Title: Divergent Series Author: Veronica Roth Genre: Young Adult Dystopia Would recommend to: readers who like to immerse themselves in a story / fans of “The Hunger Games” I devoured these books. I haven’t been this interested in a series of books since I read “The Hunger Games”. I loved everything this series had to offer: action, love, passion, madness… It was an artfully written series that touches upon deep concepts. Although Roth may have written about genetic damage, anyone that looks deeper at the theme understands she’s really making social commentary on racism and human nature. I can’t say Tris was my favorite female character (I probably liked Christina a…
Top Ten Tuesday!
Just as promised earlier, here is my first ever Top Ten Tuesday! TTT was created by “The Broke and the Bookish back in 2010. This is its post about the last ten books they acquired. And here’s mine in order of acquisition…. 1. Anna Karenina I found an old copy of it in a used bookstore in New York (which I will post about later this week). I’ve been wanting to read this ever since my drama days but refused to buy a huge copy from the bookstore. This one is just the right size. 2. Murder on the Orient Express My boyfriend found me this one in the same old bookstore. I knew I…
Treasure Tuesday
Happy Tuesday ya’ll! 1. I just got back from vacation where I spent a week in New Jersey and a weekend in New York celebrating my cousin’s wedding. It was my first time above the Mason-Dixon Line, and I absolutely loved it! 2. That being said…I’m sadly still immersed in “Allegiant” but should be done soon. 3. 4. You guys seriously need to check out Look Human. Search “books” and you’ll find some great stuff. Its clothing is so soft and comfy! 5. Having a rough week? Check out this list of books guaranteed to make you laugh from Buzzfeed. It’s got all the greats like Mindy Kaling, Amy Poehler,…
Wicked
Title: Wicked Author: Gregory Maguire Genre: Fiction Quotation: “Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.” Would recommend to: anyone who understands that there are two sides to every story. Throughout my high school career, I spent a lot of time in the backs of prop closets. I was the typical theater nerd, made even worse by the fact that I preferred to be behind the scenes working on the technical crew rather than center stage. Because of my love for stage-life, I knew quite a bit about plays, including “Wicked”. You’d be hard-pressed to find a handful of teenage girls that don’t know about the popular play that originally starred Kristen Chenoweth as…
Treasure Tuesday
Happy Tuesday! 1. I am currently reading the third book in the Divergent series, “Allegiant”. (I already finished “Insurgent”.) 2. I celebrated the 4th of July watching the Yankees win against the Rays at Yankee Stadium. What did you guys do? 3. 4. I just visited a beautiful Barnes and Nobel in New Jersey and will have a book haul up for you guys soon after my vacation. 5. I bought this awesome T-shirt from Look Human. 6. Here’s a compilation of charts that only a true book nerd can relate to from Buzzfeed. I really enjoyed numbers 2 and 3. Happy reading, Kimberly
Thoughts from an Erudite
I recently finished “Divergent” by Veronica Roth, and I absolutely LOVED it. Here are my first thoughts: 1. I need to read the next two books NOW. I can’t believe how much I loved “Divergent”. I’m actually almost halfway through “Insurgent” ( the second book in the series) as I type this post. This is the first story in a long time that I have wanted to read the sequel right away. I finished it in less than four days. I tore through it because I couldn’t wait to find out what the story held. The characters grabbed my attention and the plot kept me entertained. 2. What the hell kind of…
The New Reminding You of the Old Favorites
Titles: The Narrow Road to the Deep North vs. Redeployment Authors: Richard Flanagan vs. Phil Klay Genre: Historical, narrative-style fiction Quotations: “Nor is there mention of the horror of the building of the railway. There are no names of the hundreds of thousands who died building that railway… There is no book for their lost souls. Let them have this fragment.” The Narrow Road to the Deep North vs. “There was gunfire and explosions and the mosques blaring messages and Arabic music and we were blaring Drowning Pool and Eminem. The Marines started calling it Lalafallujah. A music festival from hell.” Redeployment Would recommend to: fans of The Bridge over…
Something Wicked This Way Comes
I finished “Wicked” a couple days ago and here are my thoughts. 1. I want to see the play again. I saw the play when I was a junior in high school and absolutely loved it. The book was really similar to the play while also incorporating more complicated plot lines and themes. All the characters were the same and the basic underlying story was there, there was just more detail and added backstories, which I really enjoyed reading. 2. You forget about people’s differences in the pages of a book. It’s a well-known fact that the main character of “Wicked” (Elphaba) is green. She’s the finest definition of a…
