Sunday, August 25, 2013

5 Books On My Shelf I Recommend To You

1. Huger Games Trilogy By: Susan Collins- The Hunger Games was an amazing trilogy. I got lost in the world of the 12    districts, and how teens had to fight to the death in this new corrupted society.  Each book is more complex than the other. This was truly a work of creative writing. I read it when I was 11, and I recommended it to my 40-year old mother who ended up falling in love with the series as much as I did. I never liked reading before those three books, now I do read in my past time.  This trilogy ended up being the awakening for my passion of reading.

2. Sold By: Patricia McCormick- I saw this book when I was picking out my summer reading book Divergent. I read the first 10 pages and already found myself hooked into the book. It is about a 13 year old girl named Lakshmi, who has recently been sold into prostitution by her father. When I found out that this book was a non-fiction book and this happens often in India I was astonished. I just could not believe her own father would do such a horrific thing.  This book is what is behind the closed curtains, this is whats happening in the real world.

3. Mrs.Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children By: Ransom Riggs- This book was recommended to me by a friend. I liked this book a lot, but it is very unrealistic, that it almost comes off as a child had written it. Between the invisible man, the girl who has the ability to fly, and monster with squid tentacles coming out of his mouth I became curious in that this is what children stories were about. I later found out that there was a world beneath a world. This book is defiantly not for everyone, but I recommend it because of its imaginative plot line. Which is once Jacobs grandfather dies, after being attacked by a man with an octopus mouth,  he sets out to go to this mysterious island that his grandpa told him about as a child.

4. Divergent & Invergent By: Veronica Roth-It was obligatory that I read Divergent for summer reading. At first I didn't like it, I thought that this book was just emulating the Hunger Games, but I was quickly proven wrong. Yes, there are some common things between them, like how they are both separated by different characteristic; one into factions and other into districts, but there are many differences as well. I loved this book overall I believe that I was lost in that world, I would read for multiple hours at a time. Though, this book was brilliant, I would not recommend it to anybody out of, or yet in there teens. I believe this because it is not challenging nor interesting enough for people above 17, but a little too mature for 11 year olds to be reading this.

5. Romeo & Juliet By: William Shakespeare- This book was also mandatory for me to read. I had very low expectations for this book, because of my lack comprehending this Shakespeare's language. Though I did not know that my former teacher had one with definitions on the side that were most commonly unknown to the public eye. I loved this book, I thought this book was written beautifully in every way possible, I recommend it to everyone over 13.



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1 comment:

  1. Hey. I have read all of those books except for number 3. I had the same feeling for all of those.
    Alex

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