This week, I continued to read Jacob Have I Loved. I've read kind of a lot because I'm trying to finish it so I can get some AR points. I'm almost done actually. Anyway, the story has progressed a lot since my last post. First of all, the reader is introduced to Wheeze's friend, Call. To earn money, they go crabbing together. Wheeze keeps all the money she earns in a jar. However, she is forced to hand it over to help fund Caroline's voice lessons. As to be expected, she is not very happy about this. Later, Wheeze and Call meet the Captain. He was suspected to have died, but Caroline forms a little crush on him. The captain gets married which doesn't please Caroline, but that isn't too much of an important part in the plot. I'm excited to keep reading.
One of the characters that I really like is Caroline, Wheeze's sister. She is considered the more well-liked twin. She made up the nickname "Wheeze," which Sara despises if I forgot to mention it earlier. She is thought of as more feminine, smarter, a great artist and pianist. She is basically the opposite of Wheeze. However, I feel like Wheeze is starting to get a little more attention, whether she realizes it or.

Well, there's not much to blog about. I abandoned Peeled because I just couldn't take the torture. I really tried to just grin and bear up, but there's only so much of a boring book a person can read. I don't recommend ANYONE read that book. It follows every stereotype out there so there's nothing that makes it unique...at all. I have no idea why everyone liked it so much. I heard so many good things about it that I almost can't believe I was reading the book so many people raved about. STAY AWAY FROM THIS BOOK.

Anyhoo, there's not much to blog about this week. I've been searching for a book to read and have been pretty focused on reading A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. It seems that the only book I've read much of is that, but I don't think I can blog about that, so I'm going to talk about the book I plan on reading next. It is called Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson. I read a little today, and can tell that it is set in the 1940's or 50's and the main character is named Sara Louise. She lives with her sensitive mom, fisherman dad, and pretty senile grandmother. I can't tell if her sister, Caroline, is older than Sara and lives on her own or if she still lives with the family, but I can tell that Sara is extremely jealous of her sister. However, she is jealous with good reason. Her sister gets practically all the attention in the family, and even when the girls' parents describe the two as babies they make Caroline sound amazing and make Sara sound just, ordinary. I hope that this book will take a different route than Peeled and will be unique with an interesting plot that actually makes me WANT to read it.

Peeled

I finally abandoned Peeled. I tried, for one last week, to find something somewhat interesting about the book. I read more, but it was practically just a little girl complaining of seeing a ghost--not really my kind of book. I honestly have no idea, whatsoever, why every raves and raves about this book. To me, it's just like any other mystery book. However, it seems to be much more slow-moving.
I couldn't push myself to leave the book, but in advisory I got one of those slips that said my book was late. I realized it was late because it was so boring I couldn't push myself to read it, thus the reason I hadn't finished and returned the book. Anyway, my verdict is only pick this book up if you need something to put under the leg of your dinner table to keep it even. Avoid this book AT ALL COSTS. But then again, you might like it.