List all the books I read in 2008

by Stephanie Meyer. This was a terrible book! The characters were all suddenly different than in the previous ones. The premise of the entire book is absolutely ridiculous and unreal. The appeal of the series was because it was real and grounded in our world. This book didn’t take place in the same world as ours and therefore failed as a book in the series and as a book in general.

by Sloane Crosley. The book was a collection of essays by a 20-something living in New York City. I have never lived there, so I couldn’t relate to the specifics of the city. However, a lot of what she wrote was closer to my age (then say, David Sedaris) and so I remembered it…like playing Oregon Trail! She is not as funny as Sedaris though. Some of her essays were hilarious, but I missed the point of some of the others. Overall, I think it was just okay.

by Lois Lowry. I found the story quite interesting, but a bit predictable. The characters were not very well developed. The end also felt rushed. I think another chapter to build up to the end would have been beneficial.

by Alan Lightman. It was a very interesting book. Full of a lot of intelligent essays that I liked to read before I went to sleep myself. I tried to create my own characters or people I knew that belonged in each time. It was a very visual book for me. I highly recommend it, it is a short read.

It was good, but sort of weird. It is realistic fiction, but it had a sense of surrealism in it. Just the way the characters and society were portrayed was distorted. i liked it though.

its about a guy who goes for a standard checkup at the docters, but wakes up finding a tube down his throat, and docters freaking out. apparently he has machines inside his stomach, and now he has to flee a government agency who is trying to hunt him down.

Sixteen-year-old Robert Smith thinks he has grown up just like every other teenager in Essex, England. Sure, he can’t remember much of his childhood. Memories about his birth parents feel manufactured. Hopping around from foster home to foster home through the years, he doesn’t recall ever getting sick or seriously injured. All he has are his dreams, and those bad dreams feel real enough.

Dr. Andrews tells Robert that his surgery will be a routine endoscopy, which will check for a stomach ulcer. Everything is going as planned until the anesthesia stops working and Robert wakes up. Doctors are calling for more doctors. Men with holstered pistols stand guard around the room. The confusion increases as the doctors try to figure out what they’re seeing. “What the hell are you?” one of them asks. That single line sets Robert off. He has to get out of there. Whatever he does, he must escape.
(teenreads.com review)

Quick read. Essentially only two characters, that spend the majority of the novel narrating the misfortunes in their lives wrought upon them by god.

Not a whole lot more to say about this one.

i havent been reading that many books this year, cuz i wanna take a break from last years 50 books, plus ive been getting tons of work in school.

1) pride and prejduice
2) into the wild

[and i watched both movies and loved them both]

Well, finally I’ve been introduced to the works of the Russian short story master! That’s one of my favorite genres, to boot!

This collection contains six stories: The Malefactor, The Kiss, The Duel, “Anna on the Neck”, The Man in a Case, and The Darling.

Chekhov is more than adept at presenting human emotions and interactions precisely as they can appear to the individual feeling them. He acknowledges that we are sometimes suprised by our own reactions, or fight against them. Typically his stories simply end. They are careful sketches of the human condition, no more, no less. He does not attempt to moralize, to declare something right or wrong, merely he strives to display situations accurately.

I hope to read more Chekhov in the future.

by Megan McCafferty. I don’t know if this is the book or if I have just changed, but I found it a bit annoying. I just wanted to slap her most of the time. I did like the way the author only wrote during breaks from school. I will not be reading any more of these.