Yes, I know it is a month into the new year! But isn't it still a good time to revamp a blog that hadn't been touched in almost 2 years?! (I think so!) I have been reading voraciously (hence the new blog name) for the past few months and will hopefully continue to do so.
I have finished (and started) a few books this week. I'll start with Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins. One of my BFs put me on to The Hunger Games by the same author and those books were SO AMAZING (seriously, if you haven't read them, GO GET THEM NOW!) that I decided to check out her first series. It was a little weird at first, but I got into it pretty quickly. Gregor is a kid from NYC. He has to miss summer camp to stay home and watch his 2 year old sister, nicknamed Boots, and his slightly senile grandmother. On the first day, while he is doing laundry, Boots gets sucked into an airvent and Gregor follows her, dropping thousands of feet, at an alarmingly slow rate. (Does this remind you of anything, yet?) He lands (softly) in complete darkness, finds his sister, and is almost immediately greeted by giant cockroaches who take them to the humans who live down there. Incredibly imaginative, this book sends Gregor (and the reader) on a quest to find his father, who disappeared years before, where he might right giant bats, fight and then ally with giant spiders and then outsmart the giant rats who want to take over the Underworld. I enjoyed reading this book so much that I went out and got the second one (from the library). I'll let you know how that is next week!
Next on the docket was The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. I had read a few of his graphic novels, but never a full length novel. What a beautiful book! The imagery was incredible and the story haunting, yet endearing. It is about a boy who gets adopted by a couple of ghosts to protect him from the murderer who killed the rest of his family. They name him Nobody Owens and give him the Freedom of the Graveyard, which enables him to remain unseen by outside eyes and gives him some of the abilities that ghosts have. I enjoyed this book from beginning to end. I fell in love with Bod and sympathized with him as he tried to find a place in our world. My favorite chapter is Danse Macabre...Let me know what you think!
Coming next week:
Nightlight by The Harvard Lampoon
Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane by Suzanne Collins
