Finished Faith and it was very good. I def. recommend it!
Now reading Vefore I Fall by Lauren Oliver which I am loving so far. I think it's like Mean Girls meets The Lovely Bones, but I could be wrong since I'm not finished yet.
Finished "Let's Pretend This Never Happened" by Jenny Lawson - it was entertaining, but not as hilarious as friend's reviews had led me to believe. Worth a read if you want something quick with some good anecdotes, but not if you're easily offended by a lot of unnecessary swearing and fart humor.
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Finished "Let's Pretend This Never Happened" by Jenny Lawson - it was entertaining, but not as hilarious as friend's reviews had led me to believe. Worth a read if you want something quick with some good anecdotes, but not if you're easily offended by a lot of unnecessary swearing and fart humor.
I'm currently reading this book. I think it's funny, but not as funny as her blog generally is.
I'm also reading We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. I'm about 30% into it, and it's extremely heavy. I can't stand Eva (Kevin's mother), but I also can't stop reading the book. I will let you know what I think once I finish it.
From Amazon:
A number of fictional attempts have been made to portray what might lead a teenager to kill a number of schoolmates or teachers, Columbine style, but Shriver's is the most triumphantly accomplished by far. A gifted journalist as well as the author of seven novels, she brings to her story a keen understanding of the intricacies of marital and parental relationships as well as a narrative pace that is both compelling and thoughtful. Eva Khatchadourian is a smart, skeptical New Yorker whose impulsive marriage to Franklin, a much more conventional person, bears fruit, to her surprise and confessed disquiet, in baby Kevin. From the start Eva is ambivalent about him, never sure if she really wanted a child, and he is balefully hostile toward her; only good-old-boy Franklin, hoping for the best, manages to overlook his son's faults as he grows older, a largely silent, cynical, often malevolent child. The later birth of a sister who is his opposite in every way, deeply affectionate and fragile, does nothing to help, and Eva always suspects his role in an accident that befalls little Celia. The narrative, which leads with quickening and horrifying inevitability to the moment when Kevin massacres seven of his schoolmates and a teacher at his upstate New York high school, is told as a series of letters from Eva to an apparently estranged Franklin, after Kevin has been put in a prison for juvenile offenders. This seems a gimmicky way to tell the story, but is in fact surprisingly effective in its picture of an affectionate couple who are poles apart, and enables Shriver to pull off a huge and crushing shock far into her tale. It's a harrowing, psychologically astute, sometimes even darkly humorous novel, with a clear-eyed, hard-won ending and a tough-minded sense of the difficult, often painful human enterprise.
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I'm reading Saints by Orson Scott Card. The first half was really good. But once everyone became Mormon and moved to the United States, it got all weird. I'm only finishing it up because I'm 400 pages in and feel obligated.
Finished re-reading Moloka'i over the weekend. It always makes me so emotional, but I can't help but re-read it over and over. Easily, one of my favorite books and Rachel is one of my favorite heroines ever.
Moved on to Bel Canto. I'm about a third of the way through. It's OK...can't say it's one I can't put down, but it's still pretty interesting.
Finished Kingdom of Childhood-what a twisted tale that was! It stayed with me for days. Next I read The Night Circus which was so original and had amazing imagery. I recommend both books. Moved onto A Visit From the Goon Squad. It is okay, but it jumps all over. I heard about the Sister Wives book on here last night, so I immediately bought the Kindle version and stayed up until 1am last night reading it. Total guilty pleasure! Hope to finish it tonight and return to the Goon Squad.
Finally read Bel Canto last week. It was a slow starter for me, but I ended up enjoying it a lot. In particular, I liked reading about the relationships between everyone as they developed, and how the hostage takers became more and more human to me over time.
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