My Summer Reading

 Hi, my name is Juliana. I love to read and mark up my book with post-its. I love to have my book marked up and messy. I usually read at night in bed. In my book there are a lot of key ideas and quotes that apply to everyone. At the moment I am reading the book called Egg and Spoon by Gregory Maguire. This book is about a girl with 2 brothers and the 2 brothers disappear. The girl named Elena is left all alone with her sick mother and she has to take care of her with a drunk crazy doctor that does not really help there family. One brother goes to earn some money far away, and the oldest brother has been taken away by soldiers.

Over the summer I have read five books. The one that I loved the most was Me and Earl and the Dying Girl.
   

I liked  this book a lot because several of teenagers can relate to this story about a friend that is totally different then you are and a girl that you have known for  your whole life that all of a sudden has cancer. Of course your mom makes you hang out with her and then you fall in love with this girl. This book is hilarious and makes you appreciate everything that you have and cherish.

Another book that I read over the summer is The Diviners by Libba Bray. This book is mysterious and spooky and it is also funny and interesting and draws you in and continues to get better throughout the book.

   

One book that I attempted to read called The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson I got about 50-60 pages in and then decided that this book was not for me. I kept on reading  thinking and telling myself that it would get better and more interesting later on in the book. I was inspired to read this book when I went to Chicago and saw the book for sale. I asked my parents what is was about and they said that they had read it before and that we had it at home. I thought that I would like because it was about a serial killer that gathered its victims at a very famous fair held in Chicago. This story is based on a true tale and true facts although it may by hard to believe it is true. This book had very small type and big complex high level words that led me to the decision that this was not my kind of book.

I also read the Fault in our Stars which I did not totally like. It was to sad for me and depressing. There were some funny and cool parts that I enjoyed but there were more sad parts then funny and happy parts. Overall my summer reading was very enjoyable and it gave me a very clear idea of what kind of books I like and what books I don't like.