Summer Reading

I love reading but rarely have time to for it during the school year if it's not science or education related.  I've always loved reading and would have at least 20 pizza certificates every school year thanks to the Book-It program.  If it's a good book, I can usually finish it within a few days.  If it's bad, I'll finish the book because once I start one I have to read it to the end, it just takes me longer. 

I just finished 'Water for Elephants' yesterday and loved it.  Sara Gruen did a great job of creating such fantastic imagery that I could literally picture the circus and all the performances as I was reading about them.  I'm pretty excited to watch the movie to see how true to the book they stay, although they rarely do due to time constraints.

I finished the 'Hunger Games' trilogy a while back and am taking my sister to see the movie.  I really love how Suzanne Collins descried the scenery of the arena in vivid detail and you could really picture yourself as a person living in the Capitol watching the games live. 

These two books alone has reignited my passion for reading, but I am at a loss for what to read next.  I'm really not interested in the 'Fifty Shades of Grey' trilogy even though it's the hottest book on the market right now.  A lot of women are saying it's badly written "Mom porn" and I'd just reread the "Twilight" series if I wanted to read badly written books.  I'm kind of interested in the 'Divergent' series right now but am not really willing to pay $9 for an electronic version of the books.  I'll wait till those come down in price.  I tried to read the 'Girl with the Dragon Tatoo' but it's so slow in the beginning I'm having a hard time getting through it.  My sister is reading the 'Game of Thrones' series so I'm thinking of snatching those up from her and getting in to those.  She has a few other books that I'm want to read so I'll have to raid her bookshelf.