A Day At the Library

        On Thursday, while talking to one of my friends, he asked why I didn't read all the time anymore. It had suddenly dawned on me that I hadn't been reading and I hadn't gone to the library in months! I used to go just about every week, but once my junior year began, I slowly stopped going. School just made me so busy that I didn't have time to read anymore. And when I did have spare time, I would just sit around or go hang out with friends. I really thought about it and the only books I had been reading were the ones that I had to read for English class. So that's when I decided that I wanted to start going to the library again and re-start my favorite hobby: Reading :)




On the way to the library!My mom always supports the reading of books.She's the reason I enjoy reading after all :)

Part of the outside of the Avondale Civic Center Library
Courtesy of my mom!

I marched into the library on a mission. I made my way over to the nonfiction section and started my search. Then I realized that I probably should've made a list of books I wanted to read. I didn't know where to begin! So I started off with looking for one of my favorite authors, Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club. They had three books written by him and I had read all of those, so I was stumped. That was my only idea! So I just decided to go up and down all the aisles to see if anything caught my eye.

Usually I leave the library with about ten books, but today I left with three. No need to overachieve :)
LOVE and Other Four-Letter Words

The First Book I chose.
It's about a teenage girl and her life after her parents have split and how she deals with that and other teenage problems. But this is what really caught my attention:
"In Carolyn Mackler's touching and hilarious first novel, sixteen-year-old Sammie comes to understand that along with love come other four-letter words. Like hate and loss and gain. And most importantly, grow."
Whoever wrote that is awesome, MAD PROPS!
Fahrenheit 451

The Second Book I chose.
Fahrenheit 451 is about a future in which books are burned due to a totalitarian regime.
It's reflective of books that are banned today and how wrong it is to censor literature. It's one of those books that many are assigned to read in high school, but I've never been assigned it >:| So I decided to just read it for myself!:)

Message In A Bottle

Aaaaand the last book I chose.
Now we all know I'm not into sentimental, lovey-dovey books or movies (except Titanic ;D ), but I decided to give this one a chance. A few months ago while I was in California Jessica had been reading it and she gave me a summary and to my surprise, it actually sounded pretty good! So I glanced around the book aisle I was in to make sure no one was around to witness, and I put the book under my arm and rushed to the check out machines. I got out safe! I'll let you guys know what I thought of it.


Anyway, being back at the library felt great! I'm really really REALLY excited to begin reading again. So on that note, I'd like some book recommendations! This way, I don't wander aimlessly around the library again :)

Happy Reading!:)

-Alexis