Here's a pile of books I'm currently reading or have recently read!!

From back to front: Rambunctious Garden by Emma Marris

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me by Mindy Kaling

The Evolution of Faith by Philip Gulley

Inside the Kingdom by Robert Lacey

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

Atlantia by Ally Condie

I'm reading Rambunctious Garden for a class. It's okay so far - not really something I'd read if I were picking out a book, but it's interesting and I can already tell that the discussion about it in class next week will be good. Also....this is my last assigned book of the semester!!! Huzzah!

I'm rereading Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me for the tenth time. It's still so funny! I think I read it at the beginning of the semester as well.

I'm not liking The Evolution of Faith as much as I thought I would. I'm not much for theology, but I'm giving it a whirl. I'm only halfway through, though, so it could become more interesting.

Inside the Kingdom is a fascinating book about Saudi Arabia. I'm about 3/4 done with it, and I liked it a lot better than the book I was assigned to read for class about SA. It's such a different culture - I'm still going to finish the book even though the class discussion about Saudi Arabia is over.

Finally, we get to the books I've finished!

City of Bones was not as good as I was expecting it to be. I feel like it was really hyped up on the internet, but it wasn't that different from other YA books I've read. I liked it, but I'm not sure if I'll read the others. (Jk. I'll read them. I'm also taking recommendations for winter break reading.) I feel like this book is getting a raw deal from me because I'm 23 and I've read so many other YA books. If I were 10 years younger, I might have absolutely loved these. (And this, my dears, marks the first time I've ever said "if I were 10 years younger.")

Last but not least, Atlantia. AHHHH. So good! I really like this even though I'm not the biggest fan of Ally Condie's voice. (Does this make sense? Some of her phrasings get on my nerves.) It's about a futuristic world where the environment got so bad that some people were sent to live in an underwater city (in a bubble) called Atlantia. It's dystopian with a twist because there's an element of a local religion and the supernatural, which makes it different from every single other dystopian novel out there. Also, Ally is from Utah so everyone in this book (and in her Matched series as well) has a really weird name. (Main character: Rio. Supporting: Bay (who I referred to as Bae), Maire, True). Overall, I liked this more than the Matched trilogy, but not as much as I liked The Selection,which I read last month and loved. It was cool that I put this book on hold right when it came out, so I was the first one to read it and there were no fingerprints on the cover when I got it. It's the little things in life!!

Somehow it's almost 10:30, so I'm going to head to bed. Cheers!