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A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University.
While I was reading A Year of Living Biblically, by A J Jacobs, he mentioned that he gained a kind of intern during his year of living biblical, who turned out to be Kevin Roose. I looked Roose up and found that he had written his own Jacob's type of book himself, after interning with AJ.
Roose grew up in a Quaker family and he started going to Brown University. He was a writer and was completely interested in going undercover as a student at Liberty University for a semester. While there he tried his best to blend in and took the correct classes as any Liberty student. He prayed when everyone else prayed, he went to Bible Study, and had his group of supporting friends and counselors. He even began courting a girl he was interested in.
Like Jacob's book, you could start to see a "change" in Roose. While not converting into a conservative, far right, Christian, he took a lot of respect to those Liberty kids with him. He showed everyone who has read this book that they are people too and are not as bad as everyone thinks they are. The only problem I had was the realization of how much the word "faggot" gets used. You would think that people were past that now. I guess a lot are a little slow to catch up with not judging and actually being nice to people who are different than yourself.
Anyway, I enjoyed it. I probably won't read it again, but 3 stars nonetheless.
Book number two in Roth's Divergent Trilogy. This is the part where I get mad because I tend to start book series that aren't completed. The third and final book will be released in the fall of 2013. So, basically a year away. I CAN'T WAIT THAT LONG.
Insurgent is as good as the first one. The only problem I had with it is since I read Divergent three months before reading this one I had a hard time remembering what happen at the end. I have a problem with remembering some things in book. I just know if it was good or not. I just read a little review of Divergent and got back on track. So, the book picks up right at the end of Divergent. That means that I won't remember much of anything by the time this unknown book three comes out.
Trice is still badass as things begin to fall apart around them. She still make decisions that I would never EVER make, but I can look past that. Reading is suppose to get you out of your element so you can escape your world and dive into another. Well, that's one way to look at reading. Reading also is a way of learning.
I gave this one 5 stars just like Divergent and I eagerly await the final book. I hope Roth continues to write and tell her stories because I will definitely read them. Along with John Green, Christopher Moore, Maureen Johnson, J K Rowling, Orson Scott Card, newly Erin Morgenstern, and Patrick Rothfuss, my list grows and grows. If only I could make reading books my job, I would be extremely happy.
This is one man's humble quest to follow the Bible as literally as possible for a whole year. All of A.J. Jacobs books are him studying up on a subject and living out that subject for a year. He's done one with having his life experimented on, one about reading the entire encyclopedia and so on and so forth. I get on kicks of reading religious book and since I hadn't read on in awhile this one was interesting.
Not only was this book hilarious but while Jacobs was doing this, you could see him "changing" throuhout the book. Not saying that he converted to Christianity, but becoming a better person in general. For most of the year he followed the Old Testament. He didn't wear clothes that were of mixed fiber, he didn't cut his beard, he wouldn't sit where unclean women sat, and he stoned people. Although I don't know if you could really call it "stoning" people if you just drop a pebble on a person's shoe. Not sitting where unclean women have sat was probably the most funny part. His wife was getting tired of some of the things he picked up, so she sat on every service that you could possibly sit on in his house. He ended up carrying around a type of stool so he could sit down.
I give it 4 stars because I enjoyed it and I know that this book isn't for everyone.
Everytime I typed "Vampire Hunter", I've typed "Vampire Hunger" Sorta true, amirite?
I'm already a big fan of Abraham Lincoln. I'm also a sorta fan of Grahame-Smith as well. I have not read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, although I have the book. But he started out with the whole adding blood, death, and the supernatural to books that were already written. I'm not sure if he was the first to do this, but I think he was. I downloaded this to my iPad while the movie was about to come out. I like reading books before seeing the movies. And even though I read this book in July, I still have not seen the movie.
I enjoyed this book very much. I don't recommend it for everyone because I know a lot of people who wouldn't like this "type" of book. I think it's a nice little spin off. I give it 4 stars. I don't know if I like the way it ended. Even after all this time I'm still pondering over it. But nevertheless I did enjoy this one a lot.
Stewart's books are so great! Young ones would love this book! There is so much adventure from a ship to a deserted island! Just because you are a little kid doesn't mean you can't do great things.
If you enjoyed his first one, you'll love his 2nd. I'm excited to get to the third installment of the Mysterious Benedict Society. Being smart is cool, kids! Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance are all overly smart kids. Each of them have awkwardness or some kind of fault. Put them all together and they can conquer anything. I don't understand why this book isn't more popular. 5 stars
This book went in one ear and out the other. I honestly can't remember much about it even though I read it 5 months ago (since I'm still catching up on the reviews or whatever these are) So, all I can get out of this was Francis Chan is no Rob Bell. The reason why I read/bought this book is because it was free on Amazon for a day. Actually three of his books were and the other ones didn't look that great to me. Eh, at least it was free. My Goodreads said I gave it a 3 star so it wasn't awful I guess. But not something I would read again.
I would have never heard about this book if it weren't for Goodreads. Divergent was rated 2011's best book on Goodreads. It's a distopian book and a young adult book, so obviously I had to read it.
The main character,Beatrice, lives in a world where all people are divided by five factions. Each faction is based on virtues like being honest (all the time), selfless, brave, peaceful, and intelligent. Your faction tells you how to act, who your friends are and what job you can have. When you turn 16 years old you have a to make the most decision of your life. You can either stay in the faction you were born into, or you can choose a different faction.
This book is great and I really enjoyed reading it. The weird thing to me is that I can usually tell what choices a character is going to make is most things. Beatrice chose everything the exact opposite of what I would have chosen so it was harder for me to become the character. I'm never an outsider while reading. I become the main character most of the time. This book, I did not. There is no way I could have survived all the initiations that Beatrice had to go through. I suppose I might have ruined the beginning of the book for you, but really? Could you not tell that she chose a faction that was completely different that hers? 5 stars This is also another series that I'm reading that isn't finished yet. I have to wait until Fall of 2013 to get my hand on the final book.
