Tuesday, March 16, 2010

These title things are bothersome.

A "book talk " I wrote on The Leviathan.  :)

Read if you'd like.  Enjoy, possibly?

Any thoughts on improvement may help as well.  This is for English :)



The Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld is a science-fiction book which takes place in the year 1914, at the beginning of the First World War.  In this book, the First World War is between two different groups called the Clankers and the Darwinists.  At first, the war is only affects Austria-Hungary and Germany, but soon other countries come into the war to defend their fellow Clankers or Darwinists.  What began as a simple murder quickly become a war between all of Europe and it’s two distinct types of people. Although The Leviathan still has the king of Austria’s murder, the alternate past and the Clanker and Darwinist inventions, which defy the laws of nature and physics, are what make the Leviathan a science-fiction novel.

Friday, March 12, 2010

March Break Plans

From now until the 22nd of March, I have the March Break.  An entire week of school... I NEED this :D

I've planned to do a lot - shopping, EDITING, homework, and writing if I'm lucky.  I REALLY need to edit Empyrean.  Did you know, the average writer spends an hour on every page they write?  I need to do that.  So far, the first few paragraphs are good.  I think, I'll go slow and steady, but only do a few edits.  Or really, as many as it needs - but I'll go slow.

Other plans include sleeping and eating :)
Oh, and blogging.  I'll try to figure out something interesting....
what do you guys want to hear about?

S a r a h

Saturday, March 6, 2010

To Kill A Mockingbird

As far as school books go, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is not that bad.  Sure, it's about racism, laws and rape, but it's interesting too.  The main character, Scout, is 9 when the story begins and about 12 when it ends, but that doesn't stop the story from being interesting to older people too.  I don't really know why Scout HAD to be 9 in Harper Lee's mind, but she acts a lot older anyways, so I can't really complain.

It's about the Finch's family and how their life goes on.  There's a guy in their next-door-neighbours house who has never been outside for 15 years (Arthur "Boo" Radley takes up the Part One section of the book) and a trail for a nice black man accused of rape in the second part.  Although those are two different things and it makes the book sorta split down the middle, they do tie together at the end and give a few meaningful lessons.

All school books have lessons.  This one tells you about Mockingbirds -

Monday, March 1, 2010

Ermm.. what sort of loser forgets a title?


Yes, these are pictures of my room!  I won't even go into the depths of despair I had to traverse in order to get pictures on here.  It was terrible.