Paiges of Books

1. You have 20,000 books in your TBR, how in the world do you decide what to read next? It depends on what I'm in the mood for. I will usually pick a read that I got the most recently, and knock that out, or I will read something that I've had on my tbr for a while. I will also use the internet, and people that I know that have read and enjoyed the book, so I will read that. Honestly, it will depend on a lot of different factors. If I have just read a heavy read, I will read a lighter read for a bit of a break.  2. You’re halfway through a book and you’re just not loving it. Do you put it down or are you committed? Honestly, 99.99% of the time I am committed to the book. If it is just a slow part I will push and power through it, I know that there is always something that is slow in the book. I may skip through a section, or read a section really fast, but I will almost always stick with the book and be committed to the book.  3. The end of the year is comi...

Newsies the musical is based on the 1992 Disney movie of the same name and is one of the Disney on Broadway Musicals.  The show has music by  Alan Menken , lyrics by  Jack Feldman , and a book by  Harvey Fierstein . The musical premiered at the  Paper Mill Playhouse  in 2011 and made its  Broadway  debut in 2012, where it played for more than 1,000 performances before touring.   Act 1 "Ain't it a fine life carrying the banner." The show opens the early hours of the morning in New York City, the year that the show takes place is 1899. Jack tells us who he would like to one day move out of New York City, and get to Santa Fe. The new boys get ready for their shift of selling new papers to anyone who likes one. Here Jack meets Davey, and his younger brother Les, but unlike the rest of the Newsies, Davey and Les have a family, their father is out of work so they are earning some extra money. Over at the New York World, the publisher ...

Read from: 07/01/18- 07/28/18 Format: Paperback (owned) Goodreads Rating: 4.35 (****.35) My rating: 4.85 (****.85) Summary from Goodreads Jason has a problem. He doesn't remember anything before waking up on a school bus holding hands with a girl. Apparently, she's his girlfriend Piper, his best friend is a kid named Leo, and they're all students in the Wilderness School, a boarding school for "bad kids." What he did to end up here, Jason has no idea-except that everything seems very wrong. Piper has a secret. Her father has been missing for three days, and her vivid nightmares reveal that he's in terrible danger. Now her boyfriend doesn't recognize her, and when a freak storm and strange creatures attack during a school field trip, she, Jason, and Leo are whisked away to someplace called Camp Half-Blood. What is going on? Leo has a way with tools. His new cabin at Camp Half-Blood is filled with them. Seriously, the place beats Wilderness ...

Read from: 07/3/18 - 07/29/18 Format: Hardcover (owned) Rating from Goodreads: 4.65 (****.65) My Rating: 5 stars (*****) Summary from Goodreads Alexandra “Al” Silber seems to have everything: brilliance, beauty, and talent in spades. But when her beloved father dies after a decade-long battle with cancer when she is just a teenager, it feels like the end of everything. Lost in grief, Al and her mother hardly know where to begin with the rest of their lives. Into this grieving house burst Al’s three friends from theatre camp, determined to help out as only drama students know how—and they’re moving in for the duration. Over the course of that winter, the now five-strong household will do battle with everything Death can throw at them—meddling relatives, merciless bureaucracy, soul-sapping sadness, the endless Tupperware. They will learn (almost) everything about love and will eventually return to the world, altered in different ways by their time in a home by a river. ...