The last book of the Percy Jackson series, The Last Olympian sees the fulfillment of the prophecy and the final battle of monsters and demi-gods.
I know the books are aimed at teenage readers but I still loved them.
Read them! You’ll enjoy it.
Book 4 of the Percy Jackson series is The Battle of the Labyrinth. This book sees Percy blow up another school and get propelled into another adventure in the world of the Greek Gods and heroes.
This time around the “Lord of Time” Kronos is finally reformed. Percy’s rival/nemesis Luke gave everything to bring the titan back. Grover finally finds the god Pan and comes into his own.
There is a lot of growth in our hero and the main characters in this book. Percy is still 15 but is starting to deal with a lot more than monsters chasing him. The author does a great job, as always, of blending a good tale from the legends of mythology and giving them a modern bend.
A good read and a great book
Douglas Adams’ classic is read by the comedian Stephen Fry and brings us all back to a time when digital watches were the bleeding edge of technology. The Hitchhiker’s Guide is the first of a series of 5 books first published in 1979. It has since gone on to be a TV series and a full motion picture.
This book has brought a smile to me several times over my life. I really enjoy the dry wit and the general ridiculousness of each situation. Author’s character keeps getting placed in situations from ridiculousness to impossible. In each situation he somehow maintains his demeanor and sanity. Of course, this simply serves to juxtapose the ridiculousness of our daily lives against the over the top situations presented in the novel. Author somehow moves forward just as we do.
Don’t panic! Just read the book. You’ll enjoy it.
Eragon is the first book in the Inheritance Cycle. Written by Christopher Paolini in 2002, it delivers the classic hero’s tale of a orphan book who is more than he appears.
Eragon was fun to read and goes down pretty easy. Outside of it being more or less unbelievable at times, it was an enjoyable book.
Great book if you like the genre.
The War I Finally Won follows the book The War that Saved My Life. It is the story of a young woman in England during WWII. Now orphaned, she is finally able to have the surgery to correct her club foot and be more like other people. Yet, she soon learns much more about the wide world as a German immigrant comes to stay with them.
This is a good book to transport yourself to a time and place where there is a war going on. In today’s America, we don’t know a great deal about having to go without or having to come together for a greater cause outside our own desires. I think back to after 9/11 and the feeling in the county. The unity and lack of backbiting was a silver lining to the tragedy. Sadly, it was short lived.
This book isn’t my usual fair. As with the book proceding it, I read it because others were and I wanted to understand where they were coming from.
I don’t know if I would recommend this book or not. I didn’t really enjoy reading it and I don’t know what I got out of it in general.
The Last Mile is a story of the vindication of a death row inmate, Melvin Mars, after 20 years of false imprisonment. A washed up detective, Amos Decker, helps to put the pieces together the murder of his parents who and why his parents were killed.
This book was well written and kept me engaged and entertained. I’m not quite sure what I was looking for but the plot took another direction
If you like mysteries, this is a great book.
The Titan’s Curse is book three in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. The Titan Kronos is slowly coming back to power and his general Atlas is freed of his burden. Percy and his friends have to save an innocent creature from sacrifice or Kronos will return.
After I read book 2 I had to move along to book 3. Another fun read from Rick Riordan. Percy is getting more familiar with his powers and is noticing he has feelings for his friend Annabeth.
Another great book
The Sea of Monsters is book 2 in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. Percy finds himself back in adventures as his beloved Camp Half Blood is under siege.
I hadn’t remembered I had read this till I started through it again. There are more books in the Percy Jackson series and I thought this was one of them. However, I was glad I read it again.
Great read. Perfect for the teenage boy.
Slaughterhouse-Five is a novel written by Kurt Vonnegut that follows the life of Billy Pilgrim, a World War II soldier who becomes “unstuck in time” and experiences his life in a non-linear fashion. The novel explores the themes of the destructiveness of war and the inevitability of fate, while also incorporating elements of science fiction and satire. Billy’s experiences as a prisoner of war and a witness to the bombing of Dresden are juxtaposed with his later life as an optometrist and his encounters with aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. Through Billy’s story, Vonnegut challenges traditional notions of storytelling and the linearity of time, ultimately questioning the human capacity for compassion and understanding in the face of senseless violence.
I wasn’t impressed with this one. Vonnegut is a master writer to be sure. His method of writing comes across as both easy and sincere and the reader is effortlessly transported to the story.
However, the story was very strange. I actually liked that it was disjointed and the concept of time travel through life moments was a very interesting thought. When put in context of when this book was released, it was lightyears ahead of it’s time (pardon the pun).
This book belongs to a different era and was written for a different audience. It is great for historical perspective but I didn’t enjoy it. “So it goes.”
The third and final book in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Return of the King finally sees the great war through and ends an age on Middle Earth.
Again I enjoyed the read. The most recent movie gets further and further away from me as I read the actual book. Though it follows it closely, it isn’t much of a match for the book.
If you haven’t read it then you should.