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 Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 5:08 pm
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, by JK Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, by JK Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Prosoner of Azkaban, by JK Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, by JK Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, by JK Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, by JK Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
• Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett
• White Fang, by Jack London
• The Named, by Marianne Curley
• The Dark, by Marianne Curley
• The Key, by Marianne Curley
• Dissappearance, by Jude Watson
• Daniel X, by James Patterson
• The Firebringer, by David Clement-Davies
• The Sight, by David Clement-Davies
• Fell, by David Clement-Davies
• All's Quiet on the Western Front
• Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens
- Lies of Locke Lamora, by Scott Lynch
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Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 2:52 pm
Speak
Author: Laurie Halse Anderson
Pages: 198
Copyright Year: 1999
Started: 22.Jun.2009
Finished: 23.Jun.2009
Summary:
"Melinda Sorino busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so her old friends won't talk to her, and people she doesn't know hate her from a distance. The safest place to be is alone, inside her own head. But even that's not safe. Because there's something she's trying not to think about, something about the night of the party that, if let it in, would blow her carefully constucted disguise to smothereens. And then she would have to speak the truth." - From the book cover.
Thoughts:
This took me a second to get into. The writing style shocked me a bit, and stopped me from reading after only 36 pages. The style alone threw me off guard. I decided to wait a bit, to let the idea permeate within my mind for a bit. I decided to pick it up the next day.
I read it until the end.
The book plays out like a mystery. It throws out red-herrings and forces the reader to divert their attentions from the main story quite often. However, it oftenly states the character, Melinda's personality. She's obviously depressed. It shows how mindless people are - how uncaring and selfish. It drew me in hook-line-and-sinker. I could not even imagine putting down the book until I finished...
Tragedy brings people together. Horrorific acts hidden away cause hate. It's quite accurate, I find, in highschool. People hate people, people hate themselves. However, like Mr. Freeman stated. Everyone needs a voice.
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Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 3:00 pm
I Am LegendAuthor: Richard Matheson
Pages: 160
Copyright Year: 1954
Started: 22.Jun.2009
Finished: 15.Nov.2009
Summary:
Synopsis
"The story is set in the 1970s - which when it was written was "the near future". Following a catastrophic world war, plague and pestilence sweeps America. From the ashes of civilisation emerge the previously undetected vampire race who proceed to kill or turn all humans.
As the story begins, the hero Robert Neville is barely surviving. As far as he knows he is the last human being alive. During the day he roams the local towns staking all the sleeping vampires he can find. At night he cowers in his barricaded and garlic-protected home getting drunk to escape the taunting cries of the undead.
An encounter with a true living creature, a dog, snaps Robert out of this rut. He determines to fight back. To do this he must understand vampirism. Robert is a rational man and is convinced that vampirism must have a "scientific" explanation. Most of the book consists of his studying the subject and exploring hypotheses. Ultimately he has a theory that seems to fit and begins to make use of it." - From Squidoo
Thoughts:
It took me quite a while to read the book - it wasn't my favorite book, but I muscled through it and can at least say I read it. It took me a long time, yes, but I enjoyed it closer to the end. After a while, I could see the picture in my minds eye.
Just, everything at the end of the book. It was simply drawing - I didn't expect the ending, I didn't expect the deep intensity and the plot twist at the end, and it was all the better. It made the book interesting and my insides twist in shock and wonder.
I loved it, and I didn't expect to.
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