Life of Pi By Yann Martel

Very, very good. It started slow, and I actually wonder if it would be even stronger as a short story, but still I like it as a novel.

Like Family: Growing Up in Other People’s Houses: A Memoir By Paula McLain

Very interesting, and also very sad. This is the true story of a girl and her two sisters, one older and one younger, who were abandoned by their parents. They lived with their grandmother for a short time, but then she turned them over to the state. They then grew up in foster families, where they were never really anything other than outsiders and sometimes abused. Only when they were adults did their mother come back into their lives, and they found out she’d remarried and had a whole other life without them, but they reconciled anyway.

This book was depressing because I ached that these girls did not have love from family growing up. They did have each other, though, and it seems that is the only way they emotionally survived.

Life: The Odds: And How to Improve Them By Gregory Baer

An amusing simple read. It goes over the odds of things - good and bad - happening in your life, like marrying royalty or succeeding in starting a business or dying from various deaths. Around the middle, I started getting bored and skimmed over some of the chapters. Some of them were quite fascinating though.