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.
