One of the books I’m currently reading is Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. I’ve been thinking about watching the Harry Potter movies because of all the hype and praise the last film has been getting. But while I read this book, I get so caught up in it, and my imagination runs wild. I’m wherever the book takes me. I’m not in the real world. So I’ve made the final decision not to watch the movies.
Who has read Goodbye Mr Chips?
A good few months ago, I actually posted I’d attempted to start reading “Time Riders” by Alex Scarrow. I did mention that at the the time I was disappointed and annoyed because while the premise was intresting in its own way a rediculous part had been the fact the time bubble (as in the base of their operations) they’d chosen was 9/11 in New York, and it seemed like a cheap shock tactic. I mean the only reason stated was so people wouldn’t notice them. In that sense I don’t see why they can’t go anywhere else without traumatising them or deadening them to it.
Well anyway recently I decided to read the entire book and while that part still bothers me, (as well as me finding it unrealistic that in just over two decades the world ends up as bad as it is) actually the book was overall pretty good and I’m interested in reading more (it is a series). I espeically find the fact the eldest girl is now to be a leader at the end of the book as well as the fact time travel certainly comes at a price which could result in interesting dynmaics within the team in the future of the series. In terms of the kids it has an Irish boy who was saved from the titanic (aged 16), an American girl (the oldest at 18) from our time and a girl from India (the youngest at 13) from the future. Overall as a young adult novel it works out pretty well though despite some flaws.
I just hope this series won’t disappoint me like Harry Potter did. Since that disappointment, given how I grew up with it I suppose, I’m kind of apprehensive about getting into too many series books as much as I’d like to.
Similarly, I recently read G.R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones. I wasn’t going to read it even though I’d bought the book- since just after I did the guy for some reason showed he is a bit silly about fanfiction and that but overall he does appear to have a talent for writing. It’s dark and death is certainly not cheap in it- there is the sense that anyone can die in it as I’ve heard some of his fans say, this is something a lot of novel series fail to do so (such as using rediuclous means to keep the heroes alive). I don’t consider it perfect, but overall he is a good writer, though I’ve heard he’s incredibly slow, so it’s quite possible he’ll die before finishing the series (this isn’t even hyperbole). Still, I would recommend it for older readers here- though I wouldn’t say it’s suitable for kids. It’s got a few taboos in there.
Anyone have any comments on maxium ride?
I’ve only read 296 pages of my Alexander Hamilton book, which is around 1,000 pages long. I wish I had more time set aside for reading. I hope that I’m finished by the time school stats up again, because I have a lot of more books to read!
1000 pages thats alot of reading.
Yep! But it’s a great book. Very detailed!
What’s it called.
Alexander Hamilton.
Of Course it is 
Im not sure if I wrote this already so sorry if I did.
Comments for Maxium Ride.
Haha, what’s wrong with that?
Nothing. You said it in your sentence and I wanted ti know what the name was.
Oh no, the smily threw me off.
What’s it about? Never heard of it before and google-fu has failed me.
Sealy, you know how I used to be obsessed with them! They’re really good fastpaced reading, and really highly addicting. I was literally under that spell for five years. That’s what got me wanting to write when I was younger though, and now it’s all JK 
I FINISHED CRIME AND PUNISHMENT! I’m so proud of myself, it took forever, what with writing notes in it and such, but it’s done! Raskolnikov, you will haunt me no more! (until September 6, anyway).
Good job!
I’m reading “Dance and the Railroad” by David Henry Hwang.
Did you finish the other book?
I bought my textbooks for this semester today.
For U.S. Government, I bought ‘Struggle for Democracy’, ‘Politics of California’, MyPolslab and ‘American Dreams: US sense 1945’.
That was over 100 just for that class! I still have to get my Spanish, Math, & Philosophy books.