The Host

Title: The Host
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Finished: March 3, 2009
Pages: 619
Published: 2008

Stephenie Meyer’s first non-Twilight book, about an invasion of aliens onto earth, who inhabit humans and live their lives.

Melanie, Jared and Jamie are running for their lives, trying to hide and escape being killed and inserted with another life form. But what happens ends up changing their lives in ways they could never have thought possible.

I was hesitant in reading this, especially after finishing the Twilight series, knowing this book had nothing to do with vampires. I heard many mixed reviews about it, but when our book club decided to read it, I had no choice.

While Meyer’s simple writing style made the story easy to follow, I had higher expectations than I wanted and spent a lot of time wondering when I was going to get sucked in. There were many parts that had me on the edge of my seat but they were resolved rather quickly and then I was back to smooth and slow reading.

I do recommend this book, especially to any Meyer fan. Overall it is an interesting book and the story she tells is very unique. After finishing, I was satisfied with the story and was left with a hint of wonder as to what happens next. I’m hearing rumors of a sequel.

*Challenges: Chunkster Challenge, 999 Challenge, 50/100+ Challenge, RYOB 2009 Challenge

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Library Loot #7

I haven’t been posting my library finds lately mainly because I’ve been lazy in my blogging, but I figured I would try to keep up with the crowd.

After the month of February, I realized I hardly read any books from my own shelves, and this needs to be amended. Which means I need to be selective in my library pickings.

Currently I have:

• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• Stop in the Name of Pants by Louise Rennison
• The King’s Stilts by Dr. Seuss
• Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now by Dr. Seuss
• Thidwick, The Big Hearted Moose by Dr. Seuss
• Maus by Art Spiegelman
• Maus II by Art Spiegelman

The Dr. Seuss books are ready to go back and both East of Eden and Stop in the Name of Pants are due in a six days … which means I have a lot of reading to do.

I don’t have any books reserved currently, but only TV series (Tudors, Mad Men, Rome).

It may be awhile before I have much to say regarding library books, while I focus on bringing down my TBR pile and finishing up the Winter Reading Challenge.