This book was very different from the books I usually read. My dad has been telling me to read this for a while so I finally did. I liked this book, but I didn't love it. I think I didn't love it because it was too fantasy for my taste. There were very, very few if any things that were realistic and I very, very much prefer realistic books. This book was about 3 kids, 2 who are siblings and looking for their father, and their freind who comes along for the jorney. The two siblings are Meg, who is like 13 and doesn't do well in school because she knows lots of shortcuts and doesn't show work, and Chales Wallace, who is like 4 and very, very smart for his age. The boy who goes along with them is name is Calvin and is dating Meg. I didn't really get their relationship because they started dating and holding hands and everything after like the first time they met, which I thought was strange. They meet three women who say that they can take them to find the father and "wrinkle through time" and go to another planet and find the dad. All of the "wrinkling through time" or "tessering" as they call it happened very fast and confused me very much.
This book was amazing! It was a really quick read which I think is one of the main reasons I liked it. It was also in diary form, which I really liked because it makes it seem like the writer is talking directly to the reader. Also, since it was a real diary, it more legitimate then other diary books because it is real. That is the reason I like non fiction books. I like books of this topic too because, as I have said in previous blog entries, I like really depressing books! I felt so bad for the girl in the book because all she was doing was really just navigating around the difficult of adolescence but she just made a couple of wrong turns. When she started to live on her own, I began to reflect on my life and could not imagine getting an apartment, a job and later starting a little business at like seventeen. I know that I would never be able to do that. I liked this book how she never really disrespected her parents. In shows and other books I have read, when the teenager runs away, they act like they are so much better then their parents and ignore them. But the girl in this book never did that. She missed her parents frequently, which I liked because it makes it more realistic because shows and movies and some books make everything more dramatic and unrealistic. Overall, I loved this book and would recommend it to everybody!
This book was okay. I really like Jodi Picoult's books like My Sister's Keeper, The Tenth Circle and The Pact. I loved all three but found they were very description based but was balanced enough with the action parts that I liked them. This book was the same but there was a little more description then I would have preferred. This book is about a young man who kills a girl and her dad. The mother and wife of the victim's daughter, who she has after the murders, has heart problems and is in the hospital frequently. The man who killed the people is name is Shay. Shay wants to give his heart to the daughter, but originally can't because the lethal injection he will receive as his punishment will stop his heart, so the book mainly works towards figuring out what to do so he can give his heart to the girl. It is also based on the story of the mother of the girl, Shay's spiritual advisor, Shay's lawyer, and another prisoner. I thought I would really like this book because I like books about crimes, murder, and just depressing books in general. This book had all of those elements and lots of little surprises , but half of the parts, the one of the spiritual advisor and of the attorney, bored me like crazy! It just seemed like rambling to me! I also thought I would like the medical part of it because I usually like that stuff but this was just too much! Overall, this book was okay.
