My new favorite movie- the King's Speech.

Friday, May 20, 2011

The Throne of Fire

The Throne of Fire is a 464 page book by Rick Riordan. Carter and Sadie Kane must awaken the sun god Ra using their extensive magic skills before the equinox or... well... *BOOM*.

Saturday, April 30, 2011

Mockingjay

Mockingjay is the finale of the Hunger Games trilogy, and boy did it make me think. After Katniss has been turned into a murderer from the Hunger Games, and Peeta, her boyfriend, has been kidnapped, she joins a band of rebels and becomes their figurehead. Mentally scarred from the Games, she has constant trauma and nightmares.

Pages: 390

Catching Fire

Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins, is the sequel to the Hunger Games. Katniss has returned alive from the Hunger Games, but the dastardly leader of the Capitol, President Snow, has to make sure she doesn't start a rebellion amongst the citizens. His motive is that she acts right- or her family will not survive.

Pages: 391

I just had to put this picture of Katniss Here:
Brooding Katniss - the-hunger-games fan art

The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games is an action-packed, thought-provoking novel. It is set in a    futuristic society in a country called Panem, which is made up of a Capitol and twelve surrounding districts. The Capitol cruelly takes food, products, money, and other things from the people of the districts. But that is not the worst of it. Fifty or so years before the book took place, the districts revolted against the Capitol. The Capitol won, and, in punishment for the revolution, forced each district to send one boy and one girl each year, to participate in the Hunger Games. In the Games, contestants are thrown into an untamed and wild "Arena" where they battle each other to the death until they are the only one alive. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen's sister is chosen to go to the games, but Katniss volunteers in her stead. Once she enters the Arena, her whole life changes.

Pages: 375

Friday, April 29, 2011

OMZ!!!!!!!!!!!!

At first I thought it was Bieber himself singing this: Doesn't sound much different from him.



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Thursday, April 28, 2011

Les Miserables

Les Miserables is a stunning account of the lives of several people during the French Revolution.

JEAN VALJEAN
One of the main characters is Jean Valjean, a convict who was sent to jail for stealing a loaf of bread for his family. After being released from prison, he met a kind bishop who gave him lodging for the night. However, despite the bishop's kindness, he stole from the priest and ran away. He was caught, and about to be sent to prison, but the bishop said he had given Jean Valjean the silver, to allow him to become a better man. Valjean leaves and becomes an extremely succesfull honest buisnessman.

FANTINE
Fantine is a poor mother who does not have enough money to raise her child, Cosette. So she gives Cosette to a wicked innkeeper named Thenardier, who forces Cosette to do all the housework. Fantine is provoked by a man, and she attacks him, condemning her to jail. But she is freed by Jean Valjean, who has become mayor of the town, but she gains a fever, and is slowly dying. Jean Valjean goes and buys Cosette from the Thenardiers, and returns to Fantine to find out fantine is dead.

COSETTE
Jean Valjean becomes Cosette's father and lives happily with her for several years. Inspector Javert, a prison guard when Valjean was in the galleys, gains a lead on Valjean's whereabouts and begins to hunt him down. Valjean is thrown back in prison but escapes and returns to Cosette.

MARIUS
Marius is a young man who falls in love with Cosette. He hopes to propose to her, but the Revolution begins, and he enters the battlefield. Meanwhile, Javert has another lead on Valjean.

WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT????????????

READ THIS BOOK

Pages: 585x2= 1170

Or (this was really hard to put together):
Marius and Cosette fall in love in the dangerous streets of Revolting Paris, while Jean Valjean attempts to avoid the policeman Javert.

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Charles and Mary Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare

Charles and Mary Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare is a collection of Shakespeare's plays written in story form. They include plays such as, The Taming of the Shrew, Othello, Cymbeline, As You Like It, and Pericles, Prince of Tyre. Im higly recommend this book to anyone wanting to know more about Shakespeare. (And it gives you quite abit of Enrichment Reading Pages)

Pages= 303 x 2= 606 pages total