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Goal will begin in 2019

2017

Long Way Down

Long Way Down

By: Jason Reynolds

Turtles All the Way Down

Turtles All the Way Down

By: John Green

The Female of the Species

The Female of the Species

By: Mindy McGinnis

Hyperbole and a Half

Hyperbole and a Half

By: Allie Brosh

Room

Room

By: Emily Donoghue

Jay's Journal

Jay's Journal

By: Anonymous Published By: Beatrice Sparks

Shutter Island

Shutter Island

By: Dennis Lehane

Go Ask Alice

Go Ask Alice

By: Anonymous Published By: Beatrice Sparks

Fight Club

Fight Club

By: Chuck Palahniuk

V for Vendetta

V for Vendetta

By: Alan Moore

Left to Tell

Left to Tell

By: Immaculee Ilibagiza

Abandoned Books

It

It

By: Stephen King

Another Little Piece of my Heart

Another Little Piece of my Heart

By: Richard Goldstein

Why I Abandoned: Stephen King's "It"

I started this book out of interest in the author and having just seen the remade movie. It's a whopping 1,138 pages, so it's already a large book. However, I learned quickly that a large majority of it is description. I tried to press on, and King definitely does have a talent for descriptive writing, so I don't want to take away from that. Despite trying my hardest to get through the book, I realized I wasn't going to be able to get through when King spent three pages simply describing the contents of a man's medicine cabinet. King seemingly will spend a chapter describing a bush that has no relevance to the actual story. So I praise him on his descriptive writing, but unfortunately, this was not the book for me.

Why I Abandoned: Richard Goldstein's "Another Little Piece of my Heart"

This book did not lack in the content department. I actually found that I enjoyed learning about the different times Richard Goldstein lived through, how he became a writer, and his experiences with some of the most well known musicians for even today, such as Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison of The Doors. Where this book lacked was its writing style and massive walls of text. The book itself is fairly thin, but the font is very small making it hard to read a lot in a short amount of time. I would've also liked to see a couple of photos of Richard Goldstein with the people he interviewed, just to break up the huge walls of words. There were very few breaks in the writing, and I found myself spacing off quite frequently. For these reasons I chose to abandon this book and possibly revisit it later.

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