Might Be Awhile, Folks

Sorry, folks. Star Trek is taking a little longer than planned to read. I'm thinking about abandoning it--but only on the surface, you see. I will be reading it in the background, but that would liberate me to read different, more age-level books for school. Still deliberating, but just wanted to let you know I haven't disappeared.

Response to Distant Waves

This book can't be over!
NO!
It was....the best book...ever.
        So maybe I'm exaggerating, and this book certainly isn't for everyone. But such a wonderful and enticing historical fiction book involving romance and time travel I've never seen! I've never thought about the Titanic like this...a place for love, fun and comfort. I just assumed that it was a tragedy the moment the passengers stepped onboard.
       Jane Taylor is a fictional main character. But she encounters many famous and very rich actual people--John Jacob Astor, Mr. Guggenheim, and the not-so famous or rich but brilliant Nicola Tesla. This conflict--of fact and fiction--happens all the time in books, but until I read this particular book I had yet to notice how exiciting the combination can be! So--summarized, if you want a haunting tale of the Titanic including a romance, two engagements, time travel, a mad scientist, and psychic twins...
       Well, if that sounds good, you shouldn't be reading this. You should at the local bookstore by now.

November's Favorite

Comments during book: Distant Waves, Suzanne Weyn page 54 Beautiful writing. It's set in the late 1800's/early 1900's, so the language is pretty advanced and fancy, but i'm managing to keep my head above water. It reminds me a lot of The Witch of Blackbird Pond, by Elizabeth Speare, which is one of my favorite books. It must have been easier for Speare to write in an old-fashioned way, seeing as that book was written much longer ago than Distant Waves. So how does Weyn do it? It's a mystery.				11/2/10	by 713eliza	Delete
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Notes During Reading: Star Trek

Star Trek, Alan Dean Foster

page 34

Let me just say this: HUGE Star Trek fan, particularly The Next Generation. For your convenience, I will not elaborate right now on the difference between a Trekkie and a Trekker. However. The book relays the story of the most recent Star Trek movie, and although the language is somewhat challenging, I understand enough of the book to enjoy it. The book is filled with excitement and danger, just like the TV series. I can see the photon torpedos heading for the ship's hull; I can see the sweat and blood trickling down the faces of the ship's crew. Granted, I am somewhat of a nerd; so this kind of thing is perfect. And so if you feel yourself being pulled over to the geeky side if life (we have cookies!) then this book is a must.

Response to Anything But Typical

           I have never really thought about disabilty this hard. It must be really difficult to write in that kind of perspective, the perspective of an autistic boy, but Nora nails it on the head. Reading this troubling book is like moving through sludge. Jason's thoughts are so different from how everybody else sees the world. He takes in every little detail and his brain is in some ways much more advanced. Jason's lack of social skills do not disable his creativity as well. Through his account on a writing website, Nora Raleigh Baskin unleashes the genius in a twelve year old boy.
           Now if only the love of his life, Rebecca, could look past his outer shell as well as the reader can.
           This book inspires pity for Jason, but also regret for pity, which is unwanted by him. Needless to say the reader is sucked in to a whirlwind of awkward sequences that no one ever wants to deal with. But the question is, if not us, then who?

To Read

Invisible Man             
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac 
Forever               
Ever              
Messenger          
Gathering Blue
Girls Out Late
Girls in Love
Totally Joe
The Demonata Series
Crank Series
Impulse
Burned
Identical
Tricks
The Host
Shiver Series

response to Kissing Doorknobs

         Let's see.. who would I recommend this book to? Oh, yeah! Everyone!
         This book has certainly made it on my favorites list. Funny, quirky, it made me anxious for the main character and I felt like I had known her from my childhood. I had no idea OCD held such scary experiences, but Terry Spencer Hesser certainly  sent a chill down my spine with her ingenius writing technique. Tara Sullivan, main character, had my sympathy from page 1.
        Tara's odd rituals started to affect my way of thinking, as well. One night I found every morsel on my plate had to be eaten; if not by me, then by a member of my family; or else it was uneven and wasted. I tell you, it's a scary mindset.  I may not have OCD but the idea of being slave to your own thoughts is enough to send me under the bed.
        I suggest you read  it. It should be on everyone's bookshelf. Or kindleshelf. However the cool kids are reading these days. The point is, it's a fantastic read about the power of will power...if that makes sense.