The Second Summer of the Sisterhood

This is a great sequel to The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares. This book focuses more on the girls' characters developing than on the pants. The pants are still in there, but they aren't as important in this installment, which I think is good. It would have gotten a little old after the first few chapters.
All of the girls learn valuable lessons, and it helps make them into better people and more interesting, three-dimensional characters. You feel really bad for them throughout the novel, they all had pretty sad problems this time. By the end though, everyone's pretty much feeling better and happy again, except Lena. She had a really sad story this time, I felt so bad for her. But all of it turned out for the better, even if it was sad.
I recommend this book to anyone who read the first one and enjoyed it, and to people who love a good chick-lit or YA book.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

This was the absolute weirdest thing I have ever read. I loved it.
I'm sad I never read it sooner! The characters were all so strange, but once you got further into the book, they all started to seem rather normal! I have to say my favorite was the Cheshire Cat; He was the only one who didn't lose his temper in the whole book.
The way it was written was also quite interesting. It is written from Alice's point of view, but some of the things she thinks or says to herself are very amusing.
I definitely recommend this book to anyone, but it's so much better if you enjoy weird and random things.

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

I loved this book! My first Dickens, and definitely not my last.
His writing style is interesting. The descriptions were very detailed, which I know is annoying to some, but I liked it. I realize he probably only did this because he was payed for every word written, but I think it just makes the book more interesting, though it also made it a long read.
The characters were all very interesting and unique, and I came to like the majority of them by the end. I really like how many of them had these little quirks, like Mr. Jagger biting his finger and washing his hands all the time, and how Wemmick refused to talk about the office at home, and about home at the office. Each one of them was extremely unique, which was great. It was a tad difficult to relate to Pip as a whole, but I found I could relate to some bits of his personality and quirks.
All in all, this was a fantastic book! I'm sad I hadn't read it sooner.

The Vampire Diaries Volume I: The Awakening

I picked this book up because I enjoy the TV show, so I thought the books would probably be better. I had no idea how different the books were to the show. There are quite a number of differences, and unfortunately in most cases, I prefer the TV series.

It's a pretty cliche vampire novel. Beautiful girl falls in love at first site with a beautiful vampire and his beautiful vampire brother, and she can't decide which to choose.
It was rather boring to start, and pretty slow getting into the interesting bit of the story. There were some pretty cheesy parts, and some that didn't really make sense, but there were also some really good suspenseful bits towards the end. After finishing the book, I plan on reading volume II.
Basically, it was not bad for a teen vampire romance. Definitely better that Twilight.

Howl and Other Poems

This was the first time I've ever really read poetry that wasn't for English class, and I have to say, I quiet enjoyed it. The poems were a bit odd, some difficult to understand, but that's kind of the point of poetry, right? I really enjoyed the writing style, and some of the themes were interesting as well.
I would definitely recommend this book.

Sorry for the bad review, I haven't really ever reviewed anything. I'm using this blog for practice.