I started my Stephen King reading challenge for the year and to be honest, I may not get to the books I picked out for each month. This was a really fast read and the writing style was a little different compared to all of his other works.
This has been adapted into a movie twice and I remember seeing bits and pieces of both of them, but not all the way through. Before reading this, I knew what this book was about and what happens to Carrie on prom night because my mom is a huge Stephen King fan and pretty much whenever a Stephen King movie was on TV, it would be watched regardless if she had just watched it yesterday.
Also, Stephen King books have a lot of freaking covers for each one and for Carrie, this one has to be my favorite.
If you don't know anything about this story or have never seen the movie, it is about a high school girl named Carrie White. She is severely bullied by every person in school and in the town it seems. She is getting bullied one day while taking a shower after gym class and she starts her period. She gets assaulted by the rest of the girls who are throwing tampons and pads at her.
She knows nothing of menstrual cycles because her mother is a Jesus freak. Her mom spouts religion every time she opens her mouth and reading it was super freaking annoying because I am not religious in the slightest.
The thing that made this book so quick to read is that it references a "book" written about Carrie White and her telekinesis and it also has interviews from a couple of the towns people who testified against her or in the trial which wasn't described.
The ending is still a crap shot with Stephen King. I think he should start ending his books with some cliffhangers and then maybe his books won't be so negatively seen for that aspect.
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I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the HANNAH
GOODHEART AND THE GUARDIAN OF TIME by C. Michael Morrison Blog Tour hosted
by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!
About The Book:
Title: HANNAH
GOODHEART AND THE GUARDIAN OF TIME(Hannah
Goodheart, #1)
Turning thirteen can be difficult - especially
when a time-traveling thief steals your necklace, and a brewing temporal
conflict turns your birthday party into a mission to save the universe. As
Hannah and her friends chase the thief across time and space, they learn her
necklace is more than a pretty piece of jewelry. Only one person can control
the powerful pendant, and they must find them before the entire universe is
wiped from history.
Myth and magic collide as they race to find The
Guardian of Time.
Book Trailer:
Hannah Goodheart and the Guardian of Time
excerpt from ch. 1
About C. Michael
Morrison:
Author of Hannah
Goodheart and the Guardian of Time, C. Michael Morrison is a man of many
talents. His passion for story telling began as a boy growing up in a small
river valley town in West Virginia, where Mike cultivated an affection for
science fiction. It’s no surprise that these days, he can be found on the
Trek.fm podcast network, where Mike is co-host of Meta Treks: A Star Trek and
Philosophy podcast, as well as an occasional contributor to other shows on the
network.
In addition to being a
devout PEZ collector, Mike is Lead Pastor of Collin Creek Church in Plano, TX.
Mike lives in the
Dallas area with his wife, Dorinda, daughter, Hannah, and their standard
poodle, Princess.
I have read another 10 books this year. I am thinking that is going to be my goal this year will be to get to 10 books a month. Now that I say that, watch me not reach that goal at all this month. I have only gotten through 2 so far this month.
My second February pick for my A-Z reading challenge and I finished it in March. It was a fast read, but it was very dated. It is about a plane crash in Dutch New Guinea during World War 2. Twenty Seven passengers all went down and only 3 survived. Two men and a female soldier. They landed in a valley that was named Shangri-La by the pilots that flew in it and it was not documented on the map at the time.
The three survivors had to wait a week before being found and then a unit of Filipino- American paratroopers was given the mission to go in for medical and protect from the natives who were thought to be cannibalistic head hunters.
The natives were often referred to as savages which makes this dated and how discriminate the white soldiers were of natives. This was a quick read and it had a lot of pictures to go along with what was written, but I sometimes found myself getting confused when other people who weren't the survivors were being described and their family history being included which had nothing to do with the rescue of these three soldiers at all.
I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the IF WE
WERE GIANTS by Dave Matthews & Clete Barrett Smith Blog Tour hosted
by Rockstar Book Tours.
Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!
World-renowned musician, environmentalist, and
humanitarian Dave Matthews, in collaboration with popular children’s book
author Clete Barrett Smith, has conjured an exciting and poignant fantasy about
a girl who must confront her past mistakes before she can save her peaceful
community from a gigantic threat.
Kirra, a curious, agile, and outgoing girl,
lives in an idyllic community hidden inside a dormant volcano. She and her
father are the only two people allowed to venture beyond its walls. Kirra is in
training to become a Storyteller like him, and together they travel from
village to village spreading fearsome tales designed to keep outsiders away
from their secret nest. One day, after hearing rumors of strangers called the
“Takers,” Kirra leaves the volcano by herself, hoping to discover her own
story. But she unknowingly leads the Takers back to her doorstep, and they rob
her of everything she has ever held dear. A devastated Kirra is found by a boy
named Luwan and adopted into his family, which lives among others high in the
trees of a dense forest. Now quiet and withdrawn, Kirra hides her dark past
from everyone and never wants to leave the safety of her tree dwelling. Luwan,
on the other hand, loves to explore. One day it leads to trouble: He is
captured while spying on a group of strangers. The Takers have returned. To
save the Tree Folk, Kirra must face her inner demons and summon all her
storytelling to weave the most important tale of her life. This compelling
novel about overcoming loss, embracing community, and living in harmony with
nature is highlighted with a full-color insert of concept artwork, making it
perfect for family sharing.
Dave & Clete Talk about IF WE WERE GIANTS
About Dave:
Dave Matthews
has chronicled his life’s travels so often that when asked, he can rattle off
the details without pause. It goes like this:
Born in
Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1967. Moves two years later with his family to
Westchester County, NY, where his dad, a physicist, goes to work for IBM. Then,
in the early `70s, to Cambridge, England, before returning to New York — where
his dad died in 1977. The family moved back to South Africa in 1980, where
Matthews went to a few different schools and “got more wise about the evils of
government, there and in general.” O.K.; pause for a breath.
The key move
for Dave Matthews Band fans, of course, was when he relocated in 1986 to
Charlottesville, VA, where his parents had lived before he was born. Though he
also logged time back in South Africa and in Amsterdam, it was in
Charlottesville where Matthews — who took piano lessons as a child before
picking up the guitar at age nine — became part of the local music community
and hatched the idea for his own band.
“I didn’t
really have a vision, or a plan,” says Matthews, acknowledging that some of his
musical sensibility came from spending time in so many different places as a
child. “I’m sure it gave me a little bit of an openness. The most diverse music
in the world is in America, ’cause there’s so many different cultures here, but
what tends to be pushed to the top is often a narrow view of what there really
is. So maybe (his travels) just gave me a wider pool of listening.”
Matthews says
his principal goal with the band was to surround himself with the best players
possible. To this day he remains “amazed” that he was able to recruit and
retain the four musicians he rather modestly refers to as his superiors. “I was
just looking for people that I liked,” explains Matthews, who feels he’s
“gotten a bit better” over the years. “Could I play with them was more of the
question, I think. We just ended up fitting together. The band wasn’t something
that I was looking for; it was very much I loved the people I asked to play
with me. There was a connection at the beginning, and I think what we’ve been
about is not some grand scheme but more the spirit of everyone, which is why we
ended up with this band and why it sounds like it does.”
Clete Barrett
Smith’s first novel for teens, Mr. 60%, will be released by Crown Books in
August, 2017. Smith has also written four humorous middle grade adventures:
Aliens on Vacation Alien on a Rampage, Aliens in Disguise, and Magic Delivery.
Aliens on Vacation was released by Disney-Hyperion Books for Children in May,
2011 and named an American Booksellers Council “New Voices” selection as one of
the top middle grade novels of the year by a debut author; and AOV was
nominated for state award lists in Texas, Florida, Washington, Pennsylvania and
Nebraska. A lifelong resident of the Pacific Northwest, Clete Barrett Smith
taught English, Drama and Speech at the high school level for over twenty
years. Clete received his MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from the
Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2010. He currently lives in Bellingham,
Washington with his family.
