ONE OF US IS LYING
by karen mcmanus
this book is sort of a Breakfast Club meets Pretty Little Liars - 5 students walk into detention, only 4 come out alive. i've been reading 'murder mysteries' lately, and this one somehow got thrown into the mix. this was a pretty good book for the most part. the kids in it were well written, but i kinda wish they'd fleshed out some of the non-teenage side characters a bit more.
overall though, i did enjoy this. she writes young romance kinda like Rainbow Rowell, whom i love. and i enjoyed the intricate detail's surrounding the death & investigation.
for anyone who hasn't read this, it's not super hard to guess who the killer is before the end of the book, though i have to admit, the person it ended up being was not my first guess.
MISERY
by stephen king
okaaay, i really enjoyed this book. it was gripping and fun. but i have to admit i'm still not 100% comfortable with the way King writes his fat characters, and specifically for this book, fat characters with mental illness. would have been nice to see things from Annie's perspective a bit more.
THE MIST
by stephen king
the movie was way better. there was an unnecessary love/sex sequence in the book that made me turn my nose up. seriously, just watch the movie.
SABRIEL
by garth nix
i LOVED this! this is the first book in the Old Kingdom fantasy series. Sabriel is the next in line to be Abhorsen, a true necromancer and fighter of the undead that wreak havoc on the land. after spending a life mostly sheltered in a boarding school, Sabriel's life is thrown into adventure and chaos when she finds out her father, the current Abhorsen, is in peril. she is the only one who can help him, along with her grouchy and kewt cat friend, Mogget.
btw, the audio book is narrated by Tim Curry, and it's fan ****ing tastic.
GIRLS & SEX: NAVIGATING THE COMPLICATED NEW LANDSCAPE
by peggy orenstein
this made me think a lot about my own sex life, lol. peggy orenstein interviews over 100 different young women from different backgrounds about their sex life, and the verdict is in: women are conditioned from a young age to ignore their own sexual pleasure over men's. men, i know you probably won't, but you SHOULD read this. women, too.
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOOS NEST
by ken kesey
if you're anything like me, you probably won't like McMurphy, but you'll still feel bad for him. it's a good book, even though i so would have loved to get more perspective on Nurse Ratchet.
it is worth the read, though.
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just finished reading: THE FIRM by john grisham
currently reading: OF HUMAN BONDAGE by w. somerset maugham, RUNAWAY JURY by john grisham, and SUMMER KNIGHT by jim butcher
total books read so far this year: 17