#3: The Neverending Story

The Neverending Story by Michael Ende

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


I loved this movie as a kid and it just recently occurred to me that it was probably a book too and I was really glad to find out it was. The movie ends at about halfway through the book but my favorite part is the last bit of the book when Bastian comes back to the real world and you see how much he has changed from his experiences.



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#2: Tricky Business

Tricky Business by Dave Barry

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I loved to read Dave Barry's newspaper columns when I was a kid, he is one of my favorite humorous authors. When I found out that he had written a fiction novel, Big Trouble, I read it and loved it. It was made into a movie, which is also one of my favorites. I looked him up recently to see if he had any other books and found this one. I liked this book as much as Big Trouble. It follows the same sort of pattern with the "main" character being a sort of flawed but likable guy who stumbles into other characters carrying out criminal activities, during which he meets and falls in love with a female character as everyone tries to sort out and remove themselves from various dangerous situations and inadvertently foil the criminal plot. I love these kind of movies too, where multiple story lines are introduced and one by one become entangled with each other. And since it's Dave Barry, as each interaction between story lines occurs, hilarity ensues.



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#1: People of the Book

I've started over counting since this was my first book for 2010. I won't get anywhere near my goal of 100 books this year, but I would like to get at least 10 by the end of the year.



People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I thought the story was really interesting and made me want to learn more about the actual book that the story was about. I liked that each modern discovery made about the book was followed by a chapter set in the past explaining that part of the book's history. I did get a little confused on the timeline, though. I think there should be an illustrated version of this book, with actual pictures of the real book, a detailed timeline of the story, and some explanations of what we actually know about the history of the book and which parts of the story were embellished.



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