Kayla's Book Nook

In the last few days, I have begun to get back to my reading stride, and began and finished the book, The Clockwork Angel , by Cassandra Clare. Some of you might have heard of her, she also wrote, The City of Bones, City of Ashes, and City of Glass.  This book and the two that will come after it are prequels of the three novels that I just named. They are related, and unrelated in different ways, but they are all about the same world just at different times. These books do not have to be read in succession, but I would recommend reading the City books first, and then the Clockwork ones, because it is easier to understand in my opinion. Cassandra Clare writes about a world full of Shadow hunters, demons, vampires, werewolves, fairies, warlocks, and mundanes. She writes mostly fantasy, but there is also usually romance mixed in with her books, and I will have to say that I love the amount that she has of each in all four of her books that I have read thus far. This particular boo...

During the holidays, I also read A Christmas Carol  by Charles Dickens to go with the Christmas mood. I have had this beautiful leather bound edition of three Charles Dicken's novels, and so I thought I would finally read the carol. I found this story very scary, fun, and morally in line with the time that it was written. I enjoyed reading Dickens again, and found this story to be an easy and quick read. It was interesting to really read and listen to the real diction that was supposed to go with the story, not the changed diction that is in all the movie versions. I think that everyone should read this story, because it has an amazing message that shouldn't be thought of only around the holidays. We need to be thankful for our lives all year round, and be kind to one another, as well as love our friends and family openly. Recently, I watched the cartoon Jim Carey version of this story, and I was struck by how much of the original language they use from the actual novel, as...

This month has been very busy and hectic for me, so it has been awhile since I have written and updated my site. I have finished the novel, Night , by Elie Wiesel, which was an amazing book about the Holocaust. Ever since about 8th grade, when we really started to learn and focus on the Holocaust in school, I have been interested in it. I love reading books about it especially, although I am not sure what exactly draws me to this topic. I find the literature about it, to be some of the most honest, thought and emotion provoking literature I have ever read. Night is about a town that was warned about what the Germans would do to a certain town of people, by a beggar that no one listened to. It's an autobiographical recount of what happened to Elie while he lived in the town, then the ghetto, then the concentration camp, and then the work camp. It is a book from his point of view, where he harshly criticizes himself, and others in a time of great distress. I enjoyed this book beca...