We Were Liars

By E. Lockhart

Cadence spent every summer with her mother's family on their private island, Beechwood. She loved spending the weeks with her cousins. They called themselves the liars. During her 15th summer at Beechwood terrible things happened. Unfortunately for Cadence, she remembers none of it. During her 15th summer Cadence had an accident. An accident that caused her to forget all but a few of her memories. This summer cadence is only given four weeks at Beechwood. she has four short weeks to discover the truth.

I would recommend this book to anyone who was looking for a quick read. It is told like a mystery and is extremely well written. If you are looking for a shorter book that will keep you on the edge of your seat you should read this book.

Questions at Expo

There are all sorts of different types of people who come to see you display at Expo. There is the person who comes and pretend that interested just to try to get some food. Is the little kid who come and ask you questions that are totally unrelated to your unit and then leaves. Everybody has experience the "Expert" you know the one who comes to display, happens to have your unit as a job and starts telling you all of the things he messed up and all of the things you forgot to learn about. Of course who's actually interested in spending a ton of time talking to you and you get into a deep conversation with and it's really fun.

Unfortunately well I was walking around at expo this year I realized I'm really not interested one. I'm the type of person who asks a ton of questions. Sometimes it must feel like I'm asking them just waiting for the person to mess up. I have to say I'm really not trying to make a mess up I'm just curios.

Well I was walking around looking at the displays in a buddies' classroom I would stop and start talking to the student at the display and ask some questions. Eventually I would ask one that the younger buddy didn't know the answer to.  They would respond with "I don't know the answer but that's a great question and I can find out." Then, they would write down my question on a piece of paper.

I guess that is just the type of person I am. I just a lot of questions. You could just say that I am curious.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

By Douglas Adams

Seconds before the earth is demolished Arthur is rescued by his friend Ford, who happens to be from a planet 16 million lights years away. The two set out on an adventure across the universe. They find mythical planets and discover some of the secrets of the universe.

I would recommend this book. It is a little bit non-sensicle but overall it was a good read. It wasn't super long and it was kind of funny. I would give it four out of five stars.

Slice of Life: Shoes

Let me just start by saying that I have a lot of shoes. Although many of them are too small there are a lot of shoes sitting in my closet. Some of them are right shoes that have no matching left one. Others don't have a matching right shoe. Even though I can't wear them, I keep them.

Looking at my shoes you could tell a lot about me. If you saw my worn out combat boots that have the sole coming off you could tell that those were the shoes I wore almost everyday for four months. Those are the shoes I wore for the first time the night before my Bat Mitzvah. They are also the shoes that I trudged around Boston in on our spring overnight.

If you saw my basket ball shoes you could see the creases in the toe from all of the running and stopping I have done while wearing them. You could see all of the times that the others team has stepped on my toes while guarding me or trying to shoot.. You would see the shoes that, when I am wearing them, I am doing something I love.

Maybe you found my brown/grey converse. The ones that experienced four weeks of camp with me. The game we played at camp and switched shoes with someone else and tried to guess something about there shoes. You would be looking at the shoes that gave me a weird sock tan that lasted until december, the one I laughed about until it went away.

Maybe you would find the silver shoe that has lost its other half. That was the shoe I wore the day of my Bat Mitzvah, the shoe that everyone thought had too high of a heel to walk around in. You would see that there wasn't any blood on them from me falling because I never did.

You could look at any pair of my shoes and learn about what kind of person I was. You would see that i don't mind getting paint on my tennis shoes. You would see that my running shoes are getting a hole because they are too small. You would see that often times, when I am walking I accidentally step on my own feet.

I have a lot of shoes. But each shoe gives you insight into my life.

The Opposite of Loneliness

A collection of essays and stories my Marina Keegan

The opposite of loneliness is a collection of and essays written by collage student Marina Keegan. There are several fictional short stories about a variety of different topics. There are also ten essays about the author's life and some of the people and places she knew.

I would recommend this book if you are looking for something that is fast and enjoyable to read. The short stories are interesting and fun to read and the essays are a little bit more in depth. This was a great book and it is definitely worth reading.