If I Stay
"I feel Adam's grip tighten, so that the grasp of his hand feels like it is holding my entire body"
"His face, illuminated by the lights, is blank, like someone vacuumed away all his personality, leaving only a mask."
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Fullmetal Alchemist best book of 2014
my favorite books of all time are comic books and mangas and Fullmetal Alchemist takes the cake for my best book of 2014. Here is a brief synopsis about how the series began.
The Elric Brothers (Edward Elric and Alphonse Elric) saw their mother dying on the floor with an illness and the doctors couldn't cure her and she died so the Elric Brothers try to find a way to bring mom back so they try Human Transmutation which is taboo among alchemists. in alchemy there is a law called "Equivalent Exchange" which states "To obtain, something of equal value must be lost" and when they tried to bring her back to life something went completely wrong, the monstrosity they made was not their mother it was........something else...... and the law of "Equivalent Exchange" Began to take into place. Edward lost his right arm and his left leg and Alphonse lost his whole body but his soul was still there so Edward found a suit of armor and used his own blood from his lost arm and leg to make a blood seal into the suit of armor so he can transfer his soul into the suit and lieutenant Colonel Mustang hears about Edward and goes over there only just to realize that he is just 12 years old but he still recruits Edward Elric and calls him by his codename which was named Fullmetal and that's why he is called the Fullmetal Alchemist and Edward gets recruited to a State Alchemist.
The Elric Brothers (Edward Elric and Alphonse Elric) saw their mother dying on the floor with an illness and the doctors couldn't cure her and she died so the Elric Brothers try to find a way to bring mom back so they try Human Transmutation which is taboo among alchemists. in alchemy there is a law called "Equivalent Exchange" which states "To obtain, something of equal value must be lost" and when they tried to bring her back to life something went completely wrong, the monstrosity they made was not their mother it was........something else...... and the law of "Equivalent Exchange" Began to take into place. Edward lost his right arm and his left leg and Alphonse lost his whole body but his soul was still there so Edward found a suit of armor and used his own blood from his lost arm and leg to make a blood seal into the suit of armor so he can transfer his soul into the suit and lieutenant Colonel Mustang hears about Edward and goes over there only just to realize that he is just 12 years old but he still recruits Edward Elric and calls him by his codename which was named Fullmetal and that's why he is called the Fullmetal Alchemist and Edward gets recruited to a State Alchemist.
Friday, January 16, 2015
Survival series by A. America
These 5 books in the Survival series was by far the best book series I've ever read. I decided to write about this series because it was basically the only series i got into and couldn't stop reading. The main plot of this series is the collapse of the government and power so people have to survive on their own. Of course no one is able to do too well. Morgan and his family and friends survive in their neighborhood, fighting off raiders that are desperate to steal supplies. The reason I liked this series is because it had the survival theme in the whole thing. I personally got really into the survival and military action in this book. It got me on the edge of the seat when I was reading, and like I said earlier, I never wanted to stop reading the book. This series will forever keep me interested in survival books of course. But what will really stay with me is the theme. The theme of the government collapsing and everyone going crazy because no one really knows how to survive without electricity, cars, or stores. Its scary to think what would we do if it all happened to us.
It would be the end of the world maybe...
Transformers by Alex Irvine
I chose this book because it was fun to read and it had a lot of action. The story has a interesting plot and middle school kids would want to read this. I enjoyed the characters too.
The plot is about a war on the planet of Cybertron. The two main characters are Optimus Prime and Megatron they are fighting against each other in the war. They are both transformers and they can transform into vehicles. They are fighting over the planet.
What I liked specifically about this book was the book was action packed.It had war scenes. There was action in every chapter.
The part of the book that sticks with me is that machines would have a bigger impact in our society in the future
Best Book of 2014
from all the books I read on 2014 I choose Harry Potter and the order of the phoenix, it was actually pretty hard to choose the best book between all of them but the harry potter series are different from all the books I have read because it makes you see you picture every thing in the book in your mind and gets you completely in the detail that is one of the reasons that made the book more than 800 pages, but it was pretty fun reading the book.
The plot is mostly the people from the past books that are studying in Hogwarts which is a school for wizards and in this book there is a new person, kind of a bad one, named professor Umbridge that is going to irritate the kids a lot, but the most important is in the end when harry meets Voldemort again which I don't want to give away. I highly suggest this book for you to read during the summer, don'
t read it during the school year because it is long.
The thing I liked the most about the book is the way that the writer gives life to each character and how you can easily picture the whole scene in your mind.
I think the friendship that the kids have together that makes them more powerful than Voldemort makes me remember that friendships are more strong than many destructive forces in the world and how it shows that violence is not the answer.
The plot is mostly the people from the past books that are studying in Hogwarts which is a school for wizards and in this book there is a new person, kind of a bad one, named professor Umbridge that is going to irritate the kids a lot, but the most important is in the end when harry meets Voldemort again which I don't want to give away. I highly suggest this book for you to read during the summer, don'
t read it during the school year because it is long.
The thing I liked the most about the book is the way that the writer gives life to each character and how you can easily picture the whole scene in your mind.
I think the friendship that the kids have together that makes them more powerful than Voldemort makes me remember that friendships are more strong than many destructive forces in the world and how it shows that violence is not the answer.
Best book of 2014
Out of all the books I read my freshman year, my favorite was 'If I stay'.
I chose this book as my favorite because I felt a connection with the main character, Mia.
The book is about a girl named Mia who is the "outcast" of the family. Even though she is very loved by them, she still feels as if she doesn't belong because of the huge differences in their looks, music taste, judgement, ect.. This is also what I liked most about the book.
Feeling like we don't belong to certain group (or even our family) can heavily impact our decisions on some situations. When she is faced with the question to stay with her boyfriend or her family, this feeling has her confused and somewhat irritated. The thing that will always stay with me is even though she felt she does belong, she still tries. She still did what she loved and by the end excepted she was different than her family. Family is our first "group" we learn to belong in. When we start questioning that, a lot can go wrong.
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Blood of Olympus
The best book I read last semester had to be The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan. This book capped off a magnificent spin-off series from the Percy Jackson books that I have followed from the beginning and it was a more than satisfying end to the adventure. The story tells of seven demigods, or half-human, half-God heroes, who are on the last and most dangerous leg of their quest to stop the evil earth mother Gaea from rising at the original home of the Greek gods, Mount Olympus, and unleashing absolute chaos.
Between fighting corrupt gods and horrifying monsters, author Rick Riordan also shows how the relationships between the heroes, some more involved than others, were affected by the events and those prior to this part of the journey. From the start, the book has a fast-paced and humorous feel to it as we see the main one out of several narrators, Jason, struggle up a huge hill thoroughly disguised as an old man in order to spy on a monster encampment in southern Italy. This cover, as would many other plans down the road, failed miserably, but they always have a big flying ship backing them up wherever they go to help get what they need and escape in the most hilariously violent way possible.
At the same time, Greek and Roman demigods back in the United States were fighting over an ancient rivalry involving a 40-foot statue of the goddess Athena that was stolen from the Greeks during the early years of the Roman Empire. It was this statue that another narrator, Nico, was tasked with delivering back to the Greeks to end the rivalry so the sides could be able to co-operate against Gaea's forces. Being a child of Hades, he was able to teleport through the shadows, but it was incredibly taxing as it was; add a statue of that size, and the stress becomes ten times worse. Nico begins to slowly witness the essence of his soul draining away, and this brings on visits from old ghosts, literally and figuratively, including disturbing memories of a foggy past.
The combination of these two story lines makes for a brilliantly laid out and perfectly illustrated tale that was only a classic example of what gave Rick Riordan a name in writing. One thing I will remember about this book and the author in general was his sometimes haunting sense of humor. The best example of this would be the death of a corrupted Roman leader named Octavian. The prophecy that gave the demigods an idea of their fate on this quest involved someone dying to accomplish a certain goal (which is all I can say without giving too much away). But these prophecies all have vague meanings, and one of the biggest factors of this story was the fear among the chosen seven about who was going to die, when it ultimately would not be any one of them; it would be Octavian. But the way he died at a cruel twist of comedy in it, because his final words before launching a very important catapult (still trying not to spoil it) were his boasting a about how he was going to be a hero, the savior of Rome, yada yada yada. What he didn't know, though, was that in his haste to load the catapult, he had entangled his robes with some of the payload that was about to be launched into the sky...
This image depicts the excessive pride behind Octavian's thoughts and actions.
http://independista.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/hubris-gotohead-small.jpg?w=594
Between fighting corrupt gods and horrifying monsters, author Rick Riordan also shows how the relationships between the heroes, some more involved than others, were affected by the events and those prior to this part of the journey. From the start, the book has a fast-paced and humorous feel to it as we see the main one out of several narrators, Jason, struggle up a huge hill thoroughly disguised as an old man in order to spy on a monster encampment in southern Italy. This cover, as would many other plans down the road, failed miserably, but they always have a big flying ship backing them up wherever they go to help get what they need and escape in the most hilariously violent way possible.
At the same time, Greek and Roman demigods back in the United States were fighting over an ancient rivalry involving a 40-foot statue of the goddess Athena that was stolen from the Greeks during the early years of the Roman Empire. It was this statue that another narrator, Nico, was tasked with delivering back to the Greeks to end the rivalry so the sides could be able to co-operate against Gaea's forces. Being a child of Hades, he was able to teleport through the shadows, but it was incredibly taxing as it was; add a statue of that size, and the stress becomes ten times worse. Nico begins to slowly witness the essence of his soul draining away, and this brings on visits from old ghosts, literally and figuratively, including disturbing memories of a foggy past.
The combination of these two story lines makes for a brilliantly laid out and perfectly illustrated tale that was only a classic example of what gave Rick Riordan a name in writing. One thing I will remember about this book and the author in general was his sometimes haunting sense of humor. The best example of this would be the death of a corrupted Roman leader named Octavian. The prophecy that gave the demigods an idea of their fate on this quest involved someone dying to accomplish a certain goal (which is all I can say without giving too much away). But these prophecies all have vague meanings, and one of the biggest factors of this story was the fear among the chosen seven about who was going to die, when it ultimately would not be any one of them; it would be Octavian. But the way he died at a cruel twist of comedy in it, because his final words before launching a very important catapult (still trying not to spoil it) were his boasting a about how he was going to be a hero, the savior of Rome, yada yada yada. What he didn't know, though, was that in his haste to load the catapult, he had entangled his robes with some of the payload that was about to be launched into the sky...
This image depicts the excessive pride behind Octavian's thoughts and actions.
http://independista.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/hubris-gotohead-small.jpg?w=594
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