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Well, like any other Harry Potter book, this one holds your attention and turns out to be a speedy read despite being more than 700 pages in length. My problem with it was that it seemed like nothing happened for most of the book - just camping out in the woods. Also, the summer chapters before Harry goes back to Hogwarts always irked me, and ( Read more... )

Opinions about Native Son and/or I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings ?

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Keeping the Moon by Sarah Dessen


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I really enjoyed this book - it was amazing. The whole conflict with the Catholic Church is annoying, however, because the book is fiction, although Brown's descriptions of artwork, documents, and rituals are stated to be true. I thought Brown did an excellent job writing The Da Vinci Code and it's a good book for anyone who enjoys action filled ( Read more... )

I just finished The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger.
I happened to love it. It wasn't at all hard to read and was quite modern compared to other works such as A Tale of Two Cities. It was a great, depressing coming of age story. I enjoyed Holden's cynical, witty thoughts on the world. I especially loved when Phoebe, Holden's sister, asked him ( Read more... )

Herman Hesse's novel Siddartha is such light reading that after Tale of Two Cities, it was glorious.


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