Slapstick and Kiss

I know, my regular naming isn't up to par. I could not think of anything that creative to go with both books so you will just have to live with this one. Just to keep you updated (although I doubt you are keeping track of what I am reading every day of your life) I am reading The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield and The Green Mile book 2 by Stephen King. I'm really thinking I could love The Thirteenth Tale. It is awesome so far, can't wait to let you know when I finish it.
Ok, I'm a little disorganized today. 2 books in 1 review has me distracted. The first book is Slapstick or Lonesome No More by Kurt Vonnegut. It is told as an autobiography written by a rapidly aging president of the United States. Incidentally, the last president of the United States. He tells the story of him and his twin sister growing up together, being geniuses and looking quite freakish. I mean, really freakish. They are far too tall, gangly, and the sister has 4 breasts. Shudder. Anyway, he tells the story of how he evolved  from everyone thinking that he was an idiot freak to becoming the final president of the United States and how his sister wasn't quite so lucky.
I didn't love this book. The main characters "senile hiccup" of saying "hi ho" all the time got to be annoying. When it comes right down to it, I read this book for English and only for English. I would have never picked it up on my own, and that's what I got out of it. I think if you like other Kurt Vonnegut you will like this book, but it just wasn't for me.

Rating: 2/5

 The next book I read was called Kiss, written by Ted Dekker and Erin Healy. I adore Ted Dekker, I should just start with that. I really have to get to reviewing more of his books because I haven't read one I haven't liked, and more commonly loved. Kiss is about a girl named Shauna who wakes up from a 6 week comma missing 6 months of her memory. She can't remember her loving boyfriend, Wayne, and apparently the car crash she was in that caused her comma also caused her deeply loved brother severe brain damage. Her family hates her (although it wasn't like they liked her that much before) and they all blame her for her brother's condition. While Shauna is trying to understand what happened and remember the memories she has lost, she realizes she is starting to remember things not about her. They are memories from the people around her, and she thinks that maybe these people can't be trusted anymore. Because if these memories are right, someone is trying to kill her and it might be someone close to her.
I really really liked this book, as usual with Ted Dekker. You hit a certain point and you can't put the book down no matter how hard you try. I was up all night reading just to see who was behind everything with Shauna. She was a really great character and she had lots of great layers, and she was just oblivious enough and just untrusting enough that you didn't feel like she was stupid but you didn't feel like she was picking up on things way too fast. I don't know where Erin Healy's particular contributions were, but she certainty didn't take anything away from Dekker. I really like this book and I can't wait to get to their next book together: Burn.

Rating: 4/5