What are you currently reading?

[aaron seymour]

This one's obvious. Lol! Just tell us what you are currently reading or the last thing you read...or both. Haha! I'm adding this because I LOVE reading...and I'm bored. >.<
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I usually read two or three books at a time, but for some reason I'm not. =/ I don't know why. Anyway, I just finished Anthony Horowitz's Eagle Strike which is the 4th of the Alex Rider series, but I need a break from Alex so I started something else called:

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - John Boyne

I think its pretty good so far. It's set in a limited third person view with the mind of a 9-year-old german boy who's father is a Nazi Commendant and the family ends up moving next to one of the camps (not sure yet if it's a death camp or not, but i think it is because it mentions "smoke stacks" in the distance) so he can take command. (thats as far as i got into it). The only thing that bothers me is the author beats run-on sentences to death. I feel like my brain needs to catch a breath after reading them. LoL. However, I do like how he reisterates some things. Like he talks about the boy's sister looking at the garden and the bench facing the house and the fence that's higher then the house...etc. Then a while later he says "But she was still watching from the window and this time she wasn't looking at the flowers or the pavement or the bench with the plaque on it or the tall fence or the wooden telegraph poles or the barbed wire bales or the hard ground beyond them or the huts or the small buildings or the smoke stacks; instead she was looking at the people." See? Ungodly long run-on, but I like what was said in it.

edit;; oh, and no i did not see the movie.

[dramaqueenscpa]

^ I haven't read the book, but the movie was excellent. the British accents in the middle of Germany was a bit of a let-down, but the acting was amazing.

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the zookeeper's wife
diane ackerman

The true story of how the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw--and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabiñski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Zabiñskis' villa, emerging after dark for dinner, socializing, and, during rare moments of calm, piano concerts. Jan, active in the Polish resistance, kept ammunition buried in the elephant enclosure and stashed explosives in the animal hospital. Meanwhile, Antonina kept her unusual household afloat, caring for both its human and its animal inhabitants--otters, a badger, hyena pups, lynxes--and keeping alive an atmosphere of play and innocence even as Europe crumbled around her.

(courtesy of wikipedia)

I recommend this book for its accuracy and attention to details such as quotes and interviews from the actual people. The events are accurately described is to the point where it is no longer jusy a biography but a work of nonfiction, where anecdotes are replaced with the voices real surviors. It goes beyond the Nazi Germany racial viewpoints and delves into eugenics, a political angenda that crossed form humans to animals and plants. For thos eintereste din studying Nazism should definitely read this book, especially chapter 8.

[aaron seymour]

let me just say, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas was very sad and depressing at the end. i cried pretty good. now im not sure if i wanna watch the movie >.<

Fade
Lisa McMann

sequel to her first book "Wake" which is about a girl who gets sucked into other people's dreams and well... yeah it's really good xD

[morgan parker]

okay technically i'm not double posting xD hehe.

yeah, so im back to reading two-three books at a time now >.<

Catcher In The Rye
J. D. Salinger

When The Wind Blows
James Patterson

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
J. K. Rowling

so catcher in the rye is really good, but moving along kind of slow for me.

When The Wind Blows is the start of the Maximum Ride stuff, its all about the initial experimentations and what-not

and Harry Potter I just wanted to read again cause I only read it once and the movie comes out next week so I figure I should refresh my memory before I see it xD