Twilight

Title: Twilight

Author: Stephenie Meyer

Genre: Fantasy, Drama, Romance

Brief Synopsis: A teenaged girl moves to a rainy town called Forks in Washington state to live with her father after her mother remarries. She finds herself more comfortable in the town than she originally thought, making a few friends, one in particular a beautiful mysterious boy named Edward Cullen. She finds herself attracted to this obvious danger, and can't help it. The story is centered around the strange love story of Bella and Edward...who isn't human. We examine all of the flaws in the unnatural relationship between the two characters--and yet you can't help falling in love with them both--and the entire book.

Comments: Might I start out by saying I was prepared to hate this book. The whole vampire thing completely turned me off. But I'm eating crow--for I LOVED this book (Yes, yes, Lauren, you were right). I felt like it didn't have a boring spot in the whole thing, I could not put this down. It was really refreshing reading a book in which I had absolutely NO idea what was going to happen because it could go so many ways. I was very captivated by the completely different story and I fell in love with all of the characters which were all so relatable.

Classify: A fast paced love story with perks of action! Quick read--despite it's look.

Worth reading?: Yes. Absolutely yes.

Did you find this book particularly easy or difficult?: Easy, it's very easy, and very fun.

Would you read this again?: Yes, I already have :]

How long did it take you to read this?: Er...two days? Quicker than I thought.

Really read this! It was great, so were New Moon and Eclipse!

Kendal <3

Pride and Prejudice

Title: Pride and Prejudice

Author: Jane Austen

Genre: Classic, Romance

Brief Synopsis: Pride and Prejudice is an infamous love story about Elizabeth Bennet, a girl of low class and standing. Her mother is a silly woman, of which the only thing on her mind is getting her five daughters married. Throughout the story we follow the Bennet family and courtships of Mr. Bingley, Mr. Wickham, and Mr. Darcy. It's a story much to do with finding true love, disreguarding class, and overcoming pride and prejudices.

Comments: Let me begin what is sure to be a long winded review, by saying I LOVED this book! I know I'll read it again, and get so much more out of it. I was really afraid of reading this book because of some prejudices of my own. As I'm sure most of you know (since I talk about it a lot), I read Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, and pretty much abhorred it. So I skirted around the books written in generally that time period. But by a stroke of luck (or rushing?) I picked up Pride and Prejudice and I am very pleased that I did so. Alright so let me actually start...I love the witty dialect in this book! It's probably one of my favorite things about it. The characters all seem so well made that they seem extraordinarily real! Everything seems quite plausible (well, not in our time...) which just makes it all that more enchanting. Elizabeth is soo easy to relate to, that it seems impossible not to fall in love with her. As I said before the dialect is very witty, there's a good measure of humor, it was just a very enjoyable book for me. The actual story, the plot, was good. It was nice to see a development in the characters. There was one particular spot I thought it rather slow, but it was most definitely worth reading. I think if I had read this when I was a bit younger I wouldn't have liked it, I probably would've been a bit bored. But definitely excellent.

Classify: Love story--complete classic.

Worth Reading?: Absolutely, most definitely.

Did you find this book particularly easy or difficult?: I found quite a few words that I didn't know, which makes it a bit more on the difficult side.

Would you read this again?: Yes. I really believe I will.

How long did it take you to finish?: I started Monday afternoon and finished Thursday afternoon. It's like 430 pages.

--Kendal