Pretty Little Liars + The Shutter Island (A Ilha do Medo)

Yesterday I finished Unbelievable, the fourth book from the Pretty Little Liars saga. I really enjoyed it, it's an easy read and has an interesting and well developed plot. The mystery is unfolded slowly and you get really curious to know what is going on! I talked more about these saga here, when I said that I got interested in the books after seeing the first episodes of a series of the same name, which I mention here. Now I know who A is!

Plot from the first book: Three years ago, Alison disappeared after a slumber party, not to be seen since. Her friends at the elite Pennsylvania school mourned her, but they also breathed secret sighs of relief. Each of them guarded a secret that only Alison had known. Now they have other dirty little secrets, secrets that could sink them in their gossip-hungry world. When each of them begins receiving anonymous emails and text messages, panic, sets in. Are they being betrayed by some one in their circle? Worse yet: Is Alison back? A strong launch for a suspenseful series. (Goodreads: 4.01stars)

Having read this first four books one story came to its closure, so I decided to go read something else... Now I started reading: The Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane. The Shutter Island was made into movies this year, and it was only after I've watched the movie that I learned that it was based in a book. Since I really liked the movie, and that I love reading, I got interested in the book and went after it...

Plot: Summer, 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule, he sets out to find an escaped patient. But nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems.And neither is Teddy Daniels. Is he there to find a missing patient? Or has he been sent to look into rumors of Ashecliffe's radical approach to psychiatry? An approach that may include drug experimentation, hideous surgical trials, and lethal countermoves in the shadow war against Soviet brainwashing... The closer Teddy and Chuck get to the truth, the more elusive it becomes, and the more they begin to believe that they may never leave Shutter Island. Because someone is trying to drive them insane... (Goodreads)

Goodreads: 3.86

*Click here to learn about the movie (older post).

Eat, Pray, Love

Just finished the audiobook of Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. And in a great timing because my friends were thinking on going to the movies this Sunday to watch the movie!

What I thought about it? Well, it's kind of hard to say... There are really beautiful parts, really funny ones but there also are several dull parts and several boring ones as well. All in all, I liked it, I don't regret reading it, and sice I love reading books then seeing the movies, I think it was good that I did it! But I also enjoyed choosing it to hear as audiobook instead of actually reading it, I think it was better... And the audiobook is read by Elizabeth Gilbert herself, by that it is exactly read in the way it was supposed to be, stressing the important parts and so on.

Now I have to finish my Pride and Prejudice audiobook so I can move on to the next!
Goodreads: 3.53 stars

Movie trailer!

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Yesterday I finished reading The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman... The first story I have ever read from Gaiman was a tale called Murder Mysteries (which I found amazingly good) for a Book Club with a couple of friends... One of them suggested I read this book (she has already written about this book in her own Blog here - in Portuguese) so I decided to give it a try...

The Graveyard Book tells the story about Bod, an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place-he's the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiquated customs of his guardians' time as well as their timely ghostly teachings-like the ability to Fade.bCan a boy raised by ghosts face the wonders and terrors of the worlds of both the living and the dead? And then there are things like ghouls that aren't really one thing or the other.

It is a very interesting and original story with a very well developped plot. If you've never read anything by Gaiman you should really give it a try... I already got several audiobooks from him now... Can't wait to hear them...
Goodreads: 4.1 stars

PS: Now I can start reading Pretty Little Liars!!!