Saturday, April 12, 2014

Spring Break TBR

Now I know I said I wouldn't do TBRs anymore but now that I have a week off from school I have lots of time for reading. Here are the books I intend on reading. I might not get around to all of them but I will try.
This is another book I am reading for school though it sounds more interesting  than Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes. Evolution, Me and Other Freaks of Nature is about Mena, a Christian girl who after speaking up for a bullied student is kicked out of her church and is shunned by her friends and family. It doesn't help that her brilliant biology teacher is teaching evolution to a class of devout Christians. This book sounds interesting to me based on the plot. It reminds me of Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson which I enjoyed. Overall, I have hopes for this novel.



The 5th Wave has been getting a lot of hype recently and based on the plot the hype is for a good reason. This novel presents us with the idea of a sudden alien apocalypse in present day. The aliens start controlling the Earth, shutting down electricity, causing huge earthquakes and even spreading the avian flu. We see through the eyes of several characters on a journey to survive when almost no else is left.
Maus by Art Spiegelman is a graphic novel telling the true story of the authors parents, who were Jews, living through the Holocaust. The Jews are portrayed as mice and the Nazis are portrayed as cats as you can see from the cover. This, along with its sequel which I will also read, sounds like a fascinating story of a survivor's tale especially after learning about World War II and the Holocaust in school.
Insurgent is an absolute must-read for me. It is the sequel to Divergent, a book I very much enjoyed. This series is very hyped up from almost everyone. If you are curious about the story I will leave my review of Divergent here. 
Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick, the author of The Silver Linings Playbook, sounds like another fascinating story about a man named Leonard Peacock who decides one day to shoot his best friend and then himself. I have never read a book from an almost antagonistic point of view so this one is something new. This novel lets you experience the mind of a mentally unwell person trying to find his meaning which I beieve is very important to read about.
I am reading The Mortal Instruments series (along with The Infernal Devices trilogy pictured below) by Cassandra Clare for the Clare-A-Thon, a reading marathon from April 16 to April 22. The goal is to read as many of these Cassandra Clare books as you can in this time span. This is all taking place to prepare for the release of the final book in The Mortal Insrtuments series, City of Heavenly Fire. In this marathon participants are eligible for prizes by completing challenges and sprints, the grand prize being a signed copy of City of Heavenly Fire. You can find more information at the event's Goodreads page here

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