Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
The Fault in our Stars (John Green)
Ringworld (Larry Niven)
I'll post about these soon. Clearly I've been far more productive lately in reading, which makes me incredibly happy!
MUCH LATER:
Clearly I suck and never updated this. Harry Potter was odd, just reading it as an adult instead of as a kid. Its too bad I didn't post about each individual book as now I only have thoughts about re-reading the entire series. I'm finding that I like each book more than the last (with the exception possibly of the 5th, mostly because of Harry's ridiculous 'teenageryness') This could be because they get more adult as you go along, or it could be because the book # is inversely correlated with the number of times I've read the book. Either way I'm glad I was able to do this, but I probably won't do it again for a while. (I said the same after I read Catch-22 in 10th grade, and the Lord of the Rings trilogy in 7th grade, so I'm serious when I say 'A While')
I remember having issues with The Fault in Our Stars. Its very 'YA-lit-y'. Meaning it overdoes the whole 'I am an angsty teen and therefore I have insights into life' thing. (What is it with me and the quotes today!?) Granted the main character has cancer, but even so, having cancer and being a teenager (both separately and together) does not require you to be angsty and certainly doesn't give you sudden magical abilities of being sage-like. Regardless of all that, it was an interesting and fairly fast read.
Ringworld was pretty cool. Definitely hardcore scifi and a little bit wandering here and there, but I enjoyed it. The idea of living on a world like that and the idea of a civilization being around for so long are compelling.
