2 books down!

Over the weekend I finished both Jane Eyre andddd The House on Mango Street!! Exciting, I know! I just started The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks after my mom bought it, read it, and cried from it yesterday. She said it was really good. Kimmy Goldstein, my friend, also read it over break and really liked it. I've seen a lot of the movies that are based on Nicholas Sparks' books and have loved them. Especially A Walk to Remember and The Notebook. My mom also read The Wedding by him and liked it. Jane Eyre started to feel almost like an investment for me. I'd put so much time and effort into reading the book that I was waiting for the reward to finally come. It did...the ending of Jane Eyre was cute and unexpected and the book overall was very good. Was it long? yes. Did it take an extremely long time for me to read? yes. Do I regret reading it? no! Ms. Bandman was right. It is a classic that is wordy and long with small type but nevertheless it's a good book with a great story and a lot of twists and turns--kinda starting to sound like the Odyssey. The House on Mango Street was an extremely short read. It was 110 pages to be exact but it was nothing like I expected. It contained over fourty chapters! It was a book that was made up of one to three page chapters filled with vivid imagery of observations or experiences the main character, Esperanza Cordero either saw or went through. It was an overall good book. The only reason I read it was for Global but I did really enjoy it.

Off to read The Last Song!

Allie