This is the fourth book in the Percy Jackson series. I love these books! They just get better and better. I'm almost sad to read the last book. I don't want it to end. These books remind me of Harry Potter. They are not as "complex" as HP was. There are not as many puzzle pieces, but they are still action packed and have many twists and turns that keep the story going.
In this book they are trying to find their way through the labrynth in order to stop KRONOS from rising and waging war on their world. Percy is now just getting into the "girl stuff" and can't quit figure it out. It's actually kind of funny how oblivious to things he is. Maybe that will be his greatest quest. They finally find a lost god and learn things about a few of the other "lesser" gods.
Very good. I couldn't put it down and once again stayed up late to finish it. If you haven't started these books by Rick Riordan you need to. Very entertaining and fast paced. You won't be able to put them down!
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Monday, August 10, 2009
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
I have heard a lot about this book. I've had a lot of friends reading it for various book clubs and have wanted to read it for some time. I was at the library the other day and they were having a book sale. This book was on the table for 50 cents so I thought, why not? I'm so glad that I paid 50 cents because it was such a great book!!!!!!!
This book is written in letters and correspondence. There is a main character, Juliet, and it's her letters to various people and their letters to her. I really liked this style of writing because I felt that I was getting to know the characters as individuals and not as...well...characters.
It's set in a time just shortly after WWII in London/the Channel Islands. During the war, Juliet wrote several articles for a local newspaper under the assumed name of Izzy Bickerstaff. After the war, her editor friend decided to collect all the articles and make them into a book. During the German Occupation, a few people that lived on the Channel Islands in Guernsey had read the book and wrote to Juliet about it. It was revealed in one of the letters that they had somehow (quite by accident and desperation) formed a group called the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Juliet, being quite intrigued by this strange group, wrote back and wanted to know more about the Society and how it came to be. She was in the process of thinking up another idea for a book and a few more articles for the newspaper. She decided to write about this fascinating group.
Each page (or letter I should say) is a different emotion. One page you'll be laughing out loud, the next you'll be angry. Then you are sad and then you turn the page and you are laughing again. The language is so beautiful and captivating right from the beginning. The story is hilarious and heart warming at the same time and you feel like you are a part of the Society.
One of my favorite parts about the book is that it was about other book lovers and the different books they loved. One guy (yes guy) would only read cookbooks! Just shows that you can form a book club about anything!
I strongly recommend this book and hope that you like it as much as I did. Definitely a book that you can read again and again without getting bored with it.
**I know that Guernsey is a real place and that the German Occupation really happened there, but I don't know if the Society is real or what is fact from fiction in that book. Because I've already lent my copy out to someone else I cannot check on this for you. But real or not, it's still a fabulous book!
This book is written in letters and correspondence. There is a main character, Juliet, and it's her letters to various people and their letters to her. I really liked this style of writing because I felt that I was getting to know the characters as individuals and not as...well...characters.
It's set in a time just shortly after WWII in London/the Channel Islands. During the war, Juliet wrote several articles for a local newspaper under the assumed name of Izzy Bickerstaff. After the war, her editor friend decided to collect all the articles and make them into a book. During the German Occupation, a few people that lived on the Channel Islands in Guernsey had read the book and wrote to Juliet about it. It was revealed in one of the letters that they had somehow (quite by accident and desperation) formed a group called the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Juliet, being quite intrigued by this strange group, wrote back and wanted to know more about the Society and how it came to be. She was in the process of thinking up another idea for a book and a few more articles for the newspaper. She decided to write about this fascinating group.
Each page (or letter I should say) is a different emotion. One page you'll be laughing out loud, the next you'll be angry. Then you are sad and then you turn the page and you are laughing again. The language is so beautiful and captivating right from the beginning. The story is hilarious and heart warming at the same time and you feel like you are a part of the Society.
One of my favorite parts about the book is that it was about other book lovers and the different books they loved. One guy (yes guy) would only read cookbooks! Just shows that you can form a book club about anything!
I strongly recommend this book and hope that you like it as much as I did. Definitely a book that you can read again and again without getting bored with it.
**I know that Guernsey is a real place and that the German Occupation really happened there, but I don't know if the Society is real or what is fact from fiction in that book. Because I've already lent my copy out to someone else I cannot check on this for you. But real or not, it's still a fabulous book!
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