BUCKET LIST

Title	Author	Commentary
1.       “Life Of Pi”	Yann Martel	I enjoy reading books about adventures and this book had a quote from the San Francisco Chronicle on the front labeling that it was a great adventure and it was hard to stop reading. I LOVE books where you can’t put them down! This is a chilling tale about 16 year old Pi who finds himself stranded in a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger, it tells of his challenges to find food and to overcome everything the ocean throws at him.
2.       “Water For Elephants”	Sara Gruen	After seeing the movie with the amazing Robert Pattinson playing the role of Jacob I made the decision to read this book. This book is about a thrilling love story during the prohibition and tells of a man who lost his parents in an accident and jumped a train into the life of the circus and finds his love but she is married to another man the circus ringmaster, who also is a wife beater. This book also had several different places on the bestseller list including USA bestseller.
3.       “Two Or Three Things I Forgot To Tell You”	Joyce Carol Oates	This book cover interested me it showed of a girl standing in the sunset with the wind gently blowing her hair as if she was escaping something. After reading the first few pages I noticed that this book was about a friendship between two girls one who was killed and the life that she knew and the life her friends knew of her. This book also landed a spot on amazon’s best book of the month.
4.       “City Of Bones”	Casandra Clare	After hearing all of the ranting about this book series I had to read it and I read the back of the book along with the first few pages and found it to be quite interesting especially since I like books that are real science fiction. This book is about a person who witnesses a murder of somebody whose body disappears and then later finds out the murderers are demon hunters and they kill and rid the earth of demons.
5.       “Beautiful Creatures”	Kami Garcia	This book is another that has been on my reading wants for a very long time and it has very unique paranormal aspects to it. This book is about a girl with special powers but doesn’t want anybody knowing about them or the curse on her family, and then she meets this guy who is physically drawn to her and wants to find out the connection between them. This book seems to be a definite thriller and suspenseful read.
6.       “Children Of The Fog”	Cheryl Kaye Tardif	This book drew me to it because the cover reminds me of the book The Shack, but although these books are very different children of the fog is about a mother who is forced to decide what to do about the kidnapping of her son and seeing the face of the kidnapper and not being able to tell anyone or her son will be in pieces and sent back to her. This book is about a mother’s love to save her child and to face the person who took him.
7.       “Taken”	Norah McClintock	This book in some ways is similar to the movie taken but don’t have the same story line. This book is about a girl who thinks that nothing that happens to other people will happen to her, although it does and she’s miles from home tied up and doesn’t know what to do. This is a thrilling book about an escape and the will everybody has to live in the worst situations.