Nyxen's Featured Book of the Week (3)

We have another week of Book of the Week. :) I haven't done Blogger of the Week and I am super sorry. Forgive me?

Well, let's get on with the feature!

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
217 Pages Paperback
Scholastic 1978

This book...OMG! This book is just one amazing piece of literary genius. (That did not make sense but stick with me.) I remember when I wasn't a big reader back then and my uncle-who's only four years older than me- wanted me to read The Westing Game. I didn't want to because, well, I didn't like reading. But then I read it just to humor him and OH. MY. GOD.

This book is just amazing. I wish I could put many, many, many exclaimation marks just to prove it.... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here's a small summary I got from Wikipedia.
Sixteen individuals who are mysteriously chosen to live in the Sunset Towers apartment building on the shore of Lake Michigan come together to hear the will of the self-made millionaire, Sam Westing. The will takes the form of a puzzle, dividing the sixteen heirs into eight pairs, giving each pair a different set of clues, and challenging them to solve the mystery of who killed Sam Westing. As an incentive, each heir is given $10,000 to play the game. Whoever solves the mystery will inherit Sam Westing's 200 million dollar fortune, along with his place in society.

I highly suggest this book to sleuths, future detectives, mystery fanatics or anyone who wants something worth remembering.

READ IT!

Until next time,

Nyxen's Featured Book of the Week (2)

I would say that this feature totally failed last week.
But I am back and still deciding how I should format this post....Oi vey (sp)?

This week's Book of the Week is....
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

I haven't read this book but I want to. It's a classic! :D It seems very interesting though, how the main character is kicked out of prep school and is suddenly thrust into the adult world.

But either way, this is the Book of the week and I think you should read it. If you haven't read it go do it! And then tell me what you thought of it.

I don't know what else to write....I really have to start getting better at these feature things.

Until next time,

Nyxen's Featured Book of the Week

Hey everyone! I have a new feature that will be added to the blog. This is called Featured Book of the Week.

This is where I randomly feature a book from my very own bookshelf on the blog. I numbered every book in my bookshelf-it wasn't that hard and didn't take long-and I will post a different book every Wednesday.

Let's get started!

Her Fearful Symmetry by Audry Nifffenegger
Hardcover 406 Pages
Scribner September 29, 2009

Audrey Niffenegger's spectacularly compelling second novel opens with a letter that alters the fate of every character. Julia and Valentina Poole are semi-normal American twenty-year-olds with seemingly little interest in collenge or finding jobs. Their attachment to one another is intense. One morning the mailman delivers a thick envelope to their house in the suburbs of Chicago. From a London solicitor, the enclosed letter informs Valentina and Julia that their English auth Elspeth Noblin, whom they never knew, has died of cancer and left them her Londom apartment. There are two conditions to this inheritance: that they live in it for a year before they sell it and that their parents not enter it. Julia and Valentina are twins. So were the estranged Elspeth and Edie, their mother.

The girls move to Elspeth's flat, which borders that vast and ornate Highgate Cemetery, where Christina Rossetti, George Eliot, Radclyffe Hall, Stella Gibbons, and Karl Marx are buried. Julia and Valentina come to know the living residents of their building. There is Martin, a brilliant and charming crossword-puzzle setter suffering from crippling obsessive compulsive disorder; Marijke, Martin's devoted but trapped wife; and Robert, Elspeth's elusive lover, a scholor of the cemetery. As the girls become embroiled in the fraying lives of their aunt's neighbors, they also discover that much is still alive in Highgate, including-perhaps-their aunt.

Author of one of the most beloved first novels in recent years, Niffinegger returns with an unnerving, unforgettable and enchanting ghost story, a novel about love and identity, secrets and sisterhood and the tenacity of life-even after death.

I can say that I've never read this book before. But I have read The Time-Traveller's Wife and I pleasently enjoyed that. This book is not YA but I thought we can all give it a chance.

The only thing that bugs me is the very detailed summary. It's like I already know what's going to happen yet at the same time, not. All I know is that this books will give me a lot of surprises when I finally pick it up to read it.

Have you read this book and if so did you like it?

Until next time,