3 - Read the Rainbow

[SamZ]

Choose a book that either has one of the main color words in the title (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple/Violet) or is mostly one color on the cover. If you choose the cover option, please link the cover so we can all see it.

- What are you reading this week?
- What is your favorite color?
- Would you have picked this book if it weren't for the challenge?
- How was the book?

[SamZ]

- What are you reading this week?
I read The Children of Willesden Lane. Beyond the Kindertransport: A Memoir of Music, Love, and Survival by Mona Golabek;
- What is your favorite color?
Green
- Would you have picked this book if it weren't for the challenge?
Yes. I am subbing longterm for an English class right now and this is the book they are reading this quarter.
- How was the book?
It was pretty interesting. I didn't know anything about the Kindertransport, so I was glad to learn some new stuff. I also really liked how this book deals with Jews and the Holocaust without being dark and dreary.

[Catherine]

- What are you reading this week? Out Of the Dust by Karen Hesse

- What is your favorite color? Pink

- Would you have picked this book if it weren't for the challenge? Yes. I was reading it for another book club that I am in.

- How was the book? I actually really liked it. Didn't think I would. It is a historical fiction book written in prose about the Dust Bowl.

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[Serenity]

What I read: Blue: The History of a Color by Michael Pastoureau

Favorite Color: blue :)

Would I have picked this pick independent of challenge?: Possibly but I probably wouldn't have gone looking for it and therefore wouldn't have run into it. And there's a good chance I wouldn't have finished it.

How was the book?: This was definitely nonfiction but also written from one person's opinion, well-studied and thought out an opinion as it must surely be. There were some areas that were difficult for me to get through, pages full of dates and hard-to-pronounce names and places and events that meant little to me. But, determined to finish the book, I persevered and came to chapters that were quite interesting; introducing me to ideas that I hadn't thought of or been aware of and that I will keep thinking of in the future and also to a few cultures and times where color meant and means something very different than what it does to me. My mind and thinking avenues were widened and shown new directions, neat stuff.
This book was primarily concerned with the popularity and use of blue in European history. I would have appreciated a broader, even if slightly shallower in depth, inclusion of of other cultures. Near the end, a few other places were touched on but not to a great extent. Overall, I'm glad I took the time to read it.

[Monica]

I just finished Red Rising by Pierce Brown. It is a really really good book. It is a sci-fi book similar to Hunger Games in that it has a challenge that pits members of different tribes against each other in a battle for entertainment/social supremacy. But also similar to Enders Game in that the main characters are children who are put in to adult roles due to their excellence.
My favorite color is Purple all shades
I had this book on my too read list so it is a bonus that it fits into our reading challenge! ;)

[Kerrie]

Storks in a blue sky by Carol Anne Dobson. My favourite colour is purple, i had this book on my to read shelf. I enjoyed the book.