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An Abundance of Katherines

Title: An Abundance of Katherines Author: John Green 228 paginas Date first published: 2006 So Colin Singleton is a prodigy not a genius. Difference: Prodigy learns very quickly what other people have already figured out.  Geniuses discover that which no one elsa have discovered.  He doesn't matter. He has dated 19 girls, he has a very specific type, not a body or ratial or anythiung like that. He dates K-A-T-H-E-R-I-N-E-S. He is a high school graduate. He just went to the celebration and his girlfriend, Katherine breaks up with him that day. He is devastated.  Colin's one and only friend Hassan. He is a slightly more religius man than Colin. He is Islamic and always tried to convert Colin adn remind him he needs more God in his life and choices.  They go on a road trip for the summer to get over Katherine.  It is a simple, YA contemporary. Nohing much happens other than Collin get the crazy idea that he can make a mathemtical equation of love and KAtherines ar

The Broker

Title: The Broker Author: John Grishman 422 pages/ 18 Chapters Date published September 2006 So another John Grishman book,this is his typical work a Thriller revolving around law and layers.  So the story goes like this: The US president tried running for reelection. Mr Morgan and Mrs Morgan toured the country looking for support. But in many of the places they visited the family made several mistakes that went from insulting the local sports team to bad mouthing the typical food from said places. Bad badbad for politics really. In other words, his family made it impossible for him to be reelected. In the last few minutes of his presidential mandate he gets a visit from the director of the CIA, Teddy Mynard, with a single request: To request the FULL PARDON of one Joel Backman. Funny fact: Preseident Morgan just lost the reelections. Morgan and Maynard hate each other's guts with a passion. CIA arguments that Backman went to jail without talking. He possess secrets that

Prodigy

Title: Prodigy Author: Marie Lu 374 pages Date published: January 2013 It is the second book of the Trilogy Legend. So here we have June and Day after they escape from the escape from the execution. .... Well I have to admit Marie Lu is an awesme writer. The way things unravel in the story just makes you anxious, you MUST make it to the end. It is infuriating the way things go simultaneaously too slow and too many revelations at the same time. I just feel like we need to see how it unfolds in order to see really what is going on. Who is the right person to back? Is it the Patriots and Razor? Whom you feel  are hiding something? Is it the Elector.... or is he manipulating the situation?  It is confusing and alluring, you feel so conected to the story you feel their conflicting loyalties and beliefs as your own. So let's recap: After joining the Patriots and aggreeing to help them, they get their mission: Assasinate the Elector. Part one and two of the plan go perfect but the

Two by Two

Title: Two by Two Author: Nicholas Sparks 497 pages / 167 chapter (read it online) This book was published in October 2016 so it's fairly recent in my opinion. Initially I went into it not kowing anything other than the title and the author's name. It was enough to get me in.  I was very wrong, not about picking up the book but it was definately not what I expected to find. My idea of the book : A romance novel, something fluffy and cute, a loving family story.  What I actually found was:  A story about a family since its aboutto be to the real deal, but it was clear something bad happens and the family shatters. But none the less I am already captured by it. From the very fist pages it offers a very sincere hindsight of what pregnancy and childlabor looks like from the father's perspective. It is filled with the anxiety and the poor choice making ability of a father to be mainly due to the fact that everything seems like its decided under duress. In most men's m

Legend

Title: Legend Author: Marie Lu 305 pages  Date published November 2011. As usual this is not a very recent release but I was intrigued by the book description and because well I just saw that it was a complete series and I wanted to start noly those that were complete. Book description: From different worlds, June and Day have no reason to cross paths... Until June's brother is murdered, and Day becomes the prime suspect. In a shocking turn of events, the two uncover what has really brought them together, and the sinister lengths to which their country will go to keep its secrets. This is a dystopian YA book, let's face it we just can't have enough of them. So the ain characters are June and Day. June is a second dauther born into a good enough family. She takes the Trial, which is a test of several aspects, health, physical endurance and intellectual. She gets a perfect score on her written test and is considered a prodigy. She lives with her sole family member,

Skipping Christmas

Title: Skipping Christmas Author: John Grishman 198 apges/ 20 chapters because it was online Date published November 2001 Book description: Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded shops, no corny office parties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents. That's just what Luther and Nora Krank have in mind when they decide that, just this once, they'll skip the holiday altogether. Theirs will be the only house on the street without a rooftop Frosty the snowman; they won't be hosting their annual Christmas Eve bash; they aren't even going to have a tree. They won't need one, because come December 25 they're setting sail on a Caribbean cruise. But, as this weary couple is about to discover, skipping Christmas brings enormous consequences - and isn't half as easy as they'd imagined. So I have enjoyed John Grishman's book the partner and it is one of my favorites, so this year I decided to read and start buying his books because I generally enjoy

To begin

So for starters I am very bad at keeping my writings a single language so it will be confusing but in order to practice I will leave this one in English. Let's see how that works out for me.  There is really no purpose to this blog other than have my opinions about what I'm reading somewhere. I did try to do this before in paper but it never works out because writing on a notebook is bad for me for several reasons: 1. Can't place pictures really. I don't always post the picture of my books but sometimes I want to and can't because I don't have a color printer available to me. And printing a black and white picture of my book is not always very appealing. 2. Writing takes much more time than typing for me and usually I apply too much pressure on my paper when I write; even more when I'm exited about something, that my hand starts to hurt after a while and I can't complete my task in the end. Also because it takes too much time to write, thus my ideas