To Read or Not To Read

Ever so rarely do books come into my life and completely take hold of my heart. Ever so rarely do I find authors with such great and complete control of our beautifully vast language that I lose all sense of time and self. Laini Taylor's Strange the Dreamer  is one of those rare books, full of magic and truth and heart. Lazlo Strange is Strange the Dreamer. His origins are mysterious, as is his passion for the city of Weep. There are not a lot of records of the this city, and even the name "Weep" is a placeholder because its real name has been lost - stolen. Lazlo spends every moment - waking and sleeping - thinking about the city, dreaming of finding it. When a man called the Godslayer comes to Lazlo's homeland of Zosma, he presents Lazlo with the opportunity of a lifetime: to come to Weep, because it needs to be saved. Immediately, Laini Taylor draws readers into this amazing world, starting with the harrowing image of an unfortunate girl's public death. N...

*Due to the time-consuming nature of linking all of the titles and authors' names, I have decided to stop doing that. However, if you go to Goodreads , you can search the book's title and they'll give you the summary of the book, the average rating, and other readers' reviews.* The Upside of Unrequited - Becky Albertalli Carve the Mark - Veronica Roth The Fates Divide - Veronica Roth Paper Hearts - Ali Novak How to Read Literature Like a Professor - Thomas C. Foster Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo Crooked Kingdom - Leigh Bardugo Theogony and Works and Days - Hesiod Dream Angus - Alexander McCall Smith Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet - Jennifer L. Armentrout and contributors Oedipus Rex - Sophocles Wow. Summer flew right by again, didn't it? I'm happy and also disappointed in the amount I was able to read this summer. I felt like I'd made some good choices, in addition to all the summer work books I had to do for class. I'm...

*Due to the time-consuming nature of linking the titles and authors' names, I have decided to stop doing that. However, if you go to Goodreads , you can search the book's title and they'll give you the summary of the book, the average rating, and other readers' reviews. And I apologize in advance for the lack of book cover images, I was unable to format more of them the way I wanted.* Junior year was crazy! I definitely didn't read as many books as I would have liked. However, luckily for me, I think I picked a good list of 22 books to read:  Girl in the Blue Coat - Monica Hesse Tasa's Song - Linda Kass The Alice Network - Kate Quinn Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt To Capture What We Cannot Keep - Beatrice Colin The German Girl - Armando Lucas Correa Everyone Brave is Forgiven - Chris Cleave Bright Young Things - Anna Godberson Beautiful Days - Anna Godberson The Lucky Ones - Anna Godberson Three Sides of a ...

As always, the link on the book title leads to Goodreads, and the link on the author's name leads them to their website, blog, Twitter or page about their life. The Lost Hero - Rick Riordan The Son of Neptune - Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena - Rick Riordan The House of Hades - Rick Riordan The Blood of Olympus - Rick Riordan Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote Love and First Sight - Josh Sundquist All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac - Gabrielle Zevin Paper Valentine - Brenna Yovanoff Each Little Bird That Sings - Deborah Wiles Where Things Come Back - John Corey Whaley There's Someone Inside Your House - Stephanie Perkins We All Fall Down - Natalie D. Richards Out of the Easy - Ruta Sepetys Dreaming Anastasia - Joy Preble Coming Up for Air - Miranda Kenneally Turtles All the Way Down - John Green Words in Deep Blue - Cath Crowley North of Happy - Adi Alsaid Everything is Awful: and Other O...