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Lucas Works lucas_mendes — I grabbed this book off the shelf at the library because I had seen some good reviews and I thought it sounded like an interesting premise. I am so glad I did. It's a little fun, a touch creepy, slightly gross and really lovely. Cas is a ghost hunter. But don't call him a ghost buster! His father was killed when Cas was 7 years old. Cas has spent the last 10 years training and studying so he can kill the ghost that killed his father. In his quest to be better at hunting ghosts, he decides to go to Canada to hunt Anna Korlov. Anna was murdered in 1950's but her murderer was never caught. She is known at Anna Dressed In Blood because people who have seen her say her dress drips with blood. Cas quickly realizes that all is not as it seems and maybe hunting Anna isn't going to be easy or straight forward. I really liked that Cas had to stop being a loner and develop friendships in order to solve the problems that develop in the story. I thought it was very good that Cas's friends were more than just 2 dimensional characters. And the author went to places that many authors would have avoided by killing characters. What I didn't like was that Cas's mom was a bit too simple. She is described as a kitchen witch. She moves where Cas tells he needs to go to kill a ghost. I really wanted more from her. I also didn't like how the police were depicted as being simple minded and a little bit lazy. And finally, Anna is almost too much, too strong, too interesting. I can't imagine where Anna will go from here because she is too big. I would recommend this book to everyone! Ok, seriously, this is a YA book. If you like paranormal, ghosts, mystery, you will probably like this. I am looking forward to the next book in the series. Quotes: I always hate the sunlit towns, full of newly built developments with double-car garages in shades of pale eggshell surrounded by green lawns and dotted with laughing children. page 25 "Yes. Smashing. You'll be just like those four chaps in the movie. You know the one, with the oversized marshmallow." You've got to be kidding me. page 166 book borrowed from the library

Adam Rowe adamprowe — This coffee table book on Senate History comes from none other than the U.S. Senate Historian, Richard Baker. The House of Representatives recently acquired noted historian of the Jacksonian era, Robert Remini as the official House Historian. He recently wrote a pretty impressive tomb on the House of Representatives. The Senate already has a 4 volume history written by US Senator, Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, so the Senate could not reply in that manner. So, I think the coffee table book was the best that we could muster. I think this is the first time I have actually read a coffee table book from cover to cover. It is a chatty little story book filled with useful cocktail-party-history of the US Senate. That's useful knowledge to me, as I never know what to say at Washington cocktail parties. Perhaps anecdotes about Thomas Hart Benton will help break the ice. The most striking thing to me about the book was the number of attacks on the Capitol. I had heard about all the incidents individually, but it is more jolting to see them sequentially. 3 bombings, 2 gun attacks and then the attempt on September 11th. In a way, its remarkable that the Capitol complex remained so open for so long. Note, I use the past tense here. As any of you who have visited the capitol recently will have noted, it is increasingly difficult to get in. And once the Capitol Visitor Center is completed, I expect it will be very much a controlled experience like the White House. In any case, Baker's prose is breezy and he is dutifully reverent to the institution without missing the absurdities of Senate life. You also get a sense of the breakdown in lawfulness that preceded the Civil War. Its not just the canning of Charles Sumner, its also the Mississippi Senator pulling a gun on Missouri Senator Thomas Hart Benton in the Senate chamber. Then there is the case of California Senator David Broderick (an anti-slavery Democrat) being killed in a duel by the pro-slavery Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court. Apearantly, back in those days, California was a lot more like modern Texas. In any case, the slide toward anarchy can definitely be found long before Fort Sumter. Another interesting aside that I really never knew concerns the order of succession. All of us learn in school that it is the President, then the Vice President, then the Speaker of the House and then President Pro Tempore of the Senate. After that, you get the members of the Cabinet, and I was aware that as new departments were created, they have been shuffled up a bit. What I did not know, is that Congress was not always in the order of succession at all. For a long time, it devolved from the President to the VP and then directly to the Secretary of State. Furthermore, when they first inserted Congress, it was the President Pro Tempore of the Senate who was third in line over the Speaker of the House. The structure we all know and love was only finalized in 1947 after some hard thinking in light of FDR's demise and the Constitutional Amendments on succession that followed. Anyway, this is a book for government geeks. If you are one, its a nice read and about as pleasant a way to introduce yourself to Senate history as I have found. If not, there are prettier coffee table books to be had.

Jeppe Morgenstjerne jeppem — Many of the other reviewers commented on Matt's arrogance and ego. Seriously, I think that's what kept him alive through this unbelievable ordeal he went through. Hard to imagine, but not hard to be inspired by his resiliance and determination to even survive, much less be able to thrive and live life again. Amazing. Most of my birth family has read and loved it.

Botshelo Thato s3thandwaec81 — Inhalt: Cassia lebt in einer Welt, in der die Sicherheit der Bevölkerung an oberster Stelle steht. Das System regelt den Alltag der Menschen, es kennt jeden einzelnen Bewohner beinahe besser als die eigene Familie es tun könnte. Um ein langes und zufriedenes Leben Aller zu gewährleisten würde das System alles tun. Am wichtigsten Tag ihres Lebens, am Abend des Paarungsbanketts, soll Cassia ihren idealen Lebensgefährten kennenlernen. Zur Überraschung aller stellt sich heraus, dass gerade Xander, Cassias langjähriger bester Freund, ihr zugewiesen wurde. Zunächst könnte Cassia gar nicht glücklicher über die Entscheidung des Systems sein. Doch durch einen puren Zufall findet Cassia heraus, dass der vollkommenen Organisation ein fataler Fehler unterlaufen ist, der ihr Leben schlagartig verändert. Meine Meinung: Als ich den Klappentext von ‘Cassia & Ky’ gelesen habe, war ich sofort begeistert. Ein Science-Fiction Roman für Jugendliche, eine scheinbar utopische Welt, eine Handlung, die ein wenig an ‘Die Tribute von Panem’ erinnert. Da war mir schnell klar, dass ich dieses Buch unbedingt lesen muss. Und ich kann bereits verraten, dass meine Erwartungen noch weit übertroffen wurden. Die Gesellschaft, in der Cassia mit ihrer Familie lebt ist unserer sehr ähnlich. Doch trotzdem gibt es einen entscheidenden Unterschied: die Regierung möchte eine perfekte Gesellschaft erschaffen und schreckt dabei nicht vor Gräueltaten zurück. Noch schlimmer ist allerdings, dass nur wenige das System hinterfragen. Und auch ich hatte zunächst das Gefühl, es handele sich bei dem System um einen absoluten Traum. Doch allzu schnell wurde auch mir klar, dass die Autorin eine Dystopie beschreibt. Die Geschichte um Cassia ist nicht durchgängig spannend. Oft wird ‘lediglich’ der Alltag der Bewohner der Provinz Oria beschrieben. Das geschieht allerdings so liebevoll und detailliert, dass es die Autorin geschafft hat, mich auch an diesen Stellen völlig in den Bann zu ziehen. In diesem Buch gibt es für den Leser vieles zu entdecken, sodass es schier unmöglich ist das Buch aus der Hand zu legen. Andere Handlungen im Buch sind wiederum so tieftraurig und emotional, dass ich nicht umhin konnte mit den Charakteren des Buches mitzufühlen. Besonders begeistert war ich von den Figuren des Buches, die ich allesamt prompt ins Herz geschlossen habe. Es waren gerade die familiären und intimen Momente, in denen die verschiedenen Charaktere für mich fast zum Leben erwacht sind. Die Beziehungen der Protagonistin zu den Menschen in ihrer Umgebung und ihre enorme Entwicklung haben mich bis zum Ende gefesselt und sind der Grund dafür, dass ich auch noch lange Zeit nach Beenden des Buches oft an die Geschichte denke. Fazit: ‘Cassia & Ky – Die Auswahl’ ist eines der besten Bücher, die ich je gelesen habe. Die Autorin Ally Condie hat eine Geschichte erschaffen, die die Genres Science-Fiction und Liebe erstklassig vereint. Den Leser erwartet ein Buch, was nicht nur tiefgründig ist und zum nachdenken anregt, sondern darüber hinaus niemals langweilig wird. Ich kann den zweiten Teil, der im Januar 2012 (die englische Ausgabe erscheint am 1. November 2011 unter dem Namen ‘Crossed‘ ) erscheint, kaum erwarten. Absolute Leseempfehlung! Außerdem wurde bereits auf moviepilot.de berichtet, dass Disney sich die Filmrechte für alle drei Teile gesichert hat. Wann der Film in den Kinos erscheinen wird ist allerdings noch nicht bekannt.