Review: The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



I found a copy of this in the East Timor Backpackers and read it in a day. I loved the plot - incredibly gripping.



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Review: Catching Fire

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



Clearly Ms. Collins is trying to kill me with that ending. I need to get ahold of the book now.



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Review: This Charming Man

This Charming Man by Marian Keyes

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



A good read for a day on a lazy East Timotese beach. The ending saddened me.



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Review: Letters from London 1990-1995

Letters from London 1990-1995 by Julian Barnes

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



I found this at a hostel in Sumatra, and exchanged Emergency Sex for it, which is interesting because they both served to remind and educate me about the 90's. It was also good to read this after The Rotter's Club, which cover the preceding years in England. Odd to come across three books in random hostels that go so well together.



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Review: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

My rating: 0 of 5 stars



Incredible story about a child's loss of innocence and of the kind of history we should never be allowed to forget.



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Review: Visions of Cody

Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac

My rating: 1 of 5 stars



I may only have enjoyed 30 pages of this. Most of it is drugged out stupidity. Cody and Jack both struck me as complete assholes.

The only good things I take away from this book are the memories of where I was when I read it. The first half I read curled up in bed beside Sean. The second half I read on the boat trip around Komodo National park.



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P.K. Page

PREPARATION

Go out of your mind.
Prepare to go mad.
Prepare to break
split along cracks
inhabit the darks of your eyes.
Inhabit the whites.
Prepare to be huge.

Be prepared to be small
the least molecule of
an unlimited form.
Be a limited form
and spin in your skin
one point in the whole

Be prepared to prepare
for what you have dreamed
to burn and be burned
to burst like a pod
to tear at your seams.

Be pre-pared.
And pre-pare.
But it's never like that.
It is where you are not
that the fissure occurs
and the light crashes in

Review: Animal Dreams

Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



I spent the entire book wondering if I'd read it before or if the familiarity comes from the way Kingsolver tends to focus her books on a relationship, a child, the environment. It was fantastic either way and makes me want to be a much better teacher.



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