Epic-but not really.

Hey guys! I just completed the book "Epic". When I was halfway through this book, I thought the author should have named it something like "Epically Boring" or "The Big Book of Boredom".  Unfortunately, as the book came to a close, my opinion didn't change. I have to agree with Ameer on this book; it is way too game-ish and scientific.It was also really hard to get a good mental picture of the setting.

 This book is set in the future and is based on another planet because of Earth's destruction.There is this videogame called Epic, that is basically the planet's economy. This game's design allows the players to create their own warrior to fight in big contests between the citizens and Government. The main character, Erik, plays the Epic game day and night to try to destroy the Government's best Warriors.  By destroying the warriors, the entire government would fall and he and the citizens could adjust the laws to their liking. With all of the wealth Erik possessed from slaying  a dragon, he and his friends now have a good chance to defeat the government  of the New Earth.

This is my last glorious blog of the summer. I hope you guys have enjoyed my very memorable blogging . By the way, I do not recommend this book to anybody!Have a good rest of your summer.

The Warrior Heir

Hey guys! I just finshed this book called "The Warrior Heir". This book was pretty hard to get into in the first 150 pages ,but was very interesting throughout the next 500! As I have told you, this book is about wizardry in the present age.If you choose to read this book, be aware that it is Harry-Potter book size!

So, remember how I told you in my last blog about how valuable Warriors were? Well, they are so valuable because of this activity called "The Games". These "Games", are very similar to the Gladiator fights in the Collesium in Rome. The main character, Jack, is a Warrior, and is sold to fight in "The Games". He has to fight in the Games in order to stay alive and to keep his family safe. When I read about the Games, I thought about a man named Henry Brown from the slavery period. This man was sold like Jack and was forced to work with other slaves against his will. Henry eventually got out of slavery by shipping himself in a crate to the Northern Union. Jack also got out of The Games by the mercy of his girlfriend in which he was fighting.After that, they managed to escape from the city in which they had fought.

I recommend this book and would consider buying buy it. If you liked the "Percy Jackson Series", I really recommend this book to you.This book is like a combination of Percy Jackson and wizardry.Read this! Have a good summer!


                                                                                                 LOGAN

Hey guys! I have just read half of a book called "The Warrior Heir".In the beginning of this book, it was hard to understand the changes of the plot and not very interesting. Once I read further into this book, it started to become easier to understand the plots and characters. Anyway, this book is about magic-the kind that a wizard would perform. In this book, the wizards are the most powerful of all the other magical creatures. The other magical creatures and their powers are Enchanters- convince well, Sorcerers-good with potions and poisons, and last of all, Warriors-strength is in physical battle. Warriors are very rare and valuable which happens to be what the main character of the story is-partially. Jack is a very powerful and rare warrior. He is a warrior and wizard mixed together. He is like this because when he was a baby, he was dying and the doctors had to convert him to a warrior and a wizard. As I mentioned before, Warriors are very valuable to wizards. I think humans are the same way with gold. Humans do not only value gold but things like money and power. Like if a wizard captures a warrior then sells it, he becomes rich, and then once he is rich, he is powerful. I think these things are what nearly everyone values besides their faith and reputation.What do you value? Have a good summer!

DO NOT READ

Hey guys! I just finished a terrible book called Savvy. From just reading the summary of the book I already knew what was going to happen in the story. This was a new topic for me since I normally don't read about kids that have super powers. Savvy is one of those books that takes forever to read and was never had a really exciting part. Fish and Mibs are the two main characters in the book. My last blog on this book I ended it with Fish and Mibs sneaking on a bus that would hopefully take them to their dad who is in the hospital and is very sick. They end up riding around in the bus for two days having a bunch of boring conversations and flashbacks to their childhood. Have you ever had to read a book that you did not want to read? I had to read the book "Saavy" because the reading list was not broad enough. After reading the book summary I had a feeling that the book would not be interesting. A suggestion for next year would be to allow students to read two books of their choice and one off of the reading list. I hope "The Warrior Hier" is a good book! I DO NOT RECOMMEND READING THE BOOK "SAAVY".

Calico Joe

Hey guys! Recently, I have been reading a book called "Calico Joe". This book is about an eleven year-old boy named Paul Tracey whose dad played for a baseball team called the Mets. There was a very good rookie baseball player for the Cubs at the time named Calico Joe. He was a brilliant baseball player who had good morals,ethics, and talent. Paul really did not like his dad because he was a jerk, was constantly drunk, and got in many arguements with many people. Like Paul's dad, Paul was a pretty good baseball player himself. He and his dad were both pitchers and struck many batters out. This book reminds me of a book that I had read called "Heat". Both books revolved around baseball and both of the main characters had very diffiult home lives. Also, both main characters lived in New York! Warren Tracey, Paul's dad, was a pretty mean guy. For instance, Warren ended Calico Joe's career by hitting him in the head on purpose. Warren did this because Joe did a fist-pump while rounding the bases after he hit a home-run.Warren was such a jerk that he would not admit that he hit Joe on purpose. Paul hated his dad even more after this because Calico Joe was his idol. This could be similar to one of you family members giving someone like LeBron James or Josh Hamilton permanant brain damage and everyone hating you! In some of my baseball games, I have also been hit by what I think were about personal reasons. Has this ever happened to you? Have a good summer and stay tuned for the ending of "Saavy"! -Logan

Avoid the acts, but read the book!

Hey guys! Have you ever done any daring things? Such as doing a belly-flop off of a high-dive or purposely separating yourself from your parent's in an amusement park to ride one ride? If you have, you need to read this blog. In the book,"Saavy", there are two main characters, Fish and Mibs. In the beginning of the story, their Father is severely injured in a car crash. So, Mibs is about to turn 13, which is the birthday in which she recieves her saavy; her super-power. She thinks that she may be able to save her Father with her saavy. So she and Fish sneak onto a delivery bus in hopes that it will take them to the hospital where her father is hanging onto life by a thread. That is daring, isn't it? Fish, Mib's older brother, has already recieved his saavy, creating hurricanes, and causes a hurricane inside a truck-stop to try to protect a lady from a mean man. As you can see, the main characters in this story pull off some life-threatening and dangerous stunts. I have done some pretty dangerous stunts in my life-time as well. Many of my dangerous stunts involved a bike or dog and resulted very badly for me. One time, I tried to ride my dog like a horse. My dog stood up on his hind legs and I fell off and hit my head on the concrete. Another time, I tried to ride my bike down a forty-foot tall dirt hill. That resulted in me flipping over the handle-bars and nearly breaking my neck. Then one time I decided to jump over a fence to try to pet a dog that looked really friendly. I did not know that pit bulls can be ferocious, slobbering, nasty, mean dogs. So, when I tried to pet the dog, he bit and scratched my legs and arm. This was the first time I had ever wrestled a dog; sadly, I lost. You might think I am quite stupid to do all of these things, but in all of these actions I either was too young to know better, or had an adult with me. Thanks to my youngness and adults, I get beat to pieces. Do Fish and Mib find their father in time to save him?? Stay tuned...

I recently read the Hunger Games then was able to see the movie about the book at the movie theater.  I really liked the movie since it was pretty consistent to the book.  The book is one of my favorite books because I love action/adventure books and this one has lots of both. 

Katniss Everdeen is a tom-boy that spends most of her days in the woods with her best friend Gale killing small animals for food for her family to eat and to sell in the black market in their village.  She has a hard heart partly to do with her father being killed in a coal mine.  Katniss' mother went into a deep depression and could not function, so she was forced to care for her three-member family.  At the age of 14, she had to grow up and experienced the hardship of adulthood long before her time. While she is not made to be a very likable character, you can't help but feel pity for her situation and I ended up respecting her in the end because she did what she had to do to take care of her family and the one other person she loved, Gale. 

I think the producers of the movie cast Katniss' character pretty well, her looks weren't exactly as I had imagined but the actress was able to portray her character perfectly.  The way the setting is made in the movie is interesting and I found that my interpretation of the books descriptions of some things were different that the director's.  For example, the cornucopia in the arena was not as I expected, it was more modern looking and I imagined it to look more like a cornucopia that you would see on a Thanksgiving table.  Something else I thought was interesting was how they made the outfits for Katniss and Peeta for the opening ceremony.  They were made to look like they were on fire but in the movie I didn't think they looked like they were engulfed in flames like the book described. 

Overall, I think the movie was very well done and I would recommend the book and the movie to all of my friends (unless you have a weak stomach and can't handle violent scenes).