Emily Green · @wandering_eyes
28th May 2011 from Twitlonger
Looking For Alaska by John Green: I think you would love this book. It's a very easy read but it's really entertaining. The story is very simple and I really liked the characters. It's very well written and there is a twist that makes it really wonderful (and annoying, but in a good way). It's a good, simple story. You would like it.
Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen: MY FAVOURITE BOOK. It's perfect. It's written beautifully, and it's set in the magical world on the circus which makes it so interesting and lovely. It's a love story but it has lots of action and it's told in a wonderful way - through the eyes of an old man telling his life story. It's just so well written, and the story is wonderful and it's just the most perfect book ever. I can't tell you too much without spoiling it all but it's fantastic. The film is marvellous too, watch it (in the cinema legally!)
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan: I am not sure if you would like this one but give it a go. I am reading it right now and I LOVE it. It's basically set in the early 1900s and it's about this newly married couple and their honeymoon, kind of. It's written like poetry - it's so pretty. It's just a lovely little read.
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck: I read this for English but it is so great! It's a very short story too, you could finish it in a day, it's just a very good plot and I love stories set in the Great Depression. It's great.
Bel Ami by Guy de Maupassant: It's a classic, but it's full of drama and it's like a soap! It's so amazing. It's very well written too, which is why it's a classic! I want that film to come out already.
The Prophet by Khalil Gibran: It's not a story, it's like life lessons in poetry. I LOVE it. I live by it.
Books I plan to read this Summer, you should join me! ...
- Paper Towns by John Green
- The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- Atonement by Ian McEwan
- Pablo Neruda poems