The Pantanos

  Hello readers, in this blog I will be reviewing the book The Art of Racing in the Rain. I had watched the movie version of the novel on a plane and was immediately intrigued to read the book to compare the two.  I've just finished the book recently and I have quite a lot of opinions about it.  Enzo, the golden retriever, is our narrator throughout this novel. He guides us through his life with his owner Denny Swift. Denny is a race car driver and mechanic located in Seattle and picked Enzo out of a litter of puppies on a farm in Washington. The book starts off with a silly warm mood as Denny takes care of little Enzo through his puppyhood. We quickly fast forward to a year later where Enzo is full grown and  the two of them are out buying groceries when they bump into a young woman named Eve. We soon get a glimpse of their romantic relationship through the eyes of Enzo. She started to appear more and more in their lives and before you know it they are married. At the wedding, we

       Diary of a Tokyo teen is Christine’s illustrated guide to her trip to Japan as a 16 year old Japanese-American. As she says in the book, her mom is Japanese and her dad is American and she has lived in America for almost her whole life. She however at first lived in Japan and then moved when I believe she was around 6. She talks about the differences between when she lived there and when she returned years later, and I find that really interesting to see the similarities and differences between a place you've been to and how it's changed since you left.      She describes all the places she went providing some pictures as well as her own drawings, the people she saw, and the crazy adventures she went on. Each page is about something fun, interesting, and different. W hether it be ramen, maid cafes, or chasing down a geisha, they show many random fun things to see and do if you were to ever go to Japan. They also provide really interesting facts about Japanese culture a