Hey guys! I'm starting a new series called Moose Monday. On Moose Mondays, I'll update you on what I'm reading and how it's going! I thought it would be perfect to start this series on this particular week, because last week was the week of reading, reading, reading! So, without further ado...
Last week, I started to read
Life of Pi by Yann Martel. I never saw the movie (because I have a thing about reading a book before I see the movie), but both the book and the movie are so popular that I decided that it was long overdue for me to read it. Now, prepare yourselves. After 50 pages, I decided to save it for another time. It just didn't grip me like I thought it would. Maybe in a year I'll pick it up again, read the entire thing, and go back in time to beat up my younger self for putting this book down. Who knows? But I can tell you...that book is sitting in a box underneath my bed now.
But then I hit the jackpot. A few years ago, I read
Burned by Ellen Hopkins. My family will back me up on this: when I finished it, I literally threw the book out the window and onto our lawn. The ending just made me so ANGRY. But that's part of what made me love the book so much. Besides Ellen's book
Identical, I can say
Burned is my favorite of all her books. When I saw that she had (quite unexpectedly) released a sequel, I had to have it. I read it in a night, having no idea where she would take us. This gave us insight not only into Pattyn, but also her sister Jackie, who is going through her own problems (to say the least). I don't want to spoil anything, but I will tell you that I cried at the end. Now, was it happy crying or sad crying? You'll have to read it to find out! Or maybe just wait for my full-blown review? But I highly, highly recommend this book if you like
Burned, as well as just Ellen Hopkins in general. Hmmmmm...I may do an author bio or something about her, because I think her story is really interesting. Note to self!
Then, in celebration of Thor 2 coming out next month, I decided to read the Loki book that has been sitting on my shelves for the past four months. Even before Thor came out, I've been into Norse mythology, but I haven't read a book strictly about Loki. Because his character interested me so much, I looked further into The Sly One and bought the book simply entitled
Loki by Mike Vasich. I really love the way that it's written. Most mythological books are written from a very informational point of view, but Vasich writes in a semi-fictional way, adding dialogue and internal thoughts. That said, I recently read a Norse mythology book, which had a lot of Loki myths in it, so after I read the first 60 pages of this book, I felt like I was reading that old Norse mythology book again. I knew what was going to happen all the time, which got me bored easily. I think I'll pick it up and read it again once it's closer to the release of Thor 2.
And now, for what I'm reading currently:
A Lion Among Men by Gregory McGuire. I can say that
Wicked is one of my favorite books, but I never read this last book of the series (the second being
Son of a Witch). As you can imagine, it's all about the Cowardly Lion. I only read the introduction and the first few pages, but I know that I'm going to like it.
Alright folks. This will probably be the longest Moose Monday post that I'll ever write, because there probably won't be another week where I go through 4 books! Stay tuned for my next post tomorrow!
