K's Book Review

Hey everyone, another week gone by and another story read. This one is a Zombie story, yay right? I had picked it up from an author I had met at FanExpo in a town not far from where I live. We quickly become acquaintances, and I agreed to read the book to give her an honest review. Well, Julianne, this is my review! The book was a great new take on Zombies, which is hard to believe because I have read sooooo many zombie stories that I can't think of any new takes on it. But you managed to capture my attention, and I loved how the different stories of people were incorporated into the book without interrupting the way the story was told. The story is told in a blog style, where the narrator is posting online her story day by day from the beginning and telling people what she is experiencing. She is accompanied by her friends, Barbara, Max, Ben, and Bob, with whom she has met over the years and who have all been preparing for this day and who all had fi...

Hello everyone, running a little late today. So much work to get done it's not even funny. No seriously, don't laugh. Anyway, I am sneaking in some time between assignments to do this post, because it is Friday, and I am not going to miss a day for homework! I decided to see what Google, one of the biggest websites on the web would think of the Top Ten Classic books this time, and thankfully I think I have read some of them. I guess we will see now that we are getting started! 1. The Great Gatsby --> As I have said previously, yes I have read this book! 2. To Kill a Mockingbird --> Yes, I have also read this book, and I find it quite enjoyable. Even if I was forced to read it by my mean English teacher... 3. The Catcher in the Rye 4. Nineteen Eighty-Four 5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 6. Pride and Prejudice  7. Moby Dick --> Once again, I mentioned that I had read this one in previous entries. 8. Wuthering Heights --> Yep, read this one as w...

Hello everyone, hope you had a great weekend and are looking forward to an even better week! A couple weeks ago I was at FanExpo in Toronto, and I ran into horror writer Stephen Pearl. Interested in his books, I bought this one and set out to read it while I was continuing my studies in University. Finally finished the book, and it was quite a good read.  So you know how it goes, here is the vague description of what it is about! In the not so distant future the world is at war with an alien race. We meet our hero's early on and see them reunite once again after what appears to be quite a while. The earth as we know it is not a very different place, and at first perhaps, we are quite confused. Through advanced technology we are able to go back to 2030 when it all began and watch the events that lead to the war unfold through the perspective of a few different people. From what we know, alien species came to earth, and put out a message of peace. The worlds scienti...

Happy Friday everyone! Hope you have had a great week and are looking forward to the weekend ahead. So I started reading more classical books considering how badly I scored last time, and this time I am confident I can do better than one single book!  So here we go! 1. Ulysses  2. In Search of Lost Time 3. Don Quixote  4. Moby Dick <-- Yes! I just read this one in the last week or so, and though it had a really, really, really, slow start, it was still worth reading. If nothing else, you can at least you can say you read it!  5. The Great Gatsby <-- Okay, yes I finally read this one after reading Moby Dick. It was a bit odd, and it was nothing like what I was expecting. No, I didn't see the movie. I don't want to either. I generally try to avoid watching movies based off of books unless I a) have no intention to ever read them, or b) they are old enough that even if I read it, it won't matter because the movie just might be better than the writing s...

Hey everyone, look who's here? It's me! I'm back! And I actually read a book with all the spare time I now have! The Prediction was a book that the author was kind enough to send me to read, and I managed to find the time to get to it today. And I must say, and I must, that it was quite the read. From the moment I picked it up to the moment I put it down I was amazed at the writing style and choice in diction from the author.  Now, as I always do, let me tell you a bit about what you are getting into when you pick up this book to read! Daniel is a failed mathematician who is working as a crane operator when his old professor looks him up to tell him that his thesis needs to be looked at again. And what is this thesis about? Why, nothing more than a equation that can predict the date of death for the person it is applied to. He is approaching him because one of the people he predicted would die has died, and on the exact date it was predicted! Daniel isn't about to...

Hey everyone, and happy Friday! I know! What am I thinking? Posting on a Friday? Has the world gone mad?  Nope, I'm starting something new. I read a lot, yes a lot, and I like to read some of the classics as well as the books for teens. Anyone who loves to read knows that sticking with one genre forever can get repetitive. And some times it is nice to see where books came from and what inspired some of the great writers of today. But of course, I couldn't have read them all, and some of them I don't care to read. But many websites will tell you different 'Classic' books based on what the readers are thinking. Some say Dracula, while others aim towards plays like Hamlet. So I decided to check out some websites and see what they say is the Top Ten Classic books, and then tell you which ones out of them I have read. At the end, I will tell you what I thought of the ones I read, and even rate myself on book reading skills, based on how many I myself have read.  So he...

Hey everyone, another great week ahead of us, and more time behind us! Hopefully our time is well spent! Now, most of us have seen or at least heard of The Phantom of the Opera, which is a popular movie based off of the book written by Gaston Leroux, which features a disfigured man who plagues the Opera and who is in love with the talented young actress Christine. I personally loved the movie (the newer one), and I thought it would be... unjust if I not read the book to see how it was originally supposed to play out. What I got was a lot different than the way the movie portrayed it. We start out the novel no from the point of view of Christine or Roule, but of someone (I believe Gaston himself) telling the story of how he came to find out about the rumour of the 'Phantom' who tormented the Opera house years in the past. And then we observe, from a third person standpoint, Roule and Christine as they mingle about with each other when they come back. The only mention of th...

Hey everyone, look at that beautiful book cover right there. Isn't it nice? It's a good book too, that lead to a lot of awesome books to come after it, and an entire other series that connects with this one. I actually read this a couple of years ago before Kelly Armstrong became big. I liked it mostly because it held my attention from the first chapter and didn't waste any time getting right into the story. Chloe wants to live a normal life, and so far she is achieving just that. That is, until she sees a ghost one day at her high school, and the ghost notices that she can see it and attacks her trying to get her to help. She freaks out and has to be restrained by her teachers, and then she is sent off to a school for troubled teens. At first she doesn't realize why she is there, considering she freaked out one time and suddenly they are shipping her off to the looney bin. But the longer she spends there the more she notices that the kids there are like her.  ...