Monday, June 6, 2011
Changes Changes
So School is almost out and I am trying to decide wether to keep my blog. If I do I will not post that often but I think I will keep it for the time being I might even change what it's about.
Friday, May 27, 2011
Final Blog Post!
So this semester I have read 36 books with a total of 11,838 pages. I've always been a big reader and think that I always will be. Because of this, this class was pretty easy because I just had to keep doing what I had always been doing. My favorite place to read is in the armchair in the living room or sprawled out on my bed. This year I read more nonfiction than I normally read but I liked them and keep looking for new ones that I would like. Anything that sounded of looked good I would pick up and read, except for one book. I never finished Fool's Girl I just couldn't do it, it was too weird. Normally I read with the music on and sometimes I sing along with it as I'm reading. I tell Mrs. K about almost every book I read, she's the librarian and she's great. I can't wait for the summer and all the books I will read, Mrs. K is even letting me take some books home and I can't wait to take them. At the beginning of the semester I was not too excited about the poetry but now that I've found some that I like I am a little more open to it. The only bad thing about this semester was that I had a hard time getting the required number of blog posts. I would forget and then freak out when it was Sunday and I didn't have any posts. If I would not have procrastinated I would have not been so stressed about it.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Book # 36
Defiance by Lili St. Crow
259 pages
Popular Fiction
Book four in the strange angels series is now my number one favorite! I love this series, it's such a fresh take on the vampire world. And I love that Dru is indeed a strong female character, not just a girl that the authors describes as such but really isn't. No spoilers here!
Dru is an incredible female lead. I think she is by far one of the most interesting characters because of her vulnerability and her brutal honesty. In one moment she is extremely strong and will risk anything and in another instance she is incredibly vulnerable and open. Her character continues to be dynamic in the stories.
The love triangle in this book only gets more confusing. I am still trying to figure what is up with the apple pie smelling Christophe and who Dru would be better off with, probably Christophe. Graves is absent for the most part in this book since he has been kidnapped so we get to see a lot more of Christophe. Sometimes it seems like he is a perfect fit for Dru and at other times it seems that he keeps too much from her.
The last book left off with Graves in the hands of Sergei, the King of the Vampires. I thought book four would pick up exactly where book three left off. Because it didn't, it took time for me to warm up to what was happening. By the time I'd reached page sixty-three, I was hooked though not much action happened in this installment--not like with the first two books. Dru, part vampire/part human, is close to blooming, which sort of means that she'll come into her full powers. She spends most of her time training and relying on Christophe to locate Graves. When information about Graves surfaces as well as the secrets that have been kept are revealed, Dru stops trusting everyone around her to go on her own to find Graves.
I highly recommend this book, it's got a realistic and heart stopping romantic triangle; fun, deep, and likable characters; good dialogue; and the action is non-stop. I finished this one in less than a day.
259 pages
Popular Fiction
Book four in the strange angels series is now my number one favorite! I love this series, it's such a fresh take on the vampire world. And I love that Dru is indeed a strong female character, not just a girl that the authors describes as such but really isn't. No spoilers here!
Dru is an incredible female lead. I think she is by far one of the most interesting characters because of her vulnerability and her brutal honesty. In one moment she is extremely strong and will risk anything and in another instance she is incredibly vulnerable and open. Her character continues to be dynamic in the stories.
The love triangle in this book only gets more confusing. I am still trying to figure what is up with the apple pie smelling Christophe and who Dru would be better off with, probably Christophe. Graves is absent for the most part in this book since he has been kidnapped so we get to see a lot more of Christophe. Sometimes it seems like he is a perfect fit for Dru and at other times it seems that he keeps too much from her.
The last book left off with Graves in the hands of Sergei, the King of the Vampires. I thought book four would pick up exactly where book three left off. Because it didn't, it took time for me to warm up to what was happening. By the time I'd reached page sixty-three, I was hooked though not much action happened in this installment--not like with the first two books. Dru, part vampire/part human, is close to blooming, which sort of means that she'll come into her full powers. She spends most of her time training and relying on Christophe to locate Graves. When information about Graves surfaces as well as the secrets that have been kept are revealed, Dru stops trusting everyone around her to go on her own to find Graves.
I highly recommend this book, it's got a realistic and heart stopping romantic triangle; fun, deep, and likable characters; good dialogue; and the action is non-stop. I finished this one in less than a day.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Book # 35
Jealousy by Lili St Crow
316 pages
Popular Fiction
Before I begin my rant, let me say that I love this series. The plot is different, plus there's romance and some heavy kick-butt action. This series needs to be read in order. The author doesn't pollute this story with a lot of details from the previous books.
At the end of the last book, Dru Anderson, a sixteen-year-old orphan, is hiding out in a special school meant to help train her. The world of the paranormal with zombies, suckers, and weres isn't something new. Before he died, her father taught her how to survive. Even so, he didn't tell her everything about her past. Bit by bit, she's learning about her heritage and about her mother's murder. She has parts of it buried deep inside, but is afraid to look too deeply. All the while, someone very powerful is trying to kill her.
In this book Dru is finally brought to the main schola where she will supposedly be safe. Unfortunately for Dru there simply isn't anywhere that is safe for her. The series continues to examine the complexities in the relationships between Dru , Christophe and Graves. I wish there was some resolution there but that will be for later books. Additionally, Lili brings more discussion Ash into the book. Dru brought Ash to the main schola and has a very maternal instinct toward him. Dru needs to be needed and Ash is the only one that truly seems to need her. Be ready for some interesting plot twists in this book because it will not end in the way you expect it to.
Jealousy is by far my favorite book so far in this series (see Book #32 and Book #31). It was so much faster than the other two books. One thing I really want to happen is for Dru and Christophe to be together, if she ends up with Graves I will scream and shout and be very mad. See I told you I was going to rant.
316 pages
Popular Fiction
Before I begin my rant, let me say that I love this series. The plot is different, plus there's romance and some heavy kick-butt action. This series needs to be read in order. The author doesn't pollute this story with a lot of details from the previous books.
At the end of the last book, Dru Anderson, a sixteen-year-old orphan, is hiding out in a special school meant to help train her. The world of the paranormal with zombies, suckers, and weres isn't something new. Before he died, her father taught her how to survive. Even so, he didn't tell her everything about her past. Bit by bit, she's learning about her heritage and about her mother's murder. She has parts of it buried deep inside, but is afraid to look too deeply. All the while, someone very powerful is trying to kill her.
In this book Dru is finally brought to the main schola where she will supposedly be safe. Unfortunately for Dru there simply isn't anywhere that is safe for her. The series continues to examine the complexities in the relationships between Dru , Christophe and Graves. I wish there was some resolution there but that will be for later books. Additionally, Lili brings more discussion Ash into the book. Dru brought Ash to the main schola and has a very maternal instinct toward him. Dru needs to be needed and Ash is the only one that truly seems to need her. Be ready for some interesting plot twists in this book because it will not end in the way you expect it to.
Jealousy is by far my favorite book so far in this series (see Book #32 and Book #31). It was so much faster than the other two books. One thing I really want to happen is for Dru and Christophe to be together, if she ends up with Graves I will scream and shout and be very mad. See I told you I was going to rant.
Monday, May 16, 2011
Book #34
Extraordinary by Nancy Werlin
400 pages
Popular Fiction
This book is a kind of sequel to Impossible (see Book # 30) except none of the characters are the same. The plot is similar: a curse set upon a girl by a faerie. In this one though the whole Faerie world needs this girl, for their survival.
Phoebe Rothschild meets Mallory Tolliver when they are in seventh grade. Mallory, a pariah among the popular set, is saved by Phoebe, who rejects the clique and embraces the new girl as her best friend and they form a sisterly bond. Four years later, when the girls are juniors in high school, Mallory reveals the existence of her half-brother, Ryland, who is 24 and irresistible. He is one of the fey, as is Mallory, and he uses fairy glamour for diabolical ends; dialogues between the Faerie Queen and Mallory and the Faerie Queen and Ryland reveal that the fey have deadly plans for the unsuspecting Phoebe. Ryland informs the Queen that Phoebe will be easy to seduce but Phoebe, even though bound by magic, still manages to resist submitting fully. Real-world conversations and settings are distinctly rendered, as are Phoebe's glimpses of Faerie, and although the intermittent dialogues with the Faerie Queen sometimes feel stilted, they provide critical backstory. The denouement flounders ever so slightly in overexplanation, but the carefully nuanced, often sensual prose delivers a highly effective narrative. Characterizations are arresting and complex: Phoebe, thoughtful and loyal, is bravely compassionate; Mallory, divided and determined, elicits reluctant sympathy; and Ryland, controlling and manipulative, is scarily realistic. Werlin's intricately constructed plot combines fairy lore, family history, and coming of age in an engrossing, often suspenseful story that moves smoothly to its inevitable end. Phoebe's intellectual and emotional transformation from ordinary to extraordinary is of her own volition, which makes her the compelling force of this bittersweet fairy tale.
Another thing about this book is that the Faeires, when they come into the story, are nothing like I would have imagine them, they are half-animal, plant creatures. Some sound really stunnig but others sound disgustingly grotesque.
400 pages
Popular Fiction
This book is a kind of sequel to Impossible (see Book # 30) except none of the characters are the same. The plot is similar: a curse set upon a girl by a faerie. In this one though the whole Faerie world needs this girl, for their survival.
Phoebe Rothschild meets Mallory Tolliver when they are in seventh grade. Mallory, a pariah among the popular set, is saved by Phoebe, who rejects the clique and embraces the new girl as her best friend and they form a sisterly bond. Four years later, when the girls are juniors in high school, Mallory reveals the existence of her half-brother, Ryland, who is 24 and irresistible. He is one of the fey, as is Mallory, and he uses fairy glamour for diabolical ends; dialogues between the Faerie Queen and Mallory and the Faerie Queen and Ryland reveal that the fey have deadly plans for the unsuspecting Phoebe. Ryland informs the Queen that Phoebe will be easy to seduce but Phoebe, even though bound by magic, still manages to resist submitting fully. Real-world conversations and settings are distinctly rendered, as are Phoebe's glimpses of Faerie, and although the intermittent dialogues with the Faerie Queen sometimes feel stilted, they provide critical backstory. The denouement flounders ever so slightly in overexplanation, but the carefully nuanced, often sensual prose delivers a highly effective narrative. Characterizations are arresting and complex: Phoebe, thoughtful and loyal, is bravely compassionate; Mallory, divided and determined, elicits reluctant sympathy; and Ryland, controlling and manipulative, is scarily realistic. Werlin's intricately constructed plot combines fairy lore, family history, and coming of age in an engrossing, often suspenseful story that moves smoothly to its inevitable end. Phoebe's intellectual and emotional transformation from ordinary to extraordinary is of her own volition, which makes her the compelling force of this bittersweet fairy tale.
Another thing about this book is that the Faeires, when they come into the story, are nothing like I would have imagine them, they are half-animal, plant creatures. Some sound really stunnig but others sound disgustingly grotesque.
Friday, May 13, 2011
Book #33
To Catch A Pirate by Jade Parker
320 pages
Popular Fiction
After the death of her mother, sixteen-year-old Annalisa Townsend leave England and sets sail for the Caribbean in 1720, where her father is to be the governor of a small island named Mourning. Shortly before they reach their destination, however, the ship is attacked by pirates. Annalisa is discovered hiding in the hold by James Sterling, a young pirate. When he tries to steal her necklace, all that is left of her mother, she begs him not to. He agrees in exchange for a kiss, and she expects never to see the disturbingly handsome young pirate again. But after arriving at their destination, Annalisa's father is accused of allowing the pirates to steal the gold that was to be used to build a port on Mourning, and sent to jail. One year later, Annalisa has acquired a ship and a crew and set out in search of James Sterling. James has run into trouble of his own, having been marooned by his former captain, Crimson Kelly, for having let Annalisa escape during the pirate attack. Annalisa is determined to find James so that he can lead her to where Crimson Kelly hid the treasure her father was responsible for, so she can reclaim it and free him from jail. What Annalisa doesn't expect is for her unsettling feelings for the young pirate to resurface, and soon she finds herself in danger of falling in love with him.
I really liked this book and it would defidently be one that I would read over and over and over again. I just love the whole pirate theme, it's great. This book is really short but is great for a long car ride or something else of that nature. Defidently would reccomend to everybody.
320 pages
Popular Fiction
After the death of her mother, sixteen-year-old Annalisa Townsend leave England and sets sail for the Caribbean in 1720, where her father is to be the governor of a small island named Mourning. Shortly before they reach their destination, however, the ship is attacked by pirates. Annalisa is discovered hiding in the hold by James Sterling, a young pirate. When he tries to steal her necklace, all that is left of her mother, she begs him not to. He agrees in exchange for a kiss, and she expects never to see the disturbingly handsome young pirate again. But after arriving at their destination, Annalisa's father is accused of allowing the pirates to steal the gold that was to be used to build a port on Mourning, and sent to jail. One year later, Annalisa has acquired a ship and a crew and set out in search of James Sterling. James has run into trouble of his own, having been marooned by his former captain, Crimson Kelly, for having let Annalisa escape during the pirate attack. Annalisa is determined to find James so that he can lead her to where Crimson Kelly hid the treasure her father was responsible for, so she can reclaim it and free him from jail. What Annalisa doesn't expect is for her unsettling feelings for the young pirate to resurface, and soon she finds herself in danger of falling in love with him.
I really liked this book and it would defidently be one that I would read over and over and over again. I just love the whole pirate theme, it's great. This book is really short but is great for a long car ride or something else of that nature. Defidently would reccomend to everybody.
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Etymology Anthology Project
Theme: Fairy Tales
First few poems
1. Fairy Tale by Ron Padgett
2. [Snow White] by Lightsey Darst
3. Lessons from a Mirror by Thylais Moss
4. The Gate to the Land of Faerie by James Browne
5. Fairy-Tale Logic by A.E. Stallings
6. La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats
7. Gretel in Darkness by Louise Gluck
8. Harmless, Recalled as a Fairy Tale by Monica Ferrell
9. The Witch Has Told You a Story by Ava Leavell Haymon
Poem to be made into a video: Fairy Tale by Ron Padgett
First few poems
1. Fairy Tale by Ron Padgett
2. [Snow White] by Lightsey Darst
3. Lessons from a Mirror by Thylais Moss
4. The Gate to the Land of Faerie by James Browne
5. Fairy-Tale Logic by A.E. Stallings
6. La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats
7. Gretel in Darkness by Louise Gluck
8. Harmless, Recalled as a Fairy Tale by Monica Ferrell
9. The Witch Has Told You a Story by Ava Leavell Haymon
Poem to be made into a video: Fairy Tale by Ron Padgett
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Book #32
Betrayals by Lili St. Crow
304 pages
Popular Fiction
OMG I absolutely loved this book!! I can't wait to start the third one, Jealousy, It was way better than the first. It has so much more action and oh it's just fantastic. This series may yet surpass the HUNGER GAMES series. I am really interested in the sorta love triangle between Dru, Graves, and Christophe. Personally I want her to be with Christophe but Graves is a ton more dependable. But Christophe OMG he's got that bad boy mystery thing going on and I just can't resist. And in this one you get and idea of who the bad guy/girl(s) are, oh yeah there is possibly more than one villian in this plot. Even though none of this stuff has probably happened to anybody (hopefully) Dru is still totally relatable and the other characters are just so facsinating. Like the werewulfens' names; none of them are their birth names. There are Dibs and one that starts with a S but I can't remember but their real names are all formal like Robert and Thomas. And oddly enough Christophe knows their true names, very odd. Dru gets hurt a lot in this book too, random fact. Plus there is one thing that is confusing, she is starting to develop some things that a djamphir would have bu tit hasn't said if she has bloomed yet, so i'm confused. But overall AMAZING book, I deffidently reccomend this series to anybody and everybody!!!
304 pages
Popular Fiction
OMG I absolutely loved this book!! I can't wait to start the third one, Jealousy, It was way better than the first. It has so much more action and oh it's just fantastic. This series may yet surpass the HUNGER GAMES series. I am really interested in the sorta love triangle between Dru, Graves, and Christophe. Personally I want her to be with Christophe but Graves is a ton more dependable. But Christophe OMG he's got that bad boy mystery thing going on and I just can't resist. And in this one you get and idea of who the bad guy/girl(s) are, oh yeah there is possibly more than one villian in this plot. Even though none of this stuff has probably happened to anybody (hopefully) Dru is still totally relatable and the other characters are just so facsinating. Like the werewulfens' names; none of them are their birth names. There are Dibs and one that starts with a S but I can't remember but their real names are all formal like Robert and Thomas. And oddly enough Christophe knows their true names, very odd. Dru gets hurt a lot in this book too, random fact. Plus there is one thing that is confusing, she is starting to develop some things that a djamphir would have bu tit hasn't said if she has bloomed yet, so i'm confused. But overall AMAZING book, I deffidently reccomend this series to anybody and everybody!!!
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Book #31
Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow
293 pages
Popular Fiction
Sixteen year old Dru Anderson has no illusions about what lives in the Real World: zombies, werewulfen, nosferat, and poltergeists. Her and her hunter father have been hunting these creatures down since Dru was about 11 or 12. But when her father, her only family, shows up after days missing as a zombie hungry for Dru's death, she knows that someone is out to get her. So she searches deeper into who killed her mother and who is now after her. She soon joins up with Goth orphan Graves who is quickly bitten by a werewulf and turned into loup-garou (half-werewulfen)who pledges to stand by her side no matter what, can you say love interest?! Dru is later able to get some answers from mysterious and sexy Christophe, LOVE TRIANGLE ALERT! Who just happens to be a djamphir (half-vampire vampire hunter). Being followed by evil werewulfen and blood hungry suckers is hard enough but will Dru be able to handle her personal life as well?
I really liked this book and can't wait to read the next in the series, Betrayals, it took over my life. The characters curse a lot in this book so if that offends you then I would not recommend it, but I have found a lot of vocab words in this series so if you need a grade boost then pick this book up at the library now!! And for a limited time only we will give you the second book for free! I'm sorry I know that was corny but I couldn't restrain myself. I would rank these books up there with the Hunger games series and IMPOSSIBLE (Book #30). The action gets slow at some places but the action parts are fast and furious and totally amazing!! There are a lot of foreign words in this book that are not subtitled for you. I'm not even sure what language it is but I think it's either French, Latin, or German. If you read it and find out definitely tell me because I want to know what Christophe is saying to Dru!!
293 pages
Popular Fiction
Sixteen year old Dru Anderson has no illusions about what lives in the Real World: zombies, werewulfen, nosferat, and poltergeists. Her and her hunter father have been hunting these creatures down since Dru was about 11 or 12. But when her father, her only family, shows up after days missing as a zombie hungry for Dru's death, she knows that someone is out to get her. So she searches deeper into who killed her mother and who is now after her. She soon joins up with Goth orphan Graves who is quickly bitten by a werewulf and turned into loup-garou (half-werewulfen)who pledges to stand by her side no matter what, can you say love interest?! Dru is later able to get some answers from mysterious and sexy Christophe, LOVE TRIANGLE ALERT! Who just happens to be a djamphir (half-vampire vampire hunter). Being followed by evil werewulfen and blood hungry suckers is hard enough but will Dru be able to handle her personal life as well?
I really liked this book and can't wait to read the next in the series, Betrayals, it took over my life. The characters curse a lot in this book so if that offends you then I would not recommend it, but I have found a lot of vocab words in this series so if you need a grade boost then pick this book up at the library now!! And for a limited time only we will give you the second book for free! I'm sorry I know that was corny but I couldn't restrain myself. I would rank these books up there with the Hunger games series and IMPOSSIBLE (Book #30). The action gets slow at some places but the action parts are fast and furious and totally amazing!! There are a lot of foreign words in this book that are not subtitled for you. I'm not even sure what language it is but I think it's either French, Latin, or German. If you read it and find out definitely tell me because I want to know what Christophe is saying to Dru!!
Monday, May 2, 2011
Book #30
Impossible by Nancy Werlin
384 pages
Popular Fiction
"The Elfin Knight"
Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
Rememberme to one who lives there
She must be a true love of mine
Tell her she'll sleep in a goose-feather bead
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
Tell her I swear she'll have nothing to dread
She must be a true love of mine
Tell her tomorrow her answer make known
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
What e'er she may say I'll not leave her alone
She must be a true love of mine
Her answer it came in a week and a day
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
I'm sorry, good sir, I must answer thee nay
I'll not be a true love of thine
From the sting of my curse she can never be free
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
Unless she unravels my riddlings three
She will be a true love of mine
Tell her to make me a magical shirt
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
Without ant seam or needlework
Else she'll be a true love of mine
Tell her to find me an acre of land
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
Between the salt water and the sea strand
Else she'll be a true love of mine
Tell her to plow it with just a goat's horn
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
And sow it all over with one grain of a corn
Else she'll be a true love of mine
And her daughters forever possessions of mine
Lucy Scarborough is raped on prom night and finds herself pregnant. Committed to keeping the baby, she nonetheless sees similarities between herself and her mentally ill mother, Miranda, who had Lucy as a teen as well. Miranda then left her in the care of nurse/midwife, Soledad and Leo Markowitz who are now Lucy's caring foster parents. When life friend and boy-next-door, Zach, comes home from college to spend the summer with Lucy and her family he stumbles upon Miranda's teenage diary which outlines a curse set upon the Scarborough girls generations ago. A curse that was placed on them by the Elfin Knight who, after ancesstress Fenellas' snub, made it so that at eighteen each women will fall into madness after giving birth to a daughter. Lucy has nine months to break the curse and to do so she must complete the three seemingly impossible tasks set before her in the ballad "The Elfin Knight" (see above). None of which her forebears have ever come close to, but they didn't have help from the selfless Markowitzes, love-struck and self-sacrificing Zach, or the internet, where goat horns are found easily. Lucy just may be the luckiest accursed girl in exsistence. But only if she beats the curse and saves her life as well as her unborn daughters. Very suspenseful but you still know the outcome is going to be good.
This was hands-down my favorite book, right after the Hunger Games series. I loved how it didn't dwell on the fantasy stuff too much and was fast-paced. But I didn't like that some stuff was too vague; the pregnancy, her romance with Zach, friends but that's okay I just made it up for my benefit.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Book #29
Halo by Alexandra Adornetto 496 pages
Popular Fiction
"Dark forces are gathering. Terrorists attacks, murders, strife, poverty." Three angels are sent down from heaven to Venus Cove to complete good works and spread goodwill. Gabriel, the warrior; Ivy, the healer; and Bethany the youngest and most human, created a mere seventeen years ago. She is the most connected to the human race but she must refrain from letting them know who she is, no attachments. But when she lays eyes on Xavier Woods she can't help but fall for him. She tries to follow her mission but can't concentrate without him. Ivy and Gabriel do everything in there power to stop this relationship. But it might be the one thing that can save her against the demon Jake Thorn.
The first in a trilogy by a seventeen year old author, Halo had some good parts and some low parts. The plot could have been really good but was disrupted by it's legnthliness, and by Bethany the narrator. Bethany is so naive about so many things but she has no problem with school work, it makes no sense. Also, it was stated that the three would not be wearing tank tops because it would show their wings but a few pages later Ivy is walking around in a tank top and Gabriel answers the door in nothing but a towel, how is that supposed to work? And then Bethany become obsessed with literally the first good-looking boy she sees, what? The charachters aren't developed at all because Bethany is so obsessed with this boy. And there are no homely people in Venus Cove, all Bethanys friends have striking blue eyes or titian curls, and the cliques are pointed off right off the bat. This author has a lot of potential and I liked the book but didn't love it. It could have been magnificent but fell flat because as you should know, angels are the new vampires.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Book #28
The Dark and Hollow Places by Carrie Ryan
374 pages
Popular Fiction
Of the three books in Carrie Ryans zombie trilogy The Dark and Hollow Places is the most chilling. The things that the Recruiters do to the captive humans and the Unconsecrated. It goes into the darkness of the time, the desperation, the poverty, and the hopelessness. This was my favorite of the whole trilogy, I think because of Annah. Annah is the main character who lives in the Dark City, previously New York City, alone for the past three years since her friend Elias left to join the Recruiters. Now he is back with her long lost twin sister, Abigail/Gabry and friend Catcher in tow.Before he left, Elias and Annah had a moment and Elias made her feel beautiful despite the left side of her body being mutilated by misshapen scars. With the city being ravaged by the Unconsecrated zombies searching for the taste of human flesh the group has to give themselves into the Recruiters who will keep them safe but to what extent? Are you safe if you are being threatened and abused almost daily by cruel men who want only bad things from you? Annah thinks not, and she is determined to get her sister, her friend, and her love out of here even if it means she must sacrafice her own life. It has a horde of Unconsecrated, true love, violence, heroism and more. It gave me chills... literally.
I could not put this book down because it was so intense and frightening. I recommend that you not read any of this series at night because it gave me nightmares, it's very disturbing. But still read it and the first two too (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, The Dead Tossed Waves). The Unconsecrated have always disturbed me in these books, the blank looks, the unhuman moaning, it just gives me chills thinking about them. Ugh. But great books, the best mix of scary and well everything else.
374 pages
Popular Fiction
Of the three books in Carrie Ryans zombie trilogy The Dark and Hollow Places is the most chilling. The things that the Recruiters do to the captive humans and the Unconsecrated. It goes into the darkness of the time, the desperation, the poverty, and the hopelessness. This was my favorite of the whole trilogy, I think because of Annah. Annah is the main character who lives in the Dark City, previously New York City, alone for the past three years since her friend Elias left to join the Recruiters. Now he is back with her long lost twin sister, Abigail/Gabry and friend Catcher in tow.Before he left, Elias and Annah had a moment and Elias made her feel beautiful despite the left side of her body being mutilated by misshapen scars. With the city being ravaged by the Unconsecrated zombies searching for the taste of human flesh the group has to give themselves into the Recruiters who will keep them safe but to what extent? Are you safe if you are being threatened and abused almost daily by cruel men who want only bad things from you? Annah thinks not, and she is determined to get her sister, her friend, and her love out of here even if it means she must sacrafice her own life. It has a horde of Unconsecrated, true love, violence, heroism and more. It gave me chills... literally.
I could not put this book down because it was so intense and frightening. I recommend that you not read any of this series at night because it gave me nightmares, it's very disturbing. But still read it and the first two too (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, The Dead Tossed Waves). The Unconsecrated have always disturbed me in these books, the blank looks, the unhuman moaning, it just gives me chills thinking about them. Ugh. But great books, the best mix of scary and well everything else.
Bloggies
I really like A Jar of Orange Marmalade's blog because they have really long reading posts and they go into a lot of detail. I also like that they post pictures with most of their posts. They defiantly spend some time on these posts and don't do them all in one night. I think the books they post on are also very interesting and I might have to read some of them. I also like their design for their page.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Book #27
Demonglass by Rachel Hawkins
359 pages
Popular Fiction
So last semester was quite eventful for Sophie. She was inducted into a coven of dark witches that raised a demon from the dead, who just happens to be Sophie's grandmother, found out she was a demon herself, watched her new ally murdered, and then had to kill her grandmother/demon/murderer. Oh yeah and her crush also happens to be a member of the Eye who is out to destroy all Prodigium. So now Sophie is bound and determined to get all this behind her by going through the Removal, a painful and mostly deadly procedure that will wipe Sophie of her demon powers forever but leave her scared with the memories and purple tatoos. But her father, who Sophie just met in the first chapter of Demonglass, is bound and determined to convince her to keep her powers seeing as they are supposedly the only two demons in the world at the moment. That's why her father takes her to London for the summer, more specifically to Council headquarters, along with her friends Cal and Jenna. There Sophe meets two other demons which HELLO means that someone is raising demons right under the Councils nose. But who can it be? Trying to uncover this secret along with watching out for the Eye, who is using Archer to hunt her down could be very dangerous. But Sophie has it all under control right? She won't team up with Archer and try to uncover the mystery right? And she would never fall in love with him and betray everyones trust and safety...right?
359 pages
Popular Fiction
So last semester was quite eventful for Sophie. She was inducted into a coven of dark witches that raised a demon from the dead, who just happens to be Sophie's grandmother, found out she was a demon herself, watched her new ally murdered, and then had to kill her grandmother/demon/murderer. Oh yeah and her crush also happens to be a member of the Eye who is out to destroy all Prodigium. So now Sophie is bound and determined to get all this behind her by going through the Removal, a painful and mostly deadly procedure that will wipe Sophie of her demon powers forever but leave her scared with the memories and purple tatoos. But her father, who Sophie just met in the first chapter of Demonglass, is bound and determined to convince her to keep her powers seeing as they are supposedly the only two demons in the world at the moment. That's why her father takes her to London for the summer, more specifically to Council headquarters, along with her friends Cal and Jenna. There Sophe meets two other demons which HELLO means that someone is raising demons right under the Councils nose. But who can it be? Trying to uncover this secret along with watching out for the Eye, who is using Archer to hunt her down could be very dangerous. But Sophie has it all under control right? She won't team up with Archer and try to uncover the mystery right? And she would never fall in love with him and betray everyones trust and safety...right?
Art Gallery
Julie Kroll
"The Conveigance of Time"
Julie Krolls "The Conveigance of Time," abundant gothic doodles create an old-fashioned clock that gives off an explosive romanticness. The intricate doodles that cover every square inch of the drawing gives it a scattered look of a dream. The curving uneven numbers on the clock face also aludes to this and gives it a romantic depiction. The clean purpouseful lines of this drawing give it a thoughtful and inquisitive look.and the difference of the technique used gives the clock a more lively feel to it. Kroll makes this clock come to life with her uniqueness and intuitiveness.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Quidditch!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quidditch
So I have recently discovered that muggles can play Quidditch. I found this out at Ball State when I went on a college visit because they have a Quidditch team and so I got interested and searched it up online when I got home that night. I really want to make a team but only colleges have teams and they can go to the World Cup. I think that it was a really smart idea to make it a real game because it sounds so fun!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UfPij5ABdo This video gives an example of what a typical game includes and the website above explains the general rules and points.
So yeah now you know my obsession with the Harry Potter world, I'm a Potter freak. Did you know that there is a Harry Potter theme park in Orlando??? Yeah it's called the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. I want to go there sooo much!! They have the whole castle, most of Diagone Alley (including Olivanders) and most of Hogsmead. I know some people who have been and they say it's super amazing but it's expensive and crowded. That's the only bummer. I can't wait for part two of the Deathly Hallows to come out I know whats going to happen because I read the books but I want to know how they are going to accomplish that plus the movies are just awesome!!!!
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Book # 26
Throat by R.A. Nelson
453 pages
Popular Fiction
Seventeen-year old Emma is cursed by her epilepsy, it has restricted her friends, her chances of getting her license, and how she is treated on the soccer field. But when a vampire attacks her it is her curse that saves her life. During her attack she has a grand mal seizure causing the vampire Wirtz to flee. This interrupted feeding gave Emma the amazing powers that a vampire has but with no of the harsh side effects. So she can run fast, is very strong, has heightened senses, but doesn't have to drink blood or avoid the sun. It's not clear is she is a half-vampire or some kind of super human, but one thing that is clear is that Wirtz hates leaving a job undone and will stop at nothing to finnish her. To protect her family from the rath of Wirtz Emma flees and hides at a NASA base were she meets Sagan who will be a valuble friend and ally in her adventure to kill Wirtz. Emma finds the perfect lookout building and with Sagans help equipts it with unconventional warfare like sand blasters, chain saws, and chemicals. Will she get out of this alive or will the lives of the ones she loves be forfeited.
This book was really thrilling and intense but at times it just drags on with no known meaning. I feel as though it is setting us up for a sequel and I would welcome it as long as i didn't drag on as much. I really liked the cover art of the novel too, the meaning of the throat is revealed in the novel which gives a whole new viewpoint on the cover.
453 pages
Popular Fiction
Seventeen-year old Emma is cursed by her epilepsy, it has restricted her friends, her chances of getting her license, and how she is treated on the soccer field. But when a vampire attacks her it is her curse that saves her life. During her attack she has a grand mal seizure causing the vampire Wirtz to flee. This interrupted feeding gave Emma the amazing powers that a vampire has but with no of the harsh side effects. So she can run fast, is very strong, has heightened senses, but doesn't have to drink blood or avoid the sun. It's not clear is she is a half-vampire or some kind of super human, but one thing that is clear is that Wirtz hates leaving a job undone and will stop at nothing to finnish her. To protect her family from the rath of Wirtz Emma flees and hides at a NASA base were she meets Sagan who will be a valuble friend and ally in her adventure to kill Wirtz. Emma finds the perfect lookout building and with Sagans help equipts it with unconventional warfare like sand blasters, chain saws, and chemicals. Will she get out of this alive or will the lives of the ones she loves be forfeited.
This book was really thrilling and intense but at times it just drags on with no known meaning. I feel as though it is setting us up for a sequel and I would welcome it as long as i didn't drag on as much. I really liked the cover art of the novel too, the meaning of the throat is revealed in the novel which gives a whole new viewpoint on the cover.
Dan Martensen and Shannan Click
http://www.theselby.com/9_21_09_DanM_Shannan/index.html
Dan Martensen and Shannan Clicks quaint cabin like home and beautifully unruly garden create a sense of an adoring couple is down to earth and humble. The house itself looks rustic and simple with its natural lighting and uneven wooden boards. The pictures of the homemade garden and food give an organic feel to their lifestyle. The seemingly carefree style of living they are used to is characterized by their artistic photos and paintings. This lively couple and their adorable slobbery dog have an effervescence for life that comes through in their old fashioned farmhouse and the wildly abundant amount of garden foliage.
Dan Martensen and Shannan Clicks quaint cabin like home and beautifully unruly garden create a sense of an adoring couple is down to earth and humble. The house itself looks rustic and simple with its natural lighting and uneven wooden boards. The pictures of the homemade garden and food give an organic feel to their lifestyle. The seemingly carefree style of living they are used to is characterized by their artistic photos and paintings. This lively couple and their adorable slobbery dog have an effervescence for life that comes through in their old fashioned farmhouse and the wildly abundant amount of garden foliage.
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Book # 25
I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore 440 pages
Popular Fiction
"They caught Number One in Malaysia.
Number Two in England.
And Number Three in Kenya.
They killed them all.
I am Number Four.
I am next."
I just loved this part of the book so I had to quote it, it just adds so much suspense before you even start the book that it makes you want to read it more. I also really like that there is a disclaimer in the begining saying that everything is true, names have been changed to protect the rest still in hiding etc. And Pittacus Lore is one of the council type ruler dudes of Lorien so all of this combined makes the story suspenseful and really real. The one thing that I didn't like about the book was that I could see things coming long before the book explained them, just simple things but I though it just needed to be a bit more difficult to figure out. My favorite part of the book besides the realness to it was the mix of current events and history of their home planet Lorien. It was a good ratio and I enjoyed learning about this fictitious planet. I haven't seen the movie yet but people are saying it's good, great, fantastic, but there are also the people who say it was missing important things from the book, I hated it. So I am going to wait until it comes to readbox and just find out for myself because people are confusing. Another thing that is confusing is Number Fours age. I tried to do the math and came up with sixteen but it implies that he is fifteen and now I am just saying he is a teenager. If anyone could clarify any of this that would be a great help.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Book #24
Across the Universe by Beth Revis
398 pages
Not really sure the type
So this book took over my whole entire life (stealing Mrs. K's phrase)!! It's Kind of a sci-fi romance with some mystery thrown into it.
Amy is seventeen and her parents are making her make the hardest decision of her life so far. She can either journey to another planet almost 300 years away with her parents by being cryogenically frozen, or she could stay behind on Earth with her Aunt, Uncle, and boyfriend but never see her parents again. She is supposed to be frozen after her mom but before he dad, her mother thinks that her father will make Amy go before him so she has to go but her father surprises her by letting her make the choice. It's not made any easier by the fact that the process of being frozen is a most horrific experience including tubes and wires being jammed down the throat, eyes being glued shut, and a feeling of being drowned. The description of this process made me cringe inside at the idea of this actually happening to a person. So Amy decides that she would rather go with her parents and goes through the painful process. She is awoken in an excrutiatingly painful matter and then finds out that it was 50 years too early!! It seems that she is also the first in a string of murders of the people who are frozen. This new world is a mystery to Amy as it is full of people who live by different rules and customs. This monoethnic people is ruled by a tyrannical old man named Eldest and his successor teenaged Elder. To Eldest she represents difference and that cannot be tolerated in this heavily sedated community who has lost almost all knowledge of their history and Earths' past. Now Amy must uncover the secrets that the ship is hiding, find the murderer before he kills her parents, and deal with this strange new world all while falling in love with someone who could betray her.
398 pages
Not really sure the type
So this book took over my whole entire life (stealing Mrs. K's phrase)!! It's Kind of a sci-fi romance with some mystery thrown into it.
Amy is seventeen and her parents are making her make the hardest decision of her life so far. She can either journey to another planet almost 300 years away with her parents by being cryogenically frozen, or she could stay behind on Earth with her Aunt, Uncle, and boyfriend but never see her parents again. She is supposed to be frozen after her mom but before he dad, her mother thinks that her father will make Amy go before him so she has to go but her father surprises her by letting her make the choice. It's not made any easier by the fact that the process of being frozen is a most horrific experience including tubes and wires being jammed down the throat, eyes being glued shut, and a feeling of being drowned. The description of this process made me cringe inside at the idea of this actually happening to a person. So Amy decides that she would rather go with her parents and goes through the painful process. She is awoken in an excrutiatingly painful matter and then finds out that it was 50 years too early!! It seems that she is also the first in a string of murders of the people who are frozen. This new world is a mystery to Amy as it is full of people who live by different rules and customs. This monoethnic people is ruled by a tyrannical old man named Eldest and his successor teenaged Elder. To Eldest she represents difference and that cannot be tolerated in this heavily sedated community who has lost almost all knowledge of their history and Earths' past. Now Amy must uncover the secrets that the ship is hiding, find the murderer before he kills her parents, and deal with this strange new world all while falling in love with someone who could betray her.
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Book # 23
Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins
336 pages
Popular Fiction
Three years ago when she was just thriteen, Sophie Mercer discovered that she was a witch. Her human mother has been as supportive as possible as Sophie is having a rather hard time getting the hang of her powers- only contacting Sophies elusive warlock father when strictly neccessary. Let's just say that Sophie and her mother have had to move a lot because someone can't control her spells. But a prom incident that causes too much attention to be brought to Sophies powers lands her at Hecate Hall, a school for Prodigium; faeries, witches, and shapeshifters, who have caused their world to be exposed. On her first day at Hex Hall Sophie gets attacked by a werewolf, develops a crush on a totally off limits warlock, makes enemies of the only dark wicth coven on the island (who happen to look and act like supermodels), gets a creepy tagalong ghost, and the most hated (and only) vampire as her roomate. Her time there gets even worse when she discovers that her father is the head of the council, as in the one who sent everybody to Hex Hall. Then to add on to the suckiness of her life, something is attacking girls at Hecate and leaving them for dead and her only friend and roomate is the only suspect. She still can't get ahold of her magic and she discovers that her biggest threat of all is a group of Pridigium hunters who want to destroy her entire race especially her. Will Sophie ever get things under control? i read this book soo fast because I just couldn't put it down, it was amazing!! There was a perfect mix of everything, mystery, romance, excitement, and supernatural. I can't wait to read the second one, I just have to know what happens next!
336 pages
Popular Fiction
Three years ago when she was just thriteen, Sophie Mercer discovered that she was a witch. Her human mother has been as supportive as possible as Sophie is having a rather hard time getting the hang of her powers- only contacting Sophies elusive warlock father when strictly neccessary. Let's just say that Sophie and her mother have had to move a lot because someone can't control her spells. But a prom incident that causes too much attention to be brought to Sophies powers lands her at Hecate Hall, a school for Prodigium; faeries, witches, and shapeshifters, who have caused their world to be exposed. On her first day at Hex Hall Sophie gets attacked by a werewolf, develops a crush on a totally off limits warlock, makes enemies of the only dark wicth coven on the island (who happen to look and act like supermodels), gets a creepy tagalong ghost, and the most hated (and only) vampire as her roomate. Her time there gets even worse when she discovers that her father is the head of the council, as in the one who sent everybody to Hex Hall. Then to add on to the suckiness of her life, something is attacking girls at Hecate and leaving them for dead and her only friend and roomate is the only suspect. She still can't get ahold of her magic and she discovers that her biggest threat of all is a group of Pridigium hunters who want to destroy her entire race especially her. Will Sophie ever get things under control? i read this book soo fast because I just couldn't put it down, it was amazing!! There was a perfect mix of everything, mystery, romance, excitement, and supernatural. I can't wait to read the second one, I just have to know what happens next!
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Book #22
Stolen by Lucy Christopher
229 pages
Literary Fiction i think
"It happened like this. I was stolen from an airport. Taken from everything I knew, everything I was used to. Taken to sand and heat, dirt and danger. And he expected me to love him. This is my story. A letter from nowhere." This is how the book starts. Whats really interesting is that it is written as a letter so you can see how her feelings for Ty change throughout the book. He never does anything to her and says he just wants the company but later you find out that he had a bad childhood and fears abandonment. You also find out how meticulous this guy has been, making sure he knew everything about Gemma and making certain that he had all the supplies they would ever need. At first he seems like a psycho but she starts to see a sensitive side to him and thinks that he really cares for her and wants her to be safe and happy. When she finally gets rescued she is so far into her "love" for Ty that she doesn't even see what he has done to her mentally. She finally snaps out of her Stockholm Syndrome in time to realize that Ty was a bad person and tell the real story to a judge, in front of a jury, for the whole world to hear.
This book was sooooo good I just couldn't put it down. It's chilling and scary to think about something like this happening to yourself or someone you know. It was recommended to me by Mrs. K, the librarian, and there were some others of the same nature but I can't remember anymore I'll have to ask her again.
229 pages
Literary Fiction i think
"It happened like this. I was stolen from an airport. Taken from everything I knew, everything I was used to. Taken to sand and heat, dirt and danger. And he expected me to love him. This is my story. A letter from nowhere." This is how the book starts. Whats really interesting is that it is written as a letter so you can see how her feelings for Ty change throughout the book. He never does anything to her and says he just wants the company but later you find out that he had a bad childhood and fears abandonment. You also find out how meticulous this guy has been, making sure he knew everything about Gemma and making certain that he had all the supplies they would ever need. At first he seems like a psycho but she starts to see a sensitive side to him and thinks that he really cares for her and wants her to be safe and happy. When she finally gets rescued she is so far into her "love" for Ty that she doesn't even see what he has done to her mentally. She finally snaps out of her Stockholm Syndrome in time to realize that Ty was a bad person and tell the real story to a judge, in front of a jury, for the whole world to hear.
This book was sooooo good I just couldn't put it down. It's chilling and scary to think about something like this happening to yourself or someone you know. It was recommended to me by Mrs. K, the librarian, and there were some others of the same nature but I can't remember anymore I'll have to ask her again.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Soccer Phenom
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/magazine/mag-27Soccer-t.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&ref=magazine&src=me This girl is crazy good with a soccer ball! I have never seen someone move that fast, or that coordinated. She "began juggling a ball with her feet until suddenly she popped it in the air, swished her right foot around the ball twice, kicked it up again, then rotated her left foot around once without letting the ball touch the floor." She is really driven and that's good but can you be too driven? She won't join the girls soccer team because she wants to be the best and I get that but when you're having girls call you saying they hate you do you think there could be something you could do to stop that. I think that she could have been less cocky and show-offy to the other girls and maybe tried to be their friends because looking through their eyes it looks like she is too good for the rest of them. She even said it herself in the article "She says her best friend is her 12-year-old sister, Skye, and most of her other buddies come from a Facebook community of freestylers, some of whom she's never actually met," I think that that's a little pathetic that she has virtually no real friends.
High-School Seniors Predict Their Future
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/27/magazine/senior-class.html?ref=magazine
On this website a group of seniors from a San Diego high school were interviewed by the New York Times about their 10-year plans. Most of the plans would be realistic if the students would apply themselves. Many of the seniors said something about money being tight so they might have a hard time paying for college. The student that I think is most likely to make their plan a reality would probably be the girl who wants to be a pediatrician, she seemed really sure of her decision and very motivated. The student who is least likely to achieve their goals in my opinion would definitely be the boy who wants to be a marijuana baker because really there is no way that business would get approval to start. Some of these kids just seem to be giving an answer that sounds good. They sound like they aren't really sure of their decision and a just making it up.
In 10 years I hope to be working at a nice hospital as a PA (physicians assistant) alongside a great doctor. I don't know what specialty I would like to go into yet but definitely not cancer or old people, it's just too sad. PA's make a fair amount of money and don't have to work crazy hours like a doctor or surgeon does. They also don't have the huge responsibility that a surgeon does because they work under someone. I have a friend who is a PA and have shadowed him and it was awesome.
On this website a group of seniors from a San Diego high school were interviewed by the New York Times about their 10-year plans. Most of the plans would be realistic if the students would apply themselves. Many of the seniors said something about money being tight so they might have a hard time paying for college. The student that I think is most likely to make their plan a reality would probably be the girl who wants to be a pediatrician, she seemed really sure of her decision and very motivated. The student who is least likely to achieve their goals in my opinion would definitely be the boy who wants to be a marijuana baker because really there is no way that business would get approval to start. Some of these kids just seem to be giving an answer that sounds good. They sound like they aren't really sure of their decision and a just making it up.
In 10 years I hope to be working at a nice hospital as a PA (physicians assistant) alongside a great doctor. I don't know what specialty I would like to go into yet but definitely not cancer or old people, it's just too sad. PA's make a fair amount of money and don't have to work crazy hours like a doctor or surgeon does. They also don't have the huge responsibility that a surgeon does because they work under someone. I have a friend who is a PA and have shadowed him and it was awesome.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Book #21
Torment by Lauren Kate 452 pages
Popular Fiction
So I don't really feel like going into a great bunch of detail, I'm just really frustrated with blogger right now so I will just give a summary of whats in it. It's the second in a series, the first is called Fallen. It has fallen angels, curses, Outcasts, and Nephilim. Basically this girl Luce has to live and die over and over again decade after decade until she is seventeen. At that time when this Fallen angel kisses her, Daniel, she explodes and the whole process starts again. In the first she finds out about all this and then someone almost kills her. So in the second one she is moved by the angels to a school for Nephilim so she can be better protected. Daniel and Cam (a dark fallen angel/demon) made a truce to try and kill as many of Luce's enemies in eighteen days as possible. at this new school of hers she is a celebrity, all the nephilim kids have heard the romantic story of Luce and Daniel. It's almost like a fairy tale or bedtime story to them. While there Luce learns how to glimpse at her past lives but it's very dangerous not to mention forbidden. She also makes some good friends, although one might just be falling for her and she starts wondering what life would be like without Daniel and with this other boy instead. And at the end there is another big battle were people try to kill Luce but this time she does something really unexpected that has left me waiting impatiently for the next one.
I really like these covers too. They are really smooth almost like a leather feeling and they are thick. And oh my god they have that new book smell!! My favorite part about the covers is the girls' dress, it is just so pretty and I want one just like it.
OMG frusterating!
So I just realized that on my last post (Book #20) that it is all just in one big blob of info. Not how I usually do that and I already tried fixing it but it keeps going back to the blob. It is very frusterating because it is not like the other posts and that bothers me. If anyone knows hoe to fix this please tell me!! It's driving me INSANE!!
Friday, March 25, 2011
Book #20
Shadowspell by Jenna Black
295 pages
Popular fiction
To understand this book you have to know what happened in the first one, Glimmerglass. Dana Hathaways alcoholic mother shows up at her her voice recital drunk, again, and she decides that she's had enough. So she decides to go find her mysterious dad in Avalon; the only place on Earth where the regular world and the captivating world of Faerie intersect. But as soon as she gets there everything goes wrong. It turns out she is a Faeriewalker, someone who can travel between both worlds and bring magic to our world and technology to Faerie, btw they are really rare. Then she gets tangled up with politics and discovers someone is trying to kill her. Everyone wants something from her and she doesn't know who can be trusted or where she fits in or if her world will ever be normal again. On top of all that there is a hottie fae guy named Ethan who is well lets just say he's perfect. So now in the second one she is spending most of her time in a bunker-like safe house and is always being watched by her bodyguard. And more bad news the evil Erlking and his murderous minions called the Wild Hunt are now in Avalon. The Erlking has been a nightmare in the Faerire realm for as long as anyone can remember with his homicidal tendencies and immortal powers. The Erlking can't just hunt willy nilly though, he has a mysterious spell put on him by the Faerie Queens so he can only hunt who they tell him to. Which is bad news for Dana because the Queens want her and her Faeriewalker powers dead and gone. The Erlking has his sights set on Dana but does he want to kill her or does he have something darker in mind? You'll just have to read them to find out. I read Glimmerglass a while ago and have been waiting so long for Shadowspell to come out so I might be a little foggy about some of the details in the first one but you get the gist of it.
295 pages
Popular fiction
To understand this book you have to know what happened in the first one, Glimmerglass. Dana Hathaways alcoholic mother shows up at her her voice recital drunk, again, and she decides that she's had enough. So she decides to go find her mysterious dad in Avalon; the only place on Earth where the regular world and the captivating world of Faerie intersect. But as soon as she gets there everything goes wrong. It turns out she is a Faeriewalker, someone who can travel between both worlds and bring magic to our world and technology to Faerie, btw they are really rare. Then she gets tangled up with politics and discovers someone is trying to kill her. Everyone wants something from her and she doesn't know who can be trusted or where she fits in or if her world will ever be normal again. On top of all that there is a hottie fae guy named Ethan who is well lets just say he's perfect. So now in the second one she is spending most of her time in a bunker-like safe house and is always being watched by her bodyguard. And more bad news the evil Erlking and his murderous minions called the Wild Hunt are now in Avalon. The Erlking has been a nightmare in the Faerire realm for as long as anyone can remember with his homicidal tendencies and immortal powers. The Erlking can't just hunt willy nilly though, he has a mysterious spell put on him by the Faerie Queens so he can only hunt who they tell him to. Which is bad news for Dana because the Queens want her and her Faeriewalker powers dead and gone. The Erlking has his sights set on Dana but does he want to kill her or does he have something darker in mind? You'll just have to read them to find out. I read Glimmerglass a while ago and have been waiting so long for Shadowspell to come out so I might be a little foggy about some of the details in the first one but you get the gist of it.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
1000 Awesome Things
http://1000awesomethings.com/page/10/
Check out this website, it is just full of things that this person thinks are awesome. Some are really random and others are really funny but they are all awesome. Some of my favorites are:
Grandma hair
When little kids show you their muscles
The Moon
Intense Halloween Candy Trades
Check out this website, it is just full of things that this person thinks are awesome. Some are really random and others are really funny but they are all awesome. Some of my favorites are:
Grandma hair
When little kids show you their muscles
The Moon
Intense Halloween Candy Trades
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Country Boys
The documentary type film called Country Boys follows two boys named Chris and Cody. Chris lives in a trailer with his family who are not doing so well financially. Cody on the other hand is a goth orphan who lives with his ex-step-grandmother. Both boys go to a school for kids who have problems or need more help. I can't remember the official name for it. Chris has an accent but sounds like he is smart. He has trouble in school but tries very hard and he has a nervous laughter that pops up a lot in the film. Cody doesn't sound as smart and is more quiet. He uses a lot of grunts and uh-huhs to communicate. He sings in a band that is really heavy rock metally screamer stuff but the lyrics are christian.
Book #19
Cloaked by Alex Flinn
337 pages in
Popular Fiction
So this is by the author who wrote Beastly, she does mostly retellings of Fairy Tales. I have no idea which one this is, unless it's a mixture of many.At the beginning of each chapter there is a quote from a fairy tale so maybe it is a mixture. Some of the quotes come from "The Elves and the Shoemaker," "The Frog Prince," "The Six Swans," and something called "The Salad." There are more too but I have never heard of them. Anywho, the book is about this boy who works at a shoe repair store in a hotel, and he loves shoes. No, he's not gay, he just thinks they are awesome. His best friend Meg works in a coffee shop across the hall and they like to collect quotes that mention shoes, some of my favorites include: "Our incomes our like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us, but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip"-John Locke, "Mama always said you can tell a lot about a person by their shoes. Where they're going. Where they've been."-Forrest Gump. The book starts out with a princess who comes to the hotel and Johnny really wants to meet her, and he does. When she is making her enterance she notices him and he gets to talk to her. Later that night he is working late, to help try and pay the bills, when the princess comes into his shop with a broken shoe. She is drunk and gives him a lot of money to fix it. The next morning he brings it to her room and when he meets her she tells him a crazy story. Her brother has been transformed into a frog by an evil witch and she wants him to find the frog and bring it to her so she can get her brother transformed back. At first he thinks she's crazy but she gives him a lot of money, with promise of more to come, and promises to marry him. He is also given a magic cloak that can transport him anywere and he doesn't think any of this until he wishes he was just home and suddenly he's there. This simple act makes him believe all the rest so he agrees to help the princess. He gets info from some swans who used to be humans and he is on his way to Key West in search of the frog. He talks to a fox, fights witches, and almost gets eaten by giants. His best friend turns out to be a witch who also transforms the prince back once they find him. In the end he finds his long lost father and gets his dream fashion shoe designer business started. Oh yeah and he gets the girl but i'll let you figure out which one it is.
In the Author's Note of the book there is a list of all the fairy tales that are used and a description of them:
"The Elves and the Shoemaker" "The Frog Prince" "The Six Swans" "The Golden Bird" "The Valiant Tailor" "The Salad" "The Fisherman and His Wife"
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Book #18
Nightshade by Andrea Cremer
452 pages
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This book was AMAZING it had everything that I think it needed. It's about a werewolf pack up in the mountains, but they aren't called werewolves they're called Guardians. They can change whenever they want, the moon has nothing to do with it. There are packs with alphas and betas and stuff like that. They serve the Keepers which are like warlocks and witches, one keeper is the head of the pack. I think an easier way to describe it is to use sports. The owner of the team is the Keeper, the team is the pack and the coaches are the Alphas. So there are two rival packs and the alphas' kids are going to be alphas of a new pack together. The two new alphas, Calla and Ren, have known this forever and they have their own pack or friends that will unite ar the Union which will be on Halloween, or Samhain for them. Everything is going according to plan until Calla saves a human from a bear attack and lets him see her change forms. He then ends up going to their school and lives with a Keeper. This boy brings something else with him, bravery, knowledge, and curiosity. He can't accept how things are at the Mountain school and messes everything up and falls for Calla. And Calla falls for him even though she is promised to Ren. I personally don't like this new guy, Shay, I think Ren is better but what can you do. So Shay and Calla start breaking all these rules: reading forbidden texts, telling a human about their world, kissing him, going into the Keepers sacred sites, and the worst Calla changes Shay into a Guardian. And with all this new knowledge Calla is questioning everything that she has ever known. And then at the Union when she is ready to give up Shay forever, he ends up being the thing that her and Ren have to hunt and kill to finalize their union. Then she ditches the Union and runs away with Shay. But they get attacked and captured by Searchers, who are supposed to be bad but are good... I think. They take both of them away and you don't know if they are going to help Calla or hurt her when the book ends.
452 pages
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This book was AMAZING it had everything that I think it needed. It's about a werewolf pack up in the mountains, but they aren't called werewolves they're called Guardians. They can change whenever they want, the moon has nothing to do with it. There are packs with alphas and betas and stuff like that. They serve the Keepers which are like warlocks and witches, one keeper is the head of the pack. I think an easier way to describe it is to use sports. The owner of the team is the Keeper, the team is the pack and the coaches are the Alphas. So there are two rival packs and the alphas' kids are going to be alphas of a new pack together. The two new alphas, Calla and Ren, have known this forever and they have their own pack or friends that will unite ar the Union which will be on Halloween, or Samhain for them. Everything is going according to plan until Calla saves a human from a bear attack and lets him see her change forms. He then ends up going to their school and lives with a Keeper. This boy brings something else with him, bravery, knowledge, and curiosity. He can't accept how things are at the Mountain school and messes everything up and falls for Calla. And Calla falls for him even though she is promised to Ren. I personally don't like this new guy, Shay, I think Ren is better but what can you do. So Shay and Calla start breaking all these rules: reading forbidden texts, telling a human about their world, kissing him, going into the Keepers sacred sites, and the worst Calla changes Shay into a Guardian. And with all this new knowledge Calla is questioning everything that she has ever known. And then at the Union when she is ready to give up Shay forever, he ends up being the thing that her and Ren have to hunt and kill to finalize their union. Then she ditches the Union and runs away with Shay. But they get attacked and captured by Searchers, who are supposed to be bad but are good... I think. They take both of them away and you don't know if they are going to help Calla or hurt her when the book ends.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Picture Book Timeline
http://www.picturingbooks.com/picture-book-timeline.htmlThis website has a time line of all these children picture books and when they were published. I had no idea that some of my favorite books are so old! The oldest book on there that I have is the Wizard of Oz published in 1900. The next oldest is the Tale of Peter Rabbit published in 1902, this was one of my favorites. The Velveteen Rabbit was on there too, published in 1922, it was my favorite book of all time until I discovered the book Emma Bean. Of all the books featured on the time line I think that Were the Wild Things Are or Frog and Toad Are Friends have the best illustrations. Many of the newer books I have never heard of, the books that were my favorites were my Nana's when she was little or my Papa's. Some of my newer ones belonged to my parents but I don't have that many new ones. And yes I still have my picture books and still read them.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Book #17 Finished
Love Inc. by Yvonne Collins and Sandy Rideout
129 more pages
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So the guy Nani tried to set Zahra up with is totally full of himself but she is still gonna give him a chance cause she thinks that there might be something under all that annoying, and there is. On their date he takes her to a meat drive, full of his exes and flames. And then he puts her to work and leaves her. So he's toast but she got introduced to this guy who is a friend of a customers boyfriend, and they are doing good so far. Syd dog is sick and needs a pacemaker for his heart but Syd doesn't have any money cause her dad drained her accounts to give his new girlfriend a boob job, nice. So the other too start up a fund and start selling homemade dog biscuts for him. But they don't tell Syd in case they come up short. This one guy who is dating the mayors daughter wants the girls to check up on his girlfriend but the girls are afraid that bad things could happen and they could get caught, but he is very persistent. They continue with their company and Kali thinks she found someone great for Zahra, but Zahra and Kalis brother don't get along very well so she thinks Kali made a mistake. In the end they all get caught when they do the job for the persistent boy and their parents get soooo mad and they are forbidden to do any more business. Zahras family might be getting back together and her mother is starting a business of homemade soaps and stuff. Nani and Nana have backed off with their culture shock but still want to stay in touch. Zahra and Kalis brother did end up getting together and they are happy. The girls quit Love Inc. ... officially but they plan on doing covert operations.
I loved this book it was very fun, nothing too heavy. A great, easy read.
129 more pages
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So the guy Nani tried to set Zahra up with is totally full of himself but she is still gonna give him a chance cause she thinks that there might be something under all that annoying, and there is. On their date he takes her to a meat drive, full of his exes and flames. And then he puts her to work and leaves her. So he's toast but she got introduced to this guy who is a friend of a customers boyfriend, and they are doing good so far. Syd dog is sick and needs a pacemaker for his heart but Syd doesn't have any money cause her dad drained her accounts to give his new girlfriend a boob job, nice. So the other too start up a fund and start selling homemade dog biscuts for him. But they don't tell Syd in case they come up short. This one guy who is dating the mayors daughter wants the girls to check up on his girlfriend but the girls are afraid that bad things could happen and they could get caught, but he is very persistent. They continue with their company and Kali thinks she found someone great for Zahra, but Zahra and Kalis brother don't get along very well so she thinks Kali made a mistake. In the end they all get caught when they do the job for the persistent boy and their parents get soooo mad and they are forbidden to do any more business. Zahras family might be getting back together and her mother is starting a business of homemade soaps and stuff. Nani and Nana have backed off with their culture shock but still want to stay in touch. Zahra and Kalis brother did end up getting together and they are happy. The girls quit Love Inc. ... officially but they plan on doing covert operations.
I loved this book it was very fun, nothing too heavy. A great, easy read.
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Book #14 Cont.
The Fool's Girl by Celia Rees
90 more pages in
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So im not sure if I like this book as much as her others. It seems to be more of a background and less of a story line, though I will have to read it a second time to fully understand it. But it looks great. I am one of those people who obsess about how a book looks. This one, for example, is perfect to me. It is small, about 7.5" by 5 " and its about an inch thick. The pages have that new book smell and the paper is nice and thick. The cover feels almost like parchment but the underside is smooth like the part you lick of and envelope. The cover art has a bunch of desins that look french and than a girl on it with the golden colored lettering on the right. I don't know why I make such a big deal about it but I do and I really like arranging them on my book shelves according to size, author, or content. Yes, I admit it, I'm a book freak.
Feste and Violetta know that they have to get the relic back to their country but they just have to figure out how. Right where I left off they had gotten help from Shakespeare and her cousin and they were going to travel by disguise of a actors caravan to find the thief. Her cousin/boyfriend caught up with them at this one town and it was weird to say the least. Feste thinks that Stephano is their enemy. On the day he visited the caravan it was May Day and him and Violetta went to pick flowers in the morning.
I just can't get over the fact that she's dating her cousin, it's so weird. I mean, I know it used to happen, but I have never read a book were the author acctually uses that scenario. Usually there is no cousin in the first place so the subject never comes up. I just don't know if I can finnish this book because that couple is just too bizarre.
90 more pages in
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So im not sure if I like this book as much as her others. It seems to be more of a background and less of a story line, though I will have to read it a second time to fully understand it. But it looks great. I am one of those people who obsess about how a book looks. This one, for example, is perfect to me. It is small, about 7.5" by 5 " and its about an inch thick. The pages have that new book smell and the paper is nice and thick. The cover feels almost like parchment but the underside is smooth like the part you lick of and envelope. The cover art has a bunch of desins that look french and than a girl on it with the golden colored lettering on the right. I don't know why I make such a big deal about it but I do and I really like arranging them on my book shelves according to size, author, or content. Yes, I admit it, I'm a book freak.
Feste and Violetta know that they have to get the relic back to their country but they just have to figure out how. Right where I left off they had gotten help from Shakespeare and her cousin and they were going to travel by disguise of a actors caravan to find the thief. Her cousin/boyfriend caught up with them at this one town and it was weird to say the least. Feste thinks that Stephano is their enemy. On the day he visited the caravan it was May Day and him and Violetta went to pick flowers in the morning.
I just can't get over the fact that she's dating her cousin, it's so weird. I mean, I know it used to happen, but I have never read a book were the author acctually uses that scenario. Usually there is no cousin in the first place so the subject never comes up. I just don't know if I can finnish this book because that couple is just too bizarre.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Book #17
Love Inc. by Yvonne Collins and Sandy Rideout
280 pages in
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This book is really funny so far. It's about this girl whose parents are separated(not divorced) so the oldest daughter, Zahra, moves in with her dad because she is trying to get her parents back together. She is a great baker and plans to start her own business when she gets older and she will call it the Sweet Tooth. The only thing that she is excited about during this time is her boyfriend Rico. He is a bit mysterious and sometimes cancels at the last minute. Her parents send her to group therapy when they catch her and Rico together because they think she is having a hard time with their separation. Which she is because her mothers parents have come from Pakistan to break her parents up and convert them all into "MOTs" the books word not mine. Zahra is furious with her grandparents for doing this and she is resisting them all the way. By the way she is half Pakistani and half Scottish. Group therapy is stupid at first but then she meets two girls, Kali and Syd, that she has to do a group bonding activity with. They bond and become friends. Later they discover that they all are dating the same guy and they are pissed. They decide that they must get revenge and they totally trash his beloved car and then try to sell it for cheap cheap, it's a charger and they are "selling" it for $200. I have no idea how bad that is cause I know nothing about cars but from what the book said, it's bad. So they get their revenge and someone in their group hears about it and asks them if they can check if her boyfriend is cheating, and she will pay them. The girls get an idea to start a business for this and when they do it takes off. They only get jobs from references because they need to keep a low profile. Even so they are raking in the cash. While working for Love Inc. she also has to juggle her parents separation and the Pakistani guy her grandmother is pushing on her. With all this going on she is still doing business, hanging with her friends, and maybe finding a guy. Can't wait to read more, this book is great.
280 pages in
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This book is really funny so far. It's about this girl whose parents are separated(not divorced) so the oldest daughter, Zahra, moves in with her dad because she is trying to get her parents back together. She is a great baker and plans to start her own business when she gets older and she will call it the Sweet Tooth. The only thing that she is excited about during this time is her boyfriend Rico. He is a bit mysterious and sometimes cancels at the last minute. Her parents send her to group therapy when they catch her and Rico together because they think she is having a hard time with their separation. Which she is because her mothers parents have come from Pakistan to break her parents up and convert them all into "MOTs" the books word not mine. Zahra is furious with her grandparents for doing this and she is resisting them all the way. By the way she is half Pakistani and half Scottish. Group therapy is stupid at first but then she meets two girls, Kali and Syd, that she has to do a group bonding activity with. They bond and become friends. Later they discover that they all are dating the same guy and they are pissed. They decide that they must get revenge and they totally trash his beloved car and then try to sell it for cheap cheap, it's a charger and they are "selling" it for $200. I have no idea how bad that is cause I know nothing about cars but from what the book said, it's bad. So they get their revenge and someone in their group hears about it and asks them if they can check if her boyfriend is cheating, and she will pay them. The girls get an idea to start a business for this and when they do it takes off. They only get jobs from references because they need to keep a low profile. Even so they are raking in the cash. While working for Love Inc. she also has to juggle her parents separation and the Pakistani guy her grandmother is pushing on her. With all this going on she is still doing business, hanging with her friends, and maybe finding a guy. Can't wait to read more, this book is great.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Book# 16
Red Riding Hood by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
324 pages
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This book is being made into a movie right now staring Amanda Seyfried. It is really weird but REALLY good! It follows the basics of Little Red Riding Hood: the red cloak, Grandmother, the Wolf, a woodsman. It is more for teens than little kids because of the violent images.
The story starts with a village and two sisters, Valerie and Lucie. The town is plagued by a wolf but as long as they make an animal sacrifice each month then the wolf will leave them alone. The girls are of marrying age and there is a festival for the harvest were boys from other towns come to harvest and maybe choose a wife. The girls and their friends are trying to impress the boys to get a good husband. All except Valerie, she is attracted to the mysterious boy who resembles a childhood friend, Peter, whose family was kicked out of the village. After the Harvest the girls camp out on one side of the river and the boys on the other. You can guess what happens next, the girls boat over to the boys side. Here Valerie meets up with Peter and separates from the others. But when the Wolf attacks the camp everyone scatters and gets separated. The next morning a boy finds Lucie dead torn up by the Wolf. Valerie and Peter get stopped from running away when they hear the four bells signaling a Wolf kill. Valerie is distraught and finds out that she is engaged to someone who is not Peter, a blacksmith named Henry. The townspeople decide they want the wolf gone and the men go out to hunt it but when one of them comes back dead, the priest calls in professionals. These men do horrid things: accuse a handicapped boy of knowing the wolf and killing him, accusing Valerie of witchcraft, trying to sacrifice Valerie to the Wolf, and many more bad things. I have only a few more chapters until I have finished the whole book and I am on edge. I can't decide whether the wolf is Peter, Henry, or Grandma.
I love this retelling of this classic story it brings a whole new side of it out.
324 pages
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This book is being made into a movie right now staring Amanda Seyfried. It is really weird but REALLY good! It follows the basics of Little Red Riding Hood: the red cloak, Grandmother, the Wolf, a woodsman. It is more for teens than little kids because of the violent images.
The story starts with a village and two sisters, Valerie and Lucie. The town is plagued by a wolf but as long as they make an animal sacrifice each month then the wolf will leave them alone. The girls are of marrying age and there is a festival for the harvest were boys from other towns come to harvest and maybe choose a wife. The girls and their friends are trying to impress the boys to get a good husband. All except Valerie, she is attracted to the mysterious boy who resembles a childhood friend, Peter, whose family was kicked out of the village. After the Harvest the girls camp out on one side of the river and the boys on the other. You can guess what happens next, the girls boat over to the boys side. Here Valerie meets up with Peter and separates from the others. But when the Wolf attacks the camp everyone scatters and gets separated. The next morning a boy finds Lucie dead torn up by the Wolf. Valerie and Peter get stopped from running away when they hear the four bells signaling a Wolf kill. Valerie is distraught and finds out that she is engaged to someone who is not Peter, a blacksmith named Henry. The townspeople decide they want the wolf gone and the men go out to hunt it but when one of them comes back dead, the priest calls in professionals. These men do horrid things: accuse a handicapped boy of knowing the wolf and killing him, accusing Valerie of witchcraft, trying to sacrifice Valerie to the Wolf, and many more bad things. I have only a few more chapters until I have finished the whole book and I am on edge. I can't decide whether the wolf is Peter, Henry, or Grandma.
I love this retelling of this classic story it brings a whole new side of it out.
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Book# 15
Water Song by Suzanne Weyn
194 pages
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This is another one of the "Once Upon a Time" series that I love. This one is a retelling of "The Frog Prince". It takes place during World War Two in Belgium, I think. It has accurate World war two information and the taking of the estate that the girl, Emma, lives is acctually true the author even includes a passage about it..."Britsih forces continued to push the Germans back a few hundred yards at a time toward the high ridge at Passchendaele. The Germans fought back with mustard gas, a notoriously slow-acting chemical agent that maimed or killed enemy soliders via severe blisters on the skin or internally if breathed. . . .The British reached Passchendaele on October 12 during a driving rain that turned the landscape to impenetrable mud." So the story goes that Emma is alone in her mothers estate after she got blown up in a German bombing with only the two old caretakers. She is on a ridge and below her are the trenches and fighting of the war. She has a golden locket that is a perfectly round ball and she gets frusterated and throws it down the well. Meanwhile in the trenches the Germans use mustard gas on the British and one Ameican soilder, Jack makes it out by holding his breathe and running into Emmas well. The next day she freaks out because the locket was a family heirloom and held the only picture of her parents, so she decides to retrieve it but instead she finds Jack. His face is swollen and blistery and she compares him to a frog. When they get out of the well they are surrounded by German soilders, Emma tells them that they are married and that Jack is not a soilder so the soliders will not kill them. Both of them are taken hostage because the Germans will be using the estate for a base. Jack and Emma do not get along but she helps him get better so he can go down to get her locket for her just like in the original. So he gets it back for her and they start to become closer. In the rest of the book they go through adventures with spying, healing, escaping, and discovering secrets about each other. There is a lot in this one so thats all the detail i'm going to go into because I strongly dislike typing.
194 pages
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This is another one of the "Once Upon a Time" series that I love. This one is a retelling of "The Frog Prince". It takes place during World War Two in Belgium, I think. It has accurate World war two information and the taking of the estate that the girl, Emma, lives is acctually true the author even includes a passage about it..."Britsih forces continued to push the Germans back a few hundred yards at a time toward the high ridge at Passchendaele. The Germans fought back with mustard gas, a notoriously slow-acting chemical agent that maimed or killed enemy soliders via severe blisters on the skin or internally if breathed. . . .The British reached Passchendaele on October 12 during a driving rain that turned the landscape to impenetrable mud." So the story goes that Emma is alone in her mothers estate after she got blown up in a German bombing with only the two old caretakers. She is on a ridge and below her are the trenches and fighting of the war. She has a golden locket that is a perfectly round ball and she gets frusterated and throws it down the well. Meanwhile in the trenches the Germans use mustard gas on the British and one Ameican soilder, Jack makes it out by holding his breathe and running into Emmas well. The next day she freaks out because the locket was a family heirloom and held the only picture of her parents, so she decides to retrieve it but instead she finds Jack. His face is swollen and blistery and she compares him to a frog. When they get out of the well they are surrounded by German soilders, Emma tells them that they are married and that Jack is not a soilder so the soliders will not kill them. Both of them are taken hostage because the Germans will be using the estate for a base. Jack and Emma do not get along but she helps him get better so he can go down to get her locket for her just like in the original. So he gets it back for her and they start to become closer. In the rest of the book they go through adventures with spying, healing, escaping, and discovering secrets about each other. There is a lot in this one so thats all the detail i'm going to go into because I strongly dislike typing.
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Spellbound Blog Assignment
The two competitors I chose for this exercise were Harry and Neil. Harry is really energetic and expressive. Neil on the other hand is quiet and nervous. Harry has so much energy he just can't get it out fast enough, he also has a hard time concentrating and listening. On his last word he had to be told multiple times to face the microphone and spell his word. During this whole time he is fidgety and making faces. He reminds me of someone with Asperger's or another more severe form of Autism. Neil, on the other hand is quiet and barely talks except when spelling. He stutters a lot and practices nonstop. He says during the competition that he sets goals of where he wants to get to and trys to make them happen. Both of the boys have two very different ways to deal with the competition and the stress that comes with it but neither of them won in the end.
Monday, February 28, 2011
2.28 Diction Exercise
Petals by Amy Lowell
a.)strew, float, freighted, crimsoned, scatter, distant, infinite, fragarance
b.)Formality: Flowery, Ornate
Connotation: Poetic, Lively
Sound: Melodic, Soft
Concreteness: Breezy, Misty
c.)The melodic breeziness and ornate diction of Amy Lowells' "Petals" transforms a cheerful poem about flower petals into a melancholy lament of lost dreams and hopes.
a.)strew, float, freighted, crimsoned, scatter, distant, infinite, fragarance
b.)Formality: Flowery, Ornate
Connotation: Poetic, Lively
Sound: Melodic, Soft
Concreteness: Breezy, Misty
c.)The melodic breeziness and ornate diction of Amy Lowells' "Petals" transforms a cheerful poem about flower petals into a melancholy lament of lost dreams and hopes.
Book #14
The Fool's Girl by Celia Rees
142 pages in
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This book is by one of my favorite authors she wrote Sovay which is one of my favorite books. Celia's books are mostly about the times were women had to wear corsets and there were pirates and courts with jesters and fools. Sovay was about a girl who became a highway robber and ventures into the French Revolution and finds love on the way.
The Fool's Girl is a retelling of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. It is about a girl, Violetta, who is the daughter of a Duke. Her mother disappeared and is assumed dead, her father and her mothers best friend go into mourning and aren't seen at all in the daylight. The friends husband is the mothers twin and he turns evil and kills the father and sells the girl into slavery. Violetta has three friends that are sold away to different people. Feste the fool who is her protector and finds her to liberate her from her captor. Guido the page of her father who is a great friend. And Stephano who is her cousin who also, very weirdly, is I guess you would say her lover. Gross right!! Anyways Feste and Violetta end up in London looking for help to get something that was stolen, ironically by the man who "owned" her. It is the cup of myrrh that was brought to the baby Jesus that was stolen. The whole country was built around that cup and with it gone it has fallen to ruin. Violetta is the rightful ruler and she is determined to get the relic back and claim her throne. She knows were it is and is hoping that William Shakespeare can get them into the place that the slave owner, Malvolio, is staying. Shakespeare is very interested in their story and wants to help them but people high in power have noticed them with him and are threatening to close the playhouses if William does not give them info on Violetta and Feste.
At this point it is kind of confusing but Celia's' books usually straighten out towards the end and usually take two reads to fully understand them.
142 pages in
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This book is by one of my favorite authors she wrote Sovay which is one of my favorite books. Celia's books are mostly about the times were women had to wear corsets and there were pirates and courts with jesters and fools. Sovay was about a girl who became a highway robber and ventures into the French Revolution and finds love on the way.
The Fool's Girl is a retelling of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. It is about a girl, Violetta, who is the daughter of a Duke. Her mother disappeared and is assumed dead, her father and her mothers best friend go into mourning and aren't seen at all in the daylight. The friends husband is the mothers twin and he turns evil and kills the father and sells the girl into slavery. Violetta has three friends that are sold away to different people. Feste the fool who is her protector and finds her to liberate her from her captor. Guido the page of her father who is a great friend. And Stephano who is her cousin who also, very weirdly, is I guess you would say her lover. Gross right!! Anyways Feste and Violetta end up in London looking for help to get something that was stolen, ironically by the man who "owned" her. It is the cup of myrrh that was brought to the baby Jesus that was stolen. The whole country was built around that cup and with it gone it has fallen to ruin. Violetta is the rightful ruler and she is determined to get the relic back and claim her throne. She knows were it is and is hoping that William Shakespeare can get them into the place that the slave owner, Malvolio, is staying. Shakespeare is very interested in their story and wants to help them but people high in power have noticed them with him and are threatening to close the playhouses if William does not give them info on Violetta and Feste.
At this point it is kind of confusing but Celia's' books usually straighten out towards the end and usually take two reads to fully understand them.
Friday, February 25, 2011
ABBAmania!!!
I love the movie "Mamma Mia" and I love ABBA so when my mom found out that the Embassy was having a show with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic as a tribute to ABBA. They played almost all of the songs from the movie and some others that I didn't know. The actual ABBA was not there but actors/singers who played them and sang there songs. I guess it could be described as a singing tribute play. The singers looked and sounded a lot like the actual ABBA. The boys, Bjorn and Benny, even played the instruments. Later I thought about it and wondered if any of the original ABBA was alive. Benny and Bjorn collaborated on the movie "Mamma Mia" so I know they are alive but I thought that if the girls were alive that they would have collaborated with the movie too. So either the girls are dead or have fallen of the radar and do not wish to be back on it.
I don't know if any of you like ABBA but I think they are awesome, their songs are fun and summery. My favorites are "Honey Honey" and "I Have a Dream".
I don't know if any of you like ABBA but I think they are awesome, their songs are fun and summery. My favorites are "Honey Honey" and "I Have a Dream".
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Book #13
Violet Eyes by Debbie Viguie
195 pages
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This is another one of the once upon a time series and it is a story of "The Princess and the Pea." Everything important in Violets life has always started with a storm; the day her brother was born, the day he died, before the year long drought, and when it ended. The story starts out with a storm and Violet knows something is going to happen, and it does. Prince Richard is on his way home from his one year bride hunt. Yes bride hunt, his parents want him to marry the most refined, sensitive princess ever so he has been visiting other kingdoms and giving invitations to the girls so that his parents can hold a contest to see who is the most fit to marry Richard. Richard just wishes his parents will back off. He is almost home when he sees the storm coming and he decides to go to the closest villiage to rest for the night, but on his ride there his horse trips and Richard goes flying and gets knocked out. The next moring Violet wakes up to Thomas, a neighbor who helps on the farm, screaming that someone is laying in the field and mostly likely is injured. Violet and her family nurse him back to health and when he wakes up he tells them he is the prince. As he is recovering he falls for Violet and vie versa. But Violet knows she would have to be a princess to marry him. After Richard leaves her mother falls ill and tells her that she is a princess. She was brought to them the night that the rest of the royal family was murdered, Violet is the true heir to the throne. After finding this out she rushes to the castle to join the contest and after explaining herself the King and Queen let her join. So she endures many frivolous tests with hidden meanings behind them, makes some new friends, and an enemy. In the end it is all down to Violet and Celeste, her enemy the one whose family killed hers. They are told to get a good nights sleep and will be told in the morning who one. But it is another test, a pea under twenty matteresses. Anyone with a good heart will have horrible nightmares anyone else is cold and evil. Obviuosly Violet won but when Celestes father finds out who Violet is he tries to kill her. The rebellion is put down and Violets parents come for the royal wedding.
There are some things in the book that are confusing like she says her brother dies but never says how and she seems to be a spiting image of her real mother, why didn't anybody notice?
195 pages
Popular Fiction
This is another one of the once upon a time series and it is a story of "The Princess and the Pea." Everything important in Violets life has always started with a storm; the day her brother was born, the day he died, before the year long drought, and when it ended. The story starts out with a storm and Violet knows something is going to happen, and it does. Prince Richard is on his way home from his one year bride hunt. Yes bride hunt, his parents want him to marry the most refined, sensitive princess ever so he has been visiting other kingdoms and giving invitations to the girls so that his parents can hold a contest to see who is the most fit to marry Richard. Richard just wishes his parents will back off. He is almost home when he sees the storm coming and he decides to go to the closest villiage to rest for the night, but on his ride there his horse trips and Richard goes flying and gets knocked out. The next moring Violet wakes up to Thomas, a neighbor who helps on the farm, screaming that someone is laying in the field and mostly likely is injured. Violet and her family nurse him back to health and when he wakes up he tells them he is the prince. As he is recovering he falls for Violet and vie versa. But Violet knows she would have to be a princess to marry him. After Richard leaves her mother falls ill and tells her that she is a princess. She was brought to them the night that the rest of the royal family was murdered, Violet is the true heir to the throne. After finding this out she rushes to the castle to join the contest and after explaining herself the King and Queen let her join. So she endures many frivolous tests with hidden meanings behind them, makes some new friends, and an enemy. In the end it is all down to Violet and Celeste, her enemy the one whose family killed hers. They are told to get a good nights sleep and will be told in the morning who one. But it is another test, a pea under twenty matteresses. Anyone with a good heart will have horrible nightmares anyone else is cold and evil. Obviuosly Violet won but when Celestes father finds out who Violet is he tries to kill her. The rebellion is put down and Violets parents come for the royal wedding.
There are some things in the book that are confusing like she says her brother dies but never says how and she seems to be a spiting image of her real mother, why didn't anybody notice?
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
2.23 Diction Exercise
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
a.) channels, Troops, dusty, marching, rich, orchards, bare, artillery, motor-tractors
b.) Formality: Unadorned, Simple
Connotation: Serious, Literal
Sound: Hushed, Voiceless
Concreteness: Delicate, Tangible
c.) The delicately hushed diction of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms creates a frighteningly eerie scene of war.
a.) channels, Troops, dusty, marching, rich, orchards, bare, artillery, motor-tractors
b.) Formality: Unadorned, Simple
Connotation: Serious, Literal
Sound: Hushed, Voiceless
Concreteness: Delicate, Tangible
c.) The delicately hushed diction of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms creates a frighteningly eerie scene of war.
Book #12
Boy Proof by Cecil Castellucci
203 pages
Questionable?? (Pop fiction or lit fiction)
This book is a little odd but I thought that it was very interesting. It's about a girl who calls herself Egg (after a character from a movie) and says she is boy proof because nobody notices her. She has no friends and she likes it that way, she always knows the answers, no matter what. She has seen her favorite movie, Terminal Earth, at least forty times. She has a shaved head and orange eyebrows and wears a white cloak instead of a coat, just like Egg. Egg from the story is not normal, she is ostracized from the crowd because of her odd looks and magnificent grades. But when a new kid shows up and doesn't seem to care what she looks like, Eggs abnormal world is going into a downward spiral into a normal atmosphere. At first she tries to fight it but when she gives in she realizes that she wasn't happy before but now with friends she is happier than ever. Which makes it even harder when she looses them all to arguments and accusations. Now Egg is trying everything in her power to become normal and get her friends back, she is even going by her given name, Victoria. While she has no friends to speak of, she focuses on her special effects makeup training, just like her dad. In the end Victoria gets her life in order, her friends back, and a boyfriend as a plus.
I thought that this book was a little weird at first but I warmed up to Egg and was rooting for her to get her life together again. She kind of battles the evils of Hollywood when her heroine turns out to be a total you know what, but finds the good in it when an actor helps her get her friends back.
203 pages
Questionable?? (Pop fiction or lit fiction)
This book is a little odd but I thought that it was very interesting. It's about a girl who calls herself Egg (after a character from a movie) and says she is boy proof because nobody notices her. She has no friends and she likes it that way, she always knows the answers, no matter what. She has seen her favorite movie, Terminal Earth, at least forty times. She has a shaved head and orange eyebrows and wears a white cloak instead of a coat, just like Egg. Egg from the story is not normal, she is ostracized from the crowd because of her odd looks and magnificent grades. But when a new kid shows up and doesn't seem to care what she looks like, Eggs abnormal world is going into a downward spiral into a normal atmosphere. At first she tries to fight it but when she gives in she realizes that she wasn't happy before but now with friends she is happier than ever. Which makes it even harder when she looses them all to arguments and accusations. Now Egg is trying everything in her power to become normal and get her friends back, she is even going by her given name, Victoria. While she has no friends to speak of, she focuses on her special effects makeup training, just like her dad. In the end Victoria gets her life in order, her friends back, and a boyfriend as a plus.
I thought that this book was a little weird at first but I warmed up to Egg and was rooting for her to get her life together again. She kind of battles the evils of Hollywood when her heroine turns out to be a total you know what, but finds the good in it when an actor helps her get her friends back.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Book #11
The World Above by Cameron Dokey
175 pages
Popular Fiction
I really like fairy tales, I know that most seventeen year olds want more mature stuff but I like fairy tales. End of story, and about three years ago I found this series that is all retellings of fairy tales and other stories. They are all pretty short reads but they do a great job of telling the story nicely. The series is called the "Once Upon a Time" series and is written by many different authors. They retell stories like "Little Red Riding Hood", "Beauty and the Beast", "Anastasia", and "Rumplestiltskin". They aren't like the fairy tales we got told as kids they are for teens. I like them because they are short but entertaining and great for a snow day. :)
This one is a retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk accept Jack is a twin and a mother and the family is actually royalty from the World Above. Another royal family murdered the father and stole the kingdom when the mother was still pregnant with the twins. When the twins are seventeen Jack trades the cow for seven magic beans that will take them to the world above. So they decide they are going to reclaim the throne. The girl twin, Gen, makes a plan but of course something goes wrong and she has to go save her brother. On the way she meets the dictators handsome but disowned son, who she falls for. In the end they save the kingdom banish the tyrant and live happily ever after, just like a fairy tale should be. I have all but one of this book series and I think thats about twenty, give or take. I highly recommend them for anybody who wants a quick read on a snow day.
175 pages
Popular Fiction
I really like fairy tales, I know that most seventeen year olds want more mature stuff but I like fairy tales. End of story, and about three years ago I found this series that is all retellings of fairy tales and other stories. They are all pretty short reads but they do a great job of telling the story nicely. The series is called the "Once Upon a Time" series and is written by many different authors. They retell stories like "Little Red Riding Hood", "Beauty and the Beast", "Anastasia", and "Rumplestiltskin". They aren't like the fairy tales we got told as kids they are for teens. I like them because they are short but entertaining and great for a snow day. :)
This one is a retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk accept Jack is a twin and a mother and the family is actually royalty from the World Above. Another royal family murdered the father and stole the kingdom when the mother was still pregnant with the twins. When the twins are seventeen Jack trades the cow for seven magic beans that will take them to the world above. So they decide they are going to reclaim the throne. The girl twin, Gen, makes a plan but of course something goes wrong and she has to go save her brother. On the way she meets the dictators handsome but disowned son, who she falls for. In the end they save the kingdom banish the tyrant and live happily ever after, just like a fairy tale should be. I have all but one of this book series and I think thats about twenty, give or take. I highly recommend them for anybody who wants a quick read on a snow day.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Busy Week
So I am kind of behind on my posts but i've had a super busy week.
Wed.- work 3:45-9:00, homework, bed
Fri.- College visit, work 5-9
Sat.- MY BIRTHDAY!!! Laser tagging, friends over
Sun.- Family over
So As you can see I was really busy. I know I could have blogged on Thursday but I didn't have much else that was new and I was kinda tired of the tiny posts I gave to Book #10. But I got some new books for my b-day and I am really excited to read them so that will motivate me, hopefully. Family will be here soon. Ta ta :)
Wed.- work 3:45-9:00, homework, bed
Fri.- College visit, work 5-9
Sat.- MY BIRTHDAY!!! Laser tagging, friends over
Sun.- Family over
So As you can see I was really busy. I know I could have blogged on Thursday but I didn't have much else that was new and I was kinda tired of the tiny posts I gave to Book #10. But I got some new books for my b-day and I am really excited to read them so that will motivate me, hopefully. Family will be here soon. Ta ta :)
Book # 10 Done
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
176 more pages
Nonfiction
So i was right, the mother does change but it's almost at the end of the book that she does. When Lulu started getting older she started to be more revellious and her and Amy would fight all the time. They went on a vacation to China, I think, whatever the place with the famous Red Square is. But anyway Lulu and Amy got in a fight and it was in public and Lulu said some horrible things to her mom and Amy screamed them right back but Amy was so upset I guess and she ran out of the resturant they were eating in. During her run she realized that if she kept pushing the violin on Lulu that her daughter would hate her and Amy would never hear her again. So when she came back she told Lulu that they were giving up the violin. Lulu said that she still wanted to play but just for fun, nothing else. And also she wanted to play tennis, and Amy wasn't aloud to help at all. Amy had a hard time adjusting to her daughter not being great at what she was doing but she respected Lulus wishes and kept out of it, mostly. She did research almost everything there is to know about tennis. When Lulu found this out she said, "Don't wreck tennis for me like you wrecked violin." After that Amy let Lulu practice on her own. And Lulu was motivated too, something that she learned from her mother. But now they are a happy family with two Samoyds, one of my favorite dogs.
Amy had been told by countless people that she neede to lighten up on Lulu and I think that that final scene at the Red Square finally made her see that everyone; Lulu, Sophia, her mother, her husband, and other family, was right when they told her Lulu was not Sophia. Not the same girl that Amy was, she marched to the beat of the own drum and Amy didn't want to see that.
176 more pages
Nonfiction
So i was right, the mother does change but it's almost at the end of the book that she does. When Lulu started getting older she started to be more revellious and her and Amy would fight all the time. They went on a vacation to China, I think, whatever the place with the famous Red Square is. But anyway Lulu and Amy got in a fight and it was in public and Lulu said some horrible things to her mom and Amy screamed them right back but Amy was so upset I guess and she ran out of the resturant they were eating in. During her run she realized that if she kept pushing the violin on Lulu that her daughter would hate her and Amy would never hear her again. So when she came back she told Lulu that they were giving up the violin. Lulu said that she still wanted to play but just for fun, nothing else. And also she wanted to play tennis, and Amy wasn't aloud to help at all. Amy had a hard time adjusting to her daughter not being great at what she was doing but she respected Lulus wishes and kept out of it, mostly. She did research almost everything there is to know about tennis. When Lulu found this out she said, "Don't wreck tennis for me like you wrecked violin." After that Amy let Lulu practice on her own. And Lulu was motivated too, something that she learned from her mother. But now they are a happy family with two Samoyds, one of my favorite dogs.
Amy had been told by countless people that she neede to lighten up on Lulu and I think that that final scene at the Red Square finally made her see that everyone; Lulu, Sophia, her mother, her husband, and other family, was right when they told her Lulu was not Sophia. Not the same girl that Amy was, she marched to the beat of the own drum and Amy didn't want to see that.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Book #9 Completely Finnished!!
The Scorch Trials by James Dashner
45 pages
Popular fiction
I finished the book after I last blogged but I was too tired to blog again. So Thomas, Aris, and Theresa made it across the mountain pass and they see that the two groups are walking together so they run to catch up with them. By the time they catch up with the Gladers and Group B, the groups are stopped, surrounding something. None of the Gladers seem to be too surprised about Thomas being here and it later explains that one of the Group B girls told them what all happened. So the groups are surrounding a sign, it says, "Safe Haven" but it's just a sign in the middle of the desert. They can't decide if they should stay here until times up or if they should go explore, most of them think that this was too easy and something bad is going to happen, they are right. With about half and hour left, things start popping out of the ground. Giant white pods, resembling the ones that the Grievers slept in during the Maze Trials, come out of the ground, about thirty in all, surrounding the groups. Then they open. Everyone thinks that Grievers are inside but it is something even more terrifying. They have the general shape of humans but are floppy and disfigured. They have no hair or faces and their skin is yellowish and wrinkled. The creepiest part is that they have light bulbs under their skin at all the joints and virtually everywhere else and they are flickering. They also have knives somehow attached to their hands and feet. There is one creature for every teen. With only minutes left the creatures charge but when attacked they don't slow down, unless the bulbs are broken. When Thomas is finished with his creature a lightening storm comes, the one that strikes people down, dead. The only thing that Thomas can think of to save him is to get into a pod. Theresa, Jorge, and Brenda get in it with him and he hopes the others caught onto the plan. The lightening is striking the pod and just as their time runs out they hear something. They open the pod and a big helicopter like thing is lowering a ramp to the ground, they know it is WICKED. Thomas' group and most of the others make a run for it but have to fight more light bulb creatures to get there. The whole time the ramp is rising and they have to lean down and rescue their friends. A man from WICKED yells at Thomas for bringing two non Trial kids with them and that Thomas has to choose one to die. Thomas, thinking it is another test, chooses Brenda. But when the man starts taking her to the still open ramp he stops him saying that no on else will die. The man tells them that they will be safe now and they can rest. When Thomas wakes up he is in a padded white room with a voice in his head, not Theresa but Brenda, she says that things are going to get weird. Theresa then connects in his head and tells him that WICKED took him away because he was, "too far gone with the Flare." And that's the end of book two.
The creepy light bulb creatures really freaked me out when I imagined what they would look like. They were even in my dream last night, if these books ever become movies I think the thing I would be most scared of would be those creatures, definitely.
45 pages
Popular fiction
I finished the book after I last blogged but I was too tired to blog again. So Thomas, Aris, and Theresa made it across the mountain pass and they see that the two groups are walking together so they run to catch up with them. By the time they catch up with the Gladers and Group B, the groups are stopped, surrounding something. None of the Gladers seem to be too surprised about Thomas being here and it later explains that one of the Group B girls told them what all happened. So the groups are surrounding a sign, it says, "Safe Haven" but it's just a sign in the middle of the desert. They can't decide if they should stay here until times up or if they should go explore, most of them think that this was too easy and something bad is going to happen, they are right. With about half and hour left, things start popping out of the ground. Giant white pods, resembling the ones that the Grievers slept in during the Maze Trials, come out of the ground, about thirty in all, surrounding the groups. Then they open. Everyone thinks that Grievers are inside but it is something even more terrifying. They have the general shape of humans but are floppy and disfigured. They have no hair or faces and their skin is yellowish and wrinkled. The creepiest part is that they have light bulbs under their skin at all the joints and virtually everywhere else and they are flickering. They also have knives somehow attached to their hands and feet. There is one creature for every teen. With only minutes left the creatures charge but when attacked they don't slow down, unless the bulbs are broken. When Thomas is finished with his creature a lightening storm comes, the one that strikes people down, dead. The only thing that Thomas can think of to save him is to get into a pod. Theresa, Jorge, and Brenda get in it with him and he hopes the others caught onto the plan. The lightening is striking the pod and just as their time runs out they hear something. They open the pod and a big helicopter like thing is lowering a ramp to the ground, they know it is WICKED. Thomas' group and most of the others make a run for it but have to fight more light bulb creatures to get there. The whole time the ramp is rising and they have to lean down and rescue their friends. A man from WICKED yells at Thomas for bringing two non Trial kids with them and that Thomas has to choose one to die. Thomas, thinking it is another test, chooses Brenda. But when the man starts taking her to the still open ramp he stops him saying that no on else will die. The man tells them that they will be safe now and they can rest. When Thomas wakes up he is in a padded white room with a voice in his head, not Theresa but Brenda, she says that things are going to get weird. Theresa then connects in his head and tells him that WICKED took him away because he was, "too far gone with the Flare." And that's the end of book two.
The creepy light bulb creatures really freaked me out when I imagined what they would look like. They were even in my dream last night, if these books ever become movies I think the thing I would be most scared of would be those creatures, definitely.
Monday, February 14, 2011
Book #9 Almost Done
The Scorch Trials by James Dashner
157 more pages in
popular fiction
So I last left off at the deal with Minho having to die. That was not actually the case, they ame to a compromise that Jorge, the Crank leader, would make Minho look like a complete fool. So Jorge chose another Crank to accompany them, Brenda, together they would get food and then sneak out of the town to go get the cure. One problem, when they were getting food some of the other Cranks came and blew up the area the Gladers were in. Thomas and Brenda got seperated from the others and they could only go through the underground tunnels and come out on the other side of the city hopefully reuniting with the other group. Brenda has a bit of a crush on Thomas and he gets really uncomfortable with it, which I thought was really funny. In the tunnels they run into some long gone Cranks who want to take their noses, who knows what they really meant they are completely crazy. When they escape them they find a sign, apparently there are many and they are posted all over the city, saying that Thomas is the real leader. The next morning they are above ground and run into another crazy group who want Thomas, but the Gladers find them and save them before the crazies kill them. Oh and in the escape Thomas gets shot in the shoulder. And the crazy thing is that WICKED saves him. He hears them talking about Variables and things that don't make sense. During the night Thomas has been having flashbacks about before the Maze. Ok back on track. Thomas and the Gladers are walking and Theresa shows up with Group B, the girls. They all have weapons and Theresa is really horrible, they take Thomas and he thinks this is what WICKED meant when they said he will be killed by Group B. He is very confused because Theresa is acting like she hates him and he did something horrible to her. He convinces the girls that they should not kill him. Later that night Theresa tells him to follow her. They meet up with Aris, now this is were it gets confusing. Aris and Theresa act meanecing and evil. They say that the whole thing with Thomas and Theresa was fake and that she is really with Aris and they were talking telepathicaly even in the Maze. Then they push Thomas into a chamber and he blacks out. When he wakes up she is at the door saying that it was all an act that WICKED told them to do it. Both groups are across the mountain pass but they only have a few more hours to get to the cure. Thomas now feels nothing for Theresa but knows that they need to get to the cure, soon. I only have about forty pages left and I am really confused so I want to figure what is true and what is not. If you didn't understand what I was just saying then look at older posts about this series and if that doesn't explain it then pick up the series and read it and maybe you can give me some ideas as to whats going on.
157 more pages in
popular fiction
So I last left off at the deal with Minho having to die. That was not actually the case, they ame to a compromise that Jorge, the Crank leader, would make Minho look like a complete fool. So Jorge chose another Crank to accompany them, Brenda, together they would get food and then sneak out of the town to go get the cure. One problem, when they were getting food some of the other Cranks came and blew up the area the Gladers were in. Thomas and Brenda got seperated from the others and they could only go through the underground tunnels and come out on the other side of the city hopefully reuniting with the other group. Brenda has a bit of a crush on Thomas and he gets really uncomfortable with it, which I thought was really funny. In the tunnels they run into some long gone Cranks who want to take their noses, who knows what they really meant they are completely crazy. When they escape them they find a sign, apparently there are many and they are posted all over the city, saying that Thomas is the real leader. The next morning they are above ground and run into another crazy group who want Thomas, but the Gladers find them and save them before the crazies kill them. Oh and in the escape Thomas gets shot in the shoulder. And the crazy thing is that WICKED saves him. He hears them talking about Variables and things that don't make sense. During the night Thomas has been having flashbacks about before the Maze. Ok back on track. Thomas and the Gladers are walking and Theresa shows up with Group B, the girls. They all have weapons and Theresa is really horrible, they take Thomas and he thinks this is what WICKED meant when they said he will be killed by Group B. He is very confused because Theresa is acting like she hates him and he did something horrible to her. He convinces the girls that they should not kill him. Later that night Theresa tells him to follow her. They meet up with Aris, now this is were it gets confusing. Aris and Theresa act meanecing and evil. They say that the whole thing with Thomas and Theresa was fake and that she is really with Aris and they were talking telepathicaly even in the Maze. Then they push Thomas into a chamber and he blacks out. When he wakes up she is at the door saying that it was all an act that WICKED told them to do it. Both groups are across the mountain pass but they only have a few more hours to get to the cure. Thomas now feels nothing for Theresa but knows that they need to get to the cure, soon. I only have about forty pages left and I am really confused so I want to figure what is true and what is not. If you didn't understand what I was just saying then look at older posts about this series and if that doesn't explain it then pick up the series and read it and maybe you can give me some ideas as to whats going on.
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Book #10 Cont. Slightly
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
30 more pages in
Nonfiction
Yeah I know it's a very small reading margin but I had to work a lot this weekend and this was about all I could manage, so deal.
Amy is second generation Chinese immigrant, I thin kI said that right. Her parents were Chinese immigrants so, yeah I think thats right. Anyway, Amy tells about her daughters and their instruments and it gets really intense. She threatens to burn all of her one daughters stuffed animals if she doesn't play the piano song that they were practicing perfectly. But then at other parts she says how proud she is of them for doing great things. Lulu was being very rebellious about playing the piano and so Amy switched her to the violin, and she is very good. Some off the things she says are just appalling like calling her daughter Sophia garbage. And then other times she seems like a completely normal mother, one who loves and respects her children. I have a feeling that she will change as the book goes on, I really hope she does.
30 more pages in
Nonfiction
Yeah I know it's a very small reading margin but I had to work a lot this weekend and this was about all I could manage, so deal.
Amy is second generation Chinese immigrant, I thin kI said that right. Her parents were Chinese immigrants so, yeah I think thats right. Anyway, Amy tells about her daughters and their instruments and it gets really intense. She threatens to burn all of her one daughters stuffed animals if she doesn't play the piano song that they were practicing perfectly. But then at other parts she says how proud she is of them for doing great things. Lulu was being very rebellious about playing the piano and so Amy switched her to the violin, and she is very good. Some off the things she says are just appalling like calling her daughter Sophia garbage. And then other times she seems like a completely normal mother, one who loves and respects her children. I have a feeling that she will change as the book goes on, I really hope she does.
Jawlensky and Werefkin by Gabriele Munter
In Gabriele Munters' Blaue Reiter painting, Jawlensky and Werefkin, the thick brush strokes and static movement create a quite, simple, country scene between a young couple. The nonexictant details in the painting, the blank faces and the plain flowers add to simplicity of the piece. The oil painting takes on the docile look of a watercolor painting. Since you can't really see what they are doing because they have no faces it looks sort of dreamy, not really in focus.
Friday, February 11, 2011
Book #10
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
23 pages in
Nonfiction
So I haven't read much of this book yet but it is really interesting so far. It's about this woman, Amy Chua, who has two daughters, Sophia and Lulu, and she is raising them like the Chinese raise their kids... very strictly. The girls have never been to a sleepover, have a playdate, been in a school play, watched TV or play computer games, get anything less than an A, and choose their own extracurricular activities, just to name a few. She is the daughter of two Chinese immigrants and feels that the Chinese way of raising kids is the best. When Lulu was three Amy tried to teach her piano, because Sophia knew the alphabet in just a year, but Lulu wanted to slam on the piano like any other three year old. Amy didn't like that Lulu wasn't doing what she wanted so she stuck Lulu outside in the twenty degree weather to teach her a leason. Horrible isn't it? Mrs. K, the librarian who lent me this book, says Amy does way worse things to the girls, I can't wait to see what happens. This book has been in the news lately because people are criticizing Amy for what she wrote about and what shes done. She calls herself the Tiger Mother because she was born in the year of the Tiger and they are noble, fearless, powerful, authoritative, and magnetic, and they are supposed to be lucky. We'll see about that though.
23 pages in
Nonfiction
So I haven't read much of this book yet but it is really interesting so far. It's about this woman, Amy Chua, who has two daughters, Sophia and Lulu, and she is raising them like the Chinese raise their kids... very strictly. The girls have never been to a sleepover, have a playdate, been in a school play, watched TV or play computer games, get anything less than an A, and choose their own extracurricular activities, just to name a few. She is the daughter of two Chinese immigrants and feels that the Chinese way of raising kids is the best. When Lulu was three Amy tried to teach her piano, because Sophia knew the alphabet in just a year, but Lulu wanted to slam on the piano like any other three year old. Amy didn't like that Lulu wasn't doing what she wanted so she stuck Lulu outside in the twenty degree weather to teach her a leason. Horrible isn't it? Mrs. K, the librarian who lent me this book, says Amy does way worse things to the girls, I can't wait to see what happens. This book has been in the news lately because people are criticizing Amy for what she wrote about and what shes done. She calls herself the Tiger Mother because she was born in the year of the Tiger and they are noble, fearless, powerful, authoritative, and magnetic, and they are supposed to be lucky. We'll see about that though.
Book #9
The Scorch Trials by James Dashner
158 pages in
Popular Fiction
This is the second book of the Maze Runner series, see Book #4, and so far it is amazing and somewhat horrifying at the same time. The boys are taken to a building and Theresa is put into a different room, because she's a girl. The next morning they wake up and the doors are locked so they break down the door. When they get into the common room they see their "rescuers" hung by the neck around the room. Thomas thinks something may be wrong with Theresa because she is not answering him in his head. When they get into her room she is nowhere to be seen. Instead there is a boy named Aris. He is from a group eerily similar to the Gladers but with all girls instead of all boys. The to groups had a parallel experience in the Maze, but more of the girls survived, haha beat that boys! Thomas tries to reach Theresa in his head but all he gets back are some mean comments and it sounds like Theresa doesn't remember him. So they are stuck in this room with no food for about three days. On the third day a man, who they call Rat Man, tells them that they have to complete the second trial and then they will get the cure. And oh yeah they all have this disease that caused the apocalypse or something like that. If they make it across this course into the safe zone they get the cure. The girl group is doing it too, but not with the boys. The desert is so hot and they are running out of food and water. A terrible lightening storm kills seven of the Gladers but they are in the town that they saw in the distance. It is filled with the crazy people who have the disease, the Flare, who call themselves Cranks. Thomas has made a deal with the leader that the Cranks will help the Gladers to the safe place but the Gladers must kill their leader Minho. That's as far as I've gotten so far but I can't wait to read more.
The things that the Creators are doing to these guys are just horrid! They say that they are doing it for the good of the people but I can't see how. They are almost torturing these poor kids and then killing their friends it just makes me mad, yes I know that it's just a story and hasn't happened...yet.
158 pages in
Popular Fiction
This is the second book of the Maze Runner series, see Book #4, and so far it is amazing and somewhat horrifying at the same time. The boys are taken to a building and Theresa is put into a different room, because she's a girl. The next morning they wake up and the doors are locked so they break down the door. When they get into the common room they see their "rescuers" hung by the neck around the room. Thomas thinks something may be wrong with Theresa because she is not answering him in his head. When they get into her room she is nowhere to be seen. Instead there is a boy named Aris. He is from a group eerily similar to the Gladers but with all girls instead of all boys. The to groups had a parallel experience in the Maze, but more of the girls survived, haha beat that boys! Thomas tries to reach Theresa in his head but all he gets back are some mean comments and it sounds like Theresa doesn't remember him. So they are stuck in this room with no food for about three days. On the third day a man, who they call Rat Man, tells them that they have to complete the second trial and then they will get the cure. And oh yeah they all have this disease that caused the apocalypse or something like that. If they make it across this course into the safe zone they get the cure. The girl group is doing it too, but not with the boys. The desert is so hot and they are running out of food and water. A terrible lightening storm kills seven of the Gladers but they are in the town that they saw in the distance. It is filled with the crazy people who have the disease, the Flare, who call themselves Cranks. Thomas has made a deal with the leader that the Cranks will help the Gladers to the safe place but the Gladers must kill their leader Minho. That's as far as I've gotten so far but I can't wait to read more.
The things that the Creators are doing to these guys are just horrid! They say that they are doing it for the good of the people but I can't see how. They are almost torturing these poor kids and then killing their friends it just makes me mad, yes I know that it's just a story and hasn't happened...yet.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Three Minute Fiction
I read this short story called Departure. It was really sad. I'm not sure what is going on but it seems like something bad is going on with the father and mother. Almost like the mother was going to escape but then thought about her son and decided not to go. I'm not really sure but something seems off about the way she acts. Here's the link http://www.npr.org/2011/02/06/133542419/departure. Read it yourself and tell me if you think I'm right or it it's something else that you thought of because I'm kind of confused.
Monday, February 7, 2011
Reading in my tunnel
When we had those three days off I got really bored. Me and my brother dug a tunnel through one of the snow banks. We even got our dog to go through it. I'm not acctually reading this book ... yet, I am starting it soon. It is the second one in the Maze Runner series. The tunnel is coming along and we are expanding the middle like an igloo.
Book #8
Beastly by Alex Flinn
300 pages
Popular fiction
This story is a modern day telling of Beauty and the Beast, my favorite fairy tale. I have read many retellings of Beauty and the Beast and I think that this one is my favorite... so far. At the beginnign of each part there is an IM chat session thing between this doctor and a bunch of teens who have "transformed" into something odd. And all of the teens follow some kind of fairy tale. One girl is the little mermaid, and another guy is the frog prince. So the main guy, Kyle, is everything: hot, popular, and arogant. He is mean to this "new girl" who turns out to be a whitch. She sayd that his personality is beastly so thats what her will be on the outside too. One small thing though, he gave a rose to an unpopular girl and that made her night awesome, because of that small act of kindness Kyle has two years to find love and someone to love him as he is now, an ugly beast. Oh yeah and if he doesn't he will be a beast forever. His dad abandons him because he can't stand to have an ugly son, nice right. Kyle also changes his name because Kyle means "handsome" and he feels he is everything but, so it's Adrian now. He gets a tutor, a hobby, and some new feelings and unexpectantly he changes into a decent person who in the end finds what he needs to break the curse and make him whole.
I thought this was a nice spin on a classic fairy tale. It takes place in New York City and I like that it is in the point of view of the guy this time, it gives me a whole new perspective on the story.
300 pages
Popular fiction
This story is a modern day telling of Beauty and the Beast, my favorite fairy tale. I have read many retellings of Beauty and the Beast and I think that this one is my favorite... so far. At the beginnign of each part there is an IM chat session thing between this doctor and a bunch of teens who have "transformed" into something odd. And all of the teens follow some kind of fairy tale. One girl is the little mermaid, and another guy is the frog prince. So the main guy, Kyle, is everything: hot, popular, and arogant. He is mean to this "new girl" who turns out to be a whitch. She sayd that his personality is beastly so thats what her will be on the outside too. One small thing though, he gave a rose to an unpopular girl and that made her night awesome, because of that small act of kindness Kyle has two years to find love and someone to love him as he is now, an ugly beast. Oh yeah and if he doesn't he will be a beast forever. His dad abandons him because he can't stand to have an ugly son, nice right. Kyle also changes his name because Kyle means "handsome" and he feels he is everything but, so it's Adrian now. He gets a tutor, a hobby, and some new feelings and unexpectantly he changes into a decent person who in the end finds what he needs to break the curse and make him whole.
I thought this was a nice spin on a classic fairy tale. It takes place in New York City and I like that it is in the point of view of the guy this time, it gives me a whole new perspective on the story.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Book #7 Done!
The Haunted by Jessica Verday
309 more pages
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The Superbowl was boring so I finnished my book! And then I couldn't concentrate on typing cause I had Elton Johns' "Tiny Dancer" stuck in my head. It's one of my favorite songs so I had to listen to it like a bunch of times. If you haven't heard it then look it up and listen to it!!!
So back to the book. Theres a lot more supprises but this time I will not give into the temptation to tell so i'll just give an overview. Five new people show up that have to do with the whol ghost thing and one of them was Kristens secret boyfriend! Oh and for Abbey and Caspian to be together, Abbey has to die!! The new people also have something to do with that. Okay so I gave something away... I just can't help it!
I can't wait for the third one to come out, this one left off at a very suspenseful spot. I don't think that it comes out until next year though. Bummer:(
This book kind of reminder me of the Medtiator series by Meg Cabot about this girl who can see ghosts and has to help them move on but then she meets this one ghost who lives in her bedroom and take a guess they fall in love. It's really good and if you like Meg Cabot I would really encourage you to read it.
309 more pages
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The Superbowl was boring so I finnished my book! And then I couldn't concentrate on typing cause I had Elton Johns' "Tiny Dancer" stuck in my head. It's one of my favorite songs so I had to listen to it like a bunch of times. If you haven't heard it then look it up and listen to it!!!
So back to the book. Theres a lot more supprises but this time I will not give into the temptation to tell so i'll just give an overview. Five new people show up that have to do with the whol ghost thing and one of them was Kristens secret boyfriend! Oh and for Abbey and Caspian to be together, Abbey has to die!! The new people also have something to do with that. Okay so I gave something away... I just can't help it!
I can't wait for the third one to come out, this one left off at a very suspenseful spot. I don't think that it comes out until next year though. Bummer:(
This book kind of reminder me of the Medtiator series by Meg Cabot about this girl who can see ghosts and has to help them move on but then she meets this one ghost who lives in her bedroom and take a guess they fall in love. It's really good and if you like Meg Cabot I would really encourage you to read it.
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Crazy Snow
I thought that we were only supposed to get an inch today!!! Obvioulsy that was not the case. I hate driving in the snow, like today for example. I was driving home from work and I caught the edge of the road and that flung me into the ditch filled with snow on the side of the road. It took an hour, four guys, two snow shovels, and one truck with a hope to fling me back out. Yay!
Monday, January 31, 2011
Book #6 Done!
look me in the eye (my life with aspergers) by John Elder Robison
96 pages
Nonfiction
Finally finnished! John told about his marriage to Little Bear (that's what he called his first wife), his son Cubby (Jack), his diagnosis at age forty, his divorce, and his current wife (Unit Two). He started his own business repairing old nice foreign cars. He is still friends with Little Bear, they just drifted apart. He is such a good dad too, from what he writes. He told Cubby tons of stories to entertain him, and took him somewhere exciting every sunday. It's really touching how he talks about his family.
I finnished this book today at school and then I lent it to the librarian, 'cause thats how we roll, and she lent me Battle Hym of the Tiger Mother, which has been all over the news. If you don't know the librarians very well, go in and talk to them sometimes, they are great.
96 pages
Nonfiction
Finally finnished! John told about his marriage to Little Bear (that's what he called his first wife), his son Cubby (Jack), his diagnosis at age forty, his divorce, and his current wife (Unit Two). He started his own business repairing old nice foreign cars. He is still friends with Little Bear, they just drifted apart. He is such a good dad too, from what he writes. He told Cubby tons of stories to entertain him, and took him somewhere exciting every sunday. It's really touching how he talks about his family.
I finnished this book today at school and then I lent it to the librarian, 'cause thats how we roll, and she lent me Battle Hym of the Tiger Mother, which has been all over the news. If you don't know the librarians very well, go in and talk to them sometimes, they are great.
Dead Snake
According to my teacher some blogs, mine included, need to be more personalized so heres a video my dad sent me.
Yeah I was scared to at first, bought peed myself, now it's funny!! Don't yay think?!
Random Question
So last night I was watching Sixteen Candles and I thought Ducky looked really familiar. Then it hit me, he looks like Ferris Bueller. Ya know, from Ferris Buellers Day Off! So I want to know if they are the same guy if you know then comment. And for those of you who have no idea what i'm talking about the brush up on your 80's movie history.
I absolutely love 80's movies my two favorites are The Breakfast Club and Ferris Buellers Day Off. If you haven't seen them yet go out and buy them right now, you won't be sorry!
"What are you still doing here? Save Ferris!!"
I absolutely love 80's movies my two favorites are The Breakfast Club and Ferris Buellers Day Off. If you haven't seen them yet go out and buy them right now, you won't be sorry!
"What are you still doing here? Save Ferris!!"
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Book #6 Almost done!
look me in the eye (my life with asperger's) by John Elder Robison
103 more pages in
Nonfiction
OMG you would never believe the things this guy did! At age sixteen he dropped out of high school because he was failing but then got in with KISS, yes the famous band, to make musical equiptment. He designed and made all of Ace's guitars, Gene Simons' Battle Axe guitar, and fixed numerous techie stuff for them. He goes through so many things just because he can't understand how to be "normal". After KISS he forges a resume and gets a job at Milton Bradley to help design games, specifically the engineering part of designing games. He was quite a jokester, too. One time when he knew corporate would be coming by for an inspection he scraped off some of the Fromica tabletops to make it look like coke and then made lines of it and put a rolled up twenty with it, just to see what anyone would say. The next day a lot of the "coke" was gone. John and one of hid friends decided to see who was playing with them so they scraped up some more "coke", set it up again but this time with a hidden video camera. When they watched the video one of the VPs was snorting it!!!! They then decided to play a joke on him and show him the video and demand money for what he took. John got like 500 dollars or something like that for some chopped up plastic!! I would recomend this book to anyone and everyone, it's great.
103 more pages in
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OMG you would never believe the things this guy did! At age sixteen he dropped out of high school because he was failing but then got in with KISS, yes the famous band, to make musical equiptment. He designed and made all of Ace's guitars, Gene Simons' Battle Axe guitar, and fixed numerous techie stuff for them. He goes through so many things just because he can't understand how to be "normal". After KISS he forges a resume and gets a job at Milton Bradley to help design games, specifically the engineering part of designing games. He was quite a jokester, too. One time when he knew corporate would be coming by for an inspection he scraped off some of the Fromica tabletops to make it look like coke and then made lines of it and put a rolled up twenty with it, just to see what anyone would say. The next day a lot of the "coke" was gone. John and one of hid friends decided to see who was playing with them so they scraped up some more "coke", set it up again but this time with a hidden video camera. When they watched the video one of the VPs was snorting it!!!! They then decided to play a joke on him and show him the video and demand money for what he took. John got like 500 dollars or something like that for some chopped up plastic!! I would recomend this book to anyone and everyone, it's great.
Book #7
The Haunted by Jessica Verday
158 pages in
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So I started reading the second book of The Hollow Trilogy and it's AMAZING! Abbey came back early from her little trip, I'm still not telling you what happened, to dedicate a bridge in the cemetary to Kristen, her dead friend. She saw Caspian again and ... ARGH!!! I can barely explain this book without giving it all away!!! Oh the irony! Well then I might just have to give it away, if you don't want to know the secret of the first book don't read ahead. Caspian and the old couple from the cemetary are dead, as in ghosts!! Yeah and the old couple are from the story about the headless horseman and Ichabod Crane. Creepy right and the reason Abbey went away is because she thought that she was having a nervous breakdown. Whew, so back to The Haunted, Abbey now believes that Caspian is real and that only she can see him. He doesn't want to be around her anymore because he feels as if he "broke" her. So Abbey is juggling a cute real guy named Ben, Parents who aren't so sure about her mental stability, and a boyfriend who nobody else can see. Oh and she can't touch him either, duh he's a ghost. Will definitely be reading more and blogging soon!
158 pages in
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So I started reading the second book of The Hollow Trilogy and it's AMAZING! Abbey came back early from her little trip, I'm still not telling you what happened, to dedicate a bridge in the cemetary to Kristen, her dead friend. She saw Caspian again and ... ARGH!!! I can barely explain this book without giving it all away!!! Oh the irony! Well then I might just have to give it away, if you don't want to know the secret of the first book don't read ahead. Caspian and the old couple from the cemetary are dead, as in ghosts!! Yeah and the old couple are from the story about the headless horseman and Ichabod Crane. Creepy right and the reason Abbey went away is because she thought that she was having a nervous breakdown. Whew, so back to The Haunted, Abbey now believes that Caspian is real and that only she can see him. He doesn't want to be around her anymore because he feels as if he "broke" her. So Abbey is juggling a cute real guy named Ben, Parents who aren't so sure about her mental stability, and a boyfriend who nobody else can see. Oh and she can't touch him either, duh he's a ghost. Will definitely be reading more and blogging soon!
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Book #6
look me in the eye (my life with asperger's) by John Elder Robison
103 pages in
Nonfiction
My mom gave me this book to read because she thought it was very interesting and she thought I would like it. She was right. It's about this boy, John Elder, who grew up knowing something was wrong with him but not knowing what. He later found out that he had Asperger's Syndrome. In case you have no idea what Asperger's is, I will tell you. Asperger's is a mild form of Autism Spectrum Disorder. Asperger's mainly affects boys and they can't understand social cues and facial expressions. My cousin, August, has this disorder. Some people think that because he has Asperger's that he is mentally retarded, but he is very smart. He can tell you every single stat for every single NFL football player, no joke. He used to be really into trains until he was about ten and now it's football and video games. John Elders thing is cars and guitars. He was also very good at taking anything electronic apart and making it better. People with Asperger's, like I said earlier, cannot take social cues so they have a hard time making friends, they also bob and weave unknowingly. John Elder has an especially hard time with names, he calls his mom Slave and his father Stupid and his little brother Varmint. The memoir is dedicated to Unit Two and Cubby, who I found out are his wife and son. When I am reading about the things that John Elder does it reminds me so much of my cousin and I am glad that he was diagnosed at a young age unlike John Elder because I would not want August to live like that.
103 pages in
Nonfiction
My mom gave me this book to read because she thought it was very interesting and she thought I would like it. She was right. It's about this boy, John Elder, who grew up knowing something was wrong with him but not knowing what. He later found out that he had Asperger's Syndrome. In case you have no idea what Asperger's is, I will tell you. Asperger's is a mild form of Autism Spectrum Disorder. Asperger's mainly affects boys and they can't understand social cues and facial expressions. My cousin, August, has this disorder. Some people think that because he has Asperger's that he is mentally retarded, but he is very smart. He can tell you every single stat for every single NFL football player, no joke. He used to be really into trains until he was about ten and now it's football and video games. John Elders thing is cars and guitars. He was also very good at taking anything electronic apart and making it better. People with Asperger's, like I said earlier, cannot take social cues so they have a hard time making friends, they also bob and weave unknowingly. John Elder has an especially hard time with names, he calls his mom Slave and his father Stupid and his little brother Varmint. The memoir is dedicated to Unit Two and Cubby, who I found out are his wife and son. When I am reading about the things that John Elder does it reminds me so much of my cousin and I am glad that he was diagnosed at a young age unlike John Elder because I would not want August to live like that.
Book #5 Cont.
The Hollow by Jessica Verday
35 more pages (finished)
Popular Fiction
I can't say much about what happens in the last 35 pages because it would give too much away and I don't want to do that. I can tell you that Caspian and this old couple that Abbey knows tell her some very odd secrets that cause Abbey to freak. She even has to leave Sleepy Hollow. I finished this book on Wednesday but just haven't gotten to my computer lately. You know work and all. Plus, my dad threatened to take my books away because I forgot to wash the dishes. That was a pretty scary moment. So I finished the first in this series and am reading the second now but I don't think that I have read enough for a post yet. But I will soon and the second one is really good!
35 more pages (finished)
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I can't say much about what happens in the last 35 pages because it would give too much away and I don't want to do that. I can tell you that Caspian and this old couple that Abbey knows tell her some very odd secrets that cause Abbey to freak. She even has to leave Sleepy Hollow. I finished this book on Wednesday but just haven't gotten to my computer lately. You know work and all. Plus, my dad threatened to take my books away because I forgot to wash the dishes. That was a pretty scary moment. So I finished the first in this series and am reading the second now but I don't think that I have read enough for a post yet. But I will soon and the second one is really good!
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Book #5 cont.
The Hollow by Jessica Verday
307 more pages in
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Okay, so I only have 35 more pages to go and I think I am addicted!!! I just can't stop. It's got so many twists and turns and is so exciting, it's a refreshing break from all the "norm".
Abbey has been having a hard time at school becasue the principle had a whole ceremony lined up and all these people, who didn't even know Kristen, are crying and saying how they will miss her sooo much. And the cheerleaders are the worst, they are almost threatening her to join the prom commitee so they can get first choice on the senior class trip. Total witches, if you know what I mean. Her mom makes her go cause she thinks that the other girls really want her to join. Then the cheerleaders take it one step farther and start asking boys to ask Abbey to prom. But she only wants to go with one person, Caspian, the guy from the funneral. Recently they have been hanging out at the cemetary, and Abbey is head over heels for him. He's very mysterious and always has to be somewhere else or has something to do. Abbey and her parents go to their cabin for the weekend and she thinks that this will be the perfect place to get her mind off everything. But they get a call from the police, Kristens body was found by the river in the cemetery. Wow I need to move along faster I still have a lot to go, so heres the abridged version. Abbey and Caspian get serious and on prom night Abbey goes to the cemetery to give Kristen the perfume she finnished, in a prom dress. But it's all to much and she has a breakdown, but guess whos there to save her. Yep Caspian. Abbey finds a diary in Kristens room that shows a whole new secerative side of Kristen that Abbey doesn't know if she likes or not. Christmas comes and gifts are given. But the worst and best comes from Caspian. A beastiful drawing portfolio and necklace both made by Caspian and a letter saying that they cannot be together. Oh and this other guy at school is totally smitten with Abbey but she loves Caspian and her and this other guy get paired together as science fair parteners. So yeah, awkward. Okay so I have to go know I think that I gave enough away for one day. I will blog again when those 35 pages are done. Yay im soo excited! Then i'll have to start on the second one, and the third one just came out!! Can't wait, i'll let you know how it ends, sorry if I rambled.
307 more pages in
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Okay, so I only have 35 more pages to go and I think I am addicted!!! I just can't stop. It's got so many twists and turns and is so exciting, it's a refreshing break from all the "norm".
Abbey has been having a hard time at school becasue the principle had a whole ceremony lined up and all these people, who didn't even know Kristen, are crying and saying how they will miss her sooo much. And the cheerleaders are the worst, they are almost threatening her to join the prom commitee so they can get first choice on the senior class trip. Total witches, if you know what I mean. Her mom makes her go cause she thinks that the other girls really want her to join. Then the cheerleaders take it one step farther and start asking boys to ask Abbey to prom. But she only wants to go with one person, Caspian, the guy from the funneral. Recently they have been hanging out at the cemetary, and Abbey is head over heels for him. He's very mysterious and always has to be somewhere else or has something to do. Abbey and her parents go to their cabin for the weekend and she thinks that this will be the perfect place to get her mind off everything. But they get a call from the police, Kristens body was found by the river in the cemetery. Wow I need to move along faster I still have a lot to go, so heres the abridged version. Abbey and Caspian get serious and on prom night Abbey goes to the cemetery to give Kristen the perfume she finnished, in a prom dress. But it's all to much and she has a breakdown, but guess whos there to save her. Yep Caspian. Abbey finds a diary in Kristens room that shows a whole new secerative side of Kristen that Abbey doesn't know if she likes or not. Christmas comes and gifts are given. But the worst and best comes from Caspian. A beastiful drawing portfolio and necklace both made by Caspian and a letter saying that they cannot be together. Oh and this other guy at school is totally smitten with Abbey but she loves Caspian and her and this other guy get paired together as science fair parteners. So yeah, awkward. Okay so I have to go know I think that I gave enough away for one day. I will blog again when those 35 pages are done. Yay im soo excited! Then i'll have to start on the second one, and the third one just came out!! Can't wait, i'll let you know how it ends, sorry if I rambled.
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