Summer Reading

This summer I didn't have a lot of free time to do my reading because I worked at a camp in Minnesota for the month of June and then went on a medical mission trip to Ecuador. Somehow I found time to get everything done between trips to the lake and college visits. The two books I decided to read were Atonement by Ian McEwan and Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. I chose Never Let Me Go because I had watched the movie with my mother and was interested in the story line. The book actually made me angry to the point where I can't even explain why I got so worked up. I feel like it's completely wrong to clone people just so they can donate their organs to the lucky members of society who will then live to be over 100 years old. It is seriously disgusting to think that people could ever be so heartless as to force people into dying for them. The book had some similarities with the movie but I appreciated the book a lot more. When I first started reading Atonement I wanted to find another book right away. It wasn't interesting and I didn't think there was any way that a little girl could commit as big of a crime as the back cover led me to believe. It ended up being one of my favorite books I've read for school. The relationship between Cecilia and Robbie was the best part of the book to me, except for when Robbie was at war. I'm really glad summer reading is over because I stayed up all night the night before it was due to get it done. Not fun.