Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal (~)

I've finished another one of Fairul's books. It took me longer than I expected to get through, but I believe that this is because I've been sick, and I haven't been able to concentrate much. The title of the book is Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal written by Christopher Moore. I must admit, that it is funny, and that I did laugh out loud once or twice while reading it. I don't usually laugh when reading, so this is a real feat haha

As the title implies, the book is about Jesus' life, but told from his best friend Biff. It goes from when Biff meets Jesus (in the book they call him Joshua) all the way up to when Josh is crucified. It is fascinating, seeing how a fiction book follows the gospels almost exactly. But I suppose seeing as it's based on the life of Jesus, it kind of has to go along with the Bible.

I guess what I didn't like about it, is that it seemed really long...There was a lot of detail to it, but I just found that it continued on and on even though it didn't have to. I will however, recommend it to people who like to laugh a little when they read, because this book would definitely be for them. I also would recommend it to someone who isn't religious...or at least someone who is but doesn't get offended easily when someone pokes fun at Jesus. I could see that if this book every became popular, the church would have a lot of problems with it. That always does seem to happen though. Take the Da Vinci Code book for example...I think that people need to lighten up and realize that it's made up, and has no truth to it, even if the author believes it does. Honestly, if a fictional book can change your faith, then obviously, you didn't have strong beliefs...but I digress...

All in all, it's a pretty good book! Onward, to the last book of Fairul's! Until next time, Happy Reading!

I Love You, Beth Cooper (↓)

I've finished another one of Fairul's books. This one being I Love You, Beth Cooper by Larry Doyle. I must say that is probably one of the dumbest books I've ever read, and is definitely not one of my usual books. It was funny sometimes, but overall I must say that it was a bit of a waste of time to read. I definitely prefer books that have a little more substance to them. It just seemed like the book would never end, although it was only 200 pages long. It'd be better if only 1 or 2 incidents occurred, than the 20 or 30 that occurred. It's definitely not a book I will want to buy for myself.

Basically, the book is about a boy who confesses his love to his long-time crush Beth Cooper during his valedictorian speech. Anyway, it continues to follow Denis throughout his graduation night when Beth Cooper and her two friends show up at his house.

It was a stupid book, but I must say that I am looking forward to reading the 2 other books Fairul sent me.

Anyway, happy reading!

The Girl From Junchow (~)

I've finally finished a book. It's not one of Fairul's which is because I was afraid that i was going to finish all of his books before he even got any of mine, but thankfully he's got the package now so I can start reading his again. Anyway, the book I finished was The Girl from Junchow by Kate Furnivall. It was an interesting book, but I wasn't able to just sit still and read it straight through, so I kind of forget what happened in the beginning, which makes me think that's it's not that great of a book. But it probably is. It's a continuation of another book (which I haven't read) so some of it I didn't really understand, so I guess I would recommend that you read the first book first. I found that the book dragged on a little, and didn't really get into the characters, however, the character bit might just be because of the previous book.

This book is about a girl and her brother searching for their father in Soviet Russia. It really divulges a lot of information about what it was like in Stalin's Russia, and how horrible it was for the prisoners in the labour camps. I don't know why they would have the labour camps when it is communism. But I suppose that it might be a way to 'smarten up' the richer people, seeing as I think that's what Stalin was trying to do: punish the rich people for making the poor people live in such squalor.

Anyway, all in all it's an okay book but I probably wouldn't recommend it unless the person read the first book first.

Until next time, happy reading!