The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

This was a book that Beth lent me because I wanted to read an easy chic-flick type book. Well, I got just what I asked for. It was good enough to keep my attention the whole way through but I wouldn't go out shouting it's praises from the rooftops anytime soon. It was a super quick read though which was good.

Amazon.com:
Jane Rosenal, the narrator of The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, is wise beyond her years. Not that that's saying much--since none of her elders, with the exception of her father, is particularly wise. At the age of 14, Jane watches her brother and his new girlfriend, searching for clues for how to fall in love, but by the end of the summer she's trying to figure out how not to fail in love. At twice that age, Jane quickly internalizes How to Meet and Marry Mr. Right, even though that retro manual is ruining her chances at happiness. In the intervening years, Melissa Bank's heroine struggles at love and work. The former often seems indistinguishable from the latter, and her experiences in book publishing inspire little in the way of affection. As Jane announces in "The Worst Thing a Suburban Girl Could Imagine": "I'd been a rising star at H----- until Mimi Howlett, the new executive editor, decided I was just the lights of an airplane."
Bank's first collection has a beautiful, true arc, and all the sophistication and control her heroine could ever desire. In "The Floating House," Jane and her boyfriend, Jamie, visit his ex-girlfriend in St. Croix, and right from the start she can't stop mimicking her beautiful competitor, in a notably idiotic fashion. "I'm like one of those animals that imitates its predators to survive," she realizes--one of several thousand of Bank's ruefully funny phrases. But even as Jane clowns around, desperately trying to keep up appearances, she is so hyperaware it hurts. Again and again, the author explores the dichotomy between life as it happens and the rehearsed anecdote, the preferred outcome. In The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, even suburban quiet has "nothing to do with peace." Bank's much-anticipated debut merits all its buzz and, more to the point, transcends it. --Kerry Fried

The Scarlett Letter

I am currently reading "The Scarlett Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne for my Womens History Class....For those of you who haven't read it, it is about an adultress who has a child out of wedlock with the village minister, and her trials and tribulations that she goes through as a member of the Puritan society in colonial times....I just heart colonial scandals....

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

I have been trying to get through this book since the beginning of summer. It is a hard read. It is a book of fiction, but written from the point of view of a 15 year old boy with autism. The chapters are prime numbers...2,3, 5,7,11,etc.

The blurb front the back cover:

Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up tp 7.057. He relats well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow.

This improbable story of Christopher's quest to investigate the suspicious death of a neighborhood dog makes fir one of the most captivating, unusual, and widely heralded novels in recent years.

I recommend this book, even though it is difficult. I have read a bit and then put it on the shelf, read something else and come back to it. Now I need to finish it for a book review in my Autism Spectrum course.