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The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

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    Published in 1978 The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin has to be one of my favorite book that I read in school. As an adult I have read it a couple times. It is a classic children's mystery book. In school we played along trying to figure out the riddle with the characters. This book is also the reason I learned to play chess. Not that anyone, if anyone, reads this cares. Anyway on to the book. So Turtle and her family move into Sunset Towers, an apartment complex with a restaurant in it. Sam Westing ends up dying and all of the people in apartment complex are invited to his will reading. No one really understands why they were all invited. But they all get a set of clues and they have to figure out the mystery. Turtle is determined to figure it all out. Little things happen that make people suspicious of eachother. The books builds a good back story and when the mystery is all solved you won't believe what it was all about.It is such a great mystery to play along with. I thin...
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Forrest Gump by Winston Groom

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    Published in 1986 Forrest Gump By Winston Groom I thought was going to be a favorite of mine because I love the movies so much . I was kind of disappointed. Sure it had it's funny moments and it made you laugh out loud a couple of times. But things became so unbelievable that it just made the book go down hill from there. So let's start with how Forrest went to a different school at the start. He was in a school for special kids but eventually ended up in a regular school. He has a hard time with being just normal. So his momma sets him up on a date with Jenny. He takes her to a movie and in his idiotic way messes it up so it makes it like he was trying to molest her and take her top off. So he gets in trouble and has to see a judge. So he has to go to college or be drafted into the military. He does go to play college football and meets Bubba there. Forrest ends  up meeting Jenny again and they become a band. He ends up failing out so they draft him into the mi...
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The Devil Wears Prada

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So I kind of have a love/hate relationship with Jennifer Weisberger. Sometimes I love her writing like in Goodnight Nobody and then I there are times like In Her Shoes where I just don't like her. I didn't really like this book. It was a bit boring. I guess a lot of things seemed essential but in the end really had nothing to do with anything. I know she was trying to set the stage of how evil the boss was and how the her minions should be worried about their true feelings getting back to her. I just felt like it was a waste of time. It became the same thing over and over again. I am going to read the next two books in the series and see how that goes. Andy wants to be a writer for The New York Post. She is called in to take a job at a magazine where she knows nothing. She becomes the junior assistant to the editor of  Runway magazine. She meets her boss once before starting her training and wonders what the big deal is. It isn't until Miranda is in the office that she r...
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The Kissing Booth 2

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    Published in 2020 I have to say that this book dragged for me. I know that is really mean to say especially since Beth Reekles was so young when she wrote the first full book. There is a short about the summer in between the books. But yes it dragged. I felt like I was getting as much from this one as I did the first one. So Elle and Noah are a thing,out in the open now. He has left for college and she is starting senior year. Noah, who is actually pretty smart apparently, leaves early to start school. He doesn't want to talk to Elle about how school is going and actually avoids most of her advances to talk about it. She is struggling because there a rumors about her and Noah breaking up. Noah is tagged in a picture where he is pretty cozy with another girl. Elle doesn't really want to talk about it and assumes the worse. When she does finally talk to Noah about it she doesn't feel at ease. Lee does try to cheer her up but he is busy with football and his girlfriend. Le...
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I needed a break.

      First off I am really bad at this. I wanted to mostly write for me. I doubt anyone looks at this stuff or cares. But I took a long break. I had a lot going on. I quit a job and then got another job, had some family members get sick and die,and survived another deployment.       I have been reading and still continuing my yearly challenges but haven't been writing about them. I think I may start again. 2020 has been a horrible year and I am going to try harder in this next year. So I will be back tracking on the book that I read over my break and discussing what I thought and the differences between movies and books. If anyone reads these post please let me know if you have any book/movie suggestions for me to try and get through.      I will be jumping in and reviewing some of the books I have read in my long 3 year break. I am hoping to keep up on this as I really do like to write, even if no one reads it.
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Blood and Chocolate

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Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause Blood and Chocolate is a supernatural kind of book.It is about "werewolves". Specifically a teenage girl who falls in love with a human after reading a poem he wrote.The pack is against it because humans had chased them from their homes a year before.One night Viven shows her boyfriend her true form and it scares him. He breaks up with her and she does a few things to try and get him back.All the while someone is killing humans. Viven thinks it is her but it turns out that one of her friends and an older woman he is dating were trying to frame her.She is to become the wife of Gabriel who has now become pack leader. The end reveals everything.Her ex boyfriend is almost killed but she gets shot instead.Now she can't transform.But Gabriel helps her find a solution and they become a thing. I liked the book.I had read some reviews where they didn't like that the mother was sleeping with Gabriel and then Viven becomes the hea...
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First up

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Starting this off with White Oleander by Janet Finch .        I was looking forward to this book.But in the end was very disappointed. Astrid is a 12 year old who basically watches her mother go crazy after a man dumps her. Ingrid (Astrid's mother) finds ways to try and get her ex-boyfriend back.She goes to all of his favorite place basically just spends all her time stalking him or breaking into his house. Anyway she ends up killing him and Astrid is sent to a foster home. Where the journey begins for her. She sleeps with her foster mom's boyfriend,gets shot by her foster mother and then sent to a new home.The next home she becomes obsessed with the next door neighbor,performs a sexual act for drugs and is attacked by some dogs.Her face scarred she is sent to a new home again.This next one seems perfect from the outside but she finally realizes it's not. Astrid and the other girls are practically starved to death. She gets a new case worker who gets her into a new ...
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