The Adoration of Jenna Fox - Mary E. Pearson

Title: The Adoration of Jenna Fox
Author: Mary E. Pearson
Genre: Sci-fi
Rating: 9/10
# pages: 272
Date read: February, 2009

Summary: In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence.

Review: I was very fascinated by the writing style of TAoJF. It started out being very disjointecd - almost poem-like in its half, stand-alone sentences, but as I got further into the story, I realized it was the only way to write a book told in first person by Jenna Fox, as that was how she thought. The more memories came back, the more flowing her speech became.

The book offers an interesting moral dilemma. I'm not sure I agree with its conclusions, but I think it's something we're not too far off from having to contemplate.

An interesting and quick read.

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The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis

Title: The Screwtape Letters
Author: C.S. Lewis
Genre: Christian fiction
Rating: 8/10
# pages: 170
Date read: February, 2009

Summary: In The Screwtape Letters we are made privy to the instructional correspondence between a senior demon, Screwtape, and his wannabe diabolical nephew Wormwood. As mentor, Screwtape coaches Wormwood in the finer points, tempting his "patient" away from God.

Review: SL is an interesting and disturbing book that reminds me to which lengths the devil will go, how much trickery he'll use to make me fall away from God. I believe Lewis has a point in this portrayal of how devils 'live' and that it's the 'invisible' sins that are the most dangerous for our salvation.

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