1. Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
After reading his books Invisible Monster and Choke, I was excited to read Lullaby. The beginning started off a confusing, but what Palahniuk book doesn't? Hellen Hover Boyle is a real estate agent who specializes in haunted homes. She sells the buyers a home with screaming babies in the walls or blood running out the shower head, waits a few weeks for the new owners to figure out the home is haunted, then helps them by offering to put the home back on the market for a loss. Thus, she gets two commissions off of it. Carl Streator is a lacky, newspaper writer who's stuck writing the crime beat. After coming upon two crime scenes with dead babies, supposedly to SIDS, Carl looks into the statistics. He also uncovers the same book of poems at the two scenes marked to the same page, a lullaby, or "culling song". I would tell you more, but I would give the story away. I love Palahniuk, and this is a really interesting topic.
2. Breathless (The Cordelia Chronicles) by Heather C. Hudak
Ah, the popular girl and the new mysterious boy. She's blonde, raised by a single mom after her fathers untimely death when she was eight, and has a rich best friend. He's tall, dark, and handsome and not like the other boys. Lia - Cordelia - Jameson is hoping to get through her senior year while working at a local bakery and being treated to little surprises by her best friend Addie. After more than a few sleepless nights, Lia is showing up at school looking ragged and unkept. Her hair is in tangles and she being looked at differently by her group of popular girlfriends. One day when Addie picked her up after a good nights sleep, Lia is looking more put together. That day, a new kid was in her first period class who leaves her
breathless. He's very mysterious, no one even knowing his name for the longest time. And she caught his eye. He comes into the bakery she works at and orders a drink, only to leave witout a word or his drink. At an end of the week party after Addie bought her a new dress for the occasion, Lia spends the entire night looking for him. At 10pm when she was going to use the driver Addie's family kept on hand and who drove Lia home from work on most nights, she's stopped short of the door by the mysterious guy. He leads her to the dance floor and she loses all track of time, missing midnight and what she learns should be her curfew. She doesn't learn his name until he shows up to her work again first thing the next morning calling her by her given name -Cordelia - and leaving a note with her only to confuse her more. As she finally gets to know him, Lia learns of a curse which is about to play out in her life, only to make senior year more interesting. Oh yeah, paranormal young- adult fiction.
3. Falling from Grace (Grace Series) by S.L. Naeole
Ah another paranormal young-adult fiction. Grace Shelley is an outcast after surviving a car crash which took her mother's life and first responders say no one should have survived. Enter summer before her senior year. Every things great between her and her only friend, next-door neighbor, Graham Hasslebeck. Only two weeks before school starts, she lets him know she's in love with him. Graham turns around tells her she's stupid for ever thinking he would love her, that he's dating the school's bitch, Erica Hamilton, and that he can no longer be her friend. First day of school, after morning her loss for the two weeks, Graham is huddled up with Erica going over their classes while Grace bumps in to - literally - into the new guy in school. He's got everyone's attention, including Erica who is out to make Grace's life a living hell. He embarrasses her by saying 'hello' rather than giving her a dirty look. In first period French, which is filled with all girls, the new boy turns up and sits beside her. His line "so we meet again" causing her to question if he was talking to her. After a beginning of school year "How was your summer" essay in French, which she didn't remember writing, another awkward greeting in second period, and Erica talking behind her in cafeteria causing her to run into new boy again getting chili all over her favorite Jack Skellington shirt, the new boy wisks her away on his motorcycle. -- This is a great little series and I rather enjoy the characters.
4. Bird Song (Grace Series) by S.L. Naeole
Second book in the Grace series.
5. Black Hole by S.L. Naeole
Third book in Grace series.
After reading the four book in the Grace series, Grace of Day, I'll finish Water for Elephants, which I did start and really liked, and maybe knock out 1984. I'm taking my time with Crazy Love, reading only when I'm feeling moved spiritually, because I need to be receptive to all of the thoughts. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis will probably be my next completely, new book to start.
Happy reading!
Peace & Love
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