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Jun 04, 2015 09:33AM
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The third book I read this summer was Beautiful Oblivion By Jamie McGuire. First book in the Maddox Brothers series. In this book, the reader is introduced to sort of new characters, Travis's brother Trenton Maddox and Camille "Cami" Camlin, who were mentioned in the first two books. This book goes through the events of Trenton and Cami while mentioning the events of Travis and Abby. Cami is a bartender at a local bar that college kids frequent, called the Red Door or the "Red" for short. Camille is pulled into a love triangle between her boyfriend T.J. and Trenton. Cami has to decide if her relationship with T.J. is even worth staying in anymore or if she should break up with T.J. and be with Trenton. It's a tug of war between her heart and her brain. What I liked about this book is how, Trenton knew he loved Cami and won her heart. Like all the Maddox boys do they fight for what they love and want.
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Wow Kelsey, you are outpacing me with your reading. Isn't it great to find an author you enjoy? I had better get moving!
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My third book was called Tiger's Curse by Colleen Houck. This is a four book series about a girl named Kelsey that gets a summer job at a circus. While there she meets a white tiger named Ren. She becomes attached to the tiger and when a mysterious man comes to the circus claiming he wants to purchase the tiger, she becomes sad to see the tiger go. But when the man offers her a once in a lifetime chance to go to India with him on an internship, things turn south. She becomes caught up in curses, magic, a love triangle, and more. The simple journey to India soon changes her life forever.
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What an interesting plot -- would you recommend this series?
I would definitely recommend this series to anyone
The third book I read this summer was To Be A Jew (A Guide to Jewish Observance in Contemporary Life), by Hayim Halevy Donin. This was a non fiction book about Jewish laws and practices and how to apply them in everyday. I would only recommend this book to someone interested in learning about other cultures, because many of the book's topics are bland, such as the proper way to set a table for specific festivals. To Be A Jew covers a wide range of subjects though, and most of them are more exciting than how to set a table. Even though this was my first nonfiction book this summer, I still enjoyed it, although that might have been because I already had a small knowledge of Jewish culture and practice.
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Alex, I'm so impressed with the variety of your reading choices, your thoughtful posts, and your willingness to revise!
The third book I read this summer was Tricks by Ellen Hopkins. It takes a look at young prostitutes and how they came to be. I actually had no idea what it was about until I read it. I knew that it was Ellen Hopkins so it had to be good. Once again, she did not fail to meet my expectations! The book gave you a different view of prostitution. You do not know what drove these poor men and women to do these horrible things. The book shows you five different stories of young prostitutes. It was sad. Watching them dwindle into nothing. She wrote the book after reading a statistic saying the average age of a prostitute is 12 years old. I recommend this book to anyone. It really makes you think about what prostitutes really are...people. People who thought they had no other way to survive.
The third book I indulged in this summer was The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black, an author who I read a lot of when I was younger. I was surprised to find that her writing had matured, but kept that same alluring sense of fantasy to it. To say the least, I enjoyed the book and it’s characters, but wished they had more depth to them. The main character, for example, seems a bit unbalanced: she’s stoic and strong, impulsive and aggressive--behaviorisms drove into her by abandonment, misplaced guilt, and magic itself. Their traits are easily explained, but rarely put at the necessary depths. Other than the previously stated flaw, the story itself was fairly decent.Taking place in a town on the edge of a forest full of both blood and beauty, the townspeople find themselves thrown into a chaotic war they’re pitifully unequipped for. With magic corrupting even the smallest facets of their lives, the main character, Hazel, takes it upon herself to end the suffering, which sets her on an adventure that ropes her into both worlds and enlightens her of preexisting ties as well.
The book is compelling, as well as unique in a sense of combining deep rooted lore and modern day issues. All in all, I can happily say that I enjoyed the book and it’s heir of mystery, as well as the finality of the ending.
The third book I read this summer was One For the Money by Janet Evanovich. This is the first book in a twenty one book series that will become twenty two in November. The book, and the rest of the series for that matter, follows bounty hunter Stephanie Plum as she struggles to make ends meet and takes on a job in bond enforcement to pay rent. She must learn to apprehend FTAs (Failure To Appear), shoot a gun, and solve a murder mystery while still managing to make it to her parents house for dinner at six o'clock sharp. I loved this book. I am currently on book number sixteen and I can guarantee the books are worth the read.
The third book I read this summer was Bleachers by John Grisham. It is about a man, Neely Crenshaw, who played high school football, and received a scholarship to a University and received $50,000 for signing with that school(an NCAA violation). In college, he had a career ending knee injury on a late hit. Neely dropped out of college and became a realtor. Neely got a call saying that his former coach had died and that the funeral was going to be back in his hometown. When Neely gets there a couple days before the funeral, he meets up with his old buddies whom he played football with. Every night leading up to the funeral, they would all go up into the bleachers and reminisce of their football days(hence the title Bleachers). I really enjoyed this book. I would recommend this book to anyone that is a football fan.
The third book I read this summer was The Book of Tomorrow by Cecelia Ahern. It is about a girl that finds a diary in the library, and she feels that the right thing to do would be to return it, but the librarian tells her to keep it. She doesn't have a key to open it, but she finally gets it open with some tools, but once she gets it open, there's nothing in it. When she goes to write in it the next day, it's already written in, in her handwriting, and dated for tomorrow. She finds out that what it says is true. Everything that the diary says is going to happen happens. I liked this book a lot and I feel like it is worth it to read it.
The third book I read this summer was the cellar by Natasha Preston. It is such an amazing book it has everything in it, so literally anyone could pick it up and read it. It's super weird and creepy, it has a love story in it and anything else you could imagine. It is now by far one of my favorite books! One of the coolest parts I found was that it started on the app wattpad. If you don't know what that is, it's an app anyone can download and write and you can read other peoples righting and this book just so happened to get published and I'm so glad it did because it is by far one of the best books I've ever read. I finished it on the first of July .
The third book I read was Paper Towns by John Green. This book is about a girl named Margo Roth Spiegelman who can never stay in one place too long. This story is told from the point of Margo's childhood friend, Quentin Jacobsen. He is secretly in love with Margo, despite the large differences between them. Quentin is a major rule follower, doing everything by the book. Margo is a mystery. She hates rules and lives to break them. One night, Margo appears at Quentin's window, requesting his help. She has devised a plan to sabotage her cheating boyfriend and all of the people close to him. Quentin decides to help her and spends all night driving through the city to assist Margo. This is the biggest thrill of Quentin's life, but that ends quickly as he wakes up the next morning and notices Margo is gone. The book tells the story of Quentin's adventure to find Margo, using all of the clues she left behind for him, or so he thinks. I loved this book because it had two of my favorite story elements; mystery and romance. I would recommend this book to anyone who loves either of those genres, as there is plenty of both throughout the story.
The third book I read this summer was Don't Go by Lisa Scottoline. This book is a about A husband/Father that is doing a tour in afghanistan when he finds out that hes wife died. He leaves his daughter in the care of his sister and brother in law while he finishes hes tour. He signed over temporarily custody while he was gone. He was in an accident in war and had to have his arm amputated. He came home and had to get his life back together. The book was really good and definitely kept you reading. I really enjoyed it.
MY third book was the Moon and More by Sarah Dessen. It is about a girl who is trying to step out of her comfort zone and become an independent. She is trying to become someone who is equally as better as her sister. She then finds a boy who is quirky and different from what her family expects. She finds herself and realizes just because her sister went to college and got her degree in reality doesn't mean she has to follow in her sister's footsteps.
My third book was The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks. I found this book to be kinda cliche-like most other Sparks books. Yet, I also enjoyed the complexity and liquidity that some of the characters possessed. This story is well written, but it was too cliche for my taste. I was neutral about this book.
My third book was Heaven is For Real by Todd Burpo. One thing I didn't like about it was it was a bit confusing, so I had to go back and reread a couple of parts. Yet, I did like the book. The suspense in this book was at a high level which most of the time keeps my attention, which kept me to finish it.
My third book was The Fault in our Stars, I didn't really like it, it was more out of the books I usually read, and I thought it was boring and hard to finish.
My third book was Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. It was forever long and kind of hard to understand. But I really wanted to read classics so this book was one of them. It kind of reminded me of high school drama in a way which made me not like it. Anyway in the book the main characters are the Bennets' and they have five girls together. Mrs. Bennet wants her children married really badly because in that time you couldn't inherent land if you were a girl and plus in that time that was a girls goal, to get married and have children. I might have liked the book more if I read it with other people so it would have been easier to understand and stuff. I have enjoyed reading classics though.
My third book was The Diary Of A Young Girl by Anne Frank. This is the autobiography of Anne Frank. This book contains the actual diary entries of a teenaged Anne Frank. It tell of how her rich social status is violently taken away by Anti-sematic laws passed by Hitler during the early 1940s. Her and her family evade the SS troops by hiding in an attic inside her fathers work. Shortly after the diary stops the Franks are captured and killed in a concentration camp. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in seeing a first hand account of the terrors of World War Two
The third book I read this summer was Forrest Gump by Winston Groom. I was recommended this book by Jared earlier in the summer and decided to read it before I ever saw the movie, which is opposite of what I normally would do. Forrest has a pretty wild ride in the book. Forrest tries his best to help whoever he can but never seems to get the same courtesy in return. I didn't like the fact it skipped to things so fast, but overall I loved the book and am really looking forward to seeing the movie in the near future! I would recommend this book to everyone.
The third book I read this summer was The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. I do not like fantasy books however I chose to read this one. Katniss Everdeen takes her sister's place in the Hunger Games along side a boy named Peeta. In these "games" twenty-four tributes go to war against each other. The last person standing wins their life and their freedom. The twist is that Katniss and Peeta will not kill each other. They fight their way through the games and become the last two standing. They attempt a double suicide but the game directors stop them and they are both winners. The book was decent however the sequels need to be read to finish the story. I would recommend this to anybody looking for an easy read.
The third book I read was Jericho Season 4. I was hooked on this series and I am planning to buy both seasons soon. I am also waiting for the 5 season to come out so I can read it and obsess with it.
The last book I read this summer was One for the Money by Janet Evanovich. I absolutely loved this book. Stephanie Plum takes a job at her cousins bail bonds office and he has her go reprimand those who have skipped the hearings. It is filled with humor and a little bit of a love story. After this there are another twenty one books in the series. I would recommend this to anyone who is looking for a read that will keep you interested for the long run.
The third book I read this summer was My Name Is Memory by Ann Brashares. This book is based off of a boy named Daniel, who finds himself left with every memory of his past lives. He searches his memories of his past lives for a girl named Sophia, who is his constant. In his first life, Daniel has killed Sophia and is ultimately left to be haunted by his actions. In his most recent life, Daniel meets a girl named Lucy and realizes that this girl is Sophia, reincarnated. Daniel's brother, Joaquim, who can also recall past lives, desperately tries to seek vengeance against Daniel for helping Lucy/Sophia escape his abuse almost 1,000 years before. The book ends with Lucy/Sophia safe and Daniel going to fight Joaquim. I liked this book, but it wasn't really my style.
The first book that I read this summer was called Rookie by Dab Blank. This book was about how to survive your freshman year of college soccer. It gave you the basics of what to do such as how to make a stand on your skills with the team and how to socialize with them. I really liked this book and I would for sure recommend it to someone.
The second book that I read was called The Soccer Book by DK. It had every team and player ever in soccer. This book took me a while to read and look at. It had a lot of facts and stories about the players and what all the achieved. I really liked this book but You would only like it if you were a soccer fan or soccer player. I would also recommend it.
The third and final book that I read was called The Big Field by Mike Lupica. It is about a kid who grew up in a rough area and loved to play baseball. He was really talented and special, but never had a chance to show it off. Until, he made a really good team in his city. He went really far and finally made it to the big field such as the pros. If you like a good sports book then I'd recommend this book to you. I liked it but it started out slow.
The third book I read this summer was Red Sands, by Victor Milan. It is the fictional story of a second Middle East uprising against the Soviet Union told through the eyes of many protagonists, such as Alex/Fast Eddie, the Ukrainian national and Soviet special forces member who is planted among the revolutionaries as a double agent. There is also Timur, the mysterious leader of the uprising who keeps himself, his story, and most of his motives a secret until the final third of the book, and General Anatoliy Karponin, the Soviet general in charge of quelling the rebellion, and Timur's polar opposite. The author crafted this story very masterfully and no matter the viewpoint I was always fascinated with how the story developed. Even though the book was written in 1993 it has a fairly present feel to it, and it paints a picture of how the Soviet Union fell that's close to the real thing. If you enjoy books about war or spies then this is the book for you.
