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.
