The 8 Books You Meet in Heaven

   Hey, everyone! We haven't really had a book review/list on here in a while, so I figured it was jolly well time to make one. These are all awesometatious (ahem, rated awesome) books that I've just read in the past month or so, and they may be easy reads for some and hard for others. Note: I am indeed aware that many of our friends are really into fantasy and paranormal stuff (Maximum Ride, anyone?), but I'll be sorry to disappoint y'all in saying that most of these are realistic fiction. Sorry, guys! Maybe you'll assist in another more sci-fi book list centered around James Patterson next time around? Can't wait for comments! I'm going to include our current book club book on here too (5 People You Meet in Heaven) because it's really well written and makes ya think! Shout-out to Miss Giulia--grazie!
                                                             THE BOOK LIST
*Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls--the chronicles of a girl (and her 3 siblings) growing up with a tax-evading father who spends all his money on alcohol and a wishy-washy mother who would rather make detailed paintings of wildlife than care about her needy family (PLUS, it's a biography! So all this is real!), so her kids walk around cooking hot dogs on the stove at the age of three and setting themselves on fire, and getting locked in possessed playhouses, and punching their grandmas
*The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini--sorry guys, but I did my book report on this just a few weeks ago and I really, REALLY do not want to make a descriptive summary on this. But it's about a boy named Amir who lives in Afghanistan whose best friend, Hassan, is also his servant. Obviously there is some sort of squabble, and Amir and Hassan are separated when Amir and his father move to California, but Amir can't stop thinking about what he made Hassan go through for the rest of his sad, sad life...
*Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling--I would hope that y'all know the basic storyline of Jungle Book from the Disney movie, but the book itself is even cooler, if you're that kind of person. Kipling has really poetic stuff, and also he places random territorial chants that you and your friend gang can adopt and scream at that certain other group when they act like the bandar-log, aka monkey people. For example:
     Here we go in a flung festoon,
     Halfway up to the jealous moon!
     Don't you envy our pranceful bands?
     Don't you wish you had extra hands?
     Wouldn't you like it if your tails were--so--
     Curved in the shape of a cupid's bow?
        Now you're angry, but--never mind,
        BROTHER, THY TAIL HANGS DOWN BEHIND!      Genius, no?
*Theater Geek by Mickey Something-or-Other--perfect for, well, theater geeks.
*The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak--no words can truly describe this. Just get the book, is all I'm sayin'.
*Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks (?)--this is historical fiction set in 1600s-England in the lovely mountain villages where WOMEN JOLLY WELL AREN'T RESPECTED AT ALL! Now I must go read Between Shades of Gray, not to be confused with 50 Shades of That Same Colour.
*The Lorax by Dr. Seuss--I read this weekly and never get tired of it. Best message in the history of cute cartoon characters shaped like orange peanuts who despise consumerism, although I guess you can't really describe a color as a shape. Oh well.
*The Eleventh Plague by Jeff Hirsch--I must confess that I haven't actually finished reading it yet, but it's very futuristic and sort of reminds me of The Hunger Games because the world is sort of annihilated beyond repair, and there's also some forbidden romance going on... ooooh! To Amour--"A whole conversation! So proud!"
    So that's all for now, everyone! Thanks for listening and read these awesome books. Stay tuned for an extracurriculars post, a Studio Ghibli post (Taliaaa...?), and more! Yahoo! Okay, bye all.