Blog #5

It's been a while, but I haven't been reading as much lately. I had a lot of homework, and sometimes I just forgot to put something into my blog. My main book that I am reading right now is still Pendragon 9, but I am really close to finishing and am actually starting to like it.

Pendragon is interesting to me because I really like how the story describes about other dimensions of how the world really works and how time actually affects us. After learning a lot more about how our world works and how physics is so confusing and weird. It's sometimes scary to think about what might happen. Because nothing impossible, and at anytime of any moment, the sun could have a hyper-radiactive flare and destroy our whole solar system 8 minutes before we see it ourselves! (After watching the Knowing, I keep thinking that might happen).

Anyways, Pendragon isn't just some normal adventure children's book, the more I find out about the time facts and the other worlds and dimensions of "Halla". For some people, this concept is just plain rubbish. But, everytime I read it, I think I understand everything that D J MacHale wanted the Pendragon world to be like. I like it how the worlds are all in different time zones and they all have "flumes" connecting each other. But, then there's all the things that don't make sense or haven't been cleared yet like how you can control time, and death and if you were Saint Dane (antagonist) you wouldn't just use all your powers instead of distracting Pendragon all the time. I'm waiting for the final book to come out, Pendragon 10 the Warriors of Halla to come out for all the answers to these secrets.

The other book that I kind of read was The Ranger's Apprentice 2 The Burning Bridge. It's a good book, but after reading the Mortal Instruments, I can't really like the boring literature and the crude humour of this book that's written like a fantasy book. I think there's just too much describing of Will's abilities, because I find a lot of what the book says to be cheesy like how Will can't picture what would happen next and how they ask each other the dumbest questions ever.

Another bad part about the Ranger's Apprentice is it's homour, it's just not funny. I think I used to like this book when it described the disciplining of Will more. I will probably start liking it later, but right now, I'm not even going to try. Ranger's Apprentice not what I'd expected.

Rating for Pendragon


Rating for Ranger's Apprentice

First Blog + Manifesto

First Blog-
First of all, these blogs that you are about to read, are actually a school project. This is where I'll be posting what I think about the book I read (currently City of Bones). I'm in a reading club, and my club mates also have their own blogs. (I'll post the links to their websites later). Anyways, the way my group is doing it is by reading a part (about 100 pages) of a book and comment on what we have read so far. That's why sometimes I don't know what happens in the end, because I haven't finished the book yet! Alright, this pretty much concludes my first blog, (more of an introduction... oh well) Next is my Manifesto.

manifesto-

“A manifesto is a public declaration of principles and intentions, often political in nature, but may also be life stance related. However, manifestos relating to religious belief are rather referred to as credo.” Thanks to Wikipedia for the explanation. What did we do before google and wikipedia? I got this from my teacher's website. Check it out at http://literaturecircles.blog.com/

My Manifesto-

First of all, I have to say that I'm not much of a book reader, sure I read a book time to time, but I find it hard to get into most books, I usually only read a certain type of genre which would be adventure or survival. I wouldn't read a book unless it's in a series that I've read before, or my friends recommended it to me. So I hope that while writing these blogs (and reading others), I might find out about more books that I might like and start reading more.