Week 16/Break: Harry Potter

Over break I have read four books. The first for in the Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling. Those books are Harry Potter & the Sorcerers Stone, Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban, and finally Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire. This is my first time reading this series and I don't know why I waited this long. I have really enjoyed this series and have read them a book a day so far. They are really entertaining and fun but fast reads. They are extremely easy. Overall they are really good. Its about a boy named Harry Potter who has magical powers he doesn't know about for eleven years until he goes to a school for wizards named Hogwarts. At Hogwarts he meets his best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. He also meets enemies named Draco Malfoy and his best friends Crabbes and Goyle. Harry, Ron and Hermione go on great adventures to defeat different evils that lurk around every corner. These books are between 200-800ish pages. I suggest them for anyone.

I plan to try to finish the series before break ends.

Slice of Life: Eating Oranges

I grab it out of our fruit bowl. It is round and has an orange oily skin. I dig my short fingernail into the skin. I then pry back releasing a little piece of the orange segmented flesh. Methodically I start to peel it back for and more of it is revealed. Little bits of citrus mist sprays up catching my eyes. I finally pull off the last bit of the orange skin. I pull it in half and pull out all of the white stringy stuff in the middle. I then bite into it

Slice of Life #1: My 1st Fish Caught

           The shiny spinner dangles from the end of the fishing line. The spinner is orange on one side and silver on the other. It has three hooks curling back from the actually spinner.  "Kodiak Custom" is engraved on to the silver side. My tiny green and purple Scooby-Doo fishing pole rests in my tiny pudgy hands. I look behind me and our old tattered barn that is covered in green and white peeling paint stands upright for now.

          I  turn back to the little lake in front of me. I try to cast it the first time but when I bring it back and I feel it jolt when I try to yank it forward. I turn around to see it snagged in the bushes behind me. I pull it out of the bushes and try again this time more aware of the bushes behind me.

         It flies through the air and lands in the water with a plop. I start to reel it in already discouraged. It comes in empty. I cast it out again hoping for better luck. I start to pull it in again when I feel a little tug. I start to reel it in really hard. I now am for certain I caught one. I then start yelling "DAD! DAD! I caught a fish!". My dad comes over and helps my reel it in and get it out of the water. It was about a foot long Pike. It squirmed around. I was so excited and proud when the picture was taken. At four years old I had caught my very first fish.

Week 15: The Da Vinci Code

This week I read The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. I thought this was an extremeley good and well written book. It is kinda of a mystery/murder story. In it there is a murder and two young individuals are put in charge of solving a huge mystery. They are sent on a quest that they only start to realize how big it is. There adventure is dangerous, mistakes are made and multiple killings are involved. This book is about 490 pages long. It is really good and very clever. I suggest this book for most people in our class.

Some of the books I plan to read over break are:
Golden Boy
Elanor and Park
Maze Runner
13 Reasons Why
and maybe The Client

Limercks

1. The hill is steep.
The well at the bottom is deep.
If you run down
You will end up with your face in the ground.
Then go home and eat a peep.

2. The ground is covered in snow.
That blows.
At least theres hot cocoa
and the TV is going loco.
I feel very low.

3. There once was a kid from logan.
He had a well known slogan.
It was, don't slam your head
against the bed.
It was golden.

Structural Engineering: Colossus of Rhodes

The pieces cover the city's streets.
Loose Rubble, Bronze Plating and Steel reinforcing bars.
Random scraps here and there.
Workers haul pieces to the site.
The beginning of a massive statue stands in front of them.
The bright sun reflecting of the bronze searing the eyes of on lookers.
Helios.
He stands tall and bold in the sky.
The roman god of the Sun.
Holding a light above his hand.
Standing tall and straight.
Workers blood, sweat and tears are put in to complete him.
The entrance and guardian to the bay and harbor.
He watches all.

Week 14: The 5th Wave

This week I read The Fifth Wave by Rick Yancey. This book was about an alien invasion that comes in waves. The problem is though that the aliens are not showing up only death. EMP's, Disease, tidal waves, drones… They wave gone through four waves and the remaining survivors are expecting a fifth but do not what or when it is coming.  This book follows the survival and struggles of Cassie and sometimes go to her baby brother and a boy named Ben Parish. This was an extremely well written and 480 pages. I suggest it for anyone in this class. If I had to say the three books it's closest to I would say, the Hunger Games, Divergent and War of the Worlds. The Hunger Games because it's about a sixteen year old girls surviving against the odds. Divergent because its about everyone turning on each other and some weird mind control stuff. War of the Worlds because it's kind like unknown aliens invade earth and all that. Overall a good read.

Next week I will read The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown.

Kobe

Kobe Bryant (Basketball Player for the Lakers)

May every ball you touch deflate.

May every hoop you shoot at move away.

May every shot you take be stuffed.

May every whine you make come back and haunt you.

May ever ref you piss off give you technicals.

May the fans forever boo you into submission.

May you always suck.

The Pact

I thought The Pact was a really amazing and inspiring story about three young men who made it through the struggles of gangs, Cocaine, addictions, influences, and the ghetto. They all had people who showed interest in helping them make a better life for themselves. They were extremely self motivated though even though they made some mistakes alone the way. It is a quick read but an extremely good story. It is my favorite non-fiction book I have ever read. Overall a very inspiring and amazing story.

Next week I will read The Fifth Wave by Rick Yancey.