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    LauraLoves Reading List/Blog 2010

    in Past Book Logs

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    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

     

     

    my thoughts - I'm currently re-reading the harry potter series. this is my second favourite book in the series. I love the plot of this book, the development of the caracter of harry especially. I've really connected with Dumbledore this time around especially with what happends in the next book.

     

    Which is your favourite? I've heard lots of people saying they didn't like ootp so much.

     

     

     

    A Million Little Pieces

    in Non Fiction

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    Synopsis (from Amazon)

     

    When he entered a residential treatment centre at the age of twenty-three, James Frey had destroyed his body and his mind almost beyond repair. He faced a stark choice: accept that he wasn’t going to see twenty-four or step into the fallout of his smoking wreck of a life and take drastic action. Surrounded by patients as troubled as he, Frey had to fight to find his own way to confront the consequences of the life he had lived so far, and to determine what future, if any, he has. A Million Little Pieces is an uncommon account of a life destroyed and a life reconstructed.

     

    Review.

     

    This is another book which has been on my TBR pile for a long time. Part of what put me off it the controversy over whether it was fiction or not. Certainly it was written as if it was an autobiography, but in parts it just seemed too, perfect I suppose. Some of the more unbelieveable things I could believe, because although they were hard to believe they fell into the category where you could imagine them happening in certain ways. Ultimately it was Lilly that made me not believe, but I will say no more than that because of spoilers. In terms of writing style it was pretty easy to read, although in parts it felt almost as if you were reading a list, a sort of ‘I did this, then this happened so I did this’. The conversation was hard to follow in parts because it was so infrequently told who was actually speaking. It carried you through quite easily though and the topic was interesting enough that you didn’t get bored with the writing style. At some points Frey would talk for too long about something which really wasn’t interesting, like documenting a fight which was on TV, I really didn’t care, and at these points I did notice how boring the writing style was. As far as topic went at times it was hard or uncomfortable to read, and it parts quite graphic. There was lots of swearing, which was generally unnecessary and might put some people off but I suppose it made things more realistic. As far as the more graphic sections went it was unflinching and almost matter of fact about what was going on which did for me seem the way that someone who had gone through those things would talk about them.

     

    Overall, not the best written book, and at time it drags. But when I was interested I was really interested, and I do wish I had read it sooner.

     

    3.5/5

     

     

    Do you guys think this book is really a memoir, or is it fiction? Why?

     

    Do you think it matters if it's true or not?

     

    Personally I think it may be a mix of both, a fiction book with fact based inspiration. I don't really care if it is real or not but because I know there's controversy I found myself trying to work out all the way through whether I thought if it was real or not and this probably spoiled it a bit for me.

     

     

    Introducing Ms Squiggles

    in Introductions

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    17.gifI'm on a bit of a book buying ban too. It's more because I'm broke than because I have too many though, I have enough to be getting on with and I have a much larger TBR pile than I did before joining the forum but compared to lots of people on here it's tiny.
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