Books we are reading now
Time to share some reading, ladies and gentlemen. What book have you recently read which you can tell us about? Choose a book which you like, which you have recently finished, or which you are still reading, and tell us about it but don't give away the ending. Follow the instructions you see here.
Take your time with this one. I suggest typing it in Word first, running a spellcheck, and saving. Then copy and paste the text into the box to post. Read everyone else's post. At the end of this assignment I will be quizzing you about who read what, and what they thought of the book. Also, you will get some good reading tips for your next book.
Deadlline for posting: October 27
posted by Anonymous at 12:08 PM
5 Comments:
The book I’m reading is called The Blue Girl. It takes place in Canada I think, and it has a modern setting.
The book is about a Girl named Imogene, who is anything but normal. She is really different and stands out in a crowd. She is also very brave and doesn’t care what anyone thinks about her. She befriends a “good girl” named Maxine, and although she is smart and does what she’s told, she also has a hidden personality that only Imogene reveals.
This book starts out totally normal, just like your average modern teen fiction book, but after a while, we find out that it also has a lot of fantasy in it. It has faeries, ghosts, angels, and anathimin, which is a shadow that is trying to suck the soul out of Imogene. Imogene must find a way to stop the soul-sucking shadow creature before it’s too late, with the help of her old imaginary friend Pelly, Maxine, and Adrian, the ghost who lives in the school with his only friends, the faeries who “accidentally” killed him while teaching him to fly. In the process, Imogene turns blue, finds a secret portal to other places through her closet, and learns a ton about faeries she never believed in before.
10/20/05, 12:39 PM
"The Blue Girl" sounds great, Emma. I have seen you reading it, even when you shouldn't be! That's always a sign of a good read.
Question for you, Brooke: Have you read other Harry Potter books? If so, how does "Goblet of Fire" rate in comparison?
Arthur... "The Kite Runner" also seems to be a very popular book. Would you call it a "page-turner"?
Lastly.... as I said in class, we are only going to accept one "Kite Runner" review (Arthur was first) and three people have already claimed a Harry Potter book, so more of those will be reviewed. We need to "spread out", as the Three Stooges would say.
Looking forward to more book reviews. Remember to follow the format which the instructions give.
10/21/05, 8:52 AM
Thanks, Arthur.... By the way, that should say "no more Harry Potter books" will be allowed (in my previous post).
10/21/05, 12:12 PM
I recently finished a strange sort of science fiction book called "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World," by Hakuri Murakami. Mostly it takes place in Tokyo, but also in a parallel imaginary world, which turns out to be related to the real world through the main character.
The main character THINKS he is a private investigator, but is in fact the last surviving victim of an experiment by certain scientists involved in a high-tech info war. It's sort of a conspiracy theory thriller, combined with science fantasy, caves, monsters, and absent minded professors. It's almost impossible to explain the plot, and I don't want to give it away. I really enjoyed this book, though. It's funny and fast and thought-provoking.
10/21/05, 2:19 PM
Some really interesting posts are coming though recently. And yes, Rhiannon, I have to agree with you that Harry Potter books are good, but some of us may be getting in a rut with those books. Time to branch out and discover other things. Still, it's great to see people reading those big, long books. "Fellowship of the Ring" (Ben's book) would be a good choice for people who like Harry Potter. "The Amulet of Samarkand" (Mark's book) is another good choice in that department. Also, the Ursula LeGuin Books in the "Wizard of Earthsea" trilogy are very well done, as are the Philip K. Dick books that Mrs. Pryor just purchased last year, such as "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" - the book that the movie "Blade Runner" was based on. Mrs. Pryor and Mrs. Wright can help you choose even more good books.
Great stuff!
10/27/05, 8:55 AM
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