Book 312 The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult

The Storyteller

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In Picoult's latest work so far, Sage Singer, a tragically scarred atheist Jew meets Josef Weber and forms a special friendship with him. Soon she learns a startling secret about Josef which sets in motion a series of events. Sage also learns about an intertwined and sad past between Josef and her grandmother.

Sage's grandmother is a holocaust survivor and during parts of the novel you learn of her rough time in the concentration camps. Reading about the holocaust saddens me, so if you can't take the descriptive sorrows that this read might bring I'd advise not to read it.

Book 311 Eleven on Top by Janet Evanovich

Eleven on Top (A Stephanie Plum Novel)

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Catching up with my Stephanie Plum adventures. Stephanie is a comical disaster and I absolutely love her character, can't get enough of it. I have read that Evanovich's Plum books are repetitious and I can definitely see it when I read them (but I still like them anyway). I'm not sure if Evanovich has gotten wind of that because she tried to make this story a little different. In this story Stephanie attempts to quit being a bounty hunter and ends up with a job in Ranger's office. She still has someone hunting her down to the end of the novel in which her hunter is defeated as usual.

Book 310 Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss

Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us

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Michael Moss a journalist, starts this book off with a secret meeting that took place between the giant food corporations of processed foods. Scientists & doctors urge these food giants to put less salt, sugar and fat in the products that they market but the food giants keep on spitting out the same arguments over and over, the main one being that their product will not taste as good without the extra additions of salt, sugar or fat. Also another shocker is that if a product is marketed as low fat the company compensates by adding extra sugar and extra salt.

This book has scared me away from processed foods. I'm probably going to still eat some products here and there (mainly yogurt & pre-made bottled smoothies) but I'm definitely going to stay away as much as possible. I'm going to make my own quick bread, soup and tomato sauce from now on. It's less convenient but more natural which is better!

Book 309 Zero History by William Gibson

Zero History

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I want to be a sci-fi girl a little bit, but I find sci-fi somewhat hard to wrap my brain around. I probably could do it if I tried harder maybe. I wanted to read a William Gibson work because Shawn called his work genius and future predictive so I tried this novel that was on my kindle. I vaguely understood what was going on in the plot, the book had some fashion aspects to it so I perked the attention up when it came to describing some clothes. I did not like that iphones became the only cell phone platform in this novel because I love the android OS and wouldn't want to be caught dead with an iphone. So there you go, there's my vague weird impressions of a book I barely understood if you want to give it a shot go ahead!

Book 308 Cinderella: Fables are Forever

Cinderella: Fables Are Forever

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This is another fabletown spin off featuring Cinderella! In this funny but partially gross graphic novel Cindy the spy of fabletown tracks down Dorothy Gale (Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz!) in order to finally stop her from doing evil deeds for Oz. I wish I could be like Cindy, she has fashion and espionage makes for an exciting fictional life!

Book 307 Walking Dead: Road to Woodbury by Robert Kirkman

The Walking Dead: The Road to Woodbury

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This is the second walking dead novel based on the walking dead graphic novels and television series. Woodbury has just started to function as a 25% decent town under the new governor's regime  Lily Caul and her group come across Woodbury while traveling away from another tent city that Lily's friend and lover Josh were kicked out of. From the start Lily doesn't like Woodbury and is desparate to get out but Woodbury slowly ends up eating Lily and her group until they're stuck there.

This book was a little sad made me wish Lily and her group never found Woodbury but there would have been no story if they hadn't.

 

Book 306 Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor by Robert Kirkman

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Either I'm retarded, too damn tired to find it, or Amazon discontinued Amazon Associates. Either way I still want to provide a pretty cover photo of what I've read.

When I first requested this book from work I thought it was a graphic novel, but it's actually a full length fiction novel. The story starts off in the early stages of the zombie plague that's ensnared the characters of the Walking Dead. The governor is on the road with two of his friends and his daughter while she's still actually a human. The way this novel ends is so very twisted, something I certainly didn't expect as I was reading it.

Worth the read for Walking Dead fans.