Book Challenge Day 6

Day 6: Edition

I don't have any limited edition books or anything. However, there was one series that immediately came to mind when I was thinking of different editions (basically different covers). I read Across the Universe and A Million Suns by Beth Revis and I loved them. I (im)patiently waited for the third and final book to come out, only to be severely disappointed with a cover that didn't match the first two. They then proceeded to change the other covers. What is this?!? I understand that the new covers are more gender neutral, and therefore appealing to a wider range of young adults. I also tend to like originals better. (For instance, the new Harry Potter covers will never do it for me. I like the old ones.) So there you have it, I like this edition better.


"'I'm sorry.' The two most inadequate words in the English language." -A Million Suns by Beth Revis

Book Challenge Day 5

Day 5: Favorite Cover

Don't you just love this cover? I know I do...it's absolutely beautiful! The book is Candide by Voltaire. I read it for a history project and it was one of the most boring books I have ever read. But it's pretty and it has colored illustrations. So I'm keeping it. I don't really have much to write about other than that it is pretty. Perhaps I'll find the time to read it again. Maybe I'll like it better the second time.





“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?” -Candide by Voltaire

Book Challenge Day 4

Day 4: 1990s

There are so many books published in the 1990s that I could have done...a lot that I almost did, too. However, many of the books I was thinking of were also applicable on different days of the challenge. So I chose Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. I got this book at a garage sale for fifty cents years ago and I reread it frequently. I love the way this book is written. It's not in letter format or anything, but there is almost no dialogue. The way the dialogue is written is in this style:

Mr. Teacher: I told you to do this assignment.
Me:
Mr. Teacher: Well, what have you got to say for yourself?
Me:

This is not a quote from the book, I just made it up as an example. But I really liked how Anderson handled the dialogue. The whole story is from Melinda's (the protagonist) head, and her head, although very sad, is also very sarcastic and I love it!



“When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.” -Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson