1984 by George Orwell

I read this because it seemed to me a lot of people say this is their favorite book.  This book wasn't for me.  I kept reading it hoping it would get better.  And it did, a little bit, not much.  Part One seemed terrible, Two got a bit better and Part Three was the best of the book.  But through the entire thing my thoughts would wander.  I would read and be thinking and not know what I had just read.  I like books with dialogue.  This book just doesn't have a lot of that.  It is just so much explaining.  Not for me.  Maybe if I got the book at the end.  But I didn't understand it, I don't think, on the level that it was meant to be understood.  So glad it's done.  It was slow and took too long because I wasn't enjoying it.

Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon

This is book four in the Outlander series and I found it very interesting.  What I liked about it is that it wasn't only about Jamie and Claire.  But it went to present day to follow Brianna and Roger.  And back and forth until *spoiler* they are all together!  I didn't like however that it describes Roger's journey through the stones and on a ship to get to the main land, and not Brianna's.  It isn't all sunshine and roses in this book (it never is).  Poor Jamie and Ian mistake Roger for the lad that raped her and sends him with the Indians.  A terrible fate in this time.  My least favorite part in the book is when Claire, Jamie and Ian travel to the Indian tribes to fetch Roger and the lovable Ian has to stay with them in order for Roger to be able to leave.  Ian is initiated and they leave him behind.  It really saddened my heart!  I hope their paths cross again one day and he can go back to living with Claire and Jamie.  I'm looking forward to reading book five to see what happens.  Although the friend I'm borrowing the books from said that book four was her favorite and the next one may not be as good.  I am reading one short book in between them so will post that when I'm finished!