#dighan

I'll also be doing the 52 books challenge, and my first book is (cue drumroll..)

Malala Yousafzai is a huge inspiration to me, and I am excited to kick off the year with her memoir/manifesto/novel. I've already started it, and it's so good.

One of my favourite ideas she discusses is her fear of being attacked by the Taliban in the months before her attack. She always worried that she'd be jumped in a staircase near her house, and fantasized about beating her attackers with her shoe. She then comments that this act would only make her a terrorist, too. 

Clean, by Amy Reed, is about a group of teenagers (Olivia, Christopher, Kelly, Eva, and Jack) as they all go through a drug addiction rehab program together. The characters are all different, as are their addictions and stories thus far. 

I'm about 50 pages in, and it's wonderful. The writing style is gripping and powerful--Reed never wastes a word. So far, I do recommend this book. More to come. 

Love, Dighan

I've selected Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. I have been wanting to read this book for a while, and now that I have borrowed it from a friend, I can't wait to crack it open. This book intrigues me by the sheer uniqueness of its medium--half vintage photographs from who-knows-where, half fiction intertwined with said photographs.

I don't know much about the story besides what the blurb told me, but I can't wait to find out more. Apparently, the main character is Jacob, a sixteen year old who travels to an abandoned island. This island contains the remains of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, and as Jacob wanders the forgotten place, he realizes that the children may have been imprisoned for how dangerous they may be--and that they still may roam the halls of their former home.