A Day In The Life of Your Body

 I bought this book last year because I wanted to break free from Fiction reading, and read something that I could learn from. But man, Nonfiction is so boring. There was some interesting points in this book, each chapter is about how your body deals with either waking up in the moring, lunch, why you feel sleepy after lunch, what happens when you have a drink, sex, why a cold feels worse at night than during the rest of the day, etc. The author inserted stories from her own life which made it a little less boring, but for the most part, it put me to sleep. This might be why I'm not smarter. It wasn't horrible, and pretty short, and informative, so if you've ever wondered why your body goes through in a day, here you go.

Remember Me?

 This book kind of got off to a slow start, but gets more interesting. Its about a girl who gets into a car accident and when she wakes up it's 3 years later. Turns out that she had gotten into another car accident and when she wakes up she can only remember everything up to the first accident. So basically she cant remember anything from the previous three years. The idea of the story is pretty good, but it reminded me of the TV show Samantha Who? that used to be on ABC last fall, I don't know if it still is or not, but it's a pretty funny show, but this book kind of follows the same deal, girl wakes up from accident can't remember a chunk of her life and everyday she finds out that she was not the person that she wanted to be. I don't know if the author stole the idea from the show and pimped it up a bit, but that's what it reminded me of. Regardless, it is written well and the characters actually have some brain to them unlike all of the other books written by Sophie Kinsella where the main character is flakey and makes your IQ drop. It'll be a good beach read this summer.

Bunny Tales

 Like most people, don't deny it, I was curious about what happened behind closed doors at the Playboy mansion. And then I stumbled upon this book, and it pretty much tells you all that you have ever wondered. It was a pretty good book. The author is an ex-girlfriend and she tells her story of how she became a girlfriend, what happens there, and why she left. Its pretty well written, so I give her props for that. I recommend it to anyone who has ever wanted the juicy secrets. You will be amazed. It is nothing like it seems on the TV show The Girls Next Door. I used to like that show, but now it just seems really fake. Check it out.

Lost And Found

 First off, my mother have horrible taste in books. Second, I kept reading this hopeing that it would get better. It got a little more exciting that last two chapters, but other than that, it wasn't that great. The story follows a woman who's husband dies and she runs away from everything to a tiny island off the coast of Maine. There she tries to build a new persona about herself and meets a hurt dog who she falls in love with and makes her want to live again, but the dog has a past and now his past comes back and causes stress for Rocky. Add in a few weird characters, and there's your book. My probably with this book is that it was to simple. The author was good about giving details about some things, but now about how the characters were feeling. Rocky's husband dies, but you just didn't really get the deep feeling of what she was feeling, as you did with Holly in P.S. I Love You. With that character, you cry with her because you feel her pain, but with Rocky, it felt like nothing was there. Plus, who the heck names their kid Rocky? I think I was looking for more of an insight to this book, and didn't find it. But the cover is just so cute. I wanna puppy. :o)

Sideways

 This is a guy's book. I picked it up because the movie is pretty funny, and it actually stays pretty on track with the movie, or rather, the movie stays on track with the book since the book came out first. Of course I think the movie is always a guy movie. Should've been my first clue. It wasn't a bad book, the chapters are super long, and there's lots of talk of wine and sex. The story follows two best friends on a week to wine country before one of them get's married. It tells of all the wacky adventures they get into. It's good, but the author uses lots of big words that I had never heard of, kind of made me feel like I needed to keep a dictionary handy. I've read worse, but I've read better. One thing I found really cool was how whenever someone was drunk, they wouldn't say that they were drunk, the used the word 'sideways'. I really want to start using that term. "Elisa, I think you are sideways". :o)

P.S. I Love You

 This is my new favorite book, I really don't know why I didn't read it sooner. To be honest I don't know what made me pick it up in the first place. Maybe it was because I was alone on Valentine's and needed a love story that was sad and yet better than my own. Whatever the reason was for buying it, I'm glad I did. I was sucked in from page 1 and couldn't put it down. Of course I had to because of work and sleep and such, but I easily could have read it in a day. The way it is writen, with care and love on every page made me crave for more. I kind of felt like I knew exactly how the main character Holly was feeling, as if I had been there myself. The thought of losing someone you love when you are so young is heartbreaking, and then finding out that this person is making sure that you still live your life after they are gone is romantic. Holly's husband Gerry dies from a brain tumor. Before he died, he had written 10 notes to her and made sure that after he was gone, she got them and told her to open one note for each month after he had passed. Each note had a chore for her to do, something that will bring her back to life and not sitting home alone crying everyday. With each chapter I was eager to read what new little task he had for her. And was sad to know that it would have to end. Once the last note is opened, that's that. No more cute little Gerry words. It was almost like I knew the guy and had lost him as well. It really was a great read. I really wanted to see the movie, until I watched the trailer and could tell that it was not exactly like the book, and I felt that the only way to fully capture the magic of this novel, you'd have to make the film exact. So I think I'll pass on the movie. Great read, loved it, makes me wish I had a sexy romantic man like that.

Sex And The City

 The author of this book has a new show coming out based on her book Lipstick Jungle and I kept seeing ads for it and wanted to read it, but my sister had this book on her shelft so I read it instead. We've all seen the show, and if you haven't then you must live in a cave. The show is addicting, and so was reading this book. It's a quick read and I just wanted to read it non-stop, but being sick only aloud for a few chapters a night. There are things from this book that you recongize from the show, but I felt like the characters were different, even though they were supposed to be based on them. I kinda felt like none of the characters really had a personality, so you can't really relate to anyone. It also made me really wonder about the world of dating. Why do people date? Do people even really like the person they are dating? If you have no desire to get married should you date? Because don't most people date in order to find someone they love and can spend the rest of their life with? We all want to have someone in our life, but maybe we don't need them. Ponder that for a moment.