Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel

Title of Book: Memoirs of a Geisha

Author: Golden, Arthur
Reading Level: 6.5

Points: 31

Genre: fiction

Memoirs of a Geisha is a really good book. It about a girl who’s mother gets sick. Her mother wasn’t going to make it and her father couldn’t take care of her and her sister. She was only a little girl. Her dad sells her and her sister and she and her sister get separated. She was chosen to become a geisha because she was beautiful and her sister was not a pretty so she was sold off somewhere else. She grows up to learn about forgetting the past and becoming a geisha. She never saw her sister again after they met once. They planned to run away but only her sister escaped. A geisha is a girl who must entertain men and she sells her virginity to the highest bidder. Memoirs of a Geisha takes you through the life from when she was little all the way to growing up. It takes place during WW2 and the Great Depression.

Memoirs of a Geisha was a very good book. It got confusing at times and it has a lot of history in it. I wouldn’t recommend it to guys it’s not much of a guy book. It gets a little graphical as well but it is very suspenseful. It was worth reading and I enjoyed it. Again I would not recommend it to guys it’s really not a kind of book you would enjoy as a guy. It’s a good book and it may be pretty long and some parts boring but it has a good ending. =]

Ashley F. P. 3/5

Dreamland

Title: Dreamland
Author: Sarah Dessen
Point value: 12
Reading level: 5.8

Dreamland is about a girl named Caitlyn who has an older sister Cass who is perfect. Everybody loves Cass and expects Caitlyn to be just like her older sister. Cass is supposed to be going to Yale over the Summer but right after Cass's congratulation party that her parents planned for her Cass runs away. Nobody knows why Cass did this but everybody is freaking out. Caitlyn is sooo scared she doesn't know what she's supposed to do or who she's supposed to follow. In a way Caitlyn is excited, now she can become her own leader something far more different from her older sister. Caitlyn starts to get involved with some bad people and she gets a new boyfriend. This boy is someone she never thought she would fall in love with, but she does. During this relationship things start to go down hill. Caitlyn's boyfriend does something to her, but I'm not going to tell you because that would ruin the whole book....So you should definitely read this book.

I would recommend this book to anybody who loves a good, suspenseful story. This book kept me on the edge of my seat the entire time. I would recommend this book to anybody who has older siblings. I think this will help you if you ever feel that you can't be your own person and if you feel that you have to follow everything that they do. This book is the best book that I have honestly ever read! I hope you decide to read it!=]

Ashley T.
Period 3-5