So I've been completely awful about posting. The issue is that my mom has given me an ultimatum--get any more zeroes, don't go to the summer program I want. Screw my lack of motivation, I've got to go this summer! Anyway, now it's a Saturday, and homework is put out of mind until Sunday. Enough about my life, let's get some book reviews going!
I believe I last posted about The House of the Scorpion. Since then, I've finished several books... let's see
Of Mice and Men (school) by John Steinbeck
The Last Universe by William Sleator
The second Percy Jackson book by Rick Riordan (will review when done with series)
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (the second book in The Hunger Games series, which I don't know how to review without spoiling it :- (
Oh! Nearly forgot Cycler by Lauren McLaughlin.
I'm almost done with Kingdom Keepers II by Ridley Pearson.
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Saturday, March 13, 2010
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Lots of Books Read! First up, Airhead!
Well, in the past week or so, I've read quite a few books. I've finished Airhead, The House of the Scorpion, and Cycler. I'm nearly done with William Sleator's The Last Universe.
Anyway, we'll start with Airhead, as I read that first. Airhead, by Meg Cabot, is about a tomboyish girl named Em Watts (short for Emerson), who is forced by her mother to accompany her younger, girlier sister to a store opening. At the opening, she meets singer Gabriel Luna, who is signing CDs. Another worshipped celebrity (by Em's sister and friends) to appear is seventeen-year-old supermodel Nikki Howard. Shortly before Em and her sister reach the table where CDs are being signed, there is a crash. A huge plasma screen falls on Em, crushing her.
After, Em wakes up. Tediously, the book lets her recover. In my opinion, far too many chapters and pages are devoted to this part.
In the hospital, she is visited by Gabriel, and later, Nikki's friends Lulu and Brandon. They kidnap her and bring her to her apartment. When Em returns to the hospital, they finally tell her she can go, but not before explaining her predicament. You see, when Em looked in the mirror, she didn't see herself. She saw Nikki.
At the hospital, a doctor explains to her that at the same time as Em's accident, Nikki had a brain anyeurism, making her brain dead. Em, however, had a functioning brain though her body was destroyed. So her brain was surgically put into Nikki's body.
The problem is, Em Watts can't exist anymore, since the surgery is highly controversial. She's had a funeral, and everyone except the doctors and her immediate family (mother, father, sister) thinks that she's dead. This includes Em's best friend, Christopher, whom she has a crush on. Devastated, Em decides she wants her new life as close to her old life. She enrolls at her old high school, which, of course, because of her "death", has a spot open in her class.
Being a famous supermodel doesn't make it easy for Em to get through school. She's taking her old classes, but people are constantly asking her to autograph things and sit with them at lunch. Her old nemeses, whom Em dislikes, as they're mean girls, even want to befriend her!
The book ends on a little bit of a cliffhanger, so I'm planning on getting the next book, Being Nikki, when it's in paperback (I try not to buy hardcover unless I'm really desperate to read the book). Anyway, I thought it was good. I was a little annoyed at one part, thinking it was going to be a shallow Gossip Girl (okay, I admit I've read that series as well) type thing, but it's more about Em trying to get her old life back and live her life in a body that was the complete opposite of her.
Anyway, we'll start with Airhead, as I read that first. Airhead, by Meg Cabot, is about a tomboyish girl named Em Watts (short for Emerson), who is forced by her mother to accompany her younger, girlier sister to a store opening. At the opening, she meets singer Gabriel Luna, who is signing CDs. Another worshipped celebrity (by Em's sister and friends) to appear is seventeen-year-old supermodel Nikki Howard. Shortly before Em and her sister reach the table where CDs are being signed, there is a crash. A huge plasma screen falls on Em, crushing her.
After, Em wakes up. Tediously, the book lets her recover. In my opinion, far too many chapters and pages are devoted to this part.
In the hospital, she is visited by Gabriel, and later, Nikki's friends Lulu and Brandon. They kidnap her and bring her to her apartment. When Em returns to the hospital, they finally tell her she can go, but not before explaining her predicament. You see, when Em looked in the mirror, she didn't see herself. She saw Nikki.
At the hospital, a doctor explains to her that at the same time as Em's accident, Nikki had a brain anyeurism, making her brain dead. Em, however, had a functioning brain though her body was destroyed. So her brain was surgically put into Nikki's body.
The problem is, Em Watts can't exist anymore, since the surgery is highly controversial. She's had a funeral, and everyone except the doctors and her immediate family (mother, father, sister) thinks that she's dead. This includes Em's best friend, Christopher, whom she has a crush on. Devastated, Em decides she wants her new life as close to her old life. She enrolls at her old high school, which, of course, because of her "death", has a spot open in her class.
Being a famous supermodel doesn't make it easy for Em to get through school. She's taking her old classes, but people are constantly asking her to autograph things and sit with them at lunch. Her old nemeses, whom Em dislikes, as they're mean girls, even want to befriend her!
The book ends on a little bit of a cliffhanger, so I'm planning on getting the next book, Being Nikki, when it's in paperback (I try not to buy hardcover unless I'm really desperate to read the book). Anyway, I thought it was good. I was a little annoyed at one part, thinking it was going to be a shallow Gossip Girl (okay, I admit I've read that series as well) type thing, but it's more about Em trying to get her old life back and live her life in a body that was the complete opposite of her.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Mini Book Reviews 2
Welcome back! Here I'm going to be writing an even longer post with even more books! Hurray!
There were 4 books from the last shelf that I left off. They were Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (companions to the Harry Potter series), another Charlie Bone book, and The Library Card, by Jerry Spinelli. Jerry Spinelli's one of my favorite authors, though his books are mostly children's. If you want to read his books, I'd recommend The Library Card, Maniac Magee, Report to the Principal's Office and Who Put That Hair In My Toothbrush. The latter is one of my all-time favorites, but I believe it's out of print so it may be hard to find.
Okay. Now for the second row of books on that shelf. My mini-reviews'll never end, hahaha!
I've never read Little Women, first off. Okay, next book is just a movie novel type deal. Not really worth mentioning. Next, we have books from The Babysitters' Club. Someday the world will thank me for owning nearly all of these out-of-print books. Or probably not, because they're set in the nineties and not that good anyway. Haha :- )
The BFG is, of course, a Roald Dahl novel. Something I always think of from it is that the BFG (big friendly giant) says that giants don't kill other giants--humans are the only creatures that kill each other. Which isn't true. It's a sweet book.
True Stories is just one of those American Girl books that every American girl reads growing up.
Hatching Magic is about a girl named Theodora. She lives in Boston and is obsessed with dragons. I've never read the whole thing through, but it's okay.
Belle Teal is by the author of the Babysitters' Club series, Ann M. Martin. It's actually a very good book. It's set in the sixties
and revolves around the titular character, Belle Teal. Belle lives in a small, rural town, and a boy named Darrel starts attending her school. This wouldn't be significant, except Darrel is black, and there's a lot of prejudice towards him. At one part in the book, Belle and Darrel go to the school's Halloween party, dressed in head-to-toe costumes. They switch costumes, and people go the night thinking they're each other. It's horrible that they can accept Darrel when they think he's Belle, but not when they see him. Great read.
The last book is an interview with J.K. Rowling, who is, of course, the author of the Harry Potter series. It's okay, but it's not very long.
Okay. From the top, we have a Pokemon book, an Animal Ark book which I don't even think I've read, a Beverly Cleary book, and some Ghostville Elementary books. None of these are worth mentioning.
Then we have Hoot by Carl Hiaasen. We had to read Flush, another one of his books, for school once. His books are basically just about kids helping the environment. They're not as boring as they sound.
The Dive trilogy by Gordon Korman is a great set of books. It revolves around Kaz, Star, Adrianna, and Dante, four young divers called to intern at a research center in the Caribbean. They realize they've been called to look for sunken treasure, and start trying to take matters into their own hands. Very good books, actually.
So from the top, we've got some Babysitters' Club books, a My America book, which I enjoyed a little. The next book is from the Dear America series, which is a little more advanced reading than My America. This particular one is about Pearl Harbor.
Next, we have My Teacher Flunked the Planet, which is the third book in the My Teacher is an Alien series.
The next book is just a summer activity book that I only got because it came with a little, toy-sized beach chair.
These are the books that were on the top shelf, which isn't big and kind of dark. We have an anthology of the first Cirque du Freak books, which I'm going to review when I finish the entire series. There are 9 or 10 books in all.
Then we have An Abundance of Katherines, by John Green. John Green, whose books I've just started reading, is a really good author. An Abundance is about a guy named Colin who is a child prodigy. His friend Hassan convinces him to go on a road trip, where he meets a girl named Lindsey, and starts working for her mother. Colin, despite being a prodigy, has dated twelve girls, all named Katherine. Colin tries to create a formula that can predict how long relationships will last. It's a great book, and one thing I love about it is the footnotes. I love footnotes in fiction books.
Leviathan is the latest book by Scott Westerfeld. It's set in WWI era, except that history's gone a little differently. Instead of the war being Axis Powers against Central Powers, it's Darwinists against Clankers. Darwinists include the British and French, and Darwinists have engineered animals as weapons. The Clankers include the citizens of Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Germany. The book revolves around Alek, the son of the Archduke of Austria-Hungary, and Deryn, a British girl disguised as a boy, trying to serve in the Darwinist army. It's a great book, in a planned trilogy. I believe the next book comes out in the fall.
There's one book I haven't reviewed, but I have it in another photo with its sequel, so I'll get back to The Looking Glass Wars.
Anyway, hope you enjoyed the second set of mini book reviews! More to follow, and let me know if there's anything you'd like me to talk about on here, or my other blog, Musings by Kara.
Keep reading (and commenting, please) and I'll keep writing! If you're reading my blog and I don't know it, please let me know and I'd be happy to follow and read your blog.
There were 4 books from the last shelf that I left off. They were Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (companions to the Harry Potter series), another Charlie Bone book, and The Library Card, by Jerry Spinelli. Jerry Spinelli's one of my favorite authors, though his books are mostly children's. If you want to read his books, I'd recommend The Library Card, Maniac Magee, Report to the Principal's Office and Who Put That Hair In My Toothbrush. The latter is one of my all-time favorites, but I believe it's out of print so it may be hard to find.
Okay. Now for the second row of books on that shelf. My mini-reviews'll never end, hahaha!
The BFG is, of course, a Roald Dahl novel. Something I always think of from it is that the BFG (big friendly giant) says that giants don't kill other giants--humans are the only creatures that kill each other. Which isn't true. It's a sweet book.
True Stories is just one of those American Girl books that every American girl reads growing up.
Hatching Magic is about a girl named Theodora. She lives in Boston and is obsessed with dragons. I've never read the whole thing through, but it's okay.
Belle Teal is by the author of the Babysitters' Club series, Ann M. Martin. It's actually a very good book. It's set in the sixties
and revolves around the titular character, Belle Teal. Belle lives in a small, rural town, and a boy named Darrel starts attending her school. This wouldn't be significant, except Darrel is black, and there's a lot of prejudice towards him. At one part in the book, Belle and Darrel go to the school's Halloween party, dressed in head-to-toe costumes. They switch costumes, and people go the night thinking they're each other. It's horrible that they can accept Darrel when they think he's Belle, but not when they see him. Great read.
The last book is an interview with J.K. Rowling, who is, of course, the author of the Harry Potter series. It's okay, but it's not very long.
Then we have Hoot by Carl Hiaasen. We had to read Flush, another one of his books, for school once. His books are basically just about kids helping the environment. They're not as boring as they sound.
The Dive trilogy by Gordon Korman is a great set of books. It revolves around Kaz, Star, Adrianna, and Dante, four young divers called to intern at a research center in the Caribbean. They realize they've been called to look for sunken treasure, and start trying to take matters into their own hands. Very good books, actually.
Next, we have My Teacher Flunked the Planet, which is the third book in the My Teacher is an Alien series.
The next book is just a summer activity book that I only got because it came with a little, toy-sized beach chair.
Then we have An Abundance of Katherines, by John Green. John Green, whose books I've just started reading, is a really good author. An Abundance is about a guy named Colin who is a child prodigy. His friend Hassan convinces him to go on a road trip, where he meets a girl named Lindsey, and starts working for her mother. Colin, despite being a prodigy, has dated twelve girls, all named Katherine. Colin tries to create a formula that can predict how long relationships will last. It's a great book, and one thing I love about it is the footnotes. I love footnotes in fiction books.
Leviathan is the latest book by Scott Westerfeld. It's set in WWI era, except that history's gone a little differently. Instead of the war being Axis Powers against Central Powers, it's Darwinists against Clankers. Darwinists include the British and French, and Darwinists have engineered animals as weapons. The Clankers include the citizens of Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Germany. The book revolves around Alek, the son of the Archduke of Austria-Hungary, and Deryn, a British girl disguised as a boy, trying to serve in the Darwinist army. It's a great book, in a planned trilogy. I believe the next book comes out in the fall.
There's one book I haven't reviewed, but I have it in another photo with its sequel, so I'll get back to The Looking Glass Wars.
Anyway, hope you enjoyed the second set of mini book reviews! More to follow, and let me know if there's anything you'd like me to talk about on here, or my other blog, Musings by Kara.
Keep reading (and commenting, please) and I'll keep writing! If you're reading my blog and I don't know it, please let me know and I'd be happy to follow and read your blog.
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