Friday, November 12, 2010

The Recruit from Robert Muchamore

This book starts off in london ina suburb area wher James, the main charcter, goes at school and every year he gest into a fight.
However he has one quality is super intelligence in Maths. When his mom dies his sister a,d him are put a childrens home. His sister is tooken back by his unliked father who as james says can't take care of her. As the story goes on he gets enroled in a secret agency called CHERUB which is training young children at martial arts, foreign languages, physical educationa nd many other things that make them just as good as MI6 agents which they work in close relation with. The idea of CHERUB is that a terrorist wouldn't suspect a young boy or girl to be an undercover agent so he might let them come into there lives and let them find an evidence to put them in prison for teh rest of there lives. However all CHERUB agents need to pass the basic training tes, which is a 100 day long and where your nevers, your body strenght and your courage is put to it's limits and if you either get harmed or that you get away you will have to pass it again in 32 days. James passed and went for his first mission which was in a small Hippie town called Fort Harmville and wear there was suspected to be a terrorist attack from the group "save Earth" which would consist of killing all the big oil leaders meeting in a governmental building 60 kilometers away. James succeds and saves thousands of lives and earns a Navy T-Shirt. The colour of the shirts tell people what level you are at if you are orange it means you are totaly new and nobody should say information to you until you meet the Head of CHERUB. Then you get a Blue one which is wiating for basic Training, afterwards you get grey which is avilable to do missions, then there is navy which fro outstanding performnaces on a single mission, then there is the black T-Shirt which for outstanding performances on many missions and the final one is white which is for staff and for retired agents.

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie

This book is about a boy, 13 years old, called Steven. He has mouse-brown cowlick-y hair, glasses that are about an inch thick, and braces that look like he tried to swallow a train wreck. (: He plays the drums in the All-Star Jazz band, has a crush on the hottest girl in the school and is constantly annoyed by his 5 year old brother, Jeffery.

One day, there was a little accident Steve caused to his brother. Few days later, Jeffrey is diagnosed with leukemia. And Steven's world is turned upside down. He is forced to deal with his brother's illness and the sudden change of everything. Having his mom quit her job as a teacher to take care of Jeff, having to deal with all the nightmares of Jeff's death, having to face his friends and teachers with a huge secret, having to run out of money... The next minute, he finds himself in a MAHOOSIVE family crisis.

I really, Really, REALLLLLLY recommend this book to everyone. It gives your heart this tingly feeling (: Family issues will vanish after reading this book. It is very touching, and an extremely funny book. It is really worth reading. Give it a try, and you will love it (:



Friday, November 5, 2010

Homework

Does anyone know what picture we need to find about our character in Death of a Salesman ?
Thank you

Thursday, November 4, 2010

The Vampire's Assisstant

This book is the second book of the saga of Darren Shan. Darren has been turned into Mr Crepsley(the vampire)'s assisstant and has been following him in the Cirque du Freak(the freak show in which Mr Crepsely performs). He has made friends with Evra von (the snake boy) and is exploring the village that the Cirque du Freak were currently based in. They meet this boy named Sam who wants to join the Cirque and an enviromentalists named RV who has issues with the Cirque keeping animals in cages. Sam tries deperately to join the Cirque and RV tries to free the animals. He tries freeing the wolfman and got his arms bit off by the monster. The wolfman then kills Sam and Darren drinks his blood to allow Sam's conscious to live on within him.

I think that this book is really amazing like the last one and I think that this book is really really worth reading. It is also filled with suspense and surprises. I recommend this book to everyone who reads this blog.



Cirque du Freak


This story is about a boy named Darren Shan who got turned into a vampire's assistant to save his best friend's life. A vampire in a freak circus had a really neat spider which could do a lot of tricks. Darren, seeing the spider decided to steal it. After stealing it, his best friend got bit by the spider and the only antidote to it was with the vampire. So Darren went to the vampire who said that he would give the antidote to him if he became his assisstant. Darren agreed and his best friend's life was saved.

I really really liked this book. I think that it is one of the best books I have ever read. It is full of suspense and surprise. It is one of those books that you cannot put down once you have started. This book has also been made into a movie "The Campire's Assistant". I strongly recommend this book to anyone who loves suspense and action.

Toxic Coworkers


It's not a fiction book. Therefore i don't have many things that i thought after reading this, but i'll try to write as much as i can.

It is a book about personality disorders that people may have and is also one of my favorite books because I like books about psychology and human minds.etc. One of the reasons that i liked about this book was that the symptoms and the ways to prevent yourself from being harmed from them were suggested in here. For example, when you deal with a coworker with antisocial personality disorder, you just need to document everything about that guy, even the things that he or she talked about.
This book deals with 10 different major personality disorders;narccistic, antisocial, paranoid, borderline and etc.
After reading this, I found that i was able to see some of disorders in BIS, which is cool.
And this is it. I can't write anymore about this because it's social science book, not a fiction book.

The Kitchen God's Wife


This story is mainly about a mother who tells her daughter about her life story during the war. She tells her about her first husband who abused her and about how she met her deceased husband.
I think that this story is very inspiring because it shows the difficulties and hardships that people go through during the war and the trauma that it brought. It is quite a long story and some parts of it are quie boring but the story itself is very interesting. It consists of any different accounts from the mother which are both interesting and emotional. I strongly recommend this book to everyone.