This girl called Jill, she’s woken up in
hospital. She’s been in a car crash and she can’t walk. She’s in the middle of Italy where she has been on a school trip, but she doesn’t know this because
she has lost her memory of the past six weeks. The first thing she does is
call her best friend, however, she was in the accident too and was fatally
wounded. Jill finds this out when a reporter attempts to interview her and
calls her a murderer. Jill is incredibly confused. The internet has exploded,
and everyone seems to think she is guilty and are calling crazy, horrible,
terrible things. As she recovers, lost memories are triggered and begin to
resurface. She remembers travelling to Italy and flirting with the tour guide. She
experiences weeks of reporters, police interviews, cyber bullying and lies. When
her court date arrives, Jill gives her account of what really happened.
Rated: 4/5 Reporters. "It’s really good, but
sometimes it was a tiny bit confusing because the story is told through
internet forums, reports, letters, text messages etc. The story is weaved
strongly through these different forms though so it is well wort a read."
It’s about this girl called Pia who has a
baby brother. She is in charge of him when a murder of crows swoops him up and
takes him away into the woods. She decides to run away from home, into the
woods to retrieve him. This boy from her school sees her disappear into the
woods and decides to follow her. They’re kind of friends, but she doesn’t want
him to go with her. They go deeper into the woods and get separated. Soon they
find themselves involved in the lives of those that live in the Wildwood and
face a brewing war; on opposite sides.
Rated: 4/5 Crows. "It’s a simple read. Really well
written, sweet and relaxing. Fantastic illustrations throughout. This is a
favourite of mine."
It is a great book, it’s about her
experience growing up as a woman. I found her perspective really empowering and
feminist. It covers issues such as body hair, career and societal pressures.
It’s a memoir. She’s a really funny, honest person.
Rated: 4.5/5 Feminists. "Really fantastic"
This is a very interesting collection of
short stories. I’ve only read about three quarters so far, I’ve got really
sucked into some of them and read them multiple times. It’s about this land
called Tortall. One story is about a tree that has been turned into a person by
a wizard. He has to learn how to be a man and is guided by a boy, who actually
turns out to be a girl who is in disguise in order to avoid attending marriage
camp. In another story, a magical couple who can speak to beasts help others
realize their gift while caring for their baby dragon. I read these stories
completely out of context and still really enjoyed them.
Rated: 4/5 Short stories. "These stories are
really, really interesting, they have made me want to read more Tamora Pierce."
A man suddenly goes blind. Another man
helps him back to his apartment and feels himself becoming blind too, slowly
everyone around them goes blind. To begin with, the city puts
all the blind people into an old mental asylum. They have meals delivered every
day and there are soldiers posted outside with guns to stop them from going out
and spreading of the disease. Then the soldiers get it too, and so does
everyone else except for the wife of the first blind man…
Rated: 4/5 soldiers. “such a good book”
It’s about this internet company called The
Circle. This girl Mae gets employed there through the help of her good
friend Annie who is high-ranking in the company. She is one of thousands and thousands of people working there –economists,
biologists, hackers etc. You’re only allowed to have one talent. She works in
customer service to begin with, but she is doing so well that they have a
meeting where she is shown these cameras which could be placed all around the world,
untraceable, capturing everything. They say that if they could install them worldwide, crime would go down by 80 percent. I started getting a sense of creeping wrongness at this part, I'm not sure why yet, but this is as far as I’ve got so far.
Rated: 3.5/5 workers. “I won’t give it a higher rating
without having finished it, but it is really well written and I think it is
going to get better and become sinister.”
It’s about this girl called Erin. She’s in
year twelve in high school. She got bullied a lot and called names, so when her
family move to a sea side town she is happy to be change schools. At her old
school she didn’t have any friends and used to hang out in the bathroom during
lunch. During the first night in her new bedroom, Erin becomes aware of a
presence, her hair shifts as though she been stroked and she finds poetry written
in the wardrobe…
Rated: 4.5/5 ghosts. “It’s really good I enjoyed how
the perspectives are swapped all the time, you really get to understand where
the characters are coming from. Creepy at times, some boundary issues.”
The Fill-in Boyfriend by Kasie West.
-Henrietta
It’s about this girl who meets this guy. He’s
in college and she’s still finishing so they have a sort of long-distance
relationship. They’re really not right for each other. She’s struggling with
her friends because she’s got this best, best friend and other friends and
there is this popular girl who wants to be in their friendship group and sort
of take over. So she doesn’t believe that she has a boyfriend, and is ruining
her life. So she says that she will prove her wrong and invite him to prom. So
they kind of have this thing where the mean girl is trying to undermine her and
steal her best friend. On the night of the prom, her long-distance college
boyfriend dumps her. So she decides to pick a random stranger to be her fill-in
date.
It’s interesting to see how she navigates
her friendship group and how horrible they are to each other. It was kind of
like a social experiment
Rated: 3/5 boyfriends. “there was a lot of
dialogue which made it exciting, it was a roller-coaster you didn’t want to stop”
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