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.
