Summer Reading #3

“passing the bulkhead felt like crossing the threshold into hell. Black smoke swirled around him so dark and thick at times all he could see of Marchetti was the beacon on his respirator. Waves of heat baked him through the Nomex suit, and his eyes stung from the smoke seeping beneath the seal of the mask.”

In the excerpt, 

Summer Reading #2

I am supposed to discuss the character’s “complexity‘, what they want/desire, but I couldn’t come up with a way to turn this into a conversation-like telling of their wants/desires, so I’m just going to list them out. Kurt Austin wants to avenge the deaths of the NUMA crew, the same goes for Joe Zavala, Jinn Kahlif wants to reverse the oceanic movements, therefore changing which continents have monsoons or horrible droughts. And as for themes that are beginning to appear, the only one I can think of, is people turning out to be evil, BECAUSE I WAS RIGHT! In my previous post, I had predicted that one of the main or supporting characters would turn out to be evil, and I was right! I feel so proud of myself, because not only did in happen once, with one of the main supporting characters who was working directly with Kurt and Joe; it happened TWICE, that’s right, twice. Let’s just take a moments to look at my prediction skills, I awesome, maybe I’m psychic; my vanity aside, to where I have read, it also happened with the assistant of an extremely rich guy who tried to kill Kurt, Austin, The evil chicks name whose name I have forgotten and can’t look up because I lost my book a few days ago. This is a bad post for me because I had trouble with all of the topics I was supposed to discus, and I can’t even begin to understand the last one, so that’s all for now folks.

Summer Reading

For my summer reading, I decided to read The Storm by Clive Cussler, the story doesn’t seem to have a definite setting, because it focuses attention on different people like every chapter. Now, those people are; Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, jinn Kahlif(the bad guy) Members of N.U.M.A., which stands for the National Underwater and Marine Agency. The reason for them constantly traveling is that they were researching into the disappearance of a NUMA boat and its crew, who were actually killed by tiny nano-bots in the Indian Ocean. I myself haven’t read very far into it yet, but it already seems like a great book. I honestly hope that one of them turns evil, or one of the people they're working with turns out to be evil, I want some drama in this book, more than there is already, so my prediction is that one of the main or supporting characters turns out to be either working with the bad guy or just evil. I forgot to mention that this book is actually one book in the Kurt Austin Adventures series by Cussler, there are several more, such as Devil’s Gate and Lost city that I’m honestly interested in reading.

Time to Give Predictions Another Shot

Since I last posted, I have started HP and the Order of the Phoenix, and I noticed something when I was looking at the books. THEY GET LONGER AND LONGER, seriously, look at the books in the Harry Potter series, the books just keep getting more pages. It's crazy, I've been struggling just to get them finished before posts, my lord, I don't know how I didn't notice that before, it's so obvious. Anyway, I haven't gotten very far in Harry Potter and the Oder of the Phoenix, so I'm going to give the whole predictions thing another shot.(if you don't know what I'm talking about, go to my So Much to Read, So Little Time post) So, I've gotten to Chapter 7, and based on what I've read, heard, and seen, I'm pretty sure I know exactly what's going to happen. I already know the major plot points because my family always talks about it, and I'm just guessing the between details. So here's how I think it's going to go: (SPOILERS!)(SPOILERS!)(SPOILERS!)(SPOILERS!)

1. Harry gets attacked by dementors while with Dudley
2. Uses magic in the presence of Dudley
3. Gets moved to Serious's house
4. 
   

That's all I've read so far, and I'm going to try to make a prediction about what's going to happen next. Based off of what I've read and what I've heard from my family, I know that, (SPOILERS!) Harry is punished using a weird quill, he starts an underground training routine with other students, gets found out, and the rest is fuzzy. Based on that I think that, the slytherine house will help Umbridge with trying to find out where they practice Defense Against the Dark Arts on their own time, Dumbledore will get blamed because they wrote who the members are on a paper titled, "Dumledore's Army", Since Fudge is paranoid that Dumbledore is trying to overthrow the Ministry, Fudge will try to arrest Dumbledore, fail, someone who serves Voldemort will be placed as headmaster. That is my prediction on what will happen in the book. As always, if you have any suggestions on a series I might like, leave it in the comments. Thank you and goodbye.

(this was supposed to be posted on 5/12)

"Hey, remember that time I was a wizard?"

When I posted last time, I had finished HP and the Prisoner of Azkaban, since then, I have started and finished HP and the Goblet of Fire. To be totally honest, I didn't like this book as much as the others, I'm not entirely sure why, but it doesn't seem to have the same quality as the first three. Anyway, for this post I'm going to describe the best and worst characteristics of the main character. First off, the main character is Harry Potter, (as told by the titles of every single book). His best characteristic is either that he has great problem-solving abilities or that he very kind, his problem-solving abilities are evident when he tries to get past the Hungarian Horn-tail, and despite being forced into an incredibly difficult situation, he came up with a solution that allowed him to win the event and continue. His kindness is present when they're in the last event and he tries to share the victory with Cedric, "Harry looked from Cedric to the cup. For one shining moment, he saw himself emerging from the maze, holding it. Ge saw himself holding the Triwizard Cup aloft, heard the roar of the crowd, saw Cho's face shining with admiration, more clearly than he ever seen it before ... and then the picture faded, and he found himself staring at Cedric's shadowy, stubborn face. 'Both of us,' Harry said. 'What?' 'We'll take it at the same time. It's still a Hogwarts victory. We'll tie for it.'" On he other hand, his worst characteristic is also his kindness, which is evident when Cedric got killed because Harry tried to get a tie so that edric could also win. I wish I could relate this to myself, but it would be like, "hey, remember that time I was a wizard?" So instead I'll just say my nest and worst qualities. My best quality would probably be my intelligence, my worst would either be my extreme laziness or my short temper. If you have any suggestions about other series I might like, put them in the comments section, thank you and goodbye.

(this was supposed to be posted on 4/28)

Letter To the Author

Hello once again, this week for my post I am going to be writing a letter to the author of the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling. this is what I wrote:

Dear JK Rowling,

Hello, I am Cameron, I am writing to you to tell you what I think about the Harry Potter series and what you could do to improve future books. So first off, the things you did well: 

1. excellent character development 
2. amazing plot progression
3. incredible diction and syntactical usage
4. incredibly vivid imagery

Those are the general places that you did extremely well, here are somethings that you could have improved:

1. character development for minor characters
2. use detailed imagery more often
3. (this one is just my opinion) add more humor

if you actually read this, please consider it and incorporate it into your next novel, if you think that you should.

Sincerely,

Cameron

(this was supposed to be posted on 5/5)

So Much to Read, So Little Time

Since I last saw you, I have completed Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets, and have begun Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, however, circumstances have limited my reading time, as such I haven't gotten very far. I've only gotten to Chapter 5, the part where Harry overhears Mr. and Mrs. Weasley arguing in the Parlor, after meeting with Hermione and the Weasleys at Diagon Alley while staying in the Leaky Cauldron. yeah, not very far, I've barely gotten anytime at all to read this week, but nonetheless, it seems like it will be a great book, though not as well as the last two, but still a good book. I don't know why I think it won't be as good of a book as the first two, but it just feels like it won't meet the expectations I have set for the series. We'll see if my prediction holds up, I honestly hope it doesn't, but only time will tell. But that doesn't mean I can't speculate about what might take place, so that's exactly what I'll do. This book, (stated in the beginning, but there's a picture of the cover at the bottom, for people like me, [too lazy to look] and here's the source, so I don't get in trouble for plagiarism or something.) is the third book in the series, and based on the title, what I've heard from my family, and what I've it's about a prisoner of Azkaban, which I'm pretty sure is a wizard prison,(which I think I heard from my family) who, (SPOILERS!)(SPOILERS!)(SPOILERS!) is after Harry to kill him. Obviously he doesn't, since we know there are more books with the name Harry Potter, but what happens in the book that stops him from succeeding is what makes this book interesting, and from my personal experience, he - being Harry - will most likely be at the mercy of Sirius, but then his friends will save him and together they will defeat Black and return him to Azkaban. Recommendations about other book series I might like would be appreciated in the comments. Thank you and good bye.

(This was supposed to be posted on 4/14)