The Color Purple

The Color Purple is a novel written by Alice Walker. The Color Purple is 288 pages long. This book is defiantly a classic and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
            This book opened my eyes to another perspective of the South when it was extremely segregated. The book is based around two sisters, Celie and Nettie. The book follows both sisters from there early ages on into when there are old. Celie, the oldest sister has a life of pretty much hell, but she manages to overcome her sorrow, and awful treatments to find that there is actually true love out there. Nettie, one of Celie younger sisters knows how much Celie wants her to get out of the poverty-stricken lifestyle they are in, and make something of her self, besides being a slave to a man the rest of her life.
            This book was heart wrenching and shocking. I was leery at first to read because I thought it would be a hard and boring read, but in reality, it showed me that even though the white people of the town where awful to the blacks, the blacks were not doing much to help themselves. It showed me a side of the South racial issues I had never seen.
             I would recommend this book to everyone from high school age on up. It’s written in a journal, and letter-to-letter entries. Alice Walker does a fine job of writing how a person actually talks, making it an easy read. This book will make you sit back and think for a moment about someone else’s life beside yours. The Color Purple does have some graphic detail and langue. I would rate this book an A.  

Pretty Little Liars

Pretty Little Liars is a teen-lit novel by Sara Shepard. It is approximately 318 pages and the first book out of eight.
             Pretty Little Liars is one of the better of a series that I have read in quite some time. The setting takes place in wealthy community of Pennsylvania. There are five girls who become best friends in the middle of their fifth grade year. All the girls are brought together by the most popular girl in school, Alison. As the girls go thru middle school, they commit scandal after scandal, until they commit the ultimate scandal on a dorky girl in there grade. After they commit this, they are bound together by the secrete they hold. On a warm summer night, right before there 7^th grade year, Alison went missing and never came back. To find out what happens to the other four girls and if they stay best friends or if they go there seprate ways, you must read the book. The book travels through the four girls sophmore year of high school and all the scandoulas activietes they girls become involved with.
            I would highly recommend this book to anyone, young or old. It has just the right mixture of suspense, mystery, and romance. This book has also been made into a TV series on ABC.  I rate this book an A+.

Perks of being a Wallflower

       The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a book by Stephan Chbosky. This book is 213 pages long, including the epilogue. The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a teen-lit novel about a boy, Charlie, in his first year of high school. When the book begins, Charlie tries to be anonymous to the reader as possible; but as time goes on, he cannot help but let the reader become gradually more involved with his life.
     Charlie begins high school extremly shy, awkward, and with very little friends. One night at a football game he meets Sam and Patrick, these two are brother and sister. As time goes on Sam and Patrick somewhat guide Charlie through a transformation, and show him what it is really like to be a teenager. To find out what the transformation and realization Charlie comes to, you must read the book!
     I would recommend this book to anyone above the age of 15. It can be a bit graphic at times, and a higher maturity, tolerance level would be recommend to gain the full effect from the book. This book caontains drug, alcohol, and sexual material. All in all this is an A+ book. 

The Memory of Running

The Memory of Running is a novel by Ron McLarty. It is 358 pages long and is a fairly easy read. The book mainly takes place in Rhode Island, but also jumps around the entire United Stated. The main character is Smithy Ide, who has an inner struggle with himself. Smithy is very insecure and shy. The books goes through the expierances of Smithy's "quest" across the U.S.A on his bicycle, and his entire life. This book is filled with suprises in every chapter.
                        I would request this novel to someone who interseted in phsychological problems and wanting just a good heartwarming book. I would rate this book an A-

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Hello and wishing you wonderful reading in the blog "A Book a Day Keeps the Mind Away." This blog will follow 15 books throughout 15 weeks. This blog will review these 15 books and give an opinon on them. I hope you sincerly enjoy following my blog.

                                              -Ellie