Water for Elephants, Week 1

This week I started reading Water for Elephants, which is about an old man telling the story of when he was a kid and he worked at the circus. He was a veterinarian, and he worked with the animals. This book is kind of a mystery, and about circuses that traveled on trains. A good part that sets the scene is when he is describing the circus tent. I peer inside. The tent is enormous, as tall as the sky, and supported by long straight poles jutting in different angles. The canvas is taut and nearly translucent-- sunlight filters through the material and seams, illuminating the largest candy stand of all. This book isn't very inappropriate, and it is very good!!!

Catalyst

This week I read Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson. It is about a girl named Kate who is relying on getting into MIT. She doesn't tell anyone, but it is the only college she applied to. Her father is a preacher, and she acts like a perfect kid, but on the inside she really isn't. Their neighbors, the Litch's house burns down, and Teri and Mikey move in with Kate and her little brother Toby. Teri and Kate have always been enemies and Kate has to work on opening up to her. This book is almost 300 pages long, and it is pretty appropriate for any age. Kate and Teri were both really deep and interesting characters. Kate has 2 sides: Good Kate and Bad Kate, and it is interesting how they both come up in the book. And Teri just has a lot of hard things to deal with, and it is interesting to see her in that position. Overall I just think this was a really good book and I recommend it.

Will Grayson, Will Grayson

This book by John Green and David Levithan is about two boys with the same name. One Will has a gay friend named Tiny, and a crush on a girl named Jane, and he deals with social things. The other Will realizes he is gay when he and Will meet and a store and he falls in love with Tiny. The first sentence is: My Dad used to tell me "Will, you can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose." It is pretty intriguing, and you definitely want to keep reading with that first line. This book has a few curse words and mature topics but not too many!!!