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Thursday, August 30, 2012

Harry Potter And the Sorcer's Stone

J.K.Rowling

Fantasy
Pages: 309
Pages Read:88

Quote from the book: "Harry, your a wizard." this quote may be short however has lots of meanings to it. The reason why I choose this particular quote is because this is how it all started, the whole story about Harry Potter (Main Protagonist) the wizard. It opened doors which led to Harry Potter's wildest dreams. It led to his whole future and happiness, at least that's what he thought at the beginning.

What happened until now: Since I started reading the book many exited things have happened to Harry Potter. First Harry was sent to his absolute hell and misery, to live with the Dursleys in Surrey, England ever since his parents died. A muggle family, who are the only close relatives which Harry Potter knows of, his uncle and aunt. All through his life Harry has been tortured by his abominable cousin Dudley, put to live in a closet and wasn't given a proper gift in 11 years.Treated like he is not worth anything, like he doesn't belong in this world. However one letter, just one will change his life and lead him to home. The letter is delivered by Rubeus Hagrid, (a giant who is the keeper of the keys and grounds at Hogwarts) it is the invitation to the Hogwarts School of WitchCraft and Wizardry. Knowing he is a wizard just like his parents shocked him since his uncle and aunt never told him about the wizard world and the truth about his parents death purposely to erase that chapter of his life completely. As he finds out more about this school, he finds out more about his parents, and himself as well. As he walks down the street of Diagon Alley (shopping street in the wizard world) with Hagrid for his school supply's everyone around him is staring, his name is known all over town and he is being greeted by the most random people. As he talks to different people the strangest name keeps on jumping out at him like someone keeps turning the jack in the box. He feels like a whole piece in his puzzle is missing, as if he was berried under ground for 11 years, like he should know who that is. His name is Voldemort (Main Antagonist), or as they call him, the one who must not be named. The more he finds out, the more it frightens him. It also frightens him when Hagrid tells him that Voldemort was the one who murdered his parents. However Harry is still confused why he is famous, why everyone knows his name. Hagrid explains he is known as "the boy who lived" because that night when his parents died, Voldemort couldn't kill him for some mysterious reason, but did transfer some of his power to him. Harry was amazed by that story since he had now clue that he was that important to the wizard world.

This book as an excellent award winning book which has been read by billions of people across the globe. I have never heard or saw one bad comment about this series, so I decided to give it a chance. It is so magnificent, its like it takes you to a new world. I rarely read fantasy books, however this one blew my mind completely. This just shows how I should keep my options open. I love how the book always has something interesting to keep you reading. The amount of detail they give so great, I can create a clear in vivid picture in my mind.

THUMBS UP !!!!

The Kite Runner

Award Winning Book
Author: Khaled Hosseini

The main character in this book is a boy named Amir. He lives in Afganastan. In my opinion he is from a wealthy family. And his family have servants, their servants are harasas, so they have a different religion. And some of the afganistans are very mean and cruel to them. One of the servants Ali who grew up with Amir's father Baba, has a son named Hassan. Hassan is Amirs good friend. Amir isn't a boy who liked to play soccer and do all those things, he liked to read alot and make up his own stories. His father Baba isn't really close to Amir, he is the type of father who wishes he would go play soccer with the other boys. Amir and Hassan are very close friends, they also both don't have mothers. Amirs mother died while she was giving birth to him, and Hassans mother left a week after he was born. Amir and Hassan love to fly and run kites, in the winter there is a big kite competion. Amir and Hassan both join in, and there are more than a hundered kites participating! But Amir wins! Hassan is such a good friend and goes after the kite to get it back to Amir. Amir follows but cannot catch up, once he does he see Hassan being bullied by 3 boys who are always mean to them. Amir wants to do something but feels as if he is paralized. He watches the boys rape his friend and beat him. After that Amir is barly talking to Hassan. Right now their relationship is going down hill.

One of my favorite lines in the book so far is, "This is grown-ups time. Why don't you go read one of those books of yours?" He'd close the door, leave me to wonder why it was always grown-ups time with him.

I just hope Amir and Hassan become friends again, because their friendship is so special. But I really am liking the book so far, its very interesting.

Twilight

Stephenie Meyer
268 pages of 498 pages
Fantasy+Romance

Quote from the book: “About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him- and I didn’t know how dominant it was- that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.”

This is the text on the back of the book and I chose it because it describes the book and Bella’s (the main character) situation very well.

What happened until now: Isabella (Bella) Swan moves from Phoenix to Forks, where her father lives because her mother married another man who travels a lot. She wants her mum to go with him and be happy, so she leaves. She goes to a new school and already on the first day a special person seems to be mad at her. She finds out that his name is Edward Cullen, and that he and his four siblings are outsiders, too. They are all inhumanly beautiful and have very pale skin. After Edward saves her from getting killed by a car, they get closer and become friends. Bella, although wants to be more than friends. Even after she finds out that Edward is a vampire…
Slowly, she elicits Edward more and more information about himself and his family- and the scarier the things get she finds out, the more she falls in love with him.

I noticed that many people around me read this book, so I thought I should read it too. I heard a lot of positive things about the book, but also negative ones. I like it more than I thought I would because it’s about vampires (which I really like) and there is also a bit of romance in the book. The book is well written and what I liked about it so far is that you can’t stop reading because the author always announces something else interesting that will happen soon. It never tells you too much, so you need to keep on reading to find out everything. I also really like how the main character is so clumsy and how it seems like she is only searching for new trouble.

Thumbs up HIGH :)

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Ajda-- The Da Vinci Code

The Da Vinci Code

For my book project we had to choose and award winning book. The book The Da Vinci Code caught my eye in the library which is why I decided to read it for my book project. I love the book so far.

The book is amazing. It is a very high level reading book which I like because I take it as a challenge. The book begins with introducing one of the main characters Robert Langdon. He works as a symbologist and professor of Harvard University. The first chapter is about him where as the next chapter introduces two new characters. Silas and “the teacher”. Silas is some kind of a monk who is trying to steal the keystone from “the god’s house”. Silas is the character that introduces “the teacher” who gives Silas instructions. The chapters I have read so far revolve around Robert Langdon, and the suicide he is trying to solve and Silas who is trying to find the stone.

My favorite part from the parts of the book I have read is;
'Langdon read the message again and looked up at Fache. "What the hell does this mean!"
Fashe's eyes shone white. "That, monsieur, is precisely the question you are here to answer."

The book itself is very detailed and explains everything with BIG words that make the book more “juicy”. So far the book has been great so I am going to keep on reading! I’ll be back to report next week!