Books I've Read.

2015-02-21T02:11:00.004-06:00

Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones

By: Alvin Schwartz

Book Review #6

Genre: Horror Stories/ Short Stories
Summary:
Everyone has stories that they've heard over and over. These stories are usually passed on from generation to generation. Some of these stories may be real, although most are not. Everyone enjoys reading a great scary story, whether it's real or not. Scary Stories 3: More Tales To Chill Your Bones is the third book including Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark and More Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark. Scary Stories 3 has many tales from all over the world that are funny and fantastic, and all have one thing in common. They are sure to give you the chills.

I think this book is great.

I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys reading scary stories.

Rate: 4.5/5
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2014-11-22T23:21:00.003-06:00

The Fat Girl

By: Marilyn Sachs

Book Review #5

Genre: Young Adult Novel

Summary: Jeff Lyons is trying to convince his adviser if he can take ceramics instead of chemistry. He eventually convinces him and when he goes to ceramics class he notices this beautiful blond, blue eyed girl named Norma. He really likes her so he starts helping her after school and slowly gets too close to her and gets to know her better. Eventually, they start dating. At the same time, Jeff notices in which he calls her “the fat girl” in his ceramics class. He begins to notice that she watches him constantly and he hates that. He hates her and he always talked about how ugly, or fat she was. Until, one day Jeff was telling everyone how she should just quit the class because no one likes her and she overheard them talking and went home. She didn't come to school, and basically stayed home. Feeling bad, Jeff decided to go to her house to apologize and that’s when she tells him that she’s going to kill herself. He then eventually becomes good friends with her and stops her from killing herself even though she wasn't really going to do it. He eventually learns that her name is Ellen DeLuca and falls in love with her and dumps Norma. He helps her lose weight and tells her how to dress, etc. While at the same time dealing with his mom attempted suicide, his sister; Wanda moving in with their dad and Linda who Jeff doesn't like. He also deals with his nightmares he has almost every other night. He then decides Ellen is the one he wants to spend forever with, but something happens that stops that from happening. Jeff describes it as the best and worst thing that has ever happened to him.

I think this book was absolutely amazing, and I loved every aspect of it and it’s one of the best books I've ever read.

I recommend this book to anyone who wouldn’t mind reading a love story about how a guy falls in love with an average girl but, then learns to love “a fat girl” for who she is and realizes that looks aren"t everything.

Rate: 5/5
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2014-10-26T13:37:00.004-05:00

The Vast Fields of Ordinary

By: Nick Burd

Book Review #4

Genre: Young Adult Fiction

Summary:

Dade's summer just but, he has to enjoy it while it lasts because in a few month's he'll be going away to Fairmont College in Michigan. Dade's summer has been pretty bad so far. His boyfriend Pablo, treats him really bad and is pretty much a jerk and desperately denies who he truly is. Dade spends countless night feeling lonely and confessing to his ceiling all his true feelings and that he is gay. Dade never comes across as pitiful or miserable but, instead he knows that there are still better things out there for him. Things start to brighten up as Dade meets and falls in love with the mysterious Alex Kincaid. Alex is Dade's first real boyfriend and he finally experiences true love and true happiness. Dade also becomes friend's with his neighbors niece named Lucy, who is a lesbian but, she pushes Dade to be himself. He experiences many other things like sex, weed, etc. He struggles with his parents marriage and also his mom sickness. Dade learns many valuable lessons throughout his whole summer. In the final days of his summer, a bad tragedy happens which effects him in a huge way but, he learns to move past it and that everything is temporary. The world is vast and meant for wandering.

I feel this book is not just for homosexuals and is a great example for teens dealing with things and are stuck and basically dealing with what life throws at them. It's a really touching book and has an interesting perspective. Overall, it's an amazing book.

I recommend this to anyone who wouldn't mind reading about a gay love story or anyone who has a high maturity level.

Rate: 5/5

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2014-10-13T16:25:00.000-05:00

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

By: Stephen Chbosky

Book Review #3

Genre: Young Adult Fiction

Summary:

The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a story that involves a freshman boy named Charlie who is a wallflower. A wallflower is basically someone who is really shy and who feels shy and awkward at a party. Charlie is really intelligent and he goes on a journey throughout the book of discovering himself and high school troubles. He talks about his struggles throughout the book by writing letters to someone with no age, name or gender and seems to understand Charlie even though, he never writes back. Charlie encounters the same struggles many high school students would go through. He experiences how to make friends, having a crush, high school parties, family tensions, his sexuality, drugs, etc. He mainly deals with the struggle of his best friend Michael suicide. The letters explain and show his day to day emotions, feelings and experiences. He manages his depression with the help of his teacher who recognize how intelligent Charlie really is, and his friends Sam and Patrick. Towards the end he starts getting flashbacks of his Aunt Helen death. He soon becomes overwhelmed and reveals a tragedy that happened to him. He finishes the story by describing himself "feeling infinite" and says "In that moment, I swear we were infinite."

I feel this book touches so many wonderful subjects and things happening in our society everyday and I love the way the author puts it into context. It's honestly one of my favorite books of all time. I related to this book in many ways.

I recommend this book to anyone who likes young adult fiction or stories with unique perspectives.

Rate: 5/5

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2014-10-06T00:58:00.003-05:00

A Series of Unfortunate Events : The Bad Beginning

By: Lemony Snicket

Book Review #2

Genre: Gothic Fiction, Mystery

Summary:
The Bad Beginning begins badly with the three Baudelaire children, Violet, Klaus and Sunny. Unlike, other books where it gets better it just gets worse. It all starts at the beach when they get the news from Mr.Poe that their parents, house and belongings have all been destroyed in a house fire. If the children thought that was bad they were wrong because they are then forced to live and work for their miserable, greedy, repulsive, distant cousin Count Olaf. At first, it doesn't seem to be as bad but then Count Olaf starts treating them more like servants and workers then like children. They slowly realized that their entire family fortunes are in trouble as Count Olaf deviously plans to trick them into getting it. As the story goes on, Sunny ends up being a hostage and it's up to Violet to save her. They didn't understand why or how they ended up so unfortunate and sadly it was only the beginning.

I feel this book was really interesting in many ways. It was also a fun book even though they were so unfortunate. I really enjoyed it. I feel like it addresses how sometimes how there are so many unfortunate events in our lives that we don't understand.

I recommend this to anyone who wouldn't mind reading a unhappy story with no happy ending. I also recommend this to anyone who enjoys mystery.

Rate: 3/5
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2014-10-02T18:09:00.002-05:00

Looking For Alaska

By: John Green

Book Review #1

Genre: Young Adult Fiction, Fiction

Summary:

Looking For Alaska takes place at Culver Creek Boarding School which is in Birmingham, Alabama. Before the main character, Miles decides to go in order to seek a Great Perhaps, he lives a minor life in Florida. He was after a Great Perhaps hence the last words of a famous poet named Francois Rabelais, which Miles knows since his obsession with famous last words. Miles experiences the craziness, exciting, unpredictable, and extremely compelling life at Culver Creek Boarding School. Miles soon meets his down the hall friend who is the beautiful, wild, funny, self-destructive and fascinating Alaska Young. She soon steals Miles heart and drags him into a world in a whole new perspective. Miles realizes that if people were rain he was drizzle and she was a hurricane. He continuously asks himself what is the way out of this labyrinth and he realizes we are all indestructible as we believe ourselves to be. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. But, that’s all before because after everything changes, he knows nothing will ever be the same again...

I feel this book is really inspiring towards teenagers and I really enjoyed it and I really love this book. I feel it's really touching and sentimental in many ways. It addresses many ideas that in my opinion are important.

I recommend this to anyone who enjoys young adult fiction or fiction in general.

Rate: 5/5

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