Vacation Post #4

Just a week and a half more of vacation!  I had a few good days of reading this week, but I've been doing a lot of running around here at the beach, so the book I'm reading now may take a few days to finish.  But here's what I've read recently:

Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs.

This actually made a perfect beach read, the chapters were short, the pictures were interesting- especially how Riggs fit them into the story line with varying degrees of success.  This book was not what I was expecting, I bought the book for the title and pics alone.  It was a nice change to read a YA book with a male main character.  I'm assuming that there will be a sequel, as the ending is a bit up in the air, and quite frankly I want more peculiars.

Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children gets a Midnight Book Rating of:

(an example of the pics inside the book- this one kind of reminds me of A Christmas Story)

The other book I finished was Obedience by Will Lavender (how awesome is that last name?)

I ordered this from Paperback Swap.  The plots intriguing- a Logic and Reasoning class is given six weeks to solve the disappearance of young woman named Polly.  If they don't find her, she will die.  It's all supposed to by hypothetical, but is it really?  The book is told from three of the student's viewpoint.  The plot is dark and twisty, and you never know what's real and what's not.  My only problem with the book is that I didn't connect as much with the characters as I wanted to, and while the ending is complete it left me wanting just a little more.  This is my first Will Lavender book, but I will most definitely be reading his books in the future because even though I didn't love Obedience, it was a fast paced, interesting read.

Obedience gets a Midnight Book Rating of: 

Current Beach Read:

Curse of the Wolf Girl by Martin Millar

This is a sequel to Millar's Lonely Werewolf Girl, which I loved.  And this has more werewolves, more fire element's fashion crisis, more laudanum addiction and more cross dressing Thanes, so it's safe to say that I'm loving this one too!

Vacation Post #3

This past few days have been fail when it comes to reading, but win when it comes to beach time and playing wiffle ball with the family in the street.  I finally finished World War Z by Max Brooks this morning.  I'm sure it would have been a much faster read had I been at home.  There's too much distraction here- way too many kids and noise and what was that?  It's time for ice cream again?  So reading time is a bit hard to find.

I woke up early the other morning and commenced reading on the porch.  I've been waking up before most of my family so that's pretty much been my only reading time.  Beach reading is hard to do since my two year old niece has a tendency to run, and run fast, down the beach. 

World War Z is a history of a zombie war- a bunch of different interviews from survivors all over the world and covers the beginning, middle and "end" of the war.  It was a very engrossing read, but I wish I had saved it for home.  There is a lot of information, so it's best read when there aren't a lot of distractions around.  Still, I enjoyed it and I really feel it's helped me prepare for the inevitable zombie uprising.

World War Z gets a Midnight Book Rating of :

Now onto my next beach read- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children!  Happy Friday Reads!