#0045A The Austere Academy - Lemony Snicket

Book #5 of this series. Like I said earlier, I will update about all of them when I'm done. All I can say is that this particular book has made the series better. There are more characters to fall in love with and it makes me want to read the next book unlike the previous four. Not that they other ones are bad.

#0044A He's Just Not That Into You - Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo

If anything, this book offended me. I was always told that I should read this, so I gave in. It's not written like a story, for those who thought. I actually read this completely out of order. The chapters are on a different topic each time. A guy isn't into you if he doesn't call you, or he doesn't ask you out, or sleep with you. The message I got was that a guy should do everything and you have no say in the relationship. I know the book says that women are worth all of that, but it's not fun to just sit around and wait on your knight in shining armor. I think that is a load of crap. Women these days are more strong and more aggressive. We want to do things ourselves and if we ask out a guy, it doesn't make the guy any less manly. Just my opinion. And my opinion is I didn't like it. I just don't have anything else to say about it. 2 stars

#0043A Xenocide - Orson Scott Card

Book #3 of the Ender's Game Quartet. Xenocide was not as good as the 1st one or the 2nd one, but it was still very good. Ender is still on the planet Lusitania where humans and pequeninos live together in some sort of peace. Ender has also hidden away the Bugger's Queen on their planet as well so she can repopulate her species. Ender was actually the one who killed off that species of alien many many years ago. On Lusitania, there is a virus, called Descolada, that has infested everything. While it kills humans, it helps the pequeninos enter into their "3rd life". The humans have a short amount of time to figure out how to get rid of the virus without hurting the pequeninos before the Starway Congress gets to Lusitania and kills off everyone.

Of course this book ends where the 4th book begins so after a short while I'll get to Children of the Mind. Since I started this book, I got a new job and I've only been reading during my break so it took more than a month to finish this and it was 400 pages and the font is really really tiny, but I'm not making any excuses or anything ;) The only thing that made this book hard to go through was because there was a lot of dialogue and many time where you read just the thoughts of every character. But Card does a great job shaping characters and you grow to love each and every one. This book goes more in depth with certain people that you didn't hear about much in the other books, but I guess since this is a quartet I'm slowly getting through the entire story. I quite enjoyed it though. 4 stars