Who Moved My Blackberry?

Everyone knows someone like Martin Lukes- the one that thinks they're making the world a better place just by breathing. This book follows a year's worth of Martin Lukes' text messages and emails as he stives to be a "creovative" person. This guy will make you mad. He communicates almost totally with his family by texting, is uninvolved in both of his sons' lives, and blames his oldest son's behavioral problems on his wife's career. So when all of his... activities come back to bite him, it makes you feel warm inside :). Book for adults.

Favorite Texts: Martin Lukes to Jake Lukes: Jake, can you do an exercise for me? Can you think up six key behaviors that will help you going forward, and email them to me? Then I can help you learn to live them. Let's make a new start! Love, Dad

Jake Lukes to Martin Lukes: Dad, you're gay. -J

This Book Will Change Your Life

This book is definitely for adults. There's one activity for each day of the year; half of which you won't want to do. However, the authors Ben and Henrik are hilarious and even the days that wouldn't be the wisest to carry out (shoplifting, writing to a murderer) are great to read. It's a quick read since it's just a paragraph or two for each page, so reading it in a couple shots is pretty easy.

Favorite Day: Day 25-Things You Will Never Do Before You Die.

Reaper Man

This is the eleventh book in the Discworld series. Yes, I'm skipping around; don't judge me :D. This book follows Death and Windle Poons (wizard) through a very interesting time for Ankh-Morpork. The Auditors force Death to retire, which throws reality into chaos because whatever you believe will happen to you when you die is what will happen. Thus, things and people are dying, but no one is moving on; causing Ankh's life-force to start building up and causing strange things to materialize. In the meantime, Death's become Bill Door- a farmer.

Again, the books that follow Death are always wonderful. This one's no exception. Especially since, as a farmer, Bill Door has to kill things...something Death hates. Because Death doesn't kill things, he takes them away after they've been killed.

Favorite Quote: "It is true that the undead cannot cross running water. However, the naturally turbid river Ankh, already heavy with the mud of the plains, does not, after passing through the city (pop. 1,000,000) necessarily qualify under the term "running" or, for that matter, "water".

Battle Cry of Freedom

"Battle Cry of Freedom" by James McPherson is an overview of the Civil War. The book starts before the beginning of the war and details/looks into both sides of the war, Confederate and Union, as well the different areas of life the war affected.

This book is awesome if you're into war stories or American history. Don't try to read it to kids, they'll be bored out of their minds. It's definitely a read for adults, as it's not exactly in story form and doesn't follow one specific person through the war.

Favorite Chapter- Amateurs Go To War

Sourcery

The fifth book in the Discworld series picks back up with Rincewind, who has been named the assistant librarian at Unseen University. Twoflower has gone back to the Counterweight Continent, but he's left the Luggage, a walking trunk with a mind of its own. All is well until a little boy with ridiculously amazing magical powers comes to the University and demands to be made head wizard. After stepping out of the University for a drink, Rincewind gets "kidnapped" by the thief who stole the head wizard's hat- a girl named Conina. Oh, and the hat talks, by the way.

Favorite Quote: "The Ankh-Morpork Merchants' Guild publication Wellcome to Ankh-Morporke, Citie of One Thousand Surprises describes the area of Old Morpork known as The Shades as "a folklorique network of old alleys and picturesque streets, wherre exitment and romans lurkes arounde everry corner and much may be heard the tratitinal street cries of old time also the laughing visages of the denuizens as they goe about their businesse private." In other words, you have been warned."

Mort

Fourth in the Discworld series, the book follows Mort, Death's new apprentice, as he tries to change fate and keep a princess alive. The problem is that Reality isn't listening, so even though he stops her assassination, everything keeps existing as if she's died anyway. During all of this, Mort is trying to put up with Death's annoying adopted daughter, Ysabell.

This book is funny as crap! Any scenes with Death are great, so an entire book with him is awesome. He and Mort are two of my favorite characters in the Discworld series.

Favorite Quote: "The world is a funny old place in which, metaphorically speaking, one should never be so proud as to turn down an offer of a perfectly good hot meat pie."

The Light Fantastic

The second in the Discworld series, this book is a continuation of Rincewind's travels with Twoflower the Tourist after almost getting chucked off the Disc. During this adventure, the pair are on the run from a psychotic senior wizard who wants the spell that is lodged in Rincewind's head (long story). Rincewind and Twoflower meet an interesting array of people during their travels, including a couple of heroes, and even get a couple of visits from Death himself. They travel to and from danger, all the time trying to figure out what the new red star in the sky means. Whatever it is, it can't be good...

Favorite Quote: "In much the same way that gnats appear before a thunderstorm, really heavy buildups of magic always attracted things frrom the chaotic Dungeon Dimensions-nasty Things, all misplaced organs and spittle...They won't be described, since even the pretty ones looked like the offspring of an octopus and a bicycle."