Kindred (week 2)

Kindred is by Octavia E. Butler and is my book group book for this week. Dana is a black woman living in California, in the year 1976 (I think) and suddenly she gets transported toMaryland, 1815. She comes back repeatedly after bouncing between her world and the harsh world of Maryland to save a boy named Rufus's life countless times. While Dana is there, she has to learn how live in the antebellum South and try to survive as a slave. Dana is my favorite character because very brave when it comes to her life, and the lives of others. Many times she has to save Rufus, and it almost costs Dana her own life. She has taken beatings and near death experiences all to save herself or someone else's, and even just to try to put up with how life is there. This book does have some bad words, and it does talk about rape and the beatings that black slaves got in that time period. I have like sixteen pages left, but from what I have read it was a good book. Come talk to me about it because this is a really cool book.

Tbr:
Ready Player One
Neverhwere
Ravenboys

Labor day, 2012. It started out as a Bar and Bat Mitzvah, but sometime after (maybe the next day) we went out to Dairy Queen to relax and eat ice cream. While we were walking there, a woman and and old man were walking into a restaurant next to DQ. I leaned over to ask "Hey Mikayla, how old do you think that woman is?" she couldn't tell, so she asked her brother. He also couldn't figure it out, so we all just stood there and creepily watched the "immortal" woman. "Wait, I have an idea" I pulled out my phone and explained that we could all pose in a picture and act like we were taking the picture of us but actually take the picture of the woman. Of course they though it was genius, so we all gathered together and smiled. "3, 2,1..." Mikayla whispers, and I take the photo. Have you ever had that moment when you have a good idea and then it turns out to be really embarrassing? This was my moment. As soon as I took the picture, I realized that the flash was on my phone, but it was too late. I took a very bright picture of an eighteen year old who looked very old, or an eighty year old that had a lot of plastic surgery. Both the man and the woman turned around in bewilderment, but all three of us were leaping through the front door of Dairy Queen by then.

Kindred

Kindred is by Octavia E. Butler and is my book group book for this week. Dana is a black woman living in California, in the year 1976 (I think) and suddenly she gets transported toMaryland, 1815. She comes back repeatedly after bouncing between her world and the harsh world of Maryland to save a boy named Rufus's life countless times. While Dana is there, she has to learn how live in the antebellum South and try to survive as a slave. Dana is my favorite character because very brave when it comes to her life, and the lives of others. Many times she has to save Rufus, and it almost costs Dana her own life. She has taken beatings and near death experiences all to save herself or someone else's, and even just to try to put up with how life is there. This book does have some bad words, and it does talk about rape and the beatings that black slaves got in that time period. I have like sixteen pages left, but from what I have read it was a good book. Come talk to me about it because this is a really cool book.

TBR:
Ready Player One
Neverwhere
Raven Boys
Kindred-Book group

Unfair

"Unfair" is different for everyone. It could mean that it is unfair that the homeless person on the corner of the street doesn't have a home, or it could mean it is unfair that someone bought the last hat you wanted at black friday. Neither of these apply to me (I don't wear hats too often) but I think it is unfair that my sister can go out of the house and do stuff with friends, while I have to sit and do homework. No matter what happens I always have more homework than a fourth grader. It is just unfair. There is not a lot of unfairness in my life like living on the streets, but I have little things like the homework situation, that I have to wake up early for school sometimes, and even my sister taking the last waffle and then I have to have cereal. These things are not enough to really complain about, just enough to make us stop and think, "this is unfair."

Shadow Throne

Ok this is the third book in the Ascendance Trilogy by Jennifer A. Nielsen, (I really like this series) so I will summarize this one without spoiling this book or the others. Or I'll try. This whole book is about Jaron trying to win the war that has come and he is only around 14. He is the king of his country, and three other surrounding countries have declared war on him so now he has to fight all of them. He still acts like the younger boy he was, but things have changed him. His friends, his enemies, and even the things that have happened in his life have been turning him into a king. Jaron is still my favorite because he is hilarious and he just over all is cool. He knows how to defend himself and protect others while in the middle of a war, and is making puns the whole time. Like I said before this is like a fantasy book based around the 17th century, but in a different land if that makes sense. I really loved theses books and I think anyone in our class could and should read this. I hope you Enjoy!

TBR:
Kindred-book group
Ready Player One
Neverwhere
Raven Boys

Thanksgiving SOL

Every year that I go to Ohio for Thanksgiving, we all go to the Zoo lights. It is my favorite part of Thanksgiving, minus the food, amazing shopping, and seeing my family. I was bundled up in all my layers, and piling into the car before I realized that it was colder than I thought and I packed the wrong gloves. Oh well, I'll just take my aunt's. I thought. Of course we stopped at CVS to pick up chips, then we kept driving to the zoo. After getting lost and going too far, we finally made it to the bright lights of the zoo. My cousin's fionce, Eun Mi (from Korea) tells me that in Korea that they hold hands all the time wherever they go. So the whole time that we are looking at the lights, we create this giant barricade of Witkoffs. Each tree is threaded with strings of lights, each a different color. They dance and flicker to the beat of the songs, making our wall of awesomeness stop and enjoy the show for awhile. We made our way to the penguins, and watched how they swam around their pool following the light. When we left and finally got to the cars, we had to break our chain and head to our separate cars. All I could think of on the ride back was what next year was going to be like, and if it could get any better than this year.