June 2007 50 Books

Category: 50 Books

26. Ain’t She Sweet by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Flippy read Natural Born Charmer (#16 on this list) and then this one and she told me that this one was even BETTER than Natural Born Charmer and I said, “Impossible!” and she was all, “Read it and find out!”

So I read it and while it wasn’t as quick-witted and funny as Natural Born Charmer the story was much better and even a bit believable.

In this one a lady named Sugar Beth (I know) comes back to the southern town where she was born and raised after being gone for nearly two decades. She had been the most popular girl in school and also a huge bitch. She comes back home to take care of a money situation and then ends up showing everyone how she’s changed from a spoiled bitch to a really normal, nice person. But first the town tortures her.

It had some really sweet parts in it and I even shed a few tears during the sweet parts but also I was pmsing so perhaps the parts weren’t as sweet as I thought.

Anyway, a good summer book.

25. Grace (Eventually) by Anne Lamott
This is like her other nonfiction books, Traveling Mercies and Plan B. I love Anne Lamott’s biographical books because she is so honest about her life. She never sugar coats her own screw-ups. Never. Some of her thoughts on Christianity are very liberal, even to me, but I still appreciate reading about them. Plus her books ALWAYS have really good sentences in them.

This book, like Plan B, is not as good as Traveling Mercies, as that book was just amazing. But I did like this one better than Plan B.

So there you go.

 

24. A Good and Happy Child by Justin Evans
If you are sensitive at all to things dealing with demons then I don’t recommend this book as it will give you nightmares.

The plot is all there’s this guy who can’t seem to touch or hold his newborn baby. At first it seems kinda funny, “oh he’s a new dad.” kinda thing. But then it gets to where it’s ridiculous that he won’t hold the baby so he goes to therapy. It’s there he remembers that when he was a kid he went to therapy too because of some behavioral problems (y’know, like trying to kill people. erm, perhpas even succeeding in killing people.), but it turns out that his problem was actually that he was possessed by a demon.

regular therapists tend to misdiagnose those kinds of things.

and just when you’re thinking, “Damn, this kid doesn’t have a prayer.” (pun? intended?) because you know that thoraizine isn’t going to get rid of a demon. turns out there are some characters in the book who have had experiences with demons and spiritual things, and best of all they are friends of the kid’s parents. the thing is, (there’s always a thing) the father died at the beginning of the book and it’s his friends as he’s the Christian. The mom does not believe in such things. Even after the mom witnesses a manifestation of the demon in their bathroom she still doesn’t believe.

So the kid’s dead dad is the reason that the kid was attacked by a demon in the first place. The dad went to some place in South America to study with a demoniac to learn about demons so that he could come back and tell people how to fight against evil. In case you don’t know this, THAT IS ALWAYS A BAD IDEA. so he catches a “fever” and ends up dying a slow debilitating death. A demon then goes and latches on to the kid.

A bunch of shit happens. But the whole point of the story is that he’s now afraid to even touch his kid cos he doesn’t want any demons on his kid. The ending was really strange and I’m not sure if he’s still got a demon in him or not. I couldn’t tell. I didn’t like the weird ending. I wanted more closure.

The book was very creepy and there were several parts that were so creepy i wanted to hide under a blanket. With all the lights on.

 
I’m giving it one Canseco because it was well written and did not piss me off with too many characters and redundancy. It was a good book, and I never want to read it again.

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