Alli’s Comments (group member since Sep 26, 2013)

Alli’s comments from the Discuss @ Carroll County Public Library group.

I just finished We Were Liars and up until the last few chapters I really thought I liked this book quite a bit. I'm entirely sure that a good number of readers will disagree with me; I 100 percent hated the big "twist" at the end.

I just finished listening to A Study in Scarlet, the first Sherlock Holmes adventure by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is set up a bit strangely, the case is introduced as expected but then there is whole part with the back story of one of the characters involved. It isn't bad but it is a definite change of pace and seems a bit out of place. It does come back around to the case and it wraps up quite well. Any fan of Sherlock's adventures will enjoy this introduction.

My favorite is Poison by Bridget Zinn. I love that there were twists and turns that I didn't see coming. After all of the fantasy books I've read, that is a bit of a rare find for me. Plus, who doesn't just love Rosie the pig?

I just read the picture book Auntie Claus by Elise Primavera. It has great illustrations with lots of fun details and the story is very cute too!

This is a bit of an obscure example but the worst one I can think of was when Disney channel made a movie version of Avalon High by Meg Cabot. Although not exactly a deep read, I had really enjoyed the book and the movie version changed the ending entirely. It wasn't even remotely the same. They tried to make this great surprise ending but instead it ended up as a needless cliche to anyone who had read the book.

Hi, I'm Alli. I work at the Taneytown branch. I read a little bit of everything but most of it has some aspect of fantasy involved.