Reading at the laundromat. This book is fascinating and terrifying.

I picked this up because I saw the movie and was so moved by it. The book, however, is incredibly dry and redundant. I tried so hard to like this, but I gave up halfway through.

Colfer is a great storyteller and his spin on fairytales was an interesting one. However, the book itself needed a lot more work. The constant cliches are distracting (his eyes were wide like a lemur's, he hugged her like a monkey on a tree, etc) and there was an excessive amount of "telling" us instead of showing us. I think this could've been a fantastic book, but the rookie writing mistakes made it hard to get through.

"In a perfect world mothers would want all of their babies, and strangers would open up their homes to the unloved. In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is."

It's been a long time since a book has made me this emotional. The audiobook for this novel is so well done.

I didn't hate this book, but I don't think I'd read the second part of this series. I didn't feel particularly attached to the characters and while the plot sounded interesting, it just didn't hold my interest as much as I would have liked. I think I may have liked this more if this was the first Cormier book I'd read, but it's nowhere near as fantastic as "I Am the Cheese."

I'm loving this memoir. Doughty isn't afraid to tell it like it is and challenge our modern ideas about death.

I might have appreciated this book more if I'd been a little bit younger.

A weird but interesting read.