@Hans: It's about a girl growing up in Nazi Germany.

Oh, The BOOK thief, I saw The GOOD thief. My bad. I did see film publicity for film version of the BT.

Lil, what's the premise on The Scent of Water?

from goodreads.com

Mary Lindsay is a born and bred Londoner who has enjoyed her city life-a prestigious job, and friends with whom she takes in the city pleasures of theatre, art and music. But fleeting memories of a childhood visit to her father's elderly cousin out in the country are revived with the news that the woman has willed her home, the Laurels, to Mary. She makes an uncharacteristically sudden and life-changing decision to leave London for the country. The gradual unfolding of her understanding of herself, of the now-deceased woman who has bequeathed her home to Mary, and of the people of Appleshaw, all weave together in a most memorable story of love's redemptive power.

Otherwise, I don't know because I /just/ started reading. it's by a lady named Elizabeth Goudge, I liked her "the Little White Horse" story

@hobbi The Call of the Wild had me crying. Jack London and Robert Service tend to write on similar tones.

I finished the Screwtape Letters and loved it. Lewis has such a way of relating and explaining human behvaiour (it's kinda freaky). Also, the sass and general snarkiness is amazing. I found it was fairly dense, though - all the academic language makes it tough to get through (especially first thing in the morning or late at night).

I just finished Gladys Aylward, its a story of a missionary lady. Its a really wonderful book. I would recomend it to anybody. 😛

Her story definitely is a great one.

Started The Great Escape.

Pretty sure there's more than one biography of Aylward, daughterofaslan! Which specific one have you been enjoying? 🙂

I've been reading The Maze Runner. My heart can't even handle all the feels.

@Lily: The Adventure of a Lifetime, is that what you mean? 😕 😛

How are you liking The Great Escape so far, Ela?

I just finished the Maze Runner. I only kept with it because my sister had just finished it and wanted someone to talk to about it, I'm continuing on with the series for the same reason. Well that and because the whole thing is based on the need to find out WHAT IS GOING ON?! Even if I really don't care much for the characters.

It's not recommended from me. Not because there's anything about it that's any more objectionable than anything else in the distopian YA genera, but because I just thought it wasn't a good book. Not a "Wasn't a good book" in the "This will scar your children!" sort of way, more in a "Can someone hit this guy over the head with a thesaurus" sort of way.

For one thing the author chose the wrong person to write it from. If he's only going to focus on Thomas (The most boring of the Gladers) he should at least make it first person instead of third person. Or if it's going to be third person then we should get to see some things that Thomas doesn't.

For another thing can Thomas have a personality? I don't mean a dark backstory, he's got that, I mean a personality other than that he's brave and selfless. He's a 16 year old boy not Jesus. Come on writer.

I cringed everytime the words "Thomas couldn't imagine anything worse than what he'd just seen". Yeah, we get it it's bad. Get a thesaurus. Or "Thomas couldn't remember". Come on, you're a writer. Come up with some new ways to say the same thing.

If you're making it about kid geniuses I expect a vocabulary to match. The Maze Runner didn't give this to me.

Hahahaha. In that case then, my chances of reading Maze Runner shrunk. 😀

Finished The Giver.
I started reading Number the Stars, also by Lois Lowry. It's a WWII story.

The biggest problem I had with The Maze Runner was that is comprised completely of Gary Stus and Mary Sues.

I've been meaning to reread Number the Stars and the Giver. On the same line, The City of Ember is a book that I definitely recommend 😉