Mrs. Dalloway by: Virginia Woolf
I tried. I couldn’t even get to 100 pages. I looked it up and other people said it was slow to start, but I just couldn’t even get into it.
Someone made a movie and I don’t know why.
Onto the next one.
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
I received this book with two others from my birthday. This isn’t part of the 100 book poster, but man this book was so good. You don’t find out the truth until the last 10 pages and then it hits you in the face. This is also a book that you have to talk to someone about after you have read it.
To Kill a Mockingbird by: Harper Lee
376 pages
I thought that I remembered reading this book in school at some point and seeing the movie. But, the trial and the aftermath of the trial still flew me for a loop. When I finished I watched a couple of clips from the movie on YouTube. The best one that they had was when Atticus was giving his last attempt to make the jury see that Tom was indeed not guilty.
Page 323
Then Mr. Underwood’s meaning became clear: Atticus had used every tool available to free mean to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of mens hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.
Lord Jim by: Joseph Conrad
The back of the books states,
Conrad’s immortal novel of the sea, its rewards and perils-the story of man’s guilt, his expiation, and his final tragic redemption.
100 pages in never got to any other that. The main character was at sea. I couldn’t stop thinking about the Titanic or that one movie with Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher where they train to be Navy Seals.
Back to the book. I couldn’t read any more thinking how he was on a small boat, working with others and nothing that was the wonderful back cover of the book was being talked about.
I have decided that I am going to read at least 100 pages of a book before I decide if there is any way I can make myself want to read to finish it.
Stay tuned to see how many out of the hundred books I cant make myself finish.
The Catcher in the Rye By: J D Salinger
Is this a book that everyone has to read in school? Did I just not read it? I’ll put a synopsis below, but I just couldn’t put the book down and read it in about a whole day. It was really good. The whole book was just the main character and two days of his life when you as the reader just follow him around. He is getting kicked out of yet another boarding school and the time before he leaves. He also tries to get home and the places that he goes and sees when he doesn’t want to face his family. Again, I don’t know if I said, but I really liked it.
Synopsis:
The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days.
Midnight Children By: Salman Rushdie
This book is 552 pages and tiny words. I was ready to read it, especially when I read the synopsis.
Saleem Sinai was born at midnight, the midnight of India’s independence, and found himself mysteriously “handcuffed to history” by the coincidence. He is one of 1,001 children born at the midnight hour, each of them endowed with an extraordinary talent—and whose privilege and curse it is to be both master and victims of their times. Through Saleem’s gifts—inner ear and wildly sensitive sense of smell—we are drawn into a fascinating family saga set against the vast, colourful background of the India of the 20th century.
I read until about page 200 and none of the above had happened yet. The main character would go back and forth from his life, his father’s time, and what had happened in grandfather’s time. I feel like every character had almost the same name so it was hard to follow, especially b/c it wasn’t changing in each chapter, but paragraph to paragraph would go through the different times. This is another book that I just could not read till the end. I tried it for three days and could not get into it.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By: Mark Twain
So many thoughts on this books. It is a banned booked and not taught in high schools. There has always been talk about a boy wandering around with an adult black man, but what I want to say, is the N word is every other page. Even if its from the time, I can’t even give any more examples, only to say, it was not needed at all. You knew throughout the book that Big Jim was a slave and how he lived his life. In no way was it needed to show or do anything.
On another note, I don’t know how Huck survived. My DFCS techniques were triggered at so many times in the book. Huck’s father was terrible. I mean, he wanted Huck only when he found out from others that he had money. He stole him and kept him in a cabin for weeks. He was unable to leave the locked cabin and was made to work.
When he finally was able to leave, he met up with Jim. The ending was wonderful. He met back up with his friend Tom Sawyer, in which finally told everyone that Jim had been given his freedom when his owner died. There is lots of things that happen in between. Many different times where is belly was full and he had clothes to wear.
Mary Poppins By: P L Travors
I know that I have seen the movie and did not like it. I also did not watch the new movie. I did read the book and the book was just fine to me. It’s another book that I can see why they wrote a movie after it. The concept was movie like.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory By: Roald Dahl
This is a book that I have never read, but have seen the movie a million times. I think I have seen the oldest way of the movie at least a dozen times. I did not see the Johnny Depp’s version. Well, just speaking of the book, it was alright. Charlie is a poor boy, it says that he is too skinny for his size. All of his family lives together and the only one that is able to work is his father, which he is never has a consecutive job. Every birthday he is able to get a chocolate bar. By how many times I just go to the store to get anything I want, I wonder what it would be like to have to wait for anything.
All of the children who come to the chocolate factory show who they really are. Each child either acts out or does what they want.
In the end, it is revealed that the whole thing was a surprise in itself. The entire day has been another contest, the prize for which is the entire chocolate factory. When I read it and when I think about the movie, I think about how the good guy wins in the end.
Reading becomes a pattern 