The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud

I just finished reading The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud and I LOVED it! I can't wait to see the movie this weekend. However, just by watching the previews, I can tell the movie is going to be totally different from the book. Bums me out...just a little.


Anyways, this book is not what I expected at all. There is a twist in the book that makes the story interesting and unusual. I have never read a love story like this. I used to think cemeteries were creepy, but after reading this book, I have a new outlook.
This is a MUST read!


SYNOPSIS

Into a snug New England fishing village. Charlie St. Cloud tends the lawns and monuments of an ancient cemetery where his younger brother, Sam, is buried. After surviving the car accident that claimed his brother's life, Charlie is graced with an extraordinary gift: He can see, talk to, and even play catch with Sam's spirit. Into this magical world comes Tess Carroll, a captivating woman training for a solo sailing trip around the globe. Fate steers her boat into a treacherous storm that propels her into Charlie's life. Their beautiful and uncommon connection leads to a race against time and a choice between death and life, between the past and the future, between holding on and letting go - and the discovery that miracles can happen if we simply open our hearts.

Go Ask Alice

I've been wanting to read this book for awhile now and since Kiersten just read it, I borrowed it. The book is based on the actual diary of a fifteen-year-old drug user in the 1960's.


It's shocking to see how the other kids in her school pressured her to do drugs which ended up changing her life. This book is a must read!


The title "Go Ask Alice" was taken from the song "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane (one of my all-time favorite songs).


I was listening to my ipod while reading the last few pages of the book. When I read the very last page, I realized White Rabbit was playing. WEIRD!!!

"One pill makes you larger

And one pill makes you small

And the ones that mother gives you

Don't do anything at all

Go ask Alice

When she's ten feet tall"

White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane

SYNOPSIS

It started when she was served a soft drink with LSD in a dangerous party game. Within months, she was hooked, trapped in a downward spiral that took her from her comfortable home and loving family to the mean streets of an unforgiving city. It was a journey that would rob her of her innocence, her youth - and ultimately her life.

I am Ozzy

I always love a good rock and roll autobiography! When I heard Ozzy wrote a book I knew I had to read it. I just finished it and its one of my favorite rock autobiographies. My favorite is still The Dirt by Motley Crue (I don't think any rock autobiography can top it).


I'm a fan of Ozzy's music and one of my favorite reality t.v. shows is The Osbournes...go figure. In this book I learned a lot about Ozzy I didn't know. He's a joker and loves to play pranks on people, he was wasted on booze and pills the entire time he was filmed for his reality show, he worked in a slaughter house before creating Black Sabbath and he was the one who made Sharon get a colonoscopy because he had to, and in the end, Ozzy was cancer free and Sharon was not.


This book was an amazing and funny read. I definitely recommend it! I can't wait for the movie! It's rumored that Colin Farrell will play Ozzy...I don't know if I like the casting choice. I think an unknown actor might be a better choice...but I guess I'll have to wait and see.


SYNOPSIS


"They've said some crazy things about me over the years. I mean, okay: 'He bit the head off a bat.' Yes. 'He bit the head off a dove.' Yes. But then you hear things like, 'Ozzy went to the show last night, but he wouldn't perform until he'd killed fifteen puppies...' Now me, kill fifteen puppies? I love puppies. I've got eighteen of the ******* things at home. I've killed a few cows in my time, mind you. And the chickens. I shot the chickens in my house that night. It haunts me, all this crazy stuff. Every day of my life has been an event. I took lethal combinations of booze and drugs for thirty ******* years. I survived a direct hit by a plane, suicidal overdoses, STDs. I've been accused of attempted murder. Then I almost died while riding over a bump on a quad bike at ******* two miles per hour. People ask me how come I'm still alive, and I don't know what to say. When I was growing up, if you'd have put me up against a wall with the other kids from my street and asked me...