Golden

Cameron Dokey

Review By: Sasha

This is another one of those fairy tales retold. Dokey has written like...4 of the 9 in the series. This book is a retelling of repunzel and i loved it.


It is a love story and tells about a girl who was bald (and will forever be bald because she never grew or would grow hair). Because her mother could not love her the witch took her and raised her as her own daughter. Then the townsfolk didnt like witches so they had to flee...and such. I dont want to give anything away.


This book is a great adventure and love story. It has a great beginning, middle, and end. Of course i didn't want it to end but it was a satisfying end. (it is hard for me to be satisfied with endings as you'll know.


I strongly reccomend that people read this book. It's gor a twist...kind of. Well, it's not what your expecting. Or well, it wasnt what i was expecting. But even for those who dont really like reading, its a really fun book.

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

(possibly)

Review By: Shelby

We had to read the book for school. This is a good book, but the characters are kinda unfortunate/snobby rich people. The narrator is a guy named Nick, and he doesn't really have anything to do with anything, but his neighbor is in love with his cousin, who's married. His neighbor, the Great Gatsby, holds all this crazy parties to try to get Daisy's (the cousin) attention. There are themes of contrast like east egg, west egg, poor, rich, old and nouveau riche, bla bla bla.

This would have been better if it were just about Nick and Jordan. They should've... nevermind.

Anyway, the characters in this story are very interesting, and i'm sure the book is interesting too it's just that I didn't LOVE it or anything. Fitzgerald dedicated it to his wife, Zelda. That is so romantic. Ish.

As I Lay Dying

William Faulkner

Review By: Shelby

Yet another book we had to read for school! This book is divided up into chapters that are basically thoughts and narrations of the characters. I'll tell you right now. the only ones that make sense are Cash, Vardaman, Addie, and the people outside the family.

Basically what happens is there's this family called the Bundrens. they are poor and they are verrrry country. The father is astonishingly lazy and an underhanded subhuman. Anyway, the mom dies, and they go on a "heroic journey" to bury her. But really they have their own agendas for the heroic journey, and no one really cares about her but Jewel, and everyone thinks Jewel is weird and crazy. I don't really know what to write about.

Sometimes this book is confusing... mostly it is funny though. "dark comedy" or whatever. Darl is very "philosophical" and sometimes his chapters will be about what is and is not or wasn't and can't be is. And it's not important to know what he's talking about.

The best characters in the book are Jewel (because he's a sexy and trouble outcast) and Vardaman (because he's a little kid and little kids are absolutely hilarious). Vardaman really warms my heart. I love him, I do. Like one time Darl was talking to him about his philosophy. it went something like this:
Darl: "Jewel's mother is a horse"
Vardaman: "but my mom is a fish so how can Jewel's mom be a horse? Darl, what's your mom?"
Darl: "i haven't got a mom. She was is so she isn't is so I am not is"
Vardaman: "But you are, Darl!"

anyway it's funny and you should read it.