My Reading Nook

     Treasure Box by Orson Scott Card is part of a genre I haven't ventured into very much: science fiction. As soon as I picked up this book, I couldn't put it down.      Treasure Box is about a man called Quentin Fears, pronounced "fierce," who fell into money by accident and honestly has quite a boring, bland life. He has never been in love, or even in a relationship with a woman. That is until one night while attending a business party he meets what seems to be his dream woman, Madeleine.      As their relationship progresses, things seem to be stranger and stranger with Madeleine. She never talks about her past and refuses to let Quentin meet her parents until after they got married; this should've been the first sign that things weren't exactly "normal" with Madeleine. What seems to be the "perfect" relationship quickly turns into a fight between Quentin and forces that he will never fully understand.       Treasure Box  is a gre

     The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule is a retelling of the events involving the notorious Ted Bundy. Ted Bundy was one of the most prolific serial killers in the history of the country. He was known for abducting, raping, and murdering young women in Colorado, Utah, Florida, Washington, Idaho, and Oregon. This book was a peak into the more personal aspects of his life including his feelings during his arrests, his life before he started killing, and how these events absolutely shook the life of the author, Ann Rule.      Ann Rule worked with Ted at Seattle's Suicide Hotline Crisis Clinic and formed a strong bond with him. Ann was a former police officer and was a reporter during the time of Ted's murders, but she didn't realize it at the time. She was contracted to write a book about all the girls that had been vanishing, but she had no idea one of her dear friends would be the executor of these heinous crimes.      Ted Bundy was raised by his grandparents because h

     Flowers for Algernon  by Daniel Keyes was an exceptional book. When I started reading it, I had a very biased outlook; I didn’t think I was going to enjoy it. It wasn’t long until I got totally overwhelmed by this book and the message Daniel Keyes is sending.      In this book, you are pulled along on Charlie’s journey of going through a procedure to make him “smart” and his experiences afterwards. He volunteered as the first human subject to have this test, up until him it had only been tested on animals. They had positive results on a mouse named Algernon and were sure of Charlie’s progression after the procedure. As you’re reading the book, you see that Charlie’s IQ levels weren’t the only thing affected by the procedure. He has to learn to cope with adult-level intelligence while still having the emotions of a child. Charlie’s world is turned upside down when he starts to notice romantic feelings that he has never felt before. He doesn’t know how to get a handle on them and

      The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon is about Christopher John Francis Boone and about how his brain works differently from most everyone else. Christopher investigates the mysterious murder of the neighbor’s dog, Wellington, and promises to bring the person to justice. While doing his “detective work,” he uncovers secrets that he doesn’t believe to be true. This sends him on a journey to find what he’s been missing for many years and shows him how scary the world truly is.       Throughout this novel, we see how Christopher’s brain works and how it unravels problems. He is very uncomfortable around strangers and cannot stand to be touched. This is a book that should be on everyone’s reading list. It gives you a new perspective from a person who isn’t considered “normal.” It lets you take a peak into the brain of someone who sees the world differently from everyone else.       I have never read anything like this book. It wasn’t one of my favorite

   Everything I Never Told by Celeste Ng is about a Chinese-American family who lives in a small town in Ohio around the 1970s. Marilyn and James Lee have three children, but they favor Lydia above the others. James and Marilyn want Lydia to accomplish everything they were never able to. Marilyn wants her daughter to become a doctor to fight the male stigma and to accomplish her biggest dreams. James wants to do everything in his power to make her blend in, to make her feel less different.    When Lydia winds up dead in the lake near their house, everything turns upside down. Secrets are exposed and people pinned themselves against each other. Marilyn finds that she didn’t know her daughter as well as she thought she did.    Throughout the book, you start to realize that even though Lydia was a “perfect” daughter, she had secrets that she would never be able to tell her parents or her siblings. Her whole life she was trying to live up to her parents’ expectations, not even knowing

   What If It’s Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera is a great book that tested people’s belief in destiny and that the universe can bring people together. Arthur was visiting New York with his parents for an internship at his mom’s firm. One day while making a coffee run, he sees this boy with a box walk into the post office and he follows him in. When a flash mob breaks them apart, it seems hopeless that they will ever see each other again.    After a lot of internet searching, he finds out the boy’s name is Ben. Ben is a New York native and isn’t fascinated by the magnificennce that is the city he lives in. His summer plans were ruined when he failed some classes in junior year and had to attend summer school. His ex boyfriend was also attending summer school which made for some really awkward moments.    When they finally find each other, they find that the other person was just what they were looking for. They find that maybe the universe isn’t as mean as they thought. But