Books I've Read While in the UK

I've been wanting to keep track of the books I've been reading while I've been here in the UK. From now on I'll post right after I read each book. Here are the books I've read so far.

Nineteen Eighty-Four-by George Orwell
A few days ago I decided I'd better start reading some of the classics. I usually stick to young adult books (mostly because they're the cleanest ones), but there are so many great books out there that I know I need to read. I looked up a few top 100 books lists, and this book seemed to be on all of them. Believe it or not, I'd never read it. So I checked it out from the library and this is the book I am reading right now. So far, I'm liking it, although when I read it at night, I have really wierd dreams.

Silas Marner-by George Eliot

This book was chosen for a Relief Society book club. I had never heard of it before, but thought I'd give it a chance. There was one part that I had a hard time getting through because it was a little boring, but overall I really liked it. It's a great story.

On Becoming Babywise-by Gary Ezzo and Robert Bucknam
This is a book about how to get your baby to sleep through the night. I read it and used it with Kimball. It worked great. I wanted to read it again to use for Addi, and so far I think it's going well. There are some things in the book that are a little extreme, but overall I like it because it just makes sense.

The Twilight Series-by Stephenie Meyer
Before I left for England every Young Woman I knew was reading or had read these books. My sister-in-law, who is 14, absolutely loves them. When I asked her what the first one was about she told me it was a love story. I later found out the series is about vampires. A vampire love story, sounds interesting, but I wasn't convinced I'd love them. When I got here to England and had no phone and no internet, I was really bored. I went to the local library and looked up these books, not knowing what else to read. So I've now read the first three. I liked the first one okay. I didn't love the second one, and the third one was just okay. They are a little too romantic for my taste. It got to be a little repetitive after a while. But I'll probably read the next one.

The Bartimaeus Trilogy-by Jonathan Stroud

A friend recommended these books when she found out I was living in England and had visited Prague. I'm so glad she did. I loved these books, especially the third. They are very cleverly written with footnotes and all. The footnotes are narrative inserts by one of the characters telling the story, and I think they really make the story.

Uglies-by Scott Westerfeld
While my 14 year old sister-in-law was here visiting us, she was reading this book. She really liked it, so when she was finished I started reading it. I actually didn't finish it because the book was not hers and she had to take it back with her. I requested it from the local library a few weeks ago, and they finally called me today to tell me they'd found it and it was waiting for me. I'll pick it up either today or tomorrow to finish it. It's not my favorite book. It's definitely written for teenagers. I almost put it down within the first couple hundred pages, but the story finally got a little better and now I want to finish it. Uglies is the first of a trilogy.

The Glass Castle-by Jeannette Walls
This book was also recommended by a friend here. I didn't love this book. It was a very depressing story with a few too many details for my liking. It is a true story which is what made me want to finish the book just to see what happened to the author.