Books are probably one of my favourite things in the world and now England has been graced with beautiful, sunny weather, I can now read in my garden, probably whilst getting sunburnt, which is what happened today. I've probably read over 100 books in my 15 (nearly 16) years of my life and so I thought I would share the books I've already read this summer.
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
I've been wanting to read this book for a while now and I loved it! It's quite dark but has some really funny moments in it, as well as many moments where I wanted to cry. I liked how you could see-all during this book because the main character could see everything that was happening in her old life and knew how each character was feeling. I also recommend you watch the film, but maybe after you read the book, because I think the book is so much better.
My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. My mother liked his border flowers, and my father talked to him once about fertilizer.
This is Susie Salmon. Watching from heaven, Susie sees her happy, suburban family devastated by her death, isolated even from one another as they each try to cope with their terrible loss alone. Over the years, her friends and siblings grow up, fall in love, do all the things she never had the chance to do herself. But life is not quite finished with Susie yet . . .
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
This is probably one of my favourite books I've ever read. I watched the film but I wish I'd read the book first. I mean the film was amazing, but the book was so much better! It was hilarious and emotional, so there were a lot of tears. It's all about civil rights in America in the 1960's and if you have read this book, you should also read The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd which is the same time period and is just as good.
Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver . . .
There's Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son's tragic death; Minny, whose cooking is nearly as sassy as her tongue; and white Miss Skeeter, home from College, who wants to know why her beloved maid has disappeared.
Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny. No one would believe they'd be friends; fewer still would tolerate it. But as each woman finds the courage to cross boundaries, they come to depend and rely upon one another. Each is in a search of a truth. And together they have an extraordinary story to tell...
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
This was my holiday book and I didn't want to put it down the whole week. I've just done my history GCSE so I knew some of the events that were happening in the book. You don't have to know about them because their explained but it's such a good book and I can't recommend it enough. The whole book is narrated by death and although it's revealed near the start that some characters will die, it doesn't make it any less sadder when they do die. This is a definite must-read.
HERE IS A SMALL FACT - YOU ARE GOING TO DIE
1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier.
Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel steals books. This is her story and the story of the inhabitants of her street when the bombs begin to fall.
SOME IMPORTANT INFORMATION - THIS NOVEL IS NARRATED BY DEATH
It's a small story, about:
a girl
an accordionist
some fanatical Germans
a Jewish fist fighter
and quite a lot of thievery.
ANOTHER THING YOU SHOULD KNOW - DEATH WILL VISIT THE BOOK THIEF THREE TIMES
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