Yep, the Chag is over. I'm not particularly thrilled, especially because I just started a phenomenal, really intense book and am completely untinterested in putting it down.
The book is Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult, and I'm loving it. It's about an 18-year-old unmarried Amish girl who apparently gave birth and killed her child. She's on trial for murder, and yet she's Amish. I'm probably not describing it well, but this is just so cool. I'm learning a lot about the Amish- Jodi Picoult knows how to do her research, and is revealing a lot of surprising details about their way of life. The characters are just... amazing. Each in their own way. I'm formulating all these opinions about them, and I can't wait to find out who I was right about. Oh, and I believe there was something in the book that would have made me cry if I hadn't been sitting at a bus stop in Yerushalayim when I read it. Basically, I can't put it down, which is ironically something I don't remember experiencing with My Sister's Keeper, by the same author, which has been THE book everyone's been talking about lately. That was also an awesome book, and I would have thought I'd like it better than Plain Truth. But I guess I'm not really ready to decide which one I liked better yet. Anyway, I'm loving this book.
Speaking of books, I just finished Mirror Mirror by Gregory Maguire, and I have to say I was disappointed. Following his pattern, this book was based on the story of Snow White, not really from anyone's perspective, just with a different twist. It takes place in 16th century Italy, but he didn't eliminate all the magic like he did with Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister. Don't worry, the dwarfs and the mirror are still in. Although they don't have the Disney names, and they do have an extra brother. (Speaking of which, I just quizzed myself and discovered that I still do know all of the Disney names, and I'm sure I haven't seen Snow White since I was, I don't know, 6 maybe? But get this: Happy, Doc, Dopey, Sleepy, Sneezy, Grumpy and Bashful. Go me!) Anyway, Mirror Mirror wasn't one of his better books. The wicked queen was somewhat disturbing, not to mention pure evil, and she was a big part of the reason why I didn't like the book. So if you're going to read a Gregory Maguire book, go choose another one. Nothing beats Wicked...
And just one more thing. I never mentioned the other book I read recently, which I should have mentioned because I loved it. Looking for Peyton Place, by Barbara Delinsky. The protagonist is Annie, who's grown up in Middle River, New Hampshire, a town that claims that Peyton Place was based on it. Annie never really fit in there, but as a writer she found herself growing up under the influence, for lack of a better word, of Grace Metalious, who wrote Peyton Place. The plot of the story is Annie, now a bestselling novelist, looking into an issue that's affecting the people of Middle River, but they're all wary of her, because she may be writing a book about them. Anyway, aside from being completely heartwarming and having a good feeling, I loved this book because it involves two things that always make me happy: writing and cute little American towns. This was such a cute book!
OK, now I'm done with the reviews. So today I did a science experiment with the boys. Someone gave us this crystal making kit, so we followed the instructions and now we need to wait a week to see if it worked, or in other words how badly I messed it up...
I think I had something else to say, but I seem to have forgotten what it was. Oh well.
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