Speak

       This week I finally read Speak written by Laurie Halse Anderson. This book is about a girl who gets socially rejected after calling the cops at a party, however she would not tell any one why. She tries to go back to school and go back to her normal life where she can focus on art, but her friend keeps pushing her to do things to become popular. Eventually her secret comes out. I thought that this book was pretty good, I did not know how I was going to feel about it originally but as I read more I started to like it more. The type of books that I like are mostly fiction and some non fiction type books.

Counting by 7s

This week I read Counting by 7s written by Holly Goldberg Sloan. This book is about a girl named Willow. Willow is a girl who is almost in her own world, but is a complete genius. She has a close bond with really only her adoptive parents. After a sudden tragedy, her entire life is changed and a new girl named Mai comes into her life. This book was really good. I really liked it and I thought that the plot of the book was really great. The characters are explained and brought into the book really well. Overall I thought that the book was really good and I think that it is the type of book that everyone should read no matter what genre or type of book they enjoy reading.

Son by Lois Lowry

This week I read the fiction book Son written by Lois Lowry. After a girl named Claire washes ashore without the familiar feeling of her child in her stomach, she sets on a quest to find her child. I really liked this book, I thought it had a lot of details included that not all books have which I thought was really cool. I would recommend this book to everyone in the class, but especially Sofie. I think that she would enjoy this book because after reading some of her blogs she seems to like books like this. Overall I think this was a really good book that I think anyone should read.

The Host

This week I read The Host written by Stephanie Meyer. This book is about a girl who lives in a world were aliens have taken over. She has an alien taking over her body, and they are fighting to see who can ultimately win. This book is one of my absolute favourites, I had seen the movie and even though they are a little different they are both equally incredible. There was not a clear symbol in this book or something that happened to reoccur throughout the book. Overall I recommend this book and I think anybody who wants to should absolutely read it.

The Absolute True Diary of a Part Time Indian Part 2

This week I finished our book group book, The Absolute True Diary of a Part Time Indian written by Sherman Alexie. This book starts with a boy named Junior who decides to leave the school on his Indian reservation and go to a school that is considered a rich white kid school, that is outside of the reservation. Throughout the book he deals with a lot of bullying and not knowing where he fits in. The ending of the book was not as satisfying as I would have wanted it to be but I still thought that it was a overall good book. I really like the idea of it and there was a lot of present themes that showed throughout the book. I think that this is a good book groups book because it has a lot of great things that can be discussed and I think that it is in general a good book group type book. Overall I think that this is a great book that many people would enjoying no matter what types of books they like to read.

The Absolute True Diary of a Part Time Indian

For this week I read the beginning of The Absolute True Diary of a Part Time Indian written by Sherman Alexie for book groups. This book is a fiction book about a boy named Junior who lives on a Indian reservation. After being born with medical problems, being bullied, and wanting a better education he leaves the school at his reservation to go to a rich white school. He has to deal with being different from everyone else and not having a safe place to go. So far I really like this book, I really like the concept and theme of it. It is really detailed and the characters in the book are described in a way that you can really feel what the characters are feeling and experiencing. Overall I really like this book so far and I would for sure recommend it.

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

This week I read Catch-22 written by Joseph Heller. Catch-22 is set during World War 2. The main character, Yossarian, is in Italy for the war. In the book he must make the decision whether or not to stay and fight in the war with thousands of people trying to kill him, or surrender his position. This book was an incredible read. It was so well written and detailed and really funny book. It was also a really interesting read and I was consistently wanting to read more of it. I really liked how the author wrote about the character. He used a lot of detail and I feel like I almost got to know him and could picture him really well. The author also did the same with the setting each time it would change. Overall throughout this book it was consistently intriguing and I would definitely recommend this to everybody.