Books Listed: 4
 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain |
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Publisher: American Publishing Company; 1876 Genre: Fiction Pages: 318 Rating: 
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This book was to be read in my English class at school, with the whole class reading it together. I was very excited about reading this book, since I have never read any book of Mark Twain's before - and he was, after all, a classic American writer. However, I think the book was very confusing and complex. Perhaps, it might have been because of the language that was used during Twain's time - but I could not understand what was going on in most of the book. Despite that, I loved the idea that Twain was trying to be unique with this book by creating an unique main character. I adore all the characters in this book, probably because I've never read another book with characters like them. This book remains unrated though, because my English class never finished the book. Though, I make plans to check this book out of the library one day and to reread it very slowly. |
 Huge, Sasha Paley |
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Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing; 2007 Genre: Teen Realistic Fiction Pages: 259 Rating: 
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The book focuses on two girls - April and Wil - who go to fat camp with completely different goals. In the beginning, they start as enemies but as they find how much they have in common and how much they hate Colin, the popular boy at the camp who crushed both of their hearts, April and Wil start building a strong friendship... and then the whole book starts blabbing about friendship, and blah, blah. I thought it was a little boring in the beginning, and very slow-moving. The book jackets suggests that the message in the book, besides friendship, is learning how to accept your self, or in other words, self-acceptance. Yet, I do not see how there is anything about self-acceptance in the book. Nevertheless, I liked how it was simple, mostly (except for a few parts here and there) realistic, and something most people can relate to. But if you plan on reading it, I should tell you that I think its reading level is for teenagers ages 14 and under. |
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So Yesterday, Scott Westerfeld |
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Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group; 2004 Genre: Teen Mystery Pages: 240 Rating: 
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This book is about Hunter, a teenager who lives in a world of Innovators and trend-spotters and the such (they're people who try to find the coolest things out there). He meets a girl and in less than a week, battles a mystery successfully and becomes the girl's boyfriend. I found this book extremely boring and extremely predictable. The plot was uncreative in my opinion. And as much as I dislike using this word, I think this book was terribly corny. It's a bit disappointing since I've read some of Westerfeld's earlier books and they were much better than this one. He must have written this book while he was half-asleep. |
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The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien |
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Publisher: Allen & Unwin; 1937 Genre: Fantasy Pages: 320 Rating: 
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At first, this book seemed like it was nothing near the kind of books that I like to read. It seemed confusing and boring, but when I had to read it for English class - I really got hooked. Tolkien has a wonderful writing style and he wrote a nice and strong beginning. I extremely like the characters (except Thorin, who ticked me off at the end) and the plot even though, the ending was enough to make fall asleep. If you haven't read this book yet, I recommend that you give it a try! |