DNF Glass

 

Hello Bookies,

I'm not going to lie, I'm a little disappointed. I've read half of this book and not much is going on. I breezed through Crank and I thought I would like and breeze through this book, but I was wrong. I guess this is just another book that shows how much my reading taste has changed. When I read Crank, I was reading other books with a similar subject. Like Go Ask Alice, Smashed, and other books like that. I can't remember them all but I was fascinated by those books for a while and I saw them as lessons to what happens if you become addicted to something not good for you. Of course, when I read these books I had also just recovered from my own issues, so you can say I felt like I could relate. But I just wasn't feeling Crank. It felt like it was too slow. As if nothing really was happening. Just our main character talking about how she was introduced to the stuff. How she ended up getting SAed to the point she got pregnant. Then she straightened up for almost a whole year even though she had that voice in her head begging her to go back. She was doing good, but sometimes that voice becomes too powerful. Then we read about how she gets her stuff. How she meets a guy. How she gets a job to pay for her stuff. That's all I got so far before I felt like we aren't really seeing the struggle of using this drug. We don't see how her life is falling apart. Right now it just seems like she is getting away with it. No one suspects anything different about her. I'm sure if I read more of the book, we would get to that part. But I can't do it. It's too slow. I wanted to finish this book and read the third one but I can't. It's like I'm forcing myself to read and it's just ruining my love for reading. So I made the choice to stop reading it. I'll be returning it to the library and maybe pick it back up at a later time. We will just have to wait and see. 

So until next time.....

Reading The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

 

Hey there Bookies,

I know it's been a while. I had some personal stuff that I needed to take care of. It's still not resolved but I have done all that I can do at this point. So whatever the outcome is, it is what it is. Also due to this issue taking place, I didn't have much time to read. Also it doesn't help when I read two books I really didn't like. It pretty much put me out of a reading mood. But with the arrival of a book in the mail, I got that little spark to try reading again.

The book I picked up was The Poet X and this is supposed to be a quick read to get you out of your reading slump. Just what I need right now. I'm about halfway through the book and it is interesting. The whole book is written like a series of poems, which makes it an easy read so far. My only complaint is that there is Spanish in the book without translations. Being a non-Spanish speaker, I don't understand some stuff. I kind of get the idea but it would be nice to have translations somewhere for some words. Or, even an explanation of what some things are. Its just a small suggestion for those that don't quite understand but it isn't really necessary. It's just something I would personally like. But the story is interesting to show how our main character's mother is really religious and our main character is starting to wonder that maybe there is more than what the bible tell you. So far the story is just two generations clashing in ideals. Especially when our main character wants to become a poet but her mother doesn't want her to because it's devil's work. Or, something like that. It must be heard to express yourself in a strict household. But I am wondering if the main character is going to express her feelings to her mother or not. Especially about writing. I guess I just have to continue reading.

So until next time....

-Lys