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Finally got my Kindle back at this point. Amazon sometimes has Kindle books for free for a limited time and this one was one, and now it's back up to like eight bucks! Score. What a wonderful way to start out a book. Matt Mikalatos is in a vegetarian restaurant eating and chatting along with Jesus (this is in present day btw) and then this "Pete" guy comes up and punches Jesus in the face. It's about how people imagine Jesus to be, instead of what he really is. Conservative Jesus, Liberal Jesus, Hippie Jesus, Mormon Jesus, Testosterone Jesus, Model Jesus, Football Jesus, Super Jesus, CEO Jesus, Perpetually Angry Jesus, Liberation Theology Jesus, New Age Jesus, Baptist Jesus, Health Nut Jesus...and the list goes on. They all attack Mikalatos at once at one part in the book. The book is pretty humorous with some sap to it. I was definitely worth being free and it's probably worth 5 bucks too, I'm just really cheap. Soooo 3.5 stars
Here is another book that read when I was in middle school. Being a part of Battle of the Books was probably what started my fascination with reading. My mother was a good role model by reading to me all the time and encouraging me to read myself and she read all the time too. But just being a part of that group in middle school and figuring out it was okay to be a reading nerd just helped me grow a little bit into who I am today. Along with Island of the Blue Dolphins, this book was much different to me this time then it was over 10 years ago. I remember skipping over the parts where "the weirdo" wrote essays for his college. I also thought that when the police were trying to figure out what happened to the Weirdo's friend that they blamed him at one point, but that wasn't the case the second time I read it. I believe my imagination ran wild when I got to a boring part of a book, back then, to make it more interesting for myself. Not that this book was boring this time. It wasn't by far. Taylor also had a nice moral to where no matter how you look on the outside, you can still be wonderful and beautiful on the inside. You should stand up and be yourself and no care what people think of you. (The Weirdo was in a horrible crash when he was younger, scarring his face.)There is no reason to hide. 4 stars
Book #2 of the Alvin Maker series. I think I read the first one two years ago. This one had more action and less magic. It was more about making the storyline more meaty and less about Alvin. There was a scene or two that rose up again from the end of the first book, just being told by a different character this time. It gave more background of the natives and Alvin is more aware of what all he can do. I bought the 3rd book and the end of last year and I hope to read it soon. My list of books keep getting longer and longer and I seem to start more and more book series which I think, isn't completely good. Hopefully I won't get some of these confused. 4 stars
I have never been into nonfiction books, especially ones that does not have a story line. Errr, like a "self help" book like this one is. People kept pushing this book so I gave it a shot. It was extremely interesting. It's about doing things on the spur of the moment, you know...in the "blink of an eye"! See what I did there? heh.There was one thing that stood out for me. Gladwell was talking about how you act when your heart rate gets to a certain rate. If it is a certain speed then your adrenaline can kick in an help you out with whatever, like lift heavier things, or make you run faster/longer. If your heart rate gets above that then it can actually make your brain act like your are autistic. You can't function well, you don't say things correctly, you stop hearing things or you don't speak, and it impairs your judgment to the extreme. This makes total sense to me and it happens on certain occasions with me even recently. I recommend it. 4 stars.
This is where I play catch up. I have been reading a book every week still. I've just been lazy about updating the blog. Anyway, I'll do the best I can since I have forgotten some things in the books. My father made me buy this Kindle book because it looked interesting to him and he wanted me to read it first before he tackled it. (He doesn't read period). It was perfect for him. Full of death and blood and not really too much about the hangman's daughter. It was more about her father and the younger physician. Orphan children started to disappear and the town blamed it on the lady that delivered babies, that she was a witch. It's up to the Hangman and the physician to find out who or what is taking the kiddies before they torture this poor lady to death. 4 starsOn a side note, this book is almost 500 pages. I pushed through and read it in a week while it took my father 5 weeks to read this one. And he also read it on my kindle so I was without it for awhile. But I'm still proud that he was interested in a book since I took up this goal so yay for him.
Anansi Boys was my second Gaiman book. I like dark comedies very much. He's one of the authors that you either like him or hate him. Of course, this being my 2nd book of his, I guess it's safe to say I like him. I don't necessarily love him and that's really because of this book.Don't get me wrong. It was a good book. It was full of things that kept me intrigued, but to me it just felt like another story that is like the Fockers. I felt so bad for the main character. Everything bad happens to him. He cannot catch a break through most of the book and that's is how I felt through the Focker movies. Instead of it being funny, you just feel bad. Apparently, this was a sequel to his previous book of American Gods. But this can be read as a stand alone book because when I bought it, I didn't know that this could have been taken as a sequel, otherwise I would have bought American Gods first. After reading this one, I don't know if I want to venture into that one though. 3 stars
I bought this for my kindle for a cheap 5 bucks and I heard good things about this book from several people. There's not much to say about this one, for me, just because it was a very good book. I did have a hard time, at the beginning, getting used to Zusak's style of writing, or maybe because Death was the narrator. This book was based during the time of the holocaust and the main character, which is a little girl, is surrounded by death. She ends up getting a knack for stealing books and learning how to read. I really could feel her pain watching a book burning and then her running up to take one of them. I can't even imagine being around at that time. Her family hides a Jewish teen in their basement and you see the bond grow between the girl and him. I've said before that I really like happy books and this one is just full of sadness, but I'm so glad that I read it. 4 stars
Finally got my Kindle back at this point. Amazon sometimes has Kindle books for free for a limited time and this one was one, and now it's back up to like eight bucks! Score. 
