Tuesday, 20 August 2013

So many books!!!! *spoilers*

I just got back home from camping for 4 days! I brought 6 books with me and finished 4 of them!!! All I pretty much did was read in the cabin, my mum was not impressed. She actually yelled at me several times while I was reading Mockingjay and Tuck Everlasting. Anywhooooo here is what I thought of each book!
 (I wrote these "reviews" while I was reading the books at the cabin so if they suck I am eternally sorry! Forgive me?)

Catching Fire


   Ok so I siriusly love this book! I have made up my mind and I love this series! I also owe my cousin Ella a BIG thank you for getting me hooked on the books! I don't particularly like how Katniss didn't talk to Peeta at all after they got to the Victor Village. I think a simple "Hello, how are you?" every once and a while would have been nice. They saved each other in the Hunger Games a few times it is the least EITHER of them could do. President Snow, yeah I hate him with a freaking passion!!! I don't think I can narrow down what I hate about him, lets just say everything! Does that work for everyone? Okay good. The Quarter Quell's challenge thingy was so damn shocking! It was set to perfectly for Snow if you ask me (not to mention Katniss said something like that in the book). Cinna's arrest/capture made me so mad. I wanted to climb into the book and save him so badly! All of the Mockingjay stuff throughout the book is pretty cool. The Mockingjay is everywhere! I'm impressed. Does Katniss really love Gale? Yeah I don't think so, it's hard to tell but I honestly don't think she does. Does she love Peeta? Maybe. Possibly. I won't really know until I actually finish the books. I thought Haymitch's plan was a good plan, a nice plan but I don't like that Wiress was killed! Just uncool man!!..... WOMAN! Then of course to top it all off Peeta get's captured. What is going to happen to Peeta!?! Some one better rescue him damit!


Mockingjay


District 12 got destroyed! To be fully honest it sounds like a place I would love to see. Even with the skulls and burnt bodies (I sound psycho!!!). It just sounds really interesting. But if it were to happen to my small town I would probably have a major breakdown, I'm surprised Katniss didn't. She is one tough cookie! District 13 is pretty cool with their underground township. I don't really trust all of those people though, something just doesn't seem right. Peeta's interviews shocked me, I didn't know what to think. I can't imagine what they could have done to him to make him say that stuff. The stuff about the prep team shocked me a hell of a lot since they got beaten up for trying to get bread. I knew something wasn't right about district 13. The hospital and bombing in district 8 had me on the edge of my seat. In the end I was devastated  that all of those people were murdered but proud of Gale and Katniss for going into the fight and helping a hell of a lot. When the mockingjays showed up around Katniss and Pollux was a very touching scene, especially when Katniss started singing. When Peeta's blood was splatted on the tiles I might have gotten slightly scared for him and may have shrieked.... I'm a fangirl, we live as long as the characters do don't judge! Finnick's story about how had to get his body sold was very upsetting (I didn't cry or anything though), I wanted to give him a hug but I don't think that would have helped much. I thought the worst was over for a while and Peeta was back and Katniss was going to be happy until... he freaking chocked her and said she was a mutt! I don't know what I would have done in that situation! Probably freaked and had a mental breakdown. I think that having a bunch of people to just do camera shots of wrecking things was kinda stupid and a little pointless but a nice group of people either way. So many people died in this book! Finnick was just starting to have a family, uncool! When Katniss killed Coin I was very happy. I didn't like or trust her at all. Every time she showed up it felt as though I was reading Animal Farm, Snow would be the Jones's and Coin would be Napoleon. When Primrose got exploded I died it was too much! I loved the epilogue though. I liked how they didn't magically get better but I wish they had.
I understand why there are going to be 4 movies instead of 3 when I reached chapter 11 I thought I had read half the book.

Tuck Everlasting



I've read this book before for a school project I think. It was hard to stay focused enough to read the whole thing again but I did  it and all I could think of was if I would have drunken from the fountain and lived with the Tucks forever. I may be terrified of death and never want to think of it but I don't think I could handle watching the ones I loved growing and changing around me. I don't think I could handle an eternity of being 17, it just would work for me but I wouldn't pour the water out on a frog!







Number The Stars

I started reading this book in school once when I was in like grade 4 but we never finished it. I never knew why and now that I have finally read this book I still don't understand why we didn't read it. It's a great book! The code phrases the people used were very interesting and sometimes hard for me to decipher. I really loved how everyone in Denmark were doing so much to get the Jews to Sweden safely. I thought it was great when I found out that part of the story was true! I also liked how the handkerchief part was true also, Where they put dried rabbit blood and cocaine on the handkerchiefs to tamper with the dogs smelling so they wouldn't detect the Jews hidden away. At the very back of the book the author talked a bit about 2 people G. F. Duckwitz and Kim Malthe-Bruun. Duckwitz was a German official who told the Rabbis to warn their people that the Nazis had gotten a hold of the people who warshed at their synagogue   lists are were going to 'relocate' them soon. Kim Malthe-Bruun was a young man part of the Resistance. He was captured and executed by the Nazis when he was only 21 years old. In a letter he wrote his mother the night before he died the author found this paragraph and I think it's amazing. "... and I want you all to remember      that you must not dream yourselves back to the times before the war, but the dream for you all, young and old, must be to create an ideal of human decency, and not a narrow-minded and prejudiced one. That is the great gift our country hungers for, something every little peasant boy can look forward to, and with pleasure feel he is a part of       something he can work for."




That's all Loving readers. Peace Out!

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