Comics and Fiction

I think the hunger games is probably the best novel I've written a blog post about. The book starts off with the main character living in district 12, which is the "worst" district, because it has only won 2 hunger games in 76 years. The rules of the hunger games are that each district picks 2 tributes, 1 boy and 1 girl, and all the tributes fight eachother to the death. The winning district gets lots of prizes, mostly consisting of food. Since district 12 almost never wins, the people there are constantly starving. Then, Katniss, the main character, is suddenly chosen as a tribute. The other tribute from district 12 is Peeta, and the two must fight the other tributes to death. The best part about this book has to be the world-building. This dystopian "system" of hunger gaming is extremely interesting, because even though the book only shows the point of view of district 12, I can kind of imagine what the other districts are like (I usually imagine the people ...

            I don’t cry, I don’t really show emotion, I don’t like sobby movies because they don’t make me cry. The first chapter of Hatchet was the best piece of creative art I have ever seen, read or heard. Period. Some come close but this made me cry. Not a movie, a book was the first thing to make me tear up in a long time.  It starts you off getting on a plane. If you read the back, heard it from friends or marketing you know this plane is going to crash but how. It lures you into a false sense of security, wow sitting in the co-pilot seat is pretty cool, like most books would’ve done. But what goes on next is the some of the best writing I have ever seen. Divorce, the secret, what is the secret, I don’t know the reader doesn’t know. What they do know is that some secret was probably being held by a parent then the other found out.  A great line was “He had cried for a time, but r that was gone now. He didn't cry now. Instead his eye...

Using the Alphabet to Explain Why You're Tired of Books E is the most used letter in English by a very large margin. While every letter has its place, some just happen to show up more than others. T he alphabet is arranged in a seemingly random order that has nothing to do with the actual frequencies of the letters themselves. A ll the letters are still decently frequent, though. Any page in a book should contain close to if not all 26 of these symbols. O nly the two ends of the spectrum are noticeable. Everyone knows that vowels are the most popular and certain consonants, usually near the end of the alphabet, are the rarest. I t’s the rest of the letters in the middle of the spectrum that aren’t talked about. Because frankly, those statistics aren’t that important. N obody really benefits from knowing if P is used more than F or whether S and G are close or far from each other on the list. S o, knowing letter frequencies is a niche skill at best unless you’re playing...

 I just read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis for the blog post. I have a lot of personal experience with this book, because it is on of my favorites that I have ever read. I first read the book in sixth grade, I liked it then, and I still like it now. So, in the story, there are four kids, Peter (the oldest), Susan (the oldest sister), Edmund (the youngest brother), and Lucy (the youngest). They all move to this old Professor's house during war time in World War II. The professor is a silly old man, who ties into other books in the series, and they initially like it. The children go exploring in the old house, because it is so big, and Lucy finds a wardrobe. First, it is filled with mothballs and coats, like you would usually expect to be in a wardrobe, but then, it goes deeper, and she notices snow under her feet. She has found the land of Narnia. She meets a faun named Tumnus, who is friendly and takes her to his cave. Then, it turns out, that Tumnus is...

If I were to describe shadow chaser in one sentence I would say it is awkward and at some points it is just strait up bad, but it has some great action. Shadow chaser is the third book in a series called son of angels were a boy finds out he is a son of you guessed it a son of a angel. A cool perk of this is that he gets super powers. (Note: this is Christian novel it quotes the bible and the villain is Abandon a variation of Satan, but it is like Percy Jackson, you don’t need to believe in Greek gods for it to be entertaining) I’ll be talking about the third book because that is the book I have read most recently but I’ll do a quick review of the other books. The first book, Spirit Fighter, gets very creative and opens the premise in a not awkward way and has cool tense action senses 8/10. The second book, Fire Prophet, has a really good last chapter and if I were to talk about more it would be spoilers 7/10. Now to get to the real review. Lucky I can talk more about this book and n...

The murder on the links is a story about detective Hercule Poirot, who is one day called by Jack Reunald, where he finds out that Reunald's father has been murdered while Jack was in Santiago. Similarly to the previous book, Poirot investigates the place and finds out many clues about the murder, including that the murder was done by an aeroplane paper-cutter. Poirot suspects that the murderer is in Paris, so he goes there and finds out who the murderer is, which is (Again, I obviously couldn't show the real murderer, that would be spoiling.) I discovered this book because I liked the previous Poirot book and my father said that I should maybe read the next one in the series. A thing that I like about this book is that it stays true to the original book while adding new elements, like Poirot traveling to new places, and the characters (besides Poirot and the main character) are also different from the previous book. Also, just like the original book, the main character is not...

**WARNING SPOILERS** Summary:            Legendz,  written by Rin Hirai, is about a game called Legendz which Ryudo Elementary School is obsessed with. This game allows a player to train their soul doll which is like a mythical creature, and the students can battle the soul dolls against one another. These soul dolls also have superpowers that allow them to become stronger when treated with more care. During the first part of this manga, the reader is introduced to Ririko Yasuhara who is a student attending Ryudo Elementary School, and she happens to be one of the best Legendz players in her class. Ririko is shown as a kind and caring character who has an immense passion for the game. Shunsuke Dekai is another student who is not as good at the game and often loses to Ririko. On Shunsuke’s way home from school, he meets Ken Kazaki who is a superfan of Legendz. Ken, a friendly nerd with an extreme passion for the game, treats his soul doll, Shiron, lik...