In my last post I had started reading the Maze Runner by James Dashner. I finished it in just a couple days. It is a young adult fiction book but kept reading until 3 in the morning! It is about a boy in post-apocalyptic Earth who is sent into the middle of maze with other young boys to figure out the way out and back to civilization. Or back to what they hope is civilization waiting on the other side.
I have also finished reading A Lion Among Men by Gregory Maguire. It is the third book in the Wicked series, the book the Broadways musical is based off of the story of the Wicked Witch of the West. This book chronicles the life of the cowardly Lion and his trials. Is he truly cowardly or simply the victim of life's certain ups and downs that we all must see ourselves through? Maguire has continued his spellbinding view of the land of OZ and has once again turned that classic upside down.
