Overview: Halley and Scarlet are best friends, and have been since they were eleven years old. Halley could always could count on Scar for anything; until Scarlet's boyfriend dies in a motorcycling accident, sending them both into shock. Now, Scarlet is the one who needs to lean on her best friend. When Halley gets a call from Scarlet at sisterhood camp, she knows this is serious. After getting back to Halley's home town to see Scarlet, the book takes off into an emotional rollercoaster.
My Thoughts: I found the book to be quite pleasing; Halley and Scarlet are wonderful characters and very hard not to like. I thought the book was very realistic and fasinating. The crazy home life Scarlet survived in and the odd relashionship between Halley and her mother was somewhat addictive. I loved it, and would suggest it to anyone who would read it.
Three stars: ***
Overview: This book was about John Grogan, a guy who decided to buy a puppy to buy him time before he was going to have a baby. However, the random decision leads them on a journey of happiness, tears, and laughs with Marley, an unorthodox, lovable lab with a fear of thunderstorms and love for people.
My Thoughts: Personally, I thought the book had the perfect amount of emotions: humor, sadness, joy; it was very relatable and a good dose of fun. I liked the book and found it hard to put down. The ending was heartrenching, considering I had grown very attached to Marley and the family. Overall, I found it very entertaining. Awesome read!
Three Stars: ***
Overview: The story about an early 19th century family growing up in the Brooklyn slums. It is a heart touching novel with all the twist and turns of life squeezed into five hundred pages. Francie, an impressionable little girl and her brother Neely are subject to poverty, sickness, a hard-working mother and an alchoholic father.
My Thoughts: Overall, reading 'A tree grows in brooklyn' wasn't a bad experience. If you don't think about the overdrawn story line and slow moments, you enjoy the humorous and some-what intriguing experiences Francie and the Nolan family endure. For A 500 page book about the life of a 19th century brookyln girl growing up in the slums from birth to college, this is as good as it gets. It was a cute and charming tale; it was life. Nothing other than pure realness. I tip my hat to Betty Smith because she did an awesome job. She made me fall in love with the modest characters of the story - Sissy imperticulary. I thought she had the most sad, yet positive outcome by the end of the book. I enjoyed reading about her the most. And of course, when Francie became older and started taking up dating and such. It was a decent summer read.
Three Stars: ***
Overview: My Sister's Keeper is about Anna Fitzgerald, who, with the help of an attorney, Campbell Alexander, sues her parents for rights to her own body. Anna donated genetic material throughout her life, and the latest donation is for her to give a kidney to Kate. While her mother is very persistant that Anna will give the kidney, her father is much more mixed in thought. He believes that Anna has the ultimate decision.
My Thoughts: The drama is catchy and hard to put down. What I didn't like about the book is the fact that in some parts the novel is very slow, and the ending was totally not what I was expecting - and that wasn't exactly great, either. But overall, reading the book gave me a different perspective on cancer and sickness; it let me know first hand that a kid like you, or your little brother or sister could have it. It was a shocking revelation. I thoroughly enjoyed reading about Kate's short romantic love interest, Taylor, also a cancer patient. It made me feel happy for Kate. I didn't like reading about the deaths in the book. But they unfortunately, made the book.
four stars: ****
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