MMGRRAARGHGRARGH

That's pretty much all my feelings about this book.

A translation:
MMGRRAARGHGRARGH= Oh my gosh this book is so so wonderful I cannot stop reading it it is wonderful and beautiful and wonderful.

But then again, when do I read a book and not like it? It's been a while since that's happened.

I've Been Busy (Not Really)

I finished this book recently and decided it would be good to put down my thoughts about it, since it's been talked about a lot.

The book is about two twins, Josh and Sophie Newman, who discover that the bookseller that Josh works for is actually the immortal Nicholas Flamel. Flamel and his wife, Perenelle, are the guardians of the Book of Abraham, which is a collection of magical spells, prophecies, and various other things. When the evil Dr. John Dee finds Flamel, he attacks and steals the book. Josh and Sophie help Flamel in recovering it, but are soon hunted by Dee as well.

I thought the book was a little boring, especially in the beginning. The characters don't really have strong personalities, so it's kind of hard to connect with them. (Listen to me, acting like I actually know stuff.) The story is interesting though, once you get about halfway through the book.

Apparently it's being turned into a movie, so we'll see how that goes.



This is the most recent book in my new favorite series. It's the sixth book, and there are still more to come. This one only just came out on March 10, I think. I'm not sure on that date. Maybe it was the ninth. I read this entire book in about four hours. Anyway, this entire series is amazing. I was a little skeptical about it at first, but now I can't wait till the next one comes out! Hurry up, James Patterson! It's been over a month since this one came!

Anyway.

They're making a movie for this series as well. I think it comes out 2013, so there's still a wait. It's rumored that the director for the Twilight movies is going to direct it, and Kristen Stewart and what's-his-face-Pattinson are going to play the two main characters. Kristen I have no problem with, but that stupid vampire guy? Nononononononononono! Robert playing Fang could quite possibly be the worst thing that could happen.

Ahem. Continuing. So now I'm going to start reading The Magician, which is the second Nicholas Flamel book.

A Change In Thought

Remember earlier, when I talked about The Angel Experiment? Yeah, and I said I wasn't sure whether I like it or not. Well, after finishing the fifth book, I've reached a verdict: I am in love with them(not too surprising, considering the amount of books that I am in love with). The sixth one came out recently, and I've put it on hold at my school library for now. So.

For Your Enjoyment

The Angel Experiment, from the Maximum Ride series, is about a girl named Maximum Ride who is only 98% human. The other 2% is bird. She was made at a place called the School, where they do several types of animal testing. She and the Flock (five other children like her) escaped from there and are now living in the woods, in hiding from the Erasers, who are wolf-like creatures that work for the School and have been hunting them down. Soon, the youngest of the Flock is captured by the Erasers and taken back to the School. So she and the Flock journey back to the place they hate most to rescue her.

I love this book and I hate it at the same time. If that makes any sense. It's much different than anything else I've read. I'm sort of confused as to what I think about it. Some parts of the actual story are simply so annoying that I can't get over them, and yet I can't stop reading. I know I'll end up reading the rest of the series anyway.

A New Book Recommendation

On Thursday I finished reading The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak.


The book takes place in Germany in 1939 (WWII). It starts out with a 10 year old girl named Liesel Meminger who is moving to a home in a small town called Molching with her younger brother.They are going to live with foster parents: Hans and Rosa Hubermann. To get there, they are forced into an extremely cramped train, much like the ones the Jews were forced to ride to the concentration camps. Unfortunately, her brother dies on that train and is buried at the next stop. This is when Lieel commits her first act of book thievery. She picks up The Grave Digger's Handbook and learns to read from Hans Hubermann. Here she begins to fall in love with books and the words in them. She starts to steal books from various places: Nazi book burnings, the mayor's wife's library, etc. Soon, her family hides a Jew in their basement and she sees things in a new light.

Personally, I thought this book was amazing. I couldn't stop reading it. The way the author told the story made it interesting, even if the story itself was not (which it was, anyway). It was a whole new perspective on the Holocaust, and that's not all it was about, either.
I don't really know how to describe it without giving away some important factors. It would spoil the point of reading it.

A note: it is for older readers. I read it because it was recommended to me (and I'm glad).

The Lightning Thief

Before I say anything else: I am a huge fan of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series.

Yesterday I went and saw the movie, and being the fan that I am, I absolutely hated it. Like all book-movies, half the actual story was skipped. There were many random scenes that had no place and were completely irrelevant. Most of the characters' appearances were totally off, and so were the sets. They also had things from the second book in it.
For example, Annabeth is supposed to look like this:

Then how did they get this?Some of the most important things were entirely skipped. I don't know if they'll be making the rest of the books into movies as well, but if they do, then it will be hard because the stories of the rest of them are based on what happens in the first book. If you don't have those simple things in the first movie, then you can't make the second one. If you can't make the second, you can't make the third, and so on.

However, I won't say it was a waste of time. It makes sense to delete some things for time's sake. Even without most of the story, it was still two and a half hours long. And if you ignore the book, the movie was pretty good . (Although I still don't understand why most of the audience consisted of four and five year olds.) Really, the only problem I had was how inaccurate it was. I would definitely recommend watching the movie.