The girl in the Well Is Me

Hi! I hope you enjoy this book review on The girl in the Well is Me by Karen Rivers!

Author- Karen Rivers
Genre- Fiction
Theme- Learn from your mistakes
Target audience- 10+

I chose learn from your mistakes for the theme because while Kammie was stuck at the bottem of the well she reflected on her past and mistakes. She vowed never to repeat some of her regrettable actions again and learned from the consequences. 

I chose 10+ for the target audience because this book had concepts that are complicated and hard to understand. While Kammie was stuck in the well Kammie reflected on her past which involved, some harder ideas that I think 10 year olds and below couldn't understand.

This book is about an eleven year old girl named Kammie. She has just moved to a new school for year 6. Her plan is to be a popular girl, envying her old "friends". At school, she meets The Girls. The Girls are the most popular group in the school. Kammie, following her aspiration obviously wants to join, conveniently getting an "invitation" to join. She has to stand on a boardered up well to join them. The wooden boards snap! Kammie falls into the well. The Girls start taunting and teasing her. In the well, Kammie thinks about her life and some memories. The Girl's have gone to get help, haven't they?

I give this book 2 out of 5 stars. I felt the ending was really rushed and hard to follow. I kept getting confused and the author kept adding new characters at the end which added no value to the plot and were meaningless. On the other hand, the beginning felt really slow and I was super bored reading the first half of the book since almost nothing was happening. The Girls were really flat and uninteresting, I could barely tell the difference between the three girls in the group. We also get no background information or history on any of the characters except that Kammie has just moved to this new school. I also feel like the plot was badly executed and the ideas in the book were quite boring. Like an imaginary talking goat? Really?

The question of the post is did you have a "popular" group at school? I haven't actually, during school everyone was friends with everyone. A well known popular group is "The Plastics" from Mean Girls.

I hope you enjoyed this book review on The girl in the Well is Me by Karen Rivers! Love-bookworm blog 

Songs- Defenceless

Hi! Today I'm doing a song review on "Defenceless" by Louis Tomlinson.

Artist(s)- Louis Tomlinson 

Released- 31st of January 2020

Album- Walls

Genre- Pop

Song- Defenceless (not a single)

Louis Tomlinson is one of the four One Direction members who went on an indefinite hiatus in 2016. His debut solo album Walls, has racked up an impressive 400 milion streams on Spotify! Defenceless is one of the amazing 12 tracks on Walls. Recently, Louis has left the label Syco and is currently pursuing his own management for other artists.

I give this song 5 out of 5 ⛥ stars. This song shows a more vulnerable side to Louis and I love the lyrics. The bridge and the beat drops are so good! The story with the lyrics is phenomenal and extremely relatable. I especially enjoy the ending where the lyrics kind of switch into the other perspective of the lyrical argument. The first verse and pre chorus have really great metaphors and forces you to look deeper into the meaning and concepts in Defenceless (this shows that Louis really is a writing genius!)1

I hope you enjoyed this song review on Defenceless by Louis Tomlinson! I really encourage you to listen to this song because it's marvelous! Love-bookworm blog 

Bookify! #1

Hi! "Bookify!" is going to be a new series.

Bookify! is a series where I am going to do a theme and we have to make a plot or a book or text around the theme. I have made this series to motivate people to write or to think of ideas.

If you want ideas for reading- Reading Prompts

Today's theme is- #BlackLivesMatter (BLM)

I chose this topic (BLM) because this is a topic that's quite big at the moment and about racism. It's an issue which has been talked about a lot recently.

My idea is you could write a persuasive (a text trying to convince someone to do something) about why black lives matter or even why every person matters. Everyone is important even if they have different opinions or views on certain things, a different religion and how they look/speak. 

Tell me your idea in the comments! Love-bookworm blog 

Book talk- End of 2020/Beginning of 2021

Hi! I hope you enjoy this Book talk!

This series is aimed to provide a recap and quick overview of the books I reviewed this month.

I have reviewed these books, Inheritence by Carole Wilkinson, Drama by Raina Telgemeier and To Be Mona by Kelly Easton.

A quick recap:

Inheritence- Nic, who moves to go live with her grandfather in a old, remote family home but this house has no reception, 30 rooms and 3 dogs. When Nic had nothing to do she went to search for clues about her mother who died the day that Nic was born. When Nic found magical stones to make her go back in time, she discovers much more about the deep and dark past.

Drama- Drama is set during a school production. Callie had always been in stage crew because she can't sing. At all. She's determined, however, to make something that could be at broadway with a middle school budget. But what happens when the tickets are down and the stage crew are having trouble working as a team? Callie still has her own problems to solve. Not to mention eighth grade formal...

To Be Mona- Sage Priestly wanting to reinvent herself. She wants to get rid of her extra fat, unpaid bills and the crazy Mum. Sage has a teenage crush on Roger Willis, but him being "Mona's boyfriend" adds another reason to hate and be jealous of Mona. Sage gets an lucky ending but it wasn't how she thought it would be. Vern, Sage's "best friend" starts a fight with Sage. Mona and Sage have a school project together and Mona invites Sage over and some secrets are revealed...

The book I liked the best was Inheritance because I found it the most interesting in terms of plot. The main character, Nic, is really relatable and grows as a person over the book which was extremely fun to reflect on. Carole Wilkinson did a great job at developing her characters back story and history,  which made it lots more enjoyable to read and created an element of suspense.

Here is some information on these books,

Inheritence- HERE posted on the 19th of November

Drama- HERE posted on the 12th of February

To Be Mona- HERE posted on the 11th of March

I hope you enjoyed this Book talk! Love-bookworm blog