Who here loves Chelsea Handler and her witty musings on Chelsea Lately on the E Network? Well, your entertainment doesn't need to stop at the end of a segment. Chelsea Handler has written a collection of comedic books illustrating her her childhood in a large family with all the impossible family members every family must have. I have completed two of her books lent to me by a friend, Ann (check out her blog here), Are You There Vodka? It's Me Chelsea and Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang. The first had me laughing non stop from the first page to her last hysterical segment on her love life tribulations. Unfortunately, I can not say the same for her second books. I'm pretty sure I just sat there reading the book with my mouth wide open just thinking, "who took the time to actually write this stuff done?" I'm pretty sure I lost a few IQ points after finishing that one.
In an earlier, entry I wrote about the book, The Maze Runner by James Dashner. It about a group of boys trapped in a maze in a post-apocalyptic world. I finally was able to secure copies of the last two books in the series, The Scorch Trials and The Death Cure. The main character, Thomas, has managed to lead the Glader Boys out of the maze and into what they think is finally some peace and safety. What they didn't know is that there was a girls' group identical to theirs bent on killing their leader, Thomas. Thomas must keep his group of Gladers safe from the plotting of these girls and from the Cranks they meet in their forced journey across The Scorch. Cranks are what has become of the human population after a disease, the boys learn is called The Flare, has rocked the planet. This disease causes the brain cells to die and leaves only bestial and animal instincts which has left the human race as a cannibalistic killing race. Unfortunately, it is not only the humans who have taken the toll of this dystopian world. The planet itself has been hit by sun flares and Earth is all but unlivable leaving vasts stretches of dessert know as the Scorch. As the Gladers embark on a journey for their lives they hope to end up at a safe haven and gain access to the Cure before The Flare and the Cranks catch up with them. Unfortunately, gaining the cure isn't going to be as simple as just journeying to the safe haven and swallowing down a tonic. There are still more tests and trials for the Gladers.
Lastly, I got the chance to read Beautiful Creatures, now a major motion picture. My wonderful bf promised to take me to see the movie on Valentine's Day if I finished the book in time for my visit out to Virginia to see him. Well, I desperately wanted to see the movie so of course I got that book read by the happy hearts day! Ethan Wate, a junior, living in Gatlin, South Carolina can't think of anything besides finally leaving this small, narrow minded town of Gatlin. Or, at least, it was all he could think of until the new girl, Lena Dauchannes, shows up in town with mysterious shattering windows and a voice that somehow winds up inside Ethan's head. Why does she have such a pull on Ethan and why is it that he would do anything and fight anyone for this mysterious black haired girl? I did not want to put this book down even to sleep and I am literally on the edge of my seat waiting to get the second book from the library!
Well, that was my whole catch up for my young adult fiction and fantasy books. Happy reading folks!
