may 11 - book updates
some updates about books:
book 8 - The Leap by Jonathan Stroud. this is a tweenager book. actually quite spooky. not bad. but i didn't truly understand, was it all charlie's imagination, that she couldn't accept that max, her best friend, drowned, or did he really went away into another world? very fiction.
book 9 - I'll Be Your Sweetheart by Joan Jonker OHMAGORD this book was TORTURE. TORTURE! i wouldn't inflict this on anyone. this book is barfarooney. this was the book i was talking about, i'm counting it even when i didn't finish it and barely got to the middle pages. this book was HORRENDOUS. it's all about 2 good elderly woman best friends, whose family was pure and good and their kids are pure and good and basically their kids marry each other's kids, and they know everyone in town blablablaBARF. it's all sickeningly sweet. when i mean sickeningly, i mean literally sickening. ICK. shudder.
book 10 - Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman. i started off this one kinda bored. fat charlie was very uninteresting. but suddenly, i don't even know at which point, i couldn't put it down. like magic it was suddenly amazing. so i like this very much. neil gaiman is truly a story-teller(with this one). happy ending too. (i still tear up thinking about bod owens)
book 11 - alphabet weekends by elizabeth noble. this is quite a serious book. it does have all the romantic notions going on - best friends forever, why aren't they in love yet, etc, but surrounding the couple are other couples with real problems. boring at times, but have to give props to EN for bringing up real marriage matters-and depression.
book 12 - the rescue by nicholas sparks. finished this in one night. dragging, but predictable love story, nothing much new... it almost feels like the kind of story i used to love to write - you know the kinds dealing with tragedies, someone has to die, and falling in love with someone finally after meeting jerks all their lives. that sort. but NP excels in these stories right? so... this is his.