Invisvisible man

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

Shelby

AHH! Invisible Man even in the summer, school haunts me. facking dictates everything I read.

Invisible Man is the story of a guy who realizes he doesn't really exist. He's like, i'm invisible. I still don't get it.

He lives in the 1930s. He is a college student and he's driving around one of the white trustees of the college. But he takes him too far into the boondocks and shows him things he's not supposed to show him. So the dean of the college, Bledsoe, punishes him and sends him up north to "work for some money so you can come back in the fall." The protagonist thinks he's got all these letters of reccomendation for jobs up in New York. But, alas, they are letters of "sorry you had this guy in your office and just fill him up with hope and ignore him or something" so one of the offices tells him what's really up. So he tries to find work on his own. He gets in a paint factory accident and when he wakes up he can't even remember his name. Then someone reads it off his application or something and he's like "oh yeah, sure that's it."
So then he starts living as a tenant with this lady who's too nice to let him stay there. Then he's walking along, eating some yams, and he sees these old folks getting evicted. and he stirs up the crowd around them with a speech and they start a riot or something. then he gets recruited into the Brotherhood, which is a glorified cult, in my opinion. just ready to corrupt the corrupted community. an there's this jamaican guy on a horse wearing a lion skin.

it's just crazy.

I don't know WHO he is, or WHY he's invisible. But the book's mostly about him developing himself and race relations.

it's weird. and long. but really good, i thought.

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The Fattening Hut

Pat Lowery Collins

Review By Sasha

This is a really good book if you want to read about a tribe that fattens up thir women, circumsize them, then marry them off to old people, then one girl decides she doesnt want to to do that, and runs away. :)

I'll add the amazon link later. *I'm off to canda*

Arabian Nights

Kathryn Wesley

Review By Sasha

This is the book about the Sultan who dicided to marry a woman and then kill her the next day. The woman he married knew him as a child and wants to change him. She wants to prove that he is not a madman. To keep him from killing her, she tells him stories that she makes up.

I think this is a good book. If you dont feel like reading it than watch the movie. It was a televsion "event" on ABC but came out as a Hallmark Movie. I should get it from the library..Good book though.

Nothing to lose

By Alex Flinn

Review By Sasha

This well written book is about a teenage boy who runs away from an abusive family. His rich stepfather constantly beats the boys mother. Now his mother is on trial for killing her husband. Micheal (the boy) finds himself back in his hometown and has to decide if he sould come out of hiding to save his mother or to keep running.

I liked this book. It is a bit predictable but it's easy to read and is fairly enjoyable.

Green Angel

Alice Hoffman

Review By Sasha

This book is about a girl who lives near a city that gets practically destroyed. Her family Just happens to be there when it happens. In this book, Green has to learn to live without them and to find herself.

This book is easy to reas. It is very short. I has able to finish it in 1 or two hours one night before i went to sleep. I reccomend this book to those who like quick reads.

Pride and Prejudice

By Jane Austen

Review by Shelby

Once again I am glad for projects because I would NEVER have read this book if I didn't have to. I LOVE THIS BOOK.

This is a just a summary and I tell ALL so yeah. So don't read it all if you don't wanna spoiler.

Have you seen one of those Emma Thompson movies? Where's she's frolicking through a field in a ginormous sundress with her sister and they happen upon Mr. Embersonley or whatever his name may be, and her sister runs off to "pick flowers" or something while she's really listening to Emma and Mr. Pickingderandy have a battle of tongues (no not making out, being playfully witty to each other--flirting). Normally this
flirting outrages the two participants, but this makes them fall in love with each other.

So that's the basic whatsit (premise or whatever) for Pride and Prejudice. Elizabeth Bennet, the best girl main character of all time comes from a middle-class family, with a mother who cares more about the pearls and frills and lace of her daughter's wedding dress than how happy she is standing in it.
And her dad, although he is wonderfully sarcastic and funny, doesn't really care at all, and thinks most of his daugters and his wife are silly. Anyway the gorgeous (and rich) Mr. Darcy comes to the Longerfield or Longaburn or... wherever they live with his friend Mr. Bingley and he is a super snob to everyone. But then Lizzy's sister Jane goes over to Mr. Bingley's house and gets sick along the way. So Lizzy, because she loves her dear sister, walks all the way to the house in her dress and gets all muddy and stuff. She stays there until Janie gets better. Mr. Darcy is of course there, being sophisticated. Elizabeth is quite "civil" with him, and she begins to like him, although he is very proud, and she is very prejudiced against him. Also Miss Bingley, Mr. Bingley's unwed sister, is a complete prat and she throws herself at Mr. Darcy (whose first name is Fitzwilliam and God bless Lizzy for still liking him after that) and tries to make Elizabeth look bad (which is impossible) in a most unnatractive way.

I really could go on forever. I think I will.

Anyway so there's this guy called Wickham, and he comes to their village thing. Elizabeth really likes him (like a good friend, she doesn't quite like him like him, to put it in layman's (4th grade) terms) because he's all "Yeah Darcy's mean and his dad was cool but Darcy took all my inheritance and whatever.

When Elizabeth goes back to Netherfield (i forget why) Mr. Darcy has already fallen in love with her and he proposes but he's all like "I don't care if you're poor and if I'm way out of your league, I still love you and I will stoop to your level so we can be together!" and Lizzy does NOT take that crap. So Mr. Darcy writes her a letter and he's all sorry, and Mr. Wickham is not all he seems.

Elizabeth goes on a summer trip with her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner, who are very nice and mature, unlike her own parents. She goes to Pemberly, Mr. Darcy's property. Did I say he was rich? Sprawling, i think, is the word for his place. "Neither formal nor falsely adorned" is how J.A. describes it, whatever that means. It's huge and gorgeous and whatever. They visit there and the head housekeeper gives them a tour, (even though Mr. Darcy is not home, i don't know how THAT happen, such security in those days. "yeah, the master i'n't in, but let's have a round-about shall we?" Let's give it a go. Have at it." Anyway, Elizabeth is not worried, because she thinks he will not be home for some time, but the next day, Oh Hello Darcy well hello Darcy. And even though they don't get to talk much, he sees how gentlemanly he is, and she begins to really really like him.

Even though she knows about him from Darcy's letter, when Mr. Wickham runs away with her youngest sister (Lydia, 16) she is completely knowledgeable that he is a capital-C Creep. He usually is a gold-digger guy, but he Did run away with the young and silly Lydia. Who knows what base they could've gotten on but tongues would have wagged and the Bennet's reputation would be ruined. SO Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth's tres cool uncle intervene and they make them get married (but they end up poor and unhappy but oh well).

Near the end, Mr. Darcy, comes to longerfield (or whatever) with Mr. Bingley. (And the reader is like, where the bleep is DARCY!?!? IT'S ALMOST THE END THIS BOOK BETTER END HAPPY!) So yeah, he comes. Mr. Bingley has not seen Jane for like a billion years, and they whisper a lot and get married. Then FINALLY. Lizzy and Darcy take a walk in the woods, and oh my it's so cathartic, and THEY finally get married.

OH oh. such a nice book. Sorry I gave it all away.

*(#*$(@#*&$(@*#&$ (#*@&$(#*$&@$# OKAY SPOILER OVER HAHA

In late September this year a movie is going to be released in the USA!!! (after in the UK and others... there were other movies before but WHO CARES this one's knew)

Keira Knightley is playing Elizabeth Bennet!!

KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

omg how perfect! She's ALMOST as pretty as Lizzy is (KK is quite pretty but Lizzy is probably beautiful like a Greek Goddess. And the guy playing Mr. Darcy, although not horrible looking, is nowhere near as handsome as Mr. Darcy really is (Hermes-Handsome; as attractive as Apollo and Ares put together.). And Rosamund Pike or whatever her name is who will play Jane is pretty too.

I can't see anyone else though. who cares who cares!

RIGHT I'M DONE I'M GOING TO DO MY REAL HOMEWORK NOW. CIAO.

The Stranger

The Stranger

By Albert Camus

Review by Shelby

Before you read this, you need to know that Albert Camus was an existentialist. An existentitalist does not care that they got killed in a car (Camus got killed in a car) because they are not aware that life is completely and utterly fabulous and beautiful. We read a packet thing on Albert Camus and his picture in there and I must say, he looked rather dashing and mysterious even though he seemed short.


The Stranger is about this guy named Mersault, who is unaware that his life is fabulous. His mom just died, and he doesn't care, because "everyone dies". He's in this fabulous relationship with Marie (who is obviously pretty because she wants to marry him and Mersault is hot (trust me he is) and that adds to his life being fabulous and it gives a greater disappointment that he doesn't know it). But anyway I think Marie is cool because she's a nice girl but she eventually gives up on Meursault and realizes he won't really love her. Yeah, she visits him and jail and writes him some, but then she's like, You don't even miss me? Well to 'ell with you then.

This guy's DOG runs away/dies and the guy cares more about his dog than Mersault cares about his mom.

Anyway, Mersault was walking on the sunny Algerian coast, probably looking fabulous in whatever bathing suits early-mid-1900s men wore, and because the sun gets in his eyes he shoots this Arab guy. And he's not even sorry, it just happened, it was because of the sun.

The Stranger is a book worth reading because it gives you a not-so-normal point of view. The book is told first-person, through the eyes of Mersault. So you think his life is normal, but really, if the book's narrator was a third-person omniscient one, you would see that it's Drama DORAMA all around. I love Meursault still though. Because he is fabulously nonchalant even though that makes him an unfeeling "monster".

If you ever read this and (God forbid) have to write an essay about it, two symbols in the book are the Sun and heat(DER) and groups of people judging Meursault (His mom's friend at her vigil and the jury). Also the old guy serves as a grief-foil for Meursault or something like that. That wouldn't help you, but the essay questions we actually got came straight off of SparkNotes. The internet is corrupting even the most traditional teachers!

Or Give Me Death

By Ann Rinaldi

Review By Sasha

This is most likely not the first book I have on here written by Rinaldi. This book is one in the Great Episodes series which is a collection of books written by different authors about things that happened in the past. This isnt my favorite book because once I feel sympaty for a character, i hate it when bad thing (or words) happen to them. It's an okay book. More for people who are into Stuff from the past. The book is the story of Patrick Henry's family. The guy that said "Give me liberty, or give me death." I finished the book, but only because I had nothing better to do. Literally i was sitting in class with this book and we had free periods.

Another thing is that i began reading this book before. I remember the first few pages and i stopped reading it. Ha.

The secret Under my skin

by Janet McNaughton

Review By Sasha

This well written book is about a future ere people sleep during the day and work during the night becuse the environment has become so harsh. This book follows an orphan girl Blay as she works in a camp and gets a chance to change her life and discover her past.

This book actually concluded it's self so while you want more at the end of it, you knows that thats all there is and arent upset about it. This is a cant put down book. A must read. If you like future you'll LOVE this.
Buy it!

BRAVE NEW WORLD-Character Anaylysis

BRAVE NEW WORLD

Character Analysis

Review by Shelby

Ha. Since Sasha beat me to it, I'll do a character analysis:


Bernard Marx: At first I liked Bernard because I thought he was going to be the rebel, the guy who changes everything. WRONG. He is, in the first part of the novel, the main character. Bernard is insecure, and he knows he is different and always feels alone. He is a specialist of hypnopaedia, sleep-teaching, so he knows how people are conditioned to think certain things, like their caste pride, and "a gramme is better than a damn" etc. But even though Bernard sees these things, he does not see the big picture. He likes the society and even though he's different, and doesn't really want to be his own person. He wants to blend in, be a somebody. In the end of the novel, Marx proves to be a coward...

Lenina Crowne: Ah! The Impudent Strumpet. Lenina is so funny. She's like... She's the femme fatale of Brave New World... Well maybe... she doesn't die... I guess she's the token hot babe or whatever. In the book they think she's pretty (pneumatic, is the word characters use, but chairs are also described as pneumatic.) So i guess "comfortable" or "pneumatic" is the new "hot" in A.F. whatever year they're in. She's the quintessential Brave New English girl. She takes her contraceptives, has had many of the local guys, and enjoys flying, soma, feelies, and Electromagnetic golf. She is horrified by the 'Savages' when she visits their reservation with Bernard. But, Lenina also has her share of aberrations. Sometimes, she is not promiscuous enough. *rolls eyes* She, according to her friend Fanny, goes out with Henry Foster too much. Also, she pursues both Marx and John a bit zealously. Lenina's Ok i guess. This is a very sad analysis...

Hemholtz Watson: Not as important as other characters, but Hemholtz Watson is a real thinker. He was an Alpha Plus, or Alpha double Plus, or something... People thought he was way too smart. He's a writer, he writes slogans for the society. He teaches his students to write "piercingly". He himself wants to write "piercingly," but he knows that he can't when he's just writing about soma, and new scientific breakthroughs, and crap like that. He doesn't even know what he can write about... When he writes about loneliess there is an uproar. But, even Hemholtz Watson is well-conditioned. When John shows him Romeo and Juliet, Watson laughs at them, not believing that they can feel so strongly. But, even though he disappoints in this respect, Hemholtz proves to be a stand-up guy in the end.

Mustapha Mond: The world controller. He's a great villain. He disputes freedom and... well he's not boring but I don't really wanna write about him.

John (The Savage): AH! My favorite. Even though I was totally pissed at him in the end. Ahhh. John, the disgrace of the society. He's someone's SON. (No one has families in BNW. NO ONE. They're like... a family!!?!??! *shudder*) John grew up with the Native Americans in the reserve, but he was shunned there because he was not Native American. He is like Bernard Marx, He wanted to fit in. John knows about Shakespeare, families, and God. He even knows about love; he falls in love with Lenina (and then he is QUITE disappointed with her... but still can't let her go). Like Lenina, when he is taken out of his niche, he is dismayed by what he finds. He hates the Brave New World, and HE actually tries to change it... tries to start something new.

But even John, for how much I love him, is not flawless. John shows that the Old World, supposedly the opposite of the BNW, is not really the opposite. Just like people are in BNW, John is conditioned. It might not be with hypnopaedia, or shock therapy, but John grew up being taught morals, and what is right, and even by his mother, that the civilisation in London was a great one. John, at the end (Sorry, but a spoiler) is always punishing himself, because he believes he is behaving immorally. He just gives up on the BNW.

BUT! John is very instrumental in the message of Brave New World. Aldous Huxley lived through World War Two, when people were very scared of totalitarian societies, (like Hitler's, Stalin's, and kinda Mussolini's). Brave New World is an anti-utopian novel. Since John doesn't defeat the society (it defeats him) it scares people more away from utopias. The people of "Brave New" London become like animals... it really was scary!

Brave New World

By Aldous Huxley

Review By Sasha


Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a book about what he believes the future could become. It is about a utopia where no one ever goes hungry, there are no wars, and no one is ever alone. One of the main characters that the book follows is Bernard Marx. He is an exception to the other people in the society. He doesn’t quite agree with everything that goes on in the society. Also, he is more private and look different physically. With Marx, the author is able to show us the good and bad points of the society. It is a very interesting book but you have to keep a very open mind to read it because the people in the books’ society are very different from the people in ours.

This book seems to be aimed at people who like to read about future and science fiction. I think it is a good book to read. People should read this book because it can be related to issues people are having now. Compared to when the book was written and now, we are closer to the “utopia” that Huxley writes about. Brave New World is like a more dramatic form of our actual future, which I think makes it all the more interesting. The book is well written and the characters are realistic. I would recommend this book to people interested in reading about possible futures or simply someone who wants to read about something new. This book is unlike any other.

The Red Queen

The Red Queen

By Margaret Drabble

Review by Shelby

AHHA. okay I read a grown-up book everyone. The Red Queen is about two ladies whose lives are paralleled. Their lives are pretty much the same. The first one is Lady Hong, of 1800s Korea. She is married when she's ten years old to Prince Sado, who's crazy. Also, her first child dies in infancy. Well, we don't know he's crazy until he grows up but ANYWAY. Prince Sado's father, King Yongjon (or something, i forget their names) is really mean to him all the time, and doesn't really want him to become king. Anyway, she outlives basically everyone and tells her story in the first part, as a ghost. In the second part is Dr. Barbara Haliwell, an English woman. Her husband, Peter, is crazy too. And his dad thinks he's better than everyone, AND she had a kid that died too (she named him Benedict, so it serves her right). She is going to Korea for some scholar's convention. On the flight she reads Lady Hong's memoirs, and Lady Hong haunts her as a ghost (although she doesn't know it) and wants Babs to spread her story around. Anyway, in Korea, Babs makes friends with this Korean Dr, Doctor Oo, and makes better friends with a Dr. Jan van Jost. Anyway. They have an affair and... well I suppose I SHOULDN'T give away everything.

Anyway, this was a really good book. I learned lots of new words. And I promptly forgot them. :D

Lirael

Lirael

By Garth Nix

Review by Sasha

This is the rivitting sequal to Sabriel. I wonder what the exact definition for riviting is and if i spelled it right. Anyway, its about this old kingdom with magic and the people who bring the dead back to life, or but the dead back into death. This book is about Sameth, sabriel's son, and about Lirael, the Daughter of the Clayr. Thsi book is the second book of the abhorsen trilogy. Read it read it read it. I give it 5 stars and as many thumbs up as i have (thats 2). I garantee that if you are into fantasy then you will find to trilogy better than this.

Sabriel

Sabriel

by garth nix

review by sasha

This is an awsome fantasy book about a girl who must tavel to the old kingdom to save her father.
Read this book. It is a great book. I will soom post my equally short reviews about the sequals to Sabriel

Chobits

Chobits

by clamp

review by Sasha

wow it looks like i spelled chobits wrong...*fixes* Well, this is a review for the rest of the series. It is a very good series that unlocks the mysteries surrounding chi. with a mimi series inside of it. Because there is this book that chi reads. good good series. read it

Under the wolf, under the dog

Under the wolf, under the dog

Adam Rapp

by Sasha

This is a really good book. It is about a boy who is at some sort of bad kids camp or something of that sort. His mom is dead and his brother killed himslef and all these people pee everywhere. But its a good book. The life of a kid with one parent, a dead brother and people who do drugs. They also mention the origional sims game, which makes it an even better book. I liked it and i hope you will too.

Chobits

Chobits

By Clamp

Review by Sasha

This is volume 2 of 8 in the series of chobbits (volume 1 reviewed below). In this volume, we find out a little about Chi's mysterious past. This volume makes you HAVE to know all the details of her past. The first volume was in introduction and this volume is like...all the questuons that you'll want answered by volume 8.

Stuck in neutral

Stuck in neutral

By Terry Trueman

Review by Sasha

This is a beautifully written book about a "retared" boy. Either I'm a really fast reader or it's just that good of a book that i read it in less than two hours! (it's actually a short book...but that's not the point) This is a very rare book. It leaves you guessing at the end but you still feel that it is completed. I'm always a fan of sequels but if this book never had a sequal, I'll be okay with that. But..there will be no sequel...because since the book ended I know that...well...IT happened and ...lets just say...It is a very very very sad ending. I love this book so much everyone should read it.

Curse of the Blue tattoo: Being an account of the Misadventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman and Fine Lady

Curse of the Blue tattoo: Being an account of the Misadventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman and Fine Lady

by L.A. Meyer

review by Sasha

This is the sequel to Bloody Jack (see below review...Quite a few below...) This tells the tale of Mary when she is sent to a boarding school, where she is to be taught how to be a fine lady. She does everything wrong and even gets landed in jail!
Can Jacky get back ownership of her money being a woman and underage? Anyway, It's a great book. As I neared the end, I KNEW it wouldn't end the way I wanted it to. Still waiting for L.A Meyer to write another one. I don't think he will though.

Doll

DOLL

By Mitsukazu Mihara

review by Shelby

I think that's the author's name. Anyway. This is kinda a science fiction manga. It's about a time (i don't know if it's in the future, or present-day Japan... you know whenever it is) when people have "dolls," that is, robots who look like humans. People use dolls as servants, companions, assasin tools, lovers, whatever. Each manga has several little stories about people and their dolls. Before each chapter there is an illustration of a broken or otherwise... weird doll. Some of the stories are connected.

One of my favorite stories is about this lady, who has a girl doll. They move somewhere and everyone gossips about them. When they're shopping, a guy at the market begins to like the doll... and everone's like "what the heck's wrong with you? it's a doll" but it turns out that it WASN'T a doll. The lady had gotten pregnant out of wedlock and kept her child (even though her family would've wanted her to get an abortion). She was ashamed of her girl and raised her, all the time telling her she was a doll, and abused her. The girl finally realised she was a girl when she A: kinda liked that boy too, and B: got her period. Ahh that story was sooooo cool i'm sorry for spoiling it.

Suki

okay since she did a manga I'll do some then too.

Suki

By CLAMP

(Volumes one and two)

by Shelby

Suki means like or something in Japanese. Suki is about this girl called Hinata Asahi or something. For some reason (it's not really clear why yet... something about being kidnapped all the freakin time) Hinata has decided to live alone. She's booksmart, but really naive and has these teddy bears and reads books about them. So weird. Anyway, one day she gets a new neighbor Shiro Asou (or something) and he turns out to be her substitute chemistry (or something) teacher. (He's not really her teacher, someone designated to watch her... or something *ominosity*). Anyway, Hina-chan finds that she has feelings for Asou-sensei. She cooks food for him and he eats at her house, and he's really nice sometimes. First he was all serious and kinda scary, but sometimes he has his moments where he's bewildered at everything going around him.

It's a cute story. I think that very soon it won't be cute anymore...

Chobits

Chobits

By clamp

I read volume 1 of 8 and it's really funny. Is about this guy who found a computer in the trash so he took it. But its in a world where computers look like alive things. His looks like a prittuy girl and so far it seems to be stupid. It's really really good. read it.

Terry and the Pirates

Terry and the Pirates

by Julian F. Thompson (I think that's his name)

Guest review by Shelby

This book is about Theresa Talley (Terry or Tee to her friends) whose parents want her to go to boarding school? So, she decides to take matters into her own hands. She goes on a trip of "self discovery" (i.e. she runs away). Terry stows away on local millionaire Maitland Crane's boat. But someone else had the same plan. She wakes up to a naked boy with split personalities (don't worry they're both really nice): the millionaire's son.
Then there's like a hurricaine or something, and Terry is suddenly alone on the Cormorant(the boat). But lucky her, Short Bill Gold and his wee mates Cherry and Buddy are there to rescue her. Yeah okay, rescue her.
I thought this was a good book (although I found a couple grammatical mistakes in it). Terry is a cool girl, neither teenagery nor self-conscious (definitelynot self conscious). In the end she has grown up, but I thought she was quite mature anyway. The pirates were funny, but lousy pirates. Anyway I reccomend reading this book. It's quick and humorous... very fun. yay.

Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy

Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy

By L.A. Meyer

This is a very good book. It is about a Girl who, as a child, had both of her parents and her baby sister die. She grew up on the street with a gang of kids but after an accident, she left and went to the sea. On the ship, she pretends so be a boy. As she gets older, this pooves to be more and more difficult.

This is a very good book. It's very easy go get into the character and want to know what going to happen next. This is the first in the series. The end is very open but that is because it will pick up in the next book. I garentee that you will love it.

The Mist Readers: The Book Of Atrus

The Mist Readers: The Book Of Atrus

I honestly doubt that that is the title but the book is called the Mist Readers and this treview is one the first book. (the book I have consistes of three books, I will get the proper title later)

I really Loved this book. The books are based on the very populat computer game Mist. Need I say more? Yes? Darn. Well, this first book is about Artrus. This boy is extremly smart. His mother died giving birth and his father left him to his grandmother. As he grows up he soon finds out about those stories he heard as as child and goes on a great adventure.

I love this book. At times it is very descriptive and sometime the descriptions are long and boring but i just kind of skipped those. The book is awsome. It took a while to read but that only because I had little time. It takes a while to really get into the plot and it takes a while for the book to really get moving but just read it to the end. It's awsome.

3 NB's Of Julian Drew

The 3 NB's Of Julian Drew

I dont have the authors name right now and I hope that I spelled the title correctly.

This is a very awsome book about a boy who is being abused by his parents. The only way for him to express Himself is throught writing in his notebooks.

I very much likes this book but I didnt really like the ending whic desnt say much because i never like endings.

Sweet Blood

Sweet Blood

By Pete Hautman

After much trouble with the library paperbacks and the pages being messed up, I finally got a hardback and was able to complete this book. Its about a girl who is diabetic and she called herself a vampire because she believe that the vampire sotry could have originated from diabetics in a time when people new little about the condition. Its a very good book. I am hardly satisfied with books these days because of the eneding. This is one on those books. I wish they would have added a bit to the ending. Like...what happened next? But it really is a good book and i recommend it. The ending isnt that bad. Its good enough that if you need more, you can make it up as in, they DO get together at the end. duh.

The Da Vinci Code

The Da Vinci Code

Reviewed by Shelby

The Da Vinci Code is a great mystery novel about Professor Robert
Langdon, (of Religious Symbology). He is giving a speech (or whatever)
and after
that in his hotel room he is awakened with news of the murder of
Jacques
Sauniere, curator of the Louvre.
In the rest of the book he is paired with Sophie Neveu, Sauneire's
granddaughter. They are running from the cops, learning a lot about
the Catholic Church
and its secrets, and searching for *dun dun dun* the Holy Grail.
The Da Vinci Code is a great book. One of those books you can't put
down. I
had this whole thing planned out... seeing if i read 36 pages a day
(sad i
know, but i have short attention span these days) i could finish it in
two
weeks. Instead i finished it in 5 days. see... read it... and then
you'll see.

Armageddon Summer

Armageddon Summer

By Jane Yolen and Bruce coville

This book is about a girl Marina and a boy Jed(gee I wonder if they get together). They both have broken families and their parents take up on a very religious...Religion. The Reverend tells them that the earth will end on July 27 (Mairna's birthday) and that 144 Believers must join him on the mountain and be saved.

I really enjoyed reading this book. The characters are believable and this is a very well written novel. 4 1/2 stars.

Morality Play

Morality Play

by Barry Unsworth
(guest review by Shelby)

This book tells the story of Nicholas Barber, a young runaway priest, who joins a players' troupe. His world is turned around with one murder, then turned around again.
Nicholas joins the troupe when a previous member dies. The other players reluctantly accept him as the other player's replacement. He learns to become a player despite of his shame because being a player was considered blasphemous in those days (medieval-or-so England).
When someone else dies, a boy called Thomas Wells, the players have a plan to get more money by playing the death of him. The plan works, but then the players slowly learn the truth of the murder through their acting.
This book was pretty good, I read it for summer reading. It's a shorter book, 206 pages was my edition, but it took forever for me to read. The book explored the concepts of justice, like, God's justice and the Kings justice... and several people thinking they were... *ahem*above justice. With the murder, first you think something is fishy, then you think you've totally solved it, then YOU ARE BLINDSIDED. yes you are. But the ending is good, which is always important. I reccomend this book.

Flight Of The Raven

Flight Of The Raven

by Stephanie S. Tolan

This is a sequal to "Welcome to the ark." It follows the path of Elijah, one of the kids from the ark. I liked the book, It was as great as the first one. And also like the first one, i wish it was longer. At the end, i was upset that it didnt do what it did at the end of the first book and talk about elijah when he grows up. *crosses fingers for another sequal*

Welcome To The Ark

Welcome To The Ark

by Stephanie S. Tolan

This is an awsome book. Its about these kids who are really smart but in a mental institution. They then get put in a program for being so smart and such and such and then they all find out that they have shared powers and stuff. Any, i wish the book were longer. The ending was left open. (see sequal, Flight Of The Raven)

I Am Not Esther

I Am Not Esther

by Fleur Beale

This book is about a girl who's mother leaves her with her wierd religious family. They are very strict is clothing and speech and they live by the bible. I liked this book, even the end was pretty good. :) I would recommend it. Its easy to read, not too long and not too short.

Sunlight and Shadow

Sunlight and Shadow

By Cameron Dokey

This is a story about the day and night (who are married) and their daughter Mina. It's told by many different people. It's a story about finding you're true love, with the help of instruments given by the powers that watched over the universe and another instrument made by some prince. Anyway, it a good book. Hight point, i guess the 2 tests are a bit quick and the ending could be better. But it's a good book. I was able to read it very quickly.

Thirsty

Thirsty

By M.T Anderson

This was a great book about a boy who is turning into a vampire. He doesn't know what to do and he helps this mysterious celestial being. It is a great book but the ending is left WIDE OPEN. I AM SO MAD. I want them to make a sequel.

A Great And Terrible Beauty

A Great And Terrible Beauty

By Libba Bray

This was a good book. Has fantacy and it's a cant put down book. The only bad thing I have to say is that then ending sucked.

The book is about a girl whose mother dies. She then goes to a private boarding school and meets mean and nice people. She learns about the oracle and how's she's part of it. Its awsome. But I dont like the ending. i didnt really READ the ending becasue i knew they're werent enough pages to end how i wanted. But i also DID read the ending. I kinda skimmed it.

The Staircase

The Staircase

by Ann Rinaldi

Once again, I have good things to say. This book DID start out kinda slow for me but once the main character got to the catholic school, The book was great. This book is about the staircase that was built by the mysterious carpenter. It's a great book. It's hard to pick up but once you're into it, you'll keep reading.

Keys To The Kingdom: Grim Tuesday

Keys To The Kingdom: Grim Tuesday

By Garth Nix

This is the second book to the keys of the kingdom series. For those who have read the firt book, Mister Monday, this is a great addition. Garth does a fanyastic job of not repeating what happened in the first book. The will gets unlocked a different way and Arthur gets to the House a different way. I and other Garth readers are and should be happy that this sequal is not a complete repeate of the first but an original addition. I just cant wait to see how the other sequals turn out. They are sure to be as great as the first two.

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The Keys to the Kingdom: Mister Monday

The Keys to the Kingdom: Mister Monday

~Garth Nix

This is a series (probably of seven books). The main character, Arthur Penhaligon, is destined to die. He is given a key from Mister Monday, and when Arthur doesn't die, he is followed around my Monday's goons. Monday's goons leave a horrible plague and now Arthur has to go into the mysterious house to find a cure for the plague and so save everyone, and also, to fulfill the Will.

This is an awsome book. It's very interesting and cool how the book transfers from the first book to the next in the series. The second book whick i have just started reading is Grim Tuesday, and the third is Drowned Wednesday. I dont know what the others are called but i'm guessing there will be seven.

Tithe A Modern Faerie Tale

Tithe A Modern Faerie Tale

~Holly Black

(This is a book review i wrote for english class)

The novel, Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale, is a wonderfully written book by Holly Black. I found myself reluctant to put it down before i was finished. The way the story unfolds makes so much sense and you'll be happy for the main character when she figures stuff out. The book is so well written,I could visualize the scenes as if i were watching a movie. I did'nt feel like i was reading a book and there wasnt too much description. If you are interested in fantacy, you will love this book.

(I wrote more but that's all i feel like typing)

Beauty Sleep

Beauty Sleep

Author- Cameron Dokey

This is another story about sleeping beauty. It is told by Aurora herself. This story is different. Auora doesnt grow up with faeries. She grows up in the palace with her parents. I highly recommend this book for people who like faerie tales. This book is full of sirpises. especially Aurora's descision at the end. I didn't see that one commin'....

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