This true story is also an historical thriller! Sheinkin uses primary historical documents like letters, journal entries and captured verbal opinions to sew this story together. This is a story about nature and nurture and how we shape our lives by the way we live and how the circumstances we live through shape us.
I’m also reading a few other books:
The Crimson Crown
Hidden like Anne Frank
Brilliant Blunders
and at my wishful moments; The flat belly diet
Although I am only on chapter six, this story is drawing me in. Told by a seventeen year old boy with portmanteaus like, “sweartogod” and “Absofuckinglutely”, Richard Casey – aka the Incredible Dying Boy. This kid has lived with cancer from the time he was eleven years old and is used to being in and out of hospitals but the ward he occupies now is hospice, for the terminal, no exit (just like that play he had to read in English class).
He is surrounded by the elderly and the comatose not the ideal place for a horny seventeen year old boy to meet the girl of his dreams but there is a dreamy girl down the hall that is sharing his nightmare in the hospice wing.
If you want to know what happens…you’ll have to read it yourself (I hope to be finished with it before I blog next Monday). 🙂
I finished the Exiled Queen (book two in the series) last night and started right into The Gray Wolf Throne (#3). Chima has created strong and consistent characters that have plenty of human flaws (like falling for the wrong person or ticking off the wrong person or trusting the wrong person). The third story in the series continues the suspense on many different levels: personal (friendship and romance), political (war and marriage as tools to gain power), and spiritual or magical.
Although prolific readers will find many similarities in Chima’s world and other fantastical realms, the author brings a fresh and believable world alive. There is room for both strong young women and strong young men to find champions and blackguards in the Seven Realms Series.
Overall, I enjoyed this book. However, there were a few things that were stumbling blocks to the flow of the story; the first was that some of the names or characters were close enough that I got mixed up once or twice and had to look back in the text, the second was the dalliance into the swamp which would have made more sense if the story were going to follow the path of mysticism and spirits.
Stuff parents may not like in this book:
Underage drinking, drug use, murder, alcoholic mother
Silent Library “Happy Meal Challenge”
Blended Happy Meal
Cinnamon browsing the videos at the Berthoud Community Library.
Cinnamon loves to read!
Toys at the library helps Cinnamon learn about cause and effect.
What are you doing in the book bin, silly bear?
This book has got me wanting more!
This is the first book in the Seven Realms Series. My friend, Jacob, suggested I read it and now I am hooked! I am listening to the second book that picks up just a bit after the Demon King ends and I fear for the heroine of the tale. Raisa is the princess heir to the queendom but she has been forced to flee from an unlawful and unwanted marriage. Since the Breaking of the world and the hard won healing, there are hard and fast rules that separate Wizards and the Queen as well as Wizards and the clans. The male protagonist of this story, Han, doesn’t pay much attention to politics or thousand year old stories of queen Hanalea and her interactions with the Demon King. Han is busy trying to provide for his mother and sister, which is proving very difficult to do in any legal…
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