Find & Feed
the Mind
'MANNA VANGELOV
staff writer
With textbook readings and internet
blogs, finding something decent to
read seems like a chore most days. But
fear not. For your convenience, we
have assembled a fine menu of books
for your mind to indulge in.
Deathstalher by Simon R.
Green is a stunning science fiction
piece that will leave you breathless.
With alien races, grizzly battles, and
well detailed space travel it does not
fail to keep you entertained. The main
plot focuses around Owen Death
stalker, a minor historian and how he
comes to lead a galactic rebellion. This
book is only one in a series of nine for
those who love to read.
Summer of My German So!-
dier by Bette Greene is a touching
story set in Arkansas during WWII.
Told through the point of view of a
young girl named Patty, we see how
the lives of the people around her are
turned upside down when a young
Jewish girl befriends a German POW,
and goes against everything her family
stands for. You'll see the raw emotion
as spirits break, racism soars, and peo
ple bond. For those who enjoy ro
mance, this is a must read.
Paperquahe by Kathryn Reiss
is a shorter book that keeps you on the
edge of your seat the entire time in a
timeless tale of finding your place in
the world. Violet is a girl like any other,
except she is deathly afraid of earth
quakes, lives in San Francisco and has
a secret. She has been finding notes
that seem to be addressed to her from
decades ago with every earthquake, a
mystery that is slowly eating away at
her sanity. The phenomenal plot twists
will keep you guessing till the very end
in this exceptional choice.
)0. Beautiful Creatures by Kami
Garci and Margaret Stohl takes super
natural teen dating to a new level. As a
new school year starts in Gatlin, a
small town where everyone knows
each other, something new happens.
Ravenwood, the town shut-in, has his
niece move in, rumors fly and one local
can't help but shake an odd feeling he
gets. When tempers soar and magic
hits the air, our hero Ethan Wate comes
face to face with a world he could
never have imagined. Spells, magic, in
cubi, and love are thrown into the mix
as the ultimate fight ensues. This is
definitely worth a read not only for the
ladies, but for the gentlemen as well.
Anthem by Ayn Rand is a
stunning yet haunting story of life in a
far-off future. Individuality no longer
exists, and the world is not moving for
ward as leaders hide the past of what
used to be. With most of the character
language using 'we' instead of 'l,' a
word that is forbidden, the twisting
language will put you in the charac
ters' mindset. But what happens when
one mind is too curious for its own
good? We watch and see as Equality
7-2521, the main character, starts to
question things and slowly finds a hid
den world, and a freedom that none
has ever known.
a Wolf gives readers a breath of fresh air
In his 2008 novel
A Wolf At the
Table, Augusten
Burroughs uncov
ers the personal
trauma of growing up with an alcoholic fa
ther and a pill-popping, schizophrenic
mother. It is a personal, very frank memoir
about what a lack of family can do to a
child. For instance, Burroughs openly re-
calls eating canned Nutella for breakfast,
sleeping with a bag full of his father's used
clothes, and wearing a dog costume con
structed out of paper and tape.
The sorrow unfolds into strangeness as
the reader begins to familiarize with Au
gusten's off-the-wall family life.
JULIE
MORRISSEY
copy editor
For instance, the household consisted of
a loony mother who made tuna sand
wiches for dinner and wrote poetry late
into the night, an older brother with as
perger's syndrome and a compulsive de
sire to blow things up, who flees the
household at 16, and, most importantly, a
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