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“I am the Messenger” Marcus Zusak. I bought this book for my daughter (19 years old) after reading “The Book Thief” which was sort of dark but had a great message. “I am the Messenger” won a Childrens book award in Australia but it is NOT a childrens book. The main character starts out telling the reader how sexually inadequate he is and this is repeated throughout the book. He also talks at length about his friend Audrey and fantasizes about having sex with her. Meanwhile she is having sex with her boyfriend Simon. None of these are described in detail but they made me uncomfortable. There is also a pretty horrible rape scene. I am sad that these things are in the book because overall it was good and it does have a wonderful message
Oops I forgot to give it a rating. Based on the rating system here I think it is Moderate. But I think it is getting close to a High rating.
I found no mention of one of my favorite authors, Bodie Thoene. She has written several novels in three different series of books. They are historical fiction, clean as a whistle, and enjoyable reads besides. Some are written in collaboration with her husband. (Personally I prefer the ones she authored herself alone with Brock, her husband, doing all of the historical research for her, but they are still good.) I recommend them to everyone.
I would recommend Angela Elwell Hunt as a great Christian author. Almost every book of hers that I have read has been wonderful and nothing to make one uncomfortable.
I totally agree! Angela Elwell Hunt is Terrific.
Angela Hunt is a favorite of mine too! Another great author is Francine Rivers.
Remembering Isaac by Ben Behunin is a very inspiring book. I met the author at Cosco and bought 3 of his books. I’ve just finished the first one and I’m looking forward to the other two. The first one left me with a great feeling and I was sad to see it end. Thank heaven the story of Jake the potter of Niederbipp is continued in Discovering Isaac. Here is a quote from the book “Joy in all its Glory can only be obtained through unselfishness”
Num8ers by Rachel Ward has not been rated here but I would give it a high. I rarely stop reading a book once I’ve started but I have with this one. I picked it up because Amazon recommended it for people who liked The Hunger Games.
Just finished “Brooklyn” by Colm Toibin. I’m drawn to historical fiction, so the idea of a young Irish girl traveling to Brooklyn, NY after WW II intrigued me. The innocence ended half way through the book. There is vulgar language but the sexual scenes outnumber even that. I read reviews before I bought the book, but of course they favored the book to encourage sales. I was so disappointed that I had wasted my money.
I would rate this book HIGH
I read Water for Elephants on a friend’s reccomendation and was appalled. I would give it a High rating or even a DIRT. The language is vulgar
and continues that way through out the book and the sex is extremely explicit. I was saddened by this book because it was well written and would have been phenomenal without the explicit content. Don’t waste your time here…
I would reccomend “I’ll be there” by Holly Goldberg Sloan. This is a very inspirational, heart-breaking, and amazing book. This book’s plot seemed very original. The downer for me was the swearing and two or three very brief scenes that made me uncomfortable. It mostly swears in certain characters point of view, so I pretty much skimmed over those parts. Anyways, I would rate this Mild.
The book is: “Looking for Alaska” by John Green. Even though this book is a YA book, has won some awards, and is rated really high on goodreads it would definitely be a DIRT book.
The book is about a boy who goes off to a boarding school and makes new friends. However, there is so much horrible language in it that I had to give up on it fairly quickly. I wanted to see what happened in the book so I thumbed through it quickly only to come across lots of teenage drinking, smoking, explicit sexual content and bad language on almost every page. I counted the F-word used 4 times on just one page. I would avoid this book and make sure it didn’t get into my children’s hands.
I just thought maybe you could put something on your website to warn other people.
Thanks!