Blog 1 (The Real One)

The City of Bones

Part 1-2 Pages 1-188

This is the current book I am reading in my reading club and is in a series called the Mortal Instruments. This book by Cassandra Clare is the first book in the series and is quite the adventure/fantasy type of book. This time I'm doing 2 parts because it would be awkward to start on the second stage. Alright so the main character in this book, Clary; is seeing demons and all those other monsters and then witnesses one getting slain by a shadow hunter, the good guys. After her mom gets kidnapped, she has to stay at the Institute where shadowhunters Jace, Alec and Isabelle live. It's good that there's strong drama when the story slows down, but one thing to watch out is all the disturbing parts. The story has an interesting concept of how the world works, which one of the few parts I look for in books; a well explained view of how things work. Anyways, demons come from different dimesions and are the evil guys who eat normal people up. So at the beginning of time, the "Angel" created a group of men into Shadowhunters using the Mortal Cup, read a lot of things like that. So that's how the Shadowhunters helped humans, (although they are humans themselves...) Now interestingly, the book then blends in real legends and gives the missing info and makes it all make sense. By this I mean your legendary monster/creature. Witches, werewolves, vampires, faeries and all those other Hocus Pocus stuff are actually half bloods... half demon half human. And that's where the true villain comes in, and amazingly its not a demon but actually a shadowhunter! Valentine, Clary's mother Joceyln's old husband got banished and dissapeared after trying to kill all the "downworlders"(witches...) and was taken down by the Shadowhunter government, the Clave. Very interesting concept of how things work and really cool characters. I was supposed to read to the part where they were about to meet Magnus Bane, a sorcerer who put a mind block into Clary's head, but honestly... I've read way past that... in fact I'm almost finished. So overall I think this is a pretty cool book and so far I give it a...

City of Bones> Cool Trailer I Found.

This is not mine, I found it on the internet and it seemed pretty cool. Not the official trailer, I don't even think a movie is coming out.

I'm gonna give this video a rating of

Pepe Reina 1/5

Not really, can't believe I picked this up. Of course this is my opinion.

Jose Pepe Reina
Keeper
Spanish Keeper
Just cause he's 1/5 doesn't mean he's bad...
He's good...

Dirk Kuyt 2/5

Ok Book, and has potential. But was a bit slow at the start.


Dirk Kuyt
Very Good and getting better
Midfielder

Jamie Carragher 3/5

Great Book. Got me reading it in my spare time, but there were some parts that I didn't understand.



Jamie Carragher
English Team Defender
Fan Favourite

Fernando Torres 4/5

This book scored loads of points and is definitely one of my favourites. Just it was so close to being perfect.


Fernando Torres
2007-08 Liverpool Leading Scorer
Highest scorer for a non-English player in Premier League

Steven Gerrard 5/5

WOW! This book was excellent!!! Perfect score.


Steven Gerrard
Liverpool Captain
My Favourite Player

Rating System

Rating System-
So I'm supposed to make a rating system to rate my books out of 5, but instead of using stars, I'll be using my very own symbols. Now there were a few options that I might of took, and they all have do with soccer. Now I like to play sports, soccer my favourite, and obviously my favourite team Liverpool would probably be the system, but I was choosing between different soccer balls, different cups, different teams, heck I might have even done different countries. But in the end, I chose to use different player jerseys(of course Liverpool), and here they are.

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.