Game of Thrones

Borrowed the set from my girlfriend on our last girls night. Started reading it yesterday and it's so good. I watched the HBO series last season and loved it but the book seems even better. Can't wait to finish it and start on the next one.

UPDATE:
I finally finished this book and to be honest with you I was a little disappointed yet at the same time pretty thrilled that for once a TV show actually was true to the book...almost too true. Hence my disappointment, the book was almost EXACTLY like the series on HBO dialog and all. I enjoyed the book anyway, a bit more detail then the show gives but held my attention through all 800 pages. George Martin can sure tell a captivating story. I have already started the 2nd book in the series The Clash of Kings and so far it is great. Looking forward to updating on that one.

why does working interupt reading time?! ;)

Seriously though....since I have been working I don't get to read as often as I'd like but when I do it's a true pleasure. I just finished The Son of Neptune as  I posted in my last blog and I am currently reading Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie. I have only read the first 10 pages but I like it. Costco seems to be my new favorite place to get books due to the fact that I haven't had the time to troll my favorite places for used books. Costco is where we go to get our food so it seems only fitting I go by the books section and pick up what looks interesting. Good thing about that is that I am reading new material that's new to the market. Fun fun. Will be posting my thoughts on the new book as soon as I get a chance.

Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan

OMG I have read all the Percy Jackson books and also the new series with the LOST HERO. My boyfriend was at costco yesterday and decided to surprise me with this when I got home from work. So so happy! I have read the first 3 chapters and am looking forward to finishing it this weekend. I started a new job so I haven't been reading as much as I would like and to be completely honest the last two books I have attempted to read just haven't been that great...I hate when that happens because I really always finish my books pretty quick and if I don't like them I just never seem to be able to do that. I guess that's everyone right?

So I just finish this book and it was AMAZING!!! Big hearts for Percy Jackson, I love love him as a character. He is humble yet totally awesome all at the same time. I really like where they are taking the story tying in the fact that the Greek and Roman gods are pretty much the same. It was fun reading about the new characters Frank and Hazel as well. Rick Riordan never disappoints when it comes to the Hero's of Olympus. The story kept me locked in and was hard to put down. Like The Lost Hero it is written  with 3 characters points of view. I think that gives the book another level of depth that keeps you interested. The giants and new bad girl mother of the earth seem to be proving a terrible enemy to fight and as I have said before I can not wait for the next book to come out. It's a great read, 5 stars!!!!

New books!

I went down to my parents house in San Francisco this weekend with my daughter and my sister showed me the new toy that she got for herself this past month, the Nook. She really likes it and has been telling me how I should get one too. I figure that I will add it to my xmas wish list for this year but I want a kindle instead. With that she is a big reader like me and she gave me all the books that she's already finished with...yay for new stuff! She always makes me laugh because until she got this nook her selection of books was ALWAYS what she found at Costco. So I have a very interesting genera of books to choose from for the next month. Here goes the list in particular order:

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Water for Elephants
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
and 4 books by Dean Kootz

Happy Reading to me!

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

This is an interesting take on the story of Jacob and his wives. I was raised Catholic and have read this part of the bible many times, so to have a more in depth view (fictional of course) has been eye opening. I can see why this book was so popular when it first came out. I tend to like more thriller and series books so this one slipped by radar for quite some time. I am enjoying the read, I like how it is all through the eyes of Jacob's only daughter Dinah, who's story in the bible is very sad and brief.

I sorta knew when I started reading this that it would be very tragic and some point, but when I got to that part I was really very sad and disturbed. Crazy how barbaric things were back then in those times and what a totally different code of ethics that they lived by. The vibe of this story kinda reminds me of the book 'Like water for chocolate' that I read several years back, obviously the plots are completely different but there are the striking similarities of the tragic daughter that has to endure the utmost pain and even shame in order to get the happy ending that is extremely short lived and perhaps even more traumatizing then the journey getting there!

As I drew to the end of this story I found it to be a sad truth of how it must have really been back in those days to be a woman. Dinah lost her love, her family, and her sense of self all in a very short period of time. She moved to the far off lands of Egypt with her mother in law who never spoke of the trauma that they endured together and then after all that basically took Dinah's son as her own and raised him to be a 'Prince of Egypt'. My heart ached for her as the time passed and she lost her son entirely when he went off to school to be educated as a scribe. As the years passed she regained her trade a a midwife and eventually found love again and a home with friends. It's a really good book and I am glad to have read it.

The Help By Katheryn Stockett

So for my first review on this blog I recently just finished The Help which most people I'm sure would just rather go and see the movie then expand their mind and read the book. So as not to ruin it for those (or just me for the moment) who have not read or seen the movie I really did like the book. I thought it was a little hard to get into at first solely because of the writing style but once you get past the initial few chapters it really grabs you and I think is a very nice story about women of the south in the late 1960's during the civil rights movement. I don't think that it is a book to change the ideas of what went on, only a scratch to the surface of a huge topic. I loved the characters of the maids, Minny being my favorite. I do really think that it is a reminder of how different our country was not that long ago. Being that I am 27 and from California I truly take for granted the fact that we as a nation have come so far from where we were about 40 years ago. Truth be told I finished the book about 2 weeks ago and it is late and I am tired so forgive this crappy review, I promise they will get better.