The Fault in our Stars by John Green

This week I read the book The Fault in our Stars by John Green. This book was about a 16 year old girl, Hazel, who has lung cancer where fluid fills her lungs making it hard to breathe. She also has tumors in her lungs making the fluid that much worse. She has to always be hooked up to an oxygen tank or else her she has trouble breathing. she has been pulled from school, has an over protective mother and the only thing she does away from her house is she goes to a cancer support group. One day at her support group though she meets seventeen year old Augustus. He is an ex-basketball player and amputee. He had had cancer in his leg and had to have it amputated. He came to the support group to support his friend Isaac, who is a regular and is going through a tough time, but also meets Hazel. They hang out after the first support group and from that blossoms a friendship. 

This was a really good book. It is a different read from what I am used to but I still enjoyed it. There is parts of this that have some more mature content but I think everyone could read it. I suggest this book. Its really good and worth reading.

Black Ships Before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff

This week I read the book Black Ships before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff which is basically a retelling of the Iliad. The Iliad is the story of where trojan prince Paris goes and steals one of Greece's kings, king Menelaus, wife Helen and takes her for his own. Menelaus than calls upon all of Greece's mightiest kings and they sail to troy to take back Helen and burn the city. The war than rages on and many men from both sides are lost. Gods interfere from time to time to speed up the war. The war takes nine years to finish but eventually it comes to the an end. Odysseus comes up with a clever way to end the war. This book was a reasonably okay book. I had heard many retellings and this was an average one. Its an extremely easy read. I suggest it for anyone who likes mythology and action. Overall its a fine book but not great.