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Friday, February 26, 2010

The Uninvited

Books are the world. They provide entertainment, knowledge, and even games. This is why I'm reading The Uninvited by Tim Wynne-Jones.

This book is about Mimi, a fairly young woman travelling north to Ontario to her cottage. When she arrives, she notices that that an unnamed man is living there. After a few hours of exploring and talking in house, the man invites Mimi to his mothers house.

This book started out great. It truly painted a vivid photograph of the characters and the setting truly exploded with complex colors, but as I read on, the book became a tedious read. Judging from the cover and the small description located on the back of the book, I would have though this was a suspense/thriller novel, although it is quite the opposite. So far this novel has left me with several meaningless facts about these two characters, with no building suspense, climax, or resolutions to any conflicts.

I would like to end this blog post by saying that I do not recommend this to anyone that going into this book thinking this is a suspense/thriller novel. It is much more of a mystery book gone terribly wrong. If I must recommend this book, I would recommend it to people ages 13-30 who have read the mystery genre. In the end, it is quite a dissapointing book for the amount I have read.




Monday, February 22, 2010

My Relationship with Books

"You lose a lot of time, hating people." ~Marian Anderson

My relation with books has been complicated. I find the majority of books we pick up in class are written by very amateur authors. The reason why I chose the quote above is because I tend to leave behind books I dislike. I always end up having to read it at the last moment but you end up realizing that you should have read it to get it over with in the beginning. Although I do read a wide array of books spanning from magazines, newspapers, to reference books.