First, I'd like to say sorry for being a blogging slack. Second, I'm not really liking the new Blogger interface. WTH -- I know icons are fancy and all but STOP. It's painful. Okay. Books. You like books? I like books. I've been reading a lot more lately and knitting a LOT less. What I've been reading...
- Silent Girl by Tess Gerritsen -- Rizzoli and Isles book. There books are seriously unlike the TNT series. I like the series but the books are rather different than the show -- the characters especially. It's rather strange how different. I really enjoyed this installment in the series; centers around Chinatown in Boston. Very interesting.
- The Passage by Justin Cronin -- this book, I'm still processing. Odd and overly long. It's about a virus that sweeps the world creating an apocalyptic type civilization with weird vampire-like beings. It's hard to explain. If Cronin had a much better editor, I'd have like the book better. I know back story is important but not that important. The sequel comes out in October but I'm not sure I am anxious to read it. It's 600 pages. Eeek.
- I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak -- I did enjoy this book. It is categorized as a YA book but I'm not so sure about that(language alone is pretty sketchy) but I can see that teens might enjoy it. This book is about discovering yourself and realizing everyone has secrets, desires and dreams. Make a choice, live a life, be something -- we all have the capacity to do great things. Neat book; great story, intriguing characters. He wrote The Book Thief also. Loved that book.
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand -- all 1168 pages of it. I started reading it over a year ago and kept putting it down because, at first, it is written in a strange way. Once you get past that, you can really pick up steam. It's an intriguing cultural and economic philosophy book disguised as a novel. Who is John Galt? He's the man that can stop the world. And he does, and it's a beautiful thing to see. You have to read the book to find out why. That's the "fun" in it.
How about you? Reading anything good?
I am wondering if you would recommend "The Book Thief" for a YA? I might know one that needs a book to read.
ReplyDeleteI had huge expectations for I am the Messenger after I read The Book Thief and it wasn't as good as I'd been hoping. Not bad but not great.
ReplyDeleteI just finished up The Time Traveler's Wife which I thought was terrible and The Night Circus which I did like. I haven't decided what to read next!