Book Blog

The book I reviewed is The Hunger Games. It seems like a pretty good book and a lot of my friends that it was surprisingly well written. Although it doesn't look like the type of book I would read, but I would be willing to give it a try. I have not read any of the other books on the top ten list, but I have heard of Breaking Dawn and my older sister told me, along with many others, that it is extremely inappropriate and not a good read for teens.

The reason I probably would not read it is because It sounds to much like the arena games the Romans would play and I think that what they did was horrible and history does not need to repeat itself with thees Hunger Games. I also looked at some other books on Amazon and from what I read about them, such as Wake, they sounded rather inappropriate for teens.

Edgar Allan Poe :)

It seems like reading Edgar Allan Poe stories around Halloween is a rite of passage for students in English classes. He wrote poems such as "The Raven" and "Annabel Lee" and stories like "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Black Cat", "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Cask of Amontillado", "The Masque of the Red Death", "The Pit and the Pendulum", etc.If you have read Poe stories before, which ones have you read and what do you remember of them? Did you like them? How scary/creepy were they? Share your memories of you or teachers reading the works of Edgar Allan Poe.

I have read "The Tell Tale heart", "The cask of Amontillado", and a few of his poems. They were very creepy and scary. I like them, especially on Halloween, but they aren't my favorite type of stories in the world. I remember that The Tell-Tale Heart is about this man who likes this one old guy, but decides to kill him because he hates one of the old man's eyes. So he kills him and is later caught and found guilty because he goes mad and confesses to the police.
Last year in english, Mrs. Gardener Turned out all of the lights and had a recording playing of "The Cask of Amontillado". It was so scary! We also wached a movie type thing in Drama last year, it wasn't to scary though, because It was only pictures with people telling the story, so it didn't have that scary efect.

Have you ever studied a skunk's eyes? Write about some item you find beauty in that many others might not.

I don't think that I have met a skunk. Not even a dead one, at least up close. Therefor, I do not think that I have studied their eyes. I am sure that, like all other animals, there must be some type of beauty in a skunk of which I do not know, but I shall make a guess.

A type of beauty in a skunk may be it's furry tail, the way it swishes and shines in the moonlight. It may be the beauty of it's colors, black and white. I think that most of all, people may not notice the luscious color outside of the subtle black pupil.