Name: Kekai Folaumahina
Class: A3
Book: Left To Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
Pages:204
Rating: *****
Recommendation: This book is great for anyone that wants to read about an extraordinary woman in the middle of disaster. It's a great example of what people can achieve if they believe they can do it. Immaculee Ilibagiza's honest, and descriptive story will keep you reading, wondering what horror she will overcome next.
Summary: This is the story of Immaculee Ilibagiza, a young woman in Rwanda. She is one of the lucky, educated women of Rwanda. Eventually the Rawandan genocide erupts in her beloved country. She was then in college, in the middle of the big city. They were murdering Tutsi's, it was some dillusional plan the Hutu's had come up with to get revenge for their years of unfair treatment. she made her way home, where her family were all dead. She eventually found a place to stay in a pastor's bathroom. She was there wigh 8 other women. No one but the pastor knew, and there were raids every couple of weeks, where they would pray, and pray, until they were gone. Immaculee read the bible several times in the bathroom, and learned more of God. When the genocide ended, she stayed rreligious, and forgave the man that murdered her family.
Explanation of Rating: This is an easy read. But the message behind it will stay with you forever. This story of forgiveness, and perseverence is a great example of what humans are capable of, if they have a chance to show it. She tells her story with such description and suspense, that you're rooting for her by the end, and she doesn't disappoint. She didn't keep this story to herself, but let the world know what was happening, and what we need to do to help where help is needed. Everyone needing an uplifting story, but doesn't like to read, will enjoy this book.
Favorite Passage: Felicien was sobbing. I could feel his shame. He looked up at me for only a moment, but our eyes met. I reached out, touched his hands lightly, and quietly said what I'd come to say. "I forgive you."
I like this passage because after all that had happened to her, and her parents, and brother dying, from this man, she forgived him. It would take such strength, and faith to just forgive and forget, even when that man is a murderer. She encouraged me to forgive others. Because if she can forgive a murderer, I can forgive someone for doing something little.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon A3
Name: Saige Avilla
Class: A3
Book: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Author: Stephen King
Pages:262
Rating:*****
Recommendation: This book is good for people who like a little mystery and science fiction. This is a book about a girl learning lessons of life and how to stay alive. Anyone could relate to this book and every page will keep you in suspense on what will happen next.
Summary: This is a story about a nine-year-old girl named Trisha (Patricia) who get's lost on a hike in the New Hampshire branch of the Appalachian Trail, she stumbles through the forest trying to find her way back to the trail, back to people. The only company she has is the vision of her favorite player on the Boston Red Sox team, Tom Gordon. Soon night falls and she has to fight for her life to survive through the cold, dark night. She fights for her life and learns what life is about and what her life means to herself. She fights until the end...
Explanation of Rating: I absolutely love Stephen King, and this book just kept me captivated the whole time. I can relate to that little girl going through the woods. And I know that it would be terrifying to get lost in a forest or anywhere for that fact. She goes through the woods and remembers things that her mom had taught her about the forest and uses those skills to her advantage.
Favorite Passage: "I killed the deer. I watched you, and drew my circle around you. Run from me. Worship me with your feet and I may let you live." - chap 9 pg. 246
This is my favorite part because the way it's written is absolutely amazing, the detail in the sentences before and after just make that passage even better. It's talking about a bear and that if you don't respect it for what it has done you wont survive.
Class: A3
Book: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Author: Stephen King
Pages:262
Rating:*****
Recommendation: This book is good for people who like a little mystery and science fiction. This is a book about a girl learning lessons of life and how to stay alive. Anyone could relate to this book and every page will keep you in suspense on what will happen next.
Summary: This is a story about a nine-year-old girl named Trisha (Patricia) who get's lost on a hike in the New Hampshire branch of the Appalachian Trail, she stumbles through the forest trying to find her way back to the trail, back to people. The only company she has is the vision of her favorite player on the Boston Red Sox team, Tom Gordon. Soon night falls and she has to fight for her life to survive through the cold, dark night. She fights for her life and learns what life is about and what her life means to herself. She fights until the end...
Explanation of Rating: I absolutely love Stephen King, and this book just kept me captivated the whole time. I can relate to that little girl going through the woods. And I know that it would be terrifying to get lost in a forest or anywhere for that fact. She goes through the woods and remembers things that her mom had taught her about the forest and uses those skills to her advantage.
Favorite Passage: "I killed the deer. I watched you, and drew my circle around you. Run from me. Worship me with your feet and I may let you live." - chap 9 pg. 246
This is my favorite part because the way it's written is absolutely amazing, the detail in the sentences before and after just make that passage even better. It's talking about a bear and that if you don't respect it for what it has done you wont survive.
The Murder Artist-A4
Name: Megan Jacques
Class Period: A4
Book Title: The Murder Artist
Author: John Case
Pages: 454
Rating: *****
Recommendation: This book is for intense thrill seekers. It's a mystery that is really intense and keeps you on the edge of your seat. It's pretty graphic, definately not PG. The violence gets a little intense, but it's not too awful. This book is for people who love murder mysteries and suspense stories.
Summary: This book is about a reporter named Alex Callahan. He is constantly in the middle of death and crime because of his job. Nothing could ever prepare him for the terrifying expirence of having his two 6 year old twins being kidnapped. He takes the matter into his own hands and discovers frightening clues that lead to a insane predator. He is the only one that can save his sons and knows that time is running out soon.
Explanation of Rating: I totally loved this book. I thought it was so amazing. I couldn't put it down! The suspense keeps you on the edge of your seat, and there are tons of twists to the plot. John Case knows how to write in a way that you feel like you are right there. All the emotions Alex Callahan feels, you have a suprisingly good idea of what it's like. It was an awesome book.
Favorite Passage: "The boys are wired. They're bored. They're excited again. They really go crazy when a man who identifies himself as a Groveler hurls himself at my feet, beseeching "milord" for "a bit of silver". Seizing an ankle, the mad actor sends the boys into a delirium of grossed-out laughter when he actually licks one of my dusty Tevas. Then smacks his lips, as if savoring the grit". (pg. 13)
I like this passage because it shows the human side of emotions and just the happy times before his children go missing. You see a real-ness in both the kids and the father. It's understandable because of the beginning of this book why he is so desperate to find them. As a reader, you totally get attached to these cute kids which is important when reading the book. If you didn't care about the twins, the book would mean nothing.
Class Period: A4
Book Title: The Murder Artist
Author: John Case
Pages: 454
Rating: *****
Recommendation: This book is for intense thrill seekers. It's a mystery that is really intense and keeps you on the edge of your seat. It's pretty graphic, definately not PG. The violence gets a little intense, but it's not too awful. This book is for people who love murder mysteries and suspense stories.
Summary: This book is about a reporter named Alex Callahan. He is constantly in the middle of death and crime because of his job. Nothing could ever prepare him for the terrifying expirence of having his two 6 year old twins being kidnapped. He takes the matter into his own hands and discovers frightening clues that lead to a insane predator. He is the only one that can save his sons and knows that time is running out soon.
Explanation of Rating: I totally loved this book. I thought it was so amazing. I couldn't put it down! The suspense keeps you on the edge of your seat, and there are tons of twists to the plot. John Case knows how to write in a way that you feel like you are right there. All the emotions Alex Callahan feels, you have a suprisingly good idea of what it's like. It was an awesome book.
Favorite Passage: "The boys are wired. They're bored. They're excited again. They really go crazy when a man who identifies himself as a Groveler hurls himself at my feet, beseeching "milord" for "a bit of silver". Seizing an ankle, the mad actor sends the boys into a delirium of grossed-out laughter when he actually licks one of my dusty Tevas. Then smacks his lips, as if savoring the grit". (pg. 13)
I like this passage because it shows the human side of emotions and just the happy times before his children go missing. You see a real-ness in both the kids and the father. It's understandable because of the beginning of this book why he is so desperate to find them. As a reader, you totally get attached to these cute kids which is important when reading the book. If you didn't care about the twins, the book would mean nothing.
Love and Laughter A3
Name: Janet Taufa
Class: A3
Book: Love and Laughter
Author:none really: publisher=Dorchester Media, LLC
Pages:350
Rating ***
Recommendations: This book is great for thosw who really want a romance feeling but also laughing sensation, this is for you. Those who are married or in a relationship may love this book as well because there may be great similiarities in the relationships. Anyone who really just wants to hear many great stories of relationship would be great to read this passage as well.
Summary: There are eleven stories in this book and they all are about relationships. However, all of them are very different kinds of situations. Some start of married, engaged, or even single to begin with. There is this one story of a married couple who have already had kids and the mother has a hard time. She is continously stressed and over whelmed when she tries to spend time with her husband. Because once she does the kids seem to be in the picture. She then learns to become content with her situation. Another story of a married couple is at the edge. The wife begins to find clues that lead her to thinking her husband is cheating one her. She tries to cop with it for some while and does many things in the process. She eventually finds out the solution to all. No one in there right mind wants to be cheated on, or even ignored. If you read the Ugly duckling won my heart you'll see that there are to types of men that this lady meets while running. She begins to like one more than the other. In the end, she ends up liking the other because of knowledge she finds out about both of them. Such a great abundant of stories to read, share, and even maybe relate to in a way.
Explanation of Rating: I'm not exactly married or engaged, as you know. However, I don have parents and other family members that I know of who may have the same situations or similar ones. That is why I didn't give it a four or even a five star, I'm just not quite old enough I think to really understand.
Favorite Passage: "Someday soon, with God's help, I know our family will get back on the right track. We got people who care about us looking out for us.
I love this passage because it shows me all the different meanings in life and life to come. I realize all that may happen and that even though things, bad things, may happen that it will all still be okay in the end. And it will all work out well.
Class: A3
Book: Love and Laughter
Author:none really: publisher=Dorchester Media, LLC
Pages:350
Rating ***
Recommendations: This book is great for thosw who really want a romance feeling but also laughing sensation, this is for you. Those who are married or in a relationship may love this book as well because there may be great similiarities in the relationships. Anyone who really just wants to hear many great stories of relationship would be great to read this passage as well.
Summary: There are eleven stories in this book and they all are about relationships. However, all of them are very different kinds of situations. Some start of married, engaged, or even single to begin with. There is this one story of a married couple who have already had kids and the mother has a hard time. She is continously stressed and over whelmed when she tries to spend time with her husband. Because once she does the kids seem to be in the picture. She then learns to become content with her situation. Another story of a married couple is at the edge. The wife begins to find clues that lead her to thinking her husband is cheating one her. She tries to cop with it for some while and does many things in the process. She eventually finds out the solution to all. No one in there right mind wants to be cheated on, or even ignored. If you read the Ugly duckling won my heart you'll see that there are to types of men that this lady meets while running. She begins to like one more than the other. In the end, she ends up liking the other because of knowledge she finds out about both of them. Such a great abundant of stories to read, share, and even maybe relate to in a way.
Explanation of Rating: I'm not exactly married or engaged, as you know. However, I don have parents and other family members that I know of who may have the same situations or similar ones. That is why I didn't give it a four or even a five star, I'm just not quite old enough I think to really understand.
Favorite Passage: "Someday soon, with God's help, I know our family will get back on the right track. We got people who care about us looking out for us.
I love this passage because it shows me all the different meanings in life and life to come. I realize all that may happen and that even though things, bad things, may happen that it will all still be okay in the end. And it will all work out well.
The Last Song A4
Name: Ciera McKinley
Class Period: A4
Book Title: The Last song
Author: Nicholas Sparks
Pages: 463
Rating: *****It was Amazing!
Recommendation: I think this book is mainly for girls but I also think girls and boys would enjoy this book. The reason I would mainly recommend this to girls is because its a love story and girls appreciate love stories more then boys do I think. I would recommend this to anyone that has ever been in a summer romance because there are so many story about how the romance just ends and in this one there is a future between them. I would also recommend this to any boy that wants to know how to treat a girls!
Summary: This story starts with a girl that comes to live with her dad for the summer. She hates her dad because she thinks that he cheated on her mom and left their family. They start off the summer with her getting in trouble and hanging out with the wrong crowd. The first day and is in town she meets Will and then kind of forgets about him. Then after sometime of bonding with her dad they begin to finally connect. Then she meets Will again while they are both trying to protect a sea turtles nest. They end up falling in love but one problem is he is going away to school and she is going back to New York. Then after a while of them getting in big fights over a church that burnt down because of his friend they stopped talking and she learned that her dad had cancer and was suppose to die soon and that was the reason he wanted to spend the summer with her. She finds out that her mom was the one that cheated on her dad. She stays with her dad until he dies and then she goes back and applies for Julliard. She is playing the piano and Will walks in and says he is going to school in New York just to be with her. Its a love story!
Explanation of Rating: I rated this a five because it was very well written. I loved this book because is it the exact thing that ever teenage girl wants to happen in her summer..Besides the fact that her father dies. I liked it because even though there were hard things that happened to her she was still able to find peace and happiness in the end. This shows that even though bad things happen in our lives there can always be a happy ending. I also loved it because it was so realistic. This could really happen in real life.
Favorite Passage: My favorite passage is long. But it is at the very end were he surprises her in New York and says he wants to be with her. I love it because it is around the last five pages and its right when you don't think that anything is going to happen and then he comes out of now where. This is a true love story.
Class Period: A4
Book Title: The Last song
Author: Nicholas Sparks
Pages: 463
Rating: *****It was Amazing!
Recommendation: I think this book is mainly for girls but I also think girls and boys would enjoy this book. The reason I would mainly recommend this to girls is because its a love story and girls appreciate love stories more then boys do I think. I would recommend this to anyone that has ever been in a summer romance because there are so many story about how the romance just ends and in this one there is a future between them. I would also recommend this to any boy that wants to know how to treat a girls!
Summary: This story starts with a girl that comes to live with her dad for the summer. She hates her dad because she thinks that he cheated on her mom and left their family. They start off the summer with her getting in trouble and hanging out with the wrong crowd. The first day and is in town she meets Will and then kind of forgets about him. Then after sometime of bonding with her dad they begin to finally connect. Then she meets Will again while they are both trying to protect a sea turtles nest. They end up falling in love but one problem is he is going away to school and she is going back to New York. Then after a while of them getting in big fights over a church that burnt down because of his friend they stopped talking and she learned that her dad had cancer and was suppose to die soon and that was the reason he wanted to spend the summer with her. She finds out that her mom was the one that cheated on her dad. She stays with her dad until he dies and then she goes back and applies for Julliard. She is playing the piano and Will walks in and says he is going to school in New York just to be with her. Its a love story!
Explanation of Rating: I rated this a five because it was very well written. I loved this book because is it the exact thing that ever teenage girl wants to happen in her summer..Besides the fact that her father dies. I liked it because even though there were hard things that happened to her she was still able to find peace and happiness in the end. This shows that even though bad things happen in our lives there can always be a happy ending. I also loved it because it was so realistic. This could really happen in real life.
Favorite Passage: My favorite passage is long. But it is at the very end were he surprises her in New York and says he wants to be with her. I love it because it is around the last five pages and its right when you don't think that anything is going to happen and then he comes out of now where. This is a true love story.
Hunt for Red October A2
Chris Merrick
A2
The Hunt for Red October
Tom Clancy
408
***Liked It
It's a must have for war fans. Breathtaking, amazing, and suspenseful. It was believed that the author was briefed by the White House.
It's about a Russian named Marko Alexandrovich Ramius, who became commander of the Red October, a "boomer" with the latest technology, including a silent engine. He and the main officers are in an alliance together against the Rodina, or homeland. They are supposed to be testing the detection capabilites of the Catterpillar (the engine), to see if sonar can hear it. They intend to go to America. Also, the Americans and the British know this, and they are looking for it so they can aide it's journey. Meanwhile, the Russians are in hot pursuit, attempting to destroy it, as it is not only a Nuclear submarine, but a missle sub as well.
It was a good book, but it had some immorality in it. It was all mostly just swearing, but there were some major words, including the worst. However, It really had a lot of time and thinking put into it. It was also written during the Cold War, which probably aided it's creation. They also have a few good jokes in it. It is very in-depth.
A2
The Hunt for Red October
Tom Clancy
408
***Liked It
It's a must have for war fans. Breathtaking, amazing, and suspenseful. It was believed that the author was briefed by the White House.
It's about a Russian named Marko Alexandrovich Ramius, who became commander of the Red October, a "boomer" with the latest technology, including a silent engine. He and the main officers are in an alliance together against the Rodina, or homeland. They are supposed to be testing the detection capabilites of the Catterpillar (the engine), to see if sonar can hear it. They intend to go to America. Also, the Americans and the British know this, and they are looking for it so they can aide it's journey. Meanwhile, the Russians are in hot pursuit, attempting to destroy it, as it is not only a Nuclear submarine, but a missle sub as well.
It was a good book, but it had some immorality in it. It was all mostly just swearing, but there were some major words, including the worst. However, It really had a lot of time and thinking put into it. It was also written during the Cold War, which probably aided it's creation. They also have a few good jokes in it. It is very in-depth.
Stormrage A2
Tyler Mitchell
A2
Stormrage
Richard A. Knaak
Pages: 402
*****
This book was full of action, fantasy, mystery, it was a really good book. I recommend this book to people that love these kind of books. Trust me, if people like these kind of books, they will get a kick out of this one.
Tyrande Whisperwind's lover, Malfurion Stormrage, starts dying. When druids(nature based Nightelves) reach a certain age, they have the "Emerald Dream". In the dream, they go through a "right of passage", but the dream has been getting darker. The great tree, Teldrassil, has gotten sick from the dark dream, they find out that Malfurion is the only one that can heal Teldrassil. With Malfurion dying, he has dreams about his demonic twin brother, Illidan Stormrage. He finds out Illidan is ruining the Emerald dream. I don't want to ruin the ending, so you have to find out what happens.
I rated this book with five stars because I love this storyline. In my opinion, this is the best storyline i have seen, because its very complex, and there are tons of other stories off of the same storyline. Plus, they have games off of these stories.
Favorite passage: "The journey was uneventful, if oddly quiet." I like it because when you think of journeys, you think of a huge adventure.
A2
Stormrage
Richard A. Knaak
Pages: 402
*****
This book was full of action, fantasy, mystery, it was a really good book. I recommend this book to people that love these kind of books. Trust me, if people like these kind of books, they will get a kick out of this one.
Tyrande Whisperwind's lover, Malfurion Stormrage, starts dying. When druids(nature based Nightelves) reach a certain age, they have the "Emerald Dream". In the dream, they go through a "right of passage", but the dream has been getting darker. The great tree, Teldrassil, has gotten sick from the dark dream, they find out that Malfurion is the only one that can heal Teldrassil. With Malfurion dying, he has dreams about his demonic twin brother, Illidan Stormrage. He finds out Illidan is ruining the Emerald dream. I don't want to ruin the ending, so you have to find out what happens.
I rated this book with five stars because I love this storyline. In my opinion, this is the best storyline i have seen, because its very complex, and there are tons of other stories off of the same storyline. Plus, they have games off of these stories.
Favorite passage: "The journey was uneventful, if oddly quiet." I like it because when you think of journeys, you think of a huge adventure.
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