Always be a first rate version of yourself...: Jen Calonita

What's Going On Here?

There are SO MANY wonderful book review blogs out there and I can't compete with them, that is for sure. So this is not a book review blog. This is just a way for me to organize what I have read so that I can be better at matching the right book to the right person. The blog title comes from the brilliant mind of the most talented woman who ever lived, Ms. Judy Garland. The full quote is, "Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else." That is what I hope to do here and in ever aspect of my life.

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Monday, August 4, 2014

Terrible Covers

on all three of the Belles books so far. And The Grass is Always Greener might be the last one, but I hope not. I have enjoyed this series so much. I feel like there HAS to be one more book, even though it has been a year since Isabelle Scott moved from her grandmother's small home in Harbor Side to the richie-rich world of Emerald Cove. Isabelle's aunt, Zoey, whom we met in the last book plays a bigger part in this one and man, man, man is she a jerk! Spoiler: I was hoping she was a big fraud! But I guess not. But still she is a big jerk! Unreal.
Anyway, I hope that we get one more addition to this series, because I would love to find out of Isabelle's dad become governor!

Sunday, February 9, 2014

It Took Me a Bit

But finally I got around to reading Winter White, the second in the Belles series. I don't know why I didn't get to it before, but I am glad I did. The first one was great and this one was, too. More southern and political drama. I am glad that Izzy and Mira are friends now. Izzy and Mira are ready to take part in Emerald Cove's Cotillion. The ending surprised me as I thought it was kinda like the ending to the first one, but maybe I am wrong. Either way, it was really good and I can't wait to read the third.

Monday, November 26, 2012

Southern Belle

I wanted to read Belles for so long and just couldn't get into it, but then I started listening to it and couldn't stop. I know other reviewers have criticisms of it, but then I don't care. I just really enjoyed it all the way through. I am going to read Winter White, too.
It is the story of Izzy, a 15-year-old girl who takes care of her grandma and lives on the "harder side of town." She never knew her dad and her mom passed away when she was ten. A social worker decides that she can't live with her grandma anymore, and that there is a long-long uncle, a state senator, who will take her in. Now she is movin' on up. Every book review says it is a Cinderella story, but I guess I don't know the real story of Cinderella but anyway...she now goes to a very exclusive prep school and lives the high life, but the girls are super nasty even as they smile in her face, they stab her in the back because of where she came from. There is romance and gossip and all the rest. Great book, a lot of fun! Also set in North Carolina!