Comics and Fiction

(Review) Speaker for the Dead: The Sequel That Became the Main Story              Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card is the second part of the Ender’s Game quartet. Today I will review not only Speaker for the Dead as a book, but also the Ender’s Game saga as a whole. If you haven’t read the first book, Ender’s Game , be prepared for spoilers. Although I won’t get into fine detail about the first book, the overall plot is necessary to explain the events of the second book. If you don’t want spoilers, now is the time you should stop reading.             The basic plot of Speaker for the Dead is this: In the distant future, military genius Ender Wiggin destroys an entire alien civilization of insect-like creatures called "buggers," who had previously threatened Earth. Humanity is beginning to colonize the galaxy in the wake of this interplanetary war. Ender himself is a crew member on one of...

  Savvy has an interesting premise. What if when you became 13, you got a super power, or in this book, a savvy, but just this one family. The powers are always oddly specific, but create interesting ideas and scenarios. The powers are like, what if this person could read minds, but only people with ink on them, what if this person can control radio waves and save songs in little glass bottles, and what if this kid could control the weather, but only with his emotions? Strange powers you never thought of, but interesting ones none the less. The protagonist is a girl that is about to turn 13 called Mib, but her father a day before her birthday gets in a car crash and can't be at her most important day of her life. Her father is her idol, he doesn’t have a savvy because he was married in, but he fits with the family so well, she loves that about him. Some of the family members even joke about him having a savvy with fitting in. Sense this is such an important day for Mib they th...

The story begins in the Shire—a part of Middle-earth where the small, good-natured, quietly domestic hobbits live—as the eccentric  hobbit Bilbo Baggins  is celebrating his “eleventy-first” (111th) birthday. During the party Bilbo announces his departure and disappears with the use of the magical ring that makes its wearer invisible; his discovery of the ring is chronicled in  The Hobbit . Before leaving the Shire, however, he returns home. Although he intends to give all his possessions to his young relative and heir, Frodo , at the last minute he balks at leaving behind the ring. However, he is persuaded to do so by the wizard Gandalf , who later learns that Frodo’s ring is the One Ring, the most powerful of the 20 Rings of Power. It was fashioned by Sauron, the Dark Lord of Mordor, to rule the other rings and enable him to conquer and enslave the world. The One Ring will also eventually corrupt its possessor. Sauron wants the ring back and knows that it ...

                        ( Review) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon’s, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time tells the story of 15-year-old Christopher Boone, living in Swindon, England, who narrates his journey of solving the mystery of a stabbed dog in his neighborhood. Christopher has an insanely good memory. He's able to remember tiny details about everyday occurrences. This almost computer-like memory makes him a great detective but also means that he often gets overwhelmed in places with a lot of noise or visuals. The only way to clear his mind is to close his eyes and groan to block out any outside sound. Another consequence of  Christopher’s computer-like mind is that he thinks extremely concretely and literally, having no sense of abstract concepts such as jokes, metaphors, certain phrases, and emotions. Therefore, communication between him and others is significa...

Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban is a book about Harry Potter, who learns that there is a place called "azkaban" with a criminal named Sirius Black who escaped from it. At first, he doesn't think much about it, but he gets suprised to actually meet Sirius Black in person. Sirius tries to kill Harry at first, but then, as a plot twist, Lupin (Harry's favorite teacher) defends Sirius because they used to be friends. By Hector

  WARNING SPOILERS Summary: Mushishi, written by Yuki Urushibara, is a manga about a character named Ginko, a Mushishi, whose main goal is to save people from the Mushi. A Mushishi is an individual who has the ability to see the Mushi. A Mushi is a spirit with special powers that transfers its abilities when possessing a host. In this manga, there are five different stories and each one is quite different in its own way. While these stories are separated into different chapters with their own meaning, they all have a little connection. However, my favorite story was about a man named Jin, who had a type of Mushi that was called Imeno no Awai. This Mushi can affect your dreams by making whatever is happening in your dream come to life. At the beginning of this story, these dreams occurred once in a while, but then they progressively increased and became an issue. As time passed, Jin’s dreams began to cause many other fatal accidents in his village. Luckily, Ginko heard about this m...