Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts

04 March 2008

TWILIGHT by Stephenie Meyer


It was a very easy read and if you had the time you could finish it easily in a day. The story line flowed well and it has a very alluring romance story line behind it. Yes, it is about vampires but it isn't KUKU WACKO.
While reading songs of MEATLOAF kept going through my head. I love the group MEATLOAF! LOVE THEM! WE listened to them on all of our basketball, softball and volleyball away trips! I highly recommend this book to young teenage girls. My 13 year is reading this and she loves it. I even caught Warrior reading it, who is 16 and I suspect he will like it but will think parts are too girly for him. He would have been more interested had the author spoke a little more on the process of changing etc. I was really shocked that Spencer who is only on chapter 2, does not want Makela and I to discuss what we have read.
I read the preface to the next book NEW MOON! OK, after reading this I can not wait to read what happens. Finally, I found and am left with emotion to get the next book!
I was worried about this author but my adrenaline is running and I want to read the second. OK, so I am pleasantly surprised. Let's hope the suspension remains.

The Wednesday Letters by Jason F. Wright


This book is the book of choice for our church book club. It is a very simple easy read. You can have the entire book read in about 3 hours, less if there are no interruptions. It was just an OK read for me. I borrowed the book and I am glad that I did not purchase it. I don't understand what all of the hype is over this book. It was on the best sellers list etc.
Has anyone else read this book, if so what did you think about it?
Care for a discussion?
Background history on me:
I do not enjoy reading just to read. I read for purely informational purposes only. I will read if it is recommended after I put you through a thorough FBI questioning exam. If it related to something I was interested in I had an insatiable appetite to find any and all literature ever written on it. I did enjoy reading the books that were recommended on the college AP lists, but that was so many years ago. The list has probably changed. To this day some of my favorite writers are Chaucer, Bronte and I like the wessex stories by Thomas Hardy with Tess of the D'Ubervilles being one of my favorite. I like to discuss, to question and to debate. Anyone have a good author for me? I do like the Harry Potter stories. I like her style of writing. I like conflict, victory, a hint of romance. I like where I can make analogies. A good read for me should make me FEEL. FEEL something any emotion but a waste of time read is just that. A waste of time.
Please share with me a book that you love and would recommend that I read. I am currently reading Twilight because many of the women on our temple trip LOVED it and would not tell me what it is about.
This too, has proven to be light reading and apparently a quick read because I have been reading for 3 hours and listening to a show on the boob tube and am on Chapter 10, while running the dishwasher and rotating laundry. The verdict is still out on how I feel about it. I will let you know today when I finish it.