Insatiable by Eve Eliot

The definition of Insatiable, is something impossible to satisfy, such as a want or need, that's the connection made to this book.

This book, is quite a sad book. It's the story of four girls, each having a different eating disorder, and how they live their daily lives.

Now I don't have an eating disorder, but I CAN relate to these girls. I have self image issues, but don't we all really have something we hate about ourselves? It's something we all can connect with, it's just that the girls in this book decide to deal with it in unhealthy ways, that are going to negatively effect and change their lives.

This book shows the four girls, and the consequences they have from their disorders. Eating disorders are not something to take lightly... They can ruin your lives. I think this book shows us that, and it also shows us that we should be happy with ourselves, because there is no better You, that you could be.

I would recommend this book to anyone who feels that they aren't good enough, or to anyone with a low self esteem, it will make you change your mind about that. I know it really changed my outlook on things. : )

The Brain Full of Holes

At a recent trip to the local library, I decided to pick out a book... Now our library is a pretty good size, but it doesn't have very many books. I picked out a random book and thought it sounded pretty good, and this is the book I chose.

This book is a mystery teen novel. The detective in this story is actually a teen himself. The detective, "The brain," must figure out why the holes from his cheese are missing. At the same time he must find the father of a young woman whom his brother has become smitten with.

So as this is a mystery novel, there is also a little romance brewing.

There are several parts to this large mystery, the missing holes in the cheese, the girl's missing father, a butler with two heads, and many odd goings ons. After quite a bit of investigation, it is believed that somehow the government could be involved.

Are the cause of these goings ons a government investigation gone awry? Or rather just some strange happenings?

Here's a hint, you can find out by reading this wonderful book!! ; )

A prodigy has passed.

I am very sorry to announce that the world renowned author Ray Bradbury has passed away. If you're not familiar with his works, you really should be. He wrote such books as, Fahrenheit 451, The Illustrated Man, and Farewell To Summer. Mr. Bradbury wrote mostly science fiction, and futuristic things. He however, also wrote plays and short stories as well.

Mr. Bradbury once said, "Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things." So as you can see, he was quite the intelligent, creative man, and even though he's passed, his many EVENTFUL writings will live on forever.

SLOB by Ellen Potter

This book is the first book that our local book club decided to take on. It is a hartwarming story about how you should NOT judge a book by its cover, because you never know the places it's been.

Throughout the book we follow a young, somewhat overweight boy, named Owen. Now as we find out Owen is quite the genius. So smart even, that he isn't allowed to tell other people his IQ for his mother's fear that they'll feel stupid. Owen hasn't ever been one to have friends, he's sort of a loner at school. People always make fun of Owen, and sort of downgrade him because of his size. However, Owen has one happy moment each day, one moment of bliss where he can just smile and say, this is nice; That one moment is where he eats his three Oreo cookies every day at lunch. Soon after he starts eating his cookies... the begin to dissapear. It is up to Owen to find some way to catch the person stealing his cookies.

One other interesting character we meet in the book, is Owen's sister "Jeremy" whose actual name is Caitlin, but rather prefers to dress and ACT like a boy. As you see she is a member of the GWAB club, otherwise known as girls who are boys.

Early on in the book, Owen mentions a certain invention of his that he's been working on, it is called "Nemisis." It's not until later however, that we find out the mystery behind Nemisis, and what it does.

Another person throughout the book, that tends to get judged a lot, is the new kid at school. His name is Mason Ragg. He seems to be a scary, bully type of person who is very anti-social. But later on in the book, we find out that there is a different story to this Mason kid. He has his own stories to tell.

This book is a very good fictional book, and it teaches us all about judgement, and bullying. Both of which are very bad things. This book is also a quick read, it's just a short little book, and it's very easy to understand. This is actually the second time I have read this book, but it's still just as good as when I first checked it out!! :P

Guess who took a trip to Half Priced Books today?? : ) Oh and by the way... I have to put a halt on reading "The house of the scorpion." We started our local summer book club on Monday.. And I just can't concentrate on multiple books at once!! The book as well, was getting kind of slow... unfortunately, as badly as I wanted to enjoy the book, I just couldn't... : /