Top Ten Stuck-in-My-Head Annoying Characters 2009

Story won’t be interesting if there are no bad people. No matter how happy ending they are, it’s useless if all the characters are on "white" area. Readers wanna know the conflicts between them. Readers need to feel their fights to reach the goal. To get that, antagonists are needed. But sometimes, even the protagonists look like the bad guy. They can be so charming or on the average, too. They’’re stepping on the "gray zone" so that s/he can trick my mind. Below is my ten stuck-in-my-head annoying characters of 2009.

Here is the list:
1. Queen Etheldredda in Septimus Heap: Physik
2. Luke Castellan in Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
3. Simon Heap in Septimus Heap: Flyte
4. Sheri Crystal in Perfect Strangers
5. Roland in Nocturnal
6. Rebecca Greenhall in Love Trainer
7. Nick Bianco in Perfect Strangers
8. Prince Nicolo Thierry Ferdinand Ignazio Alfonso Roberto Paolo Tadero Giovanni Bourbon-Parma in Reality TV Bites
9. Byron in The Wish List
10. Karina Latulo in to Tokyo to Love

The Subtle Knife, a novel by Philip Pullman

Will is 12 years old and he's just killed a man. Determined to discover the truth about his father's disappearance, he steps through a window into another world. There, he meets a girl called Lyra who, like himself, is on a mission.

It’s a very, very difficult book to understand. Though, has difficult theme. Religion, physics, archaeology, politics and global warming. All aspects in one book and make me fuzzy. It has deep meaning and phew, I have to read it slowly to get it done. A child holds the connection of all worlds and she has task to save those. I can feel the burden myself.

The book has sensitive theme here and no wonder the first book is banned. I understand why they do that. I think this is not good for children eventhough the main character is a child. She is 12 years old with consciousness and thought of an adult. Inapropriate for children reading it.

Top Five Compromising Sequels 2009

Reading series of a book is exciting. I can explore the story and the characters deeper than one-stand novel. But not all sequels better than their origins. Usually, the first one is a homerun. Below is my five compromising sequels 2009.

Here is the list:
1. Brisingr, sequel to 2 books of The Inheritance Cycle
2. The Last Battle, sequel to 6 books of Chronicles of Narnia
3. Breaking Dawn, sequel to 2 book of Twilight Sagas
4. Sons of Destiny, sequel to 11 books of The Saga of Darren Shan
5. D’Angel: princess, sequel to 2 books of D’Angel Series

Top Ten Most Devastating Books 2009

This year, I read a lot more than last year. That’s a surely thing—I don’t wanna stuck in the same level as last year. Readers don’t have the same opinions to a book. One said book X is awesome and book Y is confusing. Other said book X is average and book Y is astonishing. I can’t judge how they rate books they read because I have my own opinions, too. Below is my ten most unbearable books of 2009.

Here is the list:
1. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, written by Rick Riordan
2. Can You Keep a Secret?, written by Sophie Kinsella
3. Winter in Tokyo, written by Ilana Tan
4. Chronicles of Narnia: The Last Battle, written by C.S. Lewis
5. Nocturnal, written by Poppy D. Chusfani
6. Aerial, written by Sitta Karina
7. Asking for Trouble, written by Elizabeth Young
8. Brisingr, written by Christopher Paolini
9. The (Un)reality Show, written by Clara Ng
10. to Tokyo to Love, written by Mariskova

Series on My List

I don’t like it if I don’t have spare time to read. I hate that. I feel like something is missing—no hyperbolistic, it’s real. But, I can’t just read and read without doing anything else. So little by little I use my spare time to read—sometimes I read in office hour, too.

I’m collecting good novels, most of them are in series. now, I was thinking they’re to long in my list. So I’m gonna finish reading them as soon as I can.

Series I’m gonna finish in 2010:
1. Inkspell and Inkdeath (Inkworld)
2. The People of Sparks, The Prophet of Yonwood and The Diamond of Darkhold (Book of Ember)
3. Queste and Syren (Septimus Heap)
4. School’s Out Forever, Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports, The Final Warning and Max (Maximum Ride)
5. The Golem’s Eye and Ptolemys’ Gate (Bartimaeus Trilogy)
6. The Titan’s Curse, the Battle of Labyrinth and The Last Olympian (Percy Jakckson and the Olympians)
7. The Lost Colony, Time Paradox and Atlantis Complex (Artemis Fowl)
8. The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials)

A lot of books, huh?! Though I say so, I can’t close my eyes from other good series. So, meanwhile I’m finishing my old series, I’m gonna start new ones.
Series I’m gonna start:
1. Blue Blood Saga by Melisa de la Cruz
2. Darkest Powers by Kelley Armstrong
3. Faery Courts by Melissa Marr
4. Millenium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson

And honorary mention to In Death Series by J.D. Robb. I will keep on reading that series—I’ve read 4 books so far.