And the Flow Starts to Ebb...

Alas, school has started again, and I can't hope of keeping up with 1.5 books a day. It was fun while it lasted, kids, but now I've got to do some schoolwork too.
I finished Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson yesterday, but too late to get up and blog about it. So here it goes.
It wasn't what I expected. I mean, the story line was, the plot was (who doesn't know the story of Jekyll and Hyde), but the language and style wasn't. I read Kidnapped by Stevenson in 7th grade, and member really disliking it because of the language the Stevenson used. I sort of expected to have to suffer through DJaMH. It was happily surprised. It was not overly verbose or unnecessarily complex. The sentences were long when necessary, short when appropriate, and generally flowed nicely. That being said, it wasn't an amazing book. I suppose I'm not into gothic-style, science-y fiction. It is very short, so I didn't get bored, per se, but I certainly wasn't enthralled. It took me several sittings to finish it, as I kept putting it down to play my uke or work on some last minute homework.
Also, I thought the last half of the book was a bit of a quick fix /cop out. The first part is comprised largely of dialogue and first person observations by the narrator. The last several chapters, however, are all in the form of explanatory letters. No conversation, no observation, just paragraph after paragraph of explaining, explaining, explaining. Read it, I suppose, if you don't know the story. It's too popular to ignore. But don't expect to be on the edge of your seat, engrossed in an amazing thriller. 6/10.

I'm now reading A Heart Breaking Work of A Staggering Genius by Dave Eggars. It was a NYT bestselling memoir, and was nominated for a pulitzer, but so far I'm pretty unimpressed. Hopefully it suddenly becomes amazing in the last 100 pages. I'll probably finish it tonight, but I doubt I'll write about it. So Adiea until tomorrow.

Total Book Count- 5
NonFiction Count- 2 (40%)