Glass

 9/8/22

I'm still reading two books at once. I'm not really enjoying Allegiant but it's the last book of a series and I have to finish it. Anyways, when I take breaks from that book, I'm reading Glass by Ellen Hopkins. I had no idea that Crank was part of a series. So being the completionist that I am, I got the second book. This is probably going to be a quick read for me. The format is much like that of a poem book, so it's pretty easy. But it is a heavy subject, aka substance abuse, so I will need breaks from this book as well. It's a good educational book. You get to read about someone's struggles trying to overcome the monster they fell victim to. I know most school districts have banned these kinds of book because it "promotes" drugs. But I see it as a learning experience. Read about someone's struggle and how they overcame it and make your own ideas about what you want to do with your life. Do you want to suffer as much as the person in the book, or do you want to live a straight and narrow path? Who are we to tell people what they should and shouldn't do? I'm all about making your own choices and if you want to read this series, then go right ahead. 

10/14/22

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.