So I’ve loved the movie version of Battle Royale since the first time I saw it while I was in college, at some point. I really couldn’t tell you exactly. But I always wanted to read the book, and just never got around to it and my library inexplicably doesn’t have a copy so I’ve been looking at bookstores to find it. Well, Tuesday on my lunch break I finished one of my guilty pleasure books (the 5th book in the Pretty Little Liars series) and found myself without reading material for the night/wait at my boyfriend’s house until he got home from work (that is usually my prime reading time cause I’m alone and outside and no one can bother me). So, after work I went to Target and found Battle Royale sitting on the shelf next to the Hunger Games. I didn’t really have the money to buy it, but let’s me honest, there is always money for more books. So yeah, basically, I’ve been itching to read another book where teenagers fight to the death because it’s something that their society demands of them (a little twisted on my part, right?), but I’m reading it now and I’m totally getting my gore fix. I highly suggest reading this book, but I would be wary if you have a weak stomach, it’s a little [see: extremely] more gruesome and detailed than The Hunger Games, but aren’t most Japanese horror related things always done to the extreme?

So I’ve loved the movie version of Battle Royale since the first time I saw it while I was in college, at some point. I really couldn’t tell you exactly.

But I always wanted to read the book, and just never got around to it and my library inexplicably doesn’t have a copy so I’ve been looking at bookstores to find it. Well, Tuesday on my lunch break I finished one of my guilty pleasure books (the 5th book in the Pretty Little Liars series) and found myself without reading material for the night/wait at my boyfriend’s house until he got home from work (that is usually my prime reading time cause I’m alone and outside and no one can bother me). So, after work I went to Target and found Battle Royale sitting on the shelf next to the Hunger Games. I didn’t really have the money to buy it, but let’s me honest, there is always money for more books.

So yeah, basically, I’ve been itching to read another book where teenagers fight to the death because it’s something that their society demands of them (a little twisted on my part, right?), but I’m reading it now and I’m totally getting my gore fix.

I highly suggest reading this book, but I would be wary if you have a weak stomach, it’s a little [see: extremely] more gruesome and detailed than The Hunger Games, but aren’t most Japanese horror related things always done to the extreme?

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fuckyeahtattoos: Books on my right forearm. Really no meaning to it other than a) I like reading and b) I like the way books look. Done by Brett Burnham at Electric Tattoo in Pasadena, Maryland.

fuckyeahtattoos:

Books on my right forearm. Really no meaning to it other than a) I like reading and b) I like the way books look.

Done by Brett Burnham at Electric Tattoo in Pasadena, Maryland.

Currently reading…but online while at work, and with an online copy.

Currently reading…but online while at work, and with an online copy.

heathaa: reed-johnson: In this Sept. 25, 1985 file photo, author Maurice Sendak poses with one of the characters from his book “Where the Wild Things Are,” designed for the operatic adaptation of his book in St. Paul, Minn. Sendak died, Tuesday, May 8, 2012 at Danbury Hospital in Danbury, Conn. He was 83.  :(  sad, sad day. I guess the wild rumpus is beginning in heaven.

heathaa:

reed-johnson:

In this Sept. 25, 1985 file photo, author Maurice Sendak poses with one of the characters from his book “Where the Wild Things Are,” designed for the operatic adaptation of his book in St. Paul, Minn. Sendak died, Tuesday, May 8, 2012 at Danbury Hospital in Danbury, Conn. He was 83. 

:( 

sad, sad day. I guess the wild rumpus is beginning in heaven.

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Maurice Sendak has died. We’re changing the entire show today to remember him. This quote is from his most recent Fresh Air appearance last year. (via nprfreshair)

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Just spent the last hour and a half sitting in my backyard by the pond as it was getting colder and cloudier out (It’s swiftly looking more and more like it’s about to rain), but I couldn’t be bothered to move because this book was so amazing. I literally devoured this book, not as quickly as I did the Hunger Games series, but with the same level of intensity. I highly recommend this book if you’re a fan of British anything, detective novels, and a good old fashioned ghost story.

Just spent the last hour and a half sitting in my backyard by the pond as it was getting colder and cloudier out (It’s swiftly looking more and more like it’s about to rain), but I couldn’t be bothered to move because this book was so amazing. I literally devoured this book, not as quickly as I did the Hunger Games series, but with the same level of intensity.

I highly recommend this book if you’re a fan of British anything, detective novels, and a good old fashioned ghost story.

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love Madeline

love Madeline

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