02/25/12 About my blog

My blog posts are mostly to entertain and shock the readers with new, unique facts in this universe. This may include facts about animals, human-beings, daily life, or the Earth itself. I myself have been always interested in this section, and there's no end to it when you start to research for more. 

For example, did you know that there are animals out there that squirt blood out of their eyes? Did you know some even sleep with one eye open? Or did you ever know the word "Friggatriskaidekaphobia" is the fear of Friday the 13th? All these bits of information may sound stupid or useless to you, but what if there's more about the universe than any of us actually know? Take about 5 minutes just to skim through some of my posts and pick up some interesting, mind-blowing facts that you may never have known before.

02/25/12 In the midst of reading "White Crow"...

White Crow is a mystery horror novel happening in the center of "Winterfold", a new, unpleasantly spooky place out of London where the protagonist Rebecca is forced to stay the rest of summer. I have finished almost half of the book and "uncanny" and "queer" would be the words to describe the story. The character setting, general mood, and the written style itself really is unique and strange, which also makes me thing some details are a little unnecessary. There are three different narrators in the book, all divided into separate sections of chapters, and although it adds a special, entertaining twist to the whole book, some are too disturbing to the comprehension of the story and seems unnecessary. However, what I really enjoyed were the unique, unusual characters, such as Ferelith; a little girl who seems to know everything and who is significantly different from most of the other pink, charming girls at her age. 

 

 

 

I can't help at times to think that the book is a little monotonous, but it certainly is a spine-chilling, interesting, fresh book to read.

02/09/12 My Independent Reading Book: White Crow

White Crow by Marcus Sedgwick

My independent reading book for quarter 3 is White Crow, written by Marcus Sedgwick. The cover of this book stood out from all the other ones and caught my attention, since I liked dark black, horror, thriller books (as well as movies). I flipped through and saw that each section of the book had a different person's (or I would say a "thing") perspective, and found this very interesting. 

Through some research, I found out the author was not only an author, but and illustrator as well as a musician (surprisingly, he even played as a guitarist in an ABBA tribute group). The genre of all of his books are, like White Crow, horror, suspense, thriller. He also has his own series called "The Raven Mysteries Series".

From reading this book, I hope to pick up some interesting words, characterizations, and mainly enjoyment.