I loved the movie, and I'm a huge dystopian literature fan, so I was quite eager to read this book. It was quite beautiful and dark and a mix of bleak and hopeful. If you've seen the movie, check out the book.

Like any short story collection, this has its ups and downs. The overarching theme (Africa's troubles through the eyes of children) was stellar and I thought the last story was the best. Two of the stories were longer than they needed to be, but even still, they ended with such an unexpectedly searing, violent jolt, I almost felt awed.

I hate being sucked into these things, but they're hard to resist. And hey, at least her writing has improved. Meyers's detailed descriptions of heartbreak were incredibly powerful.

What an interesting memoir! Jenkins is succinct and direct in a refreshing way. This book is a quick and dirty way to get behind the iron curtain. I would've liked to have read more about the aftermath of Kim Sung-Il's death, though (the national grief, the subsequent famine years).

I actually liked this least out of the whole series. The writing was better than in book 1, but I just...I don't know, I guess I was hoping she wouldn't become a vampire in the end. And we never do find out if Nessie & Jacob end up together, or how Bella explains her condition to her mom.

Sprawling...a true literary tapestry woven together with many disparate threads bound by a common theme. This is a wonderful great book, but honestly, I felt as though some parts of it could've been cut away without the marrow of the book being affected.

Fascinating and terrifying stuff! Although I was expecting there to be more focus on the procreation aspect, I wasn't disappointed at all by the book's impressive breadth.

Propaganda art has always interested me, yet I never saw it through a North Korean lens. This book was really interesting in that regard (and thankfully it included translations of the posters' text).

I wanted to read this before the TV show begins. It's such a fascinating concept but the execution wasn't terrific. It wasn't horrible, but I think it could've been better.

A treat! Even though it was written in the 1930s, this cautionary tale speaks volumes even in modern-day life. I wish I had read this during the Bush years!

It's truly astounding that Jean-Dominique Bauby was able to write this book while suffering from Locked-In Syndrome. Inspiring and elegant.

A fun and crazy mindf^ck! The three fathers of the atom bomb are transported from the 1945 Trinity testing site to present-day New Mexico and search for answers about their dark legacy, while gathering a huge following of hippies and Rapture-hungry Christians.

I'm reading this now.