July pleasure reading, part 2

A few days ago I requested Ender's Game through Duke's library, and although I haven't heard anything from them about when that will be there, I did check out The Host by Stephenie Meyer. I saw that Orson Scott Card had complimented this book so I checked it out.



This book was very different from the Twilight series, and I'm happy about that. This book is her novel "for adults" and essentially it's about this alien population that takes over the planet by being implanted into human bodies. I know that sounds pretty stupid, but I also didn't even know what this book was about when I started reading it. After these "souls" are implanted, they retain all the human's memories and everything, but the reason they came to Earth is because they felt that humans were barbaric and basically couldn't be trusted to run their own lives. This story was told from the perspective of the soul and the human it took over, because the human refused to be taken over completely. This soul/human searches out other native humans to live with to help protect the "native" human way. In the story the soul comes to realize that they shouldn't have wiped out the human race because not all humans are vicious, cruel, war-mongering types.

Anyway, the story line was creative and it kept me interested but it's not like the story really made me think or reflect or whatever it is good books should cause their readers to do.

I also checked out the works of Jane Austen on Thursday when I checked out The Host. I've only ever read Pride and Prejudice (which I should read again because it's been 6 years) and I loved it. So I want to check out some more of Austen's work. I know the book contained Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, and Mansfield Park, but it may also have contained Northanger Abbey. My next books are going to be Jane Austen books, and I guess Ender's Game whenever I hear from the library :-)