Waste Of A Half-Hour

Barely done any reading since the last post! This summer has gone by so fast it's ridiculous! Gotten farther in The Battle For Scandia. Almsot done with another book called Christy. That one is pretty good. Not a book that I would pick out for myself but it's entertaining. I like it alot.

The other night I picked up this really thin book called the Green Back Book I think. I can't remember the author's name mostly because it was the stupidest book I ever read. And it said on the back that it won some book of the year award! It SOOOOO did not deserve it! It had NO plot, things just kind of happened and it was only 7 short chapters long. So there wasn't any time to have anything happen. And it ended with the same sentence it began with so you could just read it over and over and over and over again and it would flow really smoothly! It was just plain dumb! I was a waste of a half hour.

Well, that's as far as I've gotten so far......

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Summer Reading Begins

Finished Icebound Land about a week and a half ago and immediately started The Battle for Scandia. Now I'm about half way through that. I can not get over how much I LOVE those books. It's fun to re-read them and see how much Will and Horace grow as people and learn to make a good come back when Halt playfully jabs at them.
OK, for school, I have not gotten into To Kill A Mockingbird yet, but I will soon. I did read, however, a book called After the Dancing Days by Margaret Rostkowski. It was good, I like it. It was about a young girl, Annie, right after World War I and how she adjusts to the changes the war made and makes a friend at the hospital for injured soldiers who aren't able to go home yet. Cute story and had a good lesson. 
I also read a book by Beverly Cleary, a well-known children's author, called Dear Mr. Henshaw. This book was a bout a boy in six grade who is having some problems adjust to a new school and having his parents divorced and his dad gone. It is written in a form of letters half to the boy's favorite author and half to his diary (yes, he calls it a diary). It was OK, definitely an real easy read and not a book I would read for fun.
Next book I'm going to read is Christy, an older book and I can't remember the author right now. But that's all folks!!! =D


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The Emperor of Nihon-Ja

Ok, finished Emperor of Nihon-Ja awhile ago, but I got so busy I kept for getting to blog about it. Well, it was a great book. Evenlyn and Alyss are both in it and Flanagan brings back a former character from a past book. It was very interesting since Flanagan used actual Japanese words and culture in the book. I liked it a lot, not my favorite but definitely a good read. The ending was satisfying, and I like it, but with that ending it almost opens it for another book. I hope there is another one, but we shall see...
Still reading The Icebound Land, almost done with it then I will read The Battle for Scandia. Then I think I will take a break from Ranger's Apprentice and work on some extra reading for school, begining with To Kill A Mockingbird. I've heard it's really good, and can't wait to start it.
Well that is it for now....

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Ranger's Apprentice Over?!?!?!?!?!

Ok, got Emperor of Nihon-Ja in the mail today and I immedietly read the synopsis is the side flap cover. The two things I took from it is 1) Halt will not be in this book and 2) this is the last book in the series!!!!!! I really really really hope it is not the last, I still think that Will should get his own apprentice, which would be amazing! Even if this is the end of the Ranger's Apprentice Epic, John Flanagan is coming out with a book in October called The Lost Stories. It will still be considered part of the series but it is a bunch of stories from in between all the books including more about Halt and Will's relationship, Alyss and hopefully some of Horace. I am excited for that one, but still wishing the series would not end. I did start it and I can confirm that Halt is in it (YAYYYYY!!!!) but to exactly how everything goes and turns out, I (and you) can only read and see.......

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Ranger's Apprentice book 10: The Emperor of Nihon-Ja is out!!!!!

So yesterday I had a little celebration. The Emperor of Nihon-Ja is out in stores. I bought it last night off of amazon and expecting the package on Saturday!! I can't wait! 

In the past week, I finished Halt's Peril and Emma. I love both of those books despite the drastic differences between them. 

Started The Icebound Land (Ranger's Apprentice #3). Since I read the second I figured I should finish that section of the series. Maybe I will get through this one and The Battle for Scandia before I get the 10th. ;)

Well, nothing exciting really besides the release of that and the 2nd Kane Chronicles book is coming out very soon! Hoping to read that one too!

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Beauty and the Beast Galore!!!!!

Ok, finished Blank Confession, two days after starting it. It was a short book and I really liked it. Definitely for teens and adults, because of the topics in it, but it is not a bad book.
Started Beast imedietly after finished Blank Confession. It took me a little bit longer to get through, but it was pretty good. It was fascinating how the beast was so much like the lion he looked like. Napoli did an amazing job with it. Again not for kids under 13.
Saturday night, I went to Barnes and Nobel and bought Beastly by Alex Finn. The movie has just recently been released in theaters and I'm hoping to see it soon. The book was fantastic (I finished it last night after starting it yesterday morning), I really liked it. It's written from main character, Kyle's point of view. In the beginning he is the biggest jerk ever! but he gets so much better. Even though I haven't seen the movie I can already tell one difference: the book describes him as hairy with claws and fangs, in the movie he just has scars and tattoos all over his body. Not a big deal, but still. I loved the book and can't wait to see the movie.
For school, I'm reading Emma. I spent most of Friday reading it and got 35 chapters into it, got 20 more to go....I like the story a lot. I've seen the movies so it's not too confusing. Emma has a lot more dialog in it then some of Jane Austen's other novels, which I like a lot. Need to finish it soon then I can get working on Beowulf.
At night when I'm not reading for school, I'm reading Halt's Peril. Just kinda waisting my time till Ranger's Apprentice #10: Emperor of Nihon-Ja comes out (April 19th). Just can't wait!!

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Library Trip

OK, been a while, but haven't been doing much reading. I finished Vampire Diaries. It is such a strange book, I seriously can't make up my mind on it. There is so much mystery and old myth going on its hard to keep track, not to mention the constant twists in the story. It is reasonably well written and I like it, just a little shaken after reading it.
Over vacation this past week I started Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. A timeless classic, one I haven't gotten the chance to read yet. I love the movie and the book it written beautifully, but it is a very slow read and can get boring easily because of the little dialog, which I tend to be fond of. She doesn't describe the scenery much, but the characters shes goes into full detail about them, even if it takes the whole book to finish.
From the library today, I got Blank Confession by Pete Hautman and Beast by a Donna Jo Napoli. Started Blank Confession this afternoon. Its about a kid named Shayne Blank who walks into a police station and confesses to killing someone. It goes back and forth from him and the detective to the story told from a kid named Mikey's point of view. Its confusing and a little weird, but the story seemed interesting and I like it so far. Beast is the story "Beauty and the Beast" with a twist. Napoli has written several books and all of them are old stories from over a thousand years ago retold with her personal twist. I am a huge fan of Beauty and the Beast and just had to read it.
Though I haven't read much recently, I'm trying to pick up on it, I miss my books. =)

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