The last page-turner I read was The Lightnig Thief by Rick Riordan.
Percy Jackson is the lead character, he’s Poseidon son.
The history occurs in the present days in Manhatam NY. He discovers he’s a half-blood God child and then severals monsters try to kill him along the history.
He was accused to steal the most powerful weapon from Zeus, and during the history He has to prove his innoncense beyond recovering the weapon.
That’s a amazing history, when you begin reading it, I’m sure you won’t be able to put it down.
Thanks Ana, and for the tips on twitter about “due” and “odds”!!
It was very nice!!
Hi Drica! It would make a great movie!
Ana, Death in the clouds sounds really nice. It makes me remind about “Ponto de Impacto”, its just like this, it started slow but has a surprising ending!! Poderia virar filme!! (how can is say that in english?)
See Ya.
Giselly, Drica and monique
Great accounts of the stories you’re reading! Sounds like you’re all having a good time.
Yesterday I finished another whodunit: Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie. It had several characters but detective Poirot was one of the central ones.
The book started slow but picked up speed about halfway through. The ending was surprising, no way I could have guessed!
At the moment, I’m reading a book called “The Time Traveler’s Wife”. I can’t remember the name of the author, but it’s already a best-seller and it’s been turned into a movie, “Te Amarei para Sempre” in portuguese. It tells the story of Henry,a man who suffers from a rare genetic mutation, that makes him go back and forth in time. He meets a girl, Clare, in her childhood while he already is an adult. He appears in different moments of her life with different ages and they fall in love, of course! But, how can they be together if he disappears all the time in consequence of his disease? I can’t tell more because I’m just in the beginning of the book, but I think it’s a real page-turner!
marta – obrigada mas eu acho que ‘estória’ já entrou para a língua portuguesa queiramos ou não. Os dicionários da língua tem esse verbete, por exemplo o Michaelis.
APENAS PARA ESCLARECIMENTO:
O professor Rogerio escreveu um post há um tempo que é uma referência ótima de vocabulário para falar sobre livros: gêneros, como você descreveria a estória, que verbos usar.
ESTÓRIA, não existe na língua portuguêsa, é sempre história … diferente de inglês que tem story (narração de contos, romances, textos etc.,) and history (narração de fatos históricos.
Um abraço para você e o Rogério e um bom fim de semana.
The last page-turned i read was “A cabana”. It’s a drama. And tell the story of man who lost his hope in God after his daughter died, murdered by serial killer. After a while he has to face up his most difficult moment of his life. He went back to the place where his daughet died to discover that God and Jesus were always by his side and just want to show him that his not alone in this world. It’s a wonderful book, i recommend to everyone! It shows us how walk through the waters with Jesus. Beautilful.
oh, i bought on the internet.
The last page-turner I read was Breaking down (4th of the twilight sequence).The book relate the life of Bella and her boyfriend, when they getting married. The lead character is Bella. She is a good girl but, She always stay in the wrong place at wrong time. The story is amazing, and I wanted recommend this book for everybody. My father bought the 1st book for me (twilight).
Great Aline! That sounds like a nice read.
Hi Ana, the last page-turner I read was “O que realmente importa” by Anderson Cavalcante. This is a help-self book, but the narrative is very delightful.
A book is based on real situations of the quotidian, and bring nices inspirations ideas for your life and what is really import for live happy.
(I try :D)