Pharaoh

Title:Pharaoh
Author:Valerio Massimo Manfredi
Genre:Historic Fiction
Comments:Just a few more pages and i am finished... :)

After three thousand years,an young archeologists Blake was invited to work on a very interesting case,the tomb of a pharaoh lies in the middle of the desert.Blake was never on a such strange case,he never saw something like this before in his life.Blake excellently finds an under ground tunnel that leads him to the kingdom Babylonia.Maddox his boss does not want to tell Blake in what country he is, because it is a top secret mission.Blake finds out that he is in Iraq an that the whole expedition is illegal and that Maddox only wants to sell the ark , get the money and run away .Blake wants to save his work and publish it.He gets help from a photographer named Sara,he falls in love with here.Finally Blake has opened the ark and inside the ark lied a body of a Pharaoh, he finds a hieroglyph on which it said "in this ark lies the body of Moses". Blake is in shock, he knows that if Maddox sells it that nobody will know about Moses and the whole expedition.When he told Sara about the hieroglyph she told him not to tel a word to Maddox because he will kill him.He didn't listen , he didn't tell Maddox that it is Moses but he told him that on the hieroglyphs there was a curs on which it said: " you will have 24h of darkens and bad luck" .Blake told him that because on television he heard that tomorrow will be a eclipse and the day after will be a terrible storm.Maddox told him that he is going to sell it and he doesn't care, Blake hoped that Maddox will get scared and leave the Pharaoh alone and that he will not sell it.
We will see what will happen , will Maddox get scared and leave it alone or will he sell it ...?

Title: Amber Brown- Is Feeling Blue

Author: Paula Danziger

Genre: Fiction

Comments:

This week I've decided to read something I wouldn't normally read, just for the sake of my "comfort zone." The book, 'Amber Brown is feeling blue' is about a girl called Amber. Her parents divorced about three weeks ago, and her dad moved to another country. Just a few days ago he came back to celebrate Thanksgiving with his girlfriend. Obviously, her mother has a boyfriend and she is planning on celebrating it too. Amber would like to celebrate it with both of her parents, but that would be impossible because they are divorced. Now Amber must choose which parent to be with over the holiday, and the agonizing decision complicates every aspect of her life.
Reading this book made me remember the good days I had when I was a small child, even though I didn't make so many decisions like Amber because I was too small.
I would reccommend this book for kids below the age of 10. It's not that I really liked this book, I just wanted to choose something less complicated to read this week! :)

The Lottery

Title: The Lottery
Author: Beth Goobie
Pages: 289

          The Lottery is about a girl called Sal.  Sal's high school is run by a group of elite students called the "Shadow Council".  They terrorize the rest of the student body for no reason but to stay in power.  Every year, they draw a "lottery".  Every student at the school is entered in the lottery, and whoever wins becomes the Shadow Council's "victim".  The victim is shunned by the entire school.  He/she has no friends, no matter how close they were before, and they must do the Shadow Council's every whim.  Sal is unlucky winner.  The book follows her as she struggles through this year.
          There is also a short story called "The Lottery" that is about how a town sacrifices one person a year in order to keep good harvest.  I think that the book I read is a modern take on that short story.  One person a year is sacrificed to keep the school in order and in fear of the Shadow Council.  I didn't really like this book.  I found it annoying how no one resisted against the Shadow Council.  The Council does horrible stuff to people who do resist against it, but if a large group of students all made a pact to overthrow the Council, they would probably win. 

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Title of the book: The Gates
Author: John Collony
Genre: Fantasy



Comments: I only read the first 30 pages of this book and it is really complicated. At the beginning they are talking about science which I have never heard of but after time it starts to make sense. The author of this book is John Collony. It takes place somewhere in the united states. The main character of the book is a boy called Samuel Johnson.

Samuel and his dog were walking through the streets and as always they passed their neighbors house. Samuel's neighbors are very strange. As he passes their neighbors house he looks in their basement through the window and sees something strange. It is a blue light which Samuel has never seen before. Samuel takes a closer look and then he sees that there are his neighbors standing around it and getting inhaled by the blue hole. Now there are three other people coming out of it. The boy can't believe his eyes, these are not normal people, one is in a spider shape and then there is one that looks like an octopus. Samuel's dog is trying to pull him away. The octopus thing looks at Samuel running away.

This is the main thing what happens in these 30 pages. The octopus also tells his friends that he saw Samuel and he tells them that they have to kill the boy before he says anything to someone else. Now it is very exciting because I want to know what is going to happen to Samuel. I think that he is somehow going to defend himself from these creatures and that he will have a lot of trouble.

A Great And Terrible Beauty

 

Title: A Great And Terrible Beauty

Author: Libba Bray 

Genre: Historic Fiction

Comments: Assembly day is coming up and the girls are nervous about their parents visiting them and seeing the graceful and well-mannered ladies that they have become. Felicity is thrilled when she learns that her father is coming to Assembly Day but is later terribly disappointed when he sends a note to announce that he will not be able to make it as more important duty calls him. Pippa learns that she is being married to Mr. Bartleby Bumble. The man is older than he father but is wealthy enough that no one seems to care about lovely Pippa's faith. Gemma's father, brother and grand-mother also come but are forced to lie and invent stories. Gemma gets tired of this web of lies and turns her back on them in front of everybody and leaves to her room. Ann tries everything to attract Tom, Gemma's brother, attention. But she is disappointed when one of her little white lies come right back at her and ruins her plan. 


"Today is Assembly Day. My dictionary has no formal entry for this occasion, but if it did, it might go something like this:
Assembly Day (n.) A boarding school tradition in which the family of the schoolgirl is allowed a visit, resulting in the mortification of all and the enjoyment of none."


I like this quote because it makes it very clear to us how Gemma is feeling. 

ORR 7 Stone of light

Stone of Light volume one: Nefer the silent

Christian Jacq

Historical fiction

Silent marries Hephet the daughter of his former boss. He hears the call and then both of them head for the Palace of Truth, both of them then meet the judges and the jury, and they get accepted into the palace of truth as craftsmen, Silent gets his name changed to Nefer the silent. On the other and Ardent, changes jobs and acquires all the items he needs to get accepted. He then goes to the Place of truth, were some of the judges decide to let him in, while others dissagree. He is then set to work infront of the palace of truth as a trial job. Mehy an officer decides he wants to become pharoph and will do everything in his power to achieve his goal, he then wants to demolish the Palace of truth.

I recommend this book to everybody who likes books that don't aren't ordinary, they dig deep into the souls of characters, and while your reading the book you feel like one of the characters. The characters have extraordinary goals and they want to become scribes and sculpteres of the Palace of truth which is a forbidden village for craftsmen only, they have a lot of challenges in there path which makes the book intresting and different.