Book Beginnings On Friday (2)

Friday, April 30, 2010


Book Beginnings on Friday is a meme hosted by Becky at Page Turners. Anyone can participate; just share the opening sentence of your current read, making sure that you include the title and author so others know what you're reading.

Page 1, Sentence 1 of The Help by Kathryn Stockett :

"Mae Mobley was born on a early Sunday morning in August, 1960. A church baby we like to call it.".


How did your current read begin? :)

In My Mailbox (4)

Saturday, April 24, 2010

In My Mailbox is a meme hosted by Kristi, The Story Siren, based on Alea´s idea at Pop Culture Junkie . IMM explores the contents of my mailbox on a weekly basis.

These are the books I got this week, I'm really excited for all of them. Can't wait to finish Shanghai girls so I can start reading, which one should I read first? :)

  1. Need by Carrie Jones
  2. Before the Frost by Henning Mankell
  3. Forget-Her-Nots by Amy Brecount White
  4. Her Body Knows by David Grossman
  5. Captivate by Carrie Jones
  6. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
  7. Fallen by Lauren Kate
  8. The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani



That's all I got this week,what arrived into your home?



Book Beginnings On Friday (1)

Friday, April 23, 2010




Book Beginnings on Friday is a meme hosted by Becky at Page Turners. Anyone can participate; just share the opening sentence of your current read, making sure that you include the title and author so others know what you're reading.

Page 1, Sentence 1 of Shanghai Girls by Lisa See :

"Our daughter looks like a South China peasant with those red cheeks", my father complains, pointedly ignoring the soup before him. "Can't you do something about them?".


How did your current read begin? :)

Water for Elephants Review

Monday, April 19, 2010

Water for Elephants: A Novel


Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen

This is the story of Jacob Jankowski and is focused on his memoirs; we get introduced to him when he is 93 years old through his days at the nursing home. The story goes back and forth between past and present when he remembers his days at the circus. Due to a misfortune he wasn’t able to continue his studies at Cornell Veterinarian School in exchange, he finds himself on the Benzini Brothers Circus train where he is hired, this event changes his life, it allow him to bond and become a true friend with a very smart elephant named Rosie and to deeply fall in love with the woman of his dreams.

This is a really interesting and moving book, as the novel progresses the reader becomes drawn into this bizarre world where nothing is what you expect. The author made a really good job researching about the circus life in the 30’s and her description of the characters is beautifully done.

Sara Gruen is a talented storyteller that will make your skin get goose bumps as you go through the pages of this intriguing and fulfilling story. You will experience laughs, tears and be completely absorbed into the circus era of the 1930’s; it describes the rough details of that circus life. I was not able to put this book aside. It’s well worth reading it.


★★★★★

Flawless Review

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Pretty Little Liars #2: Flawless

Flawless by Sara Shepard

This book picks up right where the first one ends. I won’t make a long review because I don’t want to give up much of it. I would really recommend reading the first book if you like chick lit or if you want to better understand this one.
In this book you get to understand the characters in a deeper way, you understand Aria’s relations with men, Emily’s issues with her family not being able to accept her by who she is, Spencer’s problems where no effort is enough to please her parents and stop them from comparing her to her older sister. Hanna’s relationship with her parents where she gets everything she wants just because they don’t want to cope with her.
The story unfolds and you get to know the characters in a deeper way. Still nobody knows who “A” is, rumors in town say there is a stalker on the loose, but for the girls “A” is still a mysterious shadow that sends them text messages and tries to control their lives.
At the end you finish with more questions than answers, when you think you know who “A” is, you may be wrong. This book increases the amount of mystery and drama from the first book in The Pretty Little Liars series.
Here is my review of the first book

★★★★★

Pretty Little Liars Review:

Saturday, April 03, 2010

Pretty Little Liars

Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard


This is the story of five friends, Alison, Aria, Emily, Hanna & Spencer, these friends are bound by a secret, a secret so terrible, that could potentially change their lives forever.

They are different in so many ways but at the same time all of them just want to fit, be the girl everybody wants to hang out with. They accomplish that by being friends with Alison DiLaurentis, the most popular girl in Rosewood. Things start to get difficult the night Alison vanishes without a trace, she kept them together and now they start drifting apart from each other.

Years later, Hanna is no longer the girl with weight problems, she transformed into the “It Girl”, she has the body and the style. Aria returns to Rosewood from Iceland, with a new daring and audacious attitude with the will to take control of her new self. Emily is the sporty girl, an all-star swimmer and perfect daughter and Spencer, the pretty typical overachiever.

Their lives continue to be awesome until one day each girl starts receiving threatening messages from a mysterious sender who’s signature is “A”. They must face their past and their worst fears in order to find out who is this mysterious character.

At first I got frustrated with the situations they got themselves into, but, as I advanced into the book, these girls started to learn lessons and the consequences of their acts. It managed to keep me interested and I wasn’t able to put it down. It’s a nice mystery book and that is the main reason I liked this book.

Although this book is intended to be a young adult novel, on my personal point of view, I wouldn’t recommend it to all. Many of the events, circumstances, actions or topics can be too complicated for some young readers, if you are mature enough or with some parenting advice this book is full of suspense and mystery.


★★★★
 

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