What I read....wait for it...in May!!

Your favorite series is back!! It is what I read: May edition!! Feel free to skip if you don't care.
Looking for Alaska by John Green 4 out of 5 stars
A pretty great YA book. The story of a boy who is sent to a boarding school and the life he develops there. It wouldn't be a spoiler to say something tragic happens (the chapters are named "One-Hundred Forty Four Days Before" etc.) and the book largely becomes about how this boy deals with it. The characters are well realized and believable and the teen-age angst seems realistic and not forced. A great YA read. Je le reccomande.

Behemoth by Scott Westerfield 4 out of 5 stars
This is the second in a series that started with Leviathan. It is a steam punk remaining of the events of WWI. Is this world, the Germans are called Clankers and build their war machines out of steam powered steel. Think old fashioned AT AT walkers. The British are Darwinists and have created genetically modified beasties (Giant flying whale-zeppelins) to fight. Westerfield is a great writer and this book feels like an old fashioned adventure novel. Ich kahn es nur empfehlen.

The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall 3.5 out of 5 stars
This is the second time I read this book. I read it a few years ago, but then was chosen for my NWBC so I re-read. It is almost impossible to describe this book. It is the story of a man who is losing his memory because he is being chased by a meta-physical shark who is eating his memory after the death of his girlfriend. He journeys into un-space to find a doctor who specializes in though fish who can help him. WTF? you are saying. I know. But it was pretty universally liked by my book club, so go for it.

So that is it...19 books so far this year. Anyone reading anything I need to know about?