To say this was a long book is like saying the Empire State Building is a little big. A whopping 1029 pages filled with short horrors and mysteries by famous authors like Edgar Allen Poe. This book definitely is not for a skimmer, or someone who wants an easy read. Once you actually start to reading this stories, though, it's so enticing and the plots are so different and fun to read about. An especial favorite of mine so far is called The Black Cat by Mr. Poe which tells of a man whose obsession over his cat throws him over the edge. I really liked this book since I had been reading so many school-romance novels and the genre was starting to lose it's freshness, I would recommend anyone to get this book and sit down for a couple of hours, it's so worth it. The only real downside is that I have a habit of being a skimmer, and the stories can be really long and complex. I give this novel a 9/10, it's a very good read, and some of the stories will really give you the chills.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Give A Boy A Gun (Nonfiction)
This book was such an eye-opener, even though it was on the easier side compared to many of the other books I've read, it was so captivating and it felt like I was watching a movie. Give a Boy A Gun is the true story of a school shooting, complete with interviews with friends and classmates of the two boys who did it. It was so identical to Zero Hour, the documentary based on Columbine. The story specifically really told not just the boys' stories, but their classmates also. This book had really told the very real truth about school violence and just hate in general and how reaching a state where you're willing to die to have vengeance is a long, painful process and how even the innocent children we know can become cold and angry. I really empathized with the shooters and their friends, not very common seeing as I had always believed you had to be the bad one to hurt other people, but I learned that the boys went through more pain then imagined. The book really questioned human nature, is it good or bad? How far do you have to push someone to get them bloodthirsty, and do you even have to do anything to get caught up in it? Lastly, one of the best things about this book is that you learn that no one was the bad guy, just like no one was the good guy-except for the girl who saved them in the end-everyone just did what they thought was right of them, even if it did lead to some heinous consequences.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul: The Real Deal (memoir)
This book was actually quite amazing, even memoirs that were just two pages held much emotion and many were those I could empathize. There were specifically many great poems, especially one called "Being a Friend" by Rosie Olseda that I really thought excelled in expressing friendship. Unlike most of the stories and poems so far, this one actually had some some happiness in it along with the sad like when it said "Life's challenges cause you dismay./The world forgets you./A friend gives you love." Memoirs and personal poems usually hold a certain aspect that is lost in fiction, and that's real character. It's not about always being the good guy or the bad one, and like many of the writers in Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul: The Real Deal, they changed dramatically because of the people in their lives. There were also other great poems that involved romance and heartbreak, like an especially good one titled "I Called You My Best Friend" which is a poem about a girl losing her best friend when he confesses his true feelings to her and she rejects him. It ended with this amazing statement, "I will never know/What you were to me./You made me wonder/What my mind was really thinking,/What my heart wanted to say/When I gave you my hand/And held yours tight." This book really was phenomenal since you got to read about so many different people in life situations and what they learned, this book is more on the romantic, cheesy side, so action-thriller fans might not go for it. I though, give it a 10/10 for the great stories and poems.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Blue Moon by Alyson Noel blog (Fantasy)
Blue Moon's Ever Bloom is yet another heroine to fall into the freshly cliched plot of doomed love. First Twilight, then Vampire Diaries, then Blue Moon and frankly, it never worked even in the beginning. Between burning bridges and attempting suicide, the plot of these novels are way too dramatic for me. While reading this story, I did see that out of any heroine from these fantasy romance novels, Ever was definitely my favorite since she had more archetypes than the rest of them. There did come several problems though, like what was with the fad of leaving everyone for your lover whom you've known for only a month? This whole series is actually fantastic for someone into fantasy, suspense, and romance, but of you're actually looking for some brain food to broaden your knowledge of human nature, then this teen novel will just intensify the sterotype that teenagers only care about burning all bridges with reality to have a dramatic and fantastic romance. Another peeve about this book is that it made the main character the only real one there. Everyone else was so superficial and never really changed, it burned me how Ever just told you their personalities without you even learning yourself. The "popular" girls were rude and promiscious, her only female friend was just as rude, but two faced about it, leading up to why this book is a real "winner". The mysterious bad boy is the only one who understands her. Though romances are growing, they are probably the hardest to pull off, trying to show some real connection without creating a wishy-washy plot dependent on it. I give Blue Moon a 7/10 for it's likeabe heroine, decent storytelling, but horrible character development.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
The Evidence Against Her blog
The Evidence Against Her by Robb Forman Dew is actually quite compatible with those a fan of A Tree Grows In Brooklyn. I originally didn't think I would like it because it was told from the point of view of Lily Scofield, an energetic girl whose "charisma" really rubs me the wrong way after some time. Seeing her being coddled by other people in their point of view really made it hard to find a piece of me in her, but not Agnes Claytor. She was an amazing character, similar to Scout from To Kill A Mockingbird, which is honestly pretty startling seeing as the little blurb on the book's jacket made her seem like some bombshell brat who should be on the Jerry Springer Show. She is such an every girl with her strained relationship with her mother, her deep loneliness with her home and her growing crush on Warren, which is too cute the way she described it. "He took a bite with a somber expression, and the working of his mouth and throat, for nearly a minute on that last Saturday of September in 1917, was the only motion in the world as far as Agnes knew." Another great part of the book was that it didn't just go into the romance of this story, it sent into their character and their life before love so that we didn't have this one sided view of the characters. Lily and Agnes and both two sides of a coin, one a energetic blond loved since birth and the other a quite brunette who never got the love she deserved. This book might look boring at first, but it really gets interesting really fast, so I recommend this book to those who like hearing about life stories, people growing, love, family and life going on through it all.
Monday, April 5, 2010
Blog español (numero cinco)
Hoy estuvo primer dia escuela en Abril. Estuve muy emocionado porque pude ver mi amigos y hablámos. Me despertè a las seis en la mañana y no tuve cansado todovia, pero mientras escuela terminó, tuve muy cansado. Yo me gust mucho la escuela porque yo estuvè me aburrí en mi casa con hacer nada. Yo trabajè en mi tarea por cuarto horas y leí despues. Yo mirè Law and Order:SVU, es un programa polícia y muy bien, yo mirè Tyra Banks Show antes, es muy bien tambien, pero yo estoy terminando mientras miraba y yo no se que paso. Yo comí el almuerzo y veí el sol salió antes yo escribí mi blog. Yo queraba mirar la pelicula Across The Universe, pero no hacè el tiempo. La dia estuve muy dificil pero tuve que trabajar, pero yo estuve muy contento despues.
Aqui una canción en la pelicula
Law and Order: SVU es el mejor!
Yo vi algunas flores, estoy muy algred ahora.
La tarea me hacieron muy cansado, el foto es muy divertido.
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Blog español (numero cuarto)
Hoy estuve domingo Easter y mientras el mundo estan dormiendo, yo tuve que despertar las cuarto y fui a la iglesia a las cinco. Me despedí a las once y media a la noche pesado, yo dormí seis hroas, pero estuve muy emotionado y no tengo cansado. Lo estuvo muy cómico de veras, tenía cansado siempre. Durante el servicio, porque estaba malayalam, yo puedes comprender y trataba escuchar con ellos. Mientras al achen esta hablando, yo leí la biblia y tratè dormirse, porque a las siete en la manana y nadie me molestaron, pero no pudè. Despue el iglesia, nos daron los panqueques de la India, la muy mal para mi. Despues yo mirè televisión y comí algo galletas. A las tres y media, me dormí por cuarto horas, yo tuve muy cansado. Desques, yo ayudè mi padre con encontrando karaoke porque yo cantarè un canción para una boda de mi prima, Ruby. Hoy estuvó un dia devertido. Este is el canción para karaoke y fotos sobre my dia.
Mi ropa Easter, cuididar es mi favorita ropa Indian.
Mientras estoy sentiendo muy bien, yo recordaba el invierno:
http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs15/f/2007/005/4/b/Winter_by_marquis73.jpgYo vi una animale mona! Que lastima yo no tomè un foto!
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