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Books and More Books!!
I have been reading up a storm during this break from my blog.
I finished The Barbary Coast by Herbert Asbury. It was pretty much a history of San Francisco when it was first founded and about all of the ruckus that occurred. I guess dances like the Charleston was considered risqué back in the day!!
I also read A Lion Among Men by Gregory Maguire. It is the third installment of the Wicked series. It follows the life of the cowardly lion from birth to long after meeting Dorothy. It’s kinda funny how in the book he actually doesn’t really like Dorothy. If you liked Wicked I would definitely read A Lion Among Men.
I read all of the Twilight books by Stephenie Meyer. That includes: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn. I received three of them for Christmas so I figured I might as well read them all. The books were not as bad as I thought they would be and were actually pretty entertaining and a fast read. I still have not seen the newest movie, but the books are pretty good.
Also by Stephenie Meyer, I read The Host. A friend of mine read it and she really enjoyed it. It was actually pretty good! I had a little trouble getting into it because I read it after reading The Barbary Coast and The Host is science fiction, but I really liked it, more so than the Twilight series. The Host is about these aliens that come and use humans as a host to live out their lives on Earth. They are friendly, but of course the humans do not want them around so those that do not have a host yet rebel and kill humans with a host in them. One girl is given a host and she fights the host that is in her by talking to it and sometimes even taking control of her own body back. She ends up in a camp with a bunch of humans without hosts and the story goes on from there!
I joined a book club and for last month we read Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. I’m sure most people have read this while in school, but I did not. I actually enjoyed the book, which a lot of the people in the book club did not. I did have trouble understanding everything and was glad to have footnotes. Unfortunately there were not footnotes for everything and so when Joe, who is uneducated and with it being back in the day in Europe I really could not understand what he was trying to say most of the time even with re-reading several times over. Aside from that, I really enjoyed the book!
This month for book club we are reading Commencement by J. Courtney Sullivan. It is about four girls who end up in the same house in college and their life not only in college but out of it. So far so good!
