Thursday, January 9, 2014

Life of Pi

Yann Martel 
This story starts as an Indian father takes his family and his zoo on the deck of the Tsimtsum. One stormy night, the boats  sinks and our main character, the son of the indian father,Piscine Molitor Patel climbs- or, falls- aboard on a lifeboat with an orangutan, a hyena, a broken legged zebra and a bengal tiger named Richard Parker.
Life of Pi is about a boy and a tiger on their adventure on the wide pacific ocean. They face sharks, an acidic and carnivorous island, hunger, and everything that is thrown their way. 
Is this book worth reading? definitely. This is a must read, expanding the reader's imagination, with a slightly mysterious ending that the reader themselves must solve.
Is this book worth buying? I recommend just borrowing in a library.

-SPOILER-
Do not read if you have not read to the end of the book yet!

At the point where Pi and Richard Parker is stranded in the middle of the vast ocean, I started to think that it was amazing how the author could illustrate such a blank part of the story where only hunger and starvation was half of what was going on. The parts where nothing was actually going on except the main character's narration was fascinating because you could see inside the mind of someone who was struggling to survive in the middle of nowhere with a bengal tiger beneath him. 
The ending was a bit confusing, but at the end of the book, during the interview, Pi Patel says "So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?" I think we can agree that the story with animals was much more thrilling and adventurous. The author is asking the reader which ending they prefer, expanding their imagination and belief. Through this the author leaves the ending up to us, and we find the answer in how we see the world, and how we want to see it.
The way the author said'Tigers exist, lifeboats exist, oceans exist. Because the three have never come together in your narrow, limited experience, you refuse to believe that they might', I came to realize how narrow our imagination can come down to, only believing in what we see and can prove. Also it brought an urge for adventure and experience in
me and I am sure it can do the same to any other reader. 

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Belly Up

Stuart Gibbs

       Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt Fitzroy has discovered-or suspects- that the hippopotamus at  Fun Jungle has been not what most people think as just dead, but murdered. Who would want to murder a hippo who lives in the new zoo? He meets Summer McCraken, who is the daughter of the owner of Fun Jungle, and the two of them reveal the truth on what had really happened.
Belly Up
Stuart Gibbs
       Reccomended to people who like mysteries

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

The Throne of Fire

The Throne of Fire
Rick Riordan

Rick Riordan
   Carter and Sadie Kane has fought Set- that had tried to cause chaos and take over/destroy the world-  but now they must face the real and bigger threat: the Chaos Snake Apophis. He has been trapped in his cage for centuries but now he is close to breaking free of his prison. Carter and Sadie must stop him before it;s to late, before he is released and will cause the world's end. In order to battle and defeat him, they must bring back and restore the sun god, Ra. But that won't be an easy task, in other words, hard and almost impossible. What will happen to Carter and Sadie? Read.

The Red Pyramid

The Red Pyramid
Rick Riordan

Rick Riordan
   Carter and Sadie Kane are siblings. Their mom has died and they do not know where their father has dissapeared to, when they last saw him at the museum. They learn a secret about their family- they have blood of a pharaoh,  and that they are powerful magicians with magical powers.
   They discover that their dad has accidentally unleashed many gods at the day they were at the british museum, and one of them named Set would try to destroy/ take over the world. And the Kane siblings must stop that.

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

The Phantom Tollbooth

By Norton Juster Illusrated by Jules Feiffer


   A boy named Milo gets a mysterious package which contains a little tollbooth and a little vehicle. He drives through the tollbooth and finds out he is in a totally different world. He sees strange cities that think words are very important, and they buy and sell words and letters. he also passes villages of numbers and math, sound and other places.
The Phantom Tollbooth
Norton Juster

   Milo meets a watch dog(a real WATCH dog) that accompanies him on his adventure and he also meets a humbug.
   Then he hears a story from an old lady about the story about two princesses that brought peace to many lands but then got banished by 2 kings that were having an argument. After Milo hears the story, he decides to rescue the princesses and bring them back to the land.

  What will happen to Milo? Read the book.

Friday, July 20, 2012

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Hope Was Here

By Joan Bauer  
 Hope has moved a lot to different places, and she lives with her aunt Addie.This time, she moves from New York to Wisconsin to work in a diner(as a waitress). She later discovers that the owner of the diner has cancer. He also announces that he will be running for mayor unexpectedly.
Hope Was Here
Joan Baur
   In this book you can read about having hope even in things that don't seem possible. This Newberry Honor Award book was really good and you can learn that after all, everyone could use a little hope to get through the tough times, even hope herself.