Book #22: "Wicked" by Gregory Maguire...Finished!!

Book #22 "Wicked" by Gregory Maguire:
 "Elphaba the girl does not know how to see her father as a broken man. All she knows is that he passes his brokenness on to her. Daily his habits of loathing and self-loathing cripple her. Daily she loves him back because she knows no other way." page 382
    Generally I try to pick quotes from the book that kind of sum up the book to give those of you who haven't read it to give you a more general idea about it. It was a long book but for some reason I never came across such a quote. But I did however find the one at the top of this page that I fell in love with, so yea, you get that one instead.
         There was some points while reading this book that i just would get super confused. They went off on all these super long, deep, theological rants that at times I would have to go back and read stuff multiple times really slowly before I would even start to understand what the heck they were saying.
     I grew up watching "The Wizard of Oz", as I'm sure most of you did, and I got to say I always kind of just assumed that the Wicked Witch of the West was evil, I personally never remember even questioning it. So, if you have read this book, then when I read this you can understand why my mind was completely blown and I had to reconsider everything I have ever known about this story. I guess it just goes to show what they say is true, there is always more then one side to every story.
    Seriously though I honestly think that I have jumped ship as far as who's team, either the Wicked Witch or Dorothy, I am on. Because obviously when you watch the movie you are all on Dorothy's team wanting her to get home, get back to her family and go on living her happy little life. But then you go and read this book and you get all the background story of the Witch and the life she has lead and you realize that maybe she isn't really evil at all, or at least not the extent that they made her out to be in the movie.
   And while on the note of the movie, may I just say that I do understand that they had to change/cut out stuff in order to make the story work but at the same time I just kinda wish they had done it a little differently that's all.
       I don't want to say more and ruin it for any of you, if anyone actually is reading this, who have not read it yet. I highly highly recommend it especially if you grew up with "Wizard of Oz" this just gives you a completely different view on the whole story.
       So now that I have read a larger more brain-challenging-novel it is time to give my brain a bit of a rest and read one of my dorky young teen books. Book #23 is going to be "Two Lies and a Spy" by Kat Carlton. Now while we are on the topic of the number of books that I am at I know what your thinking, "HA, she's never going to make it to 100 books by the end of the year." well good for you to go and figure that out all on your own. Your probably right, so this year I am aiming for 25. I know it's lame but you try being in college and doing this it is HARD! So next year I will try harder and go for the big 100 again, hope I didn't disappoint you all to much.
   That's all for now,
     Michaela Jane
 
   P.S. OH! Super fast may I just say the whole part about at the end about who the Wicked Witch of the West father was totally BLEW MY MIND!! Like I can't even tell you!