Rainy Day Reads

This was the most recent pick out of my TBR jar and I was looking forward to reading something lighter. And I must say this was that, at least.  The story centers around a demon and an angel, who have struck up an unlikely friendship, since both of them are residing on Earth and they have both come to really like it there. Unfortunately Doomsday is just around the corner, and the Earth is set to be ruined in the ensuing war between good and evil. The forces of evil have planted the Antichrist with an unknowing human family and when the boy turns 11, the apocalypse is set to begin. Through some unexpected events, however, things don’t go according to plan, but our protagonists find that they don’t really mind.  There were a number of interesting characters in this book, and I thought it was generally quite well written and fun, but a bit too fun, almost. It was written in that comedic writing style, where the style is almost more important than the plot, and th...

I’ve always been a little intimidated by Ayn Rand, because I’ve always thought she wrote really high-brow literary fiction which isn’t really my thing. But at the same time I’ve always felt like you “ought” to read Ayn Rand. So I finally did, and I think I can safely say that while I had no reason to be intimidated, her writing probably isn't for me.  The book is about a group of young people living in Russia some years after the revolution. The communist party is really getting into gear and setting up for world domination, and we follow these young people as they try to live their lives in-between the rules and regulations of the leaders of the country.  We mainly follow Kira, a young woman who is branded bourgeois by the government, as her father owned a factory before the revolution and they were well-to-do. Being branded bourgeois makes life very much harder, and the fact that the family resists the new leadership doesn’t help.  Kira meets two youn...