Can I just say...I don't really understand the appeal of The Hunger Games? Almost everyone I know (aside from me and D) seems to be into it. I tried reading the first book twice (once from the library, once on my Kindle). I just don't get it. I think part of it is, I don't like violence, and especially violence concerning teenagers, hunger and death. The whole thing just seems in massively bad taste to me.
I finished reading Gossip, which I loved (except for an ending that seemed out of place, but that wasn't enough to mar my enjoyment), and started reading Some Assembly Required (Anne Lamott's nonfiction account of her 19-year-old son and his newborn). This can definitely go in the "brutally honest" category. I guess all her family members (and her son's girlfriend) are used to scathingly honest writing? Nonetheless, an interesting read.
I finished reading Gossip, which I loved (except for an ending that seemed out of place, but that wasn't enough to mar my enjoyment), and started reading Some Assembly Required (Anne Lamott's nonfiction account of her 19-year-old son and his newborn). This can definitely go in the "brutally honest" category. I guess all her family members (and her son's girlfriend) are used to scathingly honest writing? Nonetheless, an interesting read.
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I don't get what the big deal was about the Twilight series... Crappy writing.. My 30 yr. old couldn't even get thru the first 20 pages of the first book... I guess anything different will appeal to whoever...
I only read the first Twilight book, the other ones i couldn't get into. i did like the movies. Hunger Games, i can't get into at all.
Lamott- so curious to hear more about your take on that book. I can't get over how brutally honest some people can be. If I even mention someone's name on my blog I feel like it pisses him/her off.
But to quote a famous librarian whose name I can't remember and am too lazy too look up: Each book, it's reader; each reader, his (or her) book.