The Hunger Games,
Catching Fire, Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins: Wow, this series was intense. I really couldn’t believe how much evil there
was them, and how much the evil won.
This series is full of death for death’s sake and it made me really
sad. I really think that anyone 13 and
under should be reading this and discussing it with their parents. There is so much trauma, pain, suffering, huge
moral dilemmas, and sacrifice that is way more than a young adult can handle
alone. This book is really quite scary, not
just warfare-scary, but there-is-no-one-whom-I-can-trust-scary. While I think this series is quite adult in
theme, I am still glad I read it. It
really made me think about how the government works and what loyalty and family
really mean.
Peter Pan by JM
Barrie: I thought this was going to be
very similar to the Disney movie or even like the movie Hook, but man was it not.
Well I guess the story was mostly the same, but it was written in England at the turn of the 20th
century so the language was confusing as well as some cultural aspects which I didn't understand. It is a short read, but I think I’d rather
watch the movies than reread it.
Extremely Loud and
Incredibly Close by Jonathon Safran Foer:
More like Extremely Heart-Breaking and Incredibly Poignant. I really liked this book. It tells the story of a peculiar 12 year old
boy who lost his dad in 9/11 and how he goes on an epic adventure to try and
reconnect with his dad. Letters
throughout the book tell the story of his paternal grandparents and how his
father came to be. There is an amazing
amount of truth in this book, every character, especially the boy, has a whole
lot of wisdom to share.
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