Finished: Flowers in the Attic/Petals on the Wind

This is actually 2 books in one.
I have seen the movie "Flowers in the Attic" and really liked it, so when I saw the book, I had to pick it up.

The 2nd book (Petals on the Wind) got weird. Not sure I am a fan of the incest stuff... Its like "oh my god really?"
Not a terrible book by any means, it just makes me feel uncomfortable, like I want to smack these people and bring them back to reality...
Here's the synopsis for Flowers in the Attic:
Flowers in the Attic is the first novel in the Dollanganger series by V.C. Andrews. In this novel, four siblings are locked in a secluded second story room in the childhood home of their mother after the death of their father. The children are told they will only have to remain here until their grandfather has died and left his entire estate to their mother. However, as the years pass and the children have been locked away for more than three years, they begin to doubt their mother's devotion to their safety and begin searching for a way to escape. Flowers in the Attic is a dark, Gothic tale of greed and incest that will keep readers spellbound until the final paragraph.

Here is the synopsis for Petals on the Wind:
For Carrie, Chris and Cathy the attic was a dark horror that would not leave their minds.
Of course mother had to pretend they didn't exist and grandmother was convinced they had the devil in them.
But that wasn't their fault. Was it?
Cathy knew what to do. She knew it was time to show her mother and grandmother that the pain and terror of the attic could not be forgotten...Show them. Show them -- once and for all.

Just Finished The Mummy

Yesterday I finished reading "The Mummy or Ramses the Damned" by Anne Rice.

I got it from my moms house while I was on vacation.

It was a pretty good book, I think it was an easy read. It kept me entertained through the entire book. I was however left wanting more. It kind of ended too soon.


Here's the synopsis:
An archaeologist has just unearthed the find of his career, the tomb of Ramses II. The door to the tomb is lettered with a curse, the mummy of the king who claimed to be immortal lies shriveled inside. The archaeologist dies and the treasures are shipped to his daughter Julie in England, who finds that the mummy comes to life as a perfect man. Julie grows to love him and introduces him to modern life, including the museums that purport to reconstruct his time. He becomes disturbed and disgusted with the modern portrayal of his beloved Cleopatra. Ramses and Julie, her ex-fiance and his father Elliott in tow, travel to Egypt. There, Ramses is further upset by the tourist flavor given to his ancient civilization. In one of the museums, he recognizes an "unknown" mummified woman as his beloved Cleopatra. One night, he returns with the immortality elixir and raises her from the dead. But Cleopatra is not restored to her beautiful body or mind. She is a horrid monster, a walking corpse of rotting flesh and a disoriented mind that kills without mercy. Ramses abandons her, leaving her to Elliott, not realizing that he too is in peril. All in the party partake of the elixir, with Cleopatra and Ramses in the shadows.

Documenting the books I've read

I decided that it would be cool (for me at least) to keep track of the books I have read.
I am not going to start from way back. I'm going to start with the books I have read recently.