Thursday, January 15, 2009

The Five People You Meet in Heaven


Author: Mitch Albom


Pages: 203


Rating:10/10


Date finished: January 13, 09


Date started: January 11, 09


Comment: a book that shows a differnt side of what heaven could be like.


Monday, December 15, 2008

A Million Little Pieces


Author: James Frey


Genre: Fiction/ Bibliography


Rating: 9/10


Date finished: November 13, 08


Pages: 600+

Dark Sun

Author: Robert Muchamore
Genre: Realistic fiction/ action
Pages: 100+
Rating: 8/10
Date finished: 16 Dec, 08

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Skellig


Author: David Almond

Genre: realistic fiction


Pages: 182

Rating: 8/10

Comment: Set in northern england, this storry is about a young 10-year old boy named micheal, Mina (his friend/ neighbor), His premature born sister and a man named skellig

Among the Brave


Author: Margaret Haddix

Genre: realisitc fiction


Pages: 240 pages

Rating: 9/10

Comments: Among the brave is the final book of the series of "Among the hidden." the book has many realistic problems that could happen anytime on this earth. i think the series was very good and interseting and i recomend that you read it.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

The Host


Author: Stephine Meyer


Pages: 617


Rating: 9/10

Story: THe host is a story about how a certain alien species who can inhabit bodies of other spieces, take over the earth. the Main character (wanderer) inhabits the body of a woman named melaine who still can control half of the body. Wanderer takes on the bodies personal desire and is stuck inbetween two different decisions that could lead to life or death.

Comments: The Host is a very intersesting book after you get past the beginning. Although the beginning is a little slow to start, you should continue on with it.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Papillion Extended Reading #2

Papillon
Henri CharriƩre
Jonathan Beech

Just settled into a new town with a house and a woman Henri decides to run away, again. If you were Henri would you have been able to bring yourself to run away from those who treated you so kindly from the very beginning? Just running away with no real explanation after living with them for months? In the book Papillon this may have been one of Henri’s more difficult decisions to make. Henri had done this once, he had two wives and a good life in an Indian tribe, yet he chose to run away, now he does the same.

I wouldn’t have been able to bring myself to run away again as I don’t know if I would have life as good as I had or be thrown back into prison.
Henri had been living in Georgetown for a little less than a year. During his time he had pretty much settled down other than the fact that he had to keep changing his business. Although he loved his “wife” and his friends in the town, Henri ran away because it was rather hard to earn a living as well as the fact that the chances of business were growing thin. Henri knew about the war going on and that he wouldn’t be allowed to leave so he and 3 friends pretend to be a worker on a fishing boat to run away. In a way Henri was willing to sacrifice his own freedom to earn a better living for a better life.

If I had been in the position Henri was in I don’t think I would have even tried to escape. 1st of all I’m not brave enough to try to mess around with the law especially if leaving the British Guiana is a serious crime and to top it off they were in war. Even so if I was earning an extremely low wage leaving the country wouldn’t be an option for me. I think that because Henri is so courageous and willing to fight for what he wants is the reason the book is so interesting.