Fifty Shades Trilogy

I had my second child in September. A little boy named Carter Jacob. I still have the three books from bons book club of last year to get to, but at the time I was expecting to be returning to my day job, so I wanted to read the fifty shade trilogy before returning. It's not something I wanted to read at work. I ended up staying home, and I got a job working some evenings when my husband is here. I am, however, very glad I read them. I had gotten several recommendations for them, oddly enough, most of them were coworkers. But I was very hesitant because I heard they were trashy. Parts of them are a bit intense, but overall I enjoyed them. It has a good story line and I loved getting to know the characters. I really enjoyed the parts that went into Christian's childhood. And I loved when his mom found out about the pedo. I definitely recommend the trilogy if you can keep an open mind in the beginning. 

Book Club September - The Glass Castle

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

Well, it's march and I am giving up this book. It really ticks me off and I've tried to pick it up over and over, only to put it down again. I hate that her parents were so proud that they wouldn't even ask for help for their children's sake! Sticking your children in the back of a moving van for 14 hours? What the poop? And even worse yet, one if those children was a newborn who cries and cries. One nearly fell out on the interstate. It disgusted me. Anyway, I don't want to write about this book anymore. I'm a determined person. This is only the second book I've ever started that I haven't finished, and that part of me might pick it up again in a year and try to finish it. But I doubt it. I definitely do not recommend this book. 

Book Club August - Life of Pi

Life of Pi by Yann Martel. I'm not sure how to start this review. The whole first section of this book was so slow and I felt a lot of it was unnecessary. There was so much explanation of zoo life and religion that I felt could easily have been explained in 80 pages less. Once I got past part 1, it got very interesting. My stomach fell at times. I was exited to find out what would happen. I love how it starts as an interview so I knew it would end happily. As happily as could be expected. For Pi. This is a sad story. I don't usually like endings that leave you wondering, but I really appreciated it in this story. Is he on a lifeboat with animals or with three other people? It all depends in what you want to believe of the story. It's easier morally to believe animals would act the way they did. It's very sad that his family dies in the ship sinking. However, it's harder to read details of suffering than it is to read that someone died. It's harder to think that he witnessed his mother get beaten and beheaded than it is to think that he saw an orangutan get eaten. So, overall I do like the book. It was a very interesting read once I got past the very slow beginning. I recommend it if you have time to linger for a bit with some boredome...but it's worth it in the end.

Book club July - The Help

The Help by Kathryn Stockett. 

I love this book! It's so well written. I really appreciate when a writer makes me feel for the characters. The different perspectives told are so interesting to me. You can take a bunch of woman all from the same situations and have such different points of view and experiences. My absolute favorite part (I think, it's hard to just pick one) is the shit pie. Seriously, who hasn't wanted to do that to someone?! The Celia thing was weird until i found out what was going on, then I thought it was so cute. I was incredibly irritated with Elizabeth for being such a distant mom. I had a really hard time defending it with "that's how she was raised", she seemed so clueless about everything but she was a grown woman. Surely she should have known better. I think she didn't want to know better, she wanted to remain oblivious to any negativity. Yeah, no defense from me. I don't like her. 

Read it. It's an awesome book!