It's an addiction

Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World

looks like a WONDERFUL movie. i did post the trailer two post down, here, so go watch it! :D it's only about 2 minutes long. it's so sad :( it gave me shivers the first few times i saw it. u love the music that plays when it show Aki in a wedding dress. i am SO buying that movie!
the book is wonderful, too! Socrates in Love. ^^ here's some reviews from this page


Wonderful Philosophy and just plain sad...
Chrissy, a shojo addict, 08/20/2006
I got this book because i read other reviews and it sounded like something that appealed to me. Luckily, it was good and i read it in two days...the book is pretty short overall, but the story is WONDERFUL and, of course, it will make you cry several times. I highly recommend this book and i look forward to checking out the manga! (This best part is that it is all told from the guys POV). *tear

A Tearjerker To The End
Miyayuki, a writer, and a lover of literature, 04/10/2006
This is a very sad novel. I've read both the manga and the novel now and both had me crying at the end. 'Sekachu' is an excellent book that everyone should pick up.

Tears
Rebecca Morales, a high school journalist, 03/10/2006
I love the book. Kyoichi Katayama just captored the pure innocence of your first love. He painted his words with such detail that I felt as if I was expeirencing the same emotion that Saku felt for Aki. I was in tears from the moment I read the first to the last line.
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actual reviews:
A sweet high school romance between an average guy and a beautiful girl has just gotten underway. But tragedy ensues when the girl falls ill with leukemia. A bittersweet tale of young love, enduring devotion, and heartbreaking loss, Socrates in Love is a story to cherish and nurture.

from here
I knew before I bought it that Socrates in Love would make me cry. My husband had one condition for buying it for me: that I was not to read it around him, as seeing me continually weep while reading this novel would break his heart. I ended up reading the book in one three-hour sitting; yes, it's that good.
Affectionally called "Sekachu" (short for Sekai no Chushin de Ai wo Sakebu -- "Crying Out Love in the Center of the World" -- the novel's Japanese title), this classic love story has inspired a manga series (the first volume available now from VIZ Media), a movie, and a TV show. "Sekachu" is the top selling novel in Japan, with over three million readers of this tale of innocent love and heart-shattering loss.
The story is quite simple. Sakutaro Matsumoto is a rather quick-witted, sarcastic and intellectual teenage boy. Aki Hirose is a cute down-to-earth girl. They meet in junior high school as class representatives, where they slowly fall in love and begin to date, seeing their future bright with each other, together. However, sixteen-year-old Aki suddenly gets sick, and she is hospitalized. The doctors tell the young couple that she has aplastic anemia, but Sakutaro soon suspects the truth: leukemia. He watches Aki's struggle with the disease, and her slow decline until her passing, after which Sakutaro has to learn how to keep on living without the love of his life. Running parallel to this timeless story of devotion is that of Sakutaro's grandfather, who has never forgotten his first love, even though he married and had children with another woman, and she with another man. Circumstances drove them apart, yet by combining their ashes, the star-crossed lovers will be finally be reunited after death.
It's a simple story, yet it opens the door to many philosophical questions about life, love, death, and whether there is an afterlife. Aki doesn't believe in an afterlife; she believes that the world has everything that you want or need in it right now, so there's no need for heaven. Since their love is so strongly present in the world, it will remain even after death. Sakutaro is somewhat skeptical of that belief, but as time goes on after Aki's death, he feels her presence in the world so keenly that it must be true. Aki lives on, along with their relationship.
I made it to page twenty-six before the floodgates of my eyes were opened, and they never really dried up until the end of the novel. I would recommend Socrates in Love for high school and older readers, not because of adult language, but because the novel requires the reader to have experienced something of love and loss in order to feel deeply the pain and happiness of Sakutaro and Aki. This book takes on new meaning when you have someone in your life that you love so much.
This isn't VIZ Media's first translated novel; that honor goes to Battle Royal. However, this does mark a growing movement by the company into the novel publishing market, with Fullmetal Alchemist: The Land of Sand and Ghost in the Shell: Innocence After the Long Goodbye also released in October, to be followed by Steamboy and Kamikaze Girls in the winter. As it is, Socrates in Love is a beautiful hardcover book, well-bound and free of printing errors, or at least none that were noticeable to me through the tears. Akemi Wegmüller has done a great job in translating the text; Sakutaro and Aki felt like actual teenagers with distinct personalities and quirks. The only addition that I would have made to this novel would have been including a forward at the beginning of the novel, something to introduce us to the world of Socrates in Love, or conversely, a more lengthy afterword than the one that the author provides us. The emotional trip that the reader takes feels all too brief, but then again, as Sakutaro muses, that's how life is. Time goes by too quickly when you're with someone that you love, and you end up at the place of parting seemingly in no time at all.

Wow!

my blog's popular today! yay!

but NO ONE is commenting!!! grr. POOP ON YOU! POOP ON ALL OF YOU!!!

that is my version of swearing ^-^ like yesterday when i couldn't figure out how to install some things onto this wonderful new computer, i kept yelling "BUTT!" lol.

Background ^-^

i'm on mah new comp now! yay! ^-^ i made a background for my settings on Paint... here it is! i'll probaly be changing it later, though, lol.

THANK THE LORD! and thank Star22/Jocelyn!!!

she told me about this FAWESOME thing!
remeber how i absolutly and totaly HATE the MR4 cover??? well that's not going to be it! we can VOTE on the cover of MR4!!! just like maximum ride 3 last year! whooo!!! so VOTEVOTEVOTE!!!
http://www.jamespatterson.com/
you have to click on that link in the yellow box that says that Jame's publishers want our opinion, etc, etc, etc. i would have given u the direct link, but it doesn't let you vote more than once!!! grrr.

Tokyo Mew Mew stuffs (there may be spoilers)

awww poor Kisshu... :'(


lol




Kisshu looks a bit demented there...




that's from the last episode... mmm what a great episode...




i don't remember what episode that's from... but it looks odd, since Ichigo hates Kisshu (well, not totaly... there's that one part in the last episode...). i really wish i could remember what was happening there...


yay, fight scene!


poor kisshu :'(

awww kawaii! again, poor Kisshu!!! :'(
read from right to left. starting on the right page.

me went shoopping yesterday!!! whoo!

ya i went shopping yesterday! yay!
i got:

-black bracelet with little metal circle things...
-black choker necklace, like http://www.twopeasinapodjewelry.com/necklace-tatoo.jpg but all black and no beads
- black belt with metal circles... well, okay, my mom bought it for me... but it looks like the bracelet, kind of
- 4 fawesome shirts!!! *sigh* okay, yes, my mother also bought them. but they rawk!!!
they say:
-IF THE MUSIC'S TOO LOUD, YOU'RE TOO OLD
- Shopping is my weakness
-(this one just has headphones on it, it's brown)
-Sweet Music (it has a kewl desgin behind the words)
^-^ wheeeee!

over 1000 hits!!!

YAY!!! my blog has over 1000 hits! whoooo!!!

G!!!

my brother's still in the shower! yayness!

kay, the story bout G i promised u!!! fyi, for those of u who somehow don't know, G is this super-kawaii guy in my History class. (he asked me out once! lol, gomen, i always have 2 add that :D)
so, when i was little i was homeschooled. and i went to this co-op thing every wednesday for 8 weeks (i still remember that?!). we had classes... yaaa... ummm... oh! ANYways... well, i was talking to my mom the other day, and G got brought up (i really don't know how...). i mentioned his last name, and my mom was like, "[last name]?! Wasn't he homeschooled, too? Didn't he go to co-op with you?!" and i didnt remember... after i described him, my brother said "yeah! we went to his house once!" what the heck?! then i remembered! our moms went shopping at some homeschool store together and brought us!!! oh my gosh!!! i remember going into this play area!!! there was a security camera in the corner, and i remember G putting a little plastic toy pot or cup (i dont remember which) over it!!! we thought it was soooo funny! and then we went to his house!!!!!! OMG!!! we played in the woods for awhile (i remember going by a swamp)! and or some reason i remember a pink bike in the front of his house, and he said that it was his sister's!!! AND i remember him saying "yo! mom!" and thinking, who says 'yo'?! haha, that's very much like him. i wonder if he remembers all of this...?

now i must see if my brother is STILL in the shower... (if he is, i'm gonna hurt him!!!)

Nudgy's blog!!!

yay my bff just got a blog! go to it. now. i mean it. *hold knife up to throat* NOW!!!
http://thisandthatfornudge.blogspot.com/

EXTRAS!!!

Okay, so Extras is released tomorrow!!! yay!!! I'm SOOOO happy!!!

Don't know what Extras is? no worries!

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It's a few years after rebel Tally Youngblood took down the
uglies/pretties/specials regime. Without those strict roles and rules,
the world is in a complete cultural renaissance. "Tech-heads" flaunt
their latest gadgets, "kickers" spread gossip and trends, and "surge
monkeys" are hooked on extreme plastic surgery. And it's all monitored
on a bazillion different cameras. The world is like a gigantic game of
American Idol. Whoever is getting the most buzz gets the most
votes. Popularity rules.
As if being fifteen doesn't suck enough, Aya Fuse's rank of 451,369 is
so low, she's a total nobody. An extra. But Aya doesn't care; she just
wants to lie low with her drone, Moggle. And maybe kick a good story for
herself.
Then Aya meets a clique of girls who pull crazy tricks, yet are deeply
secretive of it. Aya wants desperately to kick their story, to show
everyone how intensely cool the Sly Girls are. But doing so would propel
her out of extra-land and into the world of fame, celebrity...and extreme
danger. A world she's not prepared for.

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hmmm... i dunno, that review just doesn't make it seem interesting!!! well, a little, but if you've read the first couple chapters (http://scottwesterfeld.com/blog/?p=235 oh, wait... that's only chapter one... well if u have the paperback edition of Specials, the first couple chapters are in there. : )

haha i just luvs that pic! <3

yay i'm pre-ordering Extras right now!!! lolz it's released in EXACLY 5 hours!!! yays!!!

I just had a fexcellent idea!

CARBONATED KOOL-AID!!!

yeah!

squee!!!

i'm happy i'm happy i'm happy!!!

kay, remember that [embarresing] post awhile ago???

http://courtneysblog-courtney.blogspot.com/2007/08/omg-omg-omg-omg-omg-omg.html

well the shirt finaly came in!!!

and that's not all that came with it!!!

TOTAL:

- 1 I'm an Extra t-shirt

-2 Inside a Dog mini-buttons

-1 *SIGNED* sample copy of Extras (squee!!!)

-8 Inside a Dog boomarks

I'm so happy!

okay, you can't really see the mini-buttons. one's the white thing by the words on the shirt and the other's in the corner of the top bookmark.


SIGNED!!!


wow i just realized that i haven't read the sample copy yet. *gasp* lol guess i was just so excited... *goes off to read*

=D

yay! Amber wants me to teach her how to draw anime! she's a really great drawer, but she draws animals and nature scenes and stuff, not anime ppl. ^_^ *happyness*

hehe today i was at my locker and some boy with straight hair went to G's locker and got into it. at first i was confused... then Royce said "Hey, G! you straightened your hair!" lol that surprised me! and sure enough, when the straight-haired kid turned around, it was him! XD it was funny! he told Royce that his sister made him let her do it XD for u ppls who don't know, G has veeery curl hair. ^_^ by History it curled a bit, and it actualy looked really good! =D

while we're on the topic of boys, before Photo Editing started I was walking to my computer when J jumped in front of me and yelled, "HI!" lol! XD Me: WHOA! Hi!!!
it was funny =D

kay, going back to watching Tokyo Mew Mew...

I found this on Photobucket completly by accident! lol

New Avatar??? Vote!

Some of them i just put up there cuz i found out that i could use a code to use moving avatars and i got excited, lol. vote on the one u like best! i'll put more up later, when horseland.com starts working. i have a bunch of kool ones on my page. :)

Kool!!!

They had a thing like this on http://www.maximumride.blogspot.com!!! kool!


Create your own visitor map!

Have some fun!

it's always fun to mess around with people. as I came downstairs to the comp, i saw a bus outside on the road. practicing her/his route, i guess. I had the urge to grab my backpack and stand at the end of the driveway, as if I were waiting for the bus to pick me up for school. Now that would have confused the bus driver! expecialy since it's 3:00 pm... lol.

so, school starts tomorrow. i'm exited, but also nervous... and i dont get to sleep in! grrrrrrr!!!

well, i'll blog bout it 2moro!

~nya!

~*~Coco~*~

YESSSSSSSSSS!!!

for u ppls keeping up with the Stephenie Meyer webbie...

http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/ts_fansites.html
they now have a fansite page! and if you scroll down a bit...

Bite Me
i emailed the webmaster with my webbie address (as he said to do if we want our fan page on the list) and he put it up! yay!!!

so i should get more ppl @ mah site!!!

Poll!

Results for the Who's Hotter poll!

Jacob Black
4 (23%)

Edward Cullen
6 (35%)

Fang
4 (23%)

Iggy
2 (11%)

Ryou Shirogane
1 (5%)

Votes so far: 17 Poll closed
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in case the above made no sense to you...

Jacob Black: 3 votes
Edward Cullen: 6 votes
Fang: 4 votes
Iggy: 2 votes
Ryou Shirogane: 1 vote

so, again, Edward won! *claps*
wow someone actualy voted for Shirogane-san! fexcellent! i thought no one would vote 4 him and Iggy cuz of Fang, Edward, and Jake above. *claps* Go Shirogane-san! Go Iggy!