Independant Reading

        Well, even though I still have power at my house for the time being, I decided to do some reading.  First, I finished The Elegance of the Hedgehog, which was such a great book! Now, I wont go off and just ruin the ending of it, if you want to know, read it:)  Alright, so even though the book takes place in modern day Paris, I often forgot.  I don't know why, it just seemed like the descriptions of Renee and Paloma and the other characters and just general setting descriptions never really reminded me of modern day, so I was often confused for a minute when a modern aspect came up that jumped out from other thoughts like when Paloma saw a rosebud fall she went into a detailed description on beauty and its relation to death and poetry and you just don't hear that much thought about something like that nowadays.  Especially from twelve and a half year old girls.  But I was brought back into reality of the time setting when Renee uses Eminen to relate to her personal life.  She also talks about getting songs stuck in her head and how it amazes her each time and I can relate to that also.  I get songs stuck in my head all the time.  But anyways, I liked the book very much and finished the last 25 pages in 30 minutes.
        After that lovely book, I decided to look for my nook which I had lost near the end of the summer. I found it thankfully and charged it and started back up on The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, which I had started near the end of the summer.  I had been anticipating what Charlie's next letter to his friend would say and I was excited to get right back into it like I had never lost it.  I read for an hour to finish the last 50 pages I had left.  I really liked this book for multiple reasons.  One of them is that the writing style is one I find unique.  Charlie- or that's what he calls himself- writes to this anonymous person and tells them all about his life in multiple letters and changed the name of everybody, but you would have never guessed that if he hadn't of told the reader.  I also liked this book because I actually felt for Charlie.  He wasn't just some book character to me.  He was a person.  I felt that he could have been writing the letters to me, which is maybe what Chbosky intended with the anonymous "Dear friend" at the beginning of each letter.  I don't know, maybe that sounds silly but its what I thought.  I really enjoyed this book.
        Lastly, I have just started Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare.  So many books, I know! But I just felt compelled to read today and got a lot accomplished, which I think went well.  I read Clockwork Angel last year from the school library and I really enjoyed it.  Many of my friends were telling me to read the "first series" The Mortal Instruments, but I wanted and still want to finish The Infernal Devices, the second series Clare has written.  It kind of plays off the first one in a different time period is what I've heard and its easier to understand but I started the books that way and intend to finish them that way.  The last book in this series comes out in March of next year though, so I guess I'll just have to wait a while, but its worth it.  A reason I like this book is its setting.  Its set in London in the late 1800s and I don't know hwy, but I like that.  It seems like such a different place from just Neverland or somewhere in America which I find intriguing.  I also like how Clare connects all the characters.  There are all these unique things about them such as Jem and his drug addiction that keeps him alive or Jessamine and her not wanting to be what she is, a Shadowhunter, and her struggle with that.  But all in all they all end up like a family in a way, or at least most of them do.  That's all I know so far, and its mainly from the first book and 25 minutes of reading that include the first 15 pages.  Its not much to go on, I know, but I am confident that I'll like this book. 
        This is really long, wow, um... sorry if its just long and uninteresting, but that's what you get from 3 books, a laptop, and a teenage girl stuck inside all day due to a hurricane:)  The reading times total 155 minutes and 90 pages.  I kind of spread it out all over this post, so I just totalled it.  Anybody who's going through Hurricane Isaac stay safe!!