[Random] The music ULTA plays in their stores.

As an ULTA Beauty employee, I often have to suffer though 5-8 hours of listening to the same music over and over again. Most of it is complete shit. Like... there's this french song they play that is just AWFUL. Anyway, when I was bored, I shazamed a lot of them and figured out what they were. Some are awesome classics, but they mix in some horrible music from other countries in there. No, not all music from other countries are bad, but these particular ones are horrid. Youtube has been my friend in finding all of these, so below is an incomplete list of the songs they play in ULTA stores.

The Good:

Roberta Sá - Ah, Se eu vou


Janet Jackson - Doesn't really matter


One Direction - What makes you beautiful


The Bangles - Manic Monday


Donna Lewis - I love you always forever



The horrible:

Marcos Valle - Novo Acorde


Fidelity - Regina Spektor

[Books I've read] Between the Lines - Jodi Piccoult and Samantha Van Leer

I'm not going to lie, I really, really wanted to like this book. The plot line was really strong and I've read a few of Jodi's books and was absolutely captivated by them. This one, not so much. Now I understand that this book is written for a completely different target audience than Jodi usually writes for, and that is perhaps the main reason I didn't like it as much as I thought I would, but I just wasn't as impressed as I had hoped.

The book follows Delilah, a young teen who discovers that a character from one of her favorite fairy tales can speak to her. Prince Oliver has been reliving and acting out the same story since the book was written, but is bored with how monotonous his life has become. When he discovers that Delilah too can see and hear him, he instantly becomes infatuated with her. The more they talk, the more in love they fall in love and soon they begin to formulate ways to get one another in each others world. When the book is shut, the character show their true selves, but once the book is reo
pened they are instantly placed where they are supposed to be for the novel to be read again.

I felt the writing was extremely inconsistent in some places and some characters just weren't imperative to the story line. And I especially felt that Delilah was way too young to be feeling the way she does and doing things that she did in the novel, no teenager in their right mind would feel that way.

Like I said, interesting concept, but really poorly executed. It took way too long to get to the climax of the book, and when we finally got there it just died. Oh well, I'm still really excited to read her latest book, The Storyteller. I have much higher hopes that the novel will be worth the read!

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Suggest? If you're bored and have nothing better to read.

Thanks for reading!
Matthew