I am writing the first draft of my review at 2:00AM. I have somewhere to be in the morning, but alas I need to finish this book. So, Luke intends to storm Camp Half-Blood and Percy and the gang need to venture into the Labyrinth.
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No one can stop me. I am on a roll. The third book within seven days? I’ve been staying up late reading books.. The third installment of Percy Jackson is basically Percy & Thaila & Annabeth & Grover go to a castle and then they fight a demon and then Annabeth is kidnapped. What the heck. How dare they. So they’re going to rescue her. Wait I didn’t mention the Di Angelo kids. Oh it’s fine this book’s been released since 2007, I don’t need to explain the book’s plot that much.. right?
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Reading on the treadmill, reading on the bed, reading at the dinner table. I cannot be stopped. In this one, the tree at Camp Half-blood is poisoned. We gotta save it!! (I meant Percy.)
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Devoured that book in a day like I was a starved little peasant gal & it was a gourmet Michelin star dish. I’m practically unstoppable!? HA!!
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The second novel that Mishima has published. It is a semi-autobiographical story that follows the life of a repressed homosexual man living in Japan.
“Although in later years my self-analysis traversed the rim of the hoop more slowly, when I was twenty it was doing nothing but spin blindfolded through the orbit of my emotions, and lashed on by the excitement attending the war’s final disastrous stages, the speed of the revolutions had become enough to make me all but completely lose my sense of balance. There was no time for a careful consideration of causes and effects, no time for either contradictions or correlations. So the contradictions spun on through the orbit just as they were, rubbing together with a speed that no eye could comprehend.”
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This book follows Samantha, who gets sucked in by the allure of being part of a popular friend group in her literature class. There’s also exploding bunnies & weird stuff going on that ultimately has little pay off. Despite it’s riveting plot, it has no message to send, no meaning that I could discern. It was a fun read, but absurd.
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An unnamed, unreliable female narrator who gradually increases her intake of sleeping pills throughout on year. I recommend this book as long as you turn your brain off and/or don’t mind being spoonfed.
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A guy called Tsukuru is still heavily affected by his highschool friend group cutting him off during his second year of university. He has no idea why, but can’t move on, despite being thirty-six. Maybe you should read if you really like the theme of unresolved emotions, social exclusion and a boring narrator.
“The years passed by, quietly, like a gentle breeze. Leaving no scars behind, no sorrow, rousing no strong emotions, leaving no happiness or memories worth mentioning.”
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Kala follows a group of friends, around twenty years after the disappearance of their friend, Kala. Written in the perspective of Joe, Mush and Helen, it peels back the layers of time that they desperately used to pretend that they no longer cared. But they still do. If you will only read one book in the summer, this should be the book.
“Down the hill, Kinlough is quivering in the light. Ropes of heat turn in the distance and it looks like a tide from which one thing rises to the surface, now another. The sunflash of distant cars. The sounds of nearby laughter. The birds changing formation in the soaring quiet. There’s a turning melt of sky above us.”
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