’s really amazing so even if you don’t like that kind of song, listen to it anyways!! Because it’s like the best thing ever. And if you have a myspace, you can look them up and their song is on their band’s myspace, to make it easier.

    Go. Listen.

  36. Yeah, all of the songs by them have really cool lyrics. That’s why I like their songs, because their fun to listen to the lyrics of.

  38. I may have to order these off Amazon simply because the covers are SO MUCH NICER than the Australian ones (And I only actually OWN The Secret Hour anyway, the other two I borrowed from my local library 😛 ).

  40. nice widgets. i loves widgets.

    and also nice cover…i wanted that full-size.
    the mindcaster symbol looks really cool with melissa’s eyelashes.

    i’ve gotta write a short story for english—what should it be about, werewolves or werewolves?

    cool! hmmm…is it odd that i get sick pleasure from the Levithan word count? mainly because i have stories longer than that (i may have cheered over my 22,400 (i believe) annaversary a couple days ago). even actual books start somewhere…now i just have to keep going and continue making it awesome and then wade painfully into that whole thinking about publishing thing.
    but for now, i write and draw irrational joy from it.

    it’s really wierd, i’m getting a mental Westerfeed now. like, whenever i click on my westerblog link, i just KNOW when there’ll be a new post. like today.

  41. Oh, yeah, I LOVE Boys Like Girls!! I have a bunch of posters of them in my room :]
    they’re songs remind me of Uglies too. They are so fawesome, definately

  46. On Word you can go to “Tools” and then click “Word Count” and it’ll count the words.
    But I have found that Word’s counter is a little… off. Ish.
    My favorite band is the Kooks. But none of their songs really remind me of books…

  51. well, word is generally sucky, but whatever.

    it’s just based on whichever sounds better, Netta-la. i might advise a -wa for you.

    well, the 22400 one is one i only started in june (a fact that makes me happy). my other favorite main one is is a stage of disconnected disconstruction editing and not countable.

    arctic monkeys.
    most of thier songs pertain to being in bars in london though, so not much help there.
    the raconteurs are more vague and applyable.

  55. I think my favorite band is either Fall Out Boy or Motion City Soundtrack.
    Probably MCS.
    They are amazing, but they’re lyrics tend to remind me more of Twilight then Uglies, though. But Muse is SOOOO PEEPS/TLD

    and word says I have 43,220 words :]

  56. Man i do want those so bad,
    but i’m religiously against soft covers,
    maybe i’ll just have to sin once in awhile…
    tee hee hee…

  57. ” A Breif History of the Dead” I am reading right now…. and it is about this world when you die you go into this “world” type thing where it looks and functions just like This world. You don’t age, and the only thing that is keeping you here is if someone remember’s you, that is still alive.

    And then a pandemic has come accross the world and Laura is the only one alive. The people in the “other world” that have died know this because they realize the one thing they have common is that they all know Laura.

    AND THEN this dude wonders how many people can be with him – how many people does a person remember in a lifetime. He started tallying it up and got large #’s like 40000, but he think there could even be more then that.

    I thought about tallying it up, but that would take awhile, so I just thought about it, and he was right. He said that every thing he touch revealed another person that was just hiding in his memory.

    How many people do you remember ? — It just makes me go all brain-missing to think about it, but it is fawesome at the same time.

  58. my favorite artist overall is by far the goo goo dolls, and they are simultaneously (i just used that word in my english assignment) my favorite band.
    my favorite solo artist is probably nelly furtado, but i like her first and second albums better than the third, but the third one has SOME songs that sound like the first and second ones though so i don’t mind it.
    but i have a million favorites in general: hellogoodbye, nickelback, onerepublic (i bought their full album, and my friends are like “i don’t like their other songs” and i’m like “shove it, i do”), THE FRAY (wonderful!!!), wicked, dave matthews band, train, hootie &the blowfish (lol, their name’s rather odd), oasis, and third eye blind. and lastly, though i feel guilty even saying it, michelle branch. but the pre-Wreckers michelle branch. country isn’t what you’d call my cup of tea…

    there’s one song by Eve 6 that i can’t get out of my head right now: “here’s to the night.” you’ve probably heard it but don’t know the name…that’s how it was for me until like a year after i first heard it. it’s kinda old, if you call 2000 old.

  59. Urg, this really annoying childish guy is teasing me but hes my ex and its more like hes flirting. Driving me insane.

  61. My favorite bands are the Kooks, the Fray, Augustana, Spoon, and Modest Mouse. As for solo artists I like Jason Mraz and Fiest. And Ingrid Michaelson. (I think that is the spelling of her last name…)
    And also, you know, bands/artists I can’t remember.

  63. hhhmmm…i think i like Netta-la better Netta-la…but thats my opinion. can i call you Netta-la? i like that. it rolls of the tongue. so. can i call you that?

    the official rules are this: (by the way, i no these are the rules cuz ive said them about 27 times)

    *says in creepy car dealer voice*

    When somebody lives in New Pretty Town, they have a PRETTY name. said person has the option to decide his/her name, but said persons name is often determined by the people who adress them offenly. ie: friends, piers, random hobos

    as a strict guidline, we the people suggest you follow the official laws: if a persons name has an L in the middle or end, it is highly suggested that your name end in wa. otherwise, it sounds wierd. some names with no Ls in the middle/end sound better with wa. if it sounds better, (this is often the case when it STARTS with an L) then it shood be wa.

    any other name can end in la, cuz it usually sounds better. on rare occaisions there is absolutely no L in a name, and yet it sounds better. these should end in was. of course, there is always the option of ending in sensei, chan, or sama. but these are not common and they take to long to type/say.

    *creepy announcer voice ends*

    those are the official rules. wow. ive never said them so officially. im totally gonna document that. hehe.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😛

  68. OMG!
    I just read every single post.
    Tayler….I love the pre-wreckers Michelle too!!
    and Lizzie-wa I love Boys like Girls. They rock.
    but i think their music reminds me more of midnighters than of uglies. Five Minutes to Midnight should be like thier anthem or something.
    Right now I’m really into the Red Jumpsuit Appartus but they dont really remind me of anything. They’re just awsome

  69. OMG FIVE MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT IS LIKE THE FAWESOMEST SONG EVER AND IT REMINDS ME OF MIDNIGHTERS SO MUCH!!!!! I BOUGHT IT ON ITUNES BECAUSE IT REMINDED ME OF MIDNIGHTERS!!! AND BECAUSE ITS A GREAT SONG!!!! BOYS LIKE GIRLS TOTALLY ROCK!!!!!!

    wow. Didn’t know I had that in me. I’ve actually said that before. Somewhere, some time ago. And that the theme song to Pretties is “Bubbly” by Colbie Caillat. Even if that song makes my blood boil.

  70. ok wow…i’ve missed a lot and i was only gone a total of 26 hours..(my friends kidnapped me at like 10 a.m. yesterday, took me shopping, and then we all spent the night at her house.)

    -kewl widgets!! & yay words!!

    -ok i love The Fray…& im so happy b/c finally another person loves them besides me–Taylor, and Capt. Cockatiel. other great bands are…Boys Like Girls, Finger Eleven, Linkin Park, Augustana, Hellogoodbye, Fall Out Boy, Nickelback…umm theres a bunch more that i can’t remember right now.

    -ok so what do u guys think my name sounds better as Kaylee-wa or Kaylee-la….see neither of them really role off my tounge….following Lizzy-wa’s official rules it should be Kaylee-wa…hmm. idk?

    -last of all how do u guys do it…i tried to start a book this summer but i just couldn’t get it going…everything i tried sounded stupid…

  74. hehe. Allie-wa you always say that when you use all caps. hehe.

    and Sandra-la, its LizzY-wa, not LizzIE-wa. very wrong spelling. hate that spelling. reminds me of Lizzie Mcguire. *shivers*.

    -LizzY-wa OUT! 😛

  79. i don’t know if i want to go by kimberly-wa or kim-la because kim is just short of kimberly?

    help me please

    i am also going to give all of ya’ll a christmas present, all ya’ll have to do to get this present is help me come up with a new talent of two for two unexpected midnighters. this will be a joining of our favorite books by scott-la.

    Bis dan!!! 🙂

  84. i have something to add to lizzy-wa’s officialness rules—it really doesn’t work with a name that has too many sylaballes. like, serafina-la actually sounds okay, but kimberly-la doesn’t sound as cool as kim-la. it works best with short names.

    bands that are awesome/i have on my iPod right now and listen to all the time…the Arctic Monkeys, The Raconteurs, The Beatles, The White Stripes, the Von Bondies, Cold War Kids, and yeah, i guess FOB too. hmmm…i seem to have more obscure taste than most people on here.

    ha, today i tried (and succeeded) in having my heaphones on (and playing, most of the time) in every class. and even at full volume, when talking to a teacher face to face, no one noticed. it was awesome.

  87. to serafina zane!!

    omg. i totally love all of those bands =]]]

    finally, someon i know who actually knows the raconteurs!!

    jack white<33

    btw, my names julia, hows ju-la? lol coz thats what my friends who have read the series call me… it works right?

  89. And another band that I officially really really like is Flyleaf.
    And kinda Paramore, but not as much.

  91. They’re soooo pretty i just wanna look at them kinda like this new layout! YAY im so happy right now (well in things relating to scott) 😀

  93. ok so do you think that Kaylee-wa is too long? i could go with my nick name Kay which sounds best with la, Kay-la, but then the la on it sounds like my name is Kayla…or i could go with wa and be Kay-wa. hmm….what do you guys think?

    Kaylee-wa

    Kay-la

    Kay-wa

    or so people don’t think my name is Kayla i could go with K-la?

  97. thank GOD!
    another person who likes The Raconteurs!!!!!
    the only ppl i know who’ve even heard of them are ones i burnt the CD for.
    i actually like them better than the White Stripes. so they should make a new album instead. 😉 jk.
    a new raconteurs album is supposedly coming soon. 2008 *fingers crossed*
    what’s ur favorite song?
    i likes Yellow Sun. it’s totally about werewolves…or i choose to believe it is.

    Netallia…that’s a pretty unusual name. very…metallic.

    and on names, i say
    Ju-la and Kay-wa

  99. this is my full first name n.n oh and yeah and Scott your next book title sounds cool (you’re lucky, I can never come up with titles for my stories, and when I think of a cool title, I can’t find a story to go with it)….well yeah my friend is begging for me to send her Last Days but I can’t find it 🙁 oh well her birthday’s comming up…

  102. ok, i just want to no. but have you yall ever had someone who, no matter how hard you try, you cant leave them with out wanting to talk to them more. Am i alone?

  103. cool I was number 101 not that that really does anything….oh well….. hmmm…..okay I’m gonna start a new thing….

    Okay what’s everyone’s favorite book by Scott?

    I like Touching Darkness best (so far) personally….

  105. hmm
    pretties
    well peeps is good too
    i also like extras
    and the last days
    plus blue moon
    COULD U NOT ASK A QUIESTION THE DIFFICULT
    plz!
    sry i coudnt really anwser

  112. It my favorite Midnighters! Well I don’t think that’s really saying much cuz I haven’t read Blue Noon (that’s bad since I posted on the spoiler section for it…..)

  122. wow…..my computer lags…..I only got Netta-la’s post….. hehe I know that that was a hard question lol it’s the same for me…

  123. hmm well if my mom was in the room it would be two moon princesse (her book) but shes not in the room so hmmmmmmm well maybe fairest idk

  124. will any one onthis blog help me come up with 2 new midnighters talents?!?!?!?!?!?! i need ideas.

    someone on lizzy-wa’s bolg came up with invisiblity. (don’t know if i spelled that right 🙂 )

  130. hmm how about super food vision
    or (he he im writting a story on this)
    some one who sees in nimbers like the meausurments for everything (but plz only use that as a last resort

  132. who wants me to tell them the 2 people that a am going to make into midnighters some they can come up with talents?

  134. I’m taking Spanish 1
    my friend is attempting to teach me german,
    ich habe kien leiben (or lieben , i cant remember which)

  141. i would have to say the outsiders… then there is truesight… and twilight/new moon/eclipse… and *explodes*

    man, and it was my own question…

    i thought of another one! where the red fern grows… and holes… and maniac magee… TOO MANY BOOKS!!!!!!!

  149. Erm…
    Mi nombre es Netallia Holly Isabella Young y mi perro es morado
    my name is N….. and my dog is purple

  154. La rojo caput et morto.

    lol. i don’t even know if the last word is right, but I think I just said something like…”the redhead is dead.” at least that’s what I think it means (I used limited knowledge of Spanish + Latin to put that together…my espanol y latin sucks. :P)

  157. My fav. Scott book is Peeps
    My fav. Non-Scott is Twilight.
    I love Twilight. im almost finished!!!! Cant wait to read them all!

  159. back to what i said earlier,……… who wants me to tell what 2 of scott-la’s characters i am going to make midnighters so that they can come up with talents?!?!?!?!?

    Bis dann!!! 🙂

  162. morto/muerto, same thing. I wasn’t sure of spelling.

    My favorite non-scott book? I have tons and I would never be able to choose just one. So here are my top 2 favorites:

    – I’d Tell You I Love You, but Then I’d Have to Kill You (and sequal) by Ally Carter.
    – Alex Rider books by Anthony Horowitz.

  166. wow…that was like an explosion of comments, in a very short amount of time!

    ok so i’ve decide im going with the name Kay-wa…..thanks for helpin me decide. 🙂

    -my favorite Scott-la book is Pretties.
    -my favorite non-Scott-la book is The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

    new question…What’s your favorite Genre?

  169. spanish is fawesome i can say “there’s a cat/baby cat/turtle/baby turtle/dog/baby dog/duck/babyduck/pretty much any noun IS IN YOUR PANTS. oh yeah.

    ex: hay una tortugita en su pantalones

  171. my favorite non-scott book is…wow, that’s hard! seriously…ummm…let’s see, i haven’t really gotten much chance to read lately, so i’m not quite sure on that one

    oh, wait! the supernaturalist by eoin colfer was good…i read that in 6th but w/e.

    fave genre? defninitely sf.

  172. i don’t take spanish until like a week after break ends…new semester…new classes. i’m kinda sad cuz i’m gonna miss my honors english class 🙁 but then again i’ll get out of P.E. with this really mean teacher and science which is just really boring. 🙂

  174. my favourite non-scott book… hmm, i think i’ll make a list

    1. HDM by Phillip Pullman
    2. Dragonkeeper trilogy by Carole Wilkinson
    3. Keys to the Kingdom by Garth Nix
    4. Ingo trilogy by Helen Dunmore
    5. Tomorrow When the War Began series by John Marsden
    6. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
    7. Magic or Madness trilogy by Justine Larbalestier
    8. The Declaration by (I have no idea)
    9. Twilight by (I have no idea)
    10. Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling

    (this is not necessarily the order though)

  175. I LOVE Twilight. I really want to read all of them. I love Edward, he is so sweet, and cool, and cute and…………….Edward.

  177. my fav non-scott book would definitely be Twilight. totally agree with Netta-la, can’t wait til edward’s version comes out!! fav scott book so far is Uglies, but i haven’t read midnighters yet, but i can’t wait too!!

  180. I’ve read the safe-keepers secret in the same series.

    Oh yeah. Head in Spainish is Cabeusa(sp?). So yeah. El rojo cabeusa et morto.

  184. *is very late* I’m taking French II. >.> Uh… I can say that I’m busy talking in my pants.
    Je suis en train de parler dans mes pantalons.
    It comes in handy when I’m in nerdfighterly moods.

  185. has anyone read Speak
    it kinda scared me. it’s good writing and all but the whole emo thing kinda freaked me out and i was a tad parnoid for a few days after i finished it. but i was just wodnering if anyone had read it

  187. i read that book, rosie-wa! it’s by laurie halse anderson, btw.

    i loved how she had her “report cards” in there, since most of the subjects weren’t that school-related.

  188. So are you gonna write a 5th or something hmm… what would it be about and wht would you call it sorry just *typing* out loud or thinking or whatever i dont really know

  190. hmm wat would a 5th uglies be called….uhh no clue im not good at stuff like this ….hmmmm i really and trulely thought about it and i can’t think of anything

  191. rusties should be the name of the 5th it could be like when everyone is running away but someone is smart and dosent use their car it would be fawsome
    im waiting for it now
    tap,tap,tap
    i hate writing but im told im good at it strange

  195. Ahhh, i want to finish Twilight but i dont know if i am getting New moon for Christmas so i dont want to rad it really qick and cant read the next. ill prouable buy it myself!!!! i love it though. im on page 334 and i just want to get it over with because it is so increddibly awesome. i LOVEEEEEE it!

  198. Some of my friends who have read Twilight call me Bella when I act weird cuz Isabella is my second middle name….well they used to, now only Lucy, my best friend is allowed to call me Bella, she has been calling me that scince kindergarten

  201. Can’t WAIT for Leviathan…!!!

    I’m excited about the new paperback midnighter books, but i’m actually a fan of the old ones myself((I own all three. :D)) The new ones are cool but they’re not exactly how I imagined the characters((duh, I know. But it’s true…:) ))…

    I love those books((the Twilight series))! Jake’s the Best! <3. well….. I hated him in Eclipse. I still love him though.

  203. I heard about the secong book New Moon that like Edward leaves Bella, it makes me soo mad, but i also heard he comes back so, exciteing. He is so nice, i love him.
    ill name my book loves: Cal, colton, William, Zane, Edward, Moz, Qwen, Frizz, Johnathon, yep thats all of them, but i am currently, irrasistably in love with Edward. Me like him!

  206. Alice is one of my favorite characters…she is awsome, and funny
    her emotions are extreme
    Edward overreacts
    Jacob is stubborn
    I like Jasper too
    I feel bad for Esme 🙁

  207. I could blabber on forever about books but life doesn’t offer that option so I am content with just blabbering now, mostly to myself….

  208. Angela Webber in twilight is very fake….I want a book from her point of veiw, mostly to prove she is supposed to be human,HUMANS HAVE ANGER!, Angela Webber doesn’t

  210. I like vampires
    my friend forces me to read her favorite books
    I wouldn’t have read twilight if she hadn’t made me

  215. wow, that was alot of coments Netta-la. i dont want edward to leave. I heard you saying things about Jake. What? i have no clue who that is. I read a teen read review. they said New Moon seemed to drag in the middle. Urg, i just want her become and vampire and live with Edward for ever. but you never no…..it may haapen in Eclipse! i bet it will, ok so i read a review about Eclipse…..
    i was curious if they were together!!!!

  216. names for new midnighters talents for tow characters form his latest books!!!

    Please hurry!!!!!!

    Bis dann!!! 🙂

  217. I found out about Scott-la’s books from my friend Taylor…cuz we picked out books for each other one day at school and she grabbed Uglies for me…she almost grabbed this book about a queen or something who kept chopping off heads, it’s a good thing i said no.

    I just finished Trout Summer….it was pretty good–(not as good as any of Scott-la’s!), sad at the end, i almost cried, but what can i say..im a sapp.

    has anyone read any of Will Hobbs books?

  219. well eclipse is totally fawesome Bran-la, no review could do it justice. but before you get to the fawesomeness of eclipse, you have to go thru the sadness of new moon, sorry, life isn’t fair. but don’t worry, new moon has it’s good parts too, especially the last half!!!!

  220. I know, i dont want Edward to leave!!!! Hehehehe, but i no he comes back. So if i read it quick illl get back to the happiness of Edward, i hope! I want her to be a vampire because if not she will out age him and they cant be together and that will bring them so much closer, being the same kind!!!

  221. New Moon is my least favorite, because it’s so un-Edward-ish. But I love the other two.
    Netta-la, I agree with The comment about how Edward over reacts, and Jacob and Jasper and Esme.
    The thing about Edward, though, is that he’s suppose to over react to everything. Stephenie Meyer makes a big point in having him over react at everything on purpose. It’s like, she wants to make it totally obvious and overwhelming how much he loves Bella. Because everything she does us amazing to him, or terrifying, or something very extreme because he feels SO EXTREME about Bella. You’ll notice that he doesn’t over react to things that have nothing to do with Bella.
    But I couldn’t agree more about Jacob. I hate him >.>
    But the thing with Angela; why would she show anger? There’s never anything for her to be angry about in the books! I could understand you saying that if something bad happened to her and she was still all mellow and calm, but when nothing bad ever happens to her then it would just be dumb for her to come in and be angry. Plus, I know lot’s of peopl a LOT like Angela, and it takes a whole whole lot to get them mad. Angela is never angry because there’s never any reason for her to be angry!

  222. okay, as there are over 70 new comments, i don’t feel like reading them all now.

    *just reading the last one*
    heh, actually New Moon is my favorite because i love werewolves. even if they are pretty lame as far as werewolves go.
    Edward Cullen. well, i’m not allowed to talk about him anymore.
    he’s still the most boring vampire ever.
    he. wears. tan. turtlenecks.
    enough said.
    don’t even get me started on Bella, she’s obviously some sort of android.

  223. Okay 2 things

    1. No my cousin, is NOT a cat lol I was kidding because he acts like one a lot (I know, my family’s weird)

    2. Who asked about Non-Scott Books? I didn’t lol (just about Scott books) I’m just curious because this went from Midnighters, to -la vs -wa stuff and now the Twilight Series (which I haven’t read New Moon yet b/c it’s not freaking out in paper back-my parents NEVER let me get books out of paper back because I read so fast)….

  224. I cant believe you said u didnt like Edward! How brain-missing you must be!
    I love Edward. SPOILERS ABOUT TWILIGHT (not that you havnt read it)
    I am on the part where Edward just left Bella to hunt James. I almost starting crying. i would die to have a bf like Edward, he sjut so, mysteriously romanticly beautifuly lovable. there is just somehting about him that makes me want to be Bella. Be sides the fact there her nickname starts witht a B and my name starts wity a B.
    AHHHHHH, i dont want him to leave!!!!!!!!! I dont want her to get attcked!!!!!!!!!! I am addicted!!!!!!!!!!! i cant put my book down, someone remove the clue on my hands!!!!!!!!!

  226. I read so much that………
    ~my mom makes me get two books from the store because we have to go back to get more next week, she trys to hold me as long as possible
    ~my grandpa built me a book shelf. It acculy has four selfs but you call it a bookself right?
    ~my friend says ive changed
    ~people wonder whats wrong with me
    ~everyone asks me, “So, what are you reading now?”
    ~i have made a list in the order that i read them in order to be able to look back in the future and now what books i read and in case they stop making them i buy them. (i am weird)
    ~i come to this site everyday to talk about books.
    ~i say words i use to never say and people ask me what it means. And i mean more……..mature words i guess you could say like, “The boys voice was a deep mix of saticfactory and a hint of confussion.” Oddly enough i talk like that to people. Its fun, you look smart and they look stupid witht there expression!
    and i wonder why i dont have a bf. Well, this certanly explains a lot.

  228. Uhhhh, my stomach hurts. I had a very large donut and got full them and hour later (now) i ate a small donut and i realized………….i was still full. So now my stomch aches.

  229. Lizzy-wa???? EXCUSE ME??????????????????????

    ahem. sorry.

    But…I think you were talking either to me or Serafina. Cause Lizzy-wa hasn’t commented here in like…forever. so yeah. If I’m wrong just tell me.

    I don’t like any guys at my school. So I don’t have a bf. Not because I read all the time. I haven’t read in like forever (ok, besides last night.) I read Gathering Blue. Disconcerting book. I like science fiction and all, but Lois Lowry is just a bit creepy. I like books where there are real people and not just violent, relentless, uncaring beasts. That’s crazy, man. Just crazy. We had to read The Giver in 5th grade…now THAT was creepy. Are those books like companions or something? Cause, they follow the same plot, except it’s more distopia in Gathering Blue and more utopia in The Giver. Actually, I think they are both distopias.

  231. eh, i don’t like Lois Lowry that much. they strike me as like, sci-fi for people who’ve never seen an episode of the Twilight Zone. like, nothing really happens in the books. there’s a concept of a dystopia/utopia/whatever and yeah. they hang out there for like a hundred pages. nothing really happens. i don’t see that much difference between reading the book and the back flap, they’re pretty much the same. like, it’s an okay (if majorly overused or vague) concept, Mrs. Lowry, but where are you going to GO with it now? and the answer seems to be nowhere. as someone who reads/watches/lives a lot of sci-fi and fantasy, they’re not really anything new, and they’re not done wonderfully enough for me to excuse that. they’re like, a good intro to sci-fi sort of concepts, but they’re not that original or complex. i want a deeper dystopia. i want characters to do more than one thing in a book. i want a plot, not just a world.

    and yeah, they’re companion books. there’s also Messanger, which i had to read for english class this year. took me about half an hour.

  232. Well, Allie-wa (Emphasize on the Allie), i dont like violent books either. I dont like it when there are non realistic people either. I was reding a book and i was like, no one talks to there parents like that, she was like this. “Mother, can i please go to the Blah Blah Blah?” and her mom would say something and she responed. “Why mother, thank you, i love you mother.” I thought it was pathetic, i couldnt stand it. i read a book and the girl was suppose to be 13, she acted like she was 8, seriously. i kept thinks she was.

  233. hehe. I was kidding. You can call me Lizzy-wa if you want. Just put a “2” on the end so it’s “Lizzy-wa2”. So we can tell the difference. lol. 😛

    Must read Messenger. I’ve heard of it. I think. Haven’t been able to find it. Don’t think my library has it.

    I’d rather read Uglies than The Giver. duh. I like the future better in Uglies. hehe.

    I don’t like violent books, but I don’t like happy books either. I’d rather read violence than happiness. Where’s the fun in that? It’s just when the children are abused, just kicked around like worthless pieces of crap, that bothers me. Like in Gathering Blue. Or when they kill people for stupid reasons (e.g. old age, twins, even colick), like in The Giver.

    – Lizzy-wa2 OUT :mrgreen:

    lol.

  234. i agree with Serafina Zane, her books are just kinda boring to me. they definetly need a better plot, or one at all. but i was also forced to read those books in the 7th grade, thankfully i’ll never have to do that again!

  236. Yeah, well, I still want to read it. The Giver wasn’t that great but i read Gathering Blue. So I’m stil going to read it if/when I get the chance.

  238. Ok, you dot have to make fun of me now! Just because i called you lizzy-wa! no, im just kiding, lizzy-wa2. she will come back and wonder y i am calling you that, O well, i will explain to her my misfortune.

    AHHH, i am almost done with Twilight! I think Bella is realistic. I mean, if Edward was mine, i would act like that. Panicy, lovy-dovy, and sweet and………well i am allt that already, but maybe not the lovy-dovy……….me have no have lover. 🙁

    I am going to finish it and get the sequel tommorow. Uh, ill read later. To. Many. Words. To. Comprehend.

  239. just a hundred pages? I don’t remember the number of pages for Gathering Blue, except that it ended in a 41/14. Can’t remember exactly…:P

    – Lizzy-wa2 OUT! :mrgreen:

  240. Hehehehe, i think its funny when you act like Lizzy-wa, shes such a goofball.
    I need an imatative nickname.

  242. i don’t know it exactly, i’m just guessing. it was really short and went quickly is all i know.

    and i don’t think Bella is realistic—she’s too mature, too cold, too old, she doesn’t care about anything. she doesn’t give a crap about her human friends even before she meets edward, she has no ambition or dreams about anything, she doesn’t do anything except sit around, read jane austen and cook pasta or something. she doesn’t have any interests, she doesn’t have any style. she can’t survive on her own and she can’t make up her mind. she talks like no 18 year old i’ve ever met, and definitly doesn’t act like one. much like edward himself, her entire personality is defined by how she relates to her vampire boyfriend. which is that she lusts after him and is remarkably stupid. which does not make a good or realistic personality. i spent the majority of Eclipse waiting for her to smack him. i know i would have, even if i was in love with him.

  245. ‘kay, this is sorta random but it’s really gotten on my nerves. it’s about the schools in my district.

    The elementary school get half days once a month. The high schools get an hour delayed start every Wednesday. What do the Middle school get? nothing. It sucks. Especially when school starts at 8:00. For the high school on wednesday, they go at 9:30. But get out at the same time. And on early release days, the elementary school get out at 11:40. that is not fair. I hate middle school.

  247. Omg, your never gonna live that down are you Allie-wa. You will always sihn with ‘lizzy-wa2’. Yes, Lizzy-wa very entergetic. I havent read for a whole hour. i know i cant believe it mysef.

    I need a nickname to write when i finish a comment.

  248. lol. I LIKE being Lizzy-wa2. I just made a really wierd comment on the new post…lol. Like really long. And I typed really loud and fast. It actually made me kinda depressed, thinking back on all the internet communities I’ve seen…

  250. Ahhh…I made so many typos. I feel stupid now. lol. I said “his stuff” instead of “this stuff”. hehe.

    -Lizzy-wa2 OUT! :mrgreen:

  255. that is why i said that Ellie ALSO told me to read Scott’s books cuz in an earlier post I said Lucy was my friend….

  257. ok this is really old………………but i’m still gonna say it, i’ve always had a problem with keeping my mouth shut. anyways……. as for what Serafina Zane said about how she doesn’t view bella as realistic…… well i have to disagree. if you put yourself in her shoes, having had your father leave when you were young, and now having your mom leave you for another man, your bound to end up with a few issues. also if you move to a new school, why would you really care about the ppl you just met, especially when they’re pretty much treating you like crap anyways. i think edward was the one person in her life that had truly cared about bella for as long as he’d known her, which probly meant a lot to her. i think she was very realistic, just in a screwed up, tortured kind of way.

    ok i’m done ranting now!

  260. but bella wouldn’t have left her mom if her mom hadn’t found another guy, she didn’t feel wanted so she left her mom so her mom would be able to live her own life. very selfless move on bella’s part i think

  261. Ugh
    I read the Giver in 3rd grade
    I was horrified ;my cousin convinced me that a society like that was real…. he did that alot 🙁

  266. if she had fit in better when she was little she would have grown up alot better, but she didn’t seem to want to fit in very much…

  271. she was definetly an outsider………… but where’s the fun in being like everybody else, i wld rather be my own person and an outsider, than a clone of everybody else and “fit in”
    ……….just a thought

  277. i love ranting!!! it makes me feel better!!! and i like ranting on the internet too cause nobody here knows me so they won’t hold it against me tomorrow!!
    …….refreshingness!!

  278. I didn’t know my messages could be so dizzy-making
    hmm….my mom does say that it is hard to understand what I’m talking about

  280. I get on microsoft word alot and type like 5 pages full of rants….about different things; I have a short attention span

  281. my friends always say i’m random and they can’t follow what i’m saying, but it always makes perfect sense to me
    ….. i guess because i’m saying it!

  282. My brain goes so fast that my words jumble into stuff like
    jhfjdkhfdksjhfkjdshfkdjshfknscudekjs…… my friends and me talk fast

  289. Something else might confuse you… earlier I said I only have 1 cousin, Marianna
    the guy who convinced me the giver was real was my half-brother’s cousin….sorta like mine

  290. I have alot to say and i can’t put it all into a comprehendable message so I put it into little messages that are easier to understand…. well, i try but most of the time i forget what i was going to say so I don’t say it at all

  311. exactly!!!!!
    i have issues and usually do capital O’s in wOrds
    idk why…………..
    i just think it looks cOOler i guess!

  318. well, i know this’ all old and abandoned, but i go back and talk about Bella again.
    like, yeah, that would leave you with issues. it happens to a lot of people though, and most of them still have, like, emotions. and at least one friend in thier lifetime.
    i get that she isn’t close to the people in Forks yet, but you might like, try a little to connect with them. she just kind of randomly pushes them away and crap. and they weren’t exactly being mean to her. she just sits there and is miraculously accepted into the popular circle.
    and i’m not saying you should change to make yourself fit in. be yourself. but really, bella’s not like, different from those guys. she has nothing against hanging out with them. she’s just like them. bella’s all boring and normal and so are they. she just…doesn’t try. because she doesn’t care. about, like, anything. i don’t get how a person can live like that, with no friends, no hobbies, no ambition, no dream, no preferences, and no even slight anger with the lack of those things. she’s just like, whatever. i react to situations with unnatural dullness and logic.
    a lot of times people with unsteady family histories (though, aside from the fact her parents are divorced, hers is pretty good. they’re amicable and get along and both still alive) end up relying on thier friends even more. bella just…has none. and no desire to have any. and after she meets edward she blows them off even more.
    and her dad didn’t exactly leave her—wasn’t her mom the one who moved to Phoenix? her dad was still in Forks where he’d always been. and it was technically her choice to leave her mom.
    but the thing with screwed-up, torturtured protags (my favorite kind, btw) is that they…do things. or think things. or have emotions. or feel things. or like, react to things at all. seems like Bella Swan never does any of those things. like, if she hated her family and her life and her school, you’d think that they would talk about those bottled-up emotions at some point.
    like, i could believe Bella’s personality a little more if it was attributed to her family or something like that. but it isn’t. she just…is.

  321. ……right now i hate Bella
    ealier she was one of my favorite characters
    tomorrow i will probably like her again

  322. screwed-up tortured protags are also my favorite!
    ……..but i can’t really agree with you on the rest of it, but i can understand where you’re coming from
    i guess we just view Bella Swan differently

  326. I was looking over this page and ita/ito at the end of a word doesn’t mean baby in Spanish it just means something like ‘my little one’

  328. YEA! My book is, so far, longer than Leviathan! 20887 words, babe!

    I ADORE the widgets AND the book covers. They have a modern Uglies vibe to them!

    By the way, if ANYONE knows what happened to the Westerboard, please comment at meh blog -pokes name-

  332. My boook suspension was lifted on the 26th and I’ve already read all of the books I can find, anybody have a suggestion?

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