There is a reason this YA book has been critically accliamed since it was first published in 1971. I highly enjoyed it . It is the heartwrenching diary (there is still a controversy on weather it is true or not) of a teen girl and her descent into madness through sex and drugs. I would [...]
Archive for March, 2007
22 Mar
Secret Society Girl — Diana Peterfreund
It was high time for a lighter book for me and this book did the trick. It’s a great book about the first females being let to join a very prestigious secret society. I loved this book, the characters and how well the book flowed. I can’t wait to read the sequel. I gave this [...]
21 Mar
The Mermaid Chair — Sue Monk Kidd
Wow! Now, this is my idea of a great book. Again, this book has religious overtones, but I did not mind at all. The relationship between the main character and the monk, though not graphic, is incredibly sensual. The whole book had 3 different story lines. All are clean are do not get confused like [...]
20 Mar
Augusta, Gone — Martha Tod Dudman
I expected a totally different book with a completely happy ending. Despite not having a heartwarming ending or being ANYTHING that I expected, it was a pretty decent book. I enjoyed it. I did hope for more at the end though. It ended rather abruptly. Either way though, I did enjoy it. I give this book [...]
18 Mar
Running With Scissors — Augusten Burroughs
I usually am not up for crazy memoirs about outrageous gays, not because I don’t like homosexuals. I actually LOVE me gome gay men, but sometimes books about them make my head hurt. However, the memoirs of Augusten Burroughs was mind bogglingly amazing. Burroughs recalls his life with an insane mother and an increasingly absent [...]
10 Mar
Cut — Patricia McCormick
I was VERY unimpressed with this book. The reviews were incredible, reviewers saying that this was a “ground breaking” book. Now, I know that this is a young adult book, but it was very poorly written. I have read several YA books that have blown me out of the water. This definately was not one of [...]
10 Mar
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter — Kim Edwards
This is a best seller, yet everyone I had talked to told me not to read this book, that it was no good and a waste of time. Well, I agree with the people that made it a best seller. This book was one of the best I have read in a long time. It [...]
7 Mar
The Bell Jar — Sylvia Plath
At times I had a hard time following this book. I love Plath, but I don’t think that this was the best of her works… Not by FAR! I would reccomend this book, but not on a regular basis. I give this book 5 out of 10.
Plath was an excellent poet but is known to [...]
