New Releases!!!

Sooo since the month began 3 new books have come out. Inheritance, number of the Inheritance series by Christopher Paolini, The Lost Stories by John Flanagan, and the first book of The Brotherband Chronicles also by John Flanagan! Very exciting month. The sad part: I haven't read any of them yet! =( but I hope to soon...
Finished The Throne of Fire last week, awesome book I love Rick Riordan.
Also finished the book I was reading for school called the Flames of Rome. It was historical fiction during the reign if Nero when he was persecuting Christians. Great book I loved it. The author has written other christian historical fiction and I really want to read more by him. It definitely is a young adult book, for the content. A lot of stuff not for younger kids. But great book none the less.
I finally got The Power of Six book 2 of the Lorien Legacies. It followed Four and Six as they run away from the Morgadorians and find a way of meeting up with the other numbers. It also follows Seven as she tries to train herself in Spain. It was a goos read and I can't wait fir the next one to come out in the spring.
Now for school I'm reading The Shining Company by Rosemary Sutcliff. So far it's kinda boring but I'm not that far into it. I don't really know what the plot is yet either but it's for school so I don't have much of a choice in the matter.
That's all folks!
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School Reading

So....not much reading has been done lately....school officially started and I just finished the first book for English. A cute book call Pictures of Hollis Wood by Patricia Reilly Giff. I liked it a lot. Hollis Wood is a twelve year old orphan girl and an amazing artist, who is by almost every one a trouble maker. Until she spends a summer with the Regans. And there she gets the chance to become part of the family, but last minute she changes her mind and she runs away again. She gets put into a home with an elderly lady named Josie. But Josie forgets things and that threatens Hollis' chance of staying with her. It alternated from "Time with Josie" and "pictures." Each picture was a memory from the summer with the Regans. So it follows Hollis through her stay with Josie as she remembers the life she could of had with the Regans. Very good book, I really liked  it. 
I also recently started reading The Throne of Fire (Kane Chronicles book 2 by Rick Riordan). So far, amazing. Same Riordan style that everyone loves. Haven't finished it quite yet but I am deep into the plot. This one follows Carter and Sadie as they find away to wake up the sun god Ra. And they got a five day deadline, with more than one group of people trying to kill them. Usual Riordan story, but still amazing. It has some new characters which everyone will love and they go to new places that you would never guess to find Egyptian mythology stuff. Great read!
I also recently was given The Lord of the Rings trilogy box set in hardback!!! I was so excited I started reading Fellowship of the Ring immediately. I had read the first two before, but I don't remember much and I thought it would be better to start over then start in Return of the King. Tolkien does write slow and details EVERYTHING, it still has a great moving story. The Fellowship of the Ring I believe has the most differences between the book and the movie in the whole trilogy. And you really don't know the whole story unless you read the book! Highly recommended!!
Still haven't finished Wuthering Heights. But that's OK, I will get there again......someday....maybe. Haha just kidding. I will finish it before the year is over, hopefully. Also getting from the library is one of the original Beauty and the Beast versions EVER. It was written in the early 1700's in French, and I need it for my essay I'm writing for school this year. So I'm going to be reading that too.
OK I think I'm all caught up now!


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New series!!!!!

OK, since Thursday, I have started Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. I'm getting through it kind of slow, but it's a harder read then I have been reading and it's a little weird. Recently, I watched Gone With the Wind and Wuthering Heights reminds me of it. Everybody treats each other so horribly, it's ridiculous. I guess I like it, it's just a little weird. It was not written in the style I was expecting. The actual story of Cathy and Heathcliff is being told by a maid from her memories but a nosy visitor 20 years after it all happens. That confused me a little bit but I think I got it now.
So, the title of the post is 'new series,' well that's because John Flanagan (Ranger's Apprentice series) is coming out with a new series called Brotherband Chronicles. It's release date is November 1st and I have been wondering what took me so long to find out about it. From what I can find out off of Barnes and Nobel's website it seems to mostly be in Scandia focusing of a band of outcasts there. Maybe eventually, Flanagan will bring back the rangers made famous in his first series, but we shall see. I really can't wait to read it and "The Lost Stories" coming out October 4th.

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5 Books In 4 Days

Finally finished Christy, after taking all Summer to read it. I didn't like the ending. I much liked David more than the doctor, but oh well. Cute book though.
On Monday, I read To Kill A Mockingbird. I loved that book. It was amazing. What I didn't get was the title, it really had nothing to do with the book or story what so ever but I don't care. Awesome book and it deserves an awesome title.
On Tuesday I read From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg. Really cute book about two kids who decide to run away from home and live in the Metropolitan Museum in New York City. They eventually wind up trying to figure out a mystery. The whole book is written from Mrs. Frankweiler's point of view as a letter to her lawyer. It's a great book and really easy read.
On Wednsday, I read, A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck. Another real easy read as well as entertaining. This book follows 15 year old Mary Alice who goes to spend a year with her grandmother in the middle of know where Illinois while her father looks for a job during the depression. What makes it interesting is her grandmother. She's someone you never know what to expect from her, about anything. You make think you know her, but then she goes and proves you wrong again. I liked it, but it was a little slow for me.
Today I read Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli. I really like this book. It is about Jeffrey Magee who loses his parents in a train crash when he was three, then goes and lives with his Aunt and Uncle. After 8 years of that he runs and way and shows up in a small segregated town. Jeffery is white but makes friends and lives with the black people of the East side of town. When an elderly man gets after him for being different, Jeffrey leaves and joins the west side. The book follows him as he does impossible feat after impossible feat. And the town names him Maniac Magee. Great book and an pretty easy read.
Don't know yet what I'm reading tomorrow, but I think my reading is going to slow down a little bit because I'm leaving for vacation tomorrow. So will give an update when I return.

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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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