What I read in May 2015
Speak
by Laurie Halse Anderson
Fiction, Young Adult, Contemporary
Melinda called the cops to the biggest party of the year. Everyone hates her now. She's a different person now. She's alone and she doesn't mind because something bad happened.
I have a hard time reading books at their peak of popularity so I figured enough time had passed that I could pick this up. Good story telling. Ok book (might have been I was expecting more from the hype).
Ready Player One
by Ernest Cline
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Young Adult
In the future the world is grim but the online Oasis exists to help people escape the decaying reality. Wade Watts is a geek extraordinaire whose hobbies include studying pop culture and video games from the 80s. When the Oasis creator dies, he leaves his entire fortune to the winner who finds his easter egg in the Oasis, and Wade thinks he's got a fighting chance.
This has been on my to read list for a while and I needed something to listen to while doing massive amounts of gardening and yard work. I'm not normally a science fiction reader but this was just the right amount I can handle. I loved the 80s references, and computer/gaming talk (because I got it!), and I liked the world that Cline built. A fun ride.
These is my Words
by Nancy E. Turner
Historical Fiction
Sarah travels with her family across the plains and eventually settles onto a ranch of her own. The diary is written during her young teenage years through adulthood. Adventures take her from the plains of Arizona across Texas during the late 1800s.
This was a reread for me. I hosted my Idaho book club in May but I had the opportunity to meet Nancy Turner with my Utah book club back in 2009 (the first author of many for me). Sarah is a strong, capable, hard working, but tender character. Adventures, heartbreak, love, growing up, learning, and along the way humor too. I'd recommend this to anyone and it's a fun book club pick too.
January 2009
3 comments:
I read "Ready Player One" in June--thought it was really well-done. And I agree, the 80's references were fun. (I first heard about it a few months ago when I read a news story about how Spielberg was attached to direct a film version--which would/will be AWESOME!) If there hadn't been quite so much questionable content in the book, I would DEFINITELY have let my 13-year old read it--he's a gamer and into coding/programming/game design and would love it.
YES. I totally agree. I really enjoyed it but I am hesitant on who to recommend it to based on all the unnecessary language. I haven't kept on the news around it though and hadn't heard there will be a movie, I'd love to go see that one!
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