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Happy April Fools Day!

Good day everyone, I hope everyone is having a nice week. Here in Canada the weather is starting to get a little warmer, which is nice. There is still snow but it is warm enough now that it is starting to melt. Can you say, 'flash flooding?' Anyway, today is the first of April which means Aprils fools day. For those of you who don't know what April fools day is, it is essentially a day to play pranks on each other for the hell of it. Personally I don't participate, because I am too busy to try to come up with anything that isn't entirely hurtful. But many people across the country will be pranking until the end of the day. Awesome. Lately, along with reading I have started taking up a new hobby: learning a new language. I have decided to attempt to learn German, because French just hasn't been working for me for the last little while. I think it is important to learn another language just for the fun of it if for nothing else. That really is all I have to sa...

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by April Tucholke

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Hey everyone, just finished reading Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. Preordered this book only for it to come in the next day, had to laugh at that, and I wasn't really sure what to expect. I've been trying to read new books, or at lease start new series lately, because to be honest the series I have been reading are getting too long, suck now, or aren't coming out until 2014. Bleh. So any way, this was an interesting read, because the characters were different, and the plots were all very unexpected. We meet Violet, who for the longest time I swore was named Anna, no clue why. But anyway! We meet her and her brother Luke, who live in a very large house that once belonged to their grandmother Freddie, because their parents were across seas painting, or something. Freddie died a long time ago, and the twins are running out of money. So Violet puts the guest cabin up for rent, and River West, a mysterious boy from out of town rents the guest room. But as soon ...