Princess For Hire Book Review

From inside cover:

When a flawlessly dressed woman steps out of an iridescent bubble and wants to know, like, now if you like to become a substutute princess, do you

a) run

b) faint

c) say yes!

For Desi Bascomb, who's been longing for a bit of glamour in her Idaho life, the choice a definite c)-that is, once she can stop pinching herself. As her new agent, Meredith, explains, Desi has a rare magical ability: when she applies the ancient Egyptian formula "Royal Rouge," she can tranform temporarity into the exact look-a-like of any princess who needs her subbing services. Dream come true, right?

Well, Desi soon discovers that subbing involves a lot more then wearing a tiara and waving at cameras. Like, what do you do when a bullying older sister puts you on a heinous crash diet? Or when the tribal villagers gather to watch you preform a ceremonial dance you don't know? Or when a princess's conflicted sweetheart shows up to break things off - and you'r sure she would want you to change his mind?

In this hilarious, winning debut, one girl's dream of glamour transforms into something bigger : the desire to make a positive impact. And an impact Desi makes, one royal fiasco at a time.

Review: I enjoyed the book Princess For Hire.

Sorry I forgot to write a review right after I finish reading it.

First the fairy Godmother Meredith is not your disney bubbly fairy godmother, not at all. In fact you have to wonder about the bubbly fairy godmother once you meet one in this story.

Desi, the heroine is a teenager in need of a friend or two, she wish to make a different in the world. Her way of course!

I want one of her self design t-shirt!

This book is an awsome must-read full of magical moments!

I can't wait for the next book!

I give this book 4 1/2 stars.

I give the cover 5 stars.

so what books have you read lately?

Until next time,

Annie

P.S. happy reading and writing!

2011 Debut Author Challenge (by Story Siren)

My list of debut authors books I wish to read this year as part of Story Siren's challenge.
1) Across the Universe  By Beth Revis
2) Flawless by Lara Chapman
3) Timeless  By Alexandra Monir
4) Hourglass By Myra McEntire
5) Other Words for Love By Lorraine Zago Rosenthal

I plan to add more books later as I learn about them.

1st day of snowed in writing project

Sunday's night a big snow storm hit the South.  And I ended up snowed in at the house I'm house sitting.  So I have no company around, it's the perfect day to get some writing in.

I also finish reading Alex Flinn's Beastly.

Yesterday I wrote 1,500 more words on my novel current title Keep Faith.

Today I'm snowed in again so I hope to get another 1,500 words done.

Snow and the book Beastly by Alex Flinn

Down here in the south we got more snow then I have ever seen in my life! I have never been anywhere north of... well never been up north during the winter, so I'm sure this 10" of snow is nothing to northerners!
So I finish reading the book Beastly by Alex Flinn this cold snow in winter day.
There are the covers one with movie tie in and one without.  I read the one with the rose.  personally I like the rose cover best.
So you can guess from the title this book is a retelling of Beauty and the Beast.
I love the tale of Beauty and the Beast, I have since I was little before Disney come up with their movie.   I have a book from when i was somewhere between 6-8 years old.  In this book this is picture a long with the fairy tale and beast look like a pig that can walk on his two hing feet.  Anyway I still have it.
So in Alex Flinn's retelling, the story take place in New York and in today's time.  Kyle Kingsbury is the hottest guy in his ninth grade class and he knows it too.  BTW Flinn picks a good name for the handsome but cruel boy.
Kyle decide to play and trick on of the Uglies in his grade, by asking her to the dance, when he has already asks sexy Sloane as his date.  When at the dance the other "ugly" girl find out she tell him he has left her with no chose and with that he turn into the beast hours later.   Will the beast find true love and break the curse or will he live as the beast forever?

Alex Flinn didn't disappoint me, she twisted the story to blend fairy tale and real life.  Explaining parts of the classic tale that never made sense, like why is the beast a long in the first place, why really why would a father trade his daughter for his own freedom.
BTW just from the preview I've seen for the movie, parts are going to be different from the book.

I highly recommend this book for any Beauty and the Beast fan!

 

Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: Just Thinking....

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it 'The Present'."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

I saw this quote on a calender today.  It's got me thinking about life.  What I think is I can't really do anything about what happened in all my yesterdays and tomorrow... well I worry about tomorrow.  I tried not to but I do.  I worry about will I have a job next year... If I really what to be a writer, in the hopefully near future, why don't I write more?

But what I really got out of this quote is yesterday and tomorrow are not really all that important.  Yesterday has happened and tomorrow has yet to come.  So Today is what is important.  My pastor this past Sunday said something a long the lines of there will never be another 2011, there will never be another today.  So make the best of today. 

I have decide to make 2011 a excellence year!

My New Year's Resolutions

"Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’  The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” Mark 12:29-31

and

"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?  Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."  Matthew 6:25-34
So there are my New Year's Resolutions