Austin M. Book Comparison

Hi Alyssa, I have been really enjoying I am the Messenger so far. It is a great book for many reasons, but this week I feel like changing it up. Instead of blogging about the book I am reading, I decided i’m going to do a comparison between my two favorite books in this project so far. The books I will be comparing are My  Brother Sam is Dead and Butter. 

My favorite out of those two are My Brother Sam is Dead. This was the first book I read and I was really able to connect with it. The author based the book in the Revolutionary war, but wrote it in a way that the readers had had experiences that of Tim. For example when Tim looses his dad in the storm, it reminds me of loosing my dad in a grocery store when I was younger. I know that’s a pretty lame connection but the point is that the author was able to make connections like that which made it my favorite book out of the three.

The book Butter  was a good book but there were a few things that made me not enjoy it as much as My Brother Sam is Dead. The part of the this book that I did enjoy was how the author made you wonder. What I mean by that is how Butter throughout the book keeps putting himself into a corner and has to make tough decisions to get out. That aspect of the book always made me think, “what route will he take?” Or, “what will happen if he does this?” What made me not enjoy this book at times is how real it can be. When he talks about eating himself to death and his “Last Meal.” It makes me cringe and wan’t to put the book down.

This was my thoughts between the two books and I really enjoyed doing this instead of the usual blog post. I hope to hear where you are at in these books and your thoughts them soon.

Austin M.