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^^ all above books are sequels I need to read (besides Clan of the Cave Bear)
It's time again for another book post. I swear, sometimes I feel as if I'm the Mario Andretti of book reading, and other times I find myself reading chapters two or three times just to refresh my memory because it's been so long since I picked up the book and my brain forgot what I had previously read.
Nevertheless, reading is still one of my all time favorite things in ever. So below are a few books I have finished and my relaying thoughts on each.
It's time again for another book post. I swear, sometimes I feel as if I'm the Mario Andretti of book reading, and other times I find myself reading chapters two or three times just to refresh my memory because it's been so long since I picked up the book and my brain forgot what I had previously read.
Nevertheless, reading is still one of my all time favorite things in ever. So below are a few books I have finished and my relaying thoughts on each.
So I actually first read this book when it came out in 2011 and I read it again just last month. I liked it even better the second time, as it is a nice relief from all the popular dystopian and fantasy books out right now.
Room is about a woman who is trapped in an eleven-by-eleven-foot space. She was abducted by a man 7 years ago and has been held captive ever since. She subsequently gave birth to a son in the room (by product of him continuously raping her) and that room is all her son has ever known his entire life.
I don't want to spoil the ending so I won't give anything else away, but even with the darkness and the disturbing factor of Room, it was a page-turner and one I couldn't put down. Very interesting psychological conduct and reading in this one.
Room is about a woman who is trapped in an eleven-by-eleven-foot space. She was abducted by a man 7 years ago and has been held captive ever since. She subsequently gave birth to a son in the room (by product of him continuously raping her) and that room is all her son has ever known his entire life.
I don't want to spoil the ending so I won't give anything else away, but even with the darkness and the disturbing factor of Room, it was a page-turner and one I couldn't put down. Very interesting psychological conduct and reading in this one.
Obviously I've read Gone Girl and loved it.
Dark Places is one of two books Gillian Flynn wrote prior to Gone Girl, and it kept me just as on edge. Gillian Flynn has a darkness to her writing, sometimes a little raunchiness, and I love it.
This book is a crime thriller that will have you reading whenever you get a spare minute. The characters are so real, the setting and the life situations are so easy to imagine happening in real life which just makes it that much more freaky.
Dark Places is a dark book but one you will devour in a matter of hours.
Dark Places is one of two books Gillian Flynn wrote prior to Gone Girl, and it kept me just as on edge. Gillian Flynn has a darkness to her writing, sometimes a little raunchiness, and I love it.
This book is a crime thriller that will have you reading whenever you get a spare minute. The characters are so real, the setting and the life situations are so easy to imagine happening in real life which just makes it that much more freaky.
Dark Places is a dark book but one you will devour in a matter of hours.
Then there is Gillian Flynn's other pre-Gone Girl novel, Sharp Objects.
Just as great, just as suspenseful, absolutely a page-turner with a totally unexpected ending. I honestly can't say which book of hers I liked the most...all three are all so engrossing and entertaining and edge-of-your-seat fantastic that all I can say is read them all!
Just as great, just as suspenseful, absolutely a page-turner with a totally unexpected ending. I honestly can't say which book of hers I liked the most...all three are all so engrossing and entertaining and edge-of-your-seat fantastic that all I can say is read them all!
I wrote about The Maze Runner series in my last read post. I loved the series. Absolutely loved the series from start to finish. And I thought I had finished it when I read the third book however I realized the author had penned a sequel after the series had ended.
And I don't know about you, but my brain doesn't work that way. I can't get all invested and lovey-dovey with the characters in an entire series and then be expected to read a book that happened PRE? No. I didn't like it and that is exactly why I didn't read Kill Order for a few months.
Then I was at Target doing the usual, throwing a bunch of useless crap into my shopping cart and this book happened to make the cut.
Which I am completely glad it did, because I really really enjoyed reading this. It gave me a lot of good background to the series I loved, and I even really started to feel for the characters in this prequel. Trust a bish, if you loved The Maze Runner, read this!
And I don't know about you, but my brain doesn't work that way. I can't get all invested and lovey-dovey with the characters in an entire series and then be expected to read a book that happened PRE? No. I didn't like it and that is exactly why I didn't read Kill Order for a few months.
Then I was at Target doing the usual, throwing a bunch of useless crap into my shopping cart and this book happened to make the cut.
Which I am completely glad it did, because I really really enjoyed reading this. It gave me a lot of good background to the series I loved, and I even really started to feel for the characters in this prequel. Trust a bish, if you loved The Maze Runner, read this!
Then we have The Eye of Minds, by the same author who wrote The Maze Runner series.
I admit I picked it up because I was just so in love with TMR, not having any idea what it was even about. And then I realized what it was all about, which is a total gaming book.
Gaming as in futuristic video games. Something I would never ever think I would be into (however I also never thought I would be into alien books and The 5th Wave was such an amazingly awesome book) and imagine my surprise when I realized I loved it. So much so that I pre-ordered the sequel from Amazon two months prior to it being released.
James Dashner's style of writing is infectious. He could make any topic interesting, as I learned with The Eye of Minds. I mean, I loathe video games. And I loved this book.
I admit I picked it up because I was just so in love with TMR, not having any idea what it was even about. And then I realized what it was all about, which is a total gaming book.
Gaming as in futuristic video games. Something I would never ever think I would be into (however I also never thought I would be into alien books and The 5th Wave was such an amazingly awesome book) and imagine my surprise when I realized I loved it. So much so that I pre-ordered the sequel from Amazon two months prior to it being released.
James Dashner's style of writing is infectious. He could make any topic interesting, as I learned with The Eye of Minds. I mean, I loathe video games. And I loved this book.
Which brings us to the series I am currently reading, The Mortal Instruments series.
I finished the first book, City of Bones, and at the risk of sounding like a broken record, I held off on reading this series because I never thought I would be into reading about demons and vampires and werewolves. Like, ever.
Yet here I am. Halfway through the second book in the series and I am so totally into it and invested and caught up in this incredible world of Shadowhunters and fantasy that I get shivers thinking about the unread books on my shelf waiting to be devoured.
I LOVE THIS SERIES! It's just amazing how reading books transports you into another world. I love it. I love it and I never want to stop.
Side note: books being made into movies.
Gone Girl. LOVED the book. Saw the movie last weekend and just...I don't even quite know. Usually, I love watching the movie after I read the book, but this time? Not so much. I kind of didn't enjoy the movie at all. Which is still weird to me, because I can't quite put my finger on why.
I do know I definitely do not want to watch it again.
The Maze Runner. Has anyone seen the movie? I haven't. Just because I haven't made it to the theater to watch it and I'm kind of waiting to buy it on pay-per-view so I can watch it in the comfort of my own home, where I can pause the movie when I have to pee. Anyway, totally excited to see this movie!
I have so many books on my Goodreads list to read that I feel like I'm racing to the finish and I need to get them all read before I die.
So many books, so little time.
Ugh.
I finished the first book, City of Bones, and at the risk of sounding like a broken record, I held off on reading this series because I never thought I would be into reading about demons and vampires and werewolves. Like, ever.
Yet here I am. Halfway through the second book in the series and I am so totally into it and invested and caught up in this incredible world of Shadowhunters and fantasy that I get shivers thinking about the unread books on my shelf waiting to be devoured.
I LOVE THIS SERIES! It's just amazing how reading books transports you into another world. I love it. I love it and I never want to stop.
Side note: books being made into movies.
Gone Girl. LOVED the book. Saw the movie last weekend and just...I don't even quite know. Usually, I love watching the movie after I read the book, but this time? Not so much. I kind of didn't enjoy the movie at all. Which is still weird to me, because I can't quite put my finger on why.
I do know I definitely do not want to watch it again.
The Maze Runner. Has anyone seen the movie? I haven't. Just because I haven't made it to the theater to watch it and I'm kind of waiting to buy it on pay-per-view so I can watch it in the comfort of my own home, where I can pause the movie when I have to pee. Anyway, totally excited to see this movie!
I have so many books on my Goodreads list to read that I feel like I'm racing to the finish and I need to get them all read before I die.
So many books, so little time.
Ugh.
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