More to come soon... I just keep forgetting these!

Title: The Other Wind
Author: Ursula Le Guin
Did I like it: Yeah :)
Should you read it: It's a niche book but soooo good!
Synopsis: We return to Earthsea as one man is having dreams of the wall that separates the living and the dead...

Ok so I suck and its been almost a month since I originally posted these...  I loved The Other Wind, something about the way Le Guin writes fantasy feels so poetical to me.  It was very nice to read this and return to the world of Earthsea (I read a few other books in the series last summer)

Recommended for scifi and fantasy readers, but not for others... this is definitely deep in the fantasy genre.   

 

Title: Are you there God?  It's Me, Margret
Author: Judy Blume
Did I like it: SO CUTE!  What a slice of life!
Should you read it: Again, you won't all like it.  American women might like it because its reminiscent of childhood.
Synopsis: Margret is 11 going on 12 and learning what it means to be in 6th grade.

This book was TOO CUTE!  It really captured a lot of what it was like to be an 11/12 year old in America (and maybe elsewhere too?).  Some things were slightly different obviously because it was written a while ago, but somethings apparently don't change.  For example, I too was in a secret club which we called MMCD after the first letters of the secret names we gave ourselves.

Apart from being a good book for tween American girls, its a really cute and funny book for older women to look back and see how ridiculous we were back then.

Picking up speed again

Title: The Host
Author: Stephanie Meyer
Did I like it: Yeah in a trashy-book kind of way
Should you read it: Its good to fill your reading schedule with something quick in a pinch
Synopsis: Think Animorphs only told from the Yeerk's perspective.

Yeah yeah I know she wrote the Twilight books.  (And yeah yeah, I've read those too)  This wasn't quite as bad as Twilight.  It definitely held my attention.  Also being a huge Animorphs fan, I liked the similarities.  (When I was 10 I won 3rd place in a nationwide Animorphs writing contest!)  It is true that sometimes the writing felt forced and her characters seemed to be intentionally acting dumb in order for the plot to work out correctly.  Think Bella in the entire 2nd Twilight book. 

So basically don't come into this expecting a luxurious experience full of depth, but if you need something to pass the time, this is your book

Title: A Clockwork Orange
Author: Anthony Burgess
Did I like it: It took a bit for me to get into it, but in the end I liked it.
Should you read it: I'm 50/50 on this one.  Don't try it if you don't read often.
Synopsis: The daily life of a teenager in a dystopian future.

About 1/4 of the way into this book I felt as though I'd been reading it forever.  My slew of slow books was never ending and I was seriously considering putting this book down in order to start something I knew I'd like, such as Ender's Game.

But I'd already done that enough recently (100 Years of Solitude I'm so sorry I just couldn't do it!)  and I stuck with it.  I'm so glad I did!  When I finished this book I felt like it had changed my life.  Maybe thats a bit over dramatic especially because I couldn't tell you quite HOW it did that, but it certainly left an impact.  I also find myself referring to friends as droogs, guys as malchiks, and so on.  I want to watch the movie soon too, but I hear it is quite trippy... 

I'd suggest this book in the opposite of the situation I suggested the previous book, its definitely not for when you need something to pass the time!