Book List- Church #2

Eligible

A world without you

Emma

That is the list of books I’ve read in the last 12 months. Well, not all of them but probably close to the same amount. Not that I don’t like reading but it takes me time to find a good book and when I finally do find a good book I’m always working. The first book is “A world without you,” This book is by Beth Ravis, she grew up behind a cemetery and this caused her to use a lot of ghost stories and haunted stories. Even in this novel, although it is contemporary, it still adds on twists and turns. So the actual plot is about a boy named Bo who goes to a school for children with special abilities. The entire book is from the point of view of Bo and his sister who is just “ordinary.” So Bo believes that he can control time and see the past and future. After “losing” his girlfriend he spends so much time trying to go back to the past to find her. (spoilers ahead) So through the entire book you are seeing Bo struggling with his health and thinking that he is losing his mind. In the end you find out that Bo really is a kid with special needs and that his girlfriend had killed herself and he had told himself that he lost her in time. This book really made me question a lot of what I thought I knew about mental health illnesses. I spent most of the entire book thinking it was a fantasy or a supernatural book until the end. Although the author ends the book by having Bo tell his sister that she's going to lose her earring that he had seen in the future and she reaches up to feel her earring about to fall out. Another book I read was Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld. This was a modern remake of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. The book does a great job of getting the same points and ideas across at the old Pride and Prejudice but puts it into a modern perspective. I thought the book was interesting and I finished it in 3 days and couldn’t put it down. It held the romance of a romance novel, the feminism that I loved, and the maturity of an adult book with real problems. Speaking of Jane Austin books I started Emma a few weeks ago and I’ve just not had time to really get into it and the problem with old books like that is they start off slow and it's hard to get into them. Since all I do is school and work I haven’t had time to really dive into it. I know this doesn’t say much about me. I just find it more important to work hard and to do well in school than to spend my free time reading. I think it would be more important for my mental health to hang out with my friends then to spend time at home in my room reading a book. Anyway I know there weren't many books in this list but of the ones I did talk about they are probably some of my favorite books I’ve ever read.