We should all be reading independent novels by now. Tell me about yours. Be sure to include Your name, Title, Author, and number of pages read this week. Your entry is due by 19 September.
Jillian : ) Eclipse- Stephanie Meyer Pages 371 to a little after 440
Jacob shows up at Bella's graduation party with Quil and Embry amd Jacob brings her a present. The present is a charm bracelet with a wooden carving of a wolf. When Edward finds out Jacobs there, he confronts them. While talking, they agree that they're both brought together for Bella's sake and that the wolves will help fight in the battle against the new vampires. Edward tells them to meet them at a field, ( I don't remember exactly what he said ) at 3 in the morning to practice how to kill the vampires. The wolves agree. When Edward and Bella arrive, Bella realizes it's the same field where they met James, Laurent, and Victoria for the first time. Then, the wolves show up. But they aren't in there normal form, They show up as wolves. The vampires discovering there are new members of the pack, because there are now ten wolves in front of them. During there second lesson, Edward tries to find out if he can sit out this fight for Bella's sake. Bella had given him two options, She goes with them or he sits out. While the others learn to kill new vampires, Jacob snuggles with Bella and keeps her warm. Edward gets jealous that Jacob can give her presents and he can't, so he gives her a present. ( I'm super sorry, I tried looking everywhere but I can't remember what he gives her).
I think it's wrong that Bella asked Edward to sit out for her sake. He's trying to protect HER and she's just being selfish as always. I did think it was really sweet that Jacob gave her a charm bracelet though. He said he made it because he wanted her to always remember & think of him. I LOVE Jacob.
Renee Twilight - Stephanie Meyer I read up to page 138
Twilight is a really good book (: So far in this novel, a girl named Bella went to go live with her dad in Forks, Washington. She is in high school and she is going to start one in Forks. At lunch Bella notices a table of strange, pale, beautiful children. There are five of them, and they are all a "family". Edward, Emmett, and Alice were all adopted by doctor Cullen. Rosalie and Jasper are blood siblings, but none of the others are. Bella is staring at the Cullens, but no one looks at her, except for Edward. He looks at her in frustration. The next class that Bella had, Edward had too. He sat on the far edge of his seat, as away from Bella as the table would let him. There was no doubt that he was looking at her in pure malice. The next day in school, Edward was strangely nice to here the next day at school. The morning after that, Bella was about to get run over when Edward saved her life. He was standing no where near her, but he got there in time. At the hospital, Bella questioned him about it, which frustrated him very much. The next day at school, he ignored her, but the day after that he was being nice to her again. He told her that he was tired of trying to stay away, even though it was best if he did. Bella's friends invited her to go to the beach with them the next day. When Edward was invited, he didn't say "no" until he heard what beach it was. At the beach, Bella ran into one of her father's friend's son that she used to know. He told her how the Cullens were not aloud to come to the beach any more because they are vampires and broke an oath of friendship. Bella was trying to find out what Edward was... and now she knew he was a vampire.
This book is REALLY good. I started it last night and I'm on page 138, thats how good it is. Anyway... This book is very good at suspense. It makes you want to just read, and read, and read. This novel is a really quick read if you're into it... and its a LOT of a.r. points (:
This series of books is about a kid who lives in a world of Greek gods. Percy is the son of the major god Poseidon In the book the Sea of Monsters, Percy continues his dangerous life as a halfblood. The book starts off with Percy at his boarding school. He meets a big six-foot tall kid named Tyson. at the school, Percy and Tyson get into a Dodge ball fight with Cannibals. Yes, I did say cannibals. After getting nearly killed by cannibals, Percy is saved by his good friend Annabeth. Annabeth rushes them to camp halfblood. Camp halfblood is a camp for halfbloods to keep them safe from monsters. When they get to camp, they discover the tree that keeps them safe has been poisoned. After this discovery, Percy learns that his friend Grover is on that island about to eaten by a cyclops. He also learns that golden fleece is also located on that island, the only force on earth that can save the tree. There is only one problem. The fleece is on an island in the heart of the Bermuda Triangle (The sea of Monsters). On his quest, Percy goes through a lot. He gets attacked by a six headed bird, gets sucked into a whirlpool, loses a friend, gets turned into a guinea pig, and has to fight a cyclops. In the end, of coarse, like most stories written, Percy survives, gets his dead friend back and successfully completes his quest.
I think this was a good book. It had a clear story, had reasonable twists and turns, and kept you on the edge of your seat to the very end. It was a suspenseful book. That is what I like about in a book. To me if a book is not suspenseful, it is boring to read, and a waste of time.
Abiha Vampireville Finished The book is the third in the series Vampire Kisses. It is about a goth girl named Raven and her vampire boyriend, Alexander. They are trying to Raven from the clutched of an evel vampire, Jagger. And thery are trying to save a soccer snob from Jagger's evil twin sister, Luna. Alexander and Jagger's family don't like each other. When they were both in Romania, their familes were the best of friends. When Luna was born, they discovered that she was a mortal unlike her family. The families made a promised that as soon as Luna turned 18, Alexander would bite her on sacred ground so she could be his for eternity and so she could be a vampire. Alexander knew nothing about Luna so he kissed her goodbye and refused to kiss her on her 18th birthday. Then in the second one, Alexander pretend to bite Raven to get Jagger away and in the end they see the soccer snob Trevor with Luna. In the third, Raven tries to do everything to get Trevor away from Luna. One day when he was sick, Raven discoverd that Luna was bringing him protein shakes to his house. Raven then snuck into his house to give him garlic pills and told him that it attracts the girls. He beleived her and took them. One day, Raven got a letter from who she thought was Alexander went to meet him at the place it had said. There she saw Luna. Luna and her started to talk and THey actually became pretty close. Luna told Raven how she bacame a vampire. Raven felt bad for her when she said that she was bit by a friend of Jagger's but after that she never saw him again. Alexander told Raven to stay away from the twins. He thought of an idea that if they found Luna and Jagger's coffins, they could hide them so they would have to move. They found the coffins in Ravens brother's friend's treehouse. They tried to move them, but they were nailed down. When Trevor came back to school, he announced that he was going to have this party on a cemetary (sacred ground) and it will be a make beleive kind of thing and Luna is going to btie him. Even though Raven doesn't get invited, they go to save Trevor. There they discover that Trevor is going as Grim Reaper. Alexander dresses as the Grim Reaper so they switch and he can stop Luna. At the ceremony stops who she thought was Trevor from going in. Soon she discovers that this was all a plan of JAgger and Luna. They purposely got Alex there so Luna could bite him , and Jagger got Raven to bite her. Trevor found out and went to the front where Jagger was now. All three vampires started coughing very badly. She remebered that she had given Trevor garlic pills and he had probably taken some and the rest to his team. Raven remebered that she had given Alex and antidote for his knee if anything like this occurs. He got out the antidote and put it in his knee. Trevor and the rest of the school found out about hte twins. And they went back to Romania. One day at a bbq's Raven's brother friends house. They found out that there was a new kid in town. Who just happened to be Luna and Jagger's little brother Valentine.
I think that it was a cool thing that the author made this whole Luna wanting Trevor thing a trick. I could have never imagined that that was going to happen and that they were going to try to take Alexander and Raven to be their's for eternity!
Andrew Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Pages 0-136
The second book of the Harry Potter series begins where it started last year, at Harry's Aunt and Uncle Dursley;s house. He is treated horribly, as they make him do chores, and feed him as little as possible. They lock him in his room after a very unuall event. Harry is warned by this house elf, that he can not go back to Hogwarts. He refuses, therefore the house elf roins a very important dinner party downstairs for Uncle Dursley. This in turn causes him to get locked inhis room with a grate arounf his windows. But, happily, Ron Weaslet comes to save him in a flying car. hey make their way to the Weasley house and are on there way to the Hogwarts express. However Ron and Harry get stuvk in the train station and must fly the flying car to hogwarts. They get in trouble, but they are o.k. By the time they are back school has begun, Harry and Ron see Harminoe, there other friend. They make there way into all the new classes and one special class though is differnt. The new Dark Arts teacher is the famed Gildroy Lockheart. (But harry does not like him) Harry hears these voices, as he is in detection beacuse of the flying car. He is interested that no one else can hear them, and it is sort of mysterious in Harry's mind why these weird things are happening.
I really like the book so far, because of the little things that make you wonder what is going to happen next. It is also an interesting book in the way that one thing usually leads to another. It is also an intersting thing to see how other characters play a big part in Harry's life and how evil is always around.
In New Moon, Bella Swan is still trying to keep herself occupied from the memory of Edward Cullen, the vampire she fell in love with who left because he thought he was causing her too much pain. She had been spending a lot of time with Jacob Black, a long-time family friend, but lately he had been acting very strange and ignoring her. Jacob was her "sun" he was always in a good mood and made time pass easily and quickly. But now he was spending time with Sam Uley and his "gang." When Bella confronted Jacob to ask him why he was acting so weird, he didn't answer her and just walked away. Later that night, Jacob climbed up a tree and went through Bella's window to apologize to her and told her that he couldn't tell her what was wrong. Instead he told her she had to guess, and she ended up finding out that Jacob was a werewolf, as was Sam and his "gang." Alice Cullen had recent returned because she saw Bella jump off a cliff, which she did, but Alice thought Bella was committing suicide and Edward had found out and was now heading to Italy to convince the Volturi to kill him because he said that if anything ever happened to her, he wouldn't be able to go on without her. Jacob tried to tell Bella not to go, but she didn't listen. Once in Italy, Alice told Bella to run as fast as she could to get to Edward before he stepped out into the sunlight to expose himself as a vampire. He was going to do this because when a vampire steps out into the sun, it reflects off of them and makes rainbows and bright lights. Bella found him in time, but at first he thought they were in heaven together, but he soon realized they were perfectly alive. Edward, Alice and Bella all were led down many halls and tunnels to meet Aro, a very high spirited vampire who knew about Edward and Alice’s special "powers" and knew that Bella was immune to Edwards mind-reading abilities, and tried his and Jane’s powers. Jane had the ability to put someone through agonizing pain, and Edward knew that, so he jumped in front of Bella to protect her, and fell to the ground, trembling in pain, but without making a sound. Then, Jane tried it again, but it didn’t work on Bella, and neither did Aro’s powers. When they left and reunited with the rest of the Cullens, Bella was falling asleep, but tried to stay awake so she wouldn’t miss a thing on her way home, but found her eyes wanting to stay closed whenever she would blink, so she ended up falling asleep after Rosalie, who would normally never make eye contact with her, apologized to her for putting her through all of this.
I am almost done with the book, but I find myself trying to read slower and slower because I don’t want to finish it. The Twilight series are books you would have to read to know if you liked them or not, and once I started reading them, I couldn’t stop. I found myself going through almost half of the book in one day because I would have to pry myself away from it. Bella and Edward have such a strong relationship, and it’s hard not to want to be Bella. Once you start reading the books, your hooked, I sure was.
Velty the austere academy- Lemony Snicket read to 140 something
The Baudelaires have to go to a Academy for school because there is no one left to go to that will be "safe." It was a very bad school that was old and the buildings looked like tomb stones. The school motto was that everyone will die at sometime. The kids had to stay in these little rooms and they had to sleep on hey stacks and there where crabs and mold coming from the walls. The orphans go to the school all week. They have these rules where if you go to the main house you can eat with silverware and if you didn't go to the terrible vice principals 6 hour long violin concert you would have to by him candy. The kids make it through a couple of days of school when they meet these two twins but they are really triplets but there parents and brother died in a fire like the orphans did. The kids become good friends and they help each other. one bad day the kids where sitting and the vice principle came and introduced the new gym teacher. The gym teacher was really Count Olaf. Count Olaf was a man who tried to steal the orphans fortuned and he is the master of disguise. And the orphans new it. He told them to meet him at ht courtyard at the time of the concert so no one is around.
So far i like the book. It is a book that makes you want to keep reading it to see what will happen to the kids. It is a very easy book to read if you like that kind of book. It is a sequel so if you would like to read them. They are easy points to
Alexander Lord of the Flies - William Golding Chapter 1
In the book Lord of the flies kids are stuck on an island with no adults. Ralf, who I believe is the protagonist so far, meats Piggy, a boy who is rather fat. Ralf as soon as he realizes that there are no adults starts to have fun with the freedom. Ralf says, Sucks to you asthma, when Piggy says his Mom wouldn't let him swim because of his asthma. After exploring the island a little longer Ralf and Piggy discover a conch. Piggy tells Ralf to blow in it to get the other kids of the island to come. When Ralf blows the conch other kids come including Jack, the leader of the choir. When all the kids unite they vote on a leader. Jack believes it should be him because he is the oldest. The kids though chose Ralf because he brought them together. Ralf's first decision as leader is to see if they are on an island or not. Ralf chooses to go with Jack and Simon, another choir member to search the island. Piggy is upset with the choice though because he believes he should go simply because he was acquaintances with Ralf first.
So far I do not like the book because I feel that there sould be a little more about what the characters are thinking. I am hoping that in the next chapter you learn more about Piggy. If I feel this book does not improve in the next chapter I will start looking for another book.
blog: Jeremy Sunday's At Tiffany's- James Patterson
Sunday's at Tiffany's is a interesting book. It's about a girl named Jane who has an imaginary friend when she's little. Later in life the imaginary friend actually exists and finds her. So far this is what happens. It starts off with an 8 year old girl named Jane, and an imaginary friend who's name is Michael. They play a game called the Jane and Michael game. Someone pointed to the table and people had to make stuff up about the people sitting there and loser paid for dessert. Her mother is a famous broadway producer. Every sunday night Jane's mother made Jane and Michael go to Tiffany's- (a dimand store) because she loved dimands. Jane's mother had 3 husbands so far. One was a tennis pro. Howard is the current husdband working for Jane's mom lasting two years now. Lots of the time Jane and Michael have to go to St. Regis and talk and have ice cream while her mom talked business. Jane is being yelled at about her weight from her mom and a couple people in the acting business. Jane isn't happy with everyone starting to correct everything she does. Michael always gives Jane tips on life. Like, when people want to change the way she looks Michael says you're fine the way you look and never forget that. After that Jane starts describing what Michael does when she's at school. And that where i left off.
So far this is a great book. I think the idea of an imaginary friend that you had as a little kid comes up to you when your older as a real person is cool.
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Jillian : )
Eclipse- Stephanie Meyer
Pages 371 to a little after 440
Jacob shows up at Bella's graduation party with Quil and Embry amd Jacob brings her a present. The present is a charm bracelet with a wooden carving of a wolf. When Edward finds out Jacobs there, he confronts them. While talking, they agree that they're both brought together for Bella's sake and that the wolves will help fight in the battle against the new vampires. Edward tells them to meet them at a field, ( I don't remember exactly what he said ) at 3 in the morning to practice how to kill the vampires. The wolves agree. When Edward and Bella arrive, Bella realizes it's the same field where they met James, Laurent, and Victoria for the first time. Then, the wolves show up. But they aren't in there normal form, They show up as wolves. The vampires discovering there are new members of the pack, because there are now ten wolves in front of them. During there second lesson, Edward tries to find out if he can sit out this fight for Bella's sake. Bella had given him two options, She goes with them or he sits out. While the others learn to kill new vampires, Jacob snuggles with Bella and keeps her warm. Edward gets jealous that Jacob can give her presents and he can't, so he gives her a present. ( I'm super sorry, I tried looking everywhere but I can't remember what he gives her).
I think it's wrong that Bella asked Edward to sit out for her sake. He's trying to protect HER and she's just being selfish as always. I did think it was really sweet that Jacob gave her a charm bracelet though. He said he made it because he wanted her to always remember & think of him. I LOVE Jacob.
Renee
Twilight - Stephanie Meyer
I read up to page 138
Twilight is a really good book (: So far in this novel, a girl named Bella went to go live with her dad in Forks, Washington. She is in high school and she is going to start one in Forks. At lunch Bella notices a table of strange, pale, beautiful children. There are five of them, and they are all a "family". Edward, Emmett, and Alice were all adopted by doctor Cullen. Rosalie and Jasper are blood siblings, but none of the others are. Bella is staring at the Cullens, but no one looks at her, except for Edward. He looks at her in frustration. The next class that Bella had, Edward had too. He sat on the far edge of his seat, as away from Bella as the table would let him. There was no doubt that he was looking at her in pure malice. The next day in school, Edward was strangely nice to here the next day at school. The morning after that, Bella was about to get run over when Edward saved her life. He was standing no where near her, but he got there in time. At the hospital, Bella questioned him about it, which frustrated him very much. The next day at school, he ignored her, but the day after that he was being nice to her again. He told her that he was tired of trying to stay away, even though it was best if he did. Bella's friends invited her to go to the beach with them the next day. When Edward was invited, he didn't say "no" until he heard what beach it was. At the beach, Bella ran into one of her father's friend's son that she used to know. He told her how the Cullens were not aloud to come to the beach any more because they are vampires and broke an oath of friendship. Bella was trying to find out what Edward was... and now she knew he was a vampire.
This book is REALLY good. I started it last night and I'm on page 138, thats how good it is. Anyway... This book is very good at suspense. It makes you want to just read, and read, and read. This novel is a really quick read if you're into it... and its a LOT of a.r. points (:
Rahi
Sea of Monsters- finished
This series of books is about a kid who lives in a world of Greek gods. Percy is the son of the major god Poseidon In the book the Sea of Monsters, Percy continues his dangerous life as a halfblood. The book starts off with Percy at his boarding school. He meets a big six-foot tall kid named Tyson. at the school, Percy and Tyson get into a Dodge ball fight with Cannibals. Yes, I did say cannibals. After getting nearly killed by cannibals, Percy is saved by his good friend Annabeth. Annabeth rushes them to camp halfblood. Camp halfblood is a camp for halfbloods to keep them safe from monsters. When they get to camp, they discover the tree that keeps them safe has been poisoned. After this discovery, Percy learns that his friend Grover is on that island about to eaten by a cyclops. He also learns that golden fleece is also located on that island, the only force on earth that can save the tree. There is only one problem. The fleece is on an island in the heart of the Bermuda Triangle (The sea of Monsters). On his quest, Percy goes through a lot. He gets attacked by a six headed bird, gets sucked into a whirlpool, loses a friend, gets turned into a guinea pig, and has to fight a cyclops. In the end, of coarse, like most stories written, Percy survives, gets his dead friend back and successfully completes his quest.
I think this was a good book. It had a clear story, had reasonable twists and turns, and kept you on the edge of your seat to the very end. It was a suspenseful book. That is what I like about in a book. To me if a book is not suspenseful, it is boring to read, and a waste of time.
Abiha
Vampireville
Finished
The book is the third in the series Vampire Kisses. It is about a goth girl named Raven and her vampire boyriend, Alexander. They are trying to Raven from the clutched of an evel vampire, Jagger. And thery are trying to save a soccer snob from Jagger's evil twin sister, Luna. Alexander and Jagger's family don't like each other. When they were both in Romania, their familes were the best of friends. When Luna was born, they discovered that she was a mortal unlike her family. The families made a promised that as soon as Luna turned 18, Alexander would bite her on sacred ground so she could be his for eternity and so she could be a vampire. Alexander knew nothing about Luna so he kissed her goodbye and refused to kiss her on her 18th birthday. Then in the second one, Alexander pretend to bite Raven to get Jagger away and in the end they see the soccer snob Trevor with Luna. In the third, Raven tries to do everything to get Trevor away from Luna. One day when he was sick, Raven discoverd that Luna was bringing him protein shakes to his house. Raven then snuck into his house to give him garlic pills and told him that it attracts the girls. He beleived her and took them. One day, Raven got a letter from who she thought was Alexander went to meet him at the place it had said. There she saw Luna. Luna and her started to talk and THey actually became pretty close. Luna told Raven how she bacame a vampire. Raven felt bad for her when she said that she was bit by a friend of Jagger's but after that she never saw him again. Alexander told Raven to stay away from the twins. He thought of an idea that if they found Luna and Jagger's coffins, they could hide them so they would have to move. They found the coffins in Ravens brother's friend's treehouse. They tried to move them, but they were nailed down. When Trevor came back to school, he announced that he was going to have this party on a cemetary (sacred ground) and it will be a make beleive kind of thing and Luna is going to btie him. Even though Raven doesn't get invited, they go to save Trevor. There they discover that Trevor is going as Grim Reaper. Alexander dresses as the Grim Reaper so they switch and he can stop Luna. At the ceremony stops who she thought was Trevor from going in. Soon she discovers that this was all a plan of JAgger and Luna. They purposely got Alex there so Luna could bite him , and Jagger got Raven to bite her. Trevor found out and went to the front where Jagger was now. All three vampires started coughing very badly. She remebered that she had given Trevor garlic pills and he had probably taken some and the rest to his team. Raven remebered that she had given Alex and antidote for his knee if anything like this occurs. He got out the antidote and put it in his knee. Trevor and the rest of the school found out about hte twins. And they went back to Romania. One day at a bbq's Raven's brother friends house. They found out that there was a new kid in town. Who just happened to be Luna and Jagger's little brother Valentine.
I think that it was a cool thing that the author made this whole Luna wanting Trevor thing a trick. I could have never imagined that that was going to happen and that they were going to try to take Alexander and Raven to be their's for eternity!
Andrew
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Pages 0-136
The second book of the Harry Potter series begins where it started last year, at Harry's Aunt and Uncle Dursley;s house. He is treated horribly, as they make him do chores, and feed him as little as possible. They lock him in his room after a very unuall event. Harry is warned by this house elf, that he can not go back to Hogwarts. He refuses, therefore the house elf roins a very important dinner party downstairs for Uncle Dursley. This in turn causes him to get locked inhis room with a grate arounf his windows. But, happily, Ron Weaslet comes to save him in a flying car. hey make their way to the Weasley house and are on there way to the Hogwarts express. However Ron and Harry get stuvk in the train station and must fly the flying car to hogwarts. They get in trouble, but they are o.k. By the time they are back school has begun, Harry and Ron see Harminoe, there other friend. They make there way into all the new classes and one special class though is differnt. The new Dark Arts teacher is the famed Gildroy Lockheart. (But harry does not like him) Harry hears these voices, as he is in detection beacuse of the flying car. He is interested that no one else can hear them, and it is sort of mysterious in Harry's mind why these weird things are happening.
I really like the book so far, because of the little things that make you wonder what is going to happen next. It is also an interesting book in the way that one thing usually leads to another. It is also an intersting thing to see how other characters play a big part in Harry's life and how evil is always around.
Kristen
New Moon
200-483
In New Moon, Bella Swan is still trying to keep herself occupied from the memory of Edward Cullen, the vampire she fell in love with who left because he thought he was causing her too much pain. She had been spending a lot of time with Jacob Black, a long-time family friend, but lately he had been acting very strange and ignoring her. Jacob was her "sun" he was always in a good mood and made time pass easily and quickly. But now he was spending time with Sam Uley and his "gang." When Bella confronted Jacob to ask him why he was acting so weird, he didn't answer her and just walked away. Later that night, Jacob climbed up a tree and went through Bella's window to apologize to her and told her that he couldn't tell her what was wrong. Instead he told her she had to guess, and she ended up finding out that Jacob was a werewolf, as was Sam and his "gang." Alice Cullen had recent returned because she saw Bella jump off a cliff, which she did, but Alice thought Bella was committing suicide and Edward had found out and was now heading to Italy to convince the Volturi to kill him because he said that if anything ever happened to her, he wouldn't be able to go on without her. Jacob tried to tell Bella not to go, but she didn't listen. Once in Italy, Alice told Bella to run as fast as she could to get to Edward before he stepped out into the sunlight to expose himself as a vampire. He was going to do this because when a vampire steps out into the sun, it reflects off of them and makes rainbows and bright lights. Bella found him in time, but at first he thought they were in heaven together, but he soon realized they were perfectly alive. Edward, Alice and Bella all were led down many halls and tunnels to meet Aro, a very high spirited vampire who knew about Edward and Alice’s special "powers" and knew that Bella was immune to Edwards mind-reading abilities, and tried his and Jane’s powers. Jane had the ability to put someone through agonizing pain, and Edward knew that, so he jumped in front of Bella to protect her, and fell to the ground, trembling in pain, but without making a sound. Then, Jane tried it again, but it didn’t work on Bella, and neither did Aro’s powers. When they left and reunited with the rest of the Cullens, Bella was falling asleep, but tried to stay awake so she wouldn’t miss a thing on her way home, but found her eyes wanting to stay closed whenever she would blink, so she ended up falling asleep after Rosalie, who would normally never make eye contact with her, apologized to her for putting her through all of this.
I am almost done with the book, but I find myself trying to read slower and slower because I don’t want to finish it. The Twilight series are books you would have to read to know if you liked them or not, and once I started reading them, I couldn’t stop. I found myself going through almost half of the book in one day because I would have to pry myself away from it. Bella and Edward have such a strong relationship, and it’s hard not to want to be Bella. Once you start reading the books, your hooked, I sure was.
Velty
the austere academy- Lemony Snicket
read to 140 something
The Baudelaires have to go to a Academy for school because there is no one left to go to that will be "safe." It was a very bad school that was old and the buildings looked like tomb stones. The school motto was that everyone will die at sometime. The kids had to stay in these little rooms and they had to sleep on hey stacks and there where crabs and mold coming from the walls. The orphans go to the school all week. They have these rules where if you go to the main house you can eat with silverware and if you didn't go to the terrible vice principals 6 hour long violin concert you would have to by him candy. The kids make it through a couple of days of school when they meet these two twins but they are really triplets but there parents and brother died in a fire like the orphans did. The kids become good friends and they help each other. one bad day the kids where sitting and the vice principle came and introduced the new gym teacher. The gym teacher was really Count Olaf. Count Olaf was a man who tried to steal the orphans fortuned and he is the master of disguise. And the orphans new it. He told them to meet him at ht courtyard at the time of the concert so no one is around.
So far i like the book. It is a book that makes you want to keep reading it to see what will happen to the kids. It is a very easy book to read if you like that kind of book. It is a sequel so if you would like to read them. They are easy points to
Alexander
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Chapter 1
In the book Lord of the flies kids are stuck on an island with no adults. Ralf, who I believe is the protagonist so far, meats Piggy, a boy who is rather fat. Ralf as soon as he realizes that there are no adults starts to have fun with the freedom. Ralf says, Sucks to you asthma, when Piggy says his Mom wouldn't let him swim because of his asthma. After exploring the island a little longer Ralf and Piggy discover a conch. Piggy tells Ralf to blow in it to get the other kids of the island to come. When Ralf blows the conch other kids come including Jack, the leader of the choir. When all the kids unite they vote on a leader. Jack believes it should be him because he is the oldest. The kids though chose Ralf because he brought them together. Ralf's first decision as leader is to see if they are on an island or not. Ralf chooses to go with Jack and Simon, another choir member to search the island. Piggy is upset with the choice though because he believes he should go simply because he was acquaintances with Ralf first.
So far I do not like the book because I feel that there sould be a little more about what the characters are thinking. I am hoping that in the next chapter you learn more about Piggy. If I feel this book does not improve in the next chapter I will start looking for another book.
blog: Jeremy
Sunday's At Tiffany's- James Patterson
Sunday's at Tiffany's is a interesting book. It's about a girl named Jane who has an imaginary friend when she's little. Later in life the imaginary friend actually exists and finds her. So far this is what happens. It starts off with an 8 year old girl named Jane, and an imaginary friend who's name is Michael. They play a game called the Jane and Michael game. Someone pointed to the table and people had to make stuff up about the people sitting there and loser paid for dessert. Her mother is a famous broadway producer. Every sunday night Jane's mother made Jane and Michael go to Tiffany's- (a dimand store) because she loved dimands. Jane's mother had 3 husbands so far. One was a tennis pro. Howard is the current husdband working for Jane's mom lasting two years now. Lots of the time Jane and Michael have to go to St. Regis and talk and have ice cream while her mom talked business. Jane is being yelled at about her weight from her mom and a couple people in the acting business. Jane isn't happy with everyone starting to correct everything she does. Michael always gives Jane tips on life. Like, when people want to change the way she looks Michael says you're fine the way you look and never forget that. After that Jane starts describing what Michael does when she's at school. And that where i left off.
So far this is a great book. I think the idea of an imaginary friend that you had as a little kid comes up to you when your older as a real person is cool.
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