“If you could be anything in the world, what would you be?”

“‘The best thing a girl can be in this world; a beautiful little fool.'”

“Did you just quote Daisy from The Great Gatsby?”

“Yes old sport”

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is an all american love novel. From the secret affairs to the extreme social climb up the ladder. One of the many themes F. Scott Fitzgerald intertwines into the novel is the idea of true love. Is true love real or just an idea? In my honest little 18 odd years of being I still haven’t figured that out but it is so relevant to today’s society. We grow up watching the people around us not only make a name for themselves but fall in love with – people, work, objects, money. And we perceive this idea that we’re meant to find true love as well. Even a huge portion of social influence in wrapped in the idea of true love. Putting it has a hash tag under a photo or a comment or even a text to someone you’ve only just met. In the novel The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald shows us that true love is blind. For Gatsby it is his love for Daisy blinded by his materialism. Thus his love becomes an obsession no longer about Daisy but for making a name for his old self. One of the most iconic quotes from the novel is when Daisy is talking about the birth of her daughter, Pammy, and she says to Nick ” I hope she’ll be a fool- that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” I personally interpret this as a fool in love to not see the pain and truth behind it all. Behind the lies and cheating and false hope for the purity of their love. So I ask you, as if I were asking F. Scott Fitzgerald; do you believe all “true love” is blind/-ed? Or is there really hope for a pure true love for us?

BeThatGirl

 

 

 

Let’s get one thing straight. Majority of us want a long lasting perfect relationship. But how likely is it to actually happen? Very unlikely. But that does not mean we do not have the right to try and have some pre-set ideas on how things should be in work out. In one of my most recent reads, something completely out of my realm, I read ” I Was Never Actually Yours”. It is not a book I would typically read but actually enough enjoyed. I don’t want to spoil it for you guys or like say any major plot points. But let us take Fifty Shades Of Grey minus the sexual content, add some humor and sarcasm and mix it all together and you have the book. Personally it has become one of my favorite books and the characterization is amazing for a young author. This story is not what you think it is. I had this one set track mind about how the book would go then ….

Expectations are ruined. I figured that both the girl and boy would both have bad past, we all do. And they do, but this story has crazy sisters, arranged marriages, conformity, love, hardship, loss, growth, relationships, alcohol, and hot boys! (Which we all love) In this book it sets up these huge expectations they have of one another. But as we embark on their journey of love the find the true meaning of love, it shows that our expectations are not always acceptable and reasonable. I have an expectation of what I think a relationship should be like and what it shouldn’t be like too. Growing up a certain way I had an expectation of what my first date should be like or first kiss. They were NOT what I had thought they would be. (Can there be redo’s?) You probably have a set of expectations for things in your life and things that happen. But this book shows you that expectations were meant to be broken and changed. Sometime’s it sucks, royally. But life has a funny way of showing us what is good for us and not. “I Was Never Actually Yours” is a book I will never forget about. It has taught me some things honestly. About what I think is good for me and what the “universe” knows is good for. This book doesn’t directly tell you what’s good for you or wrong but you have to read between the lines to understand the themes that are placed throughout the book. I hope you get the chance to read this book and I hope everyone has a great Valentines (whether you’re single or not). Happy reading lovies!

XOXO

BeThatGirl

 

Think back in that short/long term memory box of yours, and try to remember the book that kick started your infatuation with reading. Not when you first started reading or was told to for class points. It’ll probably be around the time of middle school possibly. For me it was “If I told you I loved you, then I’d have to kill you” girl academy spy series. I don’t know what it was about an unrealistic cliche love story mixed in with spies, guns, and mad guys. When I found that series it was around the time I transferred to a different school than all my friends. And when your 1/206 middle schoolers who’s Latina and shy, it was hard to make friends, so I did the most cliche thing possible. Live and breathe my school library. I remember seeing the series with the “Uglies” series right next to. I grabbed the 1st book out of them both and digged right now. (Sounds almost like ice cream) The “If I told you I loved you, then I’d have to kill you” girl academy spy series is probably hands down a book I would suggest as a light read, something to pass the time. The “Uglies” series is something that I want my own children to read. A more compacted version of the series is that its about a girl who you watch travel through all of the highly segregated social classes. You watch her struggle with her morals and societies expectations; plus who to keep close to her as she is shown their true colors. Ever since that day I can remember going back to the library and getting the rest of the series. Indulging in the books that helped me pass time and make friends with people who enjoyed the same type of literature as me. After awhile of getting used to my new school I found Shakespeare. Keep in mind I was like 13. He was like a whole new level to me, so I tried finding literature that was more classic, or a literate level done from that and found Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I talk about Pride and Prejudice a lot it is a true part of me. 1800 classics was just a door opened to a whole new world. I immediately fell in love like Elizabeth did with Darcy no matter how much she tried to deny it. Only catch is I’m not hiding my love for literature. I hope from this, you take a moment to remember what kick started your reading passion and strive to make your literature book count grow. If you want comment bellow your kick started or one of your favorite bookies. Until next time lovies!

~BeingThatGirl

 

!Buenas noches! (Good night!)

 

To post or not to post, that is the true question.

My loving post, where are tho?

Don’t not post author! Don’t not post!

Post? Post. Maybe post will be our forever.

Post!? I don’t see any post! You’re just selfish!

And I hope they’ll post, because that’s the best thing a blogger can do in this world.

My name in English means an online posting. In Spanish my name means to send.

 

Okay, I’m totally kidding about the last one because you readers are extremely intelligent. If you couldn’t tell the lines above are some of my favorite quotes changed up a little bit. These quotes are some book and stories that I hold dear to my heart. Hamlet, Romeo + Juliet, Titanic, The Fault in Our Stars, The Secret Garden, and The Great Gatsby. Typically there is always something going on in our life and when we read a book, normally (at least for me) when I think back to that book I have memories embedded in it. One example is The Secret Garden. I read that book for the first time with my mom when I was around 10, it was one of her favorite books and has now become mine. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett is to me a classic. It takes you with Mary Lennox as she looses her family and being completely apathetic after the tragic accident. As she stays resident at her uncle’s house she discovers secrets, people, and the true meaning of family and love. The chapters were her cousin and her interact are honestly like my siblings and I. The Secret Garden is honestly a book that everyone can relate to in some way shape or form. Back to the reason why I put all the quotes above ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ,  I wanted to share my top 7 books quotes but I more wanted to show you how you can take book quotes from any time period and make them modern. From anything from the 16th century to the 21st century. With today’s social media posting or snapping a quote is easy but it honestly makes it more entertaining when you make the quote for your current situation. Just fill in the obvious blanks and have fun! Hope this encourages you to pick up The Secret Garden or post some more quotes.

Okay, ew. I don’t know why but I feel like that was one of the formalist post I have ever done. I need coffee to be me. Hopefully you do read or even watch The Secret Garden because I feel like it is a childhood classic that everyone should know. Until next my lovies stay warm and wonderful!

~BeThatGirl

(Me honestly right now going back and forth to school)

Hey my lovies! Hope you haven’t missed me too much because I have missed you. I fair warn you that this post is it a bit more,…. serious? It doesnt have the same bubbly feel I put it in, so feel free for those of you who wish to move on, for those of you who don’t, we’ll still love you. ~BeThat Girl

As a baby your parents capture every single one of your first. And as you get older you slowly remember and keep in your back pocket of memory all your first. Your first best friend, first time you had a sleepover, drove, kissed someone. (Oh my 😳 how scandalous) In one of my most current reads “Hate VS. Love”
by WORLDGIRLSALWAYS it discreetly slips in the main character, Cassandra, her firsts. The book goes from her first bully to her first friend to her first crush and her first heart break. I think that in entertainment and literature it seems to be that most commonly that your “first love” is your only one in life. Often I’ll read about the girl who’s crushed over a guy for so long, and they’ll have their first encounter and interaction. From there their first date, first kiss, and in the epilogue their wedding and kids. But in Hate VS. Love the author pulls some of the “first” that we don’t like to discuss. From her first bully to her first lost to her first heart break and to the first time she tries to handle pain on her own. So today I want to give you some tips, tricks, and reality checks on your first.

1. Your first love will most likely not be your last. 💖
2. Your first heartbreak will also not be you’re last. As painful as they are, no body is perfect and neither is any relationship. 💔
3. Your first time alone won’t be your last either. Sometimes we need time alone to become rational and think correctly as much as some of us dislike it. 😕
4. When you are in a relationship and things start to get heated, think about your decisions wisely. Because that first you really can never can get back. 🙈
5. There is always a first time for everything. So don’t be afraid to take chances. 💁🏽
6. Sometimes your first will be complete disasters and that’s okay. That’s what makes them first. 🌪
7. And lastly, your first, won’t ever be your last. 😮

Constantly we repeat first in our lives and when we do this I think that’s what makes them memorable because we compare them to our first. Wether they are good or bad. Hopefully this gives you a little bit more insight on your first in life. If this is your “first time” reading this post “Our Firsts” comment a smiley face below or someone your top first. Thank you so much for reading until next time lovies! 💖
~BeThatGirl 🤓

Random Girl: “Ugh, I hate how cliche they’re it’s gross!”

Me: “Shut up.” *shoves them into a closet and locks it*

It all started on a dark, chilly night where an aspiring author/blogger realized shed never declared her love for one specific genre. That duh everyone loves which is-

Wait wait wait!

First let’s take a second to appreciate all genres of literature. From horror to mystery to teen fiction to drama to adult fiction. *wink wink nudge nudge*

Alright guys, let us face the truth, no matter how much we trash the cliche books we deep down love them. Unless your my sister. We do actual love cliches sometimes. Whether we want to accept it or not, our hearts flutter and we “awww!!” just a little bit ( or a lot) when we read or see cliches in life. The urban dictionary definition of a cliche is being predictable and unimaginative. But come on lovies, when we read scenes like this….

Scene 1

Pride and Prejudice has to be one of my favorite books ever, right now I’m at the scene where- 

*crashes into something dropping their book and notes*

Girl: Oh my gosh I’m so sorry I wasn’t looking where I was going *picks up notes and looks up*

Boy: No no it’s cool, you okay? *picks up book and looks up*

And she looks at him and takes the book from him slowly and their fingers brush, and just a second.  She feels a spark in between them.

End Of Scene 1

Or the stories with the typical boy bad with the bad reputation and the nerdy girl who’s never done wrong, fall in love. This genre has to be my top favorite. Not to be a cliche. Personally, it’s because of the innocence of it. But it some situations it goes from bad boy and shy nerd to, broken boy and sassy nerd. Cliches surround us everyday. From the boy spilling his drink on a girl and dating for like… ever to the teacher and student scandal. Reading cliches brings this tiny little hope, for male chivalry and female confidence to me. I know this sounds all cliche ( I have got to stop ) but it’s the truth lovies. So for those of you who love cliches, keep on reading them, but I challenge you to read this one. It’s called “My Brother’s Best Friend” on wattpad. When I read this book, I was expecting one thing, and receiving another. Which is totally okay!, because that’s how life goes. If you ever get the chance to read it, PLEASE, hit me up and we can rant about it together because of course I read another small roller coaster book. The weather is getting lower, and read-book numbers are getting higher. Pull out your cardigans, hot chocolate, and seasonal relationships because it’s winter lovies. Hope every stays nice and toasty. This time guys I want you comment you favorite cliche that you’ve seen, heard, done, whatever. Until ‘morrow lovies!

With love to her lovies,

BeThatGirl

(Me when it got cold and the power went out and I was home alone)

 

“A happy woman, makes the world go round.”

I honestly have never been so ecstatic. So for those of who you lovies who don’t know I am completely obsessed with this app called “Wattpad”. Wattpad is the online (app and website) source where up and coming authors can post their poems, short stories, movies, plays, etc. It creates this environment where authors  can write and receive feedback for their work, be praised and given criticism. I personally don’t write on Wattpad due to the fact that I can not create more than an one dimensional character. Now I’m not here to promote Wattpad but to talk about this book that someone is writing right now. Oh. My. Fishing. Goldfish. It’s amazing. Okay that’s generic, astounding works better. The name of book is F.A.I.T.H.: A Dorm. A Delinquent. A Girl. By: jopr

The author introduces you to a new type a view point. A rich one. The main character Rihanna is enrolled into an academy called Dawn Academy. The program F.A.I.T.H. stands for Fundamental Adolescence Institution for the Troubled and Hesitant.  This academy is meant for the rich and up coming. By there are actually only two ways to get into the academy. Money and great connections. Rihanna comes to this academy on late enrollment and the entire student body is curious on how. Late enrollments are unacceptable especially when the newbie won’t say how she got in, money or connections? As the story does what a story does, you watch Rihanna lie, be risen in the student body, caught, crumble, stand up for others, just when you think you’ve finally understood the character and the story, you entire preset idea is broken and you have to start all over. This is one of those 1/1,000 books, that is (for majority) created differently and so well done. This book has got me on the edge of my sit, yelling at phone and reading for so long, that when I looked at the clock Friday morning is read 3:35 am.

AND I”M STILL NOT DONE READING IT!! One thing that is super frustrating though is that you can pick between books that are completed ( have all their chapters, edited, all the glitter and glam) or incomplete meaning they update new chapters whenever they have it scheduled. I typically don’t read books unless their completed but guys I have this bad addiction that once I’m into something I gotta know what happens. We all do. (At least I hope) And F.A.I.T.H. is not a completed one. *intern cry* All day Friday all I did was sit there and refresh my phone until it said she updated.

I live for these notifications lovies! Can not wait to post again for the end of the book, or more frustration, or just rants. Until next time my lovies. Below I want you to comment either your favorite book or your top thing 3 frustrations. Kisses! Until ‘morrow.

With Love to her Lovies,

BeThatGirl

(Me since I’m done with work and waiting for updates)

“Everyone looks at the world in their own colored glasses.” BeThatGirl

Recently I picked up a book called “This Is What Happy Looks Like” by Jennifer E. Smith. Now don’t get me wrong, we should never judge a book by it’s cover,

but looking at its cover with the couple on a boat, I figured it would be about this girl with depression finding happiness with a boy during the summer. I really thought that but as I get into this book, it is not as cliché as it seems.

Now I don’t want to ruin the story but lovies, the more I read it the more… layers of the onion start to come off of each character and their back stories. They two main characters met each other in an email mix up (no its not an old book, was actually published two years ago) and towards the end of one of their conversations, he ask

“What does happy look like to you?”

And from there they continuously go back and forth with what “happy looks like to them”. So here is 10 things that “happy” looks like to the characters.

1. Sunrises over the harbor.
2. Visiting new places.
3. Relaxing.
4. Meeting new people.
5. Welcoming surprises.
6. Ice cream on a hot day. 
7. The sound the waves down the street.
8. Flip flops. 
9. Swimming.
10. The absence of smiley faces in an email.

Lovies when you read this book, it’s like falling in love. The more you read the more you fall. You get these butterflies in your chest and you feel, exactly, like the character. And one thing I really love about this author is that each chapter goes back and forth between the main two. That is one thing that I personally enjoy. Because not only did they make the effort into creating one characters point of view, they made TWO!! From where I am at in the book, I can’t set it down, Ms.Prince actually had to take it from me in class last week. This book is so real on both sides of the coin, both sides of society and both sides of the screen. If you ever get to pick this book up you won’t regret it, I mean I have not given you a book yet have I? Nah. So come on, get off your phone or laptop or computer and go just read the summary or some cliff notes on it, because once you get the story line oh my flying moo moos, you’ll won’t be able to live without. Hope you enjoy the book as much as I do. Hope you comment 5 or 10 things that are what “happy” looks like you. You know the routine my lovelies. Comment, rant, ask questions, whatever floats your yacht. Kisses! Until ‘morrow.

With Love to Her Lovies,

BeThatGirl

(Me Responding To My Lovies Comments)

“Technically it’s not vandalism ma’am, they’re just sticky notes in a book.”

When I was younger I was really bad at studying. Like we’re talking BAD. So I came up with this whole complex method to studying. Yeah it’s a lot of unnecessary work, but hey!, works for me. But the really cool thing about my technique is that I use while I read. If the sticky note is poking outside the right of the book it’s some type of quote or a situation I really like or is a stepping stone to the big point. If the sticky note is poking out the top of the book its a set up of the character, climax, down fall, rising action moments or something I need to look back on. Honestly this is how my books look like.

Now you’re probably wondering why in the name of flying moo-moos do I do this.

 

When I go back and re-read what I marked it’s taking a recap of everything that’s happened. Watching a short movie being played all over again in my head. Some of my sticky notes are really good opening lines or hooks. Guys more now then every take intake of how these writers start off their books. Now only for our blogs, but just writing in general.Right now I am starting a new book called “Love and Gelato” by Jenna Evans Welch. The way she starts of the book (Prologue) is with a tag line that we all know: “You’ve had bad days before, right?” A line that we call relate to and of course create a connection with. When we listen to music, we also create a connection in our heads. Either the song reminds you of an ex or it’s you and your best friends’ go to song on the weekend. It all triggers something. Here’s 10 songs that I really think, connect, with the book and whats been going on so far.

Okay my lovelies I really did try but all I could of was “It’s A Whole New World” from Aladdin. I mean this girl is moving to somewhere new (don’t want to spoil it) so she so she is just trying to take it all in slowly because she is so overwhelmed. It’s so bad she’s having a panic attack in the car while pulling in. Which is a weird way I think is very… cool? to see in a book. Because they don’t make her seem like she has it all together and so rarely do I find books that are like this. Which the reason it’s really cool is it’s so relatable. Here is 5 quick things you can do if you ever feel super overwhelmed and can’t just chill.

1. The first one is easy take a deep breathe and release. Repeat. Lina ( the main character ) actually uses a paper bag to help control her breathing.
2. Hug yourself super tight, then release. This action will make you feel all your problems put into one and when you let go, it all flows away.
3. Drink something. I know that sounds silly but you probably were breathing irregular and drinking something will make you feel better.
4. If you were in a crowd and got overwhelmed, walk away into a parking lot (obviously a non-busy-crowded one) Howard offers Lina some alone time to not feel locked up in an area with no escape.
5. Do what feels natural. If you need to cry for a moment, go for it. Holding it in won’t help. Only makes you feel more overwhelmed. If you need to sing a silly song and dance then go ahead. Lina actually talks to herself and tries to keep positive.

Hope these tips help. This book makes me feel like I am not alone. I mean we know we’re not alone but it’s just reassuring reading someone who’s done/doing the same. You know the routine my lovelies. Comment, rant, ask questions, whatever floats your yacht. Kisses! Until ‘morrow.

~BeThatGirl 9/20/2016 6:57 PM

(Me getting up after blogging.)

Do you ever have like one of those “ah ha!” moments when ever you’re reading something or doing something? When you connect all the pieces of pieces before the character does and you can see everything that’s about to happen? Where you are on the edge of your sit, rooting for the character and they fail?

It was this heart-felt, friendship challenge, social acceptance, family opening, emotional roller coaster. That might be a bit of an exaggeration but really it was all that. It was a big pot of gumbo but instead of gumbo inside it was a teenage girl who was just trying to keep her friends.

This books takes you on the journey of a girl finding her self and true friends. “The Fill In Boyfriend” by Kasie West, really gave me an insight of some of things I’ve gone through that were the same for the main character Gia. It gave me like a 3rd person view, or an audience of some of the similar choices I have made and how it really effects everyone around me, not just myself. It makes you feel like you are not only one who’s been through a rough time. Or that you are not the only one who’s changing and still figuring their self out. The main character is a senior in high school and she’s STILL figuring things out. From just reading this book I’ve learned like 10 things, life lessons, from “The Fill-In Boyfriend.”

1. A lie is a lie. No way to go around it.
2. IF they are your true friends, then they will truly stick with you no matter what.
3. Just because its perfect on the inside doesn’t mean it is beautiful on the inside too.
4. You do not have to prove your self to anyone.
5. (The obvious) Don’t judge a book by it’s cover.
6. Just because it’s not something you would normally do, doesn’t mean it’s bad.
7. When you see what other people see in you, it changes your whole perspective.
8. Take a break from your phone! 
9. Your number of likes, has nothing to do with how many people like you.
10. Stop and smell the roses.

“The Fill-In Boyfriend” was a really outstanding quick read. It had everything your teenage book needed. The love. The lies. The backstabbing friends. The trader-moment. The family fail. The societies expectations, and especially, the prom. If you’re looking for a book that make you say “Awe!”, “Nooo!” and “I feels!”, then this is for you my lovelies. It sweet and innocent but so mature at the same time. Like me. (I can not believe I just put that.) Hopefully you go to your local library and pick up “The Fill-In Boyfriend”. But if you are going to the South Regional to try and pick it up I still have it and you will have to wait a few days for me to get it back there. That’s if I ever turn it back in. Lovelies I’m so forgetful you have no idea. In the end, “The Fill-In Boyfriend” is a great book for any young women wanting to read a book to make herself smile, laugh, get a little frustrated, but mostly have a great read. Comment, rant, ask questions. (I feel like a YouTuber for a second there.) Until next time my lovelies.

~BeThatGirl 9/17/2016 11:08 PM