This book was amazing! I loved it! My dad got this for my mom to read and I ended up picking it up because I just wanted to look. I read this book in a day. This book made me really appreciate my mother. My mother never made me forcibly practice clarinet or piano for hours. The most I ever practiced either was one hour at a time. The relationship between Amy and both of her daughters was very interesting too. I thought it was especially interesting how different her relationships were with both of her daughters. She has a pretty good relationship with her oldest daughter, Sophia. Sophia listens to what she says and they work together every nicely. Her other daughter, Lulu, wasn't as cooperative with Amy. The differences between these two girls stood out to me. I also thought it was interesting how her husband did not really do any parenting with either of the girls. I know that they both agreed to the Chinese style of parenting, but the girls and Amy were always screaming at each other and the girls had a very small social life, so I thought that Jed, the dad, would want to intervene. Iwould if there was that much screaming in my house. Overall, I absolutely loved this book!
Reading this book was an interesting experience. I got this book last year when it was on sale at Barnes and Nobles because I thought I needed a classic for English. I picked this particular book out because my favorite actress, Kate Winslet, is in the movie. Overall, I did not enjoy reading this book. Although it had an interesting plot and characters, the Old English writing style made it very difficult for me to focus while reading. The only way I could successfully read this was if I had nothing else in my mind, which was a problem because I have songs stuck in my head constantly. I also felt like there were a lot of things that could have been said in 5 sentences, but took a page to explain. I really do not like books that drag on, so this was not very good for me. The parts of this book I liked were the plot and the characters. The plot was interesting and I liked it. The characters were relatable and I liked how close Marianne and Elinor were. They cared deeply about each other and helped each other through their respective difficult situations. Overall, I did not like this book, but am very proud of myself for getting through it.
I really liked this book! One of my favorite things about this book was the way it was told. It was told in a journal format that made the reader-writer connection a lot better for me. The way it was told and the plot of this book reminded me of the book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon. I loved that book and loved Flowers for Algernon because they were so similar. One of things in this book that made it so interesting was the transformation of the main character, Charlie. His journey from having an IQ of 60 to being smarter then some of the smartest doctors in the world made this book incredibly intriguing. I loved that you could clearly see his transformation through the spelling and grammar of his progress reports. Besides a intellectual transformation, Charlie went through a behavioral and emotional transformation as the book progressed. In the beginning, he was a very vulnerable, naive person but he was very happy and loving. In the middle, when he was extremely intelligent, he was very conceited but was a lot more independent and confident and at the end, he was depressed and lonely. All of the transformations in this book made it very interesting and overall I really liked this book.
This book was very, very good! It was very risque and creepy. One of the main reasons I think I really liked this book was there was a lot of action and not a lot of description. Books with a lot of description are very boring to me and hard to read. The plot of this book was very appealing to me because I like books that are creepy, disturbing, and depressing and this book definitely had all of those qualities. I loved all of the mystery in this book, like the mom's secrets and their family secrets. It made me want to keep reading. I also liked how everything came together in the end. Throughout the book, I had the feeling like I was in the story and that made the book even better. One thing that surprised me about this book is how they didn't end up completely kill each other after 3 years in a room together. I know that if I was locked in a room with my sister for a whole day, not even as long as they were, we would have gotten so irritated with each other by the end of the day. They had a few small disputes, put they were very insignificant and didn't change anything in the story. I also do not understand why after they figured out how to leave the room, they came back and even their rope was not very sturdy, they didn't try to improve over the next year they had. They never even tried. Overall, I really liked this book and want to read the sequels.
I really liked this book! I liked how there were three different narrators with very different opinions and approach to the same situation. I also liked that all of the stories were connected, even it was slightly confusing at times. That aspect of the book reminded of My Sister's Keeper By Jodi Picoult. That was one of my favorite parts of that book as well. The time period of this book was also interesting. It takes place in the 1960s right around when JFK was assassinated. I got to read about the difficulties Africans Americans faced during this time period from the perspective of two African Americans, Aibleen and her best friend ,Minny, and a white woman, Miss Skeeter. Each of the three women have very different ideas about the current social state of their home, Jackson, Mississippi. They all agree that it the way the help and other African Americans are treated is bad, but they approach it differently. I really liked how similar, yet different the women were. It made reading the book a lot more exciting because each section was very different. It was also different because each of the women's lives was different from the others. Overall, I really liked this book, but one thing I was very disappointed with was the ending. it ended so fast, I had to reread it a couple of times to understand how it ended.
This book was very, very good! I received this as a gift from my aunt, who was an english teacher. This book takes place in 1906 in a rural area. The main character, Mattie, lives with her dad and three sisters and wants to go to college, but doesn't have much money. That is the base of the entire plot. I really liked the time period it took place in because it made the book so much more interesting. I saw all of the differences between their society and ours, which was quite entertaining. One of the differences that I really enjoyed reading was the difference in prices. A composition book was 45 cents and when Mattie had 60 cents leftover that she didn't give her dad, it was a huge deal. I thought it was funny. Also, at this time, cars were just invented and very, very few people in their town had one. Everybody rides their horse or donkey. Mattie was amazed and scared to get into her teacher's car, which was also funny too. I also noticed some similarities. Mattie is like girls in many shows, movies and books today. She is stuck in a life she is not very fond of and wants to do something great. Also, she is a girl in a not very education-promoting family and wants to do something educational with her life and future. I liked how I could compare her to characters I know in today's society. Overall, this book was very good and I am looking forward to reading the other books I got by this author.
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.
I loved this book! I got this book from a program I am doing with my temple and started to read it because it was just over the number of pages I needed to finish my independent reading (It was 220 and I needed 150). This book is about a young man who has a mental disorder. He is really good at math and science, but does not like being touched and doesn't understand people very well. He frustrates his parents because he only likes to do things a very specific way. The main character's name is Christopher. He lives with his father because his father told him his mother was dead, when she really wasn't, which was absolutely horrible! But because of his disorder, Christopher was not angry about this. The original goal of this book was for Christopher to find out who killed the dog who lived next door. Christopher is very determined to find out who did it and it ends being his father. He gets really scared of his father and runs away. This book gave me a new perception on different people and that they are basically normal but they think about things differently then we do. This book reminded me of the movie Rainman because the main character of Rainman and christopher were very similar. Overall, I loved this book and would recommend this book to anyone.
This book was a recommendation from my mother because we have similar taste in books. This book was about a typical American family, the mom, Julie, the husband, Henry, and a young daughter, Liza. One day, Henry just dies. no warning for any of his family or friends. As understandable, Liza and Julie are very upset. But, when Julie's friends are going through Henry's office, they learn that Henry had had several affairs. They knew about one one of them but learned about the others from emails and letters. Julie finds out about this and freaks out, defriending one of her friends who had an affair with Henry and whose daughter was very good friends with Liza. This book had an overall good plot but got very wordy and description-ish, which got very boring! She describes her whole love life, during her relationship with Henry and before, which bored me a lot! The more action-based parts were pretty good, like when she was yelling at her husband's mistresses and learning about the affairs but a lot of it was boring description. Overall, this book was okay.
This was the final book in the Hunger Games trilogy. I absolutely loved the first one, thought the second one was okay, and also the third one was okay. For the last two, it seemed like things were just being done to be done, not really a purpose. A lot of violence and other things happened in this book. I think the series should have stopped after one book because the other two did not live up to the first one at all. At times, it was pretty easy to read, I didn't want to put it down, but the majority of this book was not like that. One part I was very confused with was when the new President (the old, mean one) was arrested, the old victors were deciding if they should have another hunger games with the children of the main, evil city , the Capitol. Some of the old winners agreed to do it! I completely do not understand why they would ever do it! Why would they want to put children through the horrors they went through?! Even the main character, Katniss, agreed to it even though she said all the time how horrible it was and how much negativity and problems it put into her life! I was soo confused!! Overall, this book was just okay. I didn't love it, but I didn't hate it either.
I read this book because I say commercials for the movie, but I wanted to read the book first. It was a pretty good book! There was a quite a bit of rambling, which I really do not like, but there wasn't enough to make the book horrible. The concept of the book is very strange, but I think that is what it made fun to read. It was very unpredictable. I also really liked that you read the time traveler (Henry)'s story right next to a normal woman's story (Clare). It made it more interesting to see how her life was affected by him and the other way around. I also liked all of the science stuff in this book. A scientist puts some of the time traveling DNA in mice, which i found really weird, but really cool because then they time traveled! When I started this book, I was very confused because he is two different ages almost all the time , his age now and his age from when he time traveled. The whole concept of this book was really complex, but that is what had made it such a success and so interesting to read! Overall, I really liked this book!
I started this book because I wanted to try another Jodi Picoult book. I had read My Sister's Keeper and The Pact, and really liked them. This book was about a rebellious girl named Trixie, who claimed that she was raped by her ex boyfriend. Her parents are really loving and will do anything for her. Her father is from Alaska and her mother is having an affair. They have a messed up and strange family! The book rambles on a lot about the dad's life in Alaska and described it a lot, which I really didn't like because I really hate when books rambled on about things that are not that important. The book did that a lot more at then end too. They had a part where Trixie ran away to Alaska (which I really didn't get because her dad said nothing positive about it). They had a part on the parents getting their daughter back, Trixie's whereabouts, and the forensic case that was seeing if Trixie had killed the ex boyfriend (he got pushed off a bridge). I realy only cared about the forensic part because that was the action stuff. The other stuff was slow and boring. Overall, I liked this book, but didn't love it.
This book was amazing!!! Once I started it , I couldn't wait to keep reading which I read it in less than a week! This book was about a depressed man, who after trying to kill himself, goes home and sees and feels his dead mother. I found this really weird! I still didn't get how he really felt her and some of her clients. His mom said that if you really needed or wanted people, you would be able to see them, but I still don't get how he felt his mom and how she made him a real breakfast. He wasn't dead, so that isn't it. This book was realistic fiction and I think i liked it so much because it was very relatable to some situations I have been in and things I have seen on TV. His parents are a typical couple for parts of the book and argue a lot, which eventually leads them to a divorce, along with the dad's affair. The main character's name is Charley. Charley's dad is a very cold man who only cares about his son's career in his baseball, ignoring him for most of his life until something baseball related came up, then he started to care about his son. He doesn't even act proud of his son when he does great things. I really didn't like him. He was too cold. His mom was very nice and caring! I liked her! This book makes you think about your priorities like family or career. I was very grateful for what I have after reading this book. I loved it!
This is the second book by this author I have read by this author and I liked it a lot. I started another book by this author earlier this quarter but couldn't get into it, which is why I have finished a book in a while. I liked this book a lot. It was a murder mystery about a special healing doctor who was murdered. Because I read another book by this author and watch Desperate Housewives, I pretty much knew who committed the murder in the first couple of pages. By the end of the book, there were two murders and one attempted murder. I had a guess of who did all three of these things right after they happened. This book, you can tell, takes place in a very different time period, probably the 1920s. They have carriages and opium dens and lots of butlers and maids. Also, the wife of the doctor is addicted to morphine, which does not really happen anymore. People get addicted to different drugs now like nicotine and heroin. these probably didn't exist in this time period. The plot of the book became really messed up at times with everything getting tangled together. Like the other book, at the end , the author explains everything and everyone gets tangled together.
I just finished this book and I did like it, but not as much as the Hunger Games, the 1st book in the trilogy. This book dragged on a lot more and more unnecessary things happened. This book continues to follow Katniss and her life. She gets home and what she did at end of the last book is causing uprisings and the president threatens her. She and Peeta go on a trip through all of the other districts and the description of them and what the 2 kids did was very good and din't make me bored, like description usually does. Her very good friend, Gale, doesn't talk to her that much anymore and things with her and Peeta get a lot more serious. But, 2 past victors from each district have to go back to the games. I thought that this was a little stupid and would make the book boring and kind of repetitive, but it was only a third of the book. Peeta and Katniss get a lot more allies in this book and this seems to help them a lot. If I were in Katniss's position, I would have tried to rebel against the Gamemakers and get everybody to get along and not kill each other, but do it secretly , so you wouldn't be killed. They all especially know how horrible the games are, so I would rebel. When I was on the last few pages, I started to get really confused. I read it over a couple of times and was still very confused. The way the author worded things made it confusing. I had to look up the book on the internet in order to understand it. Overall, I liked this book and can't wait for the next(and final) one!
This book was interesting. It is a lot more serious then books I usually read. My family friend gave it to me. It is a bunch of little stories about this man and woman's life. Each part is very different from one another and they are all very different lengths. The plot was interesting too. The couple live in a very small town and there is a drought and extreme heat. The man is an alcoholic and the couple fight a lot. The woman wants to leave her husband through most of the book and writes a lot to her brother. the couple both have very bad childhoods. The thing I didn't like about this book is that the author switched topics so quickly and then didn't go back to the original topic for a while, so you were left wondering what had happened for a significant amount of time. Also, at the end of the book, there was a section about another couple, who fight a lot, but don't live in a drought. I liked this section better because there was more stuff happening. There was a lot of description in the other part, which I really don't like. Overall, this book was okay.
I absolutely loved this book!!!! It was amazing!!! I only started reading it because my mom got it from work(she works at Scholastic). This book is completely different from books I usually read. It was really violent. I hate reading and watching this about blood and wounds and this book talked about those. It also had very strange names. The main character's name is Katniss Everdeen and she lives in a generally poor place called District 12 with her mom and sister. Every year there is an event called the Hunger Games. Two people, boy and girl, from all 12 districts in Panem, get trained a little and then put it an arena to fight to the death and the last one standing wins. If I knew this was true I don't think I would have read this book, but I did and finished the majority of it in a day because everything after when the games start is a climax to me and I had to keep reading! The people who will kill each other are called tributes. They are treated very, very well before they go in the arena. I think that the reason I liked this book so much was because of the author's style of writing. She makes most of it seem like a cliffhanger. The plot of this book is sooooo messed up (all of the tributes are between the ages of 12 and 18) and if I really knew what it was I don't think I would've read it. I think the genre of this book is science fiction because they have all of this really fancy medicine and they turned all of the dead tributes into dogs at then end of the book. After the games is over, Katniss and her partner, Peeta, (they kind of rebelled the Games and almost both died, so they let them both live) had a lot of injuries, but once they had a certain medicine they were perfect once again. I loved this book and can't wait to read the sequel!!!
I got this book as a gift and started it only because it was about the Titanic and I love the movie! It is my favorite! This book was really, really weird. It was about five sisters who live in a town with their mother. Everybody in their town is either psychic or can talk to ghosts. One of the sisters doesn't talk. all of the ghost stuff is really freaky and unrealistic. The mom is the one in he family who talks to ghosts. Originally, only two of the sisters are supposed to go on the Titanic but then the other three go on the ship to tell them to get off the ship because someone had a vision end up staying on the boat. At least try to get off and save yourselves! Also, two of the sisters, who are twins, are named Amelie and Emma. Sometimes when Emma dreams, Amelie, who doesn't talk, does whatever the dream says and then they both pass out or something. I found this really weird. The narrator and one of the sisters, Jane, becomes friends with a crazy scientist, Tesla, and very good friends with his assistant, Thad (weird name). When the boat sinks, Tesla uses one of his inventions to transport everyone through time. He sends most of the people two hours into the future, but sends Jane's older sister, Mimi and Thad two years into the future. Jane found them later and was happy. It was just strange and sort of stupid. Also, Amelie survived and Emma died, but Emma's soul and voice were in Amelie. Overall, this book was kind of freaky and slightly stupid, but I still liked it! I think I liked it because the way the author wrote it made it go quickly and smoothly.
