I read and finished Farm Boy today: it's definitely meant for a younger audience, but the way it is written works for its purpose. It was nice to see Albert and Joey from a different perspective too.
Finished The Railway Man and started I Am David.
I started reading Frankenstein and am loving it (so far). It's quite fascinating; however, I won't recommend it because it deals with moral issues and I haven't finished it yet.
I just finished the Giver Quartet. Very good books, but not intended for a younger audience whatsoever...wouldn't reccomend it for someone younger than high school. 🙂
Keep on forgetting to mention that I am making slow progress on Ghost Soldiers, which is a World War II account of a very daring rescue of American and British POWs in the Philippines. Definitely not recommended for sensitive readers.
Slow progress on a massive detective story anthology (still on the Sherlock Holmes section!), a small beastiary (not to be named because guidelines reasons), a Charles Dickens-inspired Victorian mystery-with-vampires (has potential but is kind of rough stylistically), and checked out A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park for a re-read - historical fiction set in Korea, it's been several years and I remember quite enjoying it last time.
I've been working through The Hobbit and LotR for the past few months - I'm about halfway through TTT. It's been 5 years since I last read these, and they're even better than I remember 🙂
Hehe! Okay..... I just finished the fourth book of the Wingfeather Saga (credit Nia and Tenny for getting me into those), and I just finished Les Miserables, and I am returning to The Silmarillion. I interrupted The Silmarillion for Les Mis, and I interrupted Les Mis for That fourth book (I can never remember names of those). Les Mis was half awesome, half not read, because of the large sections of unimportant information and other not-understandable dates and historical stuff. I would recommend it, but only if you don't mind a lot of dates.
I had to put aside LotR (it was getting a little stagnant) and I picked up How To Train Your Dragon instead. A+, very hilarious 🙂 I'm looking forward to reading the following 11 (!!!) books.
Waiiiiitttt...... HTTYD is a book? 11 books? O.o
Soooooooooooo I need a little advice. Me mum signed me up for the library's teen reading program. I have run out of books to read. Any good suggestions?
Yes, the Dreamworks films are (very loosely) based on the book series.
I don't know what all floats your boat and, to this day, I have a preference for books for the 8-14 age range. Sherlock Holmes is good and there's a whole bunch of him. If you want more Lewis fiction, there are The Screwtape Letters, The Space Trilogy, and Til We Have Faces. I don't know if you'd like Ender's Game or not... some parts are slow and philosophical, plus some people understandably don't like the premise (I don't recommend going further into the Saga, if you do, because book two, at any rate, is crazy-heavy on philosophy and the humanist worldview and talks about adult things).
If I think of anything else, I'll let you know....
I picked up Mere Christianity. I'm two chapters in and my mind has been blown extensively so far.
I should re-read Mere Christianity, I had to read it for school and it's such a great book. It's so simple, it really makes Christianity make logical sense. In some ways it doesn't go too deep into hard doctrines, but in other ways it makes important doctrines so relateable and so understandable it really is deep because you have to have a really firm grasp on the basics before you can get into details.
I love Mere Christianity so much. It's an incredible book.
Mere Christianity is SOOOO good! 😛
I just read an interesting book. Calvin. It was all about this boy who happened to have a lot of circumstances just like Calvin in Bill Watterson's "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strips. I won't spoil it for you unless you want me too, but it was fairly good.
