More late night blogging…

Sorry guys, I’m bombarding you with all my silly thoughts and ramblings.  I’m just a bit bored and it’s too late to start any new project soooo I think I’ll just sit here and write another blog.  Feel free to skip through this one.

Meh.  So when I’m not on the computer, or in front of the TV, or at the sewing machine I’m most probably reading.  And I’ve been doing a bit of holiday reading lately so I thought I’d recommend a book series for you guys since we’re known to recommend things from time to time.  Dear readers, let me introduce to you The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare.  It was actually my mother who told me to read these, and I was kind of shocked after I read them that she actually enjoyed it.  Wait, that’s not making it sound any good…  Let me start again.  It’s REALLY good.  I’m into all that supernatural kind of stuff with demons and angels and vamps and lycanthropes – anything BUT ghosts.  Ghosts just freak me out a little.  And this series kind of just hit the bulls eye with me (does that even make sense?).

So basically, it’s this contemporary story set in New York.  It follows Clary, a 15/16 year old girl who suddenly finds herself leaving her human, otherwise known as ‘mundane’, life and finding herself amongst vampires, warlocks, lycanthropes, faeries (who aren’t all as nice as you’d think) and other weird and wonderful creatures, but most importantly the Nephilim.  These are something like the offspring of angels and humans – it’s all a bit confusing as to what they are.  So Clary finds out she’s got this destiny to fulfil and has to save the ehh, society of Nephilims I guess, from the big evil guy.  Kind of typical good over evil type thing.  BUT that’s not the juicy part!  There’s like this kind of, incestual (is that even a word?) twist to the story where Clary falls in love or something or rather and then there are parts of the story that just make you want to rip the book apart and burn it.  But I can’t really elaborate on that without spoiling the story so I guess I’ll just have to leave it to you guys to read…  At the moment there are three books in the series, City of Bones, City of Ashes and City of Glass and I think another one is coming out later this year.  It’s good.  DON’T LET ANYONE TELL YOU OTHERWISE.

And while I’m at it, I might as well tell you another series to read – The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins.  I don’t know if we’ve ever mentioned that on here before but that is a DEFINITE have to have to have to.  I swear, those are the best books I’ve read in a while.

And, if you ship the whole Bella/Edward thing they’ve got going on (LOL the first instalment of Breaking Dawn comes out this year…) then you should read Hush, Hush, Becca Fitzpatrick.  It’s not entirely the same, but it kind of achieves the same idea of forbidden love and man wanting to kill girl kind of thing with stalker thing as well but in a hell of a lot less time.  I guess you could say it was a decent read.  No vamps in this one, just Nephilim and fallen angels.  Cute story, just a bit tooo Twilighty for me.

And if you want something that involves no supernatural (I’m craving some Supernatural right now…) elements then maybe you should read The Uninvited, Tim Wynne Jones.  I bought it thinking that it involves some sort of ghost or something – yes I said I hate ghosts but I was on holiday and I needed something cheap to read – instead it’s this weird, creepy story that kind of finishes with you thinking ‘what thaaa…’.  Don’t know why I’m even recommending it to you guys.  Maybe I’m not.  Or maybe I’m just bored.

And that is all I can come up with at the top of my head right now. 

I need to learn how to sleep.