- Discuss how the author develops one important theme in the novel.
- Discuss the resolution of the novel's conflict. Did the author answer all your questions, or did he/she leave you wondering? Why do you think the author chose this type of ending?
- What did you learn from reading this book? Explain.
- Would you recommend this book to others? Why or why not?
Friday, February 19, 2010
Independent Novel: Week of February 18
This week, each student should write at least one well-written paragraph in response to his/her independent novel by Monday, February 22nd.You may write on any topic relating to the middle of the novel, but make sure that your comments demonstrate careful thought and reflection. If you are at a loss for a topic, you may want to choose one of these:
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The novel I have finished reading was " A Gift of Magic" I would highly recommend this novel to readers who prefer, or are interested in the characters having extraordinary "gifts”. In the beginning of the book it says that the grandma has left all the three children (who are: Nancy, Kirby, and Brendon) certain gifts for each. Then the story continues, then the doctor comes to a conclusion that Nancy has some special "gift" of reading and knowing what people are thinking, and she can control their minds. But, it may seem a bit weird because, at the back of the novel it says that Nancy has the gifts that I have said above, but when you read the novel at first you think "Well of course Nancy will know about her special "gift". But, sadly she didn't, and that was too bad because she could have realized it by herself, because she could do these stunning things that no normal person could do. The book mainly talks about Nancy, but some parts of the novel, they talk about Kirby, and Brendon. Brendon has the gift of music, and Kirby has the gift of dancing. But, going towards the end, it talks about how Nancy had to go through some tests to see what would happen, and get some results. And, the book also talks about the three in school, and what they do. Finally at the end, they all discover that Elizabeth's mom had special gifts too. And She says that her grandma was special and a very mysterious but nice person. And, I like this novel because it had suspense, and not directly having the book say what happens. So those were the reasons why I recommend my novel to others, but I think that girls would like it more.
ReplyDeleteI have completed reading the novel “Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Sea of Monsters” a little while ago. The author did an excellent job pulling the reader on and on, until the reader notices they have already read front-to-back the book and can’t believe it has finished. I think there are two important themes: one important theme of the book by Rick Riordan was family-integration, how Percy Jackson has to live the fact that his father couldn’t really be by his side, but he did help him out in his quest to save his friend Grover. Another important theme is loyalty, how Percy has to “plod”* a lot of problems to save a friend or family member, like he saved Grover in the end and accepted his half-brother, Tyson, the way he was a Cyclops. ‘“Brother!” I said, loud enough for everybody to hear. “Tyson, my baby brother.”’(pg. 268) I think the author wringed* me out by a huge crevice*-hanger at the ending of the book. The book ends with ‘”I am Thalia, daughter of Zeus.”(pg.279), when they put the Golden Fleece in her pine tree, but the pine tree worked so well that Thalia, the human inside it that gave it energy and that was dying, “resurrected”. I think the author left this cliff-hanger to make the author wait of the next book, “The Titan’s Curse”. I learned a lot of Greek Mythology from Rick Riordan’s “The Sea of Monsters”. Like the myths about Charybdis, the huge whirlpool, “Charybdis was an orthodontist’s nightmare. She was nothing but a huge black maw with bad teeth alignment and a serious overbite, and she’d done nothing for centuries but eat without brushing after meals.”(Pg. 160), Scylla, the 6 headed monster that helped Charybdis kill tons of sailors, Polyphemus, the Cyclops that loved to eat sheep and satyrs, and kept the Golden Fleece, and Circe, the monster that turned men into pigs because she hated that men had all the glory. Since I like Greek Mythology a lot, I really learned and I think that’s the reason that I learned a lot from this book. I would really recommend this book for both boys and girls, but boys mostly. Even though this book is really action-packed, I can still identify with the main character and get into the book. There are even some “romantic” scenes with characters, but the main reason I recommend it is because this really pulls out the reader’s imagination into a world that is very intriguing and fantastic.
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I have finished reading the book "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" but i will not say what happens and the most interesting parts of the book. I think that the author diid an excellent job at grabbing the readers attention. For me the best chapter was The Dot That Became a Speck That Became a Blob That Became a Figure That Became a Boy, because that is when Vruno, the main character, meet Shmuel, also the main character. There are many differences between the two boys but the biggest one is that Shmuel is jewish and at a concentration camp, and Bruno is not jewish and his dad is a Natzi army commander. One day Shmuel is brought to Bruno´s house to polish cups with his small fingers when bruno finds out he runs awy with Shmuel. Bruno has a sister, Gretel, who is 4 years older than him. Gretel flounces most of the time because she has nobody to play with so she irritates her brother. This is a really sad novel that makes us realize how and what happened inside concetration camps but this time what happened to kids who where inside them and kids who were out side of them. I really recomend this novel for literature circle since it is a novel but it has history in it and it is very intersting.
ReplyDeleteI have finished reading Soul Eater this week. This is an amazing book, with a bunch of suprises and interesting things that grab you and dont let go. It feels wrong to tell you the ending, so I wont and I will leave it to you to find out teh ending. I reccomend this book to most boys but maybe some girls will like it too. Tthe author, Michelle Paver, is a really good writer. She knoew how to catch you and keep you reading. Her book is full of things that sice you start reading the book would have never even imagined to happen. Its as if everything links in this book, making it semm like it was all meant to be.
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ReplyDeleteAfter reading the last pages of the book "I Am David", by Anne Holm, I had to predictsome questions about what would have happen, because the author left me wondering.
ReplyDeleteAt the middle of the book, when David, the main character, had saved a girls life, the girl´s family forced him to stay there a couple of weeks, where they could discuss about David (which he didn´t like a bit). The family started to wonder too much about him and David decided to leave and run away from Denmark, where he had stayed. Through his way he made some friendly relations with a nice women, that gave him some food and a place to sleep for that day. With so many curiosities, David began to ask her some questions which were misunderstood in his mind. For example on page 189,"But no matter what David asked about, she told him what he wanted to know without asking in return. Finally David said, "Is there a king in Denmark?" Lots of questions were aswered and David now had absorbed all his new ideas. The woman, then showed David her foto almbum and told him a sad story, " Her story´s mostly a sad one. She lived abroad with her husband in a country where... where the political situation made it necessary to be very careful. And her husband wasn´t... One night the police arrested them- all three of them, her husband, herself, and their little boy, who was then only a year old. He was one who was called David, just like you, and whom I never saw... They killed her husband and the child, and the woman only got away because one of her guards was in love with her (pg194)."Everything made sense now, for David, the camp, the woman (his mom), the man at the camp...
"He could say no more. The woman looked into his face and said clearly and distinctly, "David my son David... (pg 239)" That´s how the book ends, which left me wondering if that actually that was his mother, or how was the women different than the others. I think the author did this so we could predict, wrap up all our ideas and comclude independently, having our own point of view about the end.
I think the author of the book The Titan’s Curse, Rick Riordan, created an exceptional end for his novel. He held our attention until the resolution, starting the climax on page 262 in a book of 312 pages. The final conflict of the story is the war between Titans and Gods, at the top of Mount Tamalpais, in the suburbs of San Francisco, California. When Percy and his friends arrive at Frisco, the novel acquires a frenetic mood, developing the rising action until the climax. This part of the book was so instigating that led me to read it in only one day. By the end of the novel, we can confirm some suspicions that were written in the 2nd blog comment. Percy, naturally, withstood the Titan’s curse, since he was the main character. Surprisingly, who perished by a parent’s hand was Zoë Nightshade, lieutenant of the Hunters (maidens of Artemis), who “was killed” by her father, Atlas: she was so sad that he fought her without hesitation that she died part of sadness, part of a bite that she took from Ladon, a dragon that was guarding the mount. However, we can notice that she was willing to fight and survive until the last moment. After her death, Artemis, the goddess of Hunt and of the Moon, made Zoë a constellation called Zoë the Huntress, as a symbol of the appreciation that the goddess had by her all the years that she served her lady. After so many struggles to survive and after the deaths of Bianca di Angelo, that is revealed to be the daughter of Hades at the end of the book, and Zoë, even winning the final battle and rescuing Annabeth alive didn’t make anybody gleeful. Notwithstanding, in the party given by the gods to celebrate their victory over the Titans, everybody was asking for the nine muses, the singers of the Olympus, to crank up the music. I liked my novel a lot, and, having read already the 1st chapter of its sequence, I’m looking forward to know whether the Titans or the Gods will win (even if the answer for this question is a no-brainer, sometimes who wins, for our surprise, is the evil team of a series) and how Rachel Elizabeth Dare, a girl who can see the gods’ world that Percy met in Hoover Dam, will grow in the story, probably being one of the main characters of the 4th book of the series, The Battle of the Labyrinth.
ReplyDeleteObservation: In the last blog comment, I wrote that Nereus was the father of Zoë Nightshade. After some time, the book reveals that her father was Atlas, general of the Titans.
Sources: New Oxford American Dictionary (vocabulary words) and Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus (word choice).
Mrs. Kuhn, again I could not fit my blog post into one post for the limited amout or characters alowed, so they were devided, ok?
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Yes, I would recommend this book. Anne Rice has always been a brilliant writer, but with this book, The Vampire Lestat, she was more then amazing. It is a story containing everything needed for a successful and captivating story: suspense, mystery, romance, contradictions and the perfect main character. Lestat, our perfect and eerie main character, is a cynical, intriguing and misunderstood young man, born into the middle of the 16th century. He lives in a dark and primitive castle together with his three hellish and atavistic brothers, his sweet and loving mom and his cruel and blind father. He spends most of his days being the rebelled child and passing through insufferable things; his mother slowly dying, the deception of his father on him not wanting to assume the business of the family and nor does he want to stay any longer at his small village: he wants to become an actor and go to Paris. Lestat is also constantly in search of the meanings of the universe and our existence: why do we exist? Do we really have a purpose? Will we get any answers someday? What does death mean? These are only some of the common questions Lestat nearly goes crazy to figure out. One of the best parts of this book is that it happens in two different times: the book starts with Lestat finally waking up after about 100 years ‘sleeping’ underground. He thought life wasn’t interesting enough in the late 18th century, so he then decided he would wait until something amused him. Certain night, he waked up to the sound of a rock band playing. They sing about how there are angels and demons on Earth and how good and bad must fight together; so he then soon realizes times had changed. When he was still ‘alive’, before he became a bored vampire, people were persecuted for practicing medicine and for having different eye and hair color, but not anymore. Those songs explained many of the things he had never been able to express and that were all against the superstitious beliefs of his time. However, had times now changed? He then arises from his crypt, determined to make that band famous and to become a part of it. He rises and as soon as he is out, he finds out to be in the middle of a city totally constructed now, with glass walls and motor cars rushing past by him. As soon as he enters the apartment building where the band now he has discovered is called Satan’s Night, he soon becomes a member of it.
ReplyDeleteSoon enough, one of the members, the female singer, says she has heard his name before on a book, and that the character in it looked just like him. He wonders about that since Lestat is such an uncommon name, but he still asks to see the book. In his hands then are found an ancient copy of a book called Interview with the Vampire, written by his old vampire friend who he himself created named Louis. There, all the secrets, all the thoughts and all that ever happened to them are deposited, breaking the only rule applied to vampires: they can’t reveal their secret. He then realizes Louis was probably persecuted for this book by other vampires, and that he might enjoy being persecuted too. It would be something different that through all his life he never experienced. He now decides to write his version of the story, starting at his childhood onto the present days of his life. He then locks himself inside a dusty hotel room, with no windows and only containing a computer and his coffin. He then decides it’s time to start, and that’s were all the adventures being told begin. This is quite a unique and interesting book with a plethora of adventure and many amazing events. I would highly recommend this book, but I am positive only few would actually enjoy it. Rice does not give the answers out; you have to think and reflect to figure what it all really means. She entices you to use your presumption throughout giving you clue of what could possibly happen, and so you must get them and make your own interpretation; you could guess it right or possibly wrong, but still it is very exciting. People who enjoy sweet and untamed romance would not like this book, neither would people who are searching for action. This is clearly a book that makes you question your principles, especially about the two same questions that are asked again and again among history: about what is really good and evil and what is really right and wrong. Through the centuries, vampires have been seen as dark and evil creatures, but are they indeed evil? He only kills because it’s its only way of survival, while us humans kill many times for fun. This is just a simple example of questioning actually about them, the vampires, but many intriguing and though questions are made and slowly answered throughout this book. It’s a book written for people who really enjoy new challenges, and new perspectives of seeing and understanding life. Some shocking scenes are imposed to us and not many could possibly overcome them and see the beauty hidden behind such horror; it’s mainly a book for you to slowly walk through and reflect profoundly about each part. I’m specially the type of person who enjoys this type of books, and not only for that, but for many reason, I would highly recommend this book, The Vampire Lestat. Anne Rice is an amazing writer who have conquered any before with her versatile style of writing, but she was more then amazing writing this novel, making me then think and recommend it to others who might possibly have as much pleasure as I had reading it.
ReplyDeleteI completed reading "A Summer to Die", by Lois Lowry. I would highly recommend this book to everyone in the class. After resuming my last passage, lots of other interesting and very tragic things happened in the book. First, after Meg told her parents about the spots in Molly’s legs, she went to the hospital, and stayed there for a long time. After Molly had left for the hospital, Meg felt really guilty about her sister have to go back to that horrible place she hated, so she kept blaming herself. She went to Ben and Maria’s house, and they were having some peas with Will, which the couple had planted. After everything had been explained to them, they told her it wasn’t her fault, and that she shouldn’t blame herself. Later, when Meg was feeling better and no longer crying, Ben and Maria talked to her about her photographing the baby’s birth. They asked her to see with her parents if it was okay. Since they were planning to do it them selves (the birth of the baby), in their own home, when Meg´s parents gave her permission, they taught Meg everything she should know, so that she wouldn’t be surprised when the time came. Margaret also told them that Molly had asked them to have the baby when she was home from the hospital, although she knew it was useless to ask, she just did it for Molly, and because she was crazy about babies. In the Chalmers house, things were not going so great. Molly had stopped being so obnoxious, but then she had to go back to the hospital. Meg´s parents had been talking about Molly as is she were a specimen, talking about all the different sorts of medication they were giving her, to see if anything worked. One night, Margaret decided to try something. She talked about something else, and trying to have a good time with her parents, because she knew they were suffering. Meg tried to talk about the good memories of Molly, when she was silly and goofy; then suddenly, both of her parents started to cry. Meg suddenly stopped and realized; Molly was going to die. Meg was really shocked when she finally took it all in and found out about the tragic news. She was also very angry at her parents, who never told her anything. After it was all solved, the Chalmers family was very hurt and sad. Margaret had received a better explanation of what Molly had. It was called acute myelogenous leukemia. A few days later, on August 3rd, Meg woke up with a call from Ben and Maria, her water had just broken. She rushed down the valley to their house, and it was just 5 a.m. in the morning. Ben and Maria were both very anxious and scared; because they weren’t sure they were going to know what to do. In the end, it all turned out perfectly fine, and they named the baby according to what they mostly felt at that time, they named the baby Happy. Meg had never visited Molly in the hospital, but when the baby was born, she wanted to be the one to deliver her the news. Molly looked really different then she always did. She no longer had her beautiful blonde, curly hair. She looked very weak, white and worn out. When her sister told her about the baby, she smiled weakly. She told her about the name, the pictures, the fright of Ben and Maria, and how everything had turned out perfectly fine. After she was done talking, Molly gently shut her eyes, and went to sleep. To weeks after Meg visited Molly, she passed away. The Chalmers were ready to move back to town. Meg wasn’t so happy about that, she had gotten really intimate to the place and the friends she had made there. She wanted to stay; she wanted to see Happy grow up, Will’s flowers blooming... She asked her parents if they could go back there next summer, but they weren’t sure.
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ReplyDeleteMargaret promised Will she would be back next July to see the flowers bloom. When they left, Mr. Chalmers found out the book he had been working on was finished, and he hadn’t even noticed it, with all the other things that had been happening. When they got to town, her father took her to a photograph exhibition. She thought her parents had submitted some of her pictures, but then she found out she was wrong. Will had taken a beautiful photograph of Meg, and it was there, for everyone to see. In the picture, the light was hitting her face perfectly, and she looked, and felt, gorgeous. When she saw the picture, and saw Will’s name in the bottom, she reminded herself that she had promised Will to go back and see the flowers that were blooming. So, she told her father, who took her. When she got there, Will showed her the flowers, which Meg thought were truly amazing. Meg also thought about Molly, that, wherever she was, for her, it would always be summer. Then, she thanked Will for the photograph, and on page 154, the book resumed,
"I shook my head.’You made me beautiful,' I said, shyly.
'Meg,' he laughed, putting one arm over my shoulders, 'you were beautiful all along.'"
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This had become one of my favorite books, and Lois Lowry, one of my favorite authors.
At the back of the book, Sister of the Bride it says, “ But as the big day gets closer, wedding planning often turn into family arguments. Even the bride and the groom are bickering over details, and Barbara’s fun-loving sister is turning into a very practical, grown-up person. Weddings are fun, but all this serious stuff is scary enough to make Barbara think she’s not going to be rushing into a serious romance any time soon”, and I was sort of disappointed about this. As I finished the book, problems only started rising then when I expected them to happen earlier. The reason why I choose the book was because I thought the book was going to be about weeding problems and the weeding, but the problems only rose later. BUT, to a conclusion, it was good to have written that at the back because it made me want to read more so I could get closer to the wedding day. So, I was not so disappointed once I realized this. It is a really good strategy that the author used.
ReplyDeleteThe continuation of the book from page 190 is really interesting, which makes you want to read more. First of all, Barbara is in love with two guys that are completely different. Second, Barbara’s sister, Rosemary is getting married very soon and she is planning everything and is so exhausted. It is happening so fast they have to work hastily. Third, Millie, Rosemarie’s roommate came to their house and she won’t stop sowing her dress, and is so slow that they think that she won’t make it to the weeding. Fourth, on page 217, Barbara had a fight with one of the guys she is in love with:
Barbara looked Bill in the eye. “No, I will not mend your shirt!” she informed him. It was a good reason that Gordy sometimes called Barbed Wire.
“You don’t have to be so ferocious about it.” Bill was obviously taken aback. “ I just thought---“
Barbara felt ferocious. “ I suppose you thought I would be glad to mend your shirt!” she said. “I suppose you thought I would consider it and honor to do your mending.”
.. which leaves her with a forlorn heart. She think she he is a fickle boy. Fifth, Rosemary and Greg have a fight before there wedding rehearsal about a small detail, not even about the wedding. It was about English, how they spoke. Last, Barbara likes Bill again, and them she falls in love with another guy and she can’t decide if she like Bill or Tootie better. They are so different. So, I really enjoyed the book and I always wanted to read it, and I would really recommend it to girls, girly girls who like weddings and a bit of romance, not so much though!!
As I finished the book S.O.S Titanic, many terrible and terifying this happened. One day, Barry had asked Watley, an attender about a box that he had in hand. The attender opened it and explained to him that it was a caul in which he was born in. This meant he could see disasters. Watley was asked if the boat would sink, but that was unpredictable. Barry wanted to warn Peegen Flynn, so he sent her a letter. Eventually she came to talk to him, but suddenly a icebeg hit the boat. Watley and other attender asked all passengers to get into lifeboats as a practice, but Barry knew it was the real thing, not a practice. People were laughing playing games, talking and never realizing the danger that they were in. Some time passed and people began to panic. News arrived saying that the boat would be sinking in 1 hour. Everybody tried to climb onto lifeboats, some refusing to. Aftera come time, all lifeboats were gone and people were paninking, praying, crying, screaming and trying to save themself. Barry was trying to look for Peegen, not finding her anywhere. Finally he found many people locked behing gates all screaming. Barry let them lose and found Peegen between them. Running, they found Frank, which helped them. They ran and ran and ran. Time was running out. The boat was being eatin by waves, crashing and taking people with them. " There was noises all around him, screams, howls of agony, pitiful cries as soft as kittens' mewling." Everything was being destroyed and there were many lives being lost. Frank slids, thankfully getting a hold of Barrys hand, but suddenly a big wave crashes on them and Frank is no longer seen, dying. Finally, the Titanic drowns and Barry is able to find Pegeen, in the water. Luckly, they see a upsideown lifeboat, coming next to them and are able to get hold of it. They try to survive, taking good care of one another.
ReplyDeleteThen, at the end a boat arrives and saved all of them. Barry and Peegen are saved, although still haveing memories of Frank, Mary and Jonnie, all very close friends.
This is a book that i would reccomend to a lot of people, because it is niether a girl book or only a boy book, but it has dramatic and romantic scences. This is a fantastic book and you would be missing out on a great story if you don't read this book.
Although, some question that I would want to know are:
1. Did Barry die, because in other stories it is said he died?
2. Did Peegen and Barry start dating?
3. Did Barry ever get to see his parents again?
I have completed reading the book "Walk Two Moons". I highly recommend this book to everyone. The reasons why I really enjoyed this book is because of the way the author put it together, she found a way to tell two different stories without making anything confusing or non sense. The book is actually really sad and made me cry, since the end turns out to be not as pleasant as you would think it would be. The main character suffers a loss she did not know she had suffered and one while she is still processing what had happened to her mom. The books point of view is 1st person, and Sal is the one telling the whole story. Sharon Creech ended the book by making her tell what is happening some months after the story. In my opinion Sharon Creech is one of the best authors in the USA, I believe that due to the fact that she manages to write a story with a lot of things to catch the reader’s attention and also manages to tell an incredible story with very well explain characters and an amazing plot. As you read more deeply in the story you start to need to read more since more characters get involved and more things are going on. This book is an amazing book which everyone should read and I believe that everyone will enjoy it.
ReplyDeleteAs I finished reading “The Princess Diaries” Mia still isn’t entirely satisfied with being a princes s, but got used to going to her princess lesson after school. Mia and Lilly had a fight because of how Mia looked, which in my opinion doesn’t have to do with Lilly, since Mia can choose how to look and if she wants her hair to be blond or not. Well, Lilly was still not talking to Mia, which is quite childish of her, but Mia doesn’t seem to care about that so much, since she has a new friend, Tina Hakim Baba, a girl which was also alone at lunch time, so Mia decided to sit with her. On the end of the book there is a dance at Mia’s school, called Cultural Diversity Dance, and she got invited by Josh Richter, the most popular boy at her school and her crush since the beginning of the book. But on the dance, she found out Josh just wanted to use her, and take a picture with him kissing her so it could appear at the newspaper. So she ditched him and went to the girl’s bathroom since she was crying and she felt like writing on her journal, or diary. Later, Tina and Lilly went over to the girls bathroom to see if she was ok, Mia said she was fine, so they went back to the party. Every one was at a table together, Mia, Tina and her date Dave, Lilly and her date Boris, Michael, Shameka and her boyfriend, and the two bodyguards. They had fun talking about everything, until there was a slow song playing so everyone stood up to dance except Mia and Michael. After there was a fast song so they came back and talked, but after some other songs, there was a slow song again, and this time Michael invited Mia to dance with him, and she loved it. So, they talked on the fast songs, and danced to the slow ones. After the dance everyone went over Lilly’s house and stayed there playing some video games until Lilly’s parents told them to go home, but Mia stayed over. The next morning she felt happy and was in a great mood. This is the ending of “The Princess Diaries”. I really liked it, since Mia finally sees that Josh is not the perfect boy she though he was, and she finds out how Michael is nice and how he likes her, since after the dance he shows her a song he wrote about a tall girl which doesn’t know that a boy loves her. I think Meg Cabot, which is my favorite author, did a really good ending to this book, and I really liked it, just like all her other books.
ReplyDeleteI´ve finished reading the book : ´´ Goal 2 Living the Dream´´ , and the book is truly amazing. Throught the book, the author mainly talks about Santiago Muñez and his fiançe , Roz. Having progressed a lot since the first book ( Goal) he has become a professional soccer player playing in England. In the beggining of the book he receives a proposal to play for Real Madrid , and although he is well in NewCastle , he knows this is an offer he can ,by no means , reject. Once he moves to Spain and starts playing for Real , everything changes. His is now INCREDIBLY surrounded by papparazi , he prepares for a normal game like an English team would prepare his players for a final , and incredibly heavy expectations are put on him , making it impossible for him to be lean. Not only that , he is playing with amazingly talented players , AGAINST other incredibly talented blokes!!! In the beggining of the book all is good and perfect, the fans hoot their aproval whenever he does a good play , he liuves in a mansion , enjoys only the finest of foood , but as time goes by Santiago starts living a nightmare. Well , if you want to know what happens you will have to read the book , but i can assure you all that in the end is happy for Santiago , Roz and Gavin ( read the book) , but some people don´t have all that luck , people who deserved to have a happy ending but end up suffering a lot. I recommend this book as it is truly amazing.
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ReplyDeleteI would highly recommend the book Eragon to anyone who loves to read stories of fiction and magic. I was first reluctant to choose Eragon as my book for the project, due to its length, but soon after I started reading I knew I would be able to finish it because it is very interesting. The book starts off explaining the life of a normal boy who is 15 years old in the Middle Ages, but about 40 pages in the book starts being packed with action and excitement, such as Eragon’s Uncle being killed. There are so many twists in this book that there were little to none parts of the book that were fickle in battles, interesting mythology or magic. The very essence of the book’s idea is intriguing to any dragon fan or fan a person that’s interested in any sort of book that obscures the lines between myth and reality. Over all this book has been an amazing read and I feel sorry for those that will go their life without reading it.
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ReplyDeleteThe book I’m reading, which is called Missing Since Monday, written by Ann M. Martin, is making me more interested again. More things are starting to happen and I got to know many things that I wanted to know about. For example, Maggie has been receiving threatening calls by an anonymous person. I started to think that the kidnappers were calling, but it wasn’t. The caller was Brad. Brad is a Maggie’s best friend’s brother. Brad likes Maggie, so he wants her to break up with her boyfriend David. One day Maggie told the police about the calls she was getting, so the police decided to try tracing the call, and they did, so then they found out that Brad was the person calling all the time. The police also found a dead girl in a forest close to Princeton, where they live. Maggie’s dad and her brother went to look at the body but discovered that it was another girl who disappeared a long time ago. All the clues that they found about Courtie’s disappearance are leading to Maggie’s and Mike’s mother. Their parents are divorced, so their little sister Courtenay is actually their half sister. However they are trying to find their mother, because they don’t know where she is. One day they get a postcard from their mother that says she is really close to Princeton. Mike and Maggie decide to not tell anyone and go to meet their mother and see if it’s her who kidnapped Courtenay. More about this I don’t know, so I will have to continue reading and find out what will happen. In my prediction, I think that Mike and Maggie are also going to get kidnapped by their mother. However, I really start to like this book more now.
ReplyDeleteI would recommend my book, “Pendragon – The Merchant of Death”, by D.J. MacHale, to other people. I would do this because it is a very well written and well structured book. It has a well described setting, a strong plot, good point of view, magnificent characterization, and many themes. For instance, the characters, such as Loor, are not described entirely on one page, but throughout the book, so that you get the impression that you are learning more about them as Bobby, the main character, is. For example, the first description you get of Loor is: “She was totally beautiful (…) I’d say she was my age, maybe a little older. She had dark skin and eyes that were so brown they looked black. Her hair was dark too. (…) (MacHale 75)”. Then it says that she was kind of aggressive and a good fighter. The rest the reader knows about Loor comes throughout the book by her actions and not by a written description, which is really good. Also, it is a book that grabs your attention at the beginning by making everything go fast and the adventure start quickly and abruptly, and then slowing down. This way the reader is caught at the starting point and feels squeamish because he wants to know how the story will end after all. Finally, this is a book that ends with some mystery and the certainty of a sequel, so if the reader liked the book he knows that he can read more of Bobby’s adventures. You know that Bobby, that had been a dweeb and now is changing, will continue to help other dimensions, but you do not know how he will succeed or if he will ever have a normal life again, which makes you stoked up to read the other books after this too. These are some reasons why I would recommend this book to other people.
ReplyDeleteI finished "SCORPIA" by Anthony Horowitz and the book is really great since the beginning. Mrs. Rothman, a SCORPIA agent head of the "Invisible Sword", Assassinates a member who is retiring from the group. Meanwhile, Alex finds about Mrs. Rothmans castle in Ca'Vedova and infiltrates there to find out something of SCORPIA. He entered with the help of his friend Tom and finds out in Mrs. Rothmans desk a note on Constanto enterprise. There, before he reads the letter, a Siberian tiger attacks him. Just before Alex gets pounced, Nile, comes and for some reason stops the tiger by using a remote control, pointing at the tiger, and pressing a button. This causes the tiger to sleep but didn't keep Alex out of trouble. Nile knocks Alex out and throuws him into a cell which during a flood would be submerged completely. Alex manages to escape and re-meets Tom in a train that would take them to Naples and Tom's brothers home. Alex there askes for help and Tom's brother helps him by giving BASE jumping equiment to infiltrate the biomedical company of Constanto. Later on, Alex re-meets Nile which kills doctor Liebermann and sets a bomb inside the building and takes Alex with him, in a friendly non-agressive way(or Alex goes with him free willed), to meet Mrs. Rothman. The book continues action packed as Alex tries to find the truth of his fathers death and the realization of what SCORPIA is about to do. As the book ends, Alex changes sides again and help the M16 stop SCORPIAS opperation of the Invisible Sword and finally discover the full truth of his father and mother's death. The book ends with ALex being shot but I, for one, don't know if he died because there are still some books in the series. Just if you're curious, the Invisible Sword were nanobots put inside children by injection and were full of poison. They would have opened by some sort of wave sent by discs on a balloon. I'd recommend this book if you like action in the form of secrecy, spies, betrayal and battles.
ReplyDeleteI finished the book Stormbreaker. I really liked the book because of its adventures and also because of the inteligence of Alex Rider, The main character of the book. In the book Alex discovers that his uncle is a agent or spy, and he was killed in a mission. Then alex discover that he had to continue that mission so he became a secret agent to protect UK. His mission was to dont let a evil millionaire send a virus in all Britain schools. But a lex saved the day and accomplished his mission. I recomend this book for boys because there all this weapon names and fights, but its a really cool book. In the end you can see that there gonna be a continution of the series.
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ReplyDeleteIn the end of the book, I had no doubts of what happened and that Alex will be a secret agent and will work hard. I liked how the author finished the book because it says that he would have to continue his normal life and that it will never be the same after that adventure.
I have finished reading the book "Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye", by Lois Lowry. The end of my novel is truly exceptional and surprising. After seventeen-year-old Natalie Armstrong makes her way to Simmons' Mills, her hometown, she finds Mrs. Anna Talbot and stays at her 'hotel'. During the whole summer, she looks for information about her real parents in newspaper articles, yellow pages, and asking people. She finds out a lot. Natalie meets her grandfather in the hospital and finds out the old man has cancer. She is initially shocked and tells him that he can count on her. Through her grandfather, she discovers her biological father died a long time ago, a short time after she was born. Natalie then discovers that her biological mother, Julie, is a famous international supermodel. Also, that Julie has two little boys, her newly discovered half brothers. Natalie and Julie meet in New York and her mother tells her that she only send Natalie to be adopted because she was fifteen years old at the time and that Natalie's father was just a boyfriend. Their meeting ends up having no profound consequences and she goes back to Branford, ready for college!
ReplyDelete*-* THIS IS A GREAT NOVEL AND IT IS NOW ONE OF MY FAVORITE BOOKS!!! LOIS LOWRY IS ONE OF THE BEST AUTHROS EVER AND I 100% RECOMMEND THIS BOOK TO OTHERS! =D *~*