Books!
It's been a while since I've posted anything and I don't have anything major I want to talk about right now, so instead I'm going to talk about books.
I think that buying my Kindle was one of the best uses of cash ever. Not only can I load it full of study material for my free periods at school and surf the net on it at the school that set up wifi specifically because half the teaching staff now have Kindles too (my fault, hahaha) but I've read so many more books in the last six months than I have in the last six years.
The last books I finished were the Divergent series.
It's going to be a movie soon-ish, and it's in the same vein as the Hunger Games series. Future, dystopic society, strong female lead and written for a YA audience.
It isn't the most well written of series but the story is good, it has many twists, turns and major surprises and makes you keep reading until the end. One thing that I really did like about it, is that it explains quite clearly how the society ended up how it did, instead of just doing some hand waving and saying WAR like so many other similar books do. The explanation might be a slight cop out (no spoilers) but at least there is an explanation.
I've recently re-read the Anne Rice Vampire Chronicles but bailed out before the series turned terrible and preachy. The earlier books are still great though.
I'm halfway through a re-read of Alice in Wonderland. I've become so used to the Disney adaptation of it, that I had forgotten how seriously trippy the original is. It reads like one prolonged high, not a fantasy land.
I really want to get the Harry Potter series in Japanese, but I remember opening the first book once in a store and crying at the amount of katakana everywhere, hahahahaha.
Any readers on the F-list? What have you been reading lately?
I think that buying my Kindle was one of the best uses of cash ever. Not only can I load it full of study material for my free periods at school and surf the net on it at the school that set up wifi specifically because half the teaching staff now have Kindles too (my fault, hahaha) but I've read so many more books in the last six months than I have in the last six years.
The last books I finished were the Divergent series.
It's going to be a movie soon-ish, and it's in the same vein as the Hunger Games series. Future, dystopic society, strong female lead and written for a YA audience.
It isn't the most well written of series but the story is good, it has many twists, turns and major surprises and makes you keep reading until the end. One thing that I really did like about it, is that it explains quite clearly how the society ended up how it did, instead of just doing some hand waving and saying WAR like so many other similar books do. The explanation might be a slight cop out (no spoilers) but at least there is an explanation.
I've recently re-read the Anne Rice Vampire Chronicles but bailed out before the series turned terrible and preachy. The earlier books are still great though.
I'm halfway through a re-read of Alice in Wonderland. I've become so used to the Disney adaptation of it, that I had forgotten how seriously trippy the original is. It reads like one prolonged high, not a fantasy land.
I really want to get the Harry Potter series in Japanese, but I remember opening the first book once in a store and crying at the amount of katakana everywhere, hahahahaha.
Any readers on the F-list? What have you been reading lately?