Right now I work for a good friend of mine, I mostly help out around his shop and try not to get in the way. I learn something new every day I am there, it's a really good time and we have a lot of fun.
After calling in sick I settled in under the covers with a good book. I finished The Great Gatsby and then, hungrily, threw myself at the next one.
I had just gotten two new books in the mail; The Hunger Games (I had to see what all the fuss was about) and Chely Wright's autobiography, Like Me.
I started out with the later and I was moved. Very well written and her story was so tragic and full of fear I could not put it down. I plowed through it that day. I cannot for the life of me remember the last time I stayed up till 3 in the morning just to read all the way through a book. I think it might have been Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and that was 5 years ago!
Saturday I started The Hunger Games, and I just finished it moments ago. It was well written, the cliffhangers (there were A LOT) were well spaced and fit snugly into the story, and the world was very convincingly described.
Katniss, the protagonist, annoyed me a bit though. She was so naïve it would sometimes seem as if the author held her back, just to draw out a couple of extra pages of her wondering why something or other happened.
But all in all I enjoyed it and I might just buy the next two books in the trilogy.
It has been a good weekend, I have had a sore back, but a lot of time to read. Not a bad way to spend your time.
The score as of now is bought: 15, read: 13.
I'm getting there!
New acquisitions:
