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4. Use your imagination and sense of humor as you write, that makes it much more interesting for everyone reading your work.
All that said, here's your topic for this week:
For your blog this week, you will go to amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com, or any other online bookseller's website and browse through the books to find a title that interests you. You will provide us with at least two reviews (found on the website) of your book (properly citing them) and then write a paragraph of your own explaining why the book you found is interesting to you. I have done this assignment as well and the first comment is my submission to the blog. Please use that as an example and see either Mr. Tombasco or me if you have any questions.
This blog is due Friday, October 7th by 3 PM. You don't have school that afternoon, so you will need to be sure you either do it early or have online access at home. Good luck!
Ms. Mott
Library Journal
ReplyDeleteIn typical Hiaasen fashion, this story involves corrupt, crazed, and power-hungry Florida politicians accidentally pitted against quirky but innocent individuals. Twilly Spree is trying to save Florida from litterers, so when state lobbyist Palmer Stoat starts throwing trash from his Range Rover, he is incensed. The next time Stoat and his wife go out to dinner, Spree buries their BMW convertible in trash, but this fails to reform him. In continuing to pursue Stoat, Spree uncovers a pork barrel deal that will transform wild Toad Island into Sheerwater Resort. To stop the project Spree kidnaps the Stoats' family dog. The mayhem that follows includes kinky sex, bulldozers, hit men, a big game hunt, and an ex-governor turned ecoterrorist. In the end, good triumphs over evil. Hiaasen's hijinks are outrageous, unbelievable, and thought-provoking. The worrisome grains of truth and reality in the story give pause.
Boston Globe
Sick Puppy' follows the contradictory maxims that have become mainstays in Hiaasen's novels. Eccentric characters possess a veneer of realism. Each absurdity is so painfully close to reality it sometimes feels that Hiaasen, who is a Miami Herald columnist, is writing a news story instead of fiction.
The Library Journal and Boston Globe reviews of the book Sick Puppy, by Carl Hiaasen, found on BarnesandNoble.com encouraged me to purchase this book for my newly purchased Nook, ebook reader. As a long time Carl Hiaason fan since reading his book, Hoot, years ago with a class I taught with Mr. Winne, I am always on the lookout for additional books by Mr. Hiaason. I enjoy his humor and sometimes twisted way of looking at the world we all share.
I appreciate the environmental activism underlying most of Hiaasen’s books; remember in Hoot how the kids were trying to save baby owls from greedy land developers? Hiaasen generally includes some degree of environmental outrage in his novels, but makes these global concerns so funny that I truly laugh out loud when I read his stories. I read not only the Library Journal review, but also customer and other editorial reviews and I’m excited to start reading this novel. I think another selling point of this book for me is the title, truly, Sick Puppy? That’s a great book title and really relates too to my feelings about Hiaasen’s writing; he too could be described as kind of a “sick puppy” by anyone who has appreciated his writing for the last several years. I’ll be sure to let you know how this one turns out.
Ms. Mott
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ReplyDelete'A Look at Life from a Deer Stand is the story of a life journey with God walked through a hunter's woods. Written with artistry and sensitivity for life, it is a joy to read.?
ReplyDeleteLowell Thill, vice president
Christian Bowhunters of America
'A Look at Life from a Deer Stand should be mandatory reading for every reader who is a hunter, from the first deer to the last. More importantly, however, it puts in proper perspective our relationship with nature, our friends, our family, and ultimately, with the One who created the magnificent white-tailed deer.?
Brad Herndon, hunting editor
Whitetail Hunting Strategies
I love to read and think about hunting.Hunting is what i think about all day so if i could read and about hunting i would rather do that then read about any thing else. I day dream about it all day and would rather just read about it so i dont get in trouble for day dreaming.
i found this book and it is called Just Like Us. its about four mexican girls coming of age in America. This book is true. the book is made but Helen Thorpe, and the publisher is Scribner. Scribner published this book in may of 2011, i chose this book is because it look interesting to me. i like to read about other people to know what they are like and how they are different from us. well thats all i know for now until i read the book.
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ReplyDeleteThe past--harrowing, traumatic, mesmerizing--encroaches on the present again and again in this lean, mean, fighting first collection of seven stories, all of which are set during or in the long shadow of the Vietnam War. Barnes, who served in the elite U.S. Army Special Forces, writes of a character, "The more he resists memories, the more they intrude." In contrast to Tim O'Brien or Larry Heinemann, whose work paved the way for this book, Barnes waited a long time before writing about Vietnam: he has been a deputy sheriff, a PI, a casino dealer and only recently a writer grappling with the discombobulation of combat. The result is that the fighting is mostly secondary in his stories, while the relationships between the men who served take central focus. In the collection's finest piece, the harrowing novella "Tunnel Rat," talk in the jungle invariably centers on home. Fine lyric descriptions of the landscape's beauty ("diaphanous thermals shimmered where the sun bore down on the emerald paddies in the lowlands") make the carnage somehow unreal; yet "they measured days by casualties." A father in "A Return" grasps vainly for memories of his son, an MIA for 15 years, whose body is belatedly coming home. Resignedly, he understands that "the world ends one life at a time. Who decides when a boy's world ends?" And a vet in "Plateau Lands," on the eve of being reunited with his handicapped 'Nam buddy, winner of a Silver Star, and now running for Congress, learns the truth: "Mel didn't save me. It was luck." Not for the first time (as we know from Civil War accounts), a white flag is raised in the midst of combat and a pick-up game of baseball ensues between the Delta Company Yankees and the North Vietnamese Giants ("A Lovely Day in the A Shau Valley"). Though Barnes's work does not finally outshine previous Vietnam-based fiction, his writing is clean-cut and vibrant, and his stories ring true. (Mar.) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.
Accreditation - Publisher
Lee Barnes spent his tour with the U.S. Army Special Forces at Tra Bong, an A-Site in I-Corps some 35 kilometers from the Laotian border. While serving there as a Green Beret, he received the Combat Infantry badge and was awarded the Vietnamese Gallantry Cross by the South Vietnamese government. After completing an MFA in writing, he joined the faculty of the Community College of Southern Nevada. Barnes's stories have won several awards, including the Arizona Authors Association Fiction Award and the Clackamas Literary Review Fiction Award.
The reviews found on Barnes and Nobles.com for the book Gunning for Ho by H. Lee Barnes make me think this book will be interesting to read. I liked how this is telling me a lot about the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War interests me because I have had a couple of my cousins, one who was a Corporal, and other relatives serve in the Vietnam War. Anything I see about the Vietnam War, I’d like to read. I love to study the Vietnam War.
Kenny Cornwell
The book that interests me is called "Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan and I guess you could say that this book and the one before it,"The Lost Hero" are another sieries that branched off of "Percy Jackson and the Olympians".
ReplyDeleteI read the book sieries "Percy Jackson and the Olympians" after my cousin Josh showed me and let me barroe the books. after i read the sieries, in the back of the last book the author said that there would be more adventures with the kids from camp half-blood, and he was right. I read the first book to the "Heros of Olympus, witch was perrty awesome and I wanted to know more and in the back of that book it said that a sequil "Son of Neptune" would be coming in the fall and I could not wait.
Rick Riordan also is just a very interesting author. He takes classical myths and puts a modern day spin on them. in a way he make the books that he writes a lot more relatable becuase, they are set in America and involve charicters around my own age. When these charaters find out about what they are, and what they are cabale of they are just as lost as any other teen would be because, like any other teen they are trying to find themselves.
I get to go to Barns and Noble over the weekend and get the sequil I can't wait. This assignment was the perfect cahce for me to read the reviews and make absolutley certain that I wanted this book.
Here is the web adress that will show the reviews:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-son-of-neptune-exclusive-edition-rick-riordan/1105029125#EditorialReviews
Here are two reviews from the web cite:
From Barnes & Noble
In the first pages of this standalone sequel to The Lost Hero, Percy Jackson remembers only his name and the name of Annabeth, a mysterious woman he associates somehow with the city of San Francisco. From those sparse clues, he must somehow complete a mission for the leader of the Roman camp even as he is being pursued by the two sisters of Medusa, who possess an apparently unquenchable thirst for vengeance: Even when killed, they spring back to life. Rick Riordan's second Heroes of Olympus promises even more excitement than the first
Customer Review:
Everyone was afraid Riordan cant top his first book.....well, he has!
One of the best books I have ever read. I'm speechless, and I want to read on and on. you arent losing this reader, Rick!
Lacey Ryder
ReplyDeleteThe book that interests me is called The Tinkers. This book is by Paul Harding. The year that this book. The book that interests me is called The Tinkers. This book is by Paul Harding The year that this book was published with the generous support of beloved Literary Press’s founding donor the Arnold Simon family Trust.
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Jo "booklover" (Roslindale, MA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tinkers (Paperback)
I loved this book. Yes, as the reviews state, the writing is excellent, but more than that, the story and characters are amazing. It has the unique gift of being incredibly moving without being maudlin. You feel like you know the characters and they are part of your family. I am traditionally a mystery/suspense buff so I actually wasn't sure I would like this, but I was more than pleasantly surprised. It was one of those books you become jealous of the people who have not read it yet because you want to experience that feeling again. Don't miss this reading experience
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This review is from: Tinkers (Paperback)
A door to door sales man named Howard remembers his father's life and his descent into mental illness. After his father's death Howard begins to have epileptic fits which later leads his wife to attempt to institutionalize him. He gets wind of her plan and leaves her and their four children, marries again and starts a new life. Howard's son, George who himself tried to run away on the day his father disappeared lies dying in his living room with his family around him, remembering his father and his own life and his love for and relationship with his dad. I know this sounds like a book where not much happens and it is mostly a 'thought' book but Harding's use of language is very lush and satisfying. Toni Morrison fans will love this book. It's a book you'll want to re-read.
The book that interests me is called The Tinkers. This book is by Paul Harding. The year that this book. The book that interests me is called The Tinkers. This book is by Paul Harding. The year that this book was published with the generous support of belluve Literary Press’s founding donor the Arnold Simon family Trust.
It looks good because George Washington Crosby begin to hallucinate eight days before he died. He watched the imaginary insects run in and out of the cracks on the ceiling. He had built he’s house himself. He had grandchildren down from Kansas, Atlanta, and he’s sister was down from Florida.
The thing that caught my attention was the title because of the Tinkers I though that something bad what have happened to someone like an grandparent or a kid or something like that. I would not like it if this was based on a true story or something like that. It would kill me really bad if this or that had really happened to anyone.
Lacey Ryder
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ReplyDeleteKatniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark won the annual competition described in Hunger Games, but the aftermath leaves these victors with no sense of triumph. Instead, they have become the poster boys for a rebellion that they never planned to lead. That new, unwanted status puts them in the bull's-eye for merciless revenge by The Capitol. Catching Fire maintains the adrenaline rush of Suzanne Collins's series launch.
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Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark won the annual competition described in Hunger Games, but the aftermath leaves these victors with no sense of triumph. Instead, they have become the poster boys for a rebellion that they never planned to lead. That new, unwanted status puts them in the bull's-eye for merciless revenge by The Capitol. Catching Fire maintains the adrenaline rush of Suzanne Collins's series launch.
The New York Times - Gabrielle Zevin
I really liked The Hunger Games. But I love the new book, Catching Fire…Collins has done that rare thing. She has written a sequel that improves upon the first book…Katniss is more sophisticated in this book, and her observations are more acute. We see this when she notices how much more difficult it is to kill people once you know them, or when she observes the decadent (and for the reader...
i want to read this book because i am reading the first book of the series The Hunger Games and so far i like it a lot. and reading the reviews makes me think it will be a good book.
Darien Giordano
Where She Went
ReplyDeleteby Gayle Forman
It's been three years since the devastating accident . . . three years since Mia walked out of Adam's life forever.
Now living on opposite coasts, Mia is Juilliard's rising star and Adam is LA tabloid fodder, thanks to his new rock star status and celebrity girlfriend. When Adam gets stuck in New York by himself, chance brings the couple together again, for one last night. As they explore the city that has become Mia's home, Adam and Mia revisit the past and open their hearts to the future - and each other.
Told from Adam's point of view in the spare, lyrical prose that defined If I Stay, Where She Went explores the devastation of grief, the promise of new hope, and the flame of rekindled romance.
I want to read this book because I read the first book, If I Stay. I liked the book and would like to know what happens next. The title also caught my eye, I like most books but this one looks really intriguing. I like how Gayle Forman writes her stories and the emotion that she portrays.
~Raven Pietrowski
From http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/perfect-ellen-hopkins/1101010781
ReplyDeletePerfect by Ellen Hopkins
Publishers Weekly
Hopkins sticks to the signature style that has made her books bestsellers, blending verse poetry with perfection. Sean and Kendra's struggles are physical—he's a baseball player who turns with controversial topics. In her eighth novel, four teenage protagonists alternately narrate their struggles to steroids, and she's an aspiring model who develops a severe eating disorder ("Real control is/ not putting in more than you can work off.... Shaving off every caloric unit you can/ without passing out"). Cara and Andre's issues are more about identity (Cara is an all-American girl realizing she is a lesbian, while Andre is under parental pressure to pursue a lucrative, ambitious career path and is afraid to admit his passion for dance). This is a sequel, of sorts, as Cara's twin, Conner, a protagonist in Hopkins's suicide-themed book, Impulse, makes an appearance. There is an overabundance of plot points, as readers learn about Sean's dead parents, Kendra's racist father, a vicious attack on Kendra's sister, and more. But Hopkins explores enough hot-button issues (rape, teen plastic surgery, cyberharassment, etc.) to intrigue her fans and recruit new ones. Ages 14 up. (Sept.)
School Library Journal
Gr 9 Up—This companion to Impulse (S & S/Pulse, 2007) can stand alone, but packs considerably more punch when read contiguously as intended. Impulse featured the interlocking narratives of Vanessa, Tony, and Conner, teens confined to a psychiatric facility after failed suicide attempts. Cara, Conner's twin, is Perfect's first narrator. Her story begins immediately after Conner's departure for the facility. She is on the cusp of her high school graduation and attempting to figure out who she is, if not the perfect image her mother expects. Kendra, Conner's ex-girlfriend, will do anything to become a model, regardless of what it means for her health or sense of self-worth. Andre wants to be a dancer, though this goal couldn't be further from what his parents expect for him. Sean is dead set on being with Cara for the long haul and dreams of playing ball at Stanford, but what will he sacrifice to get there? As Hopkins's readers have come to expect, each of the teens' lives spins out of control over the course of the novel as they stumble through sexual awakenings and violations, violent crime, and confrontations with racism. Some characters' voices are less clear than others. Andre's story, for example, focuses so much on his relationship with Kendra's daredevil sister that his important internal struggle—to dance or not to dance—is underplayed. Yet Hopkins's legions of fans will no doubt devour Perfect and welcome the return of the characters they learned to love in Impulse. —Jill Heritage Maza, Montclair Kimberley Academy, Montclair, NJ
I was interesting in this book because the cover was eye catching and when i read what the book was about and what the reviews sayed, it made me want to read it even more. I have also heard from people and other kids in my grade about Ellen Hopkins books and how good they are. She has other book, like Burned. The title also drew me to this book. Since nothing in this world is perfect, I wondered what she meant by perfect. I look forward to eventually reading it.
~Rachel Grausgruber
"Friday Night Lights offers a biting indictment of the sports craziness that grips . . . most of American society, while at the same time providing a moving evocation of its powerful allure."
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A brilliant look athow Friday- night lights can lead a town into darkness
-Sports Illustrated
The main reason why I looked up this book is because I love the movie. Also I love football and playing football under the lights on a Friday night. The movie was really good, I like any kind of football, baseball, or basketball movie as long as it is a sports movie. In the movie the main character James “Boobie” Miles all he cares about is football. Also I love football if I was hurt and could not play I would not be too happy.
Dan Babcock
Lockdown
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The New York Times:
Lockdown isn't a straightforward morality tale. It's a keenly observed portrait of what it means to serve time, full of hard choices and shaky shots at redemption. Myers is a master of observing kids in tough places, from the 16-year-old charged with felony murder in Monster, to the young soldier in his recent Sunrise over Fallujah. What makes this new novel stand out is its vivid depiction of the jail ecosystem and the compromises it demands of those who are able to survive it.
Publishers Weekly:
Maurice “Reese” Anderson is sentenced to 38 months in Progress, a juvenile detention center in New York, for stealing prescription forms for use in a drug-dealing operation. After 22 months, Reese, now age 14, is assigned to a work-release program at Evergreen, an assisted-living center for seniors. There he meets racist Mr. Hooft, who lectures him on life’s hardships (having barely survived a Japanese war camp in Java), which causes Reese to reflect on his own choices. More than anything, he wants to be able to protect his siblings, who live with his drug-addicted mother, before they repeat his mistakes (“The thing was that I didn’t know if I was going to mess up again or not. I just didn’t know. I didn’t want to, but it looked like that’s all I did”). Reese faces impossible choices and pressures—should he cop to a crime he didn’t commit? Stick out his neck for a fellow inmate and risk his own future? It’s a harrowing, believable portrait of how circumstances and bad decisions can grow to become nearly insurmountable obstacles with very high stakes. Ages 16 and up.
Lockdown by Walter Dean Myers interest me for multiple reasons. The title, characters, and finally the story line attracted my attention. From these reviews Lockdown sounds like one of Myers more gripping stories. I love how Reese is an extremely dynamic character. The fact that he has to debate what he wants to do to overcome obstacles while being “in the system” is also very intriguing. I cannot wait to read this dynamic, cunning, and moral appealing book.
-Kailee O'Donnell
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ReplyDeleteRachel Grausgruber, I like your post for multiple reasons. I think you picked great reviews for the book. You also had a very well rounded response. I say this because you also included an outside response from peers. So basically now that I have used all these fancy words to respond to your response I will end with this.... AMAZING JOB =D
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Matt Mills
ReplyDeleteThe book that caught my eye was Play Their Hearts Out by George Dohrmann. This book is about a coach and and one of his your phenom players and a youth team that excel durring their season.
One review is ...... Amazon.com Review: Each year, millions of grammar school athletes swarm fields and courts armed with little more than an infectious love for their games. These endeavors represent the purity of sport, as kids are allowed to be kids and compete outside the demands of lucrative contracts and extensive media coverage. Yet sadly, as George Dohrmann's Play Their Hearts Out demonstrates, such a paradise is fading fast in today's corporate sports world. Dohrmann provides a first-hand account of the rise of a nine-year-old basketball phenom and the grassroots programs that both helped and hindered his dreams of superstardom. To call this story a cautionary tale is to sell it short, as Play Their Hearts Out is an unflinching look at the increasing need for hype in youth athletics. Fans of the brilliant Hoop Dreams documentary are advised to add this book to their cart immediately, as Dohrmann's masterful ability to remove himself from the plotline achieves an honesty that leaves any and all judgments to the reader. --Dave Callanan
Customer review : I started this book with an expectation that it would be a long magazine article, turned into a book. Instead, I found a richly detailed story about basketball, expectations, and real people in the world of sports.
All reviews can be found at http://www.amazon.com/Play-Their-Hearts-Out-Basketball/dp/0345508602/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1317943471&sr=8-5#_
The reason this book caught my eye would have to be because I love playing and watching basketball. The reason I liked to read basketball books,watch movies and so on is beacause I like to hear about other peoples stories and how they succeeded in their life. alos I can relate to these kind of basketball books and I realy understand where they are coming from. That is why this book caught my eye and I also agreed with the reviews everyone said.
Publishers Weekly
ReplyDeleteSet during the American Revolution, Paulsen's (Hatchet) slim novel candidly and credibly exposes the underbelly of that war. Sam is a skilled hunter with an instinctive knowledge of the western Pennsylvania forest—a “woods runner.” When word of fighting between the British and the colonists reaches his family, the 13-year-old realizes that his life will change (“The loud outside world his parents had escaped by moving to the frontier had found them”). It is a brutal change: Sam returns from a hunting expedition to find houses in their settlement burned to the ground and the scalped bodies of neighbors. His harrowing quest to locate and rescue his parents—taken prisoner by the culprits, British soldiers aided by Iroquois—involves a nearly fatal run-in with a tomahawk-wielding native; a narrow escape from marauding Hessian mercenaries; and a fortuitous encounter with a Scottish tinker who's a spy for the patriots. Paulsen fortifies this illuminating and gripping story with interspersed historical sections that offer details about frontier life and the war (such as technology, alliances, and other period information), helping place Sam's struggles in context. Ages 12–up. (Jan.)
Kirkus Reviews
Thirteen-year-old Samuel is a courier du bois, or woods runner, a wilderness expert who provides meat for his entire settlement in the British colony of Pennsylvania. When he returns from hunting one day to find all of the cabins in his settlement burned to the ground and everyone slaughtered or missing, he must rely on those skills and the help of good folk along the way to the British garrison in New York to find his parents. Not a war novel of "patriotism, all clean, pristine, antiseptic," as Paulsen explains in his afterword, this is a vivid and graphic tale of one boy caught up in a harsh war, a side of the American Revolution not often told. The author structures the narrative in an unusual fashion, alternating fictional scenes with nonfiction information related to the story line-brief segments on spy networks, weaponry, war orphans, Hessians and floating prisons. Though no sources are provided for the nonfiction elements, the effective pairing of fiction and nonfiction makes this a superb reflection on the nature of war. A good match for the author's Soldier's Heart (1998). (Historical fiction. 11 & up)
According to the editorial reviews I found on Barnes and Noble, I think this book would be very interesting. I like books about adventure, I especially like that is during the Revolutionary War. In the book Sam's parents are taken away, he decides to go and get them. I want to find out exactly how he does that. Overall the book looks very interesting.
-Marcos Benedcit
Matthew Senne(Customer review)Another great book from Brian Wood. The Couriers (and other books in Brian Wood's NYC centric universe) delivers more of that sharp, funny action that he's known for. Special and Mustafa on a revenge mission vs. mercenary rednecks? It's as good as it sounds!
ReplyDeleteSam McCanna(Customer review) I like it a lot for what it is, I wish there would be more. Can't fault him for writing more DMZ though.
This book caught my eye right away. The name of the book is The Couriers 02: Dirtbike Manifesto by Brian Wood. This is for many reasons. First of all it is an action story. Also, it is about dirtbikes which I love. I would love to read this book in the future.
The book that caught my eye was "Mocking Jay" by Suzanne Collins. I figured this book would be a good book because I have read a different book from this series and I enjoyed it a lot. I think Suzanne Collins is a great author and I like the way she writes her books and gets the reader into the book.
ReplyDeleteI loved, Loved, LOVED the first two books. I just could not wait for this one to come out. So it pains me to say that this book was a totally disappointing. At the beginning i was riveted i couldn't wait to find out what was going to happen next, but toward the end i felt like i didn't want to know what was going to happen. I just went from bad to worse. At the end i was just hoping for some kind of uplifting resolution. When i finished the book i just sat there thinking "What a Horrible ending to some wonderful characters." (Customer Review at Barnesandnoble.com)
This series was well-written... right up to the end. I still recommend reading it. You can't help but root for Katniss and Peeta. But, Collins clearly can't take the presure of writing the final chapter. No spoilers here, and die-hard Hunger Games fans will read it anyway. But, very dissappointing. (Customer Review at Barnesandnoble.com)
Natalia Bielecki
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ReplyDeleteMatt, I like your response. I liked it because it is about basketball. I like basketball a lot too.I also like sport books with action. It seems that the people that reviewed it liked it a lot too. Overall the book sounds very good and interesting.
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The first book i am suggesting is The Greasted Hunting stories. This review is from: The Greatest Hunting Stories Ever Told: Twenty-Nine Unforgettable Tales (Paperback)
ReplyDeleteThe Greatest hunting stories is a book with 29 of the greatest hunting stories. One of the stories I like the best is Black Death. This Story is about a cape buffalo that kills a man so an officer must go find the buffalo and kill it before it kills some one else. To find out the thrilling ending read the book. Another story is Good Morning. This story is about a young kid that shoots his first buck. "This is a exciting and thrilling book. It would be good for any hunter at any age." -A teenager from Mid-Prairie High School. The secound book review on the Greatest Hunting Storyies Ever. This is a great book for anyone who enjoys short stories, especially hunting tales. It contains a wide range of content from big game hunting to bird hunting. It also contains a wide range of authors from the classics like Hemingway, Faulkner and Teddy Roosevelt to modern jounalists. This book would make a great gift for a hunting or fishing friend or relative.
Summer,
ReplyDeleteyou need to describe your book a little more but that sounds like a good book though.
shawne leonard
Cupcake, you forgot your reviews.
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ReplyDeleteThe book I choose to review is The Heroes of Olympus, Book Two:The Son of Neptune. Great book! Riordan made his sequel almost as good as the first! The big problems were the dozens of typos that could have easily been fixed and even worse, the cliff hanger!!! The formating for the Kindle version was horrible. The sentances would break off in the middle to new paragraphs and every other word didnt have spaces between them or spaces would be in the middle of words. This made it very difficult for me to read. The story also felt rushed. They should have waited a month just so they could simply proof read the story.
ReplyDeleteThe reason I choose this book is because I am I huge fan of mythology. I love hearing about Greek gods and goddesses, such as Ares or Athena. I have also seen one of the movies and I loved it. I would recommend this book to myth lovers as long as they don't buy the kindle version.
Citations:
Brielle, C. "Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Heroes of Olympus, The, Book Two: The Son of Neptune (special Limited Edition) (The Heroes of Olympus)." Amazon.com: Online Shopping for Electronics, Apparel, Computers, Books, DVDs & More. 06 Oct. 2011. Web. 07 Oct. 2011. .
Review, Kid. "Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Heroes of Olympus, The, Book Two: The Son of Neptune (special Limited Edition) (The Heroes of Olympus)." Amazon.com: Online Shopping for Electronics, Apparel, Computers, Books, DVDs & More. 04 Oct. 2011. Web. 07 Oct. 2011. . Jeremy B.
Rachel Reynolds
ReplyDeleteThe Skin I'm In
by Sharon Flake
Maleeka suffers every day from the taunts of the other kids in her class. If they're not getting at her about her homemade clothes or her good grades, it's about her dark, black skin.
When a new teacher, whose face is blotched with a startling white patch, starts at their school, Maleeka can see there is bound to be trouble for her too. But the new teacher's attitude surprises Maleeka. Miss Saunders loves the skin she's in. Can Maleeka learn to do the same?
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Thirteen-year-old Maleeka, uncomfortable because her skin is extremely dark, meets a new teacher with a birthmark on her face and makes some discoveries about how to love who she is and what she looks like. Maleeka Madison has problems fitting in with others at her school. Her hair is too nappy, her skin is too dark, her grades are too good, her clothes are too weird, and her teachers are too fond of her. She desperately tries to make friends and to be accepted by her peers. Her situation drastically changes when she meets Miss Saunders, and the changes are not always for the better. The Skin I'm In is a compelling novel of a young girl's struggle with self-acceptance and acceptance by her peer group. Through her struggles and with her teacher's help, she learns "to look into the mirror and like what she sees, even when it doesn't look like anybody else's idea of beauty.
Maleeka Madison, an average middle school student, has trouble fitting in at her school. Students tease her about the dark colors of her skin. Maleeka lives with her Mom in a urban area. Her Dad died not too long ago. Maleeka is picked on for the way she dresses, the color of her skin, and she is constantly under peer-pressure around her "so-called" best friends. Her small crew consists of three people: Char, Raina, and Raise. They force her to do things she totally dreads to do and treats her like their own personal slave. One day a new teacher named Miss Saunders came to their school as an English teacher. Maleeka and other students noticed that she had what looked like a white stain across her forehead. Little did Maleeka know, Miss Saunders was going to help her out tremendously in the long-run? When Maleeka got in trouble because of things Char caused, Miss Saunders was the one who helped her, but Maleeka ignored the help and kept hanging with the wrong crowd. Char, Maleeka's friend, decided she did not like Miss Saunders, so she wanted to vandalize her classroom and wanted Maleeka to do the dirtiest work of all. At first they tried to blame it on Maleeka, but she did not want to be falsely accused. On that day, she came out and said who was behind it. After that, she was still in trouble, but she finally accepted herself for the skin she was in. This book is great for people who have trouble finding themselves. It is something that Jr. High kids can actually relate to. Anyone under peer-pressure opr is being bullied should read this book. If you are a young reader looking for something simple, but exciting to read, I definitely recommend this book. It is full of irony and surprises on every page. Things that you would have never thought would happen shows up and gets you on the edge of your seat. Once you start reading this, you will not put it down.
The Skin I'm In by Sharon G. Flake is a fiction book. This is about a 13 year old girl in middle school. The school that she goes’s to be McClendon Middle School. Her name is Maleeka Madison. This takes place mostly at school and home. The most she gets picked on is when Miss. Saunders comes along. She is the new teacher in the school. Maleeka's best friend Charles (Char) HATES being told what to do, but when Miss Saunders steps up to the plate Char doesn't like it at all.
Rachel Reynolds continued:
ReplyDeleteI would recommend this book from grades 5-8 because it has a lot of things happen that little kid wouldn't understand. I liked The Skin Imp In because the action starts right at the beginning. It’s not boring and drags on like a fish being pulled out of the water. I also like the character Maleeka because she is out- going and a risk- taker that just wants to have fun. Like when she was walking home from Chars house and she knew that neighborhood was dangerous but she still walked to the and back. But something did happened, remember when I said the boys tried to make her kiss them. Well yeah that was when she was walking home from Chars. Anyway I would rate this book an 8.5 out of 10. This is a good book for when you get bored and have nothing to do on a snow day. When I started reading his book I could not put the book down. It put me in a whole other place, like I didn't even know what was going on in my house.
summer,
ReplyDeletei think you need to describe you book and the characters more. when did your book get establish. I like some of your books but some of them are to scarey but i like your taste of books .
shawne leonard
Just as Tolkein's "Lord of the Rings" is held up as the trilogy to which all fantasy trilogies are inevitably compared, I've little doubt that Larsson's Millenium series will play that benchmark role for mystery thrillers over the next few decades.
ReplyDelete"The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest" is an incredibly worthy successor to the previous two books in the trilogy. And toward the end, there will be moments when tears are brought to your eyes. Larrson knew precisely how to play with timing, rhythm, and wording to pace the story and its ending just right. I'm hard pressed to even guess how else he could have ended this series.
The story follows the natural conclusion of the events in the first two books as everything dovetails toward a "behind-closed-door" trial. Larrson did a very good job of the first part of this book that takes place in the hospital where Lisbeth is recovering. I really enjoyed reading things from her perspective, then spinning out to others involved and each of their limited pieces of the evolving puzzle. And things just get better as the book moves along.
Frankly, once you hit part three of the book, it's almost impossible to put down. I picked it up just once...just to read a chapter or two in the second half of the book...only to find that three hours had gone by and the book was over.
Larrson's tying up of many loose ends throughout the book - and this is key - throughout the book (not all in the last few chapters like so many other writers) is masterful. And that emphasizes the one tragic aspect of this final book: knowing that we will never again be graced with Larrson's storytelling mastery.
Just as Tolkein's "Lord of the Rings" is held up as the trilogy to which all fantasy trilogies are inevitably compared, I've little doubt that Larsson's Millenium series will play that benchmark role for mystery thrillers over the next few decades.
"The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest" is an incredibly worthy successor to the previous two books in the trilogy. And toward the end, there will be moments when tears are brought to your eyes. Larrson knew precisely how to play with timing, rhythm, and wording to pace the story and its ending just right. I'm hard pressed to even guess how else he could have ended this series.
The story follows the natural conclusion of the events in the first two books as everything dovetails toward a "behind-closed-door" trial. Larrson did a very good job of the first part of this book that takes place in the hospital where Lisbeth is recovering. I really enjoyed reading things from her perspective, then spinning out to others involved and each of their limited pieces of the evolving puzzle. And things just get better as the book moves along.
Frankly, once you hit part three of the book, it's almost impossible to put down. I picked it up just once...just to read a chapter or two in the second half of the book...only to find that three hours had gone by and the book was over.
-cierra
Shawne,
ReplyDeleteI like your blog you just need to make it a little bit longer that what it is, but other than that I really enjoyed reading you blog. You also need to use more detail.
~Rachel Marie Reynolds~
The book I found that most interested me was “The hang mans daughter.” By Oliver Pötzsch. The cover of this book caught my eye. Also when I read this name I thought of the song “the hangman is coning down from the gallows.” By Styx. E. Jacobs found the book to be “a bit over rated.” And Cameron B. Clark found the book to be “An entertaining and descriptive historical thriller.” I actually would like to read this book.
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Friday, October 7, 2011
ReplyDelete13 Reasons why. {English10}
Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker - his classmate and crush - who committed suicide two weeks earlier. Hannah's voice tells him that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out why. Clay spends the night crisscrossing his town with Hannah as his guide. He becomes a firsthand witness to Hannah's pain, and learns the truth about himself-a truth he never wanted to face.
When Clay Jensen plays the cassette tapes he received in a mysterious package, he's surprised to hear the voice of dead classmate Hannah Baker. He's one of 13 people who receive Hannah's story, which details the circumstances that led to her suicide. Clay spends the rest of the day and long into the night listening to Hannah's voice and going to the locations she wants him to visit. The text alternates, sometimes quickly, between Hannah's voice (italicized) and Clay's thoughts as he listens to her words, which illuminate betrayals and secrets that demonstrate the consequences of even small actions. Hannah, herself, is not free from guilt, her own inaction having played a part in an accidental auto death and a rape. The message about how we treat one another, although sometimes heavy, makes for compelling reading.
In my opinion this is a great book. if your looking for and interesting story i recommend this. Hanna goes through step by step planning her decision of her suicide. she records it all. The story begins with a boy named clay receiving a box, he opens it to find a box full of cassette tapes. he sits down staring to listened and quickly stops in awe. It goes step by step. Each side of the tape is a person and the reason why she made her decision. the final tape goes to the main person that was the main reason she killed herself. She tells them to pass them on to the next person on the list. Of course someone could always just not send it. But she thought ahead. She had a friend that if the tapes were not passed on another set of the tapes would be shared very publicly, and noone wants that. Once this book starts it instintly draws you in, there is never a dual moment. I could ramble on about this amazing book for hours. Read it and love it.
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ReplyDeleteJames Fenimore Cooper was born in 1789. Expelled from Yale in 1805, he went to sea. On a dare from his wife, Cooper wrote his first novel, Precaution, in 1820. After several other attempts, Cooper gained international success by recounting American s colonial frontier struggles, specifically through the adventures of a frontiersman Natty Bumppo, nicknamed Hawkeye or Leatherstocking. Cooper s popularity flagged in the 1840s, but a reissue of his collected works shortly before his death in 1851 served to restore his place in American literature. From Barnes & Noble - Bargain Catalog
Recounting the story of the bloody conflict between the British and the French on the early North American frontier, this classic narrative was written in 1826 by the man who is today considered our first great American novelist.
I like The Last of The Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper . It is about two pioneer girls who were kidnapped by the Iroquois Indians and attack the settlers in there area, and massacre a lot of settlers.
Dawson Dailey
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate
ReplyDeleteTheory (10/11/2010) by Brian Greene.
Einstein=Piece of Cake
Easy to read and understand. There is no longer any excuse to dropping acid when
you can read Brian Greene and allow him to expand his mind. Posted by Violet_Adams,
on October 27, 2008.
Authoritative Information Delivered Interestingly
Although the jargon used in this book can get a little technical, Greene delivers it
in such a way as to be easily understood even by the most amateur of stargazers.
During technical points in the book, Greene presents the information through real-
life examples and funny "what-if" stories. Numerous times throughout this book I found
myself laughing out loud one minute, then putting the book down to further think about a
theory that was explained. I definitely recommend this book to someone who is curious
about the world in which we live, but might not have a solid background in physics or
science. I also recommend it to professional physicists, astronomers and scientists who
are looking for a refreshing break from the dull, technical reference materials that they
are encountered with on a day to day basis. Posted by MsTabetha, on May 22, 2010.
I found this book interesting because I am curious about the unknown. When I
think about the universe I wonder if there is life out there somewhere. Lastly I wonder
how much more of the universe we have not found.
The above post is Pat Brown's
ReplyDelete"Stuck in the middle"(sister-to-sister,book one)by Virginia Smith.
ReplyDeleteDescription-February 1,2008: Joan Sanderson's life is stuck. Her older sister, Allie, is starting a family and her younger sister, Tori, has a budding career. Meanwhile, Joan is living at home with Mom and looking after her aging grandmother. Not exactly a recipe for excitement. That is, until a hunky young doctor moves in next door. Suddenly Joan has a goal--to get a date. But it won't be easy. Pretty Tori flirts relentlessly with him and Joan is sure that she can't compete. But with a little help from God, Allie, and an enormous mutt with bad manners, maybe Joan can find her way out of this rut. Book 1 of the Sister-to-Sister series, Stuck in the Middle combines budding romance, spiritual searching, and a healthy dose of sibling rivalry.
From Publishers Weekly:
Smith (Just As I Am) provides all the standard elements of inspirational chick lit in this first installment of the Sister-to-Sister series. Joan has been dumped by her long-term boyfriend, lives at home, has an unexciting job and can't quite figure out what to do with her life, until a single doctor (who is of course terribly good-looking and very serious about his faith) moves in next door. As the title suggests, Joan is the middle daughter and feels dwarfed by her older sister's happy family and her younger sister's beauty and success. She struggles with feeling abandoned by her father and angry that her mother forced him to leave when she was young. She wonders if there's more depth to her faith than she initially thought, and learns more about God from her new doctor friend. And she tries hard to take care of her elderly grandmother to prevent her from being sent to an assisted living home, though that may prove to be the best place for her after all. Naturally, this is the realm of happy endings, and readers won't be disappointed. The sisters are spirited and fun, and if the story takes a while to get going, it soon quickens the pace and entertains. (Feb.)
From the Back Cover:
Joan Sanderson's life is stuck. Her older sister, Allie, is starting a family, and her younger sister, Tori, has a budding career. Meanwhile, Joan is stuck at home with Mom and her aging grandmother. Not exactly a recipe for excitement--or romance. When a hunky young doctor moves in next door, Joan sets out to catch his eye. But it won't be easy. Pretty Tori flirts relentlessly, and Joan is sure that she can't compete. But with a little help from God, Allie, and an enormous mutt with bad manners, Joan begins to find her way out of this rut and into the life she's been hiding from. Book 1 of the Sister-to-Sister series, Stuck in the Middle combines budding romance, soul searching, and a healthy dose of sibling rivalry that is sure to make you smile. "A gentle story of one young woman's season of growth, deftly blending the tangle of family relationships with gifts of whimsy and revelation. A joy to read."--Sharon Hinck, author of Renovating Becky Miller and Symphony of Secrets "Virginia Smith has created a charming and humorous novel that celebrates small-town life, generations of women caring for each other, and the value of finding a deeper, more active faith."--Sharon Dunn, author of the Bargain Hunters mysteries Virginia Smith is a writer of humorous novels, a speaker, and an avid scuba diver. She launched her career as a novelist with the release Just As I Am in 2006, and has been writing fiction ever since. She and her husband, Ted, divide their time between Kentucky and Utah, and escape as often as they can for diving trips to the Caribbean.
I chose the book "Stuck in the middle" by Virginia Smith. The book looked like it would be a book that I would read. I read a couple of the first pages and i liked it. It would be a book that I would recommend people our ages to read.
~ Haley L.
Betweeen Shades of Grey
ReplyDeleteBy Ruta Sepetys
Goodreads.com says...
Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. Until one night when Soviet officers barge into her home, tearing her family from the comfortable life they've known. Separated from her father, forced onto a crowded and dirty train car, Lina, her mother, and her young brother slowly make their way north, crossing the Arctic Circle, to a work camp in the coldest reaches of Siberia. Here they are forced, under Stalin's orders, to dig for beets and fight for their lives under the cruelest of conditions.
Lina finds solace in her art, meticulously - and at great risk - documenting events by drawing, hoping these messages will make their way to her father's prison camp to let him know they are still alive. It is a long and harrowing journey, spanning years and covering 6,500 miles, but it is through incredible strength, love, and hope that Lina ultimately survives. Between Shades of Gray is a novel that will steal your breath and capture your heart.
rundpinne.com says...
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys is an astonishingly beautiful book about a very ugly time in history. While I studied Soviet history and foreign policy extensively, lived in the former USSR and was fully aware of Stalin’s regime and his massacre of 20 million people, even I was touched by Between Shades of Gray. To be quite honest, I was hoping this was a non-fiction book, and somehow I completely missed the fact that it was targeted as a young adult novel until I began reading this remarkable book. I usually do not review young adult books and because I do not, I have no point of reference to compare this book with other young adult books. What I can share with the readers is the beauty found in the strength of the characters, the humanity found in inhumane times, and love blooming where it would seem most unlikely. Sepetys draws the reader into this time in history, brings the characters to life and allows the reader to really see things as they were, cruel, cold, hard, and despite all odds, love and compassion shine through. Many people are hard pressed to name the Baltic states, let alone know what those states endured to gain their independence in 1991, and Between Shades of Gray allows readers an intimate inside look. I would whole-heartedly recommend Between Shades of Gray to everyone.
I’m not usually very interested in historically based novels, but this one sounds very interesting. I think books about hard times in people’s lives are the best reads. They usually have a deep, meaningful plot and can be related to many of the reader’s lives. Even if you have never been through a war, lost a family member, or whatever else, you can still relate to a character’s reactions, emotions, and outlooks on life.
This project was definitely worth while. I think I’m going to look for a way to get my hands on this book. It seems like one I could really enjoy.
~Kyley Vandermark
Rachel Grausgruber...
ReplyDeleteFrom the way the kids in our class talk about Ellen Hopkins, I have been wanting to read one of her books as well. I just don't know which one to start with. As shown in the reviews you posted, her books slightly connect with the plot of previous ones. Anyways, Perfect sounds like a really good book. I think I'm going to try to read it too.
~Kyley Vandermark
From BARNES & NOBLE
ReplyDeleteThe book that interested me the most is Before I Fall, by Lauren Oliver.
Samantha Kingston just about has it all. From popularity to getting everything. But on a Friday in February she starts one of her seven chances to relive her last day.
I have wanted to read this book for a while now and I have heard many good reviews from people who have read this book before. What makes me interested in the book looking at BARNES & NOBLE is the overveiw on the back of the book cover. The author makes it sounds so interesting and spectacular.
Customer review
I easily get fustrated by books that I read because I tend to be pretty picky. I like books that really play with my emotions, ones that might make me cry and ones that I can relate to. So many silly teen novels are out of the question just because I like a more serious read. I judge books by seeing if i can put the book down easily or do I stay up to the wee hours to finish it. So I took out this book because it looked good and was surprised by how much I loved it!! I can relate to it, being a teenager girl myself, it's thrilling, left me wanting more. I could not put the book down!! That's an extremely good sign! The story gets better as the book progesses and the book really makes you think. I loved that about it. It also makes you wonder what you would do if you were in Sam's sitation. All I can say is: you really have to read this book!
Customer review
"Before I Fall" is a book appropriate for teens and adults. It's an enjoyable read and does something few books can these days...it makes one think. Even after the book was finished, I continued to think about the characters and I also thought about what I would do if I were in the same situation as the main character. This is a great story with characters you can love and hate for all the right reasons. It's a good thing to be entertained and learn something about yourself at the same time. I'd definitely recommend this book.
Rachel- Ellin Hopkins is such a good writer and she makes all of her books super interesting defenitly worthwhile to read. Good choice of book too that one in particular is very good. -Bridget Smith.
ReplyDeleteTO Bridget: I like the novel you chose. It is a book that gives a girl seven chances to relive her last day on earth. That would be something i wish I could do. Very interesting choice though, I like it. David Mckee
ReplyDeleteBridget, I like the book that you picked for your blog. I think it's interesting and catches your attention. From reading the reviews you posted it looks like a book that I would read.
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Dan, I love that movie and also football is my passion.The movie teaches you such a great lesson on life experiences.The makes you wanna take nothing make it into something and life life to the fullest.
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Kyley- By the way the reviews talk about the book, Between Shades of Grey sounds like a great book to read. I am not usually into historically based stories either, but this one does sound very good. I would like to get my hands on this book too and open it to see how good the reviews say it is. Great job!
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Haley, I like the book you have chosen a lot. It seems to interest me and it would be a book that I wouldn't mind reading. It sounds like it is full of suspense. Good job Haley.
ReplyDelete-Kaitlyn Wingerter
Deidra, I think the books that you had chosen were great. They sound like something that I might read in the future. Good job! ~ Haley L
ReplyDeleteMatt, I love watching basketball too. I not a big fan of playing it, but any book that has sports i probally would read.
ReplyDelete-Dan Babcock
rachel,
ReplyDeletei know that i have touse more details but i did not know alot about the book though.
shawne leonard
Matt, good review. I liked it because I also like basketball. And also it sounds like a good book about basketball.
ReplyDeleteJeremy Bevis
Raven, I thoght your review was really good. I think that the book you are interested seems relateable to anyone that is in a tough situation. I also think that the characters are very well developed.
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ReplyDeleteDan Babcock, I like your blog for certain reasons. One I liked how your blog was short sweet and to the point. I also liked how the guys name is James “Boobie” Miles. And I realized that your book is all about sports which is only somewhat interesting to me.
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Dan Babcock
ReplyDeleteI really like your post. I also love football stories/movies. In this story I really like the character "Boobie" I like how he plays and handles himslef. very good job Dan.
~Matt Mills
Bevis, The book that you chose sounds very interesting. It sounds like my kind of book. I have read the first book and I am really anxious to read the second book. I really hope you prosper in the rest of your years.
ReplyDeleteJason Lobdell
Kyley I like the book you chose, it looks like something I would read.It looks intresting! :)
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That book looks really interesting Kyley, and it definitely looks like something you would pick up and read. Reading a book in time period would be really cool.
ReplyDeleteDeidra, I'm really interested in reading "Son of Neptune" as well. I love Rick Riordan and the Percy Jackson series, so I'm sure this one would be interesting,too.
ReplyDeleteKayleigh L.