Mondays in Oppostion #1
Ever read two books at once and the details blend together until you can't separate them? Not Your Faery Tale, Twisted Fates Cafe, and Scribing Shadows present Mondays in Opposition to solve that problem. Two or more contrasting books that work well to read simultaneously are featured for those ravenous readers out there.
Last week was the first ever Mondays in Opposition post over at Not Your Faery Tale and this week is my fist post :).
Title: Zoe's Tale (An Old Man's War, #4)
Author: John Scalzi
Publisher: Tor Books How do you tell your part in the biggest tale in history?
I ask because it's what I have to do. I'm Zoe Boutin Perry: A colonist stranded on a deadly p...more
How do you tell your part in the biggest tale in history?
I ask because it's what I have to do. I'm Zoe Boutin Perry: A colonist stranded on a deadly pioneer world. Holy icon to a race of aliens. A player (and a pawn) in a interstellar chess match to save humanity, or to see it fall. Witness to history. Friend. Daughter. Human. Seventeen years old.
Everyone on Earth knows the tale I am part of. But you don't know my tale: How I did what I did - how I did what I had to do - not just to stay alive but to keep you alive, too. All of you. I'm going to tell it to you now, the only way I know how: not straight but true, the whole thing, to try make you feel what I felt: the joy and terror and uncertainty, panic and wonder, despair and hope. Everything that happened, bringing us to Earth, and Earth out of its captivity. All through my eyes.
It's a story you know. But you don't know it all.
Title: Just Listen
Author: Sarah Dessen
Publisher:Viking Juvenile
Last year, Annabel was "the girl who has everything"-at least
that's the part she played in the television commercial for Kopf's Department Store.This year, she's the girl who has nothing: no best friend because mean-but-exciting Sophie dropped her, no peace at home since her older sister became anorexic, and no one to sit with at lunch. Until she meets Owen Armstrong. Tall, dark, and music-obsessed, Owen is a reformed bad boy with a commitment to truth-telling. With Owen's help,maybe Annabel can face what happened the night she and Sophie stopped being friends.
Two very different books as you can see. Zoe's Tale is a sci-fi set in the future where not everyone lives on Earth but also on other planets known as colonies. There is suspense a great main character who is self aware, sarcastic and witty. Just Listen is a contemporary novel about a girl who has trouble talking about herself and speaking the truth about one very particular night. And although these novels are very different I love them both, they each had focus on family and friendships, our MCs grow to be admirable individuals and each book had me laughing in the beginning and crying near the end.
Make sure to check out Twisted Fates Cafe next week for the next installment of Mondays in Opposition.