Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts

Monday, June 28, 2010

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose

in choosing books to read, cause you know you can't judge a book by it's cover.....this is how my luck has gone so far this summer.



Say you are one of them...didn't finish this one. I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't what it was..It was all bad things happening to children. I'm all for giving a story it's due, especially if someone had to live through it and most likely someone somewhere may have had similar stories, but something I read about the author gave me the feeling he hadn't seen, heard or even come close to experiencing these horrid situations. Probably I'm wrong, but I didn't want to put my emotional energy into reading them. There are five different stories. I read the first two, investigated the book and decided I wasn't going to finish it, but then I thought I should at least read the last story that held the book's title...I wish I hadn't. There's my 2 cents...





Fairest - a twist on Snow White, Cole and I read this together, it was pretty good, there are others by the same author, putting twists on other fairytales, we're going to try those as well






This was on Cole's summer reading list...it is def. a tween book, but a nice quick read that's cute.







Eleven, this was also on Cole's reading list and I didn't enjoy it very much, the blurb (?) led you to expect more from the story...just kind of boring.












And the one I finished today, the kind of book that makes you wish there was more...sort of. It's science fiction and I'm usually not a big fan of that, but a friend recommended Scott Card a few years ago so I decided to give it a go. It's def. not a warm and fuzzy book, kind of the opposite, but you are endeared to the character and there are twists and it was a couldn't put it downer.


I'm moving on to more of Cole's summer reading and there are other's I've read and can't recall right now, but if I do I'll blog-u-ment them ;).

Sunday, July 27, 2008

Books

So I love a good book. I'm not one to sit down and read anything but when I get into a good book I love it. I've recently started reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn because I heard it was good and evidentally an oldie. I'm hoping like some of the other great books I've read that while getting into it is not as much fun, getting through it is wonderful. Some of those in the past have been, The Book of Mormon, The Poisonwood Bible (I almost didn't get past the beginning on this one and I'm so glad I did, it's one of my very favorites) A Hiding Place... Like most things in life I suppose you have to dig in, put in the work and afterwards the rewards come. I really hope the brooklyn book turns out this way, but I'm not banking on it. Has anyone read it?