Jim the Boy

Today I finished reading the Depression-esque childhood journey novel focusing on Jim Glass growing up fatherless and in a time of change.
Let me begin by saying that I did enjoy this book. There doesn't seem to be a plot, but there doesn't have to be this one. It's a collection of stories from Jim's tenth birthday to his eleventh.
The one critical thing that I would have to say is that I did feel like, because there was no plot, there was no excitement and nothing engrossing the reader in the book. I felt like suddenly the book ended and there wasn't anything that made me worried or feel any emotion whatsoever. But that was only at the end of the book, for the rest of the book I found it as a light-hearted novel. It's an easy read and you could easily sit down and read it in a day if you wanted to.

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Huck Finn

Hemingway was correct when he said that The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is classic American literature until a certain  point. I completely agree with him. Huck by himself is a moral genius and Twain does a great job of portraying the lives of a young boy and a runaway slave.

****1/2

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave

A great historical account on the harmful cruelty of slavery.
****

Great expectations

Sorry for the short post ***

Jack K Fiction Award

The winner of the Jack K Fiction Award 2011 is DIVERGENT BY VERONICA ROTH!

Congratulations to all of the nominees.

The Odyssey

I finally finished reading the Odyssey today. It's been a while.
I figured that I wouldn't like it because of my reading a classic, but I found it actually sort of enjoyable. it's not the best but it was pretty good.

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Alice in Wonderland

Sorry that it has been a while since I've last posted but I haven't had that much time. I recently finished reading Alice and Wonderland, though, and I thought that it wouldn't be that great, but I was wrong. Usually I'm not a fan of the classics that everyone reads, but every once in a while there is one that is really good. This is one of them. It doesn't seem like the kind of book that I would like, really, but when I started reading it, I really got into it and I enjoyed it! Until the end... There's something about the end that makes me feel like Carrol was just stuck for an ending so he made one up on the spot, but other than that, I love the insanity and the strangeness of it! ****