Well, I haven't read any "recent" books because my life revolves around children's literature, but here are my favorite childrens literature (chapter) books I have read this year:
"Monster" -Walter Dean Myers IT's really good, I recommend it to ya. It is written in the perspective of the protagonist, who is in jail awaiting trial for murder, and in his perspective he is thinking about his life like it is a movie. So it is written like a script and it has camera angles and all other movie-type directions like "stage left" etc. It is definitely for upper middle or high scholers but its really great.
The Watsons go to Birmingham-Christopher Curtis This is a hilarious story of a dynamic family set in 1963. Really, I laughed out loud. Then the story kind of takes a twist when the family drives down to Alabama to visit family and the youngest child ends up being a witness to the bombing of a church in Birmingham. it's really really good and if you don't read it then you're missing out.
I was going to write more, but I am tired of doing lit reviews. READ THESE BOOKS! They're CHEAP on AMAZON!
David
· 2 years ago
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand - Long on my list of to-dos, finally read this monster this past year. If you have communist leanings, you won't enjoy this one.
The Beleaguered City, Shelby Foote - No one writes about the Civil War in such inspired fashion. Foote makes you feel like he was there (in this case, Vicksburg and the preceding campaigns).
The Silmarillion, Tolkein - Because I pretty much read something Rings-related every year.
Current: A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
Daniel
· 2 years ago
I hear that The Silmarillion is rather dull because most of it is spent recounting lineages and introducing all of the different tribes, races, languages, etc.
But I really enjoyed Atlas Shrugged except where it opposed my communist leanings.... :)
David
· 2 years ago
Yeah, if you're looking for plot/story development, the Silmarillion is not for you. It's a development of all the mythology hinted at in LOTR. The story of Beren and Luthien (the precursor to Arwen and Aragorn), the creation of the world (which is an AWESOME piece of writing), the story of Numenor, stuff like that.
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"Monster" -Walter Dean Myers
IT's really good, I recommend it to ya. It is written in the perspective of the protagonist, who is in jail awaiting trial for murder, and in his perspective he is thinking about his life like it is a movie. So it is written like a script and it has camera angles and all other movie-type directions like "stage left" etc. It is definitely for upper middle or high scholers but its really great.
The Watsons go to Birmingham-Christopher Curtis
This is a hilarious story of a dynamic family set in 1963. Really, I laughed out loud. Then the story kind of takes a twist when the family drives down to Alabama to visit family and the youngest child ends up being a witness to the bombing of a church in Birmingham. it's really really good and if you don't read it then you're missing out.
I was going to write more, but I am tired of doing lit reviews. READ THESE BOOKS! They're CHEAP on AMAZON!
The Beleaguered City, Shelby Foote - No one writes about the Civil War in such inspired fashion. Foote makes you feel like he was there (in this case, Vicksburg and the preceding campaigns).
The Silmarillion, Tolkein - Because I pretty much read something Rings-related every year.
Current: A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
But I really enjoyed Atlas Shrugged except where it opposed my communist leanings.... :)
Of course, I LOVE all that stuff.