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  This week, I finished a book named Fool Night by Kasumi Yasuda. The story takes place in the distant future— a time when the sun no longer shines, and all plant life dies as a result. Despite the major setback, a scientific discovery was made that saved humanity: a seed that, when injected into the human body, turns them into a plant by a process called transfloration. However, there are many drawbacks— the biggest being the person must be alive and stay alive for the transfloration to occur. The main character, Toshiro, is a poverty-stricken man who works minimum wage in the hopes of one day getting a higher education. Unfortunately, he has to pay for his mother's expensive medication, and every bill in the house— and eventually, does not have enough money to even pay for food. However, after learning about the process of transfloration (and the hefty reward of ten million yen— about 65,000 dollars— for doing so), he decides that even if he dies in agony a year or two from now,...

  Over the past few months my 8 year old sister has been reading a ton of “My Weird-est School” books by Dan Gutman. She has been very captivated by them and whenever she read some of it aloud it always had something weird in it. Over break, I went to the library and was browsing some books in the graphic novel section because I wanted a light read and stumbled upon the  “My Weird-est School” books and decided to read one and see what it was like and why my sister likes it so much. Quick Summary (so this all makes sense) Dr. Snow Has Got to Go! is about a scientist named Dr. Snow who comes to Ella Mentry School to help the kids with their science fair projects. At first, everyone thinks he’s just a really enthusiastic science guy… but then he starts showing signs that make the kids think that he is evil/mad/crazy and is going to take over the world.  A.J., Andrea, and their friends eventually realize that Dr. Snow is indeed crazy and wants to take over the world. So the...

      For this blog period, I read the first two books of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Rodrick Rules) because I remembered reading it a few years ago and I wanted to know if it was as funny as I remembered, or if I just had an embarrassingly horrible sense of humor. And I have some mixed opinions... Book Blurb:     The story follows Greg on his journey to survive the hell we call middle school, and he does not  have a very good time, but at least he's got his best friend Rowley. Greg has to deal with Middle School as well as his bully brother back home, who at one point even locks him in the basement. What I Liked:       What kept me with this book was its relatability. Now personally, my middle school experience was not as bad as Greg's, but I did feel that there were the same core struggles: social anxiety, schoolwork, overall drama, etc. I also made it seem like my experience there was way worse tha...

  This summer, one of my relatives recommended a book to me called The Housemaid by Freida McFadden. I recently found out that it was a series and began to read the second book of the series called The Housemaid’s Secret. The Housemaid:   The first book is about a young girl named Millie Calloway who is desperate to start fresh after an incident from her past revealed later in the book). She gratefully accepts a position as a live-in housemaid for Nina and her husband Andrew Winchester, in their mansion. But as Millie continues working there, she starts noticing a few things. Nina Winchester has unpredictable behavior and super strict rules while Andrew is kind and loving to his wife. Many of their neighbors have also proved to Millie that Nina has mental problems and how Andrew should have left her. In addition to that, the gardener at the house seems to be communicating something with Millie but she can't figure out what. She only keeps the job for the nice pay and because...

I have this thing where when I'm reading a good book and I think about the last good book I've read and it seems boring and fake and I can't understand how I even got through it. Then after I finish that book I look back and realize they were both good and it's a whole cycle. But that didn't really happen this time.  I started with Divergent , the first book of the Divergent series. It was a Monday. I had forgotten a free reading book. So during lunch I asked my friend Arya to come to the library and help me choose a book, and she found Divergent for me, her 7th grade obsession. I started it and liked it. It's about a girl named Beatrice living in a dystopian Chicago where there are different factions that people belong to based on what they value/what they're good at. She and her family are in Abnegation, the faction that values selflessness...maybe a little too much. They aren't supposed to look in mirrors for more than a few seconds once in a while b...

It's been many months and I’m still on the second book of the Divergent series, ( Insurgent) , there just isn’t enough time to finish such a fat book so quickly. So I decided to take a little detour and read Four: The Transfer, one of Veronica Roth’s short stories told from Tobias Eaton’s (a.k.a. Four’s) point of view. And honestly, it’s changing the way I see everything that’s happening in Insurgent . Ok so for some background, let me tell you about the series from what I know so far: So basically the Divergent series is a dystopian series. In fact this society is actually dystopian Chicago which makes it all the more interesting. Anyways, this society is divided into five factions, each devoted to a specific virtue like bravery, honesty, kindness, etc. Everyone is expected to belong to just one, but when a teenage girl named Tris Prior learns she’s Divergent —someone who doesn’t fit neatly into any single faction—she slowly begins to question the system itself. Along the way, she...