Daniel Half Human by David Chotjewitz

In 1933 Germany, two boys, Daniel and Armin, swear eternal brotherhood by slitting their wrists and mingling their blood. While the scar is still healing, Daniel receives the life-altering news that he is half-Jewish. Knowing Armin is Aryan, Daniel decides to keep this a secret.

This is an outstanding addition to Holocaust fiction. This book describes Kristallnacht in chilling detail.

Hunger Games Cast

Click on this posts' title and go to the site that features the cast of Hunger Games! Can't wait to see the movie!

Looking for a good book?

World Magazine has a wonderful article on books! It uses the Dewey number as well as Genre name to categorize their reviews! Very helpful!

http://www.worldmag.com/articles/18214

Click on over and Take a look!

What are you reading?

You can read in the posts below what I've been reading! Let me know in a comment what you've been reading!

Unbroken by Lauren Hillenbrand

Louis Zamperini grew up in the 1920s. He was a hell raiser, who was more interested in a fight than in school or helping others. He was also known for grabbing things and running like the wind! His brother convinced him to use that gift of running on the track team. As a result he stayed in school and eventually ran track in college. His running earned him a spot on the 1936 USA Olympic Track Team. He went to the Olympic Games in Berlin and came in 8th. It looked like he was set to win the 1940 Olympics in Japan. He even got to meet Adolph Hitler! Instead, WWII happened and Louis went to war. He became a bombardier and found himself on a rescue mission over the Pacific Ocean. The plane crashed and only 3 of the 12 aboard survived. Louis and the other two found the raft and spent the next 200 plus days on the water. One of the men panicked and ate the only rations available, six chocolate bars. They survived on albatross and on the livers of sharks. Survival training taught them that shark liver was quite nutritious. Finally land was sighted! But it ended up being occupied by the Japanese. The Japanese eventually took them to Japan, where they were put in a P.O.W. camp that was run by The Bird, a cruel man with the last name of Wantanabe.

After the war, Louis came home and married. The war came back to him every night in the form of nightmares, which caused him to turn to alcohol. Then one day Louis attended a Billy Graham revival and met the Lord Jesus Christ and he was a changed man! No more nightmares;and
no more alcohol.

Excellent book!! I highly recommend it!!

Heaven is for Real by Todd Burpo

I have not read this book yet. I have the book because my book club chose it for June. Anyone out there read it yet? What did you think?

Hunger by Michael Grant

I just started the second book in the Gone series. I am so fascinated by this series! I want to find out what the darkness is and where the adults and older teens have gone. This book starts with the death of EZ, a sixth grader who wants to go with Sam to investigate a cabbage field. Mutant territorial worms get a hold of him and... .I think I'll let you read about it! Sam is devastated by this turn of events. And on top of this, food is getting scarce. There are four books in this series, so hunger is not the end of them! Stay tuned!!

Gone by Michael Grant

Imagine being in history class, listening to the teacher talk about The Civil War. One minute it is the North against the South, the next nothing. The teacher has disappeared. In fact, everyone over the age of 14 has disappeared. Poof. Gone. Strange mutations are everywhere. Snakes with wings, coyotes that talk and the mysterious darkness in the cave cause fear and anxiety.

Days pass. Sam reluctantly becomes the leader and tries to protect the rest. Where did the older teens and adults go? What will happen when the 14-year-olds turn 15? How will they keep order and make sure everyone has the basics to survive?

I loved this book! This fantasy/sci-fi read is a page turner! There is talk of a movie. I would go and see it! If you like fantasy, this is a great book for you!

Book Club Tonight!!

Meeting at Rafferty's for book club tonight! Can't wait to talk about The Glass Castle!

So, Fiction or Nonfiction?

Do you prefer reading Fiction or Nonfiction? If Fiction, what kind? Science Fiction? Fantasy? Realistic? Historical? If Nonfiction, what kind? Biography? Memoir? Science? History?

If given the choice, I will choose a fiction book over a nonfiction book. Fantasy or Science Fiction is what I like best. But, recently I have read several nonfiction works in the form of memoirs. These being The Glass Castle and Three Little Words. One deals with homelessness and the other with the foster care system and adoption. I have commented on both of them in earlier posts.

But now I that I have finished them, I am back to Fiction: Gone by Michael Grant. Fantasy, of course. Looks interesting! I'll let you know!