I literally just finished The Pact (sorry for the lack of correct grammar, you can’t italicize on an iPhone). I recently wrote how much I liked Th1rteen R3asons, but this one was even better.

Jodi Picoult wrote this gem of a novel, and it, as it seems to be a major theme of the books I have read lately, is mainly about suicide. This one is also about young love. Not just young love, but real true love.

It’s a good story, and a real page turner. Had me guessing all the way up until the end. I love books like that. So read it!

I recently read the book, Th1rteen R3asons, (yes I get that I’m pathetic and even make sure my posts are grammatically correct), and honestly it was one of the best books I have read in a long time.

The book is about suicide, plain and simple.  It is about a girl that commits suicide, and she makes 13 tapes and sends the box of the tapes to the person who the first tape is about.  That person is to send it to the person that the 2nd tape is a about, and so on.  So, 13 people who contributed to why she killed herself.

Doesn’t sound like it would be that good, but it really is.  I’m on the fence about it being a good book for teens to read, because of the fact that the author really makes you like the girl that commits suicide.  She is someone you can really relate to.  So that may make suicide okay, and even more idealized.

Still, a good book, I would definitely recommend.

I think Brandon hates me.  I have bought 3 books for my nook already, and it’s only been two weeks.  I have finished all three books.  And within the two weeks, I have probably gone, hmm…10 days without reading?  Yes, I read fast.  Like speed read.  Not good.

So I have been looking up suicide prevention programs.  Calm calm, not for myself.  Although I don’t imagine I would admit that on my blog if I really needed it…  Anyway, I need to find a good one for a project I’m working on, and I can’t seem to find many for upstate NY.  What kind of malarky is this?

Ohhhh…Amy leaves for NY tomorrow!!  WOO!!  Oh, and Tricia is in Italy….bbahhhh… Jealous.  Kathleen and I decided we would allow ourselves to feel hate.  I want to travel. . . . . . . …..

Yesterday afternoon, I downloaded my very first book on my nook.

I’m already done.

This can’t be good.

Alright alright, I’m finally getting around to telling you my review of The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. I reminded myself, aren’t you proud?

Anyway, the book was kind of good, kind of well…I don’t know, it was….yeah….hmmm. Okay yes I am being very indecisive, but if you read this book, you will have the same kind of reaction. I would probably recommend reading it anyway, if you like Dan Brown, just to say you have.

Dan Brown is a very talented writer. Either this guy is really knowledgeable, extremely good at research, or one of the best bullshitters in the world (along with someone who’s name starts with a Ch and end with an erri).

So if you haven’t read it, and don’t want to know, don’t continue to read. The book focuses around the main character, as always, Robert Langdon. The book involves, as always (well almost always, not as much in Angels and Demons but whatever) one of Robert’s friends/colleague/someone he knows needing help or being in trouble. It always involves a beautiful strong woman who helps him along the way. This one is set in D.C. (as any idiot with a pair of eyes can see as it’s on the cover) so it’s slightly more interesting because you know the actual sites, and you have seen what he is talking about. This one talks about the Freemasons (didn’t Angels and Demons a little too? I can’t remember, it was so long ago). I once had a really creepy co-manager that was a mason; he used to carry around this little book with words in code. Okay, book, right. So the Freemasons supposedly protect this long lost secret. The book involves this pyramid and things hidden under the capitol building. It also involves, as always, a crazy person with a desire to rule the world, kill lots of people, etc. etc. Instead of anti-matter, or the Virgin Mary, this one talks about Noetic science. This science being that your consciousness and thoughts actually contain matter. If one thinks about the meaning of that, you can see what is being claimed here. Semi interesting, but I think even the people that study this science don’t think there are any cold hard facts. In this book though, the leading lady does.

The book is of course – since it’s Dan Brown – a page turner. There are a lot of twists and turns and unanswered questions (it kind of reminds me of Lost, just less annoying). Only problem is, you’ve already read the book. Twice. Angels and Demons and The DaVinci Code. He has this little formula, and he plugs in the information, and out comes a book. Slightly different, but still the same. So, I say it’s, eh.