Hey folks, I've been doing lots of summer reading so far. Some of my reading has been research for the introduction and first chapter of my book, and other reading has just been for fun.
For fun:
The Tenth City by Patrick Carman - this is the third book of a trilogy that follows 13 year old Alexa Daley who lives in the land of Elyon. She's been given a special gift (the ability to speak to animals) and that gift helps her find out what's behind the walls of her city in the first book, and then fight a great evil in the second book. In this book, she has to help vanquish this evil for good before it destroys everything and everyone she loves.
Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception - This is the fourth book in a series about a 14 year
old boy from Ireland, Artemis Fowl II, who is a genius but also a criminal mastermind. In the past three books, he has discovered that there is a whole civilzation of fairies, dwarves, trolls, and other magical creatures hiding under the ground away from human sight. Their technology is at least 100 years ahead of human tech, and Artemis tries to exploit that tech in the past couple of books. In this book, a villain from book 2, Opal Koboi, an insane genius, escapes from her cell and enacts a series of revenge plots on Artemis and the other fairies that put her in jail. The events in this book are a twist b/c it takes the characters in a different direction than the past three books. I really enjoy this series b/c of its attention to detail and fleshed-out characters.For School:
The Seekers by Daniel Boorstin - Boorstin is a great historian who has written several books on American history, but he's also written a few books on how mankind has discovered, created, and sought knowledge. The series, The Discoverers, The Creators and The Seekers examine some of the greatest thinkers, scientists and philosophers in human history.
I'm only about 12 chapters into this book but it's pretty interesting, and it's taking me back to my college classes on Plato's Republic and some of the concepts I really didn't like about his book - for instance, his idea of strict hierarchy of social classes. It's like an old caste system. Plus, his best form of government is an aristocracy, and democracy rates pretty low on Plato's list. So, you're wondering why I'm doing this? Well, starting in a couple of years, we'll have to start teaching a World History class, and I'm expanding my knowledge for that class whenever that may come about.Give me your feedback. What are you reading? Anything good?
Any good movies? I finally saw the X-Men and it was better than I had anticipated! Very intense.
1 comment:
Erin.B.
September 4, 2006
Title: Esperanza Rising
Author: Pam Munoz Ryan
Esperanza is a young woman with a wonderful life. Her family owns a lot of land which they call El Rancho de las Rosas. One day, the day before her 15th birthday, everything would change. Her father was found dead on the road, he had been robbed. Esperanza and her mother were devastated and they did not want to live with their evil uncles so they ran away to America. Unfortunately she was separated from her grandmother. Esperanza was use to being waited on hand and foot and in this new world she would have to learn how to work in the fields. There she meets many kind people and makes a new family. After a lot of hard work she raises enough money to bring her grandmother to live with her. There they would start a new life full of many opportunity’s.
Quote: “It is no wonder that in Spanish, esperanza means ‘hope’.” This quote means a lot to the story. Esperanza is full of hope and without it she would not have gotten to where she is today. If she had given up hope she would have never seen her grandmother again.
This book is about a young lady and all the problems she concord, therefore I think this book is for young women. We could learn a lot from reading it.
On a scale to 1 – 5, I would give this book a 3. It was a good book but it was a little easy reading for me. I would have liked to read a little more difficult book. I liked it because although I couldn’t completely relate to the characters I felt that I understood everything they went through.
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